{"id":18539,"date":"2019-09-17T12:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812014"},"modified":"2019-09-17T12:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:15:33","slug":"the-highwomen-claim-top-country-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/the-highwomen-claim-top-country-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The Highwomen Claim Top Country Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:681870?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">20m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Hands up! Now put them together and applaud. The Highwomen \u2014 that quartet of desperado dames \u2014 has seized the top of <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s country albums chart, and it looks like they\u2019re fond of the ritzy accommodations. To those of you who\u2019ve been out of town for a while, the Highwomen consists of the individually star-level Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Amanda Shires and Natalie Hemby.<\/p>\n<p>This new collection also sits at No. 10 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200 all-genre ranking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8uE1ML6p3e4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8uE1ML6p3e4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The Highwomen\u2019s name is, of course, a play on the Highwaymen \u2014 the ad hoc band made up of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson \u2014 that got together to tour in 1985 after scoring a No. 1 that year with Jimmy Webb\u2019s reincarnation ballad, \u201cHighwayman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only other new album to hurrah in the Top 25 this week is <em>Dive Bar Saints<\/em> by Home Free. It sidles in at No. 4.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/py4H2w71Ndk?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/py4H2w71Ndk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, Luke Bryan\u2019s \u201cKnockin\u2019 Boots\u201d props its feet up at No. 1 on the country airplay chart for the second week in a row.<\/p>\n<p>There are three new songs \u2014 Jason Aldean\u2019s \u201cWe Back,\u201d charging in at No. 25, Rodney Atkins\u2019 \u201cThank God for You\u201d (No. 58) and Kip Moore\u2019s \u201cShe\u2019s Mine\u201d (No. 60).<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SiPwIhX58RQ?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SiPwIhX58RQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 albums, in that order, are Luke Combs\u2019 <em>This One\u2019s for You<\/em>, the eponymous <em>Dan + Shay<\/em> and Morgan Wallen\u2019s <em>If I Know Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the Top 5 songs list are Dierks Bentley\u2019s \u201cLiving,\u201d Chris Lane\u2019s \u201cI Don\u2019t Know About You,\u201d Justin Moore\u2019s \u201cThe Ones That Didn\u2019t Make It Back Home\u201d and Combs\u2019 \u201cBeer Never Broke My Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s a wrap.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812014\/the-highwomen-claim-top-country-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 20m ago Hands up! Now put them together and applaud. The Highwomen \u2014 that quartet of desperado dames \u2014 has seized the top of Billboard\u2019s country albums chart, and it looks like they\u2019re fond of the ritzy accommodations. To those of you who\u2019ve been out of town for a while, the Highwomen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 14:36:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}