June 3 is unofficially Bobbie Gentry Day, as that’s the day the singer’s most famous character jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge in the smash hit “Ode to Billie Joe.” Fifteen years later, Gentry herself would jump to obscurity … but why? This week’s episode of the Secret History of Country Music Podcast explores Gentry’s sudden disappearance after the 1982 ACM Awards, and revisits
Month: May 2021
Three of country music’s most popular male artists will headline the 2021 Faster Horses Festival. Luke Combs, Jason Aldean, and Thomas Rhett will each close out a night of the three-day Brooklyn, Michigan, country gathering. Set for July 16th through 18th, Faster Horses 2021 is essentially the 2020 edition, at least in terms of headliners
Memorial Day 2021 is here. After a layoff last year with the pandemic, everybody is looking forward to celebrating Memorial Day with friends and family. However, we can’t forget just how much weight this day holds for all of those who’ve lost loved ones fighting to secure our freedom overseas. It’s a day to remember
The popular Faster Horses Festival is back on the books this summer, returning to Michigan International Speedway for three days of country hit makers July 16-18, 2021. Making the announcement after a disappointing year off, organizers have confirmed that the event’s original 2020 headliners will reprise their roles, with Jason Aldean, Luke Combs and Thomas Rhett
Share0 Tweet0 Share0 Released in 1969, BJ Thomas’ “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” became an award-winning soundtrack of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – one of the biggest and most profitable films that year and is now going down in history as one of the best movies of all time. How The Song
Soon after releasing “Some Gave All” as part of a multi-platinum album of the same name, Billy Ray Cyrus recorded a performance that lives on today as necessary viewing for Memorial Day. Fans were able to watch the performance during an ABC television special released in February 1993, nine months after Some Gave All achieved unprecedented
On May 31, 2013, Cassadee Pope released her song “Wasting All These Tears.” The track was her debut country single, but far from her first foray into the music business. Pope was no stranger to music and touring by the time she dropped “Wasting All These Tears”: The Florida native had spent the previous few years
Little Big Town‘s voices meld like they were made for one another, and for two of the quartet’s members, Jimi Westbrook and Karen Fairchild, the band led them each other — and, eventually, true love. When Westbrook joined LBT, Fairchild was married, but after a few short years, a divorce left her single. That’s when
Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook of Little Big Town are the embodiment of one of country music’s sweet love stories. Though they weren’t together at the band’s beginning in 1998, Fairchild’s personal life shifted after her divorce, and she and Westbrook grew close. “I think Jimi and I had a special friendship and connection that blossomed when we
In 2016, a soldier’s sign at a concert made Miranda Lambert cry — but Lambert isn’t the first, nor the last, country star to share a special moment with a military member. Readers can press play on the video above to re-live some of the most memorable of those encounters. Toby Keith takes the cake, with two touching
Trace Adkins is honoring our military heroes with an impactful new song and video that arrives just in time for Memorial Day 2021. The veteran country singer’s video for “The Empty Chair” honors actual service members who lost their lives while serving the country. Adkins invited fans to submit photos of their loved ones who died
Country music artists have a way of telling beautiful stories unlike the stars of any other genre — and some of country’s most touching songs are those penned about soldiers and the sacrifices they make in honor of our country. Everyone from Tim McGraw to Carrie Underwood has a spot on The Boot’s Top 10 Country Songs About Soldiers
B.J. Thomas, the vocalist who mixed the stylish sophistication of a pop crooner and the down-home soul of a country singer on songs like the 1969 smash “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” died Saturday in his Arlington, Texas home after a battle with lung cancer. He was 78. A rep for Thomas confirmed the
Gotta love newer artists who still respect the legends. And Jake Owen has always been one of those artists who respects the legends who came before him. Take, for instance, this video of Jake singing “Sunday in the South” with Marty Raybon and Mike McGuire of Shenandoah. Jake starts out discussing what this song means
Let’s kick off this installment of This Week in Country Music with something that happened two years ago this week. Valory Records released Thomas Rhett’s album Center Point Road… Thomas told us about how much he loved collaborating with friends for the project. In 2016, just five years ago, actor Kiefer Sutherland made his debut
Craig Campbell‘s new single, “Never Mine,” is a searing final goodbye to a love interest that was never quite as into him as he was into her. From start to finish, the song displays emotional complexity and nuance, refusing to villainize the ex in question while also not downplaying how much hurt the relationship brought him. To write
Share0 Tweet0 Share0 There’s a thread among the top 40 country songs for May 2021 – a celebration of songs that achieved much success in today’s country music. Leading this month’s list is Gabby Barrett, who earned several more nominations in the recently concluded Billboard Music Awards than any female artist did. Her song “The
Singer B.J. Thomas, who was best known for a string of pop and country hits in the 1960s and ’70s, has died. According to his representatives, the 78-year-old died on Saturday (May 29) after battling lung cancer. The news comes after the pop, country and gospel singer revealed he had been diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer
Twenty-nine years ago today (May 30, 1992), Billy Ray Cyrus sealed his fate as a bona fide country music star. The singer’s debut single, “Achy Breaky Heart,” from his freshman album, Some Gave All, landed in the No. 1 spot, where it stayed for five weeks. The Marcy Brothers originally recorded “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1991,
B.J. Thomas scored the biggest hit of his career with “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” in 1969, and Garth Brooks paid tribute to the timeless, classic song with a performance at the Academy Awards in 2003, more than three decades later. The legendary team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote and produced “Raindrops Keep
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