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Raul Malo of The Mavericks performs in concert at ACL Live on May 18, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Rick Kern/Getty Images) Raul Malo, whose distinctive voice led his band The Mavericks to multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM wins in the '90s, has died.In September, Malo, who'd been diagnosed with cancer in 2024, announced that he was battling LMD, or leptomeningeal disease, a cancer which affects the brain and spinal cord.A message posted […]

Riley Green (Disney/Connie Chornuk) It would make a great country music story if Riley Green's favorite Christmas present paved the way for the flourishing career he has now.And while the Alabama native did ask Santa for a musical instrument growing up, he admits it didn't really go anywhere. "You know, I feel like a guitar should have been like the gift that I got that really worked out," he reflects. "But […]

Corey Kent's new radio single is "Rocky Mountain Low," a collaboration with Koe Wetzel."Villain," the breakthrough single from Lily Rose, has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.Farm Aid is distributing more than $1.3 million in grants to family farmers after the success of its 40th anniversary festival Sept. 20 in Minneapolis, with performances from Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Wynonna Judd and many more. Copyright © 2025, […]

Brad Paisley's 'Snow Globe Town' (Huckleberry/Mercury Nashville) More than 1,000 kids now have Christmas presents under the tree after Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams-Paisley hosted their third annual Toy Store in Nashville. The yuletide event, which also included gift wrapping and other holiday festivities, is part of The Store, the "free referral-based grocery store" the celebrity couple founded in Music City. Six hundred volunteers helped distribute more than 5,000 toys this holiday.A […]

Jake Owen's Dreams to Dream Tour (Good Company Entertainment) Jake Owen will be dreaming his dreams on the road in 2026.The "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" hitmaker will set out on a 12-date tour of intimate venues starting Feb. 26 in Washington, D.C. He'll play a stripped-back version of his new Dreams to Dream album in its entirety each night."All my friends who have heard my stuff have gone, ‘Dude, Jake, this […]

Maddie & Tae (Disney/Michael Le Brecht) At least for now, country duo Maddie & Tae is coming to an end, Maddie Font and Tae Kerr announced via People.“We’re leaving this so open-ended because, you know, we might make another record one day,” Maddie says. “We might go do some tour dates one day.”In fact, the duo still has concerts on the books, primarily in February and March 2026. “Even though we’re not […]

Tucker Wetmore (Disney/Frank Micelotta) Tucker Wetmore's enjoying the second #1 of his career as "3,2,1" tops the Mediabase country radio chart. That makes him the 14th artist in chart history to collect his first two number ones in the same calendar year, following in the footsteps of Post Malone, Jelly Roll, Luke Combs and Carrie Underwood.Tucker's debut single, "Wind Up Missin' You," made it to the top the first week of January 2025.He's […]

Trisha Yearwood's 'The Mirror (Deluxe)' (Virgin Music Group/Gwendolyn Records) Trisha Yearwood will drop an expanded digital edition of her self-penned The Mirror album in 2026, with an acoustic tour to follow in the spring. The Mirror (Deluxe) will arrive Jan. 23 and add four new tracks — "You're Gonna Love It Here," "Different Kind of Hard," "Undone" and "Country Music HerStory" — as well as "Put It in a Song," which she debuted […]

Trisha Yearwood's 'Christmastime.' (Virgin Music Group/Gwendolyn Records) A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered December 9, 1965, on CBS, complete with a now-classic soundtrack that includes "Christmastime Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson.Fast forward to 2005, and that song would play a major part in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, wedding of two country superstars: Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks."I actually walked down the aisle to that song at my wedding," Trisha says. […]