Perhaps Rumor’s win will do for German shepherds what Garth’s win has done for German chocolate cakes.
It could be just a coincidence, but it looks like Rumor’s win has already had an effect on country music’s dog-loving contingent. Jake Owen and his daughter Pearl added a German shepherd to their family over the weekend.
But is Jake’s new three-month-old puppy cute enough to win Best in Show when it comes to country stars and their mutts? Take a look at these stars and their fury friends to decide who has the top dog(s).
Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard are getting ready to release a new video for their current single, “God, Your Mama and Me,” and the duo is sharing a sneak peek across their social media sites.
When FGL brought Backstreet back by inviting the ’90’s boy band to join them on the song, all the Backstreet Boys—Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, AJ McClean, Howie Dorough and Brian Litrell—reunited for the recording. According to FGL’s instagram, all the BSB’s will be appearing in the video as well.
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“God, Your Mama and Me,” written by Josh Kear, Hillary Lindsay and Gordie Sampson, is the third single off FGL’s third studio album, Dig your Roots, and follow up to their No. 1 hit “H.O.L.Y.” The song is about the unconditional love one has for their significant other— a love that can only be matched by a higher power and of course, your mother.
“You better believe my love is / Never gonna run dry / Never gonna come up empty / Now until the day I die, unconditionally / You know I’m always gonna be here for ya / No one’s ever gonna love you more than / God Your Mama and Me / God Your Mama and Me,” they sing in the chorus.
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In a second post, FGL shared another clip of the video with the caption saying, “Two days until the world premiere of our new video for “God, Your Mama, and Me” feat. @BackstreetBoys on BigMachineTV.com.”
You can catch the full video of “God, Your Mama and Me,” premiering on Tuesday (Feb. 21).
Members: Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy, Jess Carson Single: “Drinkin’ Problem” EP:Midland Twitter:@MidlandOfficial Website:Midlandofficial.com Influences: Willie Nelson, Keith Whitley, George Strait, Brooks & Dunn, Gary Stewart
INSIDE SCOOP:
Lead singer Mark Wystrach, lead guitarist Jess Carson and bass player Cameron Duddy make up country’s hippest new trio, Midland. Formed in Dripping Springs, Texas, the band boasts a mix of sounds from the ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s country, with heavy influences from George Strait and the Eagles. The band’s self-titled EP, produced by Dan Huff and Shane McAnally, features five tracks, including their current single, “Drinkin’ Problem”—giving fans a taste of what they’ll hear on the upcoming full-length album that’s currently in the works. You can catch the traditional trio on their first major tour—covering four dates in Canada—with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on the Soul2Soul tour in April.
MUSICAL BEGINNINGS
CAMERON DUDDY: “My parents are separated and have been ever since I was a little kid. So, seeing my dad sometimes only once-a-month and being sort of estranged from him—it’s hard to catch up with them in a weekend. Sometimes you don’t get to talk about all the things that you maybe want to talk about and the ice breaker started to be music. That was just an easy thing to sort of ease into and it went from listening to music, to playing music. My dad gave me my first guitar, it was one of his guitars. It was an electric Epiphone—that was sort of my entry point into playing music. That was very important for me as a child. It helped me find my identity. It helped me communicate with my dad.”
JESS CARSON: “I grew up in a little farm, outside of a farm town, in a valley in Oregon—growing Christmas trees and strawberries and raspberries. Country music was the main genre of music in that area that I grew up around. We didn’t have T.V. but we had a piano. My sister played piano and my dad played guitar. So I kinda picked up guitar at a pretty young age. We’d all kinda play music as a family and then I wanted, of course, to get into rock—Nirvana and stuff like that when I was in my teens. I played rock and Americana stuff through my 20’s. I had that sort of early country ingrained background and knowledge and that familiarity and the stuff that I grew up on.”
MARK WYSTRACH: “For me, music was always just everywhere. My parents are both huge music fans and fans of live music, with very different backgrounds. My dad is an immigrant. He grew up in L.A. in more of the rock n’ roll, R&B, Motown stuff like that. My mother grew up on the ranch that I grew up on in Southern Arizona. So I grew up on my grandfathers ranch, where she grew up. My mother sang choir, she always dreamed of being a singer when she was in high school and middle school. My parents owned a live country music venue, they bought it in the late 70’s so by that time I came around the 80’s, we were there every Friday, Saturday and Sunday—live country music and rock ‘n roll. Sundays they played Jarocho music, traditional Mexican harp music. So I was exposed to music all the way round and my mom was always singing. When we were doing work on the ranch, I was always singing along with her, to that stuff, so music’s always been just a integral part of my life I guess.”
