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Cody Johnson experienced a life-changing emergency this year that totally shifted his perspective. He was with his wife and his management team on a private plane headed to a NASCAR event when the pilot said, "We're going down.""I said, ‘You mean we’re taking it down,'" Johnson recalls. "He said, ‘No, you need to prepare yourself. We’re going down.’"Talking to Taste of Country Nights, the "'Til You Can't" singer explained how the plane's altitude went from 39,000 feet to 15,000 feet. Alarms were sounding, panels were coming off the wall of the plane. Final...

Disney+ have shared the first trailer for its original docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, arriving on the streaming service this Thanksgiving weekend. The Peter Jackson-directed docuseries includes never-before-seen restored footage. The three-part series debuts on November 25th and continues on November 26th and 27th. The much-anticipated Get Back follows the band in January 1969 in studio as they pen and track 14 new songs prior to their first live concert in more than two years. The pressure challenges the Fab Four. In the trailer, the band is seen in the...

Forty-one years ago today, on Oct. 13, 1980, Johnny Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.Cash was 48 years old at the time of his Country Music Hall of Fame induction, making him the youngest living member, at the time, to enter into the Hall of Fame. He was inducted, along with concert promoter Connie B. Gay and the Sons of the Pioneers, during the 14th annual CMA Awards, held at the Grand Ole Opry.At the time that the Man in Black was inducted into the Country Music Hall...

Paul McCartney did not shy away from his thoughts of where the Beatles stand when it comes to their peers the Rolling Stones in a new interview with The New Yorker. As far as musical palettes go, he told the magazine that the Beatles’ were broader. “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are,” he said. “I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.” Despite it sounding like a dig — and McCartney has previously...

Garth Brooks is among a new group of celebrity presenters announced for the 2021 CMT Artists of the Year ceremony on Wednesday (Oct. 13). The singer will reflect on Randy Travis' career as he presents him with the Artist of a Lifetime award.Eric Church, Lady A, Morgan Evans, Connie Britton, Michael W. Smith, Misty Copeland and Nelly are the other presenters set to honor CMT Artists of the Year Chris Stapleton, Gabby Barrett, Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini and Luke Combs.Mickey Guyton will also be honored with the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award. The show will air...

As the world burns, it becomes easier to find joy in more innocuous moments. A niche literary dispute about a donated kidney. Cats hanging out in bodegas. Or a two-second clip of Ray Romano introducing the short-lived Billy Corgan side-project Zwan on a 2003 episode of Saturday Night Live. The latter is part of a treasure trove of quick-bite clips going up on the relatively new Twitter account, SNL Hosts Introducing the Musical Guest. Launched last month — with Nathan Lane channeling the middle ground between theater kid and metalhead...

Jimmie Allen came ready for Disney Night during week four of Dancing With the Stars, which was a night full of fun, nostalgic costumes and honor to the Disney classics. Allen and his partner, Emma Slater, commemorated the evening by dancing the Paso Doble to “I’ll Make a Man Out of You" on Monday night (Oct. 11).Once again, Allen proved how quickly adaptable he can be to different variations of dance styles. After his strong performance, the singer would take home a 30/40. The Paso Doble is playful and full of...

James Blake updated Friends That Break Your Heart album cut “Funeral” with a feature from U.K. rapper Slowthai and a very morose music video. The duo play into the melancholy of the song’s metaphoric theme of attending your own wake — while begging to not be forgotten — with black-and-white aerial footage of a funeral procession. For the new version of the track, Blake sacrifices his original second verse, where he laments “I would livе in the leaves that crunch undеr your feet/I wanna be heard if I can’t be...

Texas mainstay Randy Rogers Band have released a new single, "Picture Frames." Co-written by band frontman Randy Rogers with singer-songwriter/producer Drew Kennedy, it's a heartfelt look back on a love story, as told through the pictures hanging on the couple's wall.The song's first verse begins at the beginning, recounting an early date in New Orleans."We watched the sunrise on Bourbon Street / With Hurricanes in our hands," the lyrics recall. "There's something sweet about a morning buzz / Dancing with the possibility of love ..."While the storyline is about a romantic relationship,...

Ahead of the October 15th release of Coldplay’s ninth studio album Music of the Spheres, fans have followed the band’s cryptic clues delivered via Spotify canvases and digital billboards to unveil new song lyrics from the project. A fan account for Coldplay first posted about the completed billboard on Twitter, sharing a photo of the display in Westfield Shepherds Bush, London, which features lyrics to the album track “Biutyful” alongside a Spotify code. When scanned, the code redirects fans to a Music of the Spheres playlist featuring the album’s lead singles “My Universe”...

Eighteen years ago today (Oct. 11, 2003), Tim McGraw had one good reason to celebrate: His latest single, "Real Good Man," had soared to the top of the charts, becoming his 17th No. 1 song.The uptempo, rocking "Real Good Man," which is still a concert favorite, was the fourth single from McGraw's multi-platinum album Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors. The tune -- which was written by Rivers Rutherford and George Teren -- was also included on McGraw's Greatest Hits 3 CD, as well as his Number One Hits album.Curb RecordsThankfully for the Louisiana...

Cambel McLaughlin thought he was being punked. An unapologetic opponent of lockdowns and Covid-19 vaccine skeptic — he is, as he puts it, “pro-medical choice”— the 27-year-old Brit is founder of Jam for Freedom, a group of U.K. musicians that plays for free in public spaces, spreading the anti-lockdown word and sometimes singing songs with lyrics like “You can stick your poison vaccine up your arse.” For their efforts, Jam for Freedom are often hassled by police, and McLaughlin himself says he was arrested for what he calls “breach of...

Just months after they surprised-released a covers album of country classics, the BJ Barham-fronted group American Aquarium have revealed that they've got new music in the works. Called Chicamacomico, the album's tongue twister-esque title comes from the Hatteras Island, off the coast of North Carolina, and the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station -- an active U.S. Coast Guard facility during the first half of the 20th century, and now a museum -- that is located there.The band shared the exciting news on social media, adding that fans could expect the full project...

In her fourth SNL appearance as musical guest, Halsey was joined onstage by singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham for a stunning performance of “Darling” — an acoustic ballad from the singer’s latest album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. Halsey also delivered a fiery performance of their lead single “I Am Not A Woman, I’m A God.” In it, she commanded the stage in a leather bodysuit against a futuristic backdrop. Halsey has frequented SNL the past few years. She pulled double duty as host and musical guest back in 2019,...