Rascal Flatts and actress Hayden Panettiere, star of ABC’s Nashville, will honor the top country acts of 2012 as hosts of the third annual CMT Artists of the Year special premiering Dec. 8 at 11…
(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 I had $796, I could steal Carrie Underwood‘s CMA Awards look. Well,…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) Jake Owen’s baby girl Pearl is due in three weeks. And he and…
Jan Crutchfield, writer of the endlessly revived country hit, “Statue of a Fool,” died Thursday (Nov. 1) at Nashville’s St. Thomas Hospital at age 74. Born Feb. 26, 1938, in Paducah, Ky., Crutchfield migrated to…
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) Taylor Swift is on the cover of the December Cosmopolitan. But if you…
Carrie Underwood loves where country music is headed. Taylor Swift worked with pop music pros on “The Last Time.” George Strait chats during a People Country photo shoot. Eric Church’s dad talks about how proud…
(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…
As a judge on NBC’s The Voice, Blake Shelton stands tall as an ambassador for country music. And now that he’s been crowned the CMA entertainer of the year, he’s set his sights on global…
It will surprise no one who eats Papa John’s Pizza, shops at Target, listens to the radio, watches television, uses social media or breathes that Taylor Swift’s music saturates the Billboard charts this week —…
Familiar faces like Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw dropped by the CMA Awards pressroom on Thursday night (Nov. 1) to talk about their latest win. Between the two of them, they’ve won 17 CMA Awards.…