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The song, written by Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Brad Tursi and Jesse Frasure, is about facing the world head-on and not letting life get you down.
“Cause you can’t keep the ground from shaking / no matter how hard you try / you can’t keep the sunsets from fading / gotta treat your life like / your jumping off a rope swing baby cause the whole thing’s really just a shot in the dark / you gotta love like there’s no such thing as a broken heart. / you gotta love like there’s no such thing as a broken heart,” OD sings in the chorus.
Due to be released to country radio on Friday, March 10, the new tune is the first single from Old Dominion’s second offering. The album will be the follow-up to their debut, Meat & Candy, which featured hits “Breakup With Him” and “Song for Another Time.”
Listen to a live performance of “No Such Thing as a Broken Heart” by Old Dominion.
Sandwiched in between National Pancake Day (March 7) and National Barbie Day (March 9) is International Women’s Day (March 8), a day for celebrating women while calling for gender equality.
Check out what some of our favorite country stars had to say about International Women’s Day on social media.
It’s been almost a year—47 weeks to be exact—since Craig Campbell released his current single, “Outskirts of Heaven.” The Georgia native has been watching his song slowly rise up the Billboard chart—currently sitting at number 26 —admittedly, with a bit of frustration.
As Craig tells it, the fate of his upcoming album rests on the success of “Outskirts.” “We want to have a legit hit song, across the board, before we put an album out,” he says.
With the album close to completion, the traditional singer hopes to have new music in the hands of his fans in the next few months. Craig recently sat down with Nash Country Daily to talk about the slow but steady success of “Outskirts,” his upcoming album and touring with his pal, Luke Bryan.
Tell me about the song “Outskirts of Heaven.”
“Oh man, it’s such a special song to me. When I wrote it, I never intended on it being on the radio, it was just one of those co-writes where I went in and I sat down, and I told my co-writer Davis, “I’m not trying to write a radio song. This is something that’s on my heart, we need to get it off, and get it into music, put words to it.” And I told him about it, and we wrote Outskirts of Heaven. It’s just a … it’s a prayer request. I feel like, when I do get to heaven, I feel like it’s gonna be what I want it to be, and so I just wanted to write all that down. I wanted to basically put it out there, so there are no surprises when I do get there.
You released this single last year. Is it frustrating, the length of time that it’s taking to move up the charts?
“I can’t even lie about it. Yeah, it’s super frustrating. Especially when you have the opportunity to be on the radio, and you have stations that believe in you and the song, and they play it, and say, ‘This song is reacting so good, it’s testing number one in our market.’ Then another radio station says, ‘Oh, you know, we’re not gonna play it because we don’t know if it’s a hit song.’ It’s all that stuff. It’s almost like being on trial, and saying, ‘We have three eyewitnesses, we have video, we have a confession, but the judge is still telling me that he didn’t do it.'”
What can we expect from this new album?
“Honestly, with the success ‘Outskirts’ has had, it’s making me think about the music that I do on a different level. There’s a lot of music on the radio that’s hugely successful that as an artist, you say, ‘Well if that works, then I’m gonna try that, so that I can be successful as well.’ But for me to be true to myself, I have to stick with what I love and what I believe in, and the music that’s real. So it’s gonna be more traditional —as have both of my previous records. But I feel like the subject matters are going to be more, for lack of a better word, throw back to the early ’90s when it was all about the song and the lyrics. And that’s what I’m really focusing on.”
You’re heading out on the Huntin,’ Fishin,’ Lovin’ Everyday Tour with Luke Bryan. How did that come about?
“My team worked really hard to make all that work out. I’ve been friends with Luke for a long time. I played piano for Luke years and years ago, and about a year and a half ago, I did Crash My Playa with him. I’ve texted him many times saying, ‘Hey, you know, hook a brother up. You know, take me on tour.’ So we’re finally getting the opportunity this fall, and honestly, when I got the text message from my manager, I was laying in bed watching TV and he’s like—All it said was, ‘Luke Bryan tour.’ And I literally got up and jumped up and down and whooped and hollered like a crazy person. But it’s a dream come true. I’m excited about it.”
Are you prepared to shake it on stage?
I am not prepared. I’m gonna leave all the dancing to Luke. He definitely is really good at what he does, and there’s only one Luke Bryan in the world.
What’s your favorite thing about being in the music business?
