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  • CARRIE UNDERWOOD WRAPS SECOND SOLD-OUT RUN OF REFLECTION: THE LAS VEGAS RESIDENCY AT RESORTS WORLD THEATRE RETURNING TO LAS VEGAS MAY 11th-21st.

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    Carrie Underwood

    Superstar Carrie Underwood has completed the second sold-out run of her spectacular REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency at the Resorts World Theatre March 23-April 2.  Underwood opened the new theatre – featuring the largest and tallest stage in Las Vegas – with 6 sold-out shows in December. Underwood’s residency continues with her next engagement May 11-21.

    Underwood, who headlines the legendary Stagecoach Festival on April 30, recently released a new single, “Ghost Story,” which is climbing the charts with over 9 million streams. She performed the hit single for the first time on the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards® on April 3 where she won a 2022 GRAMMY® Award for Best Roots Gospel Album for My Savior, and she and Jason Aldean were also nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for their smash multi-week #1 hit, “If I Didn’t Love You.”  The duet also recently won the ACM Award for Single of the Year, and Country Song of the Year at the iHeart Radio Music Awards.. Underwood and Aldean are also nominated for two 2022 CMT Music Awards for “If I Didn’t Love You” – Collaborative Video of the Year and Video of the Year.

    Conceived by Underwood to celebrate some of the highlights of her stellar recording and touring career over the years, REFLECTION celebrates her greatest hits from over 15 years as an award-winning international superstar.  The production brings beloved fan favorites to life in a whole new way, utilizing breathtaking special effects, pyrotechnics and state-of-the-art visual and audio technology, with Underwood joined onstage by her band, dancers, aerialists and a special virtual orchestra.

    The show is directed by Barry Lather, with Creative Production & Show design by Nick Whitehouse & Fireplay, and Costume Design/Wardrobe Styling by Emma Trask.

    The Resorts World Theatre, exclusively programmed and operated by Concerts West / AEG Presents, is a state-of-the-art, multi-level venue designed by the award-winning international design firm, Scéno Plus. The intimate venue, with the furthest seat only 150 feet from the stage, features unparalleled comfort, unobstructed sightlines and an unmatched immersive audio experience through more than 200 L-Acoustics speakers powered by L-ISA hyperreal technology. The venue has been nominated for a 2022 ACM Award for Casino of the Year – Theater, presented to an outstanding theater or showroom within a casino.

    Upcoming dates for REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency include May 11, 13, 14, 18, 20 and 21. Tickets for all upcoming shows, plus a limited number of VIP and premium packages, are available at rwlasvegas.com/entertainment/carrie-underwood and AXS.com/CarrieInVegas.

    As part of her ongoing partnership, $1 from each ticket sold for REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency is donated to Make-A-Wish Foundation of America (https://wish.org), which grants life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Carrie has been involved with the organization for more than 15 years, granting wishes since the beginning of her recording career.

     

  • LITTLE BIG TOWN RELEASES NEW SINGLE “HELL YEAH” APRIL 11th.

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    Little Big Town

    Little Big Town is releasing their latest single, “Hell Yeah,” on Monday (April 11th). The song is the first single released by the ACM, CMA and GRAMMY-winning band in two years and will be on their forthcoming 10th studio album. The new record follows the No. 1 Country album Nightfall (released in 2020) which included singles “Over Drinking,” GRAMMY-nominated “The Daughters” and “Wine, Beer, Whiskey.” The latest release, “Hell Yeah,” will make its radio World Premiere on iHeart at 2:00 pm ET on Monday (April 11th).  That evening, the band will also debut the song with a special performance on the CMT Music Awards airing at 8pm ET on CBS.  Pre-save “Hell Yeah” HERE.

    “Phillip and I wrote this with Tyler Hubbard and Corey Crowder,” said LBT’s Jimi Westbrook.  “I remember when Corey brought that hook in that day. He sang his idea and when he turned that phrase at the end of the chorus, we were all like ‘hell yeah!’ We always have a blast writing with those guys.”

    “This song is a classic breakup song, flipped upside down,” continued Sweet. “It’s pure feel-good vibes. We are so excited to premiere it on the CMT Music Awards which has always been a home for us in releasing new music. Big thanks to iHeart for the radio World Premiere. Hell yeah!”

