Articles Posted August 2012
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Randy Travis Cited for Assault in Church Parking Lot
Randy Travis photo courtesy of Webster Associates. FOX 4 News reported police in Plano, Texas said Randy Travis received a citation for simple assault after getting into a fight in the parking lot of one…
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OFFSTAGE: Bruce Springsteen Hopes to Cross Paths With Eric Church
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) Bruce Springsteen’s road manager went to an Eric Church concert a couple of…
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OFFSTAGE: Taylor Swift Isn’t Ever Getting Back Together With Kevin Hart
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) “What just happened?” That’s what Taylor Swift wants to know at the end…
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Around the Web: Miranda Lambert Plays Wedding Planner
Miranda Lambert vetoed Pistol Annies bandmate’s wedding dress. Brothers of the Sun concert in New England requires a creative police presence. The Avett Brothers nail down The Carpenter, “Live and Die” on their bus. Steve…
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Bucky Covington & Dustin Lynch Visit Top 20
GAC host Nan Kelley with Bucky Covington; GAC host Suzanne Alexander with Dustin Lynch. Photo by Julee Cobb. This week, GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown welcomes Bucky Covington and Dustin Lynch to the set to…
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OFFSTAGE: Dustin Lynch on the Courtesy Applause That Started It All
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) When an artist says he wants to be Garth Brooks when he grows…
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Jerrod Niemann & Randy Houser: What It’s Like to Be On a Burning Tour Bus
Randy Houser points to damage suffered moments before in a bus fire. Photo courtesy of randyhouser.com. By Joseph Hudak © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Jerrod Niemann had just…
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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Jimmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett Honor a Friend
(NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.) Attention: lovers of great songwriting. Not just of good songwriting. And especially not of songwriting by three or four or five co-writers scribbling on…
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Brantley Gilbert, Jim McCormick Get a Thumbs Up From BMI
Risking PTSD — Party Time Stress Disorder — the masters and minions of Music Row shuffled into the BMI building in Nashville late Wednesday afternoon (Aug. 22) to pay tribute to “You Don’t Know Her…
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Lisa Marie Presley Makes Grand Ole Opry Debut
Lisa Marie Presley made her Grand Ole Opry debut on August 21, 2012. Photo by Chris Hollo, courtesy of Schmidt Relations. Lisa Marie Presley made her Grand Ole Opry debut on August 21. She wowed…
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