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Why did Brooks & Dunn frontman, Ronnie Dunn, shockingly walk off of the stage in the middle of a song? Obviously, this move left fans and followers scratching their heads. So, is everything okay? Keep reading for further details on his walk-off.

Why Ronnie Dunn Shockingly Walked Off Mid-Song

On Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, Brooks & Dunn was performing a show at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Everyone was having a good time until the encore. As Ronnie Dunn was singing the 1991 single, “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” he shockingly walked off of the stage. He had asked the concertgoers to “sing it if you know it,” but eventually patted his chest and exited. No one knew what was going on but they were visibly concerned as to why he did not finish out the show. It was noted that Ronnie had a few moments during the show that caused concern, but he never shared what the problem was.

Brooks & Dunn has postponed a concert at the United Supermarkets Arena following an explosion at Texas Tech University. On Thursday, the band reposted a Texas Tech statement confirming that their Thursday show would be postponed to March 20 after the campus was on alert the night prior.

“Brooks & Dunn’s performance at United Supermarkets Arena originally scheduled for tonight, March 13, has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 20, due to the events on the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock, on Wednesday, March 12,” read the statement.

According to the post, fans who...

Brooks & Dunn’s Ronnie Dunn was recently in a terrifying skiing accident. What happened with this situation, and what did the legendary singer have to say about everything that went down?

Brooks & Dunn Are One Of The Most Famous Acts Around

While most people know of Brooks & Dunn through iconic hits like “Neon Moon,” they have a lot more in their catalog than just that single hit. It has gained new popularity thanks to social media platforms like TikTok and more. However, there’s a lot more to this famous country act, as they are not just a one-trick pony.

Over the course of their career, this famous country duo consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn has released 12 studio albums, seven compilation albums, and scored 20 number-one hits, including many more tracks that have charted as well.

Instagram: Seth England Brooks & Dunn’s Ronnie Dunn Hurt In Scary Skiing...

Snoop Dogg made a surprise appearance at Jelly Roll’s Beautifully Broken Tour stop at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Tuesday night, joining the country star to debut a collaboration off Snoop’s upcoming album Missionary.

The song, “Last Dance With Mary Jane,” interpolates Tom Petty’s 1993 classic “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” and unsurprisingly reflects Snoop’s longtime affinity for marijuana. Jelly takes a verse of his own on the song while also singing the chorus featured on Petty’s original version.

After finishing the performance, Snoop took out a blunt and lighter,...

Jelly Roll is one of 18 artists singing Brooks & Dunn songs on the duo’s new album Reboot II. On Wednesday, the former rapper joined Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks onstage at the CMA Awards to perform his version of “Believe.”

Like B&d’s 2005 original, Jelly Roll’s version on Reboot II is rich in gospel accents — onstage at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, he was accompanied by nine-member choir as he traded verses with Dunn. A 16-piece orchestra also helped turn the ballad into a grand production.

Jelly Roll is...

So many stars stepped out to attend the 2024 CMA Awards on Wednesday night (November 20), and we’ve got all of the red carpet photos!

The event, which honors the best in country music, took place at Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee. It was hosted by Luke Bryan, Lainey Wilson and Peyton Manning.

Before the awards show could kick off, so many celebrities showed off their outfits on the red carpet. We pulled together pics of more than 40 stars at the event. That way you can easily see who was there and what they wore.

Head inside to see all of the photos…

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Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes

Lainey Wilson

Kacey Musgraves

Fyi: Kacey is wearing Georges Hobeika.

Chris Stapleton with his wife Morgane

Luke Bryan with his wife Caroline

Katharine McPhee

Shaboozey

Carly Pearce

Miranda Lambert...

Morgan Wallen went into the 58th annual CMA Awards as the leading contender, with seven nominations. He won only one of those, but it was the prize he most would have wanted: entertainer of the year. Or we can assume so, since Wallen was the only no-show among the night’s big nominees.

