You’re young, a little famous, and partying on a Saturday night in a college town. A woman you don’t know kisses you. A fellow partygoer decides to take video of that casual event and puts it on TikTok. You are a little famous, so it goes viral. Good thing phone ...

Mac Davis was the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year in 1974, and did it without his own radio hit as a singer. He was a national star as a songwriter, and then for his hit NBC variety show. Mac was Blake Shelton before there was a Blake Shelton. The ...

Award shows are mostly three-hour infomercials, and three hours is a long time to keep someone’s attention in 2020. The Emmys just bombed, and the ACM Awards tried hard under difficult circumstances. Now, four more huge award shows are going down in the next eight ...

It was good to see Country music on something other than virtual. The 55th edition of the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards show was as good as you were going to get under the rules of operation. The only thing missing -- and it’s a big thing -- was the fans. CMT ...

I am sure we are still a long way from where we want to go, but this week was a start. There was football on television, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum reopened, and they’re letting people inside the Ryman Auditorium for live concerts. We are about to ...

There is Zoom fatigue already. It was cool for a little while, but not everyone loves it. It’s cold and sterile and impossible to find warmth, although it is efficient. Music Row folks would love to stop the new artist radio tours and go all Zoom. And in the short ...

Tom Cruise went to a movie theatre in London this week. Thousands took commercial aviation flights all over the world. Private schools in Nashville are full speed ahead like any other “normal” year. But it is not any other normal year. The business has somewhat ...

There has been $2.45 billion lost in Nashville visitor spending since the Coronavirus got started! That includes $92 million and counting in lost hotel and sales tax money. Haven’t seen a number yet on lost concert revenue, but you know it’s huge. There was a story ...

While on a photo shoot in a National Wildlife Refuge, my phone started to light up. It was the CMA surprise Hall of Fame announcement. Three excellent choices, with the Hank Williams, Jr. choice 20 years overdue. Dean Dillon, Marty Stuart and Hank Jr. are all great ...