Country Music

Luke Bryan will premiere the new video for his current single Crash My Party, tomorrow during the fourth hour of NBC's Today show. Bryan will return later this summer to the Today show for an Aug. 16 appearance on the Summer Concert Series. Bryan once again rejoined longtime director Shaun Silva to create the video, which can also be viewed in its entirety exclusively at today.com and KLGandHoda.com all day tomorrow and across all platforms beginning Friday....

Cumulus' WNSH (Nash FM)/New York will debut America's Morning Show tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. with Lee Ann Womack, Chuck Wicks, Sunny Sweeney and Terri Clark co-hosting. Blair Garner will host the show. News will be anchored by HLN's Robin Meade, who recently released a country disc. "The team has been working around the clock to get (the...

Florida Georgia Line will have the top selling country CD when the Billboard charts are officially released Thursday. Florida Georgia Line's "Here's to the Good Times" hits a high of being fifth on the overall chart and first on the country chart, up from eighth, with 33,000. The 20-percent increase was, in part, due to a Father's Day promotion with a lower price....

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell will headline this Thursday's Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Col, replacing Mumford & Sons, it was announced Wednesday. Mumford & Sons had to cancel its performance because bassist Ted Dwane underwent successful brain surgery due to a blood clot near his brain and has been recuperating....

Brad Paisley joined The Rolling Stones on stage at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia last night for their "50 & Counting" tour. Paisley exchanged verses with Mick Jagger and jammed on guitar with Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards on Dead Flowers, from the band's 1971 release "Sticky Fingers." Afterwards Paisley tweeted, "@MickJagger Such a thrill pal. Really unforgettable night for me. Thanks so much!"...

Slim Whitman, best known for his 1952 hit Indian Love Call, died Wednesday in Jacksonville, Fla. at 89 from heart failure. The song reached number 2 on the country charts and was a top 10 pop hit. Whitman, who grew up in Tampa, also had a big hit with Rose Marie, which was number 1 for 11 weeks in England and was a top 5 country hit in the U.S. in 1954. He enjoyed 8 top 10 hits for Imperial between 1952 and 1954. Whitman joined the Grand Ole Opry the following year....

Chet Flippo, a longtime music writer at CMT and Billboard, has passed away. Flippo was born in Fort Worth, Texas and was in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. Flippo worked as Contributing Editor for Rolling Stone and later became Rolling Stone's New York Bureau Chief in 1974. While covering the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and The Who, he also started the magazine's coverage of country music....

Toby Keith‘s Oklahoma Twister Relief Concert is pleased to announce that Sammy Hagar, Mel Tillis and John Anderson will join the already star-studded lineup of Keith, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Trisha Yearwood and Ronnie Dunn. In addition, Ford Trucks, Verizon, Wal-Mart, and Academy of Country Music Lifting Livesare aboard as sponsors. Sponsorship donations and underwriting [...]

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On last night’s season finale of “The Voice” on NBC, Florida Georgia Line and Nelly took the stage to perform their summer anthem “Cruise.” Take a look!