Rayna Jaymes (Connie Britton) is the established “Queen of Country” music, but her latest album is not selling and her tour is playing to half-empty venues. When her record label suggests she open for sexy new starlet Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) the two women clash. “Nashville’s” singers, songwriters and superstars struggle to reconcile their public and private realities. Some will fight to climb to - or stay on - the top. Some will succumb to their own ambition — proving that music may be at the heart of Music City, but drama always reigns.