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MacKenzie Porter‘s sprawling, 19-track album, Nobody’s Born With a Broken Heart, was always intended to be autobiographical. Written over the course of several years, though, its essential, personal truth was always a moving target — until she wrote the title track, towards the end of the album-making process. “I did a writer’s retreat out in the Gatlinburg, [Tenn.]-ish area with a couple of my friends … and we were talking about what else my record needed,” Porter explains to Taste of Country. She told her fellow songwriters (Parker Welling, Luke Niccoli and Lydia Vaughan) that she was still ...
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Colt Ford has spoken publicly for the first time since he suffered a near-fatal heart attack on April 4, 2024, revealing that he flatlined multiple times. In his first interview post heart-attack, Ford spoke to the Big D & Bubba radio show from his hospital bed. The singer revealed exactly what happened on the night that he was rushed to the hospital after his heart attack. Subscribe to Taste of Country on Youtube Ford was on his tour bus at a concert venue after playing to a sold-out audience in Gilbert, Ariz., when his heart attack struck. He had gotten onto his bus and texted his fiancée, “...
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Subscribe to Taste of Country on Youtube Taylor Swift dishes some shrewd advice in this interview. As fans dive into her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, we uncovered a lost interview that finds her opening up about love, heartbreak, tattoos, loneliness and more. The Tortured Poets Department dropped on Friday (April 19).It’s her 11th studio album and first since Midnights in 2022.Swift’s last country album was Red, released in 2012.Related: 40 Adorable Photos of Young Taylor Swift In October 2012, Swift prepared to release Red, an album that featured “We Are Never Ever Getting Back T...
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Subscribe to Taste of Country on Youtube You don’t need to go back 20 years to find a time when talking about weed was taboo in proper country music circles. Really, you don’t even need to go back five years! “Sun Daze” was a 2014 hit for Florida Georgia Line, and it surely made this list of 11 songs that helped normalize pot smoking. Medical or recreational marijuana has been legalized in many U.S. states (or soon will be), and there’s not as much outrage over it today as there was before. Did country music help? This list of songs serves as Exhibit A that … maybe? Of course Willie Nelson mak...
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Anne Wilson says her parents still can’t believe it. Their little girl went from a wannabe astronaut to a full-fledged, Grammy-nominated vocal powerhouse in the blink of an eye. That’s hardly an exaggeration. One very tragic, very sudden event forced Wilson to the “stage,” and she’s not left since. Her new studio album Rebel finds her merging Christian and country music genres in a way she says will stick. “I’m not gonna fit in a box of Christian music or country music,” she tells Taste of Country. “I’m just going to be who I am, and the songs will fit where they fit.” Anne Wilson’s Rebel drop...
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Subscribe to Taste of Country on Youtube It’s no secret that Lainey Wilson and her man, Devlin “Duck” Hodges, are super in love with one another … which could have made it really difficult when she had her first-ever kissing scene on Yellowstone. How Did Lainey Wilson’s Boyfriend React to Her Kissing Scene on Yellowstone?Wilson was a guest recently on Taste of Country Nights with Evan Paul, and when we asked that question, Wilson was very open and honest in her response. The “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” singer chuckled and said, “So I’ll be honest with ya. I mean, he ain’t gonna like me smack...
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Sam Hunt wrote a song about forgiveness after being “locked up,” but — believe it or not — he says it’s not quite a true story. The title track of his new EP “may seem autobiographical if you connect the dots,” he tells Taste of Country Nights‘ Evan Paul, “but I made a point not to go into details in the song about my story. I tried to zoom it out, make it more relatable.” Needless to say, fans are connecting the dots. “Locked Up” is the title track of his new EP, available at digital streaming platforms now.The Locked Up Tour begins on June 28.Hunt was a guest on this week’s episode of the Ta...
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Tyler Hubbard is releasing his sophomore solo album, Strong, on April 12. On the album is a song called “Park,” and the storyline gets a little steamy. It refers to that time Hubbard got caught neckin’ in a church parking lot. The “Back Then, Right Now” singer is the latest guest onTaste of Country Nights, On Demand, and he goes into the fine details of the true — and very funny — story of the song. When asked why he chose a church parking lot of all places, Hubbard’s story plays out just like the song: “Well, it was the darkest parking lot on the way home. I think I was actually going home fr...
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Sam Hunt is looking back on his very public arrest, saying the incident helped set him straight. Hunt released his newLocked Up EP on April 5, and announced a tour with the same name, which is slated for 2024. He was a guest on Taste of Country Nights with Evan Paul, where he revealed that his arrest in 2019 for a DUI was a “wake-up call” for the “Body Like a Backroad” singer. Hunt says, “Well, it was a wake-up call immediately, you know, the next day. I think over time, you know, you reflect on it, you realize, you know, you learn from your mistakes.” Hunt’s song, “Locked Up,” on his new EP i...
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Kelsea Ballerini’s CMT Music Awards performance Sunday night (April 7) will revisit a classic, but from the viewpoint of where she is in her life now, ten years later. She’s performing “Love Me Like You Mean It,” but a reimagined version. The original was released as a single from Ballerini’s debut album in 2014 and went on to top Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart. “I wish I could go back and tell myself 10 years ago when I putting out ‘Love Like You Mean It,’ what it would do for my life and my dreams,” the singer tells Taste of Country ahead of the CMT Music Awards. “Love Me Like You Mean It...
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