The nominees for the 2017 Americana Honors & Awards were announced today (May 9), and a familiar name is front and center: Sturgill Simpson. Sturgill, who won Americana Awards in 2014 and 2015, leads the pack with three nominations in 2017, including Album, Artist and Song of the Year. Other artists with multiple nominations include…… MORE
On July 6, 2015, a group of modern-day musical “outlaws” joined forces at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas, to pay tribute to Waylon Jennings, who died in 2002. Today (April 7), a new two-disc recording (CD and DVD) of the concert has been released, and CMT will premiere the two-hour broadcast tonight at 10…… MORE
If you listened to Sturgill Simpson’s 2014 breakout album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, the first voice you heard on the album was Sturgill’s grandfather, Lawrence “Dood” Fraley, who said “Introducing Metamodern Sounds in Country Music” before the first track, “Turtles All the Way Down.” Sturgill announced on Facebook yesterday (March 15) that Dood had…… MORE
In honor of college basketball’s craziest month, I created a bracket with 16 of the hottest acts in country music. I seeded them based on the strength of their current “season,” which ran from the ACM Awards in April 2016 to the Grammy Awards in February 2017. Now they are pitted against each other in…… MORE
The nominations for the 52nd annual ACM Awards were announced today (Feb. 16), and while artists like Keith Urban, Maren Morris, Tim McGraw and Florida Georgia Line racked up multiple nominations, there were more than a few questionable omissions—as well as inclusions—in the nomination process. Here are five nominations the ACM Awards fouled up .…… MORE
After taking home the Grammy for Best Country Album and performing “All Around You” during the awards show on Feb. 12, Sturgill Simpson has released a new video for the aforementioned song. Directed by Matt Hahurin, the video tackles a few in-the-news topics, including immigration, war and our new president. The video stars a young…… MORE
Sturgill Simpson Best Country Album: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth In-N-Out burger Lets do this — Sturgill Simpson (@SturgillSimpson) February 13, 2017 Maren Morris Best Country Solo Performance: “My Church” All the love in the world for this woman. Thank you for making my first Grammys even more special, @aliciakeys . pic.twitter.com/N7n9C9IuXQ — MAREN MORRIS…… MORE
Sturgill Simpson can do it all: sing, write, play guitar, produce. Backed by Dap-Kings, the all-around artist fittingly performed “All Around You” at the Grammy Awards last night (Feb. 12). The tune, which was written by Sturgill, appears on his third album, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, which won the Grammy for Best Country Album.…… MORE
Best Country Album A Sailor’s Guide to Earth — Sturgill Simpson Best Country Solo Performance “My Church” — Maren Morris Best Contemporary Christian Music Album Love Remains — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song “Thy Will” — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family… MORE
While the chances of hearing a Sturgill Simpson song on country radio are slim to none—and slim just left Nashville—you can catch country radio’s most underrepresented prodigy on tour in 2017. Sturgill announced more than 20 tour dates today (Feb. 10), with stops at some pretty cool venues, including Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater, New York…… MORE
Rick Moranis will return to once again play Dark Helmet in “Spaceballs 2”!!! Bill Pullman will return as the hero Lone Starr, too. And Mel Brooks will be back as Yogurt . . . and, presumably . . . President Skroob. (He played both characters in the original.) Ted Danson’s wife Mary Steenburgen will play…
Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson has died. His family didn’t announce the exact date or cause of death, but he was diagnosed with dementia and placed in a conservatorship last year. He was 82. Wilson was plagued by drug addiction and mental illness throughout his life. By 1964 he had stopped touring with the band.…