This week’s Billboard country charts look pretty much like a photocopy of last week’s. Jason Aldean’s Rearview Town is again the top album, and Kane Brown’s “Heaven” still reigns as the most-played song. Embedded from www.youtube.com. There are no new albums to report and only one new song. That song is Sam Hunt’s “Downtown’s Dead,”… Read more » Continue Reading →

It was the workout heard ’round the world. When Carrie Underwood shared a picture of her, Mike Fisher and Isaiah Fisher all staying the path while getting in some intense exercise at home. But that’s not the only activity that went down over the weekend. There was curling, golfing, fishing, dancing and more. Thomas Rhett… Read more » Continue Reading →

During a recent radio interview, Cam said that her new music was probably 80 percent done. And what she loves most about her next album is that she was able to make it her way. “It’s cool to have the freedom that ‘Burning House’ gave to me,” Cam said of her breakout hit from two… Read more » Continue Reading →

Everyone knows how Cole Swindell is doing now: he’s about to headline his own tour, he’s been racking up hit songs, and he’s very established in the Nashville scene. But it wasn’t always that way. At one point, his future didn’t look quite this bright. Because anyone who wants to be in country music eventually… Read more » Continue Reading →

When Luke Bryan announced that he’d be adding stadiums and ballparks to his What Makes You Country tour, he also added some opening acts. And I asked one of them — Jon Pardi — how that works. Like do Bryan’s people call Pardi’s people? Maybe it’s like that in other genres, but in country, where… Read more » Continue Reading →