CMT Blog
Seven new entries — from artists ranging from Jack Ingram to Willie Nelson — were screened by the CMT New Music Video Evaluation Team this week. Conclusions from the videos: Summer is here and many artists think you really want to go behind-the-scenes.
Artist: Jack Ingram
Video: “Barefoot and Crazy”
Director: Stephen Shepherd
Let’s see: We’ve got a Jack [...]
This is not official in any way. At all. But it is, as of this blogging, one of the most active topics in the forum on Carrie Underwood’s Web site. So I thought I’d bring the question over here, too: How would a duet with Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson sound? A few people posted [...]
Looks like all those years with a Dixie Chick rubbed off on Charlie Robison. He may have divorced the Chicks’ Emily Robison, but it sounds like he’s married to that whole fiddle and steel and mandolin brand of music. (That said, there’s not one single banjo lick on the entire album.) Although he may consider [...]
At first, I wasn’t sure what to expect with the title of Jack Ingram’s new video, “Barefoot and Crazy.” I had this picture in mind of people boycotting their socks and shoes as they ran the streets amuck, freeing their feet from the restraints of uncomfortable thongs and stilettos. But I was wrong for the [...]
If you like bluegrass music, I have a couple of recommendations for you. The first is Marty Raybon & Full Circle’s This That and the Other. You may recognize Raybon as the engaging lead singer of Shenandoah, who had a batch of popular country singles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These days he’s [...]
One of my favorite songs right now is Eli Young Band’s “Always the Love Songs.” The video’s not bad either. But I had no idea just how popular it was until I found out that it has been consistently beating out videos from Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney and Brooks & Dunn. [...]
You know that Nickelback song, “Rockstar”? The one that has frontman Chad Kroeger screaming the litany of reasons why it would be cool to be one? He wants to dress his ass in the latest fashion, get a front door key to the Playboy mansion, have a brand new house on an episode of Cribs, [...]
This is the truest test of artist loyalty: You love someone’s music so much, you’d actually want to work for them.
Jake Owen is going to hire a couple of fans to do just that. Granted, it’s a short-term job and, technically, you won’t get paid. But if you like Owen and his sexy Southern drawl, [...]
I’d already blogged about the fact that Alan Jackson and his family were considering downsizing and getting out from under the monster that is Sweetbriar. And now, we have the actual listing sheet. You know, the sheet you carry around with you while you are looking at the house, asking how the water pressure is [...]
Just in time for the dog days of summer, singer Whitney Duncan offers a video for her newest single, “Skinny Dippin’,” and the male portion of her audience will be happy to learn that it doesn’t deviate far from the song’s lyrics. The Scotts Hill, Tenn., native sings “Weren’t doin’ nothin’ wrong/We were just coolin’ [...]