The CMA MusicFest/CMT Awards and Crossroads/Darius & Friends and everything else week is here. Nothing will ever be bigger downtown than the recent NFL Draft, but CMA/Fan Fair week is draining for the Country music business and all those it touches. Once upon a ...

Summer is here ... Music City got the wake-up call for Summer this week with record breaking 90-plus temperature days.. The exhausting CMA Music Festival week is less than two weeks away and already the August heat. Country stars will test their fitness with very ...

As Nashville explodes in every way measurable, star creation seems to be at low tide. No shortage of wannabes but breakout stars ... not so much. Luke Combs is a recent breakout star. Any others? Some press/media-created darlings are around but the viral stars like ...

I've been on a driving tear the last few years. Air travel within 1,000 miles of Nashville is a hassle so I just drive. Radio is still the great co-pilot. The iHeartRadio app really is good. They got on digital early and it works! Yes, I still listen to AM, too. There ...

Music City outdid itself last week hosting the NFL Draft and having 600,000 hit the streets, making Nashville look like New York City on New Year's Eve! Tim McGraw and Dierks Bentley did post draft free concerts. Luke Bryan did a half-hour on-set. Taylor Swift showed ...

If there is one thing that I hope never goes out of style in the Nashville music community ... it's the charity. This week an amazing lineup of artists showed up to raise money to help pay for singer John Berry's cancer treatments. The chemo worked and John looked ...

Bachelorettes, Bibles and Amazon: Is Nashville the perfect model for a second-tier city? That's the headline in The Guardian, a British daily newspaper that's been around since 1821. With the Internet, it's seen around the world. Nashville, the "it" city right now. If ...

Hollywood, Washington D.C. and yes, Music City are all pretty tightly controlled members-only clubs. That's hardly news to insiders but those looking from afar may not see that. The recent Academy of Country Music Award ratings news and some of social media buzz is ...

You come to Nashville pretty humble unless you've just won American Idol ... 99% get their big break when they sign a record deal. A rookie stays in limbo and new artist construction for maybe a year. Then you hatch. Not every bird soars. This weekend the Academy of ...