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Top 5 Country Music Videos of 2016 (So Far)
A list of the best country music videos of 2016 (so far).
Everything You Need to Know About the 2016 CMT Music Awards
A roundup of the pertinent information about the 2016 CMT Music Awards.
Country Music’s Most Political Artists
Not every celebrity chooses to keep politics and their public life separate.
Country Artists Wearing the American Flag [PICTURES]
Country music is as American as football / apple pie / insert-any-other-cliche-phrase-here, so it makes sense that, from time to time, the genre's artists would don some patriotic clothing.
Everything We Know About Florida Georgia Line’s New Album, ‘Dig Your Roots’
The Boot rounds up all of the information available about Florida Georgia Line's upcoming new album, 'Dig Your Roots'.
7 Artists Who Should Be in the Country Music Hall of Fame
Can you believe they're not in yet?!
Outside Projects Make Zac Brown Band More Creative Together
Jimmy De Martini and John Driskell Hopkins explain why it's important for them and the other Zac Brown Band members to pursue solo projects.
Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley Says New Album Will Be Worth the Wait
Florida Georgia Line's Brian Kelley opens up about the duo's upcoming new album.
Loretta Lynn Says Being a Musician Is ‘Harder on a Woman Than It Is a Man’
Loretta Lynn has a lot to be proud of: a storied career, more music halls of fame inductions than any other female musician in history, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Presidential Medal of Freedom -- and that's just the beginning. One of the most important pieces of the country …