O Brother, Quintuple Platinum! This Day in Country Music – March 12th (Video)
2002 - The "O Brother, Where Art You?" soundtrack goes quintuple-platinum.
2002 - The "O Brother, Where Art You?" soundtrack goes quintuple-platinum.
1969 - After 25 years as a bluegrass duo, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs split up.
1936 - Mickey Gilley born in Natchez, Mississippi.
1971 - Gilley's nightclub opens in Pasadena, Texas.
1990 - Singer-songwriter Clara Henningsen is born at home in Atwood, Illinois.
Miranda Lambert is a bit of a Stepford Wife in her 'Mama's Broken Heart' video. She's quite the actress, showing off her crazy side with reckless abandon -- but she makes nutty look good. Her character pops Rx pills, which she washes down with a glass of scotch. She's got a fancy house and lots of swanky things, but none of it's making her happy. Despite that heavy theme, the video is fun and Lambert is a hoot, chewing the scenery as she comes undone.
1967 - Merle Haggard goes to #1 on the Billboard chart for the first time...
2009 - Jamey Johnson and Shooter Jennings tape an installment of "CMT Crossroads" at Rocketown in Nashville.
Are you totally digging Lady Antebellum's current hit, 'Downtown'? If so, you'll love the acoustic version the trio offered up during a recent Webisode Wednesday.
It's never too early to start daydreaming about summer, right? If you've had it with dreary winter days, one look at Florida Georgia Line's vacation-themed 'Get Your Shine On' video will snap you out of the winter blues.
Eric Church's video for 'Like Jesus Does' is one of the most simple and spare videos in recent memory. But what it lacks in visuals it makes up for in its heft. It's just Church, without his signature aviator shades, seated in front of a microphone, strumming away at his guitar. He's wearing a skull cap, but we can still see his eyes. It's a stark, black and white video, and the camera pans in tight.
Jason Aldean's nostalgic trip to a time of mullets and loud, heavily-starched cowboy shirts is a fun novelty on the 'Night Train' album. But if '1994' had a cinematic equivalent from that same year, it'd be 'It's Pat.' Like the movie, the song is cute the first time, and maybe fun when it's late and you're drunk, but after that ...