Congrats to Morgan Wallen as his “Wasted On You” is the number-one song in country music – the track is the latest single from Morgan’s Dangerous: The Double Album.
Dangerous won ACM Album Of The Year back in March.
This August, Morgan will be recognized with the Milestone Award at the Fifteenth Annual ACM Honors.
“Wasted On You” is Morgan Wallen’s 6th number-one for his career, and the third song off of Dangerous: The Double Album to top the charts after “More Than My Hometown” and “Sand In My Boots.”
Last week as he was making the rounds promoting the album Jimmie stopped by E! News’ Daily Pop to talk about his project, working with Jennifer Lopez, his upcoming tour with Carrie Underwood, and balancing his home life with his career.
Cole Swindell’s latest album, Stereotype, already has two number-one songs to its credit – “Single Saturday Night” and “Never Say Never” with Lainey Wilson.
Cole is now releasing his new single from the project, “She Had Me At Heads Carolina.”
The fun, high-energy track throws it back to 90s country referencing Jo Dee Messina’s classic hit “Heads Carolina, Tails California.”
Cole shares, “’She Had Me At Heads Carolina’ is just about a night out with the guys, having fun, walking in a bar, not knowing it’s karaoke night…and turns out there’s a group of girls having a good time. They go and turn in one of their friend’s names…next thing you know, she’s up there on karaoke singing ‘Heads Carolina, Tails California’ by Jo Dee Messina, and that’s the whole story behind the twist on the song.”
Fans will get to hear “She Had Me At Heads Carolina,” along with “Single Saturday Night,” “Never Say Never,” and all of Cole’s other hits songs and fan favorites when his Back Down To The Bar tour kicks off this September.
Cole shares, “Well…we had so much fun on the Down to the Bar tour that we decided to do it all over again in the fall with my friends Ashley Cooke and Dylan Marlowe. Can’t wait to see y’all out there and play this new music for you. It’s gonna be a hell of a time!”
For more information on Cole Swindell’s tour and his new single “She Had Me At Heads Carolina,” head to ColeSwindell.com
Back in April of this year Chris Janson released his album All In.
“You, Me & The River” was written by Eric Church, and the track also features the Chief with Janson.
This weekend at Country Fest 2022 in Colorado – where both singers were on the line-up – Eric and Chris surprised fans with the first live performance of the song.
Check it out here…
Chris Janson’s current single at country radio is “Keys To The Country.”
Eric Church’s single is “Doing Life With Me”
And while this weekend was the first time the two had the chance to perform “You, Me & The River” live – Chris Janson and Eric Church did get together to film an amazing video for the song.
Jimmie Allen‘s brand new album Tulip Drive is out now!
Jimmie shares what inspired the project’s title, “Tulip Drive, name of my new album it is the street my grandma Bettie lived on in Delaware. So this album is a lot of songs I wrote based off actual things I went through in life and a lot of songs I chose, I picked ones that tied in directly to moments in my life while hanging out on Tulip Drive.”
Jimmie Allen’s new album includes “On My Way” – a song he recorded with Jennifer Lopez.
Jimmie says “I meet Jennifer for the first time In 2010 as a contestant on American Idol…soon as I heard ‘I’m Real’, I told myself one day we would do a song together and It happened. I’m honored to be a part of the reimagined version of ‘On My Way'”
Another track on his new album Tulip Drive is Jimmie’s current single “Down Home.”
Sharing the story behind the song Jimmie says that “Down Home” is “just a letter I wrote to my father, you know just about tell him I miss him, hope to see him again one day and that everything he taught me I’m still holding onto and everything’s good down home.“
Dylan Scott recently announced his Amen To That tour, which launches this Fall.
The tour kicks off in late September and runs through the first week of November with special guests Erin Kinsey and Lily Rose splitting the opening spot on various dates.
Dylan just released the song that inspired the tour’s name…
Talking about the track, Dylan says “‘Amen To That’ is a really cool song…I’m excited about it. It’s kind of up tempo…a little edgy but I love all the nuances that talk about like Hallelujah, praise the good Lord, you know it’s really cool.”
“Amen To That” is one of the 16 songs that will be on Dylan’s upcoming album Livin’ My Best Life...
Livin’ My Best Life also features Scott’s song with Jimmie Allen “In Our Blood”…
and the number-one hit “Nobody.”
Livin’ My Best Life – which arrives August 5th – also includes Dylan’s Scott’s current single “New Truck” which is knocking on the door to the number-one spot on the Billboard country airplay chart.
Kip Moore is out with a new single called “Fire On Wheels.”
Talking about the new track, Kip says, “A lot of songs start with a very specific idea…a very specific concept, a specific title…this is one of those that the music drove everything.”
Moore adds, “We started creating that music in the room, and it had just such this infectious raw energy about it.”
That “infectious raw energy” boiled over into the video for “Fire On Wheels” – as Kip does his best impression of “Ren McCormack” getting footloose through a bowling alley as an unimpressed clerk looks on.
While it’s listed as “unofficial video” – they can pretty much take the “unofficial” off…cause it’s on fire (pun intended.)
Plenty of fans will be busting out their own moves when Kip Moore hits the road on the Fire On Wheels tour.
The Fire On Wheels tour launches on September 8th in Salt Lake City with the group Boy Named Banjo opening for Kip Moore.
Now Tyler is releasing another track from upcoming solo project – it’s called “35’s.”
Hubbard shares, “It’s a song that makes me wanna put the pedal to the metal, but it’s really about slowing down and living life at a slower pace, being present, and in the moment. I wrote it a couple of years ago with my buddies Jordan Schmidt and Michael Tyler and it’s become an anthem in my home that I never get tired of. This one’s gonna be fun to play live. Turn this one up.”
Check out the new song here…
Tyler Hubbard’s “5 Foot 9” is climbing the country airplay chart…
While this is Luke’s third album, the process of making it was different for Combs and his production team, “The recording process of this album was really complicated and convoluted, honestly, obviously new producers. You know, me, Jonathan Singleton, Chip Matthews, we’ve had to figure out how to work with each other. They had to figure out how to work with each other. And so it was really fun. Because we got to have a lot of creative, different conversations that we had never had before. And try different things. And we did gosh, I couldn’t tell you how many studio sessions four or five or six. Just recording a bunch of different stuff and trying different things and recording different songs and recutting songs. And it was just fun.”
Luke gives special kudos to his co-producers, “I mean, Chip, and Jonathan worked their ass off on this album, so shouts out to them. Maybe it wasn’t as fun for them as it was for me.”
The recording of Growin’ Up was also complicated by world conditions that developed in the early days of the making the album, “It was crazy because we had started a little bit of this recording kind of before COVID Some of these songs were recorded before. Some were recorded during some were recorded after you know, and had this big tour sitting right in the middle. So it was crazy. It was a crazy experience to get to this point. But I’m glad we’re here. I’m glad people are finally getting to hear it. And looking forward to people getting to hear some more.”
The first song that people got to hear from Growin’ Up was Luke’s number-one single “Doin’ This.”
Growin’ Up track list; 1. “Doin’ This” 2. “Any Given Friday Night” 3. “The Kind of Love We Make” 4. “On the Other Line” 5. “Outrunnin’ Your Memory” feat. Miranda Lambert 6. “Used To Wish I Was” 7. “Better Back When” 8. “Tomorrow Me” 9. “Ain’t Far From It” 10. “Call Me” 11. “Middle of Somewhere” 12. “Going, Going, Gone”
One of the tracks that fans have been interested in hearing is “Outrunnin’ Your Memory” which features Miranda Lambert.
Luke shares, “Wrote the song with Miranda Lambert, it’s kind of an interesting story. We had talked about writing before in passing. And I’ve always been a huge fan of her writing. Obviously, man, I think she’s one of the best artists, writers of, you know, not only our generation, but of all time. And so we got together and wrote at her manager’s office and, you know, had thrown around some ideas and, and, you know, couldn’t really land on something we loved. And I had come up with an idea with my buddy, Dan Isbell, the day before this write with Miranda. And so I pitched that idea to her. And she was like, oh, I really liked that idea. And I was like, man, I wouldn’t feel comfortable writing this without my buddy, Dan, because we kind of came up with this idea together. So I ended up calling Dan. He dropped whatever he was doing to come to come write with us that afternoon. And in like the hour that it took for him to get there, we ended up starting a completely different idea, which is ‘Outrunnin’ Your Memory.’ And so we had had the chorus done, Dan got there, helped us knock out the rest of it. So it’s me, Dan, Miranda, love this song. I really do. It’s one of my favorites…has such a kind of a different feel than some other stuff. I feel like we’re kind of progressing the sound and I really love this song and shout out to Miranda for singing on it with me. I think it adds a whole new whole new flair to this song that wasn’t there before. So I hope y’all love it. It’s one of my favorites.”
When it comes to the project’s title, Growin’ Up, Luke says, “I’ve spoken about this album, kind of being transitional, because I’m at this transitional stage of my life where, I still feel like a young kid. I’m growin’ up a little bit however.“
Part of that growin’ up for him was that this week Luke became a dad!
So, along with his new single “The Kind Of Love We Make” hitting country radio, the album coming out, getting ready for a tour, and now a baby…there’s a lot going on for Combs…
Another track that everyone has been waiting to hear is “Middle Of Somewhere” – which shares the same title as Luke’s tour launching later this year…
Luke shares the story behind the song, “’Middle Of Somewhere’…wrote this song in Montana with Randy Montana and Jonathan Singleton. And I just really love the place that…you know, me and my wife live now. And it’s just a place that I’ve talked to so many people here that are so proud to be from here. And it’s a place that so many people have probably never heard of, and even my friends, in Nashville, we live almost an hour away from town. And people are like ‘God, you live in the middle of nowhere.’ And as I was talking to people here, and this idea popped in my head is like, people call this the middle of nowhere, but to the people that live here, it’s the middle of somewhere. And it’s such an important place to them. It’s such a huge part of their life. They were born here, and a lot of these people will be here for the rest of their lives. And it’s a place that means so much to them. So I feel like that middle of nowhere thing is just, it’s not that to everybody and I wanted to write that song for everyone that lives in a place like this, and especially for the people that live in the little town that I live in now.”
Luke’s The Middle Of Somewhere tour with Jordan Davis and Morgan Wade, and Lainey Wilson starts in September with back-to-back dates in Maine.
Luke Combs’ new album Growin’ Up is available now – and it includes his current single at country radio, “The Kind Of Love We Make.”
