The Shires Talk New Album, Good Years

A rising country music duo, The Shires originally from the United Kingdom, has just released their fourth brand new album entitled, Good Years.

The members of the duo, Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes recently had time to chat with me about a few things including about the process of making their new album! Along with that, they talked about what they were looking forward to the most about releasing the new record and talked about what they hope to see this new album accomplish. Continue reading

Silverado Records Releases The Country Discovery Series

A upcoming country music record label, Silverado Records, has been known for being creative when it comes to music, and that’s no exception as they just released their latest project, The Country Discovery Series.

The record label that is based in Nashville, Tennessee, created this new collection of music to spread the word and feature more upcoming country artists on a bigger scale in hopes for them to be more discovered. Continue reading

Crystal Gayle Hosts The Midnight Jamboree

A lot of country music fans gathered around at the Texas Troubadour Theater in Nashville, Tennessee on August 24th, to see a beloved artist in country music and Grand Ole Opry member, the lovely, Crystal Gayle.

For those who don’t know, Gayle is the sister of the very well known country singer, Loretta Lynn. Surprisingly, this was Gayle’s very first time to host the Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree. Continue reading

3 Year Anniversary Of Charles Esten’s Every Single Friday

It has been over three years since country music artist, Charles Esten, made the announcement that he was going to start working on a new project that was very interesting, and turned out to be something that had never been done before in the music industry.

On July 15th, 2016, the singer songwriter, Charles Esten who is well known for his role on the drama television show, Nashville, announced that he was going to release a new song every Friday with this new adventure being called, Every Single Friday. Continue reading

Mark Wills Featuring Special Guests At The Midnight Jamboree

Earlier this year, a particular male country music artist received one of the highest honors you can get in the country music industry, which is being inducted as one of the newest members of the Grand Ole Opry!

This country music singer songwriter, Mark Wills, just so happened to also be performing at the Grand Ole Opry the same night as the Midnight Jamboree would be happening in Nashville, so he came on over to perform after his segment on the Grand Ole Opry. Continue reading

Larry’s Country Diner – Exile and Hot Club Of Cowtown

Recently here at The CMBeat, I got to go to a great event and I can’t wait to share more about it! I got to attend a taping of two episodes for the popular show, Larry’s Country Diner, which is filmed at Ray Stevens’ Cabaret Theater just right outside of Nashville, Tennessee!

The musical guests for these two episodes were known country music group, Exile and another band, the Hot Club Of Cowtown! So, I wanted to recap a little bit about the show, before you can watch the tapings live on RFD-TV coming soon! Continue reading