FORMATION OF MIDLAND
MARK: “Me, Jess and Cameron, like a lot of young early 20-year-olds, moved out West and chased a lot of different dreams, and we all met in the music scene. Cameron and Jess were playing in bands for a while. Fast forward to a few years later, the three of us had never all played together, but we all had collaborated—in parts—with each other for a long time. Cameron asked us both to be groomsmen at his wedding up in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and that was the first time Jess and I had ever come together with Cameron and played music. There was a lot of song swapping going on that week up in Jackson Hole. After that week I think we realized that there was a certain kinda kismet—that pretty special energy when we all performed at Cam’s rehearsal dinner. We kinda looked at each other and said ‘Hey man, we should do something’ and it really emanated from that.”
“DRINKIN’ PROBLEM”
MARK: “I think ‘Drinkin’ Problem’ is just a song that we feel really represents what Midland is about, as far as the sound goes, as far as the songwriting goes. I think it’s just a great peek into what our influences are. But essentially it’s a song about an archetype, about a guy or a girl, that either we’ve all known and I am assuming that all of us are of the age and have spent a lot of time in bars. We all know this person and maybe it has been us at a certain time, but it’s kind of a beautiful song about a dark place, I guess.”
SOUNDING BOARD
MARK: “Somebody said a couple weeks back, they said, ‘Your sound sounds like George Strait and the Eagles went and had a wild bender and you are the bastard sons from the product of that.”
JESS: “I can tell you what we hope for and that’s to make music that is timeless and that people will want to listen to now, but also in 40 years. You know, like a lot of the people that we listen to— Willie Nelson, John Conlee, Eddie Rabbitt, Alabama and …”
MARK: “God, Keith Whitley is in there, Gary Stewart, George Strait.”
CAMERON: “Eagles, Brooks & Dunn. Early ’80s, late ’70s. But also we love what was going on in the early ’90s with Alan Jackson and Dwight [Yoakam] and Garth [Brooks], you know. They all came on the scene in the late ’80s but their time was the early ’90s and boy, that was some great music they were putting out then. It also happened to be a time where country music crossed in to pop culture. Not pop music but pop culture.”
MARK: If you put ‘Rose Colored Glasses’ by John Conlee on right now, that song stands the test of time. And that is that timelessness that communicates with people from all different backgrounds. You don’t even have to be a country fan to go, ‘That’s good music.’”
CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN
CAMERON: “I remember distinctly buying this jacket because Rick Danko from The Band was wearing almost this identical jacket in The Last Waltz [The Band’s concert-film] in an interview he did. I said, ‘I got to have that jacket.’ I went and hunted one down. I think we all have inspiration. Mark is wearing that vest because he loves Keith Richards.”
MARK: “[I’m a] big Rolling Stones fan. I think it is just about expressing yourself both musically and artistically. I think it is a continuation of that.”
CAMERON: “It is all inspiration from something that gets stuck in your mind, that you may not even know when your looking through a sale rack at some vintage store.You can’t see us right now but we’re all wearing matching polka-dot suits and it’s really, really incredible.”
ON THE HORIZON
JESS: “We are about to be back in the studio and we are hoping to have our full length [album] out in September of this year. It is going to be an extension of the EP. It’s going to be an extension of that sound.”
CAMERON: “We are going to be doing radio and playing some dates with Tim and Faith on the Soul2Soul Tour up in Canada [May 31-June 4]. We are going to play four dates. That will be really cool because it will be such a big venue. We’re actually going to do it, just the three of us. We’ve really zeroed in on our harmony acoustic performance. So it will be cool to do that in such a large venue.”
MARK: “Thanks to Tim and Faith for giving us the great honor—to believe in us, to believe in the sound, and to handpick us. To be handpicked by two of your favorite artists, two iconic artists, and global artists is one of those kind of validating moments where you look around and say, ‘Alright, we are doing something right.’ It is just really fuel for the fire—to keep on going.”
Written by Kip, Steven Olsen, Josh Miller and David Garcia, “More Girls Like You” is being touted as Kip’s summer anthem and is slated to be the first single from his upcoming project.
“So God made girls like you make guys like me / Wanna reach for the brightest star, set it on a ring / Put it on your hand, grab a piece of land / And raise a few / More girls like you,” Kip sings in the chorus.
“I’ve never been that guy looking for a relationship and solitude has never scared me,” Kip told Entertainment Weekly. “I’ve never bought into the societal pressure of following the A, B and C steps of life, but I still look forward to the family chapter. This song is about meeting that someone you find so amazing inside and out, that you can only pray the kids you have together are just as amazing as she is. That’s the kind of woman I hope to end up with.”
We don’t know how long Kip’s “break” will last, but fans can look forward to seeing him perform at the Florida Strawberry Festival in Plant City, Fla., on March 3 and at the ACM Party for a Cause in Las Vegas on April 1.
Now, the couple have revealed the gender of their baby-to-be, with a video posted to TR’s Twitter account.
“We’re about to find out the gender of our child,” TR said at the beginning of the video.
The couple, surrounded by friends and family, used a cake to let them know the gender of their unborn baby. As Thomas cuts into the cake, the color of the inside of the cake let’s them know if it will be a boy or a girl—blue for boy, pink for girl (obviously).
Thomas cut into the cake and yelled, ‘It’s a girl,’ realizing it was just the frosting he was seeing. After delving deeper into the cake the couple realized that they are indeed having a little girl.
Congratulations to TR and Lauren, who is due in August, with their future baby girl.
On Jan. 27, Lauren released her sophomore album, Road Less Traveled, which debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, while the album’s title track is currently No. 11 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. To coincide with the album’s release, Lauren joined Martina McBride’s Love Unleashed Tour for a string of dates through mid-March. On top of that, the Georgia native recently completed filming her first feature film, also titled Road Less Traveled, which is currently in post-production and tentatively slated for a 2017 release, according to IMDB.
While Lauren couldn’t reveal all of the movie’s details just yet, she did sit down with Nash Country Daily to dish on the experience of filming the movie, the role she played and her Broadway aspirations.
NCD: What can you tell us about your new feature film, Road Less Traveled?
“I’m not really sure how much I can share, but I’ll just tell you about my character and kind of the baseline. I am Charlotte, and Charlotte is a 25-year-old, like mid-20s, songwriter that lives in Los Angeles. She’s getting married. It is this whole story about her journey to getting married, and she can’t find a dress. It’s just a bunch of getting married drama. I really had so much fun. It’s a lighthearted movie. It’s a romantic comedy. It’s the kind of movie that when you’re home in your pajamas, and you want to be comfy, it’s that kind of movie that you watch that makes you feel good. I love being home in my pajamas and feeling good, so I’m excited to share it with my fans. It’s a whole new side of me that no one’s ever seen. I really enjoyed that process. It was hectic, because we shot the whole movie in like three and a half weeks, because I’m touring, and I’m doing everything else. We worked like 15-hour days, every day, for three weeks straight.”
You’re only 22 years old. What was it like playing an older woman?
“I know [laughing]. Well, I live the life of a 30-year-old I feel like. I don’t ever really get to act 22 unless I’m with my friends that are 22, which is nice. I make sure I have time to do that. The character is very similar to me. She’s only 25. It’s not like I had to act any more mature or any more . . . I just had to be this role, this character. I could play a 16-year-old . . . It’s not who you are. She’s very similar to me though. She drinks more [laughing].”
Is this a role that you went after, or did they come after you for it?
“It really happened naturally, honestly. I have wanted to pursue acting for a really long time, but I feel like you always have to do it at the right time, because if you do it too early . . . You don’t want it to overpower. Singing is my passion. Entertaining is my passion. Any way I can do that is what I live for. I love to sing, and I just didn’t want to do it too soon that it would take away from it or even that it would hold me back. I just have been waiting for the right moment. It just kind of came to me. It wasn’t something I was seeking out, really. Obviously, my agents and all the people I work with know that I’m interested in it, so when the opportunity presented itself, it came through actually my record label. There was a movie production company that approached the label.
“They were talking about this idea they had to do a movie based around an artist and their music, but the artist would play a role. I think that they talked about it and thought that I would be a good fit, which was such a compliment to me that they thought that I could do that. Then, I was super nervous. It almost forced me into it, which is a good thing, because I was kind of scared to pursue it. Then, it happened naturally. Now, I’m like all fired up about it and want to do it all the time. We’re trying to find ways that I can sneak it in, even though we are so busy right now that I can’t even wash my laundry. I’m like, ‘Oh, let’s act, too. Let’s throw another thing onto the list of things that we do.’”
