Congrats to Eric Church – he’s hit number-1 on the country airplay chart with “Hell Of A View.”
This is Eric’s 10th chart topper – and the song comes from his Heart & Soul triple album…specifically the Soul project.
Eric shares the story behind the song, “So, ‘Hell of a View’ – we were in the mountains of North Carolina and we would write a song the same day. We’d record the song that night, which is an incredibly hard thing to do and do it well. I came back one day from a jog, my manager was there, a few people walked into the room and Casey Beathard, the co-writer on this song, was working on something. And I remember walking in, and I remember he had reading glasses on and he pulled ‘em down and he looked at me and he goes, ‘This is good. Listen to this.’ And he started, ‘I was no Daddy’s dream’ you know, the whole deal, the whole song…and he got to the Bronco, ‘smoke my Bronco tires’ line, and I went, ‘This is really good.’ So, we wrote that song that day and the next day.”
Check out the studio performance music video for “Hell Of A View” — the latest number-1 song from Eric Church.
This is A Day in the Country with Paul Koffy – May 25th
On this day in 2019, Eli Young Band was at number-1 with “Love Ain’t”
In 2011 Scotty McCreery was named the winner of season 10 of American Idol.
And 6 years earlier in 2005, Carrie Underwood was named the American Idol winner for season 4.
And in 2005 Garth Brooks proposed to Trisha Yearwood…spoiler alert – she said “yes” — In 2013 Garth and Ellen DeGeneres talked about his time at home raising his daughters and his relationship with Trisha.
Congrats to Alan Jackson as his latest album, Where Have You Gone, has not only reached number-1 on the album chart here in the US, but in the UK, Australia and Canada as well!
Where Have You Gone debuts at number-1 on the U.S. Current Country Album Chart as well as being the number-1 country album in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. With album equivalent units of 31,610, Jackson earns his 15th Top 10 album on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and Where Have You Gone lands at #2 on the Billboard Country Album chart.
Where Have You Gone – Jackson’s first album of all new music in six years, produced by longtime friend and colleague Keith Stegall – features 21 songs…15 of them written by the Songwriters Hall of Fame member himself.
Where Have You Gone includes the song “Back” – which was actually inspired by a Justin Timberlake song…Alan shares the story behind the song…
Since The Voice began in April of 2011, there has been one constant presence in the judges chair – Blake Shelton.
The original 4 judges were Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, CeeLo Green and Blake.
Now, 10 years, 20 seasons and nearly 500 episodes later – Blake is still turning that chair to work with talented young singers.
This week a bunch of former Team Blake artists, including RaeLynn, The Swon Brothers, Toneisha Harris, Lauren Duski, Todd Tilghman, Danielle Bradbery, Ian Flanigan, and Cassadee Pope, shared what it meant to have Blake as a mentor.
Watch their video message here – with an introduction by Gwen Stefani.
This week Blake wasn’t just helping the talented singers of The Voice — he took the stage to sing his current single “Minimum Wage” — one of the tracks from his brand new album, Body Language.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Tennessee trio of Liam Spence, Jake Rucker and Blade Tidwell earned SEC postseason honors, as announced by the league office on Monday afternoon.
Spence (shortstop) and Rucker (third base) both garnered All-SEC first team recognition, marking the first time since 2005 that the Vols had multiple players earn first-team honors.
Spence was one of the top hitters in the SEC all year long, leading the league in on-base percentage (.493) and walks (32) in conference-only games. He also batted .342 in league play and was tied for third in runs scored with 29. Spence reached base in all but two conference games and tied for third in the SEC with 13 multi-hit games in league play.
The Geelong, Australia, native was also named to the SEC All-Defensive team at shortstop after ranking second on the team with 93 assists and posting a .971 fielding percentage after committing just four errors in 140 chances.
Rucker was a consistent threat in the middle of Tennessee’s lineup for the entire season, leading the SEC with 16 doubles while finishing tied for third with a team and career-high 76 hits. Of those 76 hits, 41 came during conference play, which was tied for sixth in the SEC. The Greenbrier, Tennessee, native also finished second on the team with a .342 batting average and 50 RBI, 27 of which came during conference play, good for eighth in the league.