“My favorite thing about being in it is the fans and getting to do what I love. I will say—til I’m blue in the face—that I realize how lucky I am to be able to have songs on the radio, and be able to wake up in the morning and say, ‘I get to sing for a living.’ It’s just an unimaginable concept to be able to know that I can make a living and provide for my family by singing. And then I think, ‘How is this possible?’ And it’s like, ‘Well, there’s people out there that are waiting to hear me sing.’ So it’s being able to sing, and knowing that there’s fans out there that want to hear it.”
There’s no mistaking his deep baritone voice, which has taken four singles to No. 1 on Billboard’s Country chart, including “Your Man” and “Why Don’t We Just Dance.”
Josh’s signature vocal depth is front and center on his new single, “Hometown Girl,” currently No. 13 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. As he gears up to release his sixth studio album, Deep South, on March 10, Josh sat down with Nash Country Daily and revealed his distinctive croon almost never was.
“I knew I had a talent to sing when I was about 13 or 14,” says 39-year-old Josh. “But it wasn’t until I was right around 20 when I really knew what I had, because I had gone through a really tough time. In 1996, I had basically injured my right vocal cord, and it had a lesion on it, for lack of a better word. It didn’t require surgery—I don’t know if [therapy] was better or worse than surgery, but I think in the long run it was better than surgery because had I had surgery done on it, I probably would’ve had to go back in and get it worked on from time to time. The Vanderbilt Voice Clinic basically felt like the Lord does better healing than they do, and so because of that I had to go through speech therapy and singing therapy and basically had to learn how to sing and talk all over again
Josh Turner (left) and NCD editor Jim Casey in studio
“The Clinic sent me back home and I started working with a classical vocal coach and basically learning how to use my voice properly and how to take care of it and all that. I was going to a small school [Francis Marion University] in South Carolina and I transferred to Belmont here in Nashville and continued that classical training. As I continued that and as I continued to learn about my voice and how to take care of it, and as I was pushing it and working it out every day, I started noticing that the fatigue started becoming less and less. I started just kind of noticing that my voice was getting stronger, it was getting bigger and deeper and richer—all the things that you would want your voice to do.
“I remember vividly, I was sitting out in the hallway one day at Belmont, and I sat down with my guitar, because up until this point I had only been allowed to sing or play classical music. I was ready to play something that I wanted to play. I sat down and I played this Randy Travis song called ‘The Hole,’ which is a challenging song vocally. I won’t ever forget when I sat down and I sang that song, I was like ‘Holy cow. This is something that I didn’t expect. This is what I’ve been working for all these years. This is why I went through all this work with the training and everything.’ It was just kind of like one of those aha moments. It was like, ‘Oh, now I’ve got something.’ I just decided to build on that and I’ve been trying to take care of my voice ever since.”
Hometown: Mount Vernon, Ky. Lives: Nashville Single: “I Need Me” Album:Come Find Me Twitter:@Camilleraemusic Website:camillerae.com Influences: Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill, Martina McBride
INSIDE SCOOP
A self-admitted “introvert,” Camille Rae finds herself most at home on stage communicating her message to listeners. Growing up in Kentucky, the redheaded vocalist began performing at a very early age—singing in revivals, fairs and any outlet that would have her. Fast forward to today and Camille made her way to Nashville, sharing her powerhouse vocals at a few stops along the way. Her deeply personal new single, “I Need Me”—the second release from her upcoming album, Come Find Me, which is set to drop on March 17—comes from a time in her life when she decided to put herself first and follow her dreams of being a singer. We’re just glad she did.
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
“I was singing since I was three years old. I’ve been on a stage since I was a very little girl. My family was very supportive of putting me in talent shows and anything to sing—Church revivals, picnics, whatever I could do to have my karaoke machine, I was there. I grew up very very humble. My family has worked very hard for what they have, but were always very supportive”
CANADIAN CROSSING
“I was married for four years. He was Canadian, so he went and got his master’s and PhD up there. I followed him up there. I also thought for a little while that I was going to do Broadway, which I love. I love theater. I’m a nerd.
5 Random Questions with Camille
Celebrity crush? Brett Young
Who do you look up to? Trisha Yearwood
If you weren’t a singer, what would you be doing? Teaching
Last Netflix show you binge-watched? The Office
Three words that describe you? Inspirational, dependable and funny.
I love theater and I just realized that I couldn’t dance. If you’ve ever seen Friends — Joey was at an audition and he had to dance and he just faked it. That’s me. I didn’t know how to dance. I accept it now. This is not my true path. Which I knew that anyway. Then I just went back. I was on Vancouver Island, did a lot of theater there. Moved over to Vancouver and started doing live shows again and getting my feet wet in that area.”
