[UPDATE] Reba, Kenny Rogers and Alison Krauss Join Dolly Parton for “Smoky Mountains Rise” Telethon To Benefit Victims of East Tennessee Wildfires; More Performers Added

In response to the wildfires that have devastated the East Tennessee Smoky Mountains area, Dolly Parton has created a telethon, Smoky Mountains Rise: A Benefit for the My People Fund to help the victims of the fires. The benefit will be a three-hour telecast—airing Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 8pm E.T. on GAC—designed to raise money…

Holiday Playlist: The 10 Manliest Christmas Songs This Side of Paradise

What would the Christmas season be without music? It’s the soundtrack for trimming the tree, wrapping presents and cooking Christmas dinner. While those activities are fun for a lot of folks and Martina McBride’s White Christmas is must-have musical accompaniment, I decided to create the manliest of holiday playlists, perfect for listening to while splitting…

17 Random Questions With Brantley Gilbert

With a new album, The Devil Don’t Sleep, set for release in January 2017 and a headlining tour of the same name kicking off in February, Brantley Gilbert is going to be a busy man as the new year begins. Before he gets down to business in 2017, Nash Country Daily caught up with “The Weekend”…

Zac Brown Band Headlines Gatlinburg’s “Mountain Tough” Benefit Festival to Raise Money for Those Affected by East Tennessee Wildfires

After Dolly Parton set up a telethon—Smoky Mountains Rise—to help those affected by the wildfires that devastated her hometown in East Tennessee, Zac Brown Band is stepping up to the plate by headlining the Mountain Tough Benefit set for Saturday, Dec. 17, in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The day-long outdoor festival, presented by Ole Smoky Moonshine, Yee…

Watch Justin Moore’s New Video for “Kinda Don’t Care”

Justin Moore will release his fourth studio album, Kinda Don’t Care, on August 12. As the album’s lead single, “You Look Like I Need a Drink,” continues to climb  Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart (#13), Justin decided to release an instant grat video of the record’s title track. Written by Rhett Akins, Ross Copperman and Ben…

Watch Miranda Lambert’s Addictive Performance of “Vice” on “Ellen”

One day after receiving the news of her two Grammy nominations for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for “Vice,” Miranda Lambert stopped by Ellen yesterday (Dec. 7) to perform the Grammy-nominated song. “Vice,” the first single released from Miranda’s sixth studio album, The Weight of These Wings, was penned by Miranda, Josh…

Alan Jackson Announces 2017 Honky Tonk Highway Tour

Since dropping his debut studio album in 1990, Alan Jackson has been keeping it country—selling nearly 60 million albums worldwide and ranking as one of the 10 best-selling country artists of all-time. As you probably imagined, Alan will be keeping it country in 2017 during his 27th year in the biz. Today (Dec. 7) Alan…

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