Did you catch Jason Aldean‘s recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live?
He performed his current single “Blame It On You” — you can watch the replay here…
Photo Credit: Joseph Llanes
Jennifer Nettles Talks About Motherhood & Her New Album on The Drew Barrymore Show
Jennifer Nettles appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show and made a new friend!
Jennifer says, “MEET MY NEW BESTIE Drew Barrymore.”
After her appearance on the show, Jennifer shared, “Drew – thank you for having me on The Drew Barrymore Show and letting me ramble about motherhood, my new Broadway record and making a girl date with me to go see a show together as soon as Broadway reopens!”
Check out their conversation here…
The new album from Jennifer that she’s talking about is called Always Like New – and is due out June 25th.
You can check out a track from Jen’s re-imagining of some of Broadway’s biggest hits right now…this is “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The Boat”
For a little “classic” Jennifer Nettles hit, here’s Sugarland‘s “All I Want To Do”
Photos Courtesy of Jennifer Nettles
Jake Owen’s “Made For You” Just Made It to Number-1
Congrats to Jake Owen – his “Made For You” is the number-one song this week on the country airplay chart.
Jake loves that fans are connecting with the songs he’s creating, “One thing for me that’s consistent is my love for music. I just love doing this. I love the entertainment aspect of it.”
Jake, like a lot of artists can’t wait to get back to the point where they can tour and bring their shows to fans night after night. When it comes to being on the road, and performing, Jake says, “I love the fact that I have the ability each night and just go out there and people show up and they’re just sitting there ready and they’re like, ‘Alright, entertain us, lets have fun tonight.’ And I like that responsibility. I like the responsibility of entertaining people and making sure that when they leave they go, ‘wow that was a lot of fun. I can’t wait to see that guy again.’ And hopefully we leave them with that impression.”
Well, this is one fans will be loving to see Jake sing on stage — check out the music video for his brand new number-one song “Made For You.”
Photo Credit: Robby Klein
Tenille Arts Recaps Her Month of April in 30 Seconds
Are you following Tenille Arts on social media?
If you’re not, you’re missing a lot.
Tenille shares her life and career with her fans, and every month, she does a 1 second recap of each day of the previous month…and April was a big month for her!
Check out Tenille’s look back at April 2021 right here…
April also brought us a new video from Tenille Arts — have you seen the music video for “Give It To Me Straight” yet? Check it out here…
Photo Courtesy of Tenille Arts
A Day In The Country – May 4th – with Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, Jimmie Allen, Kenny Chesney. Grace Potter, RaeLynn & Randy Travis
This is A Day in the Country with Paul Koffy – May 4th
On this day in 2020, “Nobody But You” by Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani was at number-one
In 2018, Jimmie Allen made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry – while not his debut, check out Jimmie singing his current single “Freedom Was A Highway” from a recent trip to the Opry stage…
On this day in 2011, Kenny Chesney released “You & Tequila” featuring Grace Potter.
Sending out a Happy birthday wish to RaeLynn, who joins Lathan Warlick on their song “Roots.”
Also sending out a very happy birthday to the one and only Randy Travis…
Photo Credit: Andrew Eccles
Dolly Parton Remembers Actress & Steel Magnolias Co-Star Olympia Dukakis
Back in late-80s Dolly Parton and Olympia Dukakis co-starred in the iconic movie Steel Magnolias with Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Daryl Hannah and Shirley MacLaine.
Saturday, Olympia passed at the age of 89.
Dolly remembered her friend and co-star, saying “I was so sorry to hear that Olympia Dukakis had passed away. She has been one of my favorite people that I have ever known or worked with. I really got very close to her and felt like we were good friends. Even though I didn’t get to see her much, I thought of her often and knew that she was such a quality human being. She will be missed by her fans, her family, and those of us that were lucky enough to get to know her personally.”
Fans of Steel Magnolias will remember these scenes from the movie…
Movie Clips Courtesy of Fandango Movieclips
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Jordan Davis Set to Release New EP, Buy Dirt – May 21st
Jordan Davis is climbing the country music airplay chart with his hit song “Almost Maybes” – now the announcement comes that he’ll have a new project arriving in 3 weeks – May 21st!
Jordan’s EP, Buy Dirt, features 8 tracks – 7 of which he co-wrote.
