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The 27th season of The Voice is currently airing on NBC, and with the blind auditions wrapped, all four coaches, Kelsea Ballerini, Michael Buble, John Legend, and Adam Levine have picked the 12 members for their teams. To add to it, the celebrity advisors of the season have also been announced.

The Voice Season 27: All 4 Teams & Their Celebrity Advisors

Team Kelsea is headed by Kelsea Ballerini and advised by Little Big Town consisting of Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook. The contestants are Alanna Lynise, a 21-year-old from Toledo, Ohio. Simone Marijic is a 20-year-old from Los Angeles. Brook Wood is a 33-year-old from Indianapolis. Robert Hunter is a 33-year-old from Garner.

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Hailey Wright is a 19-year-old from Redwater, Texas. Page Mackenzie is a 32-year-old from Charleston.

Little Big Town is all in on Christmas this year and, following the October release of their first holiday album, “The Christmas Record,” they’re hosting this year’s “Christmas at the Opry.”

“This is an incredible honor for us, and we are beyond thrilled to share this special evening with viewers and fans across the country. We’ve invited some of our dearest friends to join us on stage, and we can’t wait for everyone to experience the magic of the holidays at such an incredible venue,” the band said in a statement when the special was announced.

You can expect Little Big Town members Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman and Jimi Westbrook to perform some songs from “The Christmas Record,” but they’ll have some help decking the halls. The glitzy holiday event was filmed on Oct. 4 in front of a live audience at the at...

Twenty years ago, Little Big Town were seemingly at the end of their rope in trying to make it in Nashville. The country music quartet had two failed recording contracts in the rearview mirror, with no real prospects to come.

“We were broken, and we just sat down and wrote that record,” Karen Fairchild tells Rolling Stone. “In a way, it was the best time, because we didn’t have anybody looking over our shoulder while we were making music.”

That record would be Little Big Town’s breakthrough 2005 album The Road to Here.

Little Big Town likes to do things in fours, as the ensemble’s vocal-quartet configuration would indicate. So the country-pop group wasn’t about to let its 25th anniversary pass with just one commemoration when four would do: a national tour with their longtime friends in Sugarland; a greatest hits album; a Christmas record; and the quartet’s first two-hour prime-time special, “Little Big Town’s Christmas at the Opry,” airing tonight on NBC. They couldn’t have picked better ways to celebrate one-fourth of a century together.

As a cherry on top, members Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook get to revel in this milestone while most would agree they’re looking and sounding pretty much as they did at their inception point at the end of the 1990s. Their secret? “Smoke and mirrors,” says Westbrook. “I was gonna lie and say we get into cryogenic...

Little Big Town’s Christmas at the Opry is airing tonight!

The two-hour NBC special will air at 8 p.m. Et on the network. Following the broadcast, it will be made available on streaming on Peacock the next day.

Little Big Town and several country superstars are putting on a show at the Grand Ole Opry for a Christmas celebration! They’ll be performing Christmas classics and new favorites in Nashville, Tenn.

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“We are simply beside ourselves to announce that we will host our own NBC Holiday Special at the prestigious Grand Ole Opry House,” said Little Big Town in a statement.

“This is an incredible honor for us, and we are beyond thrilled to share this special evening with viewers and fans across the country. We’ve invited some of our dearest friends to join us on stage, and we can’t wait...

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.

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Little Big Town’S Christmas At The Opry — Red Carpet — Pictured: (l-r) Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook of Little Big Town — (Photo by: Tibrina Hobson/NBC) Get ready for an unforgettable night of holiday music! This NBC special will feature iconic duets and collaborations from country music’s finest, all within the festive atmosphere of the Grand Ole Opry House decked out for the holidays. Joining Little Big Town will be an all-star lineup of artists including Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Sheryl Crow, Kirk Franklin, Josh Groban, Kate Hudson, and Orville Peck, promising a magical and memorable Christmas celebration. This holiday special is extra special as it coincides with the release of Little Big Town’s very first Christmas album! You’ll get to hear them perform some of their new holiday tunes during the show. Tune in to NBC on December 16th at 8 p.m.

