Category Archives: Country News – ABC Audio

Art Streiber/NBCAs Blake Shelton kicks off the latest season of The Voice, the veteran judge is happy to have some new blood joining the panel, as pop superstar Ariana Grande&...

Keith Urban will be honored with the CRB Artist Career Achievement Award at the Country Radio Hall of Fame Induction Dinner and Awards Ceremony in Nashville on October 13.  Tenille Town...

Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery had most of his new album, Same Truck, completed before the COVID-19 pandemic altered life in 2020. But the forced downtime allowed him to see the pro...

Connie Chronuk/ABCCole Swindell brought the crowd to a standstill over the weekend with a tribute performance of to his late mother.  Days before the Saturday show at the Xfinity Center in M...

Sean Hagwell Dustin Lynch, Lainey Wilson and Michael Ray are all giving back to a Nashville homeless shelter.  The three stars are set to perform 16th Annual Mission: Pos...

ABC/Image Group LAKeith Urban is contributing to wife Nicole Kidman's show, Nine Perfect Strangers, in the form of a song.  In the finale episode of the hit Hulu series, fans ...

Connor Dwyer Sam Hunt leaned into nostalgia when writing his new single, "23."  The song finds Sam reflecting on a past love, wondering where she is now and remembering her as a "Memphi...

On this day in 1964, one of country music's biggest stars got married. A member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry, it was his first, and only, marriage, with his wife remai...

Alex BergerLainey Wilson has officially made it to the top of the country charts.  This week, Lainey's "Things a Man Oughta Know" reaches #1 on country radio, marking her first chart-topping...

On this day in 1967, this "Mississippi Girl" was born in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She'd go on to win five Grammys and score a string of other hits, including "Breathe" and "The Way You Love Me." Can yo...