Nashville Skyline: Country Music Trends: Is the Sky Falling or Not?

Increasingly, one of my favorite columns about the state of the union of country music, is Chet Flippo’s Nashville Skyline at CMT online.
Flippo addresses these ongoing shifts in the country music genres and the larger culture with astute precision. This week’s installment
So, are my Chicken Little friends, who say the sky is falling in [...]

Pickler, Swift dominate CMT Music awards

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The Nashville City Paper reports:
While Taylor Swift won the evening’s biggest honor, it was another member of country’s youth corps Kellie Pickler who snared three buckles at Monday’s Country Music Television (CMT) music awards, which attracted more than 4 1/2 million votes from fans.
Swift’s “Our Song” was voted Video of the Year, although [...]