Brantley Gilbert

Allentown Fair chose country music’s best before the Country Music Association did. The CMA on Wednesday announced its list of nominees for the 46th annual CMA Awards, to be given away 8 p.m. Nov. 1 on ABC-TV, and two of......

Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week 1. DAUGHTRY The first two albums by Daughtry, the eponymously named band of “American Idol” finalist Chris Daughtry, sold a combined 5 million copies with eight Top 5 adult chart hits, including the......

One of my all-time favorite Musikfest discoveries remains the Austin-based soul/funk/R&B band Mingo Fishtrap, which is set to take over Americaplatz at 7 p.m. On top of being tight and groovy as hell, Mingo Fishtrap creates a classic, Stax Records-era.......

Berks County native Taylor Swift again was the obvious Lehigh Valley connection when nominations for the 45th annual Country Music Association Awards were announced last week. Swift topped all nominees with five, including Entertainer of the Year, and...

The Brown County Fair has done it again by snagging one of the best upcoming artists in country music.  Brantley Gilbert will perform Aug. 16 at the fair in Aberdeen. Last weekend, the Academy of Country Music Awards named Gilbert as its new male...

Brantley Gilbert has been steadily working on his next album, and even dabbled into songwriting with his former touring partner – Eric Church. Unfortunately, the song will not be making Brantley’s upcoming project, but it sounds like the two...

For Tim McGraw, the process of selecting songs for an album and picking movie scripts is no different. He must respond to the material on a basic emotional level. "I have to take an intellectual cap off and wait to be hit viscerally," McGraw, the 46-...

When he calls in from the road while on tour, on the drive back to his tiny hometown of Jefferson, Ga., country singer-songwriter Brantley Gilbert is busy trying to avoid his wedding planner. He knows it's not right, and he knows that, eventually, she...

Tim McGraw brought together some of his favorite artists to spotlight the hottest music of the summer, during the ACM Presents: Tim McGraw’s Superstar Summer Night. The two-hour concert event features many collaborations and Tim can name a few...

Tim McGraw is 45 years old, has produced 33 No. 1 country singles and for more than a decade has branched into acting and performing with other musicians, including Nelly and Tony Bennett. Yet despite having gone down more avenues than most country...

When your opening song is "Green Grass Grows" and the closer is "Live Like You We're Dying," you can sandwich whatever else in the middle and still have one of those (special) nights.   For Tim McGraw, that stuff in the middle was mostly quality, and...

For those hard-to-buy-for mothers, consider picking up tickets to one of the big concerts going on sale this weekend. Virginia Beach shows by Lil Wayne, Tim McGraw or Bob Dylan and Wilco could solve your Mother's Day problem. The July 27 show by Tim...