(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) Don’t oversing. Don’t be retro. Don’t get stuck in a genre. Don’t make…
(NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.) What has Willie Nelson not done in his almost 80 years on this earth? Well, he has not recorded a polka album, a zydeco…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) You can call this a juice fast or a detoxification program. Jake Owen…
Ashley Monroe backed up the critical acclaim of her new solo album, Like a Rose, with a performance at MTV/VH1/CMT Present: Live in Austin, a showcase at the South by Southwest music conference. The Tennessee…
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — When sunshine and warmer weather take over and thousands of degree-seeking twentysomethings invade the beaches of Panama City, Luke Bryan must surely be in the vicinity. Bryan’s connection with the…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) It’s not that Simon Cowell wouldn’t love to have Carrie Underwood on his…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) Songs like Jason Aldean‘s “1994″ don’t just happen overnight. They usually come from…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) I feel like I just walked through Taylor Swift‘s condo in Nashville. I…
When he wrote “God Bless the USA” in the back of a tour bus in 1983, Lee Greenwood didn’t know how iconic the tune would ultimately become. Over the past 30 years, the single has…