Category Archives: NCD Feature Stories

Luke Combs Shares New Music and a Concert Experience This Week

Luke Combs Shares New Music and a Concert Experience This Week

Luke Combs performed a pre-race show at the DAYTONA 500 this past weekend, it was the first time he sang in front of a crowd in a year. Luke shared, “One year ago…we were playing the 4th show on the What You See Is What You Get Tour with over 25 shows left. The band…MORE

Eric Church Has New Music Arriving This April – Heart & Soul

Eric Church Has New Music Arriving This April – Heart & Soul

Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Eric Church sent a message to his Church Choir fan club announcing not one, but three new albums coming in April! Heart, &, Soul are the names of the three projects, with the &, album coming out Tuesday, April 20th – it’s exclusively for members of the Church Choir. Everyone will…MORE

Loretta Lynn Announces Release Date for New Album, Still Woman Enough

Loretta Lynn Announces Release Date for New Album, Still Woman Enough

Country music icon Loretta Lynn is getting ready to release her 50th studio album, Still Woman Enough, Friday March 19th, 2021. The new project celebrates women in country music as Loretta pays tribute to the founding mothers, while singing new interpretations of her songs along side current female country music hit makers. Loretta says, “I am just…MORE

Laine Hardy Started With Elvis, Won American Idol, and Ended Up On the Ryman Stage

Laine Hardy Started With Elvis, Won American Idol, and Ended Up On the Ryman Stage

American Idol winner Laine Hardy celebrated Friendsgiving with some fellow country music making friends at the Ryman Auditorium Wednesday Night with a special performance. The concert was performed in front of a socially distanced crowd and streamed live for fans around the world to see. This was a big night for Laine. Not only was…MORE

Hayley Orrantia Carves Her Own Path in Music City

Hayley Orrantia Carves Her Own Path in Music City

She may best be known for her role as Erica Goldberg on ABC’s hit comedy series, The Goldbergs, but Hayley Orrantia was singing and writing songs long before she ever became an actress. “I started out singing when I was 9,” Erica tells Nash Country Daily. “For me, music’s always been that thing that you…MORE

Nash Next Winner Todd O’Neill Releases First Single, “Love Again”

Nash Next Winner Todd O’Neill Releases First Single, “Love Again”

“The winner of the 2017 Nash Next Challenge is . . . Todd O’Neill.” Those were the words Todd heard in October 2016 after he beat out hundreds of competitors in a four-month-long competition to become the last man standing in the Nash Next Challenge, which was created by Cumulus Media and sponsored by Country…MORE

Check Out More Than 70 Pics From Our 2017 ACM Awards Red Carpet Photo Gallery

Check Out More Than 70 Pics From Our 2017 ACM Awards Red Carpet Photo Gallery

Check out some great photos from the ACM Awards red carpet, featuring Luke Bryan, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Jason Aldean, Joe Walsh, Reba McEntire, Little Big Town, Scotty McCreery, Kip Moore, Lauren Alaina, Chris Young, Dierks Bentley, Frankie Ballard and many more. photos by Jason SimanekMORE

With New Album, “Something’s Going On,” Trace Adkins Isn’t Raising Cane, But He’s Not Ready to Be Put Out to Pasture, Either

With New Album, “Something’s Going On,” Trace Adkins Isn’t Raising Cane, But He’s Not Ready to Be Put Out to Pasture, Either

After more than 20 years in the music business, 55-year-old Trace Adkins is slated to drop his 12th studio album, Something’s Going On, on March 31. The 12-song offering, which was produced by Mickey Jack Cones, features Trace’s current single, “Watered Down.” Trace stopped by the Nash Country Daily studio earlier this month for a…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

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