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Higher Learning: University of Tennessee Offers “Dolly Parton Honors Class”

Higher Learning: University of Tennessee Offers “Dolly Parton Honors Class”

The University of Tennessee has finally recognized something we’ve known for years: Dolly Parton = higher learning. Since the Fall 2016 semester, Dolly has been the subject of an honors class—”Course-Work: Dolly’s America”—at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, which is about 30 miles northwest of her hometown in Sevierville, Tenn. The class is offered…MORE

Blake Shelton Wins 3rd Annual Nash Music Madness Championship

Blake Shelton Wins 3rd Annual Nash Music Madness Championship

In honor of college basketball’s craziest month, I created a bracket with 16 of the hottest acts in country music. I seeded them based on the strength of their current “season,” which ran from the ACM Awards in April 2016 to the Grammy Awards in February 2017. After more than 20,000 votes were cast during…MORE

Vote Now: 3rd Annual Nash Music Madness Finals—Blake Shelton vs. Dolly Parton

Vote Now: 3rd Annual Nash Music Madness Finals—Blake Shelton vs. Dolly Parton

In honor of college basketball’s craziest month, I created a bracket with 16 of the hottest acts in country music. I seeded them based on the strength of their current “season,” which ran from the ACM Awards in April 2016 to the Grammy Awards in February 2017. After more than 6,000 votes were cast in…MORE

Watch Dolly Parton Strut Her Feathers as Animated Singing Chicken

Watch Dolly Parton Strut Her Feathers as Animated Singing Chicken

Dolly Parton has always been very “animated.” But today (March 13), she gave new meaning to the word. On today’s episode of Lily’s Driftwood Bay, Dolly voiced an animated chicken named Nolene, a famous country music-singing fowl who becomes stranded on Driftwood Bay. Lily’s Driftwood Bay is a preschool mixed-media animated show on Sprout, NBCUniversal…MORE

2017 Grammy Awards: Country Music Winners List [Updated]

2017 Grammy Awards: Country Music Winners List [Updated]

The 59th Grammy Awards are underway in LA, and we’ll be posting the winners as they are announced in the country, bluegrass and Americana categories. Best Country Album A Sailor’s Guide to Earth — Sturgill Simpson WINNER Big Day in a Small Town — Brandy Clark Full Circle — Loretta Lynn Hero — Maren Morris Ripcord — Keith Urban Best Country…MORE

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