When a country music executive said programmers should take female singers off the radio to get
ratings and added that women are the tomatoes and men are the lettuce in the country music salad,
social media blew up and many female country singers took notice and so did we. To celebrate the great
women in country music, WQMX is having a ‘Women of Country Weekend’! All weekend you can enjoy
songs from rising stars and the lady legends that inspired them!
Nashville News: Thursday, 6/4
Blake Shelton is taking on a legend. He sings a cover of the Bob Dylan classic "Forever Young" on the
soundtrack to the upcoming movie Max.
Max is the story of troubled teen who befriends the military dog of his brother, who was killed in action in Afghanistan.
The movie opens on June 26th.
Brett Eldredge will release his sophomore album,Illinois, on September 11th. The album features his current
single "Lose My Mind.” Brett is on tour with Darius Rucker this summer
and they will be at Blossom on August 20th!
It is being called salad gate! Some country music executive set the social media world a flutter when
he said programmers should take female singers off the radio to get ratings and said they were
the tomatoes and men are the lettuce in the country music salad. So to celebrate the great women in
country music, WQMX is having a ‘Women of Country Weekend’, and playing the great tunes from the
lady legends to the rising stars!
Nashville News: Wednesday, 6/3
Maddie and Tae have just revealed the cover to their debut album, Start Here, which hits stores on August 28th.
It’s just a simple pic a the girls sitting in the back of a Jeep.
Tae says the cover reflects their lifestyle. “The thing about us that really defines Maddie and I is we’re not those
girls who want to spend a lot of time getting our hair done... We’d rather be out on a four-wheeler, playing guitar or just hanging out, having fun. That’s what the songs are made of.
We thought the pictures should look like that, too -- and it’s harder and easier than you’d think.”
Maddie and Tae head out on tour with Dierks Bentley beginning on Friday in North Carolina and then head
to Blossom on Saturday.
Eric Church, Jake Owen, Sam Hunt and Zac Brown Band have been added to the list of performers for the
CMT Music Awards. They join previously announced performers Carrie Underwood, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean,
Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum and Luke Bryan.
The show, hosted by Erin Andrews and Brittany Snow, airs live from Nashville on June 10th on CMT.
Nashville News: Tuesday, 6/2
A Thousand Horses are celebrating their first number-one hit with "Smoke."
Lead singer Michael Hobby says he finished writing the song just before they hit the studio to record
their album Southernality, and knew they had to include it on the record.
A Thousand Horses are on the road with Darius Rucker's Southern Style tour, which makes a stop at Blossom on August 20th.
Tribe Kelley-- the lifestyle brand designed by Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Lineand his wife Brittney -- will open a pop-up shop in Nashville during the CMA Music Festival.
The shopfeatures women's suede pants, printed jerseys and T-shirts, unisex caps and hats, and more. Brian is expected to make an appearance at the store to
model the men's line, which will be out for everyone this summer.
Nashville News: Monday, 6/1
Kip Moore is set to release his long-awaited sophomore album,Wild Ones, on August 21st.
He says, “Wild Ones really encompasses everything I’ve been through out on the road since the first album.
It embodies us as a band every night out on stage, it alludes to the traveling circus it sometimes feels like we are a part of."
The album was conceived during soundchecks, backstage and even in his bunk traveling down the road to the next gig.
Dancing With the Stars co-host Erin Andrews and Pitch Perfect star Brittany Snow will co-host the2015 CMT Music Awards airing live June 10 from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
Fear not, both are avid country music fans!
Fans can vote now via CMT.com through June 7th to determine the winners.
Precisely a year after he first topped Billboard’s country albums chart withJust as I Am,
Brantley Gilbertreturns to that top position with Just as I Am: Platinum Edition, that features eight bonus tracks.
It is also worth noting that Kelsea Ballerini’s The First Time is the week’s highest-debuting country album, arriving at No. 4.