That 8th track he didn’t write is actually a song co-written by John Prine for John’s debut album, but it was another John…John Denver who made the song popular in the early 1970s, “Blow Up Your TV.”
Buy Dirt Track Listing:
- “Blow Up Your TV” (Written by John Prine and Jeffrey Bradford Kent)
- “Buy Dirt” (feat. Luke Bryan) (Written by Jordan Davis, Jacob Davis, Josh Jenkins, Matt Jenkins)
- “Need To Not” (Written by Jordan Davis, Jacob Davis, Josh Jenkins, Matt Jenkins)
- “Drink Had Me” (Written by Jordan Davis, Ashley Gorley, Emily Weisband, Paul DiGiovanni)
- “Lose You” (Written by Jordan Davis, Paul DiGiovanni, Josh Kerr, Josh Dorr)
- “Almost Maybes” (Written by Jordan Davis, Jesse Frasure, Hillary Lindsey)
- “I Still Smoked” (Written by Jordan Davis, Randy Montana, Jonathan Singleton)
- “Trying” (Written by Jordan Davis, Ashley Gorley, Emily Weisband, Paul DiGiovanni)
The music on the new EP was inspired by the last year…Jordan explains, “I’m in a different spot in my life than I was when I released Home State. We all are! 2020 was a tough time for everyone. I was able to use that time to recenter some things in my world, and I didn’t want those lessons to go to waste. I wanted to create something special. The best way to that was to write honestly, and we did a lot of that on this record.”
Jordan has a very special guest on the title track, “Buy Dirt” — Luke Bryan.
He shares how Luke got involved with the project, “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’.”
Check out the trailer for Jordan Davis’ EP – Buy Dirt, right here…
Here’s the music video for Jordan’s current single at country radio, “Almost Maybes.”
Pre-Save Jordan Davis’s “Buy Dirt” here: https://strm.to/JordanDavisBuyDirtEP
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Additional Photo Credit: Eric Ryan Anderson
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Alan Jackson Honors His Late Mother With Song on His New Album
Alan Jackson‘s new album, Where Have You Gone – arrives May 14th.
Among the 20 tracks, are some very personal songs for Alan, including one his wrote for his mom, “One song on there, especially I wrote when my mama died…I wrote for her funeral.”
Alan’s mom Ruth passed away 4 years ago, and at the time he wrote “Where Her Heart Has Always Been.” Alan shares, “I really love that track. It’s just really – I tried to write it in a way that I know she would appreciate it.”
When he first thought to add it to the collection, that would have been special enough, but thanks to Alan’s sister, now Ruth is joining her song on his latest project.
Alan explains, “After we had cut it and we were just about to finalize the record, my sister sent a recording of mama reading from the Bible for a Christmas story or something from a few years ago that I hadn’t heard, or I don’t remember if I had ever heard it. And I thought that would be cool to put that on there. So, we tried to pick a little piece of that that didn’t sound so Christmasy and put on there on the front end and that made it really, really sweet.”
Listen to the very personal track “Where Her Heart Has Always Been” from Alan Jackson, with a special spoken word piece by his mom Ruth included…
Headline Photo Credit: Russ Harrington
Additional Photo Courtesy of UMG Nashville
Michael Ray Has Tattoos for Family, Faith and Music
When you’re getting a permanent addition to you body, you want to make sure it means something, right?
Michael Ray has several tattoos, but each one has a personal connection to his life, “All my tattoos are either family based, religious based, or music based.”
He shares the story of one of his tattoos that honors his late grandmother, “So, my grandma, Penny, she passed away a couple of years ago, and I have a tattoo memory of my grandfather, and I wanted a tattoo for her. Her nickname was Penny, and I got a penny with my Grandmother’s birth year, 1942, on the date, on the inside of my arm.”
If he could change one thing about the tattoo…it would just be WHEN he got it. Turns out Michael got it on a show day, and it being on his arm, well, Michael admits “I started playing guitar that night…for the show, and it hurt like hell.”
But even with that night of pain Michael proudly says “it’s probably my favorite tattoo.”
The tribute joins other special tattoos he have honoring family members, “I feel like I got my grandparents with me, and got my dad with me.”
Check out this performance version of Michael’s current single at country radio, “Whiskey and Rain.”
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