Rucker was named the SEC Co-Player of the Week on April 26 after a monster series at Texas A&M, tying a career high with three hits in all three games while also hitting four doubles and a home run against the Aggies.
Tidwell became the first UT player to be named to the Freshman All-SEC team since Andre Lipcius in 2017 after an impressive debut season in the Orange and White. The hard-throwing right hander posted a 7-3 record and had the best ERA (3.74) among Tennessee’s starting pitchers. Tidwell’s seven victories and 77.0 innings pitched both ranked first among freshman pitchers in the league. His seven wins are also tied for the fourth most by a freshman in program history while his 72 strikeouts are the fifth most in a single season by a Vols’ freshman.
The Loretto, Tennessee, native was named the SEC Freshman of the Week on March 22 after a dominant performance in his SEC debut at Georgia, allowing just one run on four hits while striking out six in 7.1 innings pitched to lead the Vols to a series win in Athens.
To see all of the postseason award winners and complete All-SEC teams, click HERE.
The matchups for the 2021 Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament were announced by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Monday, and Tennessee is set to open against Villanova on Saturday, Nov. 20 at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Resort.
The opposite side of the bracket features a showdown between North Carolina and Purdue. The winners of those games meet in the championship on Sunday, Nov. 21.
Tickets for the Hall of Fame Tip-Off will go on sale in September. Tip times and broadcast information have yet to be announced.
Under the direction of Hall of Fame head coach Jay Wright, Villanova projects to enter the 2021-22 season as a top-five team. Expectations for the Wildcats soared when seniors Collin Gillespie and Jermaine Samuels opted to return to the program. Wright’s squad returns significant depth—including four starters—while adding yet another outstanding collection of newcomers.
Tennessee and Villanova have met four times previously on the hardwood, with the Wildcats owning a 3-1 advantage. The Vols’ lone win in the series came in the championship game of the 2011 NIT Season Tip-Off. The most recent meeting saw fifth-ranked Villanova overcome a 12-point halftime deficit to defeat the Big Orange at the 2017 Battle 4 Atlantis.
The Volunteers own a 30-26 all-time record against current members of the Big East Conference.
Season-ticket renewals for Tennessee’s highly-anticipated upcoming campaign begin in late June.
Deaths across Knox and Anderson counties have increased more than 11 percent in 2020 from 2019, while homicides rose nearly 72 percent, according to the 2020 Annual Report.
The annual report was released by the Knox County Regional Forensic Center which provides autopsy and consultative services for 23 counties in Middle and East Tennessee.
According to the report, accidental and natural deaths each increased 20 percent in 2020. Officials said suicides increased by 14 percent and gun-related deaths increased 62 percent.
In 2020, Knox County saw 40 gun-related homicides. That number is the most of any other area in the center’s jurisdiction. There were 50 homicides in total reported in Knox County in 2020.
Motor vehicle accidents accounted for nearly 100 deaths in Knox County and 183 in total across the region.
The guys in Old Dominion say their new song “I Was On A Boat That Day” has been around since their debut hit “Break Up With Him” — but they just thought it was a joking title.
Lead singer Matthew Ramsey shares the story, “We had this idea we were kicking it around for a long time. And we bring it up and shoot it down. I don’t know how many times we decided not to write this song. And then for whatever reason, when we were in Asheville, North Carolina, making this album, it came up again and we sort of laughed like it was a joke, but then our co-writers Shane McAnally, and Josh Osborne helped us see the light that it actually was not a joke title. It was actually a really fun title.”
Matthew adds, “So we wrote it and really liked it. We took it upstairs to record it. We had this idea that it needed to sound like a party and needed to sound a little, you know, intoxicated, so we drank some tequila and went in and did our best little party dance song and we had a really great time recording it and hope you have a great time listening to it.”
Listen…and watch the video for Old Dominion’s “I Was On A Boat That Day” right here…
Tenille Arts is following up her very successful hit song “Somebody Like That” with her new single, “Back Then, Right now.”
Tenille shares the story behind the new track, “‘Back Then, Right Now’ is all about looking back on being a teenager and just how simple things felt back then. You were kind of naïve to the world around you and what was going on and there was a beautiful freedom in that…so, just trying to bring some of that feeling into our current day lives right now.”
Listen to Tenille Arts new song “Back Then, Right Now” right here, and now…
