“Have you ever been on a date, and the whole time you’re worried that your date isn’t having a good time,” Garth Brooks asked CMT’s Alison Bonaguro before he took the stage on the fifty-yard line in Notre Dame Stadium. “Even though they might be having the best time on the planet? That’s how I feel right now.”
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This week, country star Russell Dickerson is celebrating his second consecutive US Country Radio #1 single and RIAA gold certification with his fan-favourite Summer anthem “Blue Tacoma” (video here), ahead of his latest trip to the UK later in October. Inspired by a sun-drenched road-trip with his wife along Southern California’s famed Pacific Coast Highway, the track is taken from his full-length Top Five debut album “Yours” (Sony Music UK / Triple Tigers), and has now made its way to the top of both the Billboard Country charts and the Mediabase Country Radio charts.
Hailing from the small farming community of Baskin, Louisiana, newcomer Lainey Wilson has as much grit in her as she does soul. She moved to Nashville in a camper trailer to pursue a career in music and has been carving her own unique place in the country music landscape ever since, already garnering early praise as “a cautious optimist with just enough scars and pragmatism to write great, universal country songs” (Taste of Country) and “one of those voices who will grab your attention and keep it” (Whiskey Riff).
For a girl that was supposedly going nowhere, Ashley McBryde has been taking her music everywhere over the past year. Since the release of her major label debut Girl Going Nowhere in March, the artist that NPR called “one of the genre’s most important new voices” has been all over the USA on her first-ever headlining The Girl Going Nowhere Tour and recently made a return trip across the pond to play a few select dates with Luke Combs in the U.K, having been named one of Rolling Stone’s highlights of C2C Festival in London earlier in the year.
When Country star Thomas Rhett announced Carrie Underwood’s name as the winner of the American Music Award for country female on Tuesday night, she turned her attention almost immediately to her loyal legion of fans.
On the latest Podcast from CMNI we talk about Josh Turner’s up and coming gospel album, the iconic Farmers Bash, which is due to take place here in NI this Friday, and we hear from Eric Church’s new album, ‘Desperate Man’. We also play the current country No.1 and play some of the best classic and contemporary country music out there!
Multi-platinum-selling country artist Josh Turner exclusively premiered the live performance video for “I Saw The Light” on parade.com on Thursday (October 4th). The track, featured on his highly anticipated album, I Serve A Savior, boasts Turner’s rich, distinctive baritone. With an inventive arrangement, the South Carolina native makes the well-known hymn uniquely his own.
Just seven days to go and a very limited amount of seated tickets left, Farmers Bash 2018 is set to be even bigger than last year! With a special lineup of Ireland’s best country stars and even the Rednex (Cotton Eyed Joe) joining in on the fun, if you’re a local country fan, it’s a night not to be missed. Below we want to look at who is taking part and what you can expect from the night!
In August’s candid Rolling Stone cover story shortly after Eric Church announced his sixth album was in the works, readers learned exactly what the North Carolinian has been shouldering since his Holdin’ My Own Tour wrapped last May. It was the first time the songwriter had spoken out regarding the turmoil and angst of the last year, his processing of it all and the outcome: a collection of 11 songs that tell a broader story with today’s release of Desperate Man.
After many weeks of posting many social media pics from the studio, the Pistol Annies’ highly anticipated third album Interstate Gospel will be released on 2nd November.
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On This Day
- On this day February 24, 1958Born on this day in Kaplan in Acadiana, was Sammy Kershaw, country music artist who has scored over twenty-five US Country hits including the 1993 #1 hit "She Don't Know She's Beautiful".