Singing and acting. How are your dance moves? You might be a legitimate triple threat.
“I can dance, but I’ve never had any type of training that makes me a dancer, but I feel like if I had an extensive time of lessons, extensive probably, I would be a decent dancer.”
Broadway here you come. You’re the next Jennifer Nettles.
“I really think that that’s something I could do. I think that that would be a cool thing for me to do at some point, like a Broadway show.”
Keith Urban’s new single, “The Fighter,” featuring Carrie Underwood, made its television debut on Sunday night (Feb. 12) at the 2017 Grammy Awards to rave reviews. Following the performance, the song’s brand-new video was released online for a 24-hour preview, and today (Feb. 16) Keith is taking you behind-the-scenes for a look at the making of “The Fighter.”
“I wrote this song with busbee [“My Church,” “H.O.L.Y.”] and I loved the idea of the question and answer simplicity of the song,” Keith says in the video. “We were actually in London at the time and we were working on another song and out of the blue that morning, on the way to that writing session, I had an idea for a duet that really could be taken from a conversation I’ve actually had before in this back-and-forth, boy-girl scenario. The very first thing we both said was ‘Who’s the girl? Who sings the song?’ We both heard Carrie’s voice immediately.”
And so it happened. After working through their schedules Carrie jumped on board and “The Fighter” came to life. While the dancing is left up to a professionals, Carrie and Keith have no problem showing off a few moves of their own throughout the video.
Check out the behind-the-scenes video for “The Fighter” with Keith and Carrie.
You can also watch the final version of the video below.
“Don’t quit your day job” can be a spirit-crushing piece of advice. Thankfully, it’s one that Carly Pearce never heeded.
After then-22-year-old Carly lost her developmental record deal with Sony in 2013, she took a job scrubbing toilets and changing sheets at an Airbnb. It wasn’t exactly the future the Kentucky native envisioned when she dropped out of high school at age 16 and moved to Pigeon Forge, Tenn., so she could perform at Dollywood.
But here she is, 10 years after leaving Kentucky, thankful that she quit that stinkin’ day job cleaning toilets.
Carly, who was named to the 2016 CMT Next Women of Country class, signed a new record deal with Big Machine Label Group in January. After hearing Carly’s new song, “Every Little Thing,” which soared to the top of Sirius XM’s The Highway, Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta literally flew across the country to sign Carly to his label.
As Carly gears up to release “Every Little Thing” to country radio on February 22, she sat down with Nash Country Daily to talk about 10 little things that have made her who she is today.
1. You were part of CMT’s 2016 Next Women of Country class. As a woman in the industry, I imagine you’ve heard the word “no” a lot. Is CMT’s Next Women of Country all about saying “yes”?
“Oh yes, for sure. I think being able to be included in that class of women was amazing. CMT has been so amazing to allow all of us new female artists to have a place to kind of have a community and to be able to build each other up and learn from each other and strengthen each other and also realize that there are a lot of really empowering women in the genre that just haven’t, for whatever reason, gotten to have their moment. I just think it’s been encouraging to get to be a part of that and to see how many talented women we have in this town.”
CMT’s 2016 Next Women of Country class (Carly, back row, 4th from left). Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images
2. You came to a lot of people’s attention, including mine, through your 2015 duet with Josh Abbott, “Wasn’t That Drunk,” a song that peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard chart. Every time Josh performed that song, you got to perform it with him. You got to go do Jimmy Kimmel Live and the radio station tours.
“It’s been amazing. If you just kind of dig deep into my story, I’ve had a lot of opportunities. I’ve been in Nashville eight years and just have had a lot of things come my way that maybe in my brain weren’t the way I thought I was going to get to where I’m at right now, but I continue to say yes. Just took my blinders off a few years ago and just said, ‘I’m going to chase whatever comes my way.’ The Josh Abbott Band situation, they messaged me about a song. We had only been Twitter friends. He had seen me play in Nashville at a thing called Whiskey Jam. That song was never meant to be a single, but it got [such a big reaction] that they changed their whole marketing plan and promo plan to build around that song.
