Reba McEntire is returning to her role of “June” on the hit show Young Sheldon.
Reba shared “Sneak peek!!! On tomorrow night’s episode of Young Sheldon, Mary seeks June’s advice when looking for a change. Tune in at 8/7c on CBS!”
The “tomorrow” is now “tonight” as Young Sheldon airs on Thursdays.
Check out the clip that Reba shared…
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – For the second consecutive week and third time this season, a Lady Vol has won SEC Player of the Week as Ashley Morgan takes home the honor following Tennessee’s series win over No. 21 Georgia.
The senior was also selected as a Top Performer by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.
Morgan was on fire at the plate against UGA as she hit .600, reached base in her first six plate appearances and reached on 8-of-12 total plate appearances over the weekend. The Douglasville, Georgia, native finished the three-game series with a 1.200 slugging percentage.
The first baseman was perfect at the plate in Friday’s game one, going 3-for-3 with a run scored, a double, two RBIs and a solo home run. She followed up on Saturday with another run scored, a hit and a walk as UT took the series victory.
On Sunday, Morgan had a pair of two-RBI doubles as she closed out the weekend with six hits, two runs scored, three doubles, a home run, six RBIs and a walk.
Morgan joins Kiki Milloy and Ashley Rogers on the 2021 list of Lady Vol SEC weekly award winners. Milloy has been named Player of the Week twice this season, while Rogers has won Pitcher of the Week on three occasions.
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When it comes to Luke Combs‘ new single “Forever After All” – the song already had a very personal connection to the singer.
Luke shares, “I wrote this song obviously about my wife Nicole, and it was the first song that I had written in our new house that we live in here in Tennessee. It just felt like we were taking a huge step forward with our relationship and with our life, and wanted to encompass that in a song.”
So, when it came time to create a music video for the track, Luke says “It features footage from the best day of my life; the day I got to marry my best friend. I love you, Nicole Hocking”
Check out the video for “Forever After All” right here…
Photo Credit: Zack Massey
Did you catch Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall‘s recent performance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show?
The trio performed another track from their upcoming album, The Marfa Tapes…
Watch Miranda, Jack and Jon sing “Geraldene” right here…
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Gabby Barrett is enjoying a third week in a row in the number-one spot on the Billboard country airplay chart with “The Good Ones.”
April has turned into quite a month for her, and Gabby is blown away, “Oh my goodness, I truly cannot believe what an amazing few weeks it’s been. Winning the ACM Award for New Female Artist of the Year was such an incredible surprise! Then to top it off with ‘The Good Ones’ being number-1 at radio at the same time…and now that it’s been number-1 for 3 weeks straight…is just absolutely crazy. The way everything lined up is such a blessing to me and my family….and I am so thankful and humbled, by this, so thank you guys so much.”
Having a multi week number-one song puts Gabby in some pretty good company – Luke Combs did it earlier this year with his smash “Better Together” – and the last female artist to have 3 or more consecutive weeks in the top spot on the country music airplay chart was over a decade ago. Miranda Lambert did it with “The House That Built Me” also achieved the feat back in 2010.
Gabby knows this is not an easy task, and wants everyone to know she is very appreciative in the moment, “Thank you to the fans for loving this song. Thank you to country radio for playing it. And of course to our amazing lord Jesus above…everything good comes from his hand. And I also want to thank my very sweet husband for inspiring this song. So, thank you guys so much.”
When it comes to her husband, Cade Foehner did inspire Gabby to let the world know that she did indeed have a “good one,” “People would always come up and ask me ‘Oh, how’s your boyfriend? How’s this one?’ and I’d be ‘Oh, he’s a good one. He’s a keeper.’ So, I wanted to write a song, and kind of saying that he’s a good one, and it’s about him.”
Check out Gabby and Cade, performing the 3-time number-one song from this year’s 56th ACM Awards…
Photo Credit: Robby Klein
Trisha Yearwood appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show this week, but talking to Kelly Clarkson is nothing new for Trisha, ” You know, we’re buddies. We text all the time.”
But it has been a while since they’ve chatted in person, “We hadn’t seen each other in a year, ’cause none of us have seen each other in a year! So it was really nice just to see her face.”
Her trip to Kelly’s show was a first on a couple of levels – it was the first time Trisha made an in-person appearance on a talk show since the shutdown, and also since she had COVID herself, “I haven’t done anything, you know, like that. And there’s a virtual audience, you know – everything’s different. It was so cool.”
Of course with her friendship with Kelly, and the relaxed atmosphere…it was an easy time being on the show, “We had a lot of fun. We laughed a lot. I don’t know what they’re going to keep – there’s some things they probably should edit out, so we’ll see what happens, but…big shout-out to Kelly just for…just for being a friend.”
