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Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban perform at the 59th GRAMMY Awards

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Apple Music: Watch Classic GRAMMY Country Performances

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From Shania Twain, Faith Hill and the Dixie Chicks to Charlie Daniels Band, Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood, kick the tires on Apple Music's video collection of GRAMMY country performances
Tim McPhate
GRAMMYs
Jan 5, 2018 - 10:34 am

The heartbeat of country music at the GRAMMYs can be traced back to the beginning when the inaugural Best Country & Western Performance category was awarded to the Kingston Trio for "Tom Dooley" at the 1st GRAMMY Awards.

In the years to follow, legends such as Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, and Hank Williams Sr., among others, would earn the coveted GRAMMY. Meanwhile, Music's Biggest Night would go on to host some of the most electrifying country performances in live television history, a journey you can now trace as part of the Recording Academy and Apple Music's exclusive commemorative video collection in celebration of the GRAMMY Awards' 60th anniversary.

Charlie Daniels Band turn in a fiery performance of "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" at the 22nd GRAMMY Awards. Mary Chapin Carpenter two-steps with BeauSoleil on "Down At The Twist & Shout" at the 34th GRAMMYs. Tim McGraw goes deep with "Live Like You Were Dying" at the 47th GRAMMYs. And Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood stand toe-to-toe for "The Fighter" at the 59th GRAMMYs.

Additionally, watch two top-shelf performances by top GRAMMY winner Vince Gill: "Pocket Full Of Gold" at the 34th GRAMMYs and "Pretty Little Adriana" at the 40th GRAMMY Awards.

There's also a trio of performances from arguably the most successful female trio in country music history: the Dixie Chicks. See Natalie Maines, Marty Maguire and Emily Robison harmonize on "Landslide" and "Goodbye Earl" at the 42nd telecast and then watch them thumb their collective noses at the establishment during "Not Ready To Make Nice" at the 49th GRAMMYs.

Finally, the country collection features Shania Twain's stage-commanding run-through of "Man I Feel Like A Woman" at the 41st GRAMMYs; Faith Hill's sultry "Breathe" at the 43rd GRAMMYs, Miranda Lambert's moving "The House That Built Me" at the 53rd GRAMMY Awards, Underwood's cautionary tale,  "Before He Cheats," at the 50th GRAMMYs, and the Civil Wars' lone GRAMMY performance, "Barton Hollow," at the 54th telecast.

All of these performances and more are available now, only on Apple Music. Watch now at Applemusic.com/GRAMMYs.

The 60th GRAMMY Awards will take place at New York City's Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. The telecast will be broadcast live on CBS at 7:30–11 p.m. ET/4:30–8 p.m. PT. 

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The Recording Academy teams with Apple Music to offer historical GRAMMY performances by Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, Whitney Houston, Shania Twain, Kendrick Lamar, and more
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To celebrate the GRAMMY Awards' 60th anniversary and the show's return to New York for the first time in 15 years, the Recording Academy and Apple Music are bringing fans a special video collection of exclusive GRAMMY performances and playlists that represent the illustrious history of Music's Biggest Night.

Available exclusively via Apple Music in a dedicated GRAMMYs section, the celebratory collection features 60-plus memorable performances specifically curated across six genres: pop, rap, country, rock, R&B, and jazz. 

The artist performances featured in the collection include Marvin Gaye, "Sexual Healing" (25th GRAMMY Awards, 1983); Whitney Houston, "Greatest Love Of All" (29th GRAMMY Awards, 1987); Run DMC, "Tougher Than Leather" (30th GRAMMY Awards, 1988); Miles Davis, "Hannibal" (32nd GRAMMY Awards, 1990); Shania Twain, "Man, I Feel Like A Woman" (41st GRAMMY Awards, 1999); Dixie Chicks, "Landslide" (45th GRAMMY Awards, 2003); Bruno Mars and Sting, "Locked Out Of Heaven" and "Walking On The Moon" (55th GRAMMY Awards, 2013); and Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker The Berry" (58th GRAMMY Awards, 2016).

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61st GRAMMY Awards winners Dan + Shay and Pistol Annies are among the artists heading for Nashville on June 6–9 for 2019 CMA Fest. The array of emerging talent on the Budweiser Forever Country stage and Chevy Riverfront Stage demonstrate country's vitality. Nissan Stadium hosts better-known acts including GRAMMY winners Miranda Lambert (also in Pistol Annies), Little Big Town, Tim McGraw, Maren Morris, Carrie Underwood, and Keith Urban.

