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…
Flanked by the three songwriters who concocted it, Randy Houser celebrated his first No. 1 single — “How Country Feels” — Monday afternoon (March 11) at the Honky Tonk Central nightclub in downtown Nashville. 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.) When musicians talk about how they taught themselves to play, they never really…
Ashley Monroe writes about things everyone knows but won’t say. Kacey Musgraves draws fans who don’t usually like country. Toby Keith gains additional “Million-Air” status. Thompson Square and ACM Lifting Lives stand up for children…
(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 Rayna James was a country singer instead of just a character on…