“ME” TIME
“I was married when I wrote ‘I Need Me.’ It’s really hard in this career to figure out how you’re going to maneuver. There’s a lot of times. There’s a lot of dedication. You have to make a lot of sacrifices and I was in a place where I felt like I couldn’t do what I need to do to be successful—just because I was in a box and I didn’t want to be in that box anymore. I was sitting there, actually I was like ‘I’m going to write this to get this out and I’m not going to sing it for anyone because it will hurt feelings if people know truly what it’s about.’ Anyway, I wrote it. I call it the bridge song of being unhappy and knowing you need to make changes, getting all of it out, and then deciding either to make the change that you need to make to be happy or staying where you are. I sang it for a very close friend in Canada and she’s like, ‘You have to sing this. It’s more than just you, it’s going to help somebody.’ It’s an open idea, an open concept. Anybody can put themselves in this situation. It can be with your dad, it can be with your boyfriend, or you girlfriend, or your mom, or your boss. Anything. I decided to sing it. The first time I sang it was just an acoustic show. I saw a woman run out crying. I was like, “Oh no.” She came up to me later and she was like, “I know what I need to do now.” I was like, “Well, than this is worth me making the sacrifice and putting my feelings out there.”
CONNECTING THROUGH SONG
“We picked 15 songs for the new album, Come Find Me. I’ve got two bonus tracks. It’s a story concept from basically the last year of my life and the relationship I’ve been in. It’s kind of raw. It hurts even to listen to it some. I’ve always been a really private person with my personal life and with my dating life and all that. It’s okay to be vulnerable and that’s what people need. As an artist I can sing songs, I can write songs, I can dress up, I can fix my hair— I can do all the artist things but my responsibility as an artist is to communicate with listeners. Not just to get fans and not just to get fame but to connect, and to help people, and to show people, ‘you know what, you’re not alone.’ People go though things by themselves— we think no one would understand and no one’s ever been through this, but you can hear a song and you’re like ‘Okay, maybe I’m not so alone.’ You feel a little bit more connected to the world. That is my responsibility, I think.”
SOUNDS OF CAMILLE
“There’s a lot of the contemporary loops and just all the awesome stuff going on in country-pop but it has that traditional feel—the storytelling and just the vocal influences. I’ve characterized my sound, I say country-pop because it’s actually a genre, but I would probably classify as country soul. That’s what I would like to classify myself as, if I ever get to do that one day.”
WRITING THERAPY
“When I write a song by myself it’s very therapeutic. When I co-write ideas are brought to the table and it’s more so creative. When I write a song by myself it’s usually because somebody has made me mad or made me sad, or I’m getting over something and I want to get it out there. So yeah it’s very therapeutic. Most of the songs that are self written I sit down and I have something. It pours out on the page in 10 minutes from start to finish. I’m very thankful that I have that outlet and that ability to get all of my crazy out on a piece of paper because I don’t know what I’d do if I had to keep it in all the time.”
LOOKING AHEAD
“The release of the album is March 17, so I’ll be concentrating on getting that out there so that I can build upon that for the rest of the year. ‘I Need Me’ is out right now on country radio so I’ll be doing a lot of touring after the show. Then just seeing what shows come about, festivals in the summer. Just working toward that ultimate goal and seeing what doors open up. Doing more co-writes and just getting everything organized with that.”
When the nominees were announced for this year’s ACM Awards, Keith Urban heard his name called seven times. How many will he win?
You can find out in person thanks to NASH morning show Ty, Kelly & Chuck, which is giving away a trip for two to the ACM Awards in Las Vegas on April 2.
Guess who Radley is dresses as today, chief?
All you have to do to enter the contest is visit the morning show’s Instagram page and use the hashtag #ILoveMyCountry as you guess the country star that Ty’s son, Radley, is dressed as—the kid has talent, by the way. The contest ends on Thursday, March 9, at 11:59 p.m., with the winner to be announced on air on March 10.
Here’s what you could win:
One (1) Grand Prize will be awarded in this Contest and Announced Friday, March 10 on the Show!
The Grand Prize is ACM Awards Trip Giveaway: the Grand Prize includes a trip for two (the winner and a guest) to the ACM Awards in Las Vegas, which consists of round-trip coach airfare for two to Las Vegas;
(3) Night single-room, double-occupancy hotel accommodations in a hotel in the Las Vegas area as selected by Station;
(2) tickets to the ACM Party for a Cause Songwriter Showcase;
(2) tickets to the ACM Party for a Cause at The Joint;
(2) tickets to the 52nd annual ACM awards
(2) tickets to the ACM Awards official after-party at The Joint.