The 2024 CMAs’ other multiple winners were Chris Stapleton, who picked up three trophies, and show co-host Lainey Wilson (last year’s entertainer of the year winner), who got two.

Others being awarded honors on the ABC telecast included Cody Johnson, Megan Moroney, Old Dominion and — in perhaps the night’s biggest upset — Brooks & Dunn, who won duo of the year for the 15 time… the first time in 18 years.

According to the Country Music Association, Stapleton and Brooks & Dunn are now tied for the most CMA wins ever, with 19 each.

Among those who were shut out were...

Brooks & Dunn haven’t released an album of new material since 2007’s Cowboy Town, but when you have a catalog as impressive as theirs, it can be okay to coast on past glories. Especially when many of today’s hottest artists — Lainey Wilson, Morgan Wallen, Jelly Roll — are willing to sing the old hits. That’s the premise of Reboot II, a sequel to 2019’s Reboot, which assembles 18 Nashville stars to put their own spin on songs like “Neon Moon,” “Believe,” and “Hillbilly Deluxe,” with an assist from B&d themselves.

Morgan Wallen spent this weekend playing to more than 150,000 people over two shows at the Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. The gigs were about as close as the country star gets to a homecoming blowout — he grew up in Sneedville, about 90 minutes away — so he marked the occasion with a slew of surprise guests, including Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, and Darius Rucker.

During night one last Friday, Sept. 20, Church took the stage to join Wallen for a duet rendition of “Quittin’ Time,” a track off Wallen’s 2021 smash, Dangerous: The Double Album.

Morgan Wallen had not one, but two surprise guests join him during his show in Kansas City on Thursday. During his Arrowhead Stadium performance, the country star welcomed Brooks & Dunn and Lainey Wilson for unexpected duets.

In the middle of his set, after playing his Post Malone song “I Had Some Help” and a cover of Jason Isbell’s “Cover Me Up,” Wallen took the stage to sing “Lies Lies Lies” with Wilson.

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Toby Keith, whose history with the CMT Music Awards goes back to having co-hosted the earliest incarnation of the show, will get his due in the wake of his recent death, as an all-star salute is planned for Keith on Sunday night’s three-hour CBS telecast.

The tribute will feature performances by one of the hottest figures in country music, Lainey Wilson, along with his fellow industry veterans Brooks & Dunn, whose Ronnie Dunn is a fellow Okie. Rocker Sammy Hagar, who featured Keith on an episode of his TV series “Rock & Roll Road Trip” in 2022, will join the lineup paying homage.

Set for what’s being billed as special appearances saluting the late singer are Lukas Nelson and Roger Clemens. Nelson’s father, Willie, had a smash duet with Keith, “Beer for My Horses.” Baseball legend Roger Clemens’ friendship with Keith included the singer inducting the ballplayer into the Houston Sports Hall of Fame.

Toby Keith was rumored to be gearing up for a tour when he tragically died following his cancer battle. Blake Shelton has taken Toby’s death hard since he owes much of his popularity and success to Keith. Now, it turns out that Shelton and Keith were supposed to share the stage together before Keith’s death.

Here is what Shelton had to say and what fans missed out on.

Blake Shelton Announces Missed Concert with Toby Keith

Blake Shelton said that, before Toby Keith died, the two had spoken about performing together at a special concert. This was Shelton’s All for the Hall concert in Tulsa on March 30. According to Blake, Toby Keith was supposed to perform at that concert with him to honor a special fundraising cause.

The Shelton’s All for the Hall concert in Tulsa raised money for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and its education programs.

The country music community has begun mourning Toby Keith, who died Monday at 62 following a battle with cancer. His fans and peers remembered the singer and songwriter as the soundtrack to their lives and a trailblazer in his own right in various tributes shared across social media.