Previously nominated artists coming to Nissan Stadium include Ashley Monroe, who performs in Pistol Annies with Lambert and Angaleena Presley, as well as Kelsea Ballerini, Brothers Osborne, Dierks Bentley, Luke Combs, Florida Georgia Line, Rascal Flatts, and Thomas Rhett. Also appearing are Kane Brown, Luke Bryan and Old Dominion.

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The Country Music Association's CMA Foundation and its supported music programs benefit from ticket sales, available at the CMA Fest website. Some four-day passes to Nissan Stadium are still available.

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Music lovers venturing to this weekend's 2018 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, Calif., will experience first-hand the diversity in sound and style of today's country music. With 50-plus artists set to perform on three stages, the event is a microcosm of the country landscape at large.

Headliners include the genre-crossing duo Florida Georgia Line, GRAMMY-winning guitar slinger Keith Urban and neo-traditional icon Garth Brooks with wife Trisha Yearwood. For the performers, the lineup's variety is not only welcome but refreshing.

"It's a cool time to be creating and it's a cool time to be country," says Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line, who are featured on Bebe Rexha's recent pop mega-hit "Meant To Be." "The whole weekend at Stagecoach is about bringing the country community together — all the different avenues and subgenres. People come to country music with so many different influences, and then end up with their own style, and that's to be celebrated."

Breakout star Kelsea Ballerini joined her idol Shania Twain to perform a song at last year's Stagecoach, and she is returning Friday night to play her own set on the main stage. According to the Tennessee native, the festival reflects the current sounds coming out of country airwaves.

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"You can turn on the radio and hear Chris Stapleton, who's really soul country, or Little Big Town, which is very folk country, or someone like me or Sam Hunt who is very pop country, as well as the greats who will always be on the radio and hold it down," says Ballerini, a former Best New Artist GRAMMY nominee. "If anything, having more influences in country music draws more ears to it, and maybe people who didn't think they liked it will hear a Chris Stapleton or Sam Hunt song, and fall in love with country music because they didn’t know exactly what it was.

"Having a festival like Stagecoach that highlights every bit of it is really important, because that's truly where country music is right now. There's something for everyone, you just have to show up and listen."

Ballerini is one of four women scheduled to perform on the festival's main stage, along with several others playing the two smaller stages. While she has notched five No. 1 country singles in recent years, other women have struggled at country radio — and it isn't due to lack of talent.

 

"There is a disconnect between the women receiving radio airplay and the women receiving awards and critical praise," says Beverly Keel, chair of the department of recording industry at Middle Tennessee State University and co-founder of Change The Conversation, an organization founded to support women in music. "Miranda Lambert won five Academy of Country Music Album of the Year awards in the last decade. Her last album (The Weight Of These Wings) went platinum without a Top 10 hit. Kacey Musgraves has won GRAMMYs and all sorts of awards and doesn't get a lot of radio airplay."

Adding further proof, Keel cites Billboard's 2017 year-end Hot Country Songs list, which included no solo females in the Top 10, only one in the Top 20 (newcomer Carly Pearce, also a Stagecoach performer), and seven in the Top 100.

Ken Robold, executive VP/COO of Sony Music Nashville, says trendsetting women such as Lambert and Maren Morris are "vital" to not only his company but to country's current scene.

"They are both brilliant writers," says Robold, who serves on the Recording Academy Nashville Chapter Board. "They write different kinds of songs, but both have a really meaningful impact on the genre. Miranda made this amazing record, The Weight Of These Wings, which is so pure country. She's a traditionalist but at the same time can rock.

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"Maren, along with Kelsea Ballerini, is the most influential female since Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert. When we first heard Maren's music we were blown away, it was so different than anything else out there. It was so commercially accessible in terms of different genre
influences. You have a song like 'My Church,' that's straight-up country. Then you have her current song with Zedd, 'The Middle,' which is No. 1 for the third week in a row at Top 40. It has opened her up to a whole new audience. She will remain rooted in country but wants to have flexibility."

Just as Lambert and Morris bring their own brands of country, so does their labelmate Kane Brown, a newcomer who will perform at Stagecoach on Sunday.

"There are a lot of influences that made their way onto his record, but he's truly a country artist," says Robold. "Country music has been his passion since he was a kid. His career growth has been amazing to watch. Once he got that first success at country radio with 'What Ifs' it exploded, and now we're looking at maybe crossing current single 'Heaven' over to other genres."

"There's something for everyone, you just have to show up and listen." — Kelsea Ballerini

Multi-GRAMMY-nominated producer/engineer Jeff Balding, who has been watching trends in country music for decades, sees today's country music as bringing "something new with a different twist to the surface."

"I see a lot of pop, R&B and even some '90s influences in today's country," says Balding, a Nashville Chapter Trustee. "I'm fascinated with what comes in and how it comes in. With Nashville growing as a music community in the past several years, people who moved here have brought some pop influences to the way songs are written. Those influences on the ground floor are the reason things change and other genres get blended within country. Everybody feeds off really great music, we digest it and it inspires us."

"Today's consumers just like to be entertained with great music, great songs, great lyrics," he continues. "They don't have to compartmentalize it. I think we are going to continue to see more of the genre-crossing, thanks to the openness of the listener."

While country radio is still the driving factor in launching careers in country music, streaming services continue to rise in prominence, providing an ever-growing outlet. Stagecoach artists and multi-GRAMMY winners Jason Isbell and Stapleton initially connected with fans outside of terrestrial radio, a trend that will likely continue.

"Jason Isbell fits in with the truth-telling social-commenting songwriters of the '70s," says Keel, also a Recording Academy Nashville Chapter Board member. "He's doing what our songwriters should be doing. Only the industry uses the specific categories; to the listener, it's American roots music. It's got a country feel to it. That's a good thing about the world now — we're not just defined by industry gatekeepers. Where 10 years ago someone like Jason Isbell would have been left out [of Stagecoach], today they are included because their music is exposed to the masses via other means.

"Chris Stapleton was not embraced by radio early on, yet his talent was so immense it couldn’t be denied. There was this groundswell and radio was forced to get on the bandwagon after he swept the Country Music Association Awards and made the best album of the year. I'm glad to see this music festival showcasing the different styles coming out of Nashville, because that is some of the best music being made."

Despite the diversity in talent, new methods of discovery and ample genre-hopping, there's one consistent core element that will continue to bind country music's future.

"We're songwriters at heart, and we're artists," says Kelley. "We love spending the day in the writers' room or a studio because you never know what can happen and what seeds can be planted. ... It's a special time in country, because you feel like you can push the boundaries but good songs are always going to win."

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(Sarah Skates lives in Nashville, Tenn., and has been writing about country music for 14 years. Her career started at MusicRow magazine, where she remains a regular contributor, as well as writing for ACM Tempo and GRAMMY.com.)

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Renée Fabian
GRAMMYs
Sep 5, 2017 - 10:15 am

Hold on to your hats, because the Country Music Association Awards are heating up with the announcement of nominees. Lauren Alaina, Dustin Lynch and Brothers Osborne did the honors on "Good Morning America" on Sept. 4. The results?

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GRAMMY winners Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert lead the pack with five nominations each, including for Music Video of the Year, Single of the Year and Song of the Year.

Celebrating the @cma nominations over coffee with 7 of my furry friends.  Thank you fans,friends, family  & Nashville for supporting me.pic.twitter.com/sJjDNjLehL

— Miranda Lambert (@mirandalambert) September 4, 2017

GRAMMY winners Little Big Town came in next with four nominations, including a Song of the Year nod for "Better Man." Thanks to LBT, Taylor Swift has also returned to the CMA scene as a co-writer on "Better Man," marking her first nomination in three years.

GRAMMY winner Chris Stapleton earned three nods, including for Album of the Year for his latest release, From A Room: Volume 1. GRAMMY nominees Maren Morris and Thomas Rhett also pulled in three nominations, including joint recognition for Musical Event of the Year for "Craving You." GRAMMY winners Lady Antebellum earned two nominations.

Now this is the kinda news to wake up to! #CMAawards ALBUM of the year nomination for #HeartBreak. As well as VOCAL group. So freaking happy https://t.co/h83rSgnwfJ

— Lady Antebellum (@ladyantebellum) September 4, 2017

The 51st CMAs will be hosted for the 10th year by GRAMMY winners Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood. See the full list of nominees and catch the show live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.

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