“We would of never done the remake unless David Allan Coe was on the song with us and we had his blessing,” Big Tex tells Nash Country Daily. “Some people forget that David wrote the original, not [Johnny] Paycheck. So we definitely wanted David on this with us. We are very thankful.”
Made famous by Johnny Paycheck in 1977, “Take This Job and Shove It” was written by David Allan Coe and reworked by the California country rap duo to include on their latest project. Not only does David Allan Coe sing on the record with Big Tex and Bird, but he also stars in the duo’s new video.
“Working with David was incredible,” said Big Tex. “It definitely won’t be the last time you’ll see us collaborate on something. He’s very creative. He’s lived the songs he’s wrote so his stories on the road are priceless. We were very thankful to have him and his wife’s blessing when we worked on the song remake. It’s not too often you can get a text from a legend like Coe, that says, ‘Man, this video is badass.'”
Directed by the duo’s manager, Ken Madson, the video was shot at the Ohio Reformatory—a.k.a. “Shawshank” Prison featured in the movie TheShawshank Redemption—where David Allan Coe was once incarcerated for car theft. The veteran singer even filmed some of the video inside the same cell he once resided.
“Our manager, Ken Madson, brought us the idea of taking David back to the Ohio State Reformatory,” Tex recalled. “David was incarcerated there for years of his life, but now David is returning to the prison to film the video as a free man.This song is about feeling liberated and empowered to do whatever you want. It’s about letting your boss know that if he doesn’t appreciate your hard work, then you aren’t going to stick around.”
The video shows scenes of the Moonshine Bandits and David Allan performing in the prison, interspersed with scenes of the male lead getting fed up with his boss and walking off the job. Warning: The middle finger makes an appearance a time or two (or six).
Check out the Moonshine Bandits featuring David Allan Coe in “Take This Job.”
Following in the wax footprints of Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire helped unveil her new Madame Tussauds wax figure during her soundcheck last night (March 7) in Las Vegas.
As her band began playing and the curtain lifted, Reba’s wax figure—who missed her singing cue—was revealed, prompting the real Reba to come onstage.
“It’s a lot harder than it looks, huh?” said Reba as she came face to face with her wax doppelgänger.
Reba, Luke and Blake will be a part of the Madam Tussauds Nashville attraction when it opens its doors on April 14.
Following in the wax footprints of Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire helped unveil her new Madame Tussauds wax figure during her soundcheck last night (March 7) in Las Vegas.
As her band began playing and the curtain lifted, Reba’s wax figure—who missed her singing cue—was revealed, prompting the real Reba to come onstage.
“It’s a lot harder than it looks, huh?” said Reba as she came face to face with her wax doppelgänger.
Reba, Luke and Blake will be a part of the Madam Tussauds Nashville attraction when it opens its doors on April 14.
Country Music Hall of Fame member Willie Nelson will release a new album, God’s Problem Child, on April 28. The 13-song offering is Willie’s first album of original material in almost three years.
Today (March 8) Willie teased a clip of the new video for “It Gets Easier,” a tune he co-wrote with friend and producer Buddy Cannon. Willie and Buddy co-wrote seven songs on the new album.
In February, Willie took home the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin.
The full video will be released on Thursday, March 9, but you can watch the teaser below.
God’s Problem Child Track List
1. “Little House on the Hill” (Lyndel Rhodes)
2. “Old Timer” (Donnie Fritz/Lenny LeBlanc)
3. “True Love” (Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon)
4. “Delete and Fast Forward” (Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon)
5. “A Woman’s Love (Mike Reid/Sam Hunter)
6. “Your Memory Has a Mind of Its Own” (Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon)
7. “Butterfly” (Sonny Throckmorton/Mark Sherrill)
8. “Still Not Dead” (Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon)
9. “God’s Problem Child” (Jamey Johnson/Tony Joe White)
10. “It Gets Easier” (Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon)
11. “Lady Luck” (Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon)
12. “I Made a Mistake” (Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon)
13. “He Won’t Ever Be Gone” (Gary Nicholson)
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“ME” TIME
CONNECTING THROUGH SONG
Made famous by Johnny Paycheck in 1977, “Take This Job and Shove It” was written by David Allan Coe and reworked by the California country rap duo to include on their latest project. Not only does David Allan Coe sing on the record with Big Tex and Bird, but he also stars in the duo’s new video.
