Jake Owen is a pro at making music, but now he’s in a major motion picture for the very first time!
He has a role in the upcoming movie Our Friend.
Jake talked about his film debut, “I’ve never been in a ‘movie’ before so I won’t lie.. sitting down in front of Dakota Johnson, Jason Segel, and Casey Affleck and acting like I knew what I was doing, was a bit of a challenge. I’ve always loved a good challenge.”
He also posted a preview of the movie Our Friend with the message, “Wanted to share a little clip of a film I was a part of.”
Our Friend, which is out in theaters and available on streaming January 22, tells the inspiring and extraordinary true story of the Teague family—journalist Matt (Casey Affleck), his vibrant wife Nicole (Dakota Johnson) and their two young daughters—and how their lives are upended by Nicole’s heartbreaking diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt’s responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly overwhelming, the couple’s best friend Dane Faucheux (Jason Segel) offers to come and help out. As Dane puts his life on hold to stay with his friends, the impact of this life altering decision proves greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined.
Check out the trailer for the movie that includes Jake Owen, right here…
Sunday, January 10th, was the 3 year anniversary of Dan + Shay releasing their mega-hit “Tequila.”
In a couple of special social media posts, the duo shared messages with fans…
The first featured Dan Smyers playing “Tequila” on a piano with the caption, “We dropped TEQUILA 3 years ago today and y’all just took it to 6X platinum in the US. thanks to everyone who helped us make this song, and everyone who has listened. y’all changed our lives and continue to change our lives in more ways than you know we’ll be sitting here in our feelings all day, so feel free to drop a comment about the song, or use this video to record your own version. please make sure to tag us so we see ‘em all. “
Later, Shay Mooney added his vocals, with this message, “OK we dueted each other since we can’t be on the road to celebrate the 3 year anniversary of TEQUILA, this is the next best thing, right? in case u missed it, i posted a video this morning for y’all to sing on and we’ve been watching amazing covers all day. we figured it’d be fun to try our own (both parts recorded at home with iPhone). hope ya like it! and thanks for all the kind words about the song. it’s been an emotional day. “
Dan + Shay are currently knocking on the door to the number-one spot on the country airplay charts with “I Should Probably Go To Bed”…
Country music icon Loretta Lynn is getting ready to release her 50th studio album, Still Woman Enough, Friday March 19th, 2021.
The new project celebrates women in country music as Loretta pays tribute to the founding mothers, while singing new interpretations of her songs along side current female country music hit makers.
Loretta says, “I am just so thankful to have some of my friends join me on my new album. We girl singers gotta stick together.” Those friends include Reba McEntire, Tanya Tucker, Margo Price, and Carrie Underwood.
Loretta adds, “It’s amazing how much has happened in the fifty years since ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ first came out and I’m extremely grateful to be given a part to play in the history of American music.”
One of the tracks on Still Woman Enough is “Coal Miner’s Daughters Recitation” — a new version of the song that became Loretta’s calling card, as it not only was the title of her 1971 album, but also her 1976 memoir, and the 1980 Oscar-winning movie adaptation starring Sissy Spacek.
Still Woman Enough is produced by Loretta’s daughter Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash, the son of fellow country music legends Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.
The track list for the album includes…
01. “Still Woman Enough” (featuring Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood) (Loretta Lynn and Patsy Lynn Russell)
02. “Keep On The Sunny Side” (A.P. Carter)
03. “Honky Tonk Girl” (Loretta Lynn)
04. “I Don’t Feel At Home Any More” (Traditional, arrangement by Loretta Lynn)
05. “Old Kentucky Home” (Stephen Foster and Loretta Lynn)
Still Woman Enough will ring the bell as Loretta’s 50th studio album — but her total is a little higