Miranda Lambert’s Y’ALL EAT YET? Welcome to the Pretty B*tchin’ Kitchen has earned a nomination at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.
Co-penned by HITS’ Holly Gleason, the lifestyle book—which is a N.Y. Times best seller—is up for Best Book, Non-Fiction and will go up against titles from Jon Burlingame, Gerrick Kennedy, Mark Kernes and Alessandra Mattanza.
It is also one of nine nominations for Gleason this year, who earned nods for Journalist of the Year, Music Critic of the Year, Diversity in the Entertainment Industry, Online Columnist and more.
“I knew when I started working on this book, I wanted it to be something that shared more than how many cups of flour,” said Lambert says. “It never occurred to me when we were writing that it was anything more than just talking about where I came from. I am so honored and surprised to be nominated for this award.”
Y’ALL EAT YET? Welcome to the Pretty B*tchin’ Kitchen is available to order here.
Prime Video will be the home of the Academy of Country Music Awards for the next two years following the renewal of their deal.
The 59th ACM Awards is set for May at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas; Dick Clark Productions will again produce the shows. Additional details, including award submissions and voting timeline, hosts, nominees, performers, and ticket on-sale details, will be confirmed in the months ahead.
The 58th awards show garnered more than 7.7m viewers on Prime Video plus additional viewership across Amazon Music, the Amazon Music channel on Twitch. The 2022 ACM Awards was the first major awards show to exclusively stream live.
“The Academy is proud to extend our relationship with Amazon for the next two years, through the historic milestone of the 60th ACM Awards, and continue to bring Country Music’s Party of the Year live to a global audience on Prime Video,” said Academy of Country Music CEO Damon Whiteside. “The May 2023 show was a groundbreaking success and illustrates that our pioneering and innovative move to streaming was absolutely the right one at the right time. We’re eager to see everyone back in Texas once again at the home of the Dallas Cowboys next May for another groundbreaking ACM Awards show.”
Kelsea Ballerini, Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, Luke Combs and Dan + Shay have been added to the performers list for the 57th annual CMA Awards, which will feature a tribute to the late Jimmy Buffett.
Kenny Chesney, Jordan Davis, HARDY, Alan Jackson, Cody Johnson, Mac McAnally, Ashley McBryde, The War And Treaty and Zac Brown Band are all booked to take the stage at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on 11/8.
Female Vocalist and Album of the Year nominee Ballerini will perform “Leave Me Again”; reigning two-time Entertainer of the Year Combs will perform his new single “Where the Wild Things Are”; Dan + Shay will sing their current single, “Save Me The Trouble"; Davis will perform “Next Thing You Know.” Johnson will perform “The Painter”; McBryde’s doing “Light On In the Kitchen"; and The War And Treaty, first-time nominee this year for Vocal Duo of the Year, will perform “That’s How Love Is Made.”
HARDY and Post Malone will deliver a medley of country classics, while Wallen will take the stage for a second time with a surprise guest.
The Buffett tribute will feature Chesney, longtime Coral Reefer Band member McAnally, Jackson and Zac Brown Band.
Kelsea Ballerini, Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, Luke Combs and Dan + Shay have been added to the performers list for the 57th annual CMA Awards, which will feature a tribute to the late Jimmy Buffett.
Kenny Chesney, Jordan Davis, HARDY, Alan Jackson, Cody Johnson, Mac McAnally, Ashley McBryde, The War And Treaty and Zac Brown Band are all booked to take the stage at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on 11/8.
Female Vocalist and Album of the Year nominee Ballerini will perform “Leave Me Again”; reigning two-time Entertainer of the Year Combs will perform his new single “Where the Wild Things Are”; Dan + Shay will sing their current single, “Save Me The Trouble"; Davis will perform “Next Thing You Know.” Johnson will perform “The Painter”; McBryde’s doing “Light On In the Kitchen"; and The War And Treaty, first-time nominee this year for Vocal Duo of the Year, will perform “That’s How Love Is Made.”
HARDY and Post Malone will deliver a medley of country classics, while Wallen will take the stage for a second time with a surprise guest.
The Buffett tribute will feature Chesney, longtime Coral Reefer Band member McAnally, Jackson and Zac Brown Band.
ABC will air the show.
It was a star-studded affair at Amazon Music’s Neon Stars kick-off party on Tuesday (10/24).
Celebrating the launch of the newest Country playlist, which highlights artists whose careers launched on social media and showcases the future voices of the genre, the event was attended by Redferrin, Dalton Dover, Dylan Schneider and Alana Springsteen, and featured a performance from breakout group Restless Road, who currently occupy the cover of this week’s set. Peep the full playlist here.
Seen wondering what it feels like to be well-rested are (l-r) Amazon Music’s Itanza Lawrence, Michelle Tigard Kammerer and Stephen Baker, Restless Road’s Colton Pack, Amazon Music’s Reece Luebke, Ana Maldonadoand Emily Cohen Belote, Restless Road’s Garrett Nichols and Zach Beeken, Amazon Music’s Jenni Tay, Sarah Demarco, Lauren Stellato and Chris Graham.
Photo credit: Steph Sorenson/Amazon Music
Jelly Roll will open the 57th annual CMA Awards, Lainey Wilson will sing “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” and co-host Luke Bryan will deliver a medley celebrating his 30 No. 1 singles at this year’s show.
And Chris Stapleton will perform his new single “White Horse.”
