Dierks Bentley is still here with “Gone” on the country airplay chart — but now he’s also saying new music is coming!
While his latest track is getting ready to jump inside the Top 20, Dierks took to social media to announce, “Back in the studio with the band working on some new tunes. Album number 10…here we go!”
Stepping back in the studio is getting one step closer to returning to a routine that Dierks is familiar with…the next big step is returning to the stage and performing for fans.
Deirks says, “Country music is the best genre for storytelling, and I feel like we are realizing it probably now more than ever since we can’t congregate together at concerts, high five each other, sing and shout at the top of our lungs. A good country show is just about the greatest communion there is out there, we are all relying on lyrics and melodies at home and trying however we can to find different ways to connect with our fans, so that they know how important they still are to us…and I’m counting the days until we can all be back together again, beers in the air.”
Until then, you can sing along to Dierks’ latest song “Gone” — and enjoy all the different sides he shows in the music video for it…
Spending some time at home this week, Dylan Scott was playing his guitar when he started to strum out a song his dad wrote.
Dylan shares, “Playing guitar in my living room tonight and remembered an old song my dad wrote back when he lived in Nashville! The hook of this song kills me! So good!!”
Watch Dylan tell the story of how it was his dad who was the first Scott to try his hand at country music.
A few days early the tradition of Scotts performing continued with Dylan’s son Beckett opening a virtual concert with the cutest version ever of “Hooked”. Dylan explained how he was there to teach his son how to be a country performer, but it was the younger Scott who actually reminded his dad how to kick off “My Girl” when Dylan admitted that it’s been so long since he’s sang these songs, he kind of forgot how it started. As the father and son fun continued, Beckett started to lick his toes, to which he dad said you never lick your toes on stage in front of an audience…you wait to do that when you’re backstage.
While the whole at home concert is just over an hour–the first 20 minutes is a must see. Watch the Beckett Scott show right here…
Tennessee men’s basketball head coach Rick Barnes spoke to the media about the team’s preparation for the regular season finale vs. Florida for Senior Day.
Tennessee Lady Vols head coach Kellie Harper spoke to the media to look ahead to the 2021 SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament in Greenville, SC this week.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – With 19 years of combined collegiate and NFL experience in strength and conditioning, Kurt Schmidt has been named Tennessee football’s director of competition development, head coach Josh Heupel officially announced on Tuesday.
Schmidt, who has worked alongside Heupel for the past four seasons, is overseeing the Volunteers’ strength and conditioning and sports performance efforts. Schmidt served as the director of sports performance at UCF from 2018-20, an era that saw the Knights establish themselves as one of the fastest and fittest teams in college football.
UCF produced a 28-8 record during his tenure, won the 2018 The American Athletic Conference title and reached three straight bowl games, including the 2019 Fiesta Bowl. Schmidt developed strategy to integrate technology with performance on a daily basis, while also overseeing the weight room renovation of the Gault-Kohn Sports Performance Center.
Prior to his time in Orlando, Schmidt served as director of applied performance for football at Missouri in 2017 when Heupel was the Tigers’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He helped lead Mizzou to a 7-5 mark, including a six-game winning streak to end the regular season en route to a Texas Bowl berth.
Schmidt spent four years prior to his stop at Mizzou as a strength, conditioning and nutrition assistant with the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. With the 49ers, he was responsible for the training programs for quarterbacks and specialists, along with supervising the reconditioning program for athletes returning from injury. He initiated and coordinated a nutrition education program. During his first season of 2013, San Francisco compiled a 12-4 regular-season record, won back-to-back playoff games and earned a berth to the NFC Championship.
Before joining the 49ers, Schmidt was an assistant strength coach at Memphis from 2012-13. Prior to that he served on Arkansas’ staff from February 2008-January 2012 as strength and conditioning coordinator and spent two seasons as strength and conditioning assistant at Utah State from 2006-08. With the Aggies, he was promoted to interim head strength and conditioning coach in January 2008. During his time at Arkansas, the Razorbacks earned berths to the 2011 Sugar Bowl and 2012 Cotton Bowl with back-to-back 10-win seasons and a No. 5 final national ranking in 2011.
Schmidt got his coaching start as the assistant director of sports conditioning at Yale from 2002-03 before serving as a graduate assistant at Utah from 2003-04. He held the title of interim co-director of sports conditioning at Yale from November 2002-April 2003.
