Lee Brice is following up the success of “One Of Them Girls” and “Memory I Don’t Mess With” with “Soul” – the third single from his 2020 album, Hey World.
Talking about his current single Lee says “Well, the story behind my song ‘Soul’ is the fact that I get to hear great song writers writing great songs all the time. I ran across this song…it just felt good to me. This is one that I didn’t write, but was so proud and so excited to get my vocal on, and to create something that sounds a little different than everything else that’s out there. You know getting to play it live is when I really see the song shine and seeing people just fall right into the groove immediately that’s been the story behind my song ‘Soul'”
Lee just released the music video for the song – which matches the fun and energy pulsing through the unconventional love song.
Brice shares, “We had a ball, with every aspect of this song…finding it, (thank you, JR), hearing it the first time, recording it, singing it, mixing it, shooting the video, all of it. I feel like ‘Hey World’ is my most diverse and at the same time cohesive record I’ve ever made. We have fun songs to mix in with the heavier ones and I couldn’t be happier with how this track turned out. The idea that our souls truly connect to each other in unexplainable ways has always been at the core of what I do as a musician, a writer, a producer, and a singer….and I think it’s a good reminder to keep with me every day. I hope everybody loves this song as much as I do.”
Keith Urban has been breaking out the big production values for his recent video announcements…first it was his backyard and a guy with a leaf blower to announce his The Speed Of Now World Tour…
Now Keith is sharing with fans that he’s headed back to Vegas and adding shows to his residency at Caesars Palace with the help of his cat Louie.
Keith will be at The Colosseum at Caesars in Las Vegas from March 25th thru April 2nd.
Then, later in April, Keith’s The Speed Of Now World Tour kicks off in the UK on the 28th.
After wrapping up in Denmark in May, Keith kicks off the US leg of the tour in late June.
No matter where he’s performing fans will be looking to hear and see Keith Urban perform his current single “Wild Hearts.”
For her first shows of 2022 Lainey Wilson headed to Mexico for Luke Bryan‘s Crash My Playa 2022.
Now she’s sharing with fans a recap of her weekend trip to Riviera Cancun…
Lainey is ready to hit the stage again – and she’s updating fans on her concert schedule, “We have some new dates added! Where will I see y’all this year?! Bozeman, Mills, and Laramie, due to unforeseen circumstances we’re not able to make it to your cities this time. But as soon as we can, we will!”
When fans do get to see Lainey in concert, she might be singing this one – “Never Say Never” – her duet with Cole Swindell is racing up the country airplay chart…check out the music video for the song here…
Congrats to Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan as their song “Buy Dirt” is now the number-one song in country music.
Talking about the track Jordan says, “This is the most special song I have released. From writing it with my brother and two of my best friends, to having Luke want to be a part of it…it’s going to be hard to top. To me this song is about faith, family, and friends. It’s a reminder to myself to always keep those top priority and in that order. It has been awesome to see so many people connect with that message.”
Jordan shares how he approached Luke with the song, “We sat around the fire after a golf tournament one day, smoking cigars and talking about everything BUT music. That conversation always stuck with me. Luke isn’t just a great entertainer; he’s a great Dad, a great husband, and a great friend, too. That’s what ‘Buy Dirt’ embodies. When I wrote ‘Buy Dirt,’ I knew he could relate to the song’s message. I took a chance and asked him to join me on the recording, and he said ‘yes’.”
“Buy Dirt” – his 4th chart-topper, also shares the name of Jordan’s upcoming tour…
“Buy Dirt” from Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan is the number-one on the Billboard country airplay chart this week.
Following the success of his hit song “Knowing You” – Kenny Chesney has announced that “Everyone She Knows ” will be his next single.
“Everyone She Knows” is a track from Kenny’s Here And Now album.
Talking about the character in the song, Kenny says, “I love this woman! She’s found a life that works for her, and it’s maybe not what her friends are doing, but it works for her. There’s this idea that you get married, settle down and your life is made; but the woman in ‘Everyone She Knows’ is still out there, living life on her own terms, chasing her dreams and trying to balance that with what people seem to expect.”
Kenny adds, “I think there’s nothing as awesome as a woman living life the way she wants to…to see someone so in love with life, so in love with the adventure, out there doing it? That’s an incredible thing. I know so many women who are their own compass… and this song is for them. Wherever you are, however you are, just love the adventure and don’t worry what people think.”
Listen to “Everyone She Knows” from Kenny Chesney here…
While everyone is watching Tim McGraw on his new Paramount Plus series 1883 – Tim is checking out his old videos.
Watch Tim react to his music videos for “Down On The Farm,” “She’s My Kind Of Rain,” and “Humble And Kind.”
Now that you watched Tim react to the videos – check out the full music videos here…
“Down On The Farm”
“She’s My Kind Of Rain”
“Humble And Kind”
After watching the video for “She’s My Kind Of Rain” and commenting that maybe he should work it back into his set-list…reach out to Tim on social media to let him know if you want to see him sing it live when he hits the road this spring…
Check out to see if Tim is headed your way on his McGraw Tour 2022 with Russell Dickerson, Alexandra Kay and Brandon Davis.
Here’s a song that fans will be looking forward to when Tim McGraw hits the stage – and the music video is one that he’ll remember fondly as it stars his and Faith Hill‘s daughter Audrey McGraw – “7500 OBO”
Music, movies, TV, books, amusement parks, and now…add baking to the worlds that Dolly Parton has conquered!
Starting Wednesday January 26th 2022 you can now order and bake from Dolly’s Southern Favorites from Duncan Hines!
Dolly shares, “I’ve always loved to cook. Growing up in the South exposed me to that authentic Mom & Pop kind of cooking. Baking was no different. I had plenty of people to show me what’s what in the kitchen… my Mama, my grandmothers and my aunts were all wonderful bakers.”
Dolly adds, “They taught me everything I know, from biscuits and gravy to chocolate cake. Now I am proud to share some of those favorites with all of you.”
Dolly and Duncan Hines are collaborating on a line of baking mixes and frostings inspired by Dolly’s Famous Southern Recipes.
Starting Wednesday January 26th, you can now order at Duncan Hines the limited-edition collection that includes
1 Southern Style Coconut Flavored Cake Mix
1 Southern Style Banana Flavored Cake Mix
1 Creamy Buttercream Frosting
1 Creamy Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
1 Dolly-Inspired Spatula
1 Dolly-Inspired Tea Towel
Coming soon, you’ll also be able to head to the store to get the Southern Style Banana Cake Mix, or the Southern Style Coconut Cake Mix along with either the Creamy Buttercream Frosting, or the Creamy Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.
The last two years has allowed artists to explore their creative spirits in various ways.
With the time on their hands singers-songwriters have had to a chance to not only take their sound in new directions, but also revisit the music that inspired them in the first place.
Eli “Paperboy” Reed has made a career in the Blues, Soul, R&B genre with 7 albums since his 2005 debut Sings Walkin’ And Talkin’ (And Other Smash Hits) – but now he’s returning to his roots with his new album, Down Every Road – an homage to the music of Merle Haggard.
The 12-track project was first born in his youth when Reed discovered country music thanks to his dad’s collection of George Jones, Waylon Jennings and Haggard.
Eli recalls what first drew him to the music of Merle, “It was so aggressively honest and edgy. He could get to the heart of these extraordinarily complicated emotional sentiments in two-and-a-half minutes, and that was something that really stuck with me.”
During his time in quarantine Reed melded the lyrics and structure of Haggard’s songs with his own Pops Staples-owing guitar, Muscle Shoals production trademarks.