“Saddle up the horses, Jesus, ‘cause a true blue Cowboy just made his ride up to heaven!!! Introduce him to all the Okies and sign that boy up for the choir,” Carrie Underwood wrote on Instagram, sharing a carousel of photos with Keith over the years.

“Bad ass bitch” are the first words used to describe June Carter Cash in the official trailer for June, the documentary premiering via Paramount+ on Jan. 16. Kacey Musgraves assigns the label to her — and the remainder of the trailer ticks off all of the reasons why it’s a more than accurate descriptor.

In addition to Musgraves, the film features appearances and insight from Reese Witherspoon, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Larry Gatlin, Robert Duvall, Ronnie Dunn, and more. Having walked in the light of Carter Cash’s legacy and influence,...

This year’s Stagecoach Festival was a love letter to country music’s past and a nod to its wide-open future. While the festival — the genre’s largest, most rollicking reunion that takes place in California’s low desert the week after Coachella — was sparse on guest appearances (no Axl Rose, this time), the level of showmanship and raw talent was high.

The three-day affair weaved in and out of hat-tips from the likes of Luke Bryan playing “Where the Green Grass Grows” by Tim McGraw to Kane Brown performing...

The fifth annual “Heal The Music Day” will be October 21, 2022 and music makers across all genres are invited to join Chris & Morgan Stapleton, Lauren Daigle, Keith Urban, Rodney Crowell, Ronnie Dunn, Tina Parol, Vince Gill, Wiatr & Associates, and many more to raise awareness and funding to support Music Health Alliance (Mha).

In just nine years, Mha has provided free healthcare advocacy and access to life-saving health and financial resources to more than 18,000 working music professionals nationwide and is entirely funded through individual and corporate donations and grants.

Launched in 2017, Heal The Music Day is the brainchild of Grammy-winning musician Rodney Crowell who is championing this year’s campaign with Mha in an effort to raise awareness and support for the emergency and ongoing medical needs of our country’s creative community, 76 of whom are self- employed or part of a small business, many with limited and unpredictable resources, and often uninsured or under-insured for healthcare.

Congratulations! You just scored a backstage pass to the hottest tickets in town. After Covid-19 put a pause on live entertainment, your favorite artists are ready to hit the road and entertain audiences safely with brand-new tours and experiences. And regardless of where you are, we're offering an all-access ticket to every must-see concert of the year. Welcome to E!'s Backstage Pass. Ronnie Dunn wasn't sure what to expect when Brooks & Dunn decided to hit the road again. After avoiding a tour bus, hectic travel schedule and massive arenas for more than 10 years, the country music duo—also made up of Kix Brooks—did not know if fans would be dusting off their cowboy boots to...

Sammy Hagar, Bob Weir, and Ronnie Dunn walk into a theater… While it sounds like the setup to a music nerd’s joke or the opening of the Seventh Seal, this actually happened onstage in Nashville on Tuesday night when the Grateful Dead guitarist and the singing half of Brooks & Dunn made a joint cameo at Hagar’s Ryman Auditorium concert.

Midway through Hagar’s show with the Circle — the classic-rock torchbearers of Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, Led Zeppelin drummer scion Jason Bonham, and Evh-inspired guitarist Vic Johnson — the...

Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn began their semi-regular run of Las Vegas shows back in 2015 at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. After nearly seven years of performances, their “Reba, Brooks & Dunn: Together in Vegas” residency will close this December.

Billed as the “longest-running country residency in Las Vegas,” the production ends with nine more shows: December 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 14th, and 15th. Tickets for the shows go on sale August 6th.

Back in June, Brooks & Dunn announced the rescheduled dates of their 2021 Reboot Tour, running from...

Brooks & Dunn have announced a new fall tour with a decidedly Nineties country edge: The duo’s 2021 Reboot Tour features Travis Tritt as the opening act.

Kicking off Labor Day weekend in Indianapolis at the Ruoff Music Center, the fall tour runs through early October and plays markets like Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Atlanta. Tritt, who released the album Set in Stone in May, will be in the direct support slot, with newcomer Elvie Shane opening the shows.

Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks rerecorded some of their biggest hits with...

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)

Gary Louris, “Almost Home”

The Jayhawks singer gears up for the June 5th release of his solo album Jump for Joy with this euphoric slice of jangle-pop. Structured around a handclap beat and a sprightly strummed acoustic,...

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)

Sunny War, “Mama’s Milk”

Folk-punk singer-songwriter Sunny War suffers no fools in the charmingly loose “Mama’s Milk” from the upcoming album Simple Syrup, out March 26th. “I’ll spit ya back up again...

Grammy-winning artist and long-time Music Health Alliance supporter, Rodney Crowell, has enlisted a number of his all-star friends, for Songs From Quarantine, a digital compilation of rarities available for only two weeks exclusively on Bandcamp.

Artists involved include Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal & The Milk Carton Kids, Ry Cooder, Elvis Costello, Ronnie Dunn, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Joe Henry, John Hiatt, Taj Mahal, Jeff Tweedy, Keith Urban and Lucinda Williams

This unique collection features fan-favorite songs in their raw form, performed by the artists who wrote and/or recorded them. Proceeds from this star-studded, limited edition 13-song download will benefit the work of non-profit Music Health Alliance (Mha) and its continued work to provide free healthcare advocacy and support to the music community nationwide, including critical mental health and Covid-19 resources in addition to access to healthcare, medicines, diagnostic tests and more.

Crowell, an Mha board member, said: “The good...

Legacy Records has announced an expanded edition of Forever Words, the 2018 collaborative album that found artists like Chris Cornell and Elvis Costello setting poems and lyrics of Johnny Cash to music for the first time.

The deluxe version of Forever Words will be released to streaming services in four “waves,” pairing a total of 18 new songs with the album’s original 16 tracks. The first wave arrives today (Friday, October 23rd) with the songs “Big Hearted Girl” by Hard Working Americans and “I’m Comin’ Honey” by Shawn Camp, alongside the...

Julien’s Auctions recently launched the exclusive, online charity auction Handwritten Song Lyrics Benefitting Music Health Alliance at juliensauctions.com for advance bidding.

The auction will start closing in real time and in lot order for live bidding at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, November 9th, 2020. Proceeds will benefit Music Health Alliance’s Covid-19 Relief Plan, which was created to provide direct support for immediate needs of music industry professionals and their families during this public health crisis where many have lost their incomes.

The auction house to the stars partnered with a who’s who of the greatest singers and songwriters of the 20th and 21st century, spanning pop, rock, country, blues/jazz, americana, and gospel music, who personally donated handwritten lyrics of some of their most classic and famous hits to the initiative.

Highlighted handwritten song lyrics signed by the songwriter and/or recording artist include...

As social distancing becomes a part of everyday life, married singer-songwriters Hayes Carll and Allison Moorer have released their intimate new single, a cover of one of Merle Haggard’s biggest hits, “That’s the Way Love Goes.” The result is a romantic duet that provides the aural equivalent of a warm embrace.

“That’s the way love goes, babe, that’s the music God made/For all the world to sing, it’s never old it grows,” the pair sings together in the simple yet affecting chorus. “Losing makes me sorry,...

The Dustin J. Wells Foundation’s The Gift of Music concert to benefit the W.O. Smith Music School and the Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation announces Dolly Parton, Lee Greenwood, Lonestar, Collin Raye, T.G. Sheppard, Drew Baldridge, Abby Anderson, Artimus Pyle Band, Eric Lee Beddingfield, Red Mountain Bluegrass Band, Brad and Maisy Stella, Taylon Hope, and Scott Bass will take the stage of the historic Ryman Auditorium on January 30, 2020 at 7pm.

