Chris Turner credits country superstar Dierks Bentley with giving him advice that changed his life. After serving four years in the Marine Corps and moving back to his hometown of Ninety Six, South Carolina, Chris won a radio station contest – and the prize was a lunch meeting with Dierks Bentley. He gave Dierks a copy of a 4-song EP that he had recorded, and asked what advice he had for a singer-songwriter. Dierks told him, “Nashville is a Monday through Thursday town. You c

If you’ve been downtown around the very popular Broadway area, you’ve seen it. It’s as if they are holding their own parade AND powering the vehicle themselves. The music's playing. People are laughing, taking selfies, and waving to their adoring fans. You witnessed a celebration of some sort on the Country Music Crawler. But in case you missed it earlier - THEY ARE POWERING THE VEHICLE THEMSELVES*. AND THEY LOVE IT. Voted Nashville’s #1 attraction, this pedal bar is the brai

Singer-songwriter Sami Jo has played dozens of writers rounds since moving to Nashville from Redding, California two years ago. It was after one of those rounds that she ordered a drink from the bar and got the idea for her latest single – Blue Moon.  “It’s kind of like a play on words, like the moon in the sky and also the beverage,” she explains. Citing the Beatles and Tom Petty as the biggest influences on her music, Sami Jo wrote Blue Moon as a country rock song. Nashvill

“The most aggravating thing to me is when people get in front of me and walk or drive slow. I don’t consider myself to be an impatient person unless I’m on a mission to get somewhere and someone who has nothing else to do gets in my way.” This is the reply Belmont University student Paige Johnson gave me when I asked her about the one thing in this world that makes her angrier than anything else. But what does being angrier than anything else have to do with the roots of up