Kid Rock Accused of Stealing Old Ladies’ Hats
Savingcountrymusic.com has obtained some exclusive information that none other than genre bender Kid Rock is responsible for a string of hat snatchings in and around the Nashville area, all of which...
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Luke Bryan Loses “Male Video” Award for Having a Vagina
It's pretty simple," explains CMT spokesperson Harold Frankenfurter. "You can't have a 'Male Video of the Year' winner who is in fact of the opposite gender. We want to be very respectful of Luke...
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Uggh…That Ain’t Country (A Pictorial Revue Vol. 1)
If you've found you're eyeballs affixed to these very words, you've likely found yourself at some point trying to explain that you like country, but not that type of country. Once many artists get to...
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Saving Country Music 2013 CMT Awards LIVE Blog
So normally we wouldn't grace such a lowly presentation like the CMT Awards with our valuable attention. But the chatter over the last few weeks about what is set to transpire on the show hints of...
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Kravitz Flips Off Country Crowd, Hank Williams Marked “DUMMY”
Yes ladies and gentlemen, that is a picture of Hank Williams performing live on The Grand Ole Opry with the word "DUMMY" emboldened in all caps across his chest from the CMT Awards. Later in the week,...
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Saving Country Music’s 2014 Anti-CMT Awards LIVE Blog
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the Saving Country Music Official ANTI-CMT Awards LIVE blog sponsored by nobody. CMT and Viacom are by far the biggest perpetrators of cultural erosion in the country...
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Out To Pasture? Not Alan Jackson
To say that Alan Jackson has had a busy 24 hours doesn't begin to tell the half of it. The 55-year-old entertainer who recently came back to his roots by releasing a critically-acclaimed bluegrass...
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Sara Evans: “Which Came First, Fans Wanting This or Fans Only Getting This?”
In the aftermath of #SaladGate---stimulated by country radio consultant Keith Hill's comments that to increase ratings, radio stations should cut the amount of females they feature in a given...
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Saving Country Music’s 2016 Anti-CMT Awards LIVE Blog
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 2016 ANTI-CMT Awards LIVE blog. After taking a year off due to an open boycott of CMT, Saving Country Music has returned to offer spirited dissent, snarky...
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What To Expect at the 2017 CMT Awards
A complete run down of what country music fans can expect from the 2017 CMT Awards being held on Wednesday, June 7th from Nashville, including lists of performers, presenters, nominees, and everything...
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Zac Brown’s “F-Bomb” on the CMT Awards Was a Cry for Attention
Zac Brown brought the class of country music's "also ran" awards show down yet another notch when he decided to drop an F-bomb on live television, and in a prepared statement, and on a show that was...
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CBS Refuses to Renew ACM Awards Amid Slipping Ratings
Even if you weren't particularly into country music or whatever the awards show was covering, you didn't want to be the only person standing around the water cooler at work or in the lunchroom at...
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How Cute, The CMTs Think They’re A Real Awards Show
Look I get it. Worrying over country music awards shows is similar to worrying over country radio. It's not that they don't have an effect on the music at all. It's just that as every year passes, they...
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The CMT Awards Don’t Matter. Still.
Country music as a genre is unique in how it has its own dedicated award show organizations, and two of them as a matter of fact, and both of which that have been around for well over 50 years. But...
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Moving the CMT Awards From Nashville to Austin is Stupid
t seems like the Nashville country music machine is obsessed with integrating the Austin and Texas market into their slimy, scuzzy sphere of influence. They've already secured such an iron grip on the...
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Oh Great. Yet Another Country Music Awards Show Is Coming
After NBC Universal purchased a 30% stake in the Grand Ole Opry's parent company Ryman Hospitality in 2022, you knew there would be an effort to cross-pollinate the two companies for better or worse....
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Holy $hit The 2023 CMT Awards Were Terrible
This weekend, Police and Fire personnel had large swaths of downtown Austin cordoned off due to a mass casualty/hazardous exposure event, also known as the CMT Awards. The barriers and checkpoints...
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The CMT Awards were NOT the CMA Awards, or Indicative of Country
The 2023 CMT Awards could very well go down in country music history as a significant moment, but it won't be for the reasons the producers of the presentation or their proponents in the media hoped...
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Your Annual Reminder that the CMT Awards Don’t Matter
The CMAs. The ACMs. The CMTs. The PCCAs. None of them come even close to truly recognizing the "best" that country music has to offer in a given year. It's questionable if any of them truly deserve...
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CMT Awards Overlook Roger Clemens, Mindy McCready Affair
On the 2024 CMT Awards Sunday evening (4-7), long time Toby Keith friend and Major League Baseball pitching legend Roger Clemens came out to start off a musical tribute to Toby Keith who passed away in...
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