Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. If there's somebody that's going to make me cry listening to them sing, it's going to be Tammy Wynette. There's something about the production then and the songs: They might not necessarily have been commercial, but they were real, and they hit a nerve, and they made you feel something. ● - - Kellie Pickler. Of course, Wynette's songs WERE commercial in their day, which is why they topped the charts consistently for more than a decade. … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. For us, the Grammys have always been one of the biggest events of the year. A lot of families do sports and we do music. So for us, it's the equivalent of making it to the Super Bowl. ● - - Kimberly Perry on Wednesday's Grammy nominations. The CMAs have always been the Super Bowl in The Band Perry household, so we feel like we're walking away with Super Bowl rings tonight. ● - - Kimberly Perry last month, on The Band Perry's CMA … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. For his first arena tour as a headliner, Eric Church will launch the Blood, Sweat & Beers tour with special guest Brantley Gilbert on Jan. 19 in Fort Smith, Ark. The tour will stop in nearly 50 cities across the U.S. ● - - Oh gosh. "Blood, Sweat & Beers" starring Eric Church and Brantley Gilbert? I'm sorry, world. I don't think today's country music is country. It is more like rock 'n' roll to me. I really enjoy songs that have a … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. Loggins says when he thinks about it, it’s natural for Shelton to have a turn with “Footloose,” because he thinks it’s always been “a country song.” ● - - "Footloose" has always been a country song? I admire the hell out of her. She has stuck to her guns, she’s written her own songs, and she actually has accomplished something that I was trying to do when I had a major label deal in Nashville, when I made those records … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. I was a strange kid! I was a stranger kid than I am an adult, if you can imagine that. ● - - It didn't help that Justin Moore was 2'6" up until the time he was about 17. I hadn't had a drink at all. I had two kids in the back seat. We had been to get ice cream. To my kids, it was the greatest thing that ever happened. [They] ran through the house when we got home telling everybody that Daddy got arrested. ● - - Brad Paisley … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws. But 'It's Now or Never?' There's nothing ever wrong with that. ● - - Chris Isaak on his new Sun tribute record, "Beyond the Sun." It's pretty great, by the way. Now seeking the most talented singers in the nation between who are at least 16 years old and appear younger than 25 to join a new country music supergroup that will go on a nation-wide tour, work with the best songwriters … [Read more...]

Click the bullet after each quote to visit the source. It's got to make a blue flame go behind my left ear and chill bumps run all over my body. And immediately you say, 'Why didn't I think of that? I could have written that, but I didn't think of it.' ● - - Merle Haggard on what makes a great song, like "Settin' the Woods on Fire" or "Give It Away." I know a lot of people see him as a staunch, dark figure. And maybe the darkness is the thing that leads a lot of people to him. But his … [Read more...]