While Carrie Underwood's CMA Awards performance of "Softly and Tenderly" was emotional, a case could be made that several other country covers of the song are as good or better.
The ban has been lifted for Hank Williams Jr. Could Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks the next blackballed country stars to be welcomed back into the country club?
There's a scene in the Hank Williams biopic in which actor Tom Hiddleston helps recreate a studio moment that finds the Godfather of country music recording a song that would become timeless.
It was a big night for country music on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night (March 22), as both Granger Smith and actor Tom Hiddleston — who plays Hank Williams in the new documentary I Saw the Light — appeared on the late night show.