For the group’s 25th anniversary, Little Big Town is pouring some sugar on it. Some Sugarland, actually, as the two country groups will be spending some quality time together later this year, in the wake of their joint performance Sunday night on the CMT Music Awards, where they hooked up to sing their newly arranged cover of Phil Collins’ 1985 smash “Take Me Home.”

The day after the meeting of the vocal-group titans on the CBS awards telecast, Lbt and Sugarland have released a studio version of the Collins tune they performed live, along with announcing a joint tour in the fall that will see them hit the road together for 18 dates. The tour starts Oct. 24 in Greenville, Sc and wraps Dec. 13 with a hometown show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

The tour is produced by Live Nation and Sandbox Entertainment, and is billed as Little Big Town with special guest Sugarland,...

The 2024 CMT Music Awards honored the best country videos of the year on Sunday night (April 7), live on CBS from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, and Jelly Roll was the night’s big winner. The country singer/rapper took home the trophies for Video of the Year, Male Video of the Year, and the CMT Performance of the Year for his hit song “Need a Favor.” He also performed his latest single “Halfway To Hell” live at the ceremony. Lainey Wilson, who was also nominated in three categories, won Female Video of the Year for her track “Watermelon Moonshine.” Meanwhile, The Voice coaches Dan + Shay won Duo/Group Video of the Year for their song “Save Me the Trouble.” The ceremony was hosted by singer Kelsea Ballerini, who received nominations in three separate categories. Ballerini was also one of the night’s live performers, which also included Jason Aldean,...

For the second time in their careers, Little Big Town and Sugarland have come together to interpret a 1985 pop hit. The country groups performed “Take Me Home,” off Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required album, onstage at the 2024 CMT Music Awards in Austin on Sunday. In 2008, Lbt and Sugarland, along with Jake Owen, performed the Dream Academy’s hit “Life in a Northern Town” at the CMT Awards.

Onstage at the Moody Center, Little Big Town kicked off the performance with Jimi Westbrook and Karen Fairchild taking the first lines as smoke,...

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On the heels of their CMT Music Awards collaboration, Little Big Town and Sugarland have announced the “Take Me Home” Tour. Titled after the song they performed on the CMTs — Phil Collins’ 1985 hit from No Jacket Required — the trek will kick off Oct. 24 in Greenville, South Carolina, and conclude Dec. 13 with a show at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Country trio the Castellows will open all dates.

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Country music fans won’t want to miss the 2024 CMT Music Awards this weekend! The live event is jam-packed with a star-studded lineup of country performers and guests. Tune in to see how your favorite artists stack up against the rest and enjoy fabulous performances throughout the evening. It all kicks off on Sunday, April 7 at 8 p.m. Et. You can watch it on CBS. The entire extravaganza will be available on-demand on Paramount+ beginning on Monday, April 8. You can watch CBS with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream. You can also watch with Paramount Plus, Hulu Live TV, Fubo, or YouTube TV.

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From the streaming premiere of A24’s “Talk To Me” to the fifth and final season premiere of the streamer’s original “Star Trek: Discovery” and live sports broadcasts (including this year’s Masters Tournament), there’s no shortage of things to watch this month on Paramount+!

This April, CBS will be the home to two major music broadcasts, which will be available to stream live on Paramount+ for subscribers on the Paramount+ with Showtime plan: the CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 7, from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas; and the celebration of Billy Joel’s 100th sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, live from the historic New York City venue.

More offerings include “Dora,” who gets a new look with a reboot of the original animated series, and “Knuckles,” with the title character, voiced by Idris Elba, getting his own show.

Find out everything coming to Paramount+ this month,...

We are exactly one week away from the 2024 CMT Music Awards!

The upcoming country music awards show will take place Next Sunday (April 7) in Austin, Texas, and are set to air on CBS and on demand on Paramount+.

Ahead of the show, it was just revealed that there will be another “history-making performance” between two groups – Sugarland and Little Big Town!

The last time they all shared the CMT Music Awards stage together was in 2009, when they performed “Life In a Northern Town” with Jake Owen.

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Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush will reunite as Sugarland for the first time in a few years, as they have been focused on their solo careers.

This will mark the first time that the duo has performed at the CMT Music Awards since 2011, and they will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of their song “Baby Girl.”