Beyond the that, the CMAs have four artist pairings in their first round of announcements. Tanya Tucker and Vocal Group of the Year nominee Little Big Town will join forces on Tucker’s “Delta Dawn”; five-time nominee Jelly Roll will take the stage a second time with first-time CMA Awards performer K. Michelle for “Love Can Build a Bridge”; Old Dominion and New Artist nominee Megan Moroney will perform their new song “Can’t Break Up Now”; and Carly Pearce will duet with Stapleton on new single “We Don’t Fight Anymore.”
It all takes place 11/8 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on ABC. Additional performers and presenters will be announced in the weeks ahead.
Capitol Nashville’s Darius Rucker is the latest recipient of the 2023 CMA Foundation Humanitarian Award.
The three-time Grammy-winner received the honor—which recognizes individuals who have served as a humanitarian through community leadership, financial support, personal volunteerism and advocacy—during his appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, where he spoke about his late mother, Carolyn Rucker, and his new album, Carolyn’s Boy.
“When I was a kid, [my mother] instilled in us that you help people – not people that are less fortunate; you help people that need help,” said Rucker. “We grew up in a really poor neighborhood with not much and, you know, there was no reason for me to believe that I was gonna be here and make it. But she always instilled in me ‘believe in yourself, you can do whatever you want.’”
The 2009 CMA New Artist of the Year and four-time nominee, who pledged his support to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 15 years ago, also created the Darius and Friends charity auction, golf tournament and concert in 2010, which takes place each year in the days leading into CMA Fest and has since raised $3.6m+.
Additionally, Rucker co-chaired the capital campaign that amassed $150m to help build the new MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital in his hometown of Charleston, S.C.—inspired by his mom’s career as a MUSC nurse—and has advocated for 200+ charitable causes supporting public education and junior golf programs in S.C. through the Hootie & the Blowfish Foundation while also serving as a National Chair for Nashville's NMAAM.
Peep Rucker’s appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show below.
Having kicked off Prine on Prine: Interviews & Encounters with a discussion with Grammy winner Steve Earle in the Rare Book Room of NYC’s Strand Books, editor/contributor Holly Gleason is heading to the Southern Festival of Books on 10/21 for a panel with Chicago Sun-Times critic Dave Hoekstra and former Nashville Banner critic/Nashville Scene contributor Michael McCall at Nashville’s Public Library.
The panels, HITS Nashville editor Gleason notes, “are a way to share not just the research that went PRINE ON PRINE, but the fellowship that John fostered among those reporters, critics, and fellow artists, who make up the list of contributors.” As Gleason continues to discuss five decades’ worth of stories and conversations with fellow contributors, the praise keeps rolling in.
“In this book you get the man, in all his charming, introspective, self-deprecating and inspiring facets,” wrote Chicago Tribune’s Rick Kogan, while L.A. Times hailed it as “moving and insightful” and Variety declared, “to love and know Prine is to spend a lot of hours in his presence via Gleason’s essential compendium, which finds his observational candor, fierce, intelligence and genial warmth to be unwavering.”
Of Gleason’s efforts, Fiona Prine says, “Holly has created a beautiful collage by using John’s words to bring us into the center of his world where family music imagination and love reside with his struggle to remain that kid from Maywood whose curiosity birthed the beautiful songs and music he gifted to the world.”
“If you’re a John Prine fan, you’re going to love this book. If you’re not, please read it and listen to his music. You will then no doubt be one,” said George Strait, while Bonnie Raitt called the book a “treasured gift.”
Songwriters Fall of Fame President/CEO, Linda Moran, further echoes the previous statements, saying “The respect, admiration and love for Prine and his songs that Holly Gleason has is obvious not only in her eloquent introduction, but in the interviews she selected to pay proper homage to him.”
“PRINE ON PRINE makes me feel like he’s been talking to me since he was a young man, and seeing him go through the phases of his career is a real gift. Holly Gleason knew John, so she understood how to take these interviews, movie scripts, tv shows and recipes and create a sense of who he was when he got done writing or performing,” added Miranda Lambert, whose Y’ALL EAT YET? Welcome to The Pretty B*tchin’ Kitchen was co-penned by Gleason.
“Reality can involve a lot of imagination, and no one was better at imagining and painting real pictures about people you felt you knew. I enjoyed getting to know John more through Holly’s curation and writing. A true master,” shared Eric Church.
During Ashley Cooke's sold-out headlining show at Nashville’s Basement East on 10/19 as part of her Shot in the Dark Tour, the Big Loud country star was presented with a plaque to commemorate the RIAA gold certification of her song, “Never Til Now” w/Brett Young.
Originally released in 2021, the track—which debuted on ABC’s The Bachelorette—became a SiriusXM The Highway #1 song before being released as a duet with Young.
Having sold out shows in markets like New York, Philadelphia, Columbus and more, Cooke’s 26-date tour will come to an end following her supporting slot on Luke Bryan’s Country on Tour later this month. She will then join Jordan Davis for his international Damn Good Time Tour in February, which makes stops across the U.S., U.K., Canada and Europe.
Seen just before popping hot-chicken flavored champagne to celebrate are (l-r) top Row—Seth England, Stacy Blythe, Lexi Howder, Ali Nageotte, Rakiyah Marshall; middle row—Patch Culbertson, Mike Giangreco, Tori Johnson, Sara Knabe, Candice Watkins, Brianne Deslippe, Matt Cottingham, Austin Wells; bottom row—Kris Wiatr, Hillary Lambert, Carrie Murphy, Cooke, Emily Crews, Drew Magid and Jacob Ringler.
Photo credit: Mick Bodie
