Country star trivia
Comstock/ThinkstockA very happy birthday is in order to the country star best known for this beloved ‘90s hit “Dust on the Bottle.” This Illinois native, who’s also a frequent collaborator of Kenny Chesney, turns 61 today. Can...
‘Go-Big Show’ is “big action, big danger, big talent” and maybe a “contact high” for Jennifer Nettles
TBSTonight, Jennifer Nettles sits side-by-side with fellow celebrity judges Snoop Dogg, actress Rosario Dawson, and wrestler Cody Rhodes, for the premiere of TBS' new extreme talent competition, Go-Big Show. Make no mistak...
Nashville notes
Burke/Triolo Productions/ThinkstockCountry rapper Lil Nas X, who rose to superstardom in 2019 with his ubiquitous hit “Old Town Road,” is officially a children’s book author. His alphabetical C Is for Country came out earlier t...
Congress certifies Biden/Harris election win; Trump promises “orderly transition on January 20th”
J. Scott Applewhite - Pool/Getty ImagesHours after a pro-Trump mob broke into the U.S. Capitol to protest the results of the 2020 election, Congress ratified the electoral votes cast in the general election and certified the victory of Joe Biden and ...
Trump tries to justify chaos at Capitol while Biden, President Bush condemn violence
John Moore/Getty ImagesAs the chaotic scene continued in the nation's capital with the world watching, President Donald Trump continued to tweet his repeated his false claim that the presidential election was stolen from him and tried to jus...
Devin Dawson’s grandparents are the stars of his “He Loved Her” music video
Warner Music Nashville/Atlantic RecordsDevin Dawson wrote his new song, “He Loved Her,” as a tribute to his grandfather, Jerry Durrett. To make the music video for the song, Devin went straight to the source: He cast his grandparents as the...
Kenny Chesney’s No Shoes Reefs is giving back to the ocean with the launch of an underwater reef park
Courtesy of No Shoes ReefsKenny Chesney’s love of the ocean is longstanding and well-documented, and now, the singer’s helping launch a new initiative to give back to the oceanic ecosystem off Delray Beach, in Palm Beach County, Florida....
Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs helped give the country genre a bump in streaming in 2020
ABCTwo particularly digital-savvy country superstars -- Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs -- are partially responsible for a 19 percent increase in the genre’s on-demand listening in 2020 over the previous year, according to data from Rolling Stone....
Luke Bryan gets emotional in American Idol promo: “This is the first time just someone singing made me cry”
ABC/Stewart CookAmerican Idol will return to ABC for its 19th season next month, and it just might be the show’s most emotional season to date.
The show will be extra special this time around, in part because it marks Idol’s return to full-scale -- but COVID-safe -- production after being affected by the pandemic in 2020. Then, of course, there’s the simply fact that fans and artists alike have been deeply missing live music during quarantine.
The show’s judges, Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan, certainly aren’t immune to the magic of a powerful voice, either. In fact, according to a promo clip shared in advance of the premiere, Luke even gets misty-eyed watching one contestant audition.
“This is the first time just someone singing made me cry,” the country star says during the emotional moment.
2020 has been a wild ride for the “One Margarita” superstar, whose current single, “Down to One,” is currently inside of country radio’s Top 20. He’ll return to his role as judge on Idol when the show resumes on February 14 on ABC.
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Kacey Musgraves used her merch line to show “how far a little self-care can go” amid the pandemic
ABC/Image Group LALike every other aspect of the music industry, country stars’ merch offerings have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. For Kacey Musgraves, that meant getting creative, swapping out tour t-shirts for things like bath bomb...