Little Big Town – Karen Fairchild,...

Country music fans, get ready for one of the biggest nights in the industry! The highly anticipated “2024 CMT Music Awards” is set to air this Sunday at 8:00 Pm on CBS. Hosted by Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown, this star-studded event takes place at Austin, Texas’ Moody Center.

What makes this awards show truly special is that it’s entirely fan-voted, allowing viewers to have a direct say in honoring their favorite artists and music videos. With an impressive lineup of performers including Little Big Town, Sugarland, Bailey Zimmerman, Jelly Roll, Jordan Davis, and Keith Urban, fans can expect electrifying performances and memorable moments throughout the night.

From chart-topping hits to heartfelt ballads, the “2024 CMT Music Awards” promises to showcase the best of country music and celebrate the talent that makes this genre so beloved. So mark your calendars and tune in this Sunday at 8:00 Pm on CBS to...

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Get ready for an unforgettable night of music and celebration as the 2024 CMT Music Awards make their grand return to television screens. Hosted by country music superstars Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown, this star-studded event promises to be a thrilling evening for fans of the genre.

Set against the vibrant backdrop of Austin, Texas’ Moody Center, the 2024 CMT Music Awards will showcase the best and brightest talents in country music. With performances by industry heavyweights like Little Big Town, Sugarland, Bailey Zimmerman, Jelly Roll, Jordan Davis, and Keith Urban, viewers can expect electrifying performances that will have them singing along all night long.

In addition to the stellar lineup of performers, fans can also look forward to appearances by...

Lots of celebrities stepped out to take part in the CMT Giants: Alabama tribute on Wednesday (January 17) at The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville, Tennessee.

The two-hour TV special will pay homage to legendary country group Alabama and is set to premiere later this year.

The star-studded event featured appearances from solo acts and bands alike, including Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean and wife Brittany, and Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild, and Jimi Westbrook of Little Big Town.

We pulled together photos for you to easily browse so you can see who was there and what they all wore for the occasion!

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Country music’s biggest stars are stepping out for the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards.

The event, which is being held at the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, is the first country music awards show where winners are chosen entirely by fans. There will also be two honorary awards presented Thursday night; Wynonna Judd will receive the Country Champion Award, while Tony Keith will receive the Country Icon Award.

Little Big Town will serve as hosts and will also perform. Others slated to hit the stage include Keith, Judd, Blake Shelton, Carly Pearce, Dan + Shay, Hardy, Jelly Roll, Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini.

The show will air Thursday night on NBC and Peacock.

And check out all the People’s Choice Country Awards red carpet arrivals below.

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It’s easy to roll your eyes at yet another country music awards show, which are as numerous as bachelorettes on a Nashville Saturday night. But the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards gives fans the power to celebrate the songs they actually listen to. (The CMT Music Awards are also fan-voted but focus on music videos.)

Hosted by Little Big Town, the PCCAs assemble some of the genre’s hottest stars to perform and compete in categories like Social Country Star of 2023, Crossover Song of 2023, and Concert Tour of...

Blake Shelton, Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown will be among the big names performing at the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards, NBC and Peacock announced Thursday.

The event will air live Sept. 28, at 8 p.m. Et/Pt simultaneously on NBC and Peacock from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee. The two-hour celebration recognizes the best in country music, as voted by fans.

Other announced performers include Carly Pearce, Dan + Shay, Hardy and Jelly Roll. Little Big Town comprised of Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet — will host as well as perform a medley of their greatest hits.

Shelton, Ballerini and Brown are all up for the title of The People’s Artist of 2023, as are Lainey Wilson, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Old Dominion and Zach Bryan.

As previously announced, this year’s honorees are “Beer for My Horses” singer Toby Keith, who’ll be...

Country music group Little Big Town will host the first-ever People’s Choice Country Awards, set to air Sept. 28 on NBC and Peacock live from Nashville’s historic Grand Ole Opry House.

The band — comprised of Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet — will also perform from a medley of their greatest hits as part of the two-hour celebration recognizing the best in country music, chosen entirely by the fans across various categories.

