Country star trivia

Comstock/Thinkstock Forty-five years ago this week, Country Music Hall of Famer Don Williams rose to the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. Can you name the single that would be the first of seventeen career number ones for Williams? ANSWER: ...

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Burke/Triolo Productions/Thinkstock If you missed Sheryl Crow doing "Prove You Wrong" -- the country single from her Threads album -- on The Late Late Show with James Corden, you can watch her performance online. Tanya Tucker guests on Andy Cohen's Wat...

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Thomas Rhett’s dad wins an ACM award of his own, as he gets rave reviews for opening the VHS Tour

ABC/Mark Levine These days, Rhett Akins is a whole lot more than just Thomas Rhett's dad. In the nineties, Akins' own career as an artist yielded huge hits like "That Ain't My Truck" and "Don't Get Me Started." He followed that with a successful car...

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Matt Stell “Prayed for You” and struck gold, too

RECORDS/Arista NashvilleNewcomer Matt Stell is now officially a golden boy. The six-foot-seven former college basketball player found out Monday night -- in front of a capacity crowd at the impromptu Nashville tradition known as Whiskey Jam -...

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“Buy My Own Drinks” makes Runaway June the most successful all-girl trio since the Dixie Chicks

Broken BowNot only can Runaway June “Buy My Own Drinks,” these days, they may be buying some extra rounds to celebrate. This week, Naomi Cooke, Hannah Mulholland, and Jennifer Wayne are enjoying the first top f...

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Country star trivia

Comstock/Thinkstock Waylon Jennings achieved his fourth #1 with this 1975 song questioning whether country music had lost its way. Can you name the classic tune from his Dreaming My Dreams album? ANSWER: "Are You Sure Hank Done It This W...

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Burke/Triolo Productions/ThinkstockChris Stapleton's set to join Sheryl Crow for her appearance this Friday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He sings on the track "Tell Me When It's Over" from her new Threads album. S...

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“I Hope You’re Happy Now”: Carly Pearce opens up about the breakup that inspired her new song

ABC/Image Group LACarly Pearce is now happily engaged to Michael Ray, and they're on the way to the altar sometime this fall.  But before their romance could blossom, she had to deal with a painful reality: breaking up with her then-boyf...

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