The 55th CMA Awards tried to restore a sense of normalcy to country music, following another year of the pandemic, a scandal with one of its rising stars, and a genre that is fracturing along political and cultural lines. For the most part, the CMAs succeeded: fans were back inside …
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Bob Seger is just one day away from wrapping up the 2019 leg of his Roll Me Away farewell tour, which has been billed as the final series of shows he’ll ever play in North America. The Detroit icon is 74 and had to cut his 2017 tour short to …
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Jason Aldean has announced details for his headlining We Back Tour, which is set to launch in January. The trek will follow the release of the country superstar’s upcoming studio album, titled 9, on November 22nd. The 2020 We Back Tour gets underway January 30th with a show at Columbia, …
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In the midst of all the drama of Tuesday night’s The Voice finale, which saw 15-year-old Brynn Cartelli — a pupil of first-time series coach Kelly Clarkson — become the show’s youngest-ever winner, Jason Aldean stopped by the NBC reality show to play his barstool ballad “Drowns the Whiskey.” The …
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It’s been more than six months since a gunman opened fire on a crowd of country music fans at the Route 91 Harvest festival, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500, but that date of October 1st still hovers over Las Vegas. It remains an open wound, something woven …
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At least 58 people were killed and 500 wounded when a shooter opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a country music festival outside Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Sunday night. Jason Aldean was performing onstage at the time of the shooting. The shooter killed himself, according to reports, bringing …
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When the Country Music Association announced the nominees for the 51st CMA Awards on Monday, the biggest surprises involved two very different guys named Jason. Country chart-topping superstar Jason Aldean was shut out in all categories, while Americana outlier Jason Isbell scored an Album of the Year nomination for his …
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