Free Music Industry Healthcare Seminars by Music Health Alliance

8 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Free Music Industry Healthcare Seminars by Music Health Alliance
Figuring out health insurance options can be tricky for independent musicians, but there is wonderful help available from Music Health Alliance! Join their free seminars this month to get all the info you need. Check out the announcement below: Music Health Alliance, the music industry’s non-profit healthcare advocate, is offering a series of FREE “Get Read More

LOCASH Hits #1 on MusicRow Chart with “I Love this Life”

8 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on LOCASH Hits #1 on MusicRow Chart with “I Love this Life”
LOCASH is sitting at #1 on the MusicRow country singles chart! The current single, “I Love this Life,” is also climbing on every other chart going, so hopefully this is merely the first of this kind of announcement. Read the guys’ reactions in the press release below: Rising country duo LOCASH is back at the Read More

CMA Elects New Board of Directors

8 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on CMA Elects New Board of Directors
The Country Music Association announced today the new Board of Directors. The appointments are effective Jan. 1, 2016. Frank Bumstead completes his term as Chairman of the CMA Board and current CMA Board President John Esposito, President and CEO of Warner Music Nashville, assumes that post. CMA President-Elect Sally Williams, General Manager of Ryman Auditorium, Read More

New Music Video: “Shut Up and Fish” – Maddie & Tae

8 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on New Music Video: “Shut Up and Fish” – Maddie & Tae
After the success of “Girl in a Country Song,” Maddie & Tae take a further stab at country song cliches by explaining that when you’re going to the river to fish, maybe exactly what you should do is “Shut Up and Fish.” Brad Paisley built a career on novelty songs like this, so if they Read More

Keith Urban Announced As 2016 CRS Artist Humanitarian Award Recipient

8 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Keith Urban Announced As 2016 CRS Artist Humanitarian Award Recipient
Over the years, Keith Urban has always tried to find time and resources to impact his community, and to contribute to positive change. For his “All for the Hall” benefit concerts, his involvement with the CMA Foundation, to “Make A Wish” Foundation projects, and visit to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, he is now Read More

New Music Video: “What Not to Do” – Jake Clayton

8 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on New Music Video: “What Not to Do” – Jake Clayton
Multi-instrumentalist Jake Clayton‘s new music video for “What Not to Do” premiered yesterday on the Heartland Network. The cautionary tales making up the video were directed by Dylan White. In his recent interview with LRM, Jake talked about writing the song and the real-life inspirations behind it.   Read More

Nashville represented in big Grammy Awards 2016 categories: the nominees

8 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Nashville represented in big Grammy Awards 2016 categories: the nominees
Nashville will be represented in three of the four big Grammy Awards categories when the gramophones are handed out in February 2016. I was thrilled to see Chris Stapleton‘s Traveller in the Album of the Year category, especially after he cleaned up at the CMA Awards. Could an even bigger surprise be waiting for him? Read More

CMA Foundation Increases Donation to the W.O. Smith Nashville Community Music School by 50 Percent

8 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on CMA Foundation Increases Donation to the W.O. Smith Nashville Community Music School by 50 Percent
The CMA Foundation is donating $75,000 to benefit music education programs for low-income students at the W.O. Smith Nashville Community Music School – a 50 percent increase over 2014 and the fourth year the Foundation has supported the School. To date, CMA and the CMA Foundation have committed more than $13.6 million to support local Read More

The letter from Scott Weiland’s ex-wife is devastating

8 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on The letter from Scott Weiland’s ex-wife is devastating
I’m sure many people feel they get to have an opinion about the far-too-early death of Stone Temple Pilots singer, Scott Weiland, but one that really counts is by Mary Forsberg Weiland, his ex-wife and mother of their two kids. She wrote a devastating letter, published in Rolling Stone, in which she calls December 3rd, Read More

“Team work makes the dream work!”

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Someone I used to work with had the mildly annoying habit of resorting to “motivational” management cliches, and while I tried not to take them seriously they must have made an impact. When I looked at the country music charts this morning, and saw LOCASH‘s “I Love this Life” climbing further into the top 10, Read More