Bobby Tomberlin, a Grammy®, CMA, & ACM nominated songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, who has enjoyed a 20+ year tenure as a staff writer at Curb Records, recently released his new album Out Of Road. At a recent CD-Release party, held at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Downtown Nashville, I got to chat with Tomberlin about the new project, and a few other surprises he has for his fans in 2017.
Crafts are enjoying a renewed popularity thanks to online stores, groups, and tutorials. Crafters, now more than ever, have an unlimited amount of resources to help them create their own personalized and customized trinkets, clothes, and accessories.
A favorite craft and pastime among country music fans has always been embroidery. In fact, it’s difficult to find a home decorated in a “country style” without spotting several embroidered items in and around the house. The CMBeat’s founder, Emily Ann Wells, recently got to speak with Katie Richardson, who took a favorite hobby and passion and turned it into her own personalized embroidery business online called Lainey Lou’s Embroidery. Continue reading
It was a beautiful Autumn afternoon this past Saturday when I arrived to see what was happening at the Opry Birthday Bash, held in the Opry Plaza, outside the main entrance of the Grand Ole Opry House.
Joe Friday, from the iconic TV show, Dragnet, would have been very pleased with our newest feature, which launched this past Friday on our Facebook and Twitter social media pages, called Fun Fact Friday. We fully complied with his famous catch-phrase and posted “Just the facts, ma’am“.
If you missed the posts as they went live, you can see all the facts right here in the following recap:
Do you like knowing more about Country Music than ANY of your friends? Do you hold your head a little higher when people call you the “Wikipedia of Stuff Nobody Thought They Needed to Know”? Well, we have a new feature that is gonna rock your socks. Continue reading
Since we got so much love and so many positive comments about our last article on the recently cancelled television show, Nashville, we wanted to create another post for all you “Nashies” (fans of the show) out there, dedicated to your favorite songs from the series. Continue reading
After Rhonda Vincent finished playing at the Texas Troubadour Theater in Nashville, I had the opportunity to ask her a couple quick questions for The CMBeat’s first exclusive interview.
I asked Vincent about her new single, which is dedicated to the late, great Merle Haggard. At her performance during the Grand Ole Opry, Continue reading
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