“CMT Music Awards” at 8:00 p.m. on CMT. The performers include Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton,Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett, and the Brothers Osborne. And for collaborations, you’ll have . . .
Blake Shelton with the Oak Ridge Boys . . . Little Big Town with Pharrell . . . Billy Ray Cyrus with Cheap Trick . . . Dierks Bentley with Elle King . . . Fifth Harmony with Cam . . . Keith Urban with Brett Eldredge andMaren Morris . . . and Cassadee Pope with Pitbull and Leona Lewis.
Luke Bryan Announced the Dates of His 8th Annual Farm Tour
LUKE BRYAN’s 8th Annual Farm Tour will kick off October 5th in Gaston, South Carolina, and hit a total of eight cities when it wraps October 15th in Effingham, Illinois. He’s also going to release a Farm Tour EP sometime in the fall.
Proceeds will go to college scholarships for teens in farming families. You can find out more at LukeBryan.com.
LITTLE BIG TOWN and PHARRELL WILLIAMS will be performing together on tonight’s CMTs. They’re doing a song from the “Wanderlust” album, which Pharrell produced. It’ll most likely be “One Of Those Days”, the song they debuted on “The Voice”. (Full Story)
BRANDY CLARK’s new album “Big Day In A Small Town” is out Friday. One of the songs is called“Homecoming Queen” and she posted the audio on her YouTube channel.
GRETCHEN WILSON is selling her Nashville estate for $1.7 million. The house has four bedrooms, five full bathrooms, a couple of garages . . . and a recording studio. Unfortunately, you’ll have to pony up extra if you want to keep the recording equipment that’s in the studio. (Full Story)
DARIUS RUCKER’s benefit concert for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital went down on Monday. The highlight may have been when Darius helped CHARLEY PRIDE perform his 1971 smash “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’“.