Schmidt is CSCS certified through the NSCA and holds a master’s degree from Louisville where he was a graduate assistant and assistant strength and conditioning coach for two seasons. During his tenure, the Cardinals claimed the 2004 Conference USA title with an 11-1 record and earned a berth to the 2006 Gator Bowl following a 9-2 regular season in 2005. Those squads finished No. 6 and No. 19, respectively, in the final Associated Press polls.
Schmidt earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise and sport science from Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2002 and played linebacker for the Eagles for four seasons from 1998-2001. As a senior, he was an honorable mention All-WIAC selection and a Verizon Academic All-District First Team member.
THE SCHMIDT FILE
PERSONAL INFORMATION Hometown: Elma, Iowa Education: Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2002 (B.S. in exercise and sport science); Louisville, 2005 (master’s in physical education) Wife: Trish
COACHING HISTORY
2002: Yale, Assistant Director of Sports Conditioning
2002-03: Yale, Interim Co-Director of Sports Conditioning
2003-04: Utah, Graduate Assistant of Strength and Conditioning
2004-05: Louisville, Graduate Assistant of Strength and Conditioning
2005-06: Louisville, Assistant of Strength and Conditioning
2006-08: Utah State, Assistant of Strength and Conditioning
2008: Utah State, Interim Head of Strength and Conditioning
2008-12: Arkansas, Strength and Conditioning Coordinator/Coordinator of Nutrition Education
2012-13: Memphis, Assistant Strength Coach
2013-17: San Francisco 49ers, Strength/Conditioning/Nutrition Assistant
2017: Missouri, Director of Applied Performance
2018-21: UCF, Director of Sports Performance
2021-present: Tennessee, Director of Competition Development
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Lady Vols had four players earn distinction from league coaches when the Southeastern Conference released its 2021 women’s basketball awards on Tuesday morning.
Senior forward Rennia Davis and junior guard Rae Burrell were named to the All-SEC Team. Davis was voted to the first team for the second straight season and picked up the third all-league honor of her career. Burrell, meanwhile, was selected to the All-SEC Second Team, collecting her initial league honor as a college player.
Sophomore center Tamari Key and rookie guard/forward Marta Suárez also drew notice, with Key making the five-player All-Defensive Team and Suárez grabbing a spot on the eight-member All-Freshman Team.
The 6-foot-2 Davis, who is in the running for several national awards, is averaging 16.9 points and 8.7 rebounds this season in 20 games while shooting 49 percent from the field and 83 percent from the free-throw line. In SEC play, Davis’ scoring numbers rise to 20.0 ppg. and 9.0 rpg. with shooting percentages of 52 percent on field goals and 85 percent on free throws. She is second on the team at 2.5 assists per game for the year.
Davis ranks 10th in all games among SEC peers in scoring and stands third in league play. She is ninth in rebounding in both all contests and vs. SEC foes. Her field goal percentage is seventh in all games and third in league play, respectively, while her free throw accuracy is first overall and second vs. SEC foes, respectively.
The Jacksonville, Fla., native has eight double-doubles and eight 20+ scoring games this season, including the last five contests in a row, ranking fourth and fifth at Tennessee, respectively, with career totals of 37 and 21 in those statistical categories. She is on track to finish in the career top 10 in scoring, scoring average, rebounds, rebound average and free-throw percentage at UT.
Burrell, meanwhile, has emerged as one of league’s most exciting players this season, putting up a team-leading 17.1 points per game, pulling down 4.3 rebounds per contest and shooting 47 percent from the field, 42 percent on three-pointers and 80 percent from the free-throw line. She is second on the team in steals (1.0), fourth in rebounding (4.3) and fourth in assists (1.9).
In SEC play, the 6-foot-1 Las Vegas product is producing 17.3 ppg. and hitting field goals at a 47-percent rate and free throws at an 81-percent clip. She ranks ninth in all games and 10th in league contests in scoring.
Burrell has tallied 20 or more points on six occasions this season and has led UT in scoring eight times. She and Davis, a potent combination known as Re and Rae, give Tennessee one the league’s top scoring duos this season.
Key, at 6-foot-5, has garnered respect from league coaches and players alike for her ability to block and alter shots as well as influence the actions of opposing offenses. After making her presence felt as a freshman, the Cary, N.C., product has demonstrated great improvement in 2020-21, further affecting opponents while staying on the floor longer during games by avoiding fouls that limited her minutes a year ago.
