Tennessee head football coach Josh Heupel spoke with the media for the final time before Saturday’s Game 3 matchup at home vs. Tennessee Tech.
Congrats to Chris Young who is a 3-time CMA Award nominee this year.
His song “Famous Friends”, which he sings with Kane Brown, racked up nominations in the categories of Single, Musical Event, and Video of the Year.
Talking about his nominations, Chris says “I was blown away by the fact that there were three award nominations for the song. I mean, there’s so much that’s gone into it and so many people that have fallen in love with it and supported it and, you know, just having a hit with your friend in the first place is great with a song like “Famous Friends” with my buddy Kane Brown, but then to be nominated for three different CMA Awards, including Single of the Year. It’s just incredible.”
Chris, Kane and all the other nominees will learn if they’re taking home trophies, when the 55th Annual CMA Awards are handed out in Nashville on Wednesday November 10 – broadcasted live on ABC.
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Darius Rucker – who famously sang that the “Dolphins Make Me Cry” – will be shedding less tears this Sunday as he’ll be singing before their game.
Let’s go!! Can’t wait for another season of Dolphins football in Miami. I’ll be singing the National Anthem at the home opener on September 19th at Hard Rock Stadium. Come on out! #PhinsUp pic.twitter.com/hwdzVs9RFs
— Darius Rucker (@dariusrucker) September 9, 2021
Darius will be on hand in South Florida at the Hard Rock Stadium to sing the National Anthem before the Miami Dolphins game against the Buffalo Bills.
Darius says that he has high hopes for his favorite football team this season.
So, as long as Darius is there…maybe he’d like to pick…would he rather be playing on the field or be the head coach? His answer, “Oh, if I can be the Quarterback, I wanna be the Quarterback…but if I gotta be, like, the Right Guard, I’d probably be the coach. (laugh)”
Photo Courtesy of Darius Rucker
Kane Brown has been named to the 2021 TIME100, TIME’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The list, selected by editors and now in its eighteenth year, recognizes the impact, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals.
The profile piece honoring Kane was written by fellow country star Darius Rucker.
Darius writes, “When it comes to his music, he can do that low, cool, borderline-rapping thing, and then he sings and his vocal ability just blows you away.”
Darius also says, “I’m sure there are kids looking up to Kane right now just like when I looked up at Charley Pride.”
View Kane Brown’s Time 100 profile, written by Darius Rucker, here: https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6095926/kane-brown/.
Along with Kane, the 2021 Time 100 list also includes Dolly Parton, Shonda Rhimes, Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, Tom Brady, Elon Musk, Billie Eilish, Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and more.
The full list is available now at time.com/time100 and in the Oct. 4 issue of TIME, available on newsstands Friday, September 17.
This Monday, September 20th, Kane will appear in the Time 100 TV special airing on ABC at 10pm ET / 9pm CT.
Perhaps he will be performing his new single “One Mississippi”
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Earlier this week in Atoka, Oklahoma Reba McEntire and members of her production team were touring an old historical building as a possible location for a future project when the staircase collapsed. Reba and her team were fine, but did need rescuing by the local fire and police departments.
Updating her fans about the experience, Reba shared, “While my team and I were in Atoka, OK yesterday checking out an old historical building, a staircase collapsed. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured. We were safely evacuated from the building thanks to the quick response from the Atoka fire and police departments.”
Footage captured and shared on Twitter by Lisanne Anderson, a reporter for KTEN, shows Reba being helped down a ladder from a second story window.
Close call for @reba in Atoka, Oklahoma Tuesday (9/14/21) Sure glad she and boyfriend Rex Linn are ok!
While touring an old building, a staircase collapsed. They were among seven people inside. Atoka’s finest came to the rescue.
No one hurt, just some bumps and bruises. pic.twitter.com/ppLhQOLDuA— Lisanne Anderson (@Lisanne2016_) September 15, 2021
There were no serious injuries reported due to the accident.
Photo Courtesy of Reba McEntire
It’s finally fall, meaning college football is back, and we all know how intertwined it is with country music! There are many superstars that have proudly shared their love of football, and their SEC affiliations, throughout their careers – including Kenny Chesney.
It’s just been announced that the Knoxville native is teaming up with the Southeastern Conference and ESPN to executive produce a new 90-minute film called More Than A Voice – telling the stories of iconic football play-by-play announcers from the SEC.
The SEC became an institutional custom in the South long before TV sets were household commodities, so play-by-play radio announcers were the only way fans could be a part of the game if they weren’t there in person, and these voices became an integral part of the identity of each team.
The film will highlight announcers such as Tennessee’s John Ward, Alabama’s John Forney and Eli Gold, Florida’s Mick Hubert, Georgia’s Larry Munson, and more. The film will be produced by Don Lepore and directed by Shaun Silva.
When asked about being involved with the film, Kenny shared, “It was important for me to be a part of this film, because John Ward was such a big part of my life growing up and loving sports in east Tennessee. With his voice and his words, he painted a picture of Tennessee football that captured my imagination and the imaginations of so many. Meeting him was one of the highlights of my life – and I’m thrilled to be a small part of this film that sheds light on his genius and so many of the other voices who have made the Southeastern Conference really special.”
More Than A Voice will debut Sunday September 26 at 7 p.m. ET on SEC Network.
Watch the trailer here:
Carly Pearce‘s new album, 29: Written In Stone arrives Friday.
One of the tracks from the 15-song project is “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” – which features Ashley McBryde!
Carly says that she’s known Ashley for years, and always wanted to work on something with her…so, much like she did when she asked Luke Combs to write “I Hope You’re Happy Now” – Carly took a shot and asked Ashley if she wanted to work together, “I know that Ashley and I are very different, but in a lot of ways…musically and vocally we’re quite similar, and I would sit next to her in ’rounds that we’ve played over the years, and just be like ‘uh, I want to sing with her’ and I just asked her if she wanted to write a song, much like I did with Luke (Combs) and she did.”
Ashley shares, “I think we discussed a couple of, not really exchanging stories about being cheated on, but some scenarios that could happen. How does other girl meet guy? How does this happen? And I think we started with the first line. We were just talking about what if it were as innocent as needing help changing a tire because you weren’t wearing the proper clothing or you just got your nails done or whatever. To change the tire and then that dude says, ‘We should go get a beer.” You would. And if you hit it off you would keep doing it. So, we just started at the top left-hand corner of the page.”
Carly adds, “I know, right? We kind of wrote it as it was going in real time. (Yeah.) And, you know, for me, I felt like I was in a season with Shane where we just could all feel in the room what kind of thing we were gonna write, and it just kinda was the matter of landing on the right way to do it.”
Ashley, “We didn’t know exactly how the story was gonna turn out. We just kinda found out as we wrote it.”
“Never Wanted To Be That Girl” is one of the tracks on Carly Pearce’s new album, 29: Written In Stone – which arrives this Friday, September 17th
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Scotty McCreery‘s new album, Same Truck, arrives this Friday…
…but before we get to the release day Scotty is sharing another song from the project with his fans.
“Damn Strait” is one of the 12 tracks on the album that comes out on Friday.
Scotty likes mixing in the new stuff a little bit at a time for his fans – especially when he’s in concert, he says “You never know how new songs are going to go over in the live show, but our audiences sure seem to enjoy them from the reaction we’re receiving.”
As Scotty is out on the road playing shows, fans are also enjoying – in a big way – his song “You Time” is a Top-5 (and climbing) hit!
Photo Credit: John Shearer
Tennessee tight end Princeton Fant talked to the local media in Knoxville ahead of this weekend’s home game vs. Tennessee Tech.
Tennessee defensive lineman Matthew Butler talked to the local media in Knoxville ahead of this weekend’s home game vs. Tennessee Tech.
