The CMT Artist of the Year special goes down Wednesday in Nashville, and the network just announced the artists confirmed to perform this year.

In addition to solo performances from this year’s honorees, Gabby Barrett, Kane Brown, and Luke Combs, honoree Kelsea Ballerini will perform with the Jonas Brothers remotely from the band’s “Remember This” Tour. This year’s remaining Artist of the Year honoree Chris Stapleton will be celebrated with a never-before-seen collaboration between Boyz II Men and Pentatonix’s Kevin Olosula.

But that’s not all. Mickey Guyton, this year’s Breakout Artist of the Year, will team with Yola on stage, and Walker Hayes will treat fans to the first-ever award show performance of his smash hit “Fancy Like.”

CMT’s 2021 Artist of the Year special airs Wednesday at 9 pm from Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

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Reba McEntire’s three-part box set, “REVIVED REMIXED REVISTED,” is out now, featuring reimagined versions of some of her classic songs, and she’s “thrilled” with how it came out.

“You know, listening to the three versions of the songs that I have recorded in the past, I have performed on stage, now listening to the dance mix,” she says, “it’s like, ‘Wow, that’s weird!’ Or it’s like, ‘Wow, get up and dance.’ Or ‘I never would have picked that song to be a dance remix until now.’”

She adds, “They did a great job. I’m just so thrilled with it,” noting, “I love them.”

• Meanwhile, to help promote the set, Reba shared a video where she chats with three different versions of herself, a “revived,” “remixed” and “revisited” version.
• ONE MORE THING! The album features Reba’s first-ever duet with her good friend Dolly Parton on ”Does He Love You,” and she can’t believe it’s taken this long for it to happen. “I’m shell shocked. How have we not done one?,” she tells Billboard. “Every time I’d hear Dolly doing a duet with somebody else, I would get a little sad or a little jealous, like, ‘I want to do a duet with Dolly.’” She adds, “Everything happens for a reason and timing is everything. So it worked out perfectly.”

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Chris Stapleton had a new member of his band earlier this week. In case you missed it, Chris was performing on “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon,” but needed a fill-in for his guitar player and producer Dave Cobb, who had an ear ache and couldn’t fly.

Well, when Chris called Jimmy to tell him, Jimmy offered to help, and after a FaceTime session where Chris taught him the chords, Jimmy joined the group to perform Chris’ latest single “You Should Probably Leave.”

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Blake Shelton is releasing a deluxe version of his album “Body Language” on December 3^rd, and it will contain one very special song.

The album includes four new songs in total, including the just released “Come Back As A Country Boy” and “Throw It Back,” featuring Brooks & Dunn, but it’s the song “We Can Reach The Stars” that fans will likely be talking about.  That’s because the song is the one Blake wrote for his now-wife Gwen Stefani for his wedding vows.

Back in July Blake confirmed that he recorded the song. At the time he said, “I don’t know what, or when we’re going to do something with it, but it’s something that I wanted to have a recording of. No matter what.”

Source: Sounds Like Nashville