When it came to the actual conversation, Kelly was very interested in Trisha’s bout with COVID, and also wanted to know how Garth Brooks was, and if he had any illness. Trisha said that he did a great job of taking care of her, and never once worried about his own health. Trisha also said with Garth not getting COVID, or even feeling any side-effects from the vaccine shot, she’s more convinced than ever that he’s an “alien.”
Kelly and Trisha also played a round of “Yearwood or Wouldn’t” — answering what they would do in some pretty crazy scenarios.
Check out their conversation here…
Headline Photo Courtesy of The Kelly Clarkson Show
Additional Photo Courtesy of Trisha Yearwood
Recorded on his bus, check out this special acoustic version of Matt Stell‘s current single – “That Ain’t Me No More” from his Backstage Series.
Matt says, “This is how we work ’em up before they go in the set.”
WATCH it first on The Country Daily!
Photo Credit: Dustin Haney
Thomas Rhett is releasing Country Again – Side A this Friday, April 30th.
When the Country Again project was announced that it would be a double album, but come out at different times, fans were wondering “why?”
Now we know that Thomas’ little brother had a hand in helping make the decision.
Thomas had a lot of songs ready to go, and was first considering making it one long album, until he had a conversation with his brother, “I thank my 15-year-old brother for this split of this album because…he’s 15, and he’s super hip and he’s on the Tik Tok trend and all that kind of stuff, and I asked him, ‘If I were to put out a record that had 26 songs on it, do you feel like that’s something you could listen to?’ And he said ‘Absolutely not’ (laugh), and I said ‘How far would you get before you just switched it to something else?’ And he said ‘Maybe…maybe 8 songs.’ And I was like, ‘OK, that’s good intel.”
At first Thomas was thinking of his own personal preference when it came to getting new music from his favorite artists — like the recent triple album, Heart & Soul from Eric Church, “You know, if I love an artist…the more the better for me. You know what I’m saying, like, the fact Eric Church is releasing a triple album is like Christmas to me. I get to live with 3 and half hours of brand new Eric Church music…but I’m also 30-years-old and I have time to sit and actually do that.”
But the more he thought about it, and following the advice of his brother, Thomas Rhett started to think that splitting up the Country Again album into 2 parts was the best thing for the music, “You know I think a lot of times, songs can get really left behind when there’s too many of them at the same time, you know especially in the way that they’re sequenced. If I were to put 26 songs on the same record and I save my favorite one for number 26, how many people are actually going to get there?”
He adds, “So, I wanted to do a double album because I had too much music that I loved, and I wasn’t ready to part ways with. But that’s the reason I split it up…it’s so people can have a lot of time to digest these 11, and then when Side B comes out, they have time to digest those 12 to 15 songs…and then they can listen to it as a full project and understand why all these songs were recorded in the first place. So, if they were to listen to 26 songs straight down they’d probably just pick their favorite 4 and listen to those on repeat…rather than getting 11 and 12 to 15, they get to actually soak it in, and actually recognize each song for what it is.”
This Friday, April 30th, fans get the Side A of Country Again, with Side B coming later this year.
Check out the title track here…
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Priscilla Block‘s debut EP will be available to fans this Friday, April 30th.
“Just About Over You” – her current single at country radio is one of the tracks on the project, and earlier this month she shared another song from the EP, “Wish You Were The Whiskey.”
But now, Priscilla has revealed the full 6-song track list for fans on her social media with pictures to go along with the titles…
The track list is…
01 “Wish You Were The Whiskey”
02 “Just About Over You”
03 “Heels In Hand”
04 “Sad Girls Do Sad Things”
05 “Bad Part Of Good”
06 “I Bet You Wanna Know”
When it comes to the collection of songs on the EP, Priscilla says, “I feel like it is giving fans, and just people, more of a chance to get to know me. I feel like everybody knows me really well through social media, because I am so much of a watch you see is what you get kind of girl…and this dives a little bit deeper, into kind of every side of me. You know, you got the sass, you got the trash, and you got the sad. (laugh)”
Priscilla Block’s debut EP arrives this Friday April 30th — and it features her current single “Just About Over You”
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This is A Day in the Country with Paul Koffy – April 28th
On this day in 2019, the episode of Game of Thrones with Chris Stapleton‘s cameo airs on HBO. Last year, while promoting his album, Starting Over, Chris stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live, and talked about the experience.
In 2018, Jason Aldean‘s Rearview Town, was number-1 on the album chart — and it includes the number-one song “Drowns The Whiskey” featuring Miranda Lambert.
In 2016, Cole Swindell was wrapping up a 3-week run at number-one on the country airplay chart with his very personal song, “You Should Be Here”
And on this date in 2000 – Rascal Flatts made their Grand Ole Opry debut. From their first album, this is “I’m Movin’ On.”
Photo Courtesy of Chris Stapleton
