2021 Arkansas Country Music Awards Recap

The fourth annual Arkansas Country Music Awards recently took place in Conway, Arkansas with artists from the natural state as well as people from the country music industry in attendance.

This year’s award show was held on June 7th at the UCA Campus at the Reynolds Performance Hall. The event was hosted by Beebe, Arkansas native, Charles Haymes and former Miss Arkansas, Ashton Campbell Gill. Continue reading

Silverado Records Celebrates 5 Years, Announces New Music

One of the record labels, Silverado Records, which is based out of Nashville, Tennessee is celebrating a big milestone and announcing some exciting news to celebrate!

In honor of the special occasion, The CMBeat got to chat exclusively with the CEO of Silverado Records, Scott Thomas. He talked about some of his favorite times throughout the years and what’s next for the future of the label. Continue reading

Parker McCollum Gets Honest In New EP, Hollywood Gold

A rising country music artist, Parker McCollum has shown the country music scene a glimpse of his true talent with his latest single, Pretty Heart and is ready to show more with his new EP available now entitled, Hollywood Gold.

The brand new EP from the singer songwriter features six new songs which were all written or co-written by McCollum himself except for one, therefore creating the true honesty he wants to have in his music. Continue reading

Laine Hardy Releases Two New Songs

A upcoming country music artist, Laine Hardy recently released two great new songs entitled, Ground I Grew Up On and Let There Be Country.

The American Idol winner, won the popular television show with his talent last year in 2019. These two new songs from the Louisiana native is followed by his previous released single after he won American Idol called, Flame. Continue reading

Home Free Releases Dive Bar Saints

There’s a quickly rising country music band, Home Free who is dominating the country music scene with several things including their brand new album, Dive Bar Saints.

In case you haven’t heard of Home Free before, they are a capella country group who won Season 4 of NBC’s The Sing-Off and has been rising in the music scene ever since. Home Free is made up of five members, Austin Brown, Tim Foust, Rob Lundquist, Adam Chance and one of the founding members, Adam Rupp. Continue reading

2 Arkansas Artists Talk Upcoming Arkansas Country Music Awards

The 2nd Annual Arkansas Country Music Awards that is going to be held on Monday, June 3rd, 2019, that will be happening at the Maumelle High School Auditorium located in Maumelle, Arkansas, is quickly approaching!

Earlier this year, country music fans had the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite nominees for this year’s shows. You can click HERE to check out the list of nominees from our previous article. Continue reading

Exclusive Interview with 2Steel Girls 

There’s so many females making their way through the country music industry right now, and there is two in particular that has been dominating the scene! Those two females would be a special duo, entitled, 2Steel Girls.

The women that make up the 2Steel Girls, Allison and Krystal Steel, recently found time to chat about being on The Voice on Team Blake, what it is like working with family, being real and true to themselves, and new music being released soon! Continue reading

Cole Swindell Releases Down Home Sessions IV

A rising country artist, Cole Swindell, has been known for his singing abilities but he is also recognized for his incredible songwriting skills. The singer/songwriter continues to give back to his fans with music, by just releasing a new EP, entitled, Down Home Sessions IV.

The idea behind the series that the artist has been doing for a few years now, is to cover some of the most popular country music songs that he has written and has been recorded by other country artists.  Continue reading