Class of Nashville
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Five Years In, William Beckmann's Holiday Run Is Now a Tradition of Its Own
William Beckmann is taking his Las Posadas Tour out for the fifth consecutive year, marking the season the way he has come to prefer. The Mexican-Amer…
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The Operator Behind Results Global Takes a Turn in Music Row's Spotlight
Jackie Campbell, who shares the top job at Results Global and runs its day-to-day operations, is the latest Nashville executive to sit for MusicRow's …
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The Lights Stay On: TVA Readies a 2.5-Gigawatt Expansion
The utility that keeps Nashville's studios humming and its hillside kitchens lit is preparing to grow. The Tennessee Valley Authority intends to bring…
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Clear Your Friday for Zach Bryan: Eight New Songs Arrive Under a Title That Stops You Cold
Zach Bryan has a fresh collection of eight songs on the way, and it lands this Friday. He is calling it Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs, a ti…
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Downtown Gets a Permanent Address for Alan Jackson
The Alan Jackson Museum is now open in downtown Nashville. For a city that usually keeps its stars moving between Green Hills offices and the Broadway…
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Country Radio's Finest Take Their Bow
The 2026 CMA Broadcast Awards have named their winners, recognizing the people who put country music on the air and keep it there. These are honors fo…
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Bluey Takes the Stage at TPAC, and the Smallest Patrons Get Their Weekend
The Tennessee Performing Arts Center hands its stage to a blue heeler this weekend. Bluey's Big Play runs Saturday and Sunday, a two-day engagement th…
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A New Honor Gets Its First Name, and It's The War And Treaty
The Origins Vanguard Award has never been handed to anyone before. When it is given for the first time, it goes to The War And Treaty. An honor with n…
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Luke Bryan Comes Home With Thirty-Five-Plus Dates Behind Him
Luke Bryan has closed out the Word On The Street Tour, a run that passed the 35-date mark before its final night. For a city that measures its artists…
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Parker McCollum Turns Down the Volume for an Acoustic Album on MCA
Parker McCollum has put out an acoustic record titled Live From Sound City, released through MCA. It is a stripped-back outing, the kind that leaves a…
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Who Will Love This Song? Nashville Can Now Ask Before the Release Date
Rocketship, an artificial-intelligence tool built to tell a writer or a label which listeners a track is likely to reach before it ever goes out, is n…
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Music Row's Publishing Houses Get Their Issue of the Year
MusicRow has put out its 2026 Publisher edition in print, the magazine's annual turn toward the publishing side of the Nashville music business. That …
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Jingle Ball Is Coming Back to Nashville This Season
The River's annual holiday concert has a 2026 edition on the books, with Capital One attached as presenting sponsor. For the city's pop crowd, the sho…
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Nashville SC Keeps Its Record Chase Alive
Nashville SC is still tracking toward an MLS record, and the pace has not slipped. In a city that has long measured itself by what happens on stage, t…
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Wynonna Takes The Hard Truth to the Cameras
Wynonna has a new record out. It is called The Hard Truth, and she marked its release last week with a pair of television appearances. For a voice thi…
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Christian Music's Biggest Night Belongs to Wickham, Lake and Queen
The Gospel Music Association handed out its 57th annual Dove Awards, and three names came away carrying the evening: Phil Wickham, Brandon Lake and Jo…
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Miranda Lambert Takes Her Music to Amazon's Screen
Amazon Music has premiered Songline Live, a filmed program built around Miranda Lambert and something she did only recently. For a Green Hills reader,…
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Kameron Marlowe Takes His New Show on the Road This February
Kameron Marlowe has a national run booked for February, a headlining outing he is calling the Take You Down With Me Tour. The itinerary keeps him insi…
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Two Columns, One Name: John Morgan Puts "Kid Myself" at the Top
In this town the writers and the singers are usually two different sets of people, and the rooms where they work are a few blocks apart. John Morgan b…
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Matt Jenkins Cracks the Twenty Names Nashville's Publishers Watch Most
The writer Matt Jenkins now sits among the twenty highest-ranked names on MusicRow's songwriter rankings, the industry tally that Green Hills offices …
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Music Row Lends Its Voices to a Record Built Around The Chosen
A new album drawing its inspiration from The Chosen is on the way, and the lineup leans on Nashville talent. Lady A and Tyler Hubbard are among the ar…
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The River Is Bringing Jingle Ball Back to Nashville This Season
Nashville's pop station, 107.5 The River, has confirmed a 2026 edition of its annual holiday concert, Jingle Ball, with Capital One attached as the sp…
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Two Films, One Halloween Night: Nashville's Spare & Scare Sets the Season's Screen
A pair of films on one Halloween night is the plan behind Spare & Scare. It's an old-fashioned idea: pull up a seat, stay for both features, and let t…
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Brent Cobb Takes the Amplifiers Off Again for "Live A Song, Write A Memory, Vol. 2"
Brent Cobb has put out "Live A Song, Write A Memory, Vol. 2," the next installment in his stripped-down series built around the writer and the work. W…
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The Writers Take Their Turn, One Song at a Time
ASCAP put its songwriters front and center on Wednesday night, October 7, with an in-the-round evening that served as the latest installment of the pe…
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Mark Saturday, October 24, for Once in a Blue Moon
Nashville's late-October calendar now has a date to hold. An event going by the name Once in a Blue Moon is set for Saturday, October 24. The name doe…
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Two Films, One Evening: Spare & Scare Lines Up a Halloween Night in Nashville
An evening billed as Spare & Scare is on the Nashville calendar for the Halloween season, pairing two movies back to back for a single sitting. The fo…
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Paris Is Coming to the Nashville Departures Board
Air France has said it will begin flying a direct route between Nashville and Paris in 2027. For a city whose talent already works on both sides of th…
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Carly Pearce Takes a Nashville Set to the Grammy Museum
Carly Pearce has made a trip west to play the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The appearance was a performance, not a panel or a photo opportunity, with…
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Shania Twain Isn't Done With 'Little Miss Twain' Yet
Shania Twain is giving her album Little Miss Twain a second chapter. The record returns in an expanded form under the title Little Miss Twain – The Pl…
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Concord Records Makes Room for Marc Scibilia
Marc Scibilia has a new label. The singer-songwriter has put his name to a deal with Concord Records, bringing a catalog that has already been played …
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Chris Tomlin Has a Fourth Christmas Record Coming, and It Lands in November
Chris Tomlin is adding to his seasonal catalog. The worship singer's next holiday project carries the title Good News Of Great Joy, and it is set to a…
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The Opry Turns a Year Older, and Nashville Is the Only Place It Could Have Done It
The Grand Ole Opry marked its birthday with a weekend of observance last weekend, a milestone for the program that remains the best-known stage in cou…
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Julia Cole Isn't Finished With "Love You To Death"
Julia Cole has gone back to her album "Love You To Death" and widened it, issuing an expanded version that carries five songs the original did not. Fo…
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Downtown Will Teach You the Steps, and It Won't Charge
The Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Nashville is opening its floor for line dancing instruction, and nobody will be asked to pay for it. Anyone who has sto…
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Twenty-Four Years at the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, Then a Second Act
Daron Hall is stepping down as sheriff of Davidson County, with Oct. 19 set as his final day. He has held the office for 24 years, a run that covers a…
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A Friday in Late October Worth Marking for Nashville's Charitable Set
Pinktober – Sips for a Cause is set for Friday, October 23. The name does the explaining: a glass in hand, and the proceeds pointed somewhere beyond t…
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Halloween Lands on a Saturday, and Nashville Is Taking Both Nights
Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, and the city is not waiting for it. Beats, Booze, and BOOS runs across two evenings, the Friday the thirtieth…
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A Loretta Lynn Record Finds Its Way Back Onto Nashville Shelves
Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose is coming around again. Third Man Records will put the album back out on Nov. 13, giving one of her most admired recordin…
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Randy Rogers Band Invites Company Into Its Own Catalog
The Randy Rogers Band has gone back through its best-known material and recorded it again, this time with guests joining in. The result is a project t…
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The Hall of Fame Is Losing One of Its Steadiest Hands
Michael McCall, who has spent years at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum shaping its exhibits and the words that accompany them, is stepping a…
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A South Florida Teenager Who Bet on Nashville, and Won Her Seat in the Writing Room
Carrie Karpinen was seventeen when she left South Florida for this city, young enough that the decision reads less like a career plan than an act of f…
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Music Row's Review Column Hands Kameron Marlowe Its Highest Praise
The trade paper that Green Hills reads over breakfast has spoken, and this week its verdict belongs to Kameron Marlowe. MusicRow's DISClaimer column, …
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Marquee Sets a Table for the Kind of Night Nashville Used to Dress For
Marquee is a room that treats dinner and a drink as one unbroken evening rather than two stops, done in the style of an earlier era when a night out h…
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Nashville's Riverfront Stage Sets Aside a Day for Those Who Served
Ascend Federal Credit Union Amphitheater is bringing back its Community Day, and this second edition is dedicated to veterans. For a venue most of the…
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The Industry Lines Up at The Pinnacle for IEBA's Night of Honors
The International Entertainment Buyers Association gathered its own on Tuesday night, Oct. 6, for its 2026 Honors & Awards, and the room it chose was …
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Two of Texas's Rowdiest Headliners Pick December for a Holiday Run
Koe Wetzel and Parker McCollum are getting back together on the road, and they have chosen the holidays to do it. The pair will headline the Naughty O…
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Reliant Talent Agency Puts a Former Owner in the Corporate Chair
Michelle Romeo has taken a seat at Reliant Talent Agency, where she will work as Corporate Agent. She arrives having previously been a co-owner of a b…
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Matthew West Isn't Done Yet: Eighteen More Dates Carry the Jesus Is King Tour Through Spring
The Jesus Is King Tour was supposed to have a finish line. Matthew West has moved it. A fresh run of eighteen shows now stretches the tour across the …
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Old Dominion Closes Out a Second Year on the Florida Sand
Old Dominion spent last weekend in Florida's Miramar, hosting the Moon Crush gathering the band calls its Odies Beach Vacation, and the event is now i…
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