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Sam Hunt channels Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in the music video for “Locked Up,” featuring wife Hannah Lee Fowler. The video, which was filmed at a prison in East Tennessee, arrived on March 22nd. It features Hunt, dressed in a suit, performing for prison inmates on a makeshift stage. Hunt, Shane McAnally, Josh…

Bruce Springsteen joined country superstar Zach Bryan on stage at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday, March 27. Springsteen took an off day from his own tour, which is currently on the West Coast of the U.S., to fly over to New York for the appearance. The two singers teamed up to sing a version of…

Kane Brown recently released “Fiddle In The Band,” a song in which he skillfully switches between rocking drumbeats and thick fiddle lines, bringing out his love for traditional as well as modern-day music. “I woke up hurting in my shirt and jeans from the night before / My phone and my ears were ringing /…

The 2024 CMT Music Awards have revealed more star power by announcing Cody Johnson, Megan Moroney, Old Dominion, Parker McCollum and Brittney Spencer as additional performers. Previously announced performers include Bailey Zimmerman, Jelly Roll, Jordan Davis, NEEDTOBREATHE, Trisha Yearwood, Keith Urban, Lainey Wilson, Sam Hunt, and the show’s host, Kelsea Ballerini. The 2024 CMT Music…

Country music singer-songwriter Riley Green has announced a new EP, Way Out Here. The seven-song collection will be released April 12 via Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment – the same day Green kicks off his inaugural beachfront music festival Duckman Jam at Flora-Bama. The album is available to preorder at https://rileygreen.lnk.to/WayOutHere_EPPR “We’ve been playing these…

Willie Nelson’s 4th Of July Picnic is headed to Philadelphia with Bob Dylan as one of the performers. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Maren Morris, Mavis Staples, and guitar slinger Celisse also are featured on the Independence Day concert lineup, which moves to Philadelphia for the first time. The annual fest, which has been held…

NBC has announced that Keith Urban will join “The Voice” Season 25 as “Mega Mentor.” A Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum artist and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Urban is set to release a new album later this year, which will include “Straight Line” and its first single, “Messed Up As Me.” Urban will join superstar…

Rising country star Megan Moroney recently released a vulnerable new breakup ballad, called “28th of June.” Moroney, Ben Williams, Mackenzie Carpenter and Micah Carpenter co-wrote “28th of June,” which is a follow-up to “No Caller ID,” which arrived in January and set the record for the biggest country female song debut in streams in the…

Hardy earned his third No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart thanks to “Truck Bed.” “Truck Bed,” released on Big Loud, rose from No. 2 to No. 1 on the survey dated March 30. The song saw a 13% increase to 31 million audience impressions in the week of March 15-21, according to Luminate. Hardy…

Dierks Bentley recently shared a music video for his cover of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “American Girl.” The video shows Bentley playing Petty’s own Rickenbacker guitar, flown in from the rock icon’s archives in California for the shoot. The Wes Edwards-directed music video was shot at the Clementine in Nashville, Tennessee, with Bentley teaming…