“We are honored to host the inaugural ‘People’s Choice Country Awards,’ especially on one of our most beloved stages in the entire world,” the band said in a statement. “We look forward to welcoming so many of our talented peers to take the Opry stage for this magical night of music.”

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The Masked Singer season 9's third place finisher was California Roll, who was revealed to be a capella singing group, Pentatonix, and there are several other groups who would also be perfect for the mystery singing competition. Pentatonix is a five-member act, which is the largest in Masked Singer history. They brought their signature harmonies to songs such as "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler, "Creep" by Radiohead, and "Breakaway" by Kelly Clarkson.

The Masked Singer season 9's California Roll was not the first group to compete. That distinction belongs to Hanson, who competed on The Masked Singer season 5 as the Russian Dolls. In season 7, En Vogue appeared as the Queen Cobras, while The Brady Bunch brothers, Barry Williams (Greg), Christopher Knight (Peter), and Mike Lookinland (Bobby) were revealed to be the Mummies in season 8. Wilson Phillips were the season 8 runner-up, impressing everyone with...

In an ultimate show-must-go-on moment in country music history, Wynonna Judd was not about to let the legacy of the Judds slip quietly into the sunset, rather than go out as spectacularly as intended, after her mother, Naomi Judd, died by suicide in April 2022. And so the Judds farewell tour that had been scheduled for last fall did proceed, against all probabilities, with a bevy of top stars trading places as Naomi’s stand-in each night. The emotional end of that road was captured for not just one but two new specials premiering on different Paramount platforms — “Wynonna Judd: Between Hell and Hallelujah,” a feature-length documentary that debuted Wednesday on Paramount+, and “The Judds: Love Is Alive — The Final Concert,” a two-hour performance special bowing tonight on CMT at 8 p.m. Et/Pt.

With the on-air premieres of the doc and concert special being spaced a few days apart, Judds...

Country music singer-songwriter Lainey Wilson leads this year’s roster of CMT Music Awards nominations with a total of four nominations, including Video of the Year, Female Video of the Year, Collaborative Video of the Year and CMT Performance of the Year.

CMT unveiled nominations today for the 2023 awards, Paramount Global’s signature country music tentpole and entirely fan-voted awards. The awards will be handed out next month on the show hosted by 2023 nominees Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini.

Artists with three nominations this year include Cody Johnson, first-time nominee Jelly Roll and Awards co-host Kane Brown.

The first round of nominations for the Video of the Year award features 16 acts, including another nod for Carrie Underwood, who reigns as the most-awarded artist in CMT history with a total of 25 wins, and is also slated to perform.

Also facing off for the night’s biggest award: Ashley McBryde with Caylee Hammack,...

Nominations for the 2023 CMT Music Awards are led by country’s woman of the moment, Lainey Wilson, with four, followed by three apiece for Cody Johnson, newcomer Jelly Roll and the show’s recurring co-host, Kane Brown.

For the second year in a row, the three-hour telecast will be getting its premiere network airing on CMT’s big sister network, CBS — along with a livestream on Paramount+ — and for the first time, it will be based out of Austin. The show goes out live from the Moody Center April 2 at 8 p.m. Et on the broadcast network and airs tape-delayed in the same time slot on the west coast.

Several days after the broadcast and streaming premiere, the show will appear on its titular network, CMT, as an “extended cut” with 30 minutes of additional material, bringing the running time there to three and a half hours. That expanded edition bows...

CMA Fest is planning to pull out all the stops for its 50th anniversary celebration this June. The long-running country-music event returns to Nashville June 8-11, with performances at Nissan Stadium from artists including Eric Church, Hardy, and Miranda Lambert highlighting the weekend.

A daily lineup is available online for the Nissan Stadium shows, which boast an impressive array of stars. Other performers include Dierks Bentley, Luke Combs, Carly Pearce, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Ashley McBryde, Jason Aldean, Jimmie Allen, Luke Bryan, Jordan Davis, Tyler Hubbard, Little Big Town, Tim McGraw,...

Though vocal groups are a longstanding tradition in country music, the quartet Little Big Town have been compared to Fleetwood Mac just as often as they’ve been compared to the Oak Ridge Boys. That’s due in part to their mix of male and female voices, as well as the way they’ve largely favored folk-rock arrangements over honky-tonk and country shuffles.