Reed says, “Doing an album of Merle Haggard songs has been something I’ve been thinking about for more than a decade. As a songwriter, though, I think you have to get a lot of original music under your belt before you can start thinking about interpretations. Now that I’m about 15 years and 7 albums into my career, I think that time has come. I’ve always loved Merle Haggard from every angle: His songwriting, his singing, his performance and his own interpretations are profoundly unique. That unique quality is what made me feel that his songs were open to radical reworking. The songs have such strong character that they can withstand aggressive changes and still emerge unscathed. I’ve had some of these arrangements percolating in my head for almost 10 years, so to see them finally emerge fully formed is really an indescribable thrill.”
Down Every Road track list
01) “Mama Tried” 02) “I’m Bringing Home Good News” 03) “Somewhere Between” 04) “Teach Me To Forget” 05) “It’s Not Love But It’s Not Bad” 06) “If We Make It Through December” 07) “Silver Wings” 08) “Break Every Heart I Can” 09) “I’m A Lonesome Fugitive” 10) “One Sweet Hello” 11) “Working Man Blues” 12) “Today I Started Loving You Again”
Talking about Down Every Road, Reed shares, “Making this album something is not just an itch that I finally get to scratch, but one that I must scratch before I can move on to the next thing. Recording these songs is part of the mental reorganization I need to undergo to start working on the next batch of music, some of which I’ve already started writing. I think that as a songwriter, once you learn to internalize someone else’s craft, it makes you stronger and more deliberate in defining your own. That’s certainly what’s happening to me at least while working on the music of Merle Haggard. I hope to emerge from this process not only with a fitting and individual tribute to one of my favorite artists, but with a renewed sense of who I am as an artist, singer and songwriter myself.”
The new album, Down Every Road, from Eli “Paperboy” Reed comes out April 29th – with the first single “Mama Tried” available now.
Tennessee’s Tamari Key has been named to the 15-player Naismith Women’s Defensive Player of the Year Watch List, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced on Tuesday.
Key, a 6-foot-6 center from Cary, N.C., leads the nation in blocked shots with 73 and in blocks per game at 3.842. Her total this season in only 19 games is already the eighth-highest in school history and marks her third appearance on the UT single-season list along with the No. 5 tally of 86 as a freshman and the No. 9 sum of 72 as a sophomore.
Tamari Key – Lady Vols / Credit: UT Athletics
Her 3.892 season average for blocks per game currently ranks No. 1 in Lady Vol history. Her career average of 3.08 also ranks No. 1 in school annals, and she currently has the third-most swats ever by a UT woman, accumulating 231 thus far and standing 18 behind second-place Sheila Frost (249) and 44 behind career record-holder Candace Parker (275).
Key is a central figure in a Lady Vol defense that ranks No. 1 in field goal percentage defense (30.7) and 17th in scoring defense (54.5 ppg.). She has helped Tennessee hold all but one opponent to 36-percent shooting or lower, and 16 of 19 foes to 60 points or fewer.
She averages 9.9 points per game and shoots 62 percent from the field, and her 8.4 rebound average also contributes heavily on both ends, with UT out-rebounding every opponent but one this season and doing so by double digits on 15 occasions. UT continues to rank No. 1 nationally in rebounds per game (50.37) and defensive rebounds per game (33.2), thanks to her efforts.
In terms of team results, Key’s play has been instrumental in helping Kellie Harper‘s squad to an 18-1 overall record, 7-0 SEC mark and a No. 4 ranking in the Associated Press Top 25. The Lady Vols also are currently tracking toward a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Cody Johnson is hearing from fans that his current single “’Til You Can’t” is touching them in a special way.
Cody can understand why people who listen to “’Til You Can’t” have a special connection with the track…because it’s hit him in the same way too, “Everybody’s kind of come up, that has mentioned it, and been like ‘That song changed my perspective on life,’ and it’s not a rehearsed line – I can genuinely honestly looked those people in the eye and say ‘Me too!’ You know it changed my perspective on my own life and my own career and my own time with my kids and my wife and the things that are important to me. You know, the real things – not money, not fame, not notoriety…the real things that actually matter.”
Along with the song – the music video for “‘Til You Can’t” is also having a big impact on fans, watch it here…
