Page 12 - Never Will News Today

By Hayden Brooks Apr 15, 2021 Ashley McBryde is up for a few honors at the upcoming 2021 ACM Awards on Sunday night (April 18) and the backstory to how she learned of one of her big nominations is a funny one. During a recent interview, McBryde, who is up for Female Artist of the Year and Song of the Year, admitted that she learned of her Album of the Year nod from one of the fellow nominees. "I got a text from John Osborne," she said, adding that she was on her way home from a writing retreat...

April 15, 2021 Kane Brown has won the ACM Award for Video of the Year for his tune Worldwide Beautiful. During a Wednesday interview with CBS This Morning, Kane was told he’d won the award, making him the first Black solo artist to win in this category. Reba McEntire has just called off her 2021 tour. Reba says she’ll be back on the road in 2022. In a social media post Reba explained, “I know just about everybody on this planet is ready to see live music again, but for a lot of these...

Your Life Is a Record, Little Big Towns  Never Will to win Best Country Album. The award will be the only country-specific honor announced during the 2021 Grammy Awards telecast. Its Lamberts second career win in the category; previously, she won in 2015 for  Platinum. The winners in a variety of non-televised Grammy Awards categories were announced during the Premiere Ceremony on Sunday afternoon: A film about Linda Ronstadt won Best Music Film, for example, while the late John Prine picked...

Miranda Lambert Among the contenders for the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards, 14 creators — 12 artists and two producers — earned nominations in three or more categories: Maren Morris and Chris Stapleton lead the field, with six nods each, while Miranda Lambert received five, and Jay Joyce, Ashley McBryde and Thomas Rhett each earned four. Maren Morris Morris’ “The Bones,” which topped Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart for 19 weeks, is nominated for both single and song of t...

Final Grammy Predictions: Look for Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift to Share Top Spoils Final Grammy Predictions: Look for Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift to Share Top Spoils Beyonce is likely to walk away with the most wins, even without an album in the running, while Lipa and Swift are predicted to split the categories they share. Chris Willman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail If the Grammys had a dress code this year, it might be: Wear your cardigan to the disco. It’s sweater weather, but also the se...

When musics biggest night airs during a pandemic, does it still make a sound? If its awards brethren are any indicator, the answer is… sort of. The CMAs, Emmys, and Golden Globes — which have trotted out modified versions of their telecasts since you-know-what began last March — all saw drop-offs in ratings. Then again, that downward slope pre-dates COVID-19. And having fewer eyeballs shouldnt excuse the boring pitfalls the Grammys have consistently fallen into. (Remember the "I Sing the ...

Ashley McBryde previews her live album with the smoky, villainous Martha Divine video

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Maren Morris and Chris Stapleton are the leading nominees for...

Cover illustration by Fumi Mini Nakamura After our sixth miscarriage, my partner, Louisa, and I, traveled to South Africa, Louisa’s home country, to conduct a funeral ceremony of sorts at the Big Hole in Kimberley, a gaping open-pit and underground diamond mine that was active from 1871 to 1914. In order to contextualize my grief—however inadequately, but essentially—I became obsessed with the history of the Big Hole which was, after all, the actual context and physical space into which ...

Ashley McBryde debuted a new song, Whiskey and Country Music, during a recent appearance at the Grand ole Opry.