“So I devoted a lot of 2015 and 2016 to that song and, in return, got to go into radio stations and got to go on tour with him. Josh is the king of the Texas scene, and I got to play in front of more people than I’d ever performed in front of and really understood what it meant to put on a show. The Texas crowd is really different from the Nashville crowd, so I had to work a little harder to make them listen to me and buy into me. Getting to do national television, it’s just all of these experiences as a new artist that was unsigned at the time, you don’t get to do that usually. I just became a sponge and said hopefully this is leading me to be able to branch out on my own and let people see more of what Carly Pearce is.”
3. When you were 16, you left high school and your Kentucky home and moved to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You started performing at Dollywood five times a day, five days a week. Is that like musical boot camp?
“I always joke and say . . . this is just for my dad so that he feels better about the fact that I never went to college and that I got my high school diploma in the mail, but I always knew I wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to move to Nashville, and I think that Dollywood was a good college for me for a few years of understanding what it meant to have a real singing job where I had to learn how to sing sick, I had to learn how to put on a show every day, I worked with other artists. It was really a boot camp or a college or something like that where I learned a lot of valuable lessons that I use even today.”
4. You moved to Nashville at 19 and then signed a short-lived publishing deal. Did you ever think about giving up after that? What was your thought process when you were 19, 20, and you had moved here and maybe things weren’t working out as you had expected?
“I have a crazy roller-coaster ride story. I had a publishing deal. I then had a developmental record deal on Sony. My situation there just ended up being unfortunate that the A&R lady that was working with me got fired, so I got let go. Of course there were moments that I wanted to quit music. My condo has seen many tears and heard many prayers at night. I’ve always known I wanted to do this, and like I said a little earlier, when you open your brain to still staying in the game and waiting it out and fighting and really understanding that this is a business. I just started to be open-minded to taking opportunities that were coming to me and really can see where every single opportunity that I said yes to that maybe somebody told me not to do or I thought maybe I don’t really want to do this, but it has all kind of connected the dots and led me to where I am now. So I’m thankful for the journey.”
5. What was the worst job you had between the point when you lost your contract to today?
I mean, cleaning toilets in Airbnbs and cleaning sheets is pretty horrible. I would say that’s pretty terrible. People were nasty. Just parties, bachelor parties and stuff. I just was disgusted at how people left them. Leave your Airbnbs clean, y’all.
NCD managing editor Jim Casey and Carly in studio. Photo by Jason Simanek
6. Let’s talk about something that’s not so terrible, your single “Every Little Thing,” which you released late last year independently, has had so much success. It went to No. 1 on on Sirius XM’s The Highway. That’s got to be a huge confidence booster.
“It’s reminding me of the power of a song. I only had two or three days to prep to put this song out once I found out it was going to be a Highway Find. I wrote this song from a very personal place of a heartbreak that I experienced and never really thought anybody was going to hear it. I certainly didn’t think that it was going to be something that would be my debut into the country genre. I thought that maybe my fans would have to buy into me a little bit to understand the artistic side of this song. I joke and say I’ve put out a lot of songs and been a part of a lot of things, but this song, as soon as it came out, it felt like it had its own wings and it was kind of out of my control.”
7. Has the impact the song has had on other people surprised you?
“It’s about a relationship that was four or five years ago, but I wrote it last year. I think about a year ago I wrote it. It’s interesting to have this song come out, and those feelings were so real, but now, so much life has happened and I’m thankful that that relationship didn’t work. It’s been amazing just to hear different stories of people that are going through that or even people that are attaching the song to something much greater like a death or being a widow or something like that.”
8. After “Every Little Thing” gets played on The Highway, what happens? Scott Borchetta just knocks on your door and says, “Hey, Big Machine would like to give you a record contract”?
“You know what’s crazy is the night that the song came out, his staff was kind of already on the move, and within 24 hours, he was on a plane back from L.A. to see me play at the Opry. Before any of the success really had happened, he really was invested and excited about it from the moment that he heard it, so it made me understand. Obviously, when you sell a lot of units independently and you get the buzz around it that I feel like this song has gotten, other people come to the table, but he was there from the beginning. So I felt like he was buying into and excited about Carly Pearce, not just ‘Every Little Thing'”.
Carly signs her record deal with Big Machine. Photo by Seth Hellman
9. “Every Little Thing” is going to country radio on February 22. Are you ready for that?
“Are you kidding? I’ve waited my whole life for this.”
