Category Archives: Country News – ABC Audio
Gabby Barrett finds a balance between being a mom and an artist
Robby Klein As Gabby Barrett prepares to head out on tour, she's learning a new skill set: balancing her new job as a mother with being a performer. Gabby is set to hit the r...
Jun 28, 2021
"A week we won’t ever forget": Carrie Underwood shares photo from family vacation
Disney Channel/Image Group LACarrie Underwood and her family recently headed out west for a relaxing vacation in the mountains. Carrie, her husband Mike Fisher and their two sons...
Jun 28, 2021
"Love is love": Trisha Yearwood sings "She's in Love with the Girl" with Brooke Eden
© Grand Ole Opry, photo by Chris HolloTrisha Yearwood added a Pride-friendly spin to her hit, "She's in Love with the Boy," with Brooke Eden at the Grand Ole Opry. After shar...
Jun 28, 2021
Country star trivia
Comstock/Thinkstock On this date in 1999, a country superstar released what would become his 10th number-one hit, “Something Like That.” Known for its iconic lyric “I had a barbecue ...
Jun 28, 2021
Nashville notes
Burke/Triolo Productions/ThinkstockThe Highwomen are among the featured guests on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Reimagined: The Tenth Anniversary album. Together with Brittany Spencer and Madeline E...
Jun 28, 2021
Carly Pearce is the Opry's "Next Girl," and Dolly, Trisha, and Barbara Mandrell couldn't be prouder
Chris Hollo Carly Pearce just wrapped up one of the best weeks of her life, playing her first post-pandemic show this weekend in Minnesota, following a surprise invitation from Dol...
Jun 28, 2021
“Small Town Prayer”: RaeLynn invites fans into her relationship with faith in a new, tender ballad
Round Here RecordsRaeLynn is continuing to roll out new music with “Small Town Prayer,” a ballad that taps into her love both for her faith and for her hometown. “Some pray for rain ...
Jun 25, 2021
Maren Morris, Ryan Hurd share the “outside the box” country deep cut that was their first dance song
John Shearer/Getty Images for CMABetween the two of them, singer-songwriter and husband-and-wife duo Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd have put out plenty of songs worthy of landing on any fan’s weddin...
Jun 25, 2021
Garth Brooks breaks another ticket sales record, this time on home turf in Nashville
Terry Wyatt/Getty ImagesTickets to Garth Brooks’ Stadium Tour stop at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium went on sale on Friday, and within just two hours, the singer has broken an entertainment s...
Jun 25, 2021
'Gold Chain Cowboy': Parker McCollum announces his full-length debut, out this summer
UMG NashvilleLast year, Parker McCollum had one of the most successful years of any rising star in country music, with his EP, Hollywood Gold, coming in as the highest-selling debut EP of 2020. Hollyw...
Jun 25, 2021