Tickets for The Gift of Music Concert are $100 and $85 (for obstructed view) plus applicable services charges and are available online starting at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, January 24th. The event is also the featured entertainment for The Crown Council, a group of dental teams gathering in Nashville for their 25th Annual Event.

The Dustin J. Wells Foundation honors the memory of a very special young man. After the loss of Dustin Jack Wells in a car accident in...

Country stars Reba McEntire, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn come together for a special country music residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. “Reba, Brooks & Dunn: Together in Vegas” is a combination of musical talent and authentic friendships that started in their first tour back in 1993. The band, 10 strong, is a blend […]

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On the heels of releasing the well-received duets album Re-Boot last year and announcing a new string of shows for their long-running Las Vegas residency with Reba McEntire, Brooks & Dunn are returning to the touring circuit. The Country Music Hall of Fame duo will hit the road for 18 dates beginning in May.

The trek, called the Reboot 2020 Tour, marks Brooks & Dunn’s first nationwide tour in a decade and puts a definitive end to the retirement they announced in 2009. Ronnie Dunn, who released the covers project Re-Dunn last week, says...

Covers albums are often a letdown, mostly unnecessary projects that leave you wondering why the artist devoted valuable time to singing someone else’s songs instead of working on their own. Ronnie Dunn’s Re-Dunn — what a title! — is among the rare exceptions.

Out January 10th, the 24-track collection finds the Brooks & Dunn vocalist somehow making songs we’ve all heard innumerable times (Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” Strait’s “Amarillo by Morning,” Pure Prairie League’s “Amie”) sound vital and electric. We asked the newly minted member...

Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn have announced a new string of shows for their long-running Las Vegas residency. The longtime collaborators added 24 performances to their “Reba, Brooks & Dunn: Together in Vegas” production at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

The new dates begin in April and include shows in June, October, and December. The 2020 extension cements the residency as the longest-running country-music show in Las Vegas. McEntire and the duo of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn first staged their showroom event — a collection of 30 songs from throughout their respective careers — in...

Just three years ago an unknown Luke Combs bought a limited edition Eric Church Gibson Hummingbird guitar from a pop-up shop in Nashville. He promised the salesman, who sold merch on the road for Church, that he’d be seeing him again.

“I said, ‘Dude, I’ll be playing shows with you guys one of these days,'” says Combs, calling from a tour stop in Missoula, Montana. “And he was like, ‘Yeah, all right…'”

Combs’ prediction was spot-on and then some. Not only will he open for Church in Atlanta in November,...

On Sunday, Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens and record executive Jerry Bradley were welcomed as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at the 2019 Medallion Ceremony, held in the museum’s Cma Theater. Reba McEntire was on hand to induct her Las Vegas co-headliners Brooks & Dunn with the Hall’s Modern Era honor. Ricky Skaggs and the McCrary Sisters sang in honor of musician/country comedian Stevens, who received the Hall’s Veteran Era honor. And Bradley, the record executive who signed Alabama and paved the...

After re-recording the hits of Brooks & Dunn with guest stars like Luke Combs and Jon Pardi on this spring’s Reboot, Ronnie Dunn tackles the songs of his influences on the upcoming album Re-Dunn.

A massive collection of 24 songs, the record includes the cowboy singer’s interpretations of hits by a diverse group of artist, including the Eagles, Tom T. Hall, Johnny Rodriguez, Merle Haggard, and Eric Clapton. Dunn also covers two songs by George Strait: “The Cowboy Rides Away” and “Amarillo by Morning.” He premieres the latter today,...

Rodney Crowell could have spent a lifetime writing an album about Texas. In a way, he has. Though the Grammy-winning Americana storyteller left the Lone Star State for Music City in 1972, he’s returned to it time and again for inspiration in the decades since, from his 2001 LP The Houston Kid to his 2011 memoir Chinaberry Sidewalks. But Crowell owes his latest album, Texas, to a song called “Brown & Root, Brown & Root,” and a conversation it started between him and Steve Earle.