10. As far as a new EP or album, what’s in the works? Are you writing? Are you in the studio?
“So, my producer is busbee. Many of you may know him from [co-producing] Maren Morris’ record [Hero] and the new Lady Antebellum song [“You Look Good”] and he’s worked with Keith [Urban] and he’s kind of killing it. I’m actually the first artist that he’s developed, especially in the country world, that has kind of done something. We’ve been working together for almost two years now. We are about to cut the first five songs for my record, and hopefully the album will be out sometime this year. We’re working really hard and getting really excited.”
When Blair Garner, host of the syndicated nightly radio broadcast The Blair Garner Show, was hosting After Midnite more than a decade ago, he was looking for a way to fire up fans across the country as they headed into the weekend. The veteran radio host came up with an amped-up version of George Jones’ “Finally Friday.” Now, more than 20 years later, the song has gotten a facelift thanks to newcomer Steve Moakler and songwriter/producer Luke Laird.
“I found this old song by George Jones, ‘Finally Friday,’ Blair recalls to Nash Country Daily. “I brought the staff in, we recorded a clap track and we’re all hooping and hollering and making silly noises. We take that [recording], we put it on and we got stupid audio clips from I Love Lucy and [other tracks to spruce it up]. The recording made its way across the country—it became a big Friday thing, but that was also 1993. Music has progressed quite a lot since then.
“I thought it would be great if we could do a new 2017 incarnation of ‘Finally Friday,'” Blair continues. “Who would be the ideal voice that could take over from George Jones? Steve [Moakler] just popped into my mind, because I’m Team Steve and I’m crazy about him. I called Luke [Laird] and said ‘I got this idea.’ Luke, being familiar with the 1993 version, said, ‘We got it,’ and that’s how it started.”
Luke worked with Steve on arranging the recording of the brand-new version that is set to launch on The Blair Garner Show this Friday (Feb. 17) at midnight. The newcomer was honored to get the call to be the voice of the updated version.
“I was nervous,” Steve confessed to Nash Country Daily. “It’s a tall order to sing a George Jones song. He has such a unique and great voice, so I wasn’t sure—until we worked it up—I was like, ‘I really hope I could do this well and do it justice.’ When we got in there, I was like ‘I’m just gonna sing this the way I would sing it.’ He’s got his unique voice and I just had to do my thing. It’s a great melody and a great song. I’m super honored to do it.”
“Steve and I felt the same,” adds Luke. “[We wanted to] really be true to the original. We stuck to the arrangement. My job was really easy. It was just getting in the studio with Steve’s great band and we brought in Glen Duncan—who actually played the fiddle on the George Jones version, but we didn’t know that at the time. We had a lot of fun.”
The final version is a catchy way to kick off your Friday and bound to get people excited for the weekend.
“I feel really proud of it. I think it turned out pretty amazing,” Steve said of the new version. “As Luke said, we really honored the original version. I think it does feel fresh and reinvented. I’m happy with it.”
Check out the new refreshed version of “Finally Friday” when it premieres this Friday (Feb. 17) and every Friday at midnight on The Blair Garner Show.
With the release of their eighth studio album, The Breaker, one week away on Feb. 24, Little Big Town decided to whet the whistle of anticipation by releasing a new song, “When Someone Stops Loving You,” on iTunes.
Jimi Westbrook leads the vocals in the breakup ballad, crooning in the chorus When someone stops loving you / It don’t make the evening news / It don’t keep the sun from rising / The clock from winding / Your heart from beating / Even when you want it to / When someone stops loving you.
In conjunctions with the release of The Breaker, Little Big Town will kick off their nine-show residency at the Ryman Auditorium on Feb. 24, with additional dates on Feb. 25, May 19 and 20, Sept. 15 and 16, July 28 and 29 and Nov. 27.
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Lead singer Mark Wystrach, lead guitarist Jess Carson and bass player Cameron Duddy make up country’s hippest new trio, Midland. Formed in Dripping Springs, Texas, the band boasts a mix of sounds from the ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s country, with heavy influences from George Strait and the Eagles. The band’s self-titled EP, produced by Dan Huff and Shane McAnally, features five tracks, including their current single, “Drinkin’ Problem”—giving fans a taste of what they’ll hear on the upcoming full-length album that’s currently in the works. You can catch the traditional trio on their first major tour—covering four dates in Canada—with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on the Soul2Soul tour in April.