After averaging 2.774 blocks per game in 2019-20, Key has elevated that number is 2.857 as a sophomore, with those marks ranking third and now second, respectively, in school history for single season blocks average. Totaling 146 rejections in only two seasons, Key already has risen to No. 8 all-time at UT in career blocks. Those plays help UT rank as one of the nation’s best teams this season in blocks per game (5.4), field goal percentage defense (36.0), scoring defense (61.5) and rebound margin (+13.3)
Key, who is tied for second in the SEC in all games at 2.857 blocks and second in league play at 3.4, has bettered her rebounding (5.8), scoring (9.2) and shooting from the field (67 percent) as a sophomore as well. She is only the fourth Lady Vol ever to make the All-Defensive Team, following in the footsteps of Alexis Hornbuckle (2008), Kelley Cain (2010) and Glory Johnson (2011, 2012).
Suárez, 6-foot-2 reserve, has made an impact in her first season in Knoxville. While a nagging lower extremity issue has limited her playing time and effectiveness since late January, her abilities and contributions to UT’s success have been noted. Her versatility to play multiple positions and handle the ball at times have been valuable assets for the Lady Vols.
The native of Oviedo, Spain, was averaging 6.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and shooting around 45 percent from the field per game prior to her injury, and she started the team’s first 14 games. While her season numbers have ebbed to 4.5 ppg., 3.8 rpg. and 41 percent shooting from the field, she is still providing valuable spot minutes to the team and continues to stretch defenses with her growing confidence from the three-point arc.
Suárez is UT’s third member of the current team to make the All-Freshman Team, following Davis in 2018 and Jordan Horston in 2020.
The 14th-ranked Lady Vols (15-6, 9-4 SEC) head to Greenville, S.C., this week, where they will play on Friday at approximately 8:15 p.m. ET at the SEC Tournament. No. 3 seed Tennessee will meet the winner of Thursday’s No. 6 seed Arkansas vs. No. 11 seed Ole Miss contest on Friday evening at Bon Secours Wellness Arena.
Have you seen the moment that Carly Pearce found out that she is a 3 time nominee for this year’s ACM Awards?
Carly shared the video of getting the news from her record label chief Scott Borchetta, and added “I have not one but THREE and one of those is FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR!! I truly have no words. Thank you thank you thank you, gonna go cry all day.”
Carly’s nominations are for Female Artist of the Year, Single of the Year and Musical Event of the Year, both for her song with Lee Brice, “I Hope You’re Happy Now.”
Her nominations follow the release of her music project 29, which has had fans reaching out to Carly about the impact that the songs in the collection have been having on them. Carly responded to the fan feedback with “I am overwhelmed by the sweet messages that y’all have shared in reaction to 29. These songs are what saved me and I’m so touched to hear how they’ve helped you.”
The song from the 29 collection that is at country radio right now is “Next Girl” — check out the video right here…
The same day Scotty McCreery‘s music video for “You Time” debuted on CMT Television, it also got its Broadway debut in New York City’s Times Square on a massive digital billboard. Seeing his own likeness that large Scotty said it was “Almost like being on a movie screen.”
When it came to filming the music video for “You Time” Scotty was thrilled because due to quarantine he hadn’t been able to see his band and crew in-person in a long time. Scotty says “We had a blast filming my new ‘You Time’ video. Was so great to hang out all day with the guys in my band.”
Check out the music video for yourself right here…Scotty shares that “You Time” was inspired by wanting time with his wife Gabi…
Tenille Arts loves sharing elements of her life on social media as a way to keep in touch with her fans.
All the updates makes it very easy for Tenille to look back…as she does her monthly video recaps…with one second clips.
In this one, Tenille looks back on the shortest month of the year–but one of her busiest as well.
The final two seconds are both drinks — and that’s probably because in the 26th second clip, Tenille found out that she’s an ACM Award nominee this year for New Female Artist of the Year!
In a clip that’s a little longer, Tenille shares the moment that she found out about the nomination…
The video came with her comment “I truly can’t find a single morsel of chill. Neither can my hands or legs.”
Tenille added, “Seriously…. being nominated for my first ACM Award is beyond a dream come true. To be nominated alongside my friends & artists I admire so much is even better.”
Let’s hope April includes an amazing one second recap for Tenille on the 18th.
Tenille also continues to climb the country airplay chart as gets closer to dipping inside the Top 10 with “Somebody Like That”…