“I wrote that back in the Seventies and Steve learned it.

“I’ve tried hard to leave here but never did could,” Rodney Crowell sings in “Deep in the Heart of Uncertain Texas,” a shuffling, picturesque highlight from his latest LP Texas, a musical tribute to the Houston-born singer-songwriter’s roots. Willie Nelson, Ronnie Dunn, and Lee Ann Womack, a trio of fellow Lone Star State luminaries, join Crowell on the song’s chorus, a highlight of the new album produced by Crowell with Ray Kennedy.

“It’s interesting to me — and I consider this a success — that so many high-profile...

Just ahead of their induction into the Hall of Fame this fall, the story of Brooks & Dunn from aspiring solo artists to the best-selling country duo of all time will be explored in a new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Opening August 9th, Brooks & Dunn: Kings of Neon will spotlight dozens of the awards presented to the duo from 1992 to 2006, with a display of their Grammy, Cma and Acm trophies. In addition, the exhibit will feature custom guitars, one-of-a-kind stage wear, racing suits Kix Brooks...

Brooks & Dunn are joined by “Drinkin’ Problem” trio Midland for a lively rendition of the country duo’s 1992 hit “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” that will appear in the next edition of Cmt Crossroads. Filmed in the heart of downtown Nashville, the episode premieres on Cmt on Friday, June 28th, at 10:00 p.m. Et.

This new version of the song, which Midland sang on the 2019 collaborative Brooks & Dunn album Reboot, leaves much unchanged from the original recording — save for a few extra voices in the mix. Midland leader Mark Wystrach, dressed...

Texas natives Rodney Crowell and Randy Rogers go full Lone Star on the new collaboration “Flatland Hillbillies,” which will appear on Crowell’s upcoming album Texas. The video for the tune, which Crowell wrote with author Mary Karr, is out now.

Over a muscular, country-rock groove, Crowell describes a kind of hardscrabble existence for people from where he grew up, affectionately referring to them an “Irish-Cajun-Creole-Mix.” In true Texas fashion, they’re making it work by whatever means necessary: “getting by on what we can,” sings Crowell, with some vocal...

Brooks & Dunn will re-create songs off their new album Reboot for a taping of Cmt Crossroads. Taping June 4th on an outdoor stage in downtown Nashville during Cma Fest week, the episode will premiere on the cable network later in the month.

The Reboot project, released in April, pairs Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn with some of contemporary country music’s most popular young artists, including Luke Combs, Jon Pardi and Brett Young. All three of those singers are set to perform with the duo for Crossroads, along with Cody Johnson,...

Rodney Crowell, who has chronicled his Texas roots in song as well as in print, has enlisted a host of fellow Texans, including Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Lee Ann Womack, Ronnie Dunn, Steve Earle, Zz Top’s Billy Gibbons and Randy Rogers, for Texas, an album of collaborations. The project will also feature such non-Texans as Vince Gill and Ringo Starr, the latter of whom was the first to reach out to Crowell to express interest in recording with the Houston native.

“For the last few years, I’d been...

Brooks & Dunn and Midland brought their collaboration for B&D’s new album Reboot to life when they teamed up to perform “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night.

Midland singer Mark Wystrach set the scene with the song’s famous opening lyric — “Out in the country, past the city limits sign” — before Ronnie Dunn and his honeyed voice joined in. His partner of nearly 30 years Kix Brooks laid down some rootsy harmonica, while Midland’s Jess Carson and Cameron Daddy chimed in on background vocals.

It’s halfway through “The First and the Worst” benefit guitar pull at Nashville’s City Winery, a charity concert in which songwriters revisit both their first and most odious compositions, and Kix Brooks, performing solo, has made yet another joke about hating Ronnie Dunn.

But the gregarious, fast-talking Brooks, one half of country music’s biggest-selling duo Brooks & Dunn, may protest too much. While he and Dunn’s sometimes prickly relationship has become the stuff of Music Row lore — their entire arranged marriage was a reluctant one, two struggling...

