Category Archives: The Country Daily

Van Morrison will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting at the 2017 Americana Honors and Awards on Sept. 13 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Van follows in the esteeme...

Zac Brown Band’s much-anticipated fifth major-label studio album, Welcome Home, drops today (May 12). It’s a project Zac promised would go "straight back to our roots."Zac has kept his wor...

Leave it to Blake Shelton to get to the bottom of things. After rumors began to swirl that ABC was interested in Kelly Clarkson serving as a judge on its upcoming re-boot of American Idol, Blake dropp...

“Body Like a Back Road” singer Sam Hunt will perform at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21.Sam joins previously announced performers Florida Georgia Line, Camila Cabello, Drake, Ima...

Fact-checking website Snopes.com debunked the absurd claim that Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard were planning to take their bromance to the next level and get married . . ....

Let’s play a little Thursday trivia.How many singles did Eric Church release before reaching No. 1?Give up? 10. It wasn’t until Eric’s 10th single, “Drink in My Hand,” in...

As we reported in April, a fraternity that was banned from the University of Missouri as a recognized student organization because of alcohol-and buttocks-violations issued a challenge to Carrie Under...

The nominees for the 2017 Americana Honors & Awards were announced today (May 9), and a familiar name is front and center: Sturgill Simpson.Sturgill, who won Americana Awards in 2014 and 2015, lea...

A Grand Ole Opry member since 2001, you never know what Brad Paisley is going to do when he steps on the hallowed Opry circle. On Saturday, May 6, he helped one couple continue the circle of love.Brad...

Brett Eldredge stopped by the Today show (May 9) to announced the nominees for the 2017 CMT Music Awards on June 7.Kelsea Ballerini, Thomas Rhett and Keith Urban lead the pack with four nominations ap...