{"id":1304947,"date":"2019-03-06T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1803674"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:00:14","slug":"womens-history-month-at-cmt-brandi-carlile-amanda-shires-maren-morris-tease-highwomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/womens-history-month-at-cmt-brandi-carlile-amanda-shires-maren-morris-tease-highwomen\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s History Month at CMT, Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Maren Morris Tease Highwomen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:664518?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\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">10m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Give us a minute, and we\u2019ll give you five things to know in country music. It\u2019s your new favorite fix for all the latest news headlines in one place. Here\u2019s what you need to know for Wednesday (March 6):<\/p>\n<ul class=\"listicle-container\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">CMT Celebrates Women\u2019s History Month<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/tv-schedule\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CMT<\/a>\u2019s first Women of Country Wednesday kicked off this morning (March 6) with an hour-long block of music videos by female acts who\u2019ve made a significant impact on the genre. The block runs every Wednesday starting at 8 a.m. ET through March 27 on CMT in observance of Women\u2019s History Month. For International Women\u2019s Day (March 8), CMT Music will feature music videos by female artists all day long, while CMT will have airings of Dolly Parton programming including <em>Dolly &amp; Friends: The Making of a Soundtrack<\/em> (8 a.m. ET), <em>Steel Magnolias<\/em> (8 p.m. ET) and <em>Joyful Noise<\/em> (10:45 p.m. ET). The 2018 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists-of-the-year\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CMT Artists of the Year<\/a><\/em> special honoring Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Hillary Scott re-airs overnight at 1:30 a.m. ET (March 9).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Remember in January when Shires wasn\u2019t ready to talk details about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1802159\/amanda-shires-plots-supergroup-with-brandi-carlile-and-margo-price\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">super-group<\/a> involving Carlile and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/margo-price\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Margo Price<\/a>? Looks like it\u2019s coming to fruition with Maren Morris. Carlile shared a picture with Morris and Shires on social media Tuesday (March 5) with the caption reading, \u201cHighwomen ?.\u201d Carlile later marked her commitment to the initiative in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BurKUj3jYmY\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">permanent ink<\/a> by Kustom Thrills Tattoo\u2019s Cait Bush.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/old-dominion\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Old Dominion<\/a>\u2019s Matt Ramsey Rocks Again in Dave Grohl\u2019s Throne<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Old Dominion\u2019s Make It Sweet Tour just inherited a cool piece of rock history. The custom light-up throne Grohl used on a 2015 Foo Fighters tour after breaking his leg in Sweden is now being ridden by Ramsey, who is on crutches after having leg surgery last month. The throne will be featured rocking the Old Dominion logo through the band\u2019s shows over the weekend. Ramsey tells <em>People<\/em> he hopes to be off crutches and retire the throne by the time the Make It Sweet tour picks up March 28.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/lindsay-ell\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Ell<\/a> Advocates Regular Checkups Even When You\u2019re Healthy<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Out of the country for shows in Europe and Australia, Ell posted a behind-the-scenes video blog documenting her day in surgery to encourage others to get regular checkups. \u201cI made this vlog purely for the incentive to try to encourage you guys to go to the doctor,\u201d Ell says. \u201cEven if your body feels fine and you think you are healthy, you never know what\u2019s really going on. Just getting an annual checkup could mean the difference to saving your life and catching something early.\u201d Ell will perform three shows at Australia\u2019s CMC Rocks music festival starting March 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Dan + Shay\u2019s Grammy-winning song, \u201cTequila,\u201d goes down pretty smooth when it gets the Lachey twist. The 98 Degrees singer shared his take as part of his #MusicMonday series on Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1803674\/womens-history-month-at-cmt-brandi-carlile-amanda-shires-maren-morris-tease-highwomen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 10m ago Give us a minute, and we\u2019ll give you five things to know in country music. It\u2019s your new favorite fix for all the latest news headlines in one place. Here\u2019s what you need to know for Wednesday (March 6): CMT Celebrates Women\u2019s History Month CMT\u2019s first Women of Country Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1304947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 20:31:16","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}