A second round of performers for the upcoming Acm Awards telecast has just been announced by the Academy of Country Music. In addition to Dierks Bentley and the reunited duo of Brooks & Dunn, the event will include recent multiple Grammy winner Brandi Carlile, along with Eric Church, Kelly Clarkson, Luke Combs, Dan + Shay, Florida Georgia Line and Ashley McBryde. Duo Dan + Shay join the lineup as this year’s most-nominated artist, tied with Chris Stapleton for six awards.

Previously announced performers for the live gala include Brothers Osborne, Kane Brown,...

Country superstar duo Brooks and Dunn will be the latest inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The duo was announced on Monday morning in Nashville along with singer/songwriter Ray Stevens and producer/executive Jerry Bradley will be inducted at the 2019 ceremony in October. Watch the official video above.

Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn are two-time Grammy winners, sold over 30 million albums and charted 20 number one songs. Those tunes have included “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “My Maria,” “Brand New Man” and “Believe.” Stevens made his debut in 1962 and has had such hits as “Everything is Beautiful,” “Gitarzan” and “The Streak.” Bradley ran RCA Records from 1973 to 1982 and was a longtime member of the Country Music Association board. He follows both his father Owen Bradley and uncle Harold Bradley into Hall of Fame induction.

See Acm Awards host Reba McEntire was ‘disapointed’ by nominations: ‘I wanted to hear some women...

On Monday morning, Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens and former label executive Jerry Bradley were announced as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Television and radio host Bill Cody, filling in for an under-the-weather Reba McEntire, handled hosting duties for the live-streamed event in the museum’s rotunda, where plaques of the inductees are placed. As usual, the three inductees were from the Modern Era, the Veterans Era and a rotating category, which this year is the Non Performer designation.

Modern Era inductees Brooks & Dunn are country...

On her Grammy-winning album Golden Hour, Kacey Musgraves combined traditional acoustic instruments and a synthetic vocoder effect in “Oh, What a World,” creating a standout track that inspired the name of her 2019 headlining tour. At the third of four sold-out Oh, What a World: Tour dates at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Friday, Musgraves emphasized that mellow magic of Golden Hour and reasserted her country connections with an appearance by Brooks & Dunn.

The top-selling country duo of Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks were the third surprise guest at Musgraves’ Ryman shows,...

Fifty-three years ago today, on March 1st, 1966, construction began on the barn-shaped structure that would for several decades house the original Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Music Row. Now located in downtown Nashville, the museum anchors a booming tourist industry and, with more than 350,000 square feet, tells the ongoing story of country music through exhibits featuring the genre’s stars past and present. That tradition continues in 2019 with the museum’s just-announced schedule, which will shine a spotlight on recent Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves, hit duo Brooks & Dunn,...

In the just-released “No U in Oklahoma,” Reba McEntire spells out the twists and turns of a troubled relationship set to an irresistible Western swing beat, replete with twin fiddles, steel guitar and piano accompaniment straight out of a Sooner State dance hall.

“You put the ‘T’ for tears in Texas, ‘S’ for sad in St. Louie/Our reckless travels led us to the state of Missouri,” McEntire sings, with the latter state name sounding more like “misery.”

In spite of the heartache, this bubbly throwback to traditional country, penned...

Brooks & Dunn are gearing to release their first recordings together since 2007 with Reboot, which pairs the superstar duo with a group of younger performers including Luke Combs, Kacey Musgraves and Brothers Osborne. On Thursday, they announced the official track listing for the album, due out April 5th, and posted the new version of “My Next Broken Heart” featuring Jon Pardi.

With its stomping, two-stepping beat and sizzling Telecaster licks, “My Next Broken Heart” was made for the honky-tonks. Pardi takes the lead in the first verse, then supplies some low...