Nashville Music Scene w/ Jerry Holthouse

The Country Music Association awarded  Kacey Musgraves with the 2019 CMA International Artist Achievement Award last night, Feb. 27, surprising her backstage prior to her performance at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. The award recognizes outstanding achievement by a United States-based artist who has demonstrated the most significant creative growth, development and promotion of the …

Townes Van Zandt is one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century and TVZ Records along with Fat Possum Records are releasing “Sky Blue,” a collection of unreleased songs by the famed songsmith. “Blue Sky is a time capsule that Van Zandt created forty-six years ago. Scheduled for release on …

If there were an East Nashville Music Hall of Fame,  Amelia White would  already be in it. The now-famous scene was in its formative days when White arrived from Boston in the early 2000s and became a fixture at the Family Wash. She’s been a leading light in America’s most musical …

Last night, legendary country music group Alabama was awarded the Tony Martell Lifetime Entertainment Achievement Award at the T.J. Martell Foundation’s 11th Annual Nashville Honors Gala. Brad Paisley was on-hand to pay tribute to Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen, performing a medley of some of their hit songs, including …

The Grand Ole Opry is slated to celebrate more than 100 years of milestone Opry member anniversaries in early March, including beloved and longtime Opry members The Whites (35th Anniversary), Jesse McReynolds (55th Anniversary), and Trisha Yearwood (20th Anniversary). The Whites  will celebrate their 35th Anniversary as a Grand Ole Opry member …

2020 UPDATE! Blackberry Smoke Announces NEW Tour! Spirit Of The South Tour: A Celebration of Southern Rock and Roll Music with guests, The Allman Betts Band, The Wild Feathers and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, Jaimoe. The Tour includes a stop at the Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville on …

The schedule for the 27th Annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Presented by Regions Bank was released yesterday exclusively through the Tin Pan South App, and today, the schedule and full list of performers were added to TinPanSouth.com. Close to 400 songwriters in a variety of genres are already scheduled …

Mac Wiseman, the bluegrass vocalist and “The Voice With a Heart,” passed away yesterday, Feb. 24, 2019. He was 93 years old. Wiseman, inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014, was a founding member of the Country Music Association in 1958 and its Board of Directors’ first …

The 2019 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has unveiled a series of incredible updates to its campground Plazas. The 18th annual four-day multi-stage camping festival will take place June 13 – 16, held as always at Great Stage Park, the 700-acre farm and event space located just 60 miles southeast …

Award-winning songwriter-guitarist Molly Tuttle has released an animated video for her new song, “Million Miles.” Taken from her album When You’re Ready, the new track features Jason Isbell on backing vocals and Sierra Hull on mandolin (watch above). When You’re Ready is Tuttle’s debut full-length and was recorded in Nashville …