On their 10th studio album Mr. Sun, the group of Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet lean fully into the softer side of Seventies pop,...

Country music legends Shania Twain, Little Big Town, Tanya Tucker and Martina McBride will guest star in Fox’s upcoming musical drama “Monarch,” which features Oscar winner Susan Sarandon and multiplatinum country star Trace Adkins as country music royalty looking to defend their legacy.

The special appearances will take place throughout the first season, which is set to premiere on the channel Sunday, Sept. 11. It’ll then move to its regular time slot Tuesday, Sept. 20.

“Monarch,” the upcoming Texas-sized, multigenerational musical drama about America’s

leading family of country music also stars Golden Globe nominee Anna Friel, Joshua Sasse and Beth Ditto. The series follows the wildly talented, but tough-as-nails Queen of Country Music Dottie Cantrell Roman (Sarandon) and her beloved husband, “Texas Truthteller” Albie Roman (Adkins), who have fought to create a country music dynasty. Even though the Roman name is synonymous with authenticity, the very foundation of their success is a lie,...

Sandbox Entertainment president-ceo Jason Owen, one of Nashville’s top management figures, has signed a deal with Sony Music Entertainment’s Premium Content Division to produce long-form film, television and digital projects, with the “definitive” June Carter Cash documentary among the first of their collaborations to be announced.

The companies say that over a period of years they plan to develop “a library of projects that tell the stories of music, history, and culture set in the South” — very familiar stomping ground for Owen, a leading figure in Nashville’s music industry who currently helps guide the careers of Kacey Musgraves, Dan + Shay, Little Big Town, Faith Hill and Kelsea Ballerini.

The June Carter Cash doc will combine interviews with family members with archival footage culled from “unprecedented access to the Cash estate,” much of it, of course, related to her husband Johnny Cash or her lineage before that...

Little Big Town gave a mostly unplugged full-band performance for a new edition of NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert.

Standing in a sunken living-room area in front of a massive tree-trunk coffee table, Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild, and Phillip Sweet merged their voices for the dreamy title track from 2020’s Nightfall as well as the trumpet-assisted folk-rock chug of “Wine, Beer, Whiskey.”

“We have always wanted to do this,” Karen Fairchild said. ”Thanks for coming to our home – we don’t live together the four of us.

Roughly six months after releasing her debut album Lady Like, Ingrid Andress has issued a deluxe version of the project with a handful of new recordings. Among them are a new take on her Number One hit “More Hearts Than Mine” featuring Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town, and Andress’ cover of “Boys,” the 2017 hit she co-wrote for British pop star Charli Xcx.

Prior to her breakout as a solo artist, Andress focused on her songwriting in Nashville and Los Angeles. Cass Lowe and Jerker Hansson, who produced Charlie Xcx’s recording,...

Lori McKenna returns July 24th with The Balladeer, the follow-up to her Americana award-nominated album The Tree. The new project reunites her with producer Dave Cobb, who recorded the album at Nashville’s RCA Studio A.

“When You’re My Age,” the poignant first single to be issued from The Balladeer, is a intensely moving piano ballad featuring McKenna’s Love Junkie’s collaborators Hillary Lindsey and Liz Rose on backing vocals. The song is a pre-Mother’s Day love letter to McKenna’s five children as they face the...

Karen Fairchild’s son has a question for his mom: “Is soundcheck finished?”

“Not yet babe, I wish,” says Fairchild, standing onstage at Carnegie Hall, where her band Little Big Town have been running through vocal arrangements and stage directions for a performance that evening. “It’s almost done,” she reassures her child, who’s been patiently waiting in the otherwise eerily empty esteemed theater. The quartet has been soundchecking for over an hour.

The reason for the longer-than-usual rehearsal: Nightfall, Little Big Town’s new album, their ninth in 18 years,...

Little Big Town detailed their ninth studio LP Nightfall, which will be released January 17th. The new album, which follows 2017’s The Breaker, features the quartet’s Grammy-nominated “The Daughters” as well as their current single “Over Drinking,” both of which will be available with pre-orders starting Friday, November 22nd.

Nightfall preorders will also include the new track, “Sugar Coat,” penned by “Girl Crush” co-writer (and frequent Little Big Town contributor) Lori McKenna with Josh Kerr and Jordyn Shellart. Additional writers contributing to the Nightfall include Daniel Tashian, Foy Vance,...

“Play our f-ckin’ records. Please and thank you.”

So read the inside of Jennifer Nettles’ cape on the Cma Awards red carpet, while the back of the Sugarland singer’s suit jacket bore the words “equal play.” Early in the evening, it seemed as if the sartorial statement may indicate a more outspoken tone than in CMAs past. As the night went on, however, it was clear that wasn’t the case.

Conversations about the gulf between the representation of male and female artists on country radio have reached fever pitch in recent years,...

Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton, and Reba McEntire opened the 53rd annual Cma Awards with their rendition of “Those Memories of You,” a song that Parton originally recorded with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris for their 1987 Trio album.

Following the easygoing rendition, the co-hosts’ trio quickly grew in number as Tanya Tucker, Crystal Gayle, Martina McBride, Terri Clark, Sara Evans, Gretchen Wilson, Jennifer Nettles, Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman, and the Highwomen made their way onstage to perform. In most cases, that meant their signature songs: Tucker sang “Delta Dawn,...

Little Big Town eschew the traditional dramatic video treatment in favor of actual musical drama in their engaging new live-performance video for the twangy “Over Drinking.”

Nestled into a compact gray room, the foursome — Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook — are joined by a keyboard player and guitarist to perform their latest single. Without any video storyline, the song itself becomes the star, with Fairchild handling the verses with accompaniment from Schlapman, before all four join in to harmonize on the chorus. The performance emphasizes the old-school country wordplay of the song,...

Country music’s youngest superstars don’t always catch a break with the Cma Awards. When the latest slate of nominations was announced, Kane Brown had none, and Luke Combs had a far-from-leading three. But Cmt is making up the difference by including these two ascendants as part of their annual “Cmt Artists of the Year” slate, set to be broadcast live Oct. 16 from Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

Dan + Shay, who have gotten more awards love from the CMAs and Grammys, will also be celebrated in the program. The roster of honorees is rounded out by two artists with longer runs as country superstars, Carrie Underwood.

Brown, Combs and Dan + Shay don’t count as freshmen anymore, but being elevated to this status even as figurative sophomore or juniors represents Cmt’s clear desire to make a statement by honoring the genre’s youngest or freshest arena headliners.

Canadian singer-songwriter Tenille Townes is joined by Brandi Carlile for an acoustic performance of the song “Somebody’s Daughter,” which Townes released as a single in September 2018. Their collaboration is part of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store’s new “Five Voices, One Decade” initiative, a 50th-anniversary celebration of the restaurant chain aimed at lifting up women in country music.

As her solo performances often demonstrate, Carlile is a formidable entertainer with a powerful voice. But she’s equally capable of playing a support role, which she does here, adding higher...

While the world waits patiently for the much-anticipated return of the Dixie Chicks, a new trio — or at least a temporary one — is here with a version of the classic Chicks hit “Wide Open Spaces” to fill that harmonious void. Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman and Karen Fairchild, along with Ingrid Andress, recorded the acoustic cover for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store’s new initiative “Five Decades, One Voice,” meant to celebrate the women of country music on the 50th anniversary of the brand. As part of the program,...

Nicole Kidman is officially a dog mom!

On Wednesday, Kidman, 52, revealed on Instagram that she got her first fur baby and she couldn’t be happier.

The Big Little Lies star shared a sweet photo of herself snuggling up to what appears to be a small red poodle.

“My first puppy,” Kidman captioned the shot, adding “Actually my first dog. Been waiting my whole life for this!

Little Big Town performed their single “The Daughters” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, offering an updated musical arrangement for their powerful message about equality.

With band members Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild, and Phillip Sweet all dressed in matching tuxedos, the performance of the song took on an air of symphonic sophistication. Helping that was the minimalistic, dramatic arrangement — a sparse combination of acoustic guitars, cello, piano, and the group’s layered harmonies.

That stylistic choice put even greater focus on the song’s important and timely lyrics,...

It often seems like women have almost as hard a time catching a break at country awards shows as they do on country radio, judging from the fact that neither the Cma Awards nor Acm Awards could come up with a single female to nominate for entertainer of the year for the last two years running. That women problem didn’t run over to the Cmt Music Awards, where Carrie Underwood was not only nominated for the top prize Wednesday night but won it, picking up the fan-voted video of the year award for “Cry Pretty.”

That Underwood was not in Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena to accept the prize was nothing personal. She’d just finished an off-site performance of her new single, “Southside,” a few miles away for an outdoor crowd of glowstick wavers at the Parthenon. Underwood also won favorite female video for “Love Wins,” putting her tally...

Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook of Little Big Town kicked off this year’s star-studded Cmt Music Awards with a little help from Thomas Rhett and New Orleans superstar Trombone Shorty. Together, the group performed Rhett’s catchy hit “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time,” and started things off with a flurry of confetti. After throwing to...

Carrie Underwood had a big night at the 2019 Cmt Music Awards on Wednesday, extending her all-time leading win total by claiming Female Video of the Year for “Love Wins” and the night’s top prize, Video of the Year, for “Cry Pretty.”

“I’m so glad to be a part of this family,” she said in her acceptance speech from Nashville’s Parthenon, where earlier in the show she performed “Southbound.”

Elsewhere among the fan-voted show’s winners were Kane Brown, whose “Lose It” was named Male Video of the Year,...

The 2019 Cmt Music Awards nominations are out, and many of the biggest acts in country music will vie for the hardware. Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris, Miranda Lambert and Zac Brown Band lead the field with three noms each, and such top acts as Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, EFlorida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town and Sugarland scored multiple noms.

Filed under “one of these things is not like the other” is the Cmt nom for Boyz II Men, the veteran R&B act who teamed with Brett Young for a new take on “Motownphilly” from Cmt Crossroads. Soul singer Leon Bridges also is vying in the Cmt Performance of the Year category for a Crossroads version of “Beautiful Crazy” with Luke Combs.

Little Big Town will return to host the Cmt Music Awards, which airs live on the cable channel at 8 p.

It’s a four-way tie for most nominations at the 2019 Cmt Music Awards, as Miranda Lambert, Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Zac Brown Band each garnered three nods. The nominations were announced by “Closer to You” singer Carly Pearce this morning on NBC’s Today.

Morris’ uplifting 2019 single “Girl” earned the singer-songwriter nominations for Video of the Year as well as Female Video of the Year. Additionally, her friendship with Brandi Carlile earned a third nomination for their performance of Aretha Franklin’s “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural...

Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris, Miranda Lambert and the Zac Brown Band are tied for the most nominations each, three, for this year’s Cmt Music Awards, set to air live on the country music network June 5.

The list of artists with two nods in the network’s eight categories is an exceptionally long one: Brandi Carlile, Carrie Underwood, Cole Swindell, Dan + Shay, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Julia Michaels, Kacey Musgraves, Kane Brown, Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs, Sugarland and Taylor Swift.

The number of non-country artists up for CMTs is plentiful — starting with Swift, who self-deported from the genre some years back, but is up for collaborative video of the year and duo of the year for appearing with Sugarland in “Babe,” which she wrote and gave to the Nashville duo to record before making her video cameo.

Little Big Town will return to host the annual Cmt Music Awards for its 2019 edition, marking the second consecutive year of hosting for the quartet behind “The Daughters.” The fan-voted show takes place Wednesday, June 5th, at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

Nominations for the Cmt Music Awards will be revealed Tuesday, May 7th, on NBC’s Today. Singer-songwriter Carly Pearce will do the honors along with Today co-hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, and will also perform her current single “Closer to You.” The performance lineup for this year...

Kelsea Ballerini, the Tennessee native who deftly blends country songwriting with pop savvy on Number One singles like “Dibs,” “Peter Pan” and “Legends,” will become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry.

The 25-year-old was invited to join the 94-year-old country music institution on Tuesday night by Little Big Town, who surprised Ballerini by serenading her with the offer during the end of their performance of “Girl Crush.” Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet harmonized the offer: “Do you want to join the Opry?...