During an interview last November, Garth Brooks promised to do me a solid. Can you help me remind him? It's for the kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and will only take a minute. Listen to the clip below for the scoop. TWEET GARTH! TWEET GARTH! TWEET GARTH! More on my mission... Continue reading

New year, new song. Continue reading

FGL's Brian Kelley told Cody Alan that all he wants for Christmas is to write a song & tour with Garth Brooks. Well, we have some good news for ya buddy. Garth loves you guys! Continue reading

Maddie & Tae's Tae has a new boyfriend and he's a cutie Continue reading

Our radio buddy Broadway's running the 2015 Boston Marathon to help raise money for St. Jude Children's Hospital. Check it out. CLICK HERE TO DONATE Continue reading

Did the 'secret' lead him down a path of self-destruction? Possibly. This clip is from March, but still very telling. Continue reading

Waylon Jennings versus Garth Brooks? Yep, it happened. Now Garth has addressed how he felt about having a country legend not particularly liking him much. Continue reading

For the last year (yes, this video was a year in the making), our friend Broadway has been asking everyone he interviews what turned out to be a surprisingly tough question ... is country music ready for an openly gay country star and whether the genre is homophobic in general? Some of the answers he got may surprise you. Continue reading

Dierks Bentley is one talented fella. Fortunately for those of us who like to laugh at otherwise-blessed people doing things really, really badly, his talents don't extend to doing impressions. Continue reading

Rascal Flatts' lead singer, Gary LeVox, chatted with Broadway on Monday shortly after it was revealed that the trio would be heading to Vegas next year for a nine-show residency at The Joint - and boy did the singer have a lot to say. Continue reading

It's been almost two years since Randy Houser released "How Country Feels." Now he's revealed to Broadway that he's back in the studio recording his next album. Continue reading

Late last week in Hershey, Pennsylvania, a fan wearing a flight attendant costume got the opportunity to go up on stage to sing Drunk On A Plane with Dierks Bentley. She celebrated the fun event by puking all over the stage. Now Dierks is talking about the episode and he doesn't sound too upset about it all. Continue reading

Once upon a time, Carrie Underwood dated doctor and television personality Travis Stork. Like a true gentleman, however, Stork is staying mum about what happened between the two. Skip ahead to the 1:38 mark. Continue reading

I interviewed Brantley Gilbert back in 2011, when he re-released "Halfway To Heaven" with 3 new tracks. He told me back then that the 3 added tracks were all about his fiancee. So add "Hell on an Angel" to the list of songs he penned about his bride-to-be. Continue reading

Check it out. Toby Keith just released Drunk Americans, the first single from his upcoming new album "35 MPH Town." It's very Toby Keith-ish. What do you think? Continue reading

Chris Carmack, or Will from ABC's Nashville, called the show recently. We collaborated on a twist in the plot that would be friggin' EPIC! We also chatted about him getting the role, he had no idea Will was going to be gay until after he was offered the job. Since he's the gay cowboy on the show, we revisited the question that seems to make a lot of people in the industry uncomfortable, "Is country music ready for an openly gay singer?" This question confuses some, because we have Chely Wright, and more recently Brandy Clark. And I guess you... Continue reading

In a way, Dustin took ownership of the bicep chug. And why not? He made it popular! Well then outta nowhere, some douche tells him he is actually the one who invented drinking a beer with your bicep. Ha! Dustin tells the story towards the end of the clip below. Continue reading

Big & Rich have created a short film to accompany their new album, "Gravity." It will be released in 4-parts, hence why they're calling it a "quadrilogy." Hear more about it in the interview below. Update from Shannon: Before the movie buffs come out to play, I'm aware that the "Alien" movies were released as a set called the Alien Quadrilogy, but I'm giving the boys of Big & Rich the benefit of the doubt that they weren't aware of this little movie title tidbit. Continue reading

The always great Martina McBride chats about her current CMA nomination (despite not releasing a country album), being without a major record deal, her kids, and what's next (rap maybe?). Check out the new interview with Martina below (or here if that doesn't work). Continue reading

I watched most of the new Glen Campbell biography "I'll Be Me" over the weekend, and I'm dumbfounded that Glen didn't receive an EOTY nomination for his farewell tour. We GIVE George Strait (able-bodied and healthy) the award, but because Glen was absent from the radio for a few years we ignore the fact that he was touring while fighting ‪Alzheimer‬'s. I had no idea that it had progressed as far as it did before the tour started. What he pulled off will forever go unparalleled. "I'll Be Me" hits theaters on October 24th. Find out where. CLICK HERE TO... Continue reading

Toby Keith recently angered more than a few fans when he gave what many called a drunken performance in Indiana. Perhaps he was on the tail end of a long string of shows...or maybe he was drunk. Either way, it wasn't his best performance. I asked Frankie Ballard what his personal opinion is on DWP. That's drinking while performing. See what I did there? In his new song, "Sunshine & Whiskey" he says, "DWK." Nevermind. Here's the clip. Continue reading

Photo: Glen Campbell Music Glen Campbell's wife and daughter called my show to update us on his condition. It sounds like he's doing fairly well. On average, people live about 8 years after being diagnosed. Filmmaker James Keach was also on the line, and said Glen has tried some experimental drugs. I'll be posting more clips from his wife, daughter, James, and music maker Julian Raymond HERE. Continue reading

Here's another part of my interview with Hunter Hayes. The loop for "Flashlight" was actually created by accident with a road case! If you're a music geek - it's pretty damn interesting. He also carries on about his obsession with loop pedals. Here's a wicked awesome video of a guy basically making a loop pedal his bitch. Continue reading

Photo: HunterHayes.com Lets start this piece off by telling you what exactly a 'loop pedal' is... "A loop pedal is an effects pedal, usually for guitar, that can record a section of sound played on the instrument. It then plays back that section over and over, or for a set amount of repetitions. These can be useful when there is only one guitar player in a band that wants to play rhythm and lead guitar." This thing gives me a MUSICAL BONER! Check out Hunter Hayes demonstrating and talking about it below Continue reading

Other than mixing up JLo's ass with that of his wife's, Justin did a pretty darn good job at naming various celebrity butts (including his own). Continue reading