Here’s how I spent my summer vacation: listening to a whole bunch of new music. Thanks to a long road trip last month, I finally caught up on most of the summer releases. Here are…
(CMT Hot Dish is a weekly feature written by veteran columnist Hazel Smith. Author of the cookbook, Hazel’s Hot Dish: Cookin’ With Country Stars, she also hosts CMT’s Southern Fried Flicks With Hazel Smith and…
The much-publicized Dustin Lynch lives up to his press this week as his self-titled debut album barrels in to No. 1 on Billboard‘s country albums chart. And Blake Shelton‘s “Over” clearly isn’t over yet. It…
Well-wishers gathered Thursday (Aug. 30) at Nashville’s Tin Roof, a popular bar near Music Row, to celebrate Dierks Bentley‘s most recent No. 1 single, “5-1-5-0.” Written by Bentley, Brett Beavers and brother Jim Beavers, “5-1-5-0″…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) After seeing Taylor Swift’s video for “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,”…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) Dave Haywood is Doornuts Harley. Charles Kelley is Cutie Kewpie. And Hillary Scott…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) “Goo-goo-eyed.” That’s how Tim McGraw describes how he and his wife Faith Hill…
Taylor Swift shot her eye-popping new video, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” with five different costumes — but without edits. She and her band rehearsed the video four times on a Los Angeles…
(NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.) When Johnny Cash was recording and releasing his remarkable American Recordings albums on a fairly regular basis, I came to look forward to that…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) If someone caught you with the erotic bestseller, Fifty Shades of Grey, you’d…