    About Little Big Town:
    GRAMMY, ACM, CMA, and AMA Award-winning group, Little Big Town — consisting of members Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, and Jimi Westbrook — first entered the music scene more than 20 years ago with hit songs “Boondocks,” “Bring It On Home,” “Good As Gone” and the GRAMMY-nominated “Little White Church.” The bands breakthrough albums Tornado and Pain Killer produced multiple #1 singles, including “Pontoon,” “Tornado,” and “Day Drinking,” as well as the history-making, best-selling country single of the year (2015) “Girl Crush.” 2017’s, The Breaker, debuted #1 on the Billboard Country Charts and Top 10 (No.4) on the Billboard 200 to critical acclaim. The album features their GRAMMY-winning, multi-week #1 single, “Better Man,” as well as the 2019 GRAMMY-nominated, “When Someone Stops Loving You.” Critically acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated “The Daughters,” “Over Drinking,” and hit single “Wine, Beer, Whiskey” are the latest from the bands self-produced ninth studio album Nightfall which was released at the top of the Billboard Country Charts in January of 2020. To date “Wine, Beer, Whiskey” has reached global streams of over 316 Million. The bands tenth studio album is set for release later this year.

    For more information on Little Big Town visit LittleBigTown.com or follow them @littlebigtown.

  • NEWS AND NOTES: Dierks Bentley, Reba McEntire, Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton

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    Chris Stapleton / Dierks Bentley / Luke Bryan / Reba McEntire

    Dierks Bentley was inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame on Tuesday (April 5th). He, along with musicians Keb’Mo, Bobby Bare and Connie Smith, were recognized for their contributions to preserving the musical heritage of Nashville with their own star on the Walk of Fame.

     

    Reba McEntire scored her 28th Top 10 album on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart as My Chains Are Gone debuts at No. 9.

    Luke Bryan and his wife Caroline, along with NASCAR legend Darryl Waltrip, helped break ground on Williamson Medical Center’s $200 million expansion earlier this week. The project will be the largest renovation to date for the hospital, which has been at its current home on Carothers Parkway since 1986. Luke and Caroline will help raise $50 million dollars via a capital campaign for the reno. Caroline Bryan, who serves as co-chair of the campaign, said her family settled on moving to Franklin when they realized how close their potential new home would be to Williamson Medical Center. “This is where our children were born. This is where their doctors are. This is where my doctors are,” Caroline Bryan tells The Tennessean. “Anything from a routine visit to the ER visits, everybody is just fantastic, and watching this getting ready to expand is so needed. It’s time. It’s exciting.” Luke added, “We get to have a voice to make sure this is the best health care you could ever dream of,” Luke Bryan said.


    Chris Stapleton is one of the headliners for Kentucky’s Bourbon & Beyond Festival taking place September 15th-18th. Also headlining are Kings of Leon, Pearl Jam and Jack White. Additional performers include Elle King, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Yola, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real and many more. Tickets are now on sale at bourbon.frontgatetickets.com.

     

  • ALAN JACKSON, REBA McENTIRE AND SHANIA TWAIN ARE UP FOR NEW SOCIALLY-VOTED CATEGORY AT THIS YEAR’S CMT MUSIC AWARDS.

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    Alan Jackson / Reba McEntire / Shania Twain

    CMT today introduced an all-new, socially-voted category honoring superstar hitmakers who have cemented their status in music history with classic songs that withstood the test of time, and have found themselves the catalyst of recent social trends as their hits still resonate with fans old and new:  “Trending Comeback Song of the Year.”

    Beginning today, fans can vote for their favorite nominees by swiping up on CMT’s Instagram Story through Saturday, April 9th. The winner will be announced across CMT’s social platforms ahead of the 2022 CMT MUSIC AWARDS, airing on CBS on Monday, April 11th. 

    The following seven superstar acts are nominated for “Trending Comeback Song of the Year”:

    • Alan Jackson – “Freight Train”
    • Brooks & Dunn – “Neon Moon”
    • Dolly Parton – “9 to 5”
    • Reba – “I’m A Survivor”
    • Sara Evans – “Suds in the Bucket”
    • Shania Twain – “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!”
    • Taylor Swift – “Love Story”

    Last year, Taylor Swift took home the 2021 socially-voted “Best Family Feature” category for “The Best Day (Taylor’s Version).”

  • 13TH ANNUAL “DARIUS AND FRIENDS” BENEFIT CONCERT RETURNS TO NASHVILLE’S RYMAN AUDITORIUM MONDAY, JUNE 6th.

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    Darius Rucker

    Multi-Platinum superstar Darius Rucker will return to the historic Ryman Auditorium on Monday, June 6th for his 13th Annual Darius and Friends concert benefitting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. The event, which unofficially kicks off the week of CMA Fest in downtown Nashville and has raised more than $2.5 million to date, will feature an all-star roster of friends to be announced in the coming weeks.

    “I can’t wait to be back at the Ryman with all of our friends from St. Jude,” shares the three-time GRAMMY Award winner. “This show is always a highlight of the year for me, because it not only raises funds for a very important cause, but it also allows me to bring together some of my best friends in Nashville for a fun night of incredible music.”

    Rucker, who has always prioritized philanthropic work, made a commitment to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital nearly 15 years ago after taking an inspiring tour of the hospital. Through this meaningful experience, Rucker learned how St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

    Reflecting on his 2008 visit to the hospital to the Tennessean ahead of last year’s show, Rucker noted, “You see these kids who are sick, and they’re so happy to be there, because their caregivers are so loving and giving to them. And then you find out that nobody ever gets a bill. That blew me away. I was just like, ‘We’ll figure out some way to help you guys as much as I can.’”

    Now, more than a decade later, that effort has become an annual tradition. Friends performing with Rucker in past years have included Lauren Alaina, Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Brothers Osborne, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs, Sheryl Crow, John Daly, Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum, Ashley McBryde, A.J. McLean of the Backstreet Boys, Brad Paisley, Kenny Rogers and Tommy Thayer of KISS, among many others. The lineup for this year’s event will be announced soon.

    Tickets to the 13th Annual Darius & Friends benefit concert start at $50 with VIP options up to $150, available via AXS.com. Pre-sale access begins tomorrow, April 6 at 10 a.m. CT, with tickets on sale to the general public this Friday, April 8 at 10 a.m. CT.

    The event is made possible with support from generous sponsors AMD, Hendrix Enterprises, CDW, Intel, Fanatics, Hewlett-Packard, CAA and Arrow Electronics.

    For more information, please visit www.DariusRucker.com and follow on social media @DariusRucker.

  • CARRIE UNDERWOOD AND MICKEY GUYTON HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE LIST OF PERFORMERS AT THIS YEAR’S CMT MUSIC AWARDS.

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    Carrie Underwood / Mickey Guyton

    Carrie Underwood, plus Mickey Guyton with Black Pumas, have been added to the list of performers at this year’s CMT Music Awards, and the lineup will also include Old Dominion.

    Previously announced performers include Little Big Town, Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, Kane Brown, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris + Ryan Hurd, Carly Pearce, Cole Swindell + Lainey Wilson and The Judds.

    Priscilla Block and Parker McCollum, along with most of the other Breakthrough Artists of the Year nominees (BRELAND, Caitlyn Smith, Jessie James Decker, Elvie Shane) will perform from the Ram Trucks Side Stage.

    The 2022 CMT Music Awards, hosted by Ballerini and actor Anthony Mackie (Captain America) will air live from Nashville beginning at 8pm ET/delayed PT on Monday (April 11th) on CBS and streaming live and on demand on Parmount+.

  • DIERKS BENTLEY AND LIVE NATION’S SEVEN PEAKS MUSIC FESTIVAL WILL TAKE PLACE IN VILLA GROVE, CO IN SAN LUIS VALLEY THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND, SEPTEMBER 2nd-4th.

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    Dierks Bentley

    Multi-PLATINUM entertainer Dierks Bentley and the world’s leading live entertainment company Live Nation announced that Seven Peaks Music Festival will officially take place for a third time, returning this year in a new scenic setting of San Luis Valley in Villa Grove, CO. With fans previously traveling from 49 states and as far as Australia, Seven Peaks Music Festival will once again return on Labor Day Weekend, September 2-4. More information on the upcoming event including lineup and ticket details will be revealed on April 13.

     

    https://twitter.com/SevenPeaksFest/status/1510982323247931404

     

    “I can’t overstate how much it means to be able to say that Seven Peaks is officially coming back,” shared Dierks. “We found the perfect new location for the festival in Villa Grove. Everyone knows how much I love Colorado and how important it was for me to find a home for this one of a kind event that encompasses all the magic of the beauty of the state. This year’s line-up is so good; I can’t wait to share what we have planned for this year’s festival in the coming days.”

    Follow further Seven Peaks Festival updates on Facebook: Seven Peaks Festival, Twitter: @sevenpeaksfest and Instagram: @sevenpeaksfest.

    About Dierks Bentley:
    Dierks Bentley continues to be a dominant voice for the genre with over 6.4 billion streams and 20 No. One hits as his new single “Beers On Me” with BRELAND and HARDY races up the radio charts. Reaching a new creative high while “making music designed to challenge” (New York Times), Bentley co-wrote 10 of 13 tracks on his latest full-length release THE MOUNTAIN, which earned him the highest debut sales of his career and became his seventh chart-topping release. Last year, Bentley surprised fans with his LIVE FROM TELLURIDE collection that was touted as “a gift that Country music fans didn’t know they needed” (The Tennesseean). Bentley celebrates his 16th year anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry and will be inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame next month. He also has created professional endeavors outside of the music with his Flag & Anthem lifestyle collection Desert Son, along with his “Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row” franchise hosting four locations. For more information, visit www.Dierks.com.

     

    Audio / Dierks Bentley is incredibly excited for the "re-launch" of his Seven Peaks Festival.

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    Dierks Bentley (7 Peaks 2022) OC: …respond to it. 1:13
    “Anybody that knows me knows how important Seven Peaks has been to me and luckily I get to say will continue to be for me, because although COVID shut us out for two years and we had some difficulties working with the little city we were working with. It’s got new life going into 2022. Some huge acts, the biggest in the business, are gonna be there this year with us, this Labor Day Weekend in August and September. I’m so excited for Seven Peaks, I guess you could call it 2.0. You know we had a successful launch those first few years – in ’18 and ’19 – but obviously the pandemic messed up a lot of things. But the new location is killer. [It’s] right down the street from the old spot. The lineup is incredible, and that location! Getting a chance to spend your Labor Day weekend in the mountains of Colorado where it’s 70 (degrees) and sunny, just beautiful weather, and the vibe is so good. I’m just so thankful, not only as someone that’s involved with the festival and its success, but as a human being. There’s no place I’d rather be for my Labor Day Weekend than hanging out with my friends backstage, onstage, out there in the festival grounds with all these great fans than there. I’m so excited for the launch, THE Re-launch of Seven Peaks and so excited to see how the fans respond to it.”

  • SAM HUNT SCORES A NO. 1 SONG WITH “23.”

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    Sam Hunt

    Sam Hunt hit the top of the country charts with his ninth No. 1 single, “23.” Written by Sam with Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne, and Chris LaCorte, “23” is the first new track from Hunt since last year’s chart-topping album SOUTHSIDE featuring multiple back-to-back No. 1 hits with “Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90’s,” “Kinfolks” and “Hard To Forget.”

    For audio of sam talking about “23,” click here and here.

    The Georgia native has a few days off before heading to West Palm Beach April 28th for the Sunfest Festival, which also features the Goo Goo Dolls, Colony House and Kidd G, among others.

  • CHRIS STAPLETON, BROTHERS OSBORNE AND CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARE GRAMMY WINNERS.

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    Brothers Osborne / Carrie Underwood / Chris Stapleton

    Chris Stapleton won three GRAMMY Awards including Best Country Album for Starting Over, Best Country Song for “Cold” and Best Country Solo Performance for “You Should Probably Leave” — both songs from Starting Over. During his acceptance speech for Best Country Album, Chris spoke about the sacrifices everyone in the room had made chasing their musical career. In fact, his twins’ fourth birthday was on Sunday (April 3rd).  “Hopefully we’re all doing it so it would make the world a better place and the people that live in it will love each other and have a good time together and come together.”

     

     

    Brothers Osborne took home a GRAMMY Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Younger Me.”

     

    Carrie Underwood won a GRAMMY for Best Roots Gospel Album for My Savior.

    Backstage talking to the media, an emotional Carrie says this is probably one of the most important award wins she’s had in her entire career. “I feel like it’s more important because I feel like this is one of the most important bodies of work I’ve ever been a part of, been able to do. This is what one thing that I’ve wanted to do literally my whole career. I’ve wanted to make this album and I got to, and this just means the world to me.”

     

    Audio / Backstage at last night's Grammy Awards, Chris Stapleton talks about winning awards, particularly at The Grammys.

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    Chris Stapleton (Grammys 2022) OC: …those guys. :36
    “You know, anytime that you are even nominated for a award or someone thinks enough of you to invite you to these kinds of shows, particularly the Grammys, it’s, you know, it’s a very surreal moment and we had a very surreal moment all day today. And so it was it was a very and to get to play a song, you know that I wrote with the guys in the band on the show, won a Grammy for it earlier in the year and in the evening, and it was a special night for it. For me. For me, it’s special and it’s special. Get it to do with those guys.

    Audio / CHRIS STAPLETON SAYS HE DOESN'T REALLY THINK ABOUT A THEME IN HIS NEW ALBUM, STARTING OVER."

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    Chris Stapleton (theme of Starting Over album) OC: …as humans. :54
    “I’ve never really looked at records necessarily as having a theme.  I’ve never made a record in that kind of a constraint necessarily. And there are a lot of great records that have this theme and this overlying thread that kind of runs through them.  Maybe the thread for me is just I’m singing. I wrote a bulk of the songs. It’s the same guys playing all the songs. If there’s a theme – if there’s a theme it’s hopefully there’s a theme of truth somewhere in it. And what I mean by that is hopefully we’re conveying in the songs some experiences that feel real and hopefully people can find themselves in those songs and in the album. And for me if I’m looking for a theme it’s that kind of, I don’t know, that thing that binds us all together as humans.”

    Audio / Backstage at last night's GRAMMY AWARDS, TJ Osborne of Brothers Osborne talks about winning their first Grammy Award and especially for the significance of it being for the song, "Younger Me."

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    Brothers Osborne (Grammys 2022) OC: …on myself. :52
    “We, John and I have taken, I think, a lot of risks in our career and sometimes don’t always pay off and we try to just stick with who we are and what we do. And this was the validation that you got for that hard work and the sacrifices that we made. It felt like they were suddenly weren’t all for nothing. And I’m so incredibly grateful for it. And I think on top of that, with the song that we were nominated for younger me was a song that my brother and I both wrote really kind of as a letter to our younger selves. If they could just see where we are now, that would have saved themselves a lot of heartbreak and strife. And and then the add on to that to be accepting a Grammy also does adds to that story that if I could just tell my younger self that this would be here, this is where I would be in my life here on the stage right now. I would certainly not believe it, but I would also be a hell of a lot easier on myself.”

    Audio / BROTHERS OSBORNE'S TJ OSBORNE TALKS ABOUT THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THEIR SONG, "YOUNGER ME," WHICH IS FEATURED ON THE DELUXE EDITION OF THEIR ALBUM, SKELETONS.

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    Brothers Osborne (Younger Me) OC: …made it through. :38
    TJ: “The inspiration behind ‘Younger Me’ was really inspired by both, really kind of both of our stories and just the different things that we struggled with in our youth and we just made things overly complicated. I truly didn’t think I’d get to this point in my life, and I’m sure John would probably say the same for himself. And we really just wanted to really kind of almost in some ways write a note to our younger selves and just kind of tell them to hold on, hold tight, and hopefully in an effort for maybe other people out there that are going through that currently to realize there will be a moment in your life where you can look back on this and be happy that you made it through.”

    Audio / Backstage at last night's Grammy Awards, an emotional Carrie Underwood says the win for My Savior is probably the most important win of her career.

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    Carrie Underwood (Grammys 2022) OC: …world to me. :24
    “I’m probably immediately going to start crying, OK? I feel like it’s more important because I feel like this is one of the most important bodies of work I’ve ever been a part of been able to do. This is what one thing that I’ve wanted to do literally my whole career. I’ve wanted to make this album and I got to, and this just means the world to me.”

    Audio / CARRIE UNDERWOOD GREW UP SINGING MANY OF THE HYMNS ON HER NEW ALBUM, MY SAVIOR, IN CHURCH AND REVISITING THEM FELT LIKE “HOME” TO HER.

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    Carrie Underwood (hymns feel like home) 1:05
    “These particular songs for My Savior, you know, I grew up singing these in church and my church that we go to right now they play a lot of very contemporary Christian songs, praise and worship songs, and it’s great. But every once in a while, they’ll kind of throw in like a chorus or something of some hymn that I grew up with and there’s an immediate sense of home when I hear that. And that’s kind of where I was at when we were recording this. It should be like a warm hug, and I feel like there’s so many people that are like me that kind of long for that. You think back to that sense of home and your church that you grew up in with the pews. I mean it’s just one of those things that it just feels like home. And after a year like last year, I feel like people are definitely searching. A lot of people were thrown out of their daily routines and trying to figure life out and be more introspective or kind of slow down. We were all forced to slow down.”

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  • NEWS AND NOTES: Darius Rucker, Kacey Musgraves, Gary Allan, Billy Currington

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    Billy Currington / Darius Rucker / Gary Allan / Kacey Musgraves

    Darius Rucker is one happy man as the South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball team beat UConn to win the championship! He posted on his socials a congratulatory note and added, “U have made this Gamecock extremely happy. I will not miss another one. Keep being great y’all in sports but more importantly in life!!”

     

     

    Kacey Musgraves will introduce The Judds’ performance on this year’s CMT Music Awards and talk about the duo’s influence on her own career. Kacey is nominated for overall Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year for “justified.” The 2022 CMT Music Awards will air live from Nashville beginning at 8pm ET/delayed PT on April 11th on CBS and streaming live and on demand on Parmount+.

    Billy Bob’s, the world’s largest honkytonk in Fort Worth, Texas, recently announced their lineup for this year. Gary Allan will headline two nights – June 10th and 11th – while Billy Currington is set to headline June 24th.