Carly Pearce and Michael Ray are leaning on each other!
13.03.2020 - 17:17 / billboard.com
Gabe Lee's Honky Tonk Hell -- including the track "Heartbreaker's Smile," premiering exclusively on Billboard below -- is heaven for fans of the stylistic diversity that can be found under the country music umbrella. And the Nashville-based artist is happy to be showing more sides of himself after the "songwriter project" of his 2019 debut, Farmland.
"The first record was very light instrumentation, a pretty sparse, intimate feel trying to showcase the storytelling," Lee, a Nashville native of
Carly Pearce and Michael Ray are leaning on each other!
Even before Nashville issued safer-at-home guidelines and ordered the downtown bars closed, Loretta Lynn was on lockdown at her home 75 miles away in rural Hurricane Mills, Tenn. At age 87, she's in one of the demographic segments of the population considered most at risk from the coronavirus. And with a stro
A few hours after Leslie Fram discussed how the COVID-19 outbreak might affect the entertainment industry — and talked about bringing DIY hand sanitizer to victims of the deadly March 3 tornado that devastated Middle Tennessee — the Nashville-based exec found out she had her own brush with the virus.
In an effort to show appreciation for those behind the lines of the nation’s health crisis with the coronavirus, Music Row and Nashville’s creative community have come together in support of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) staff with the launch of Gratitunes on Monday (March 30).Since March 30 serves as National Doctors’ Day, the Nashville community is taking time to thank its doctors.
On Friday (March 27), Capitol Nashville sent “Goodbye” by Kenny Rogers to country radio with the note, “those closest to Kenny wanted to make this track available to all of this fans.” The move came one week after the superstar died on March 20 at the age of 81.The Lionel Richie-penned tune had been released once -- on Kenny Rogers: The First 50 Years, a 45-track compilation released by Time Life in 2009, as one of three previously unreleased tunes --but otherwise the story behind the song was a
Scott Borchetta is fighting the coronavirus one bottle of hand sanitizer at a time.The Big Machine Label Group president/CEO recently spoke about how his company's Nashville-based liquor business, Big Machine Distillery, which produces premium vodka, is using its facilities to produce donated bottles of hand sanitizer for local first responders."We feel fortunate to be in a position to serve our community during these challenging times," Borchetta tweeted.
Brett Young is ready to be at home with his family!
Jessi Alexander never intended to move to Nashville to become a songwriter -- she simply wanted to make a living in the music business anyway she could. The West Tennessee native vividly remembers being enthralled by music as a young girl.
Nashville-based singer-producer Mokita grapples with the uncomfortable conclusion to a story he can’t rewrite on his latest single “Take It Back,” premiering exclusively on Billboard today (March 26).
On March 8, 2019, Ingrid Andress unveiled her first song as a Warner Music Nashville recording artist, titled "Lady Like," after years of writing tunes for others.
Revered songwriter Marcus Hummon (“Cowboy Take Me Away,” “Suds In the Bucket”) has signed a new publishing deal with LBK Entertainment, Billboard has exclusively learned. The new signing marks the 2019 Nashville Songwriters Fame inductee's departure from former publisher Spirit Music Group.
Callie McCullough introduces herself to the Nashville community with her debut EP, After Midnight, which Billboard premieres below.
The US star owns Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk & Rock & Roll Steakhouse
Dierks Bentley is keeping his employees in mind as he shuts down Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Nashville.
Kid Rock, 49, is not ready to close his popular bar Big Ass Honky Tonk & Steakhouse, which he opened in Oct. 2018, in Nashville, TN despite the city’s coronavirus concerns and plans to keep it open until there’s a “statewide mandate.” The singer’s business partner, Steve Smith, put out an official statement about the bar’s plans on Mar.
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Despite edicts from the city of Nashville to shut down over coronavirus concerns, some of the tourist-filled bars along the city’s perpetually packed Lower Broadway are defying the local government’s and many citizens’ call to close, conducting honky-tonk business as usual.
Despite Nashville Mayor John Cooper’s request to close down Lower Broadway on Sunday as a public health emergency in Nashville due to the coronavirus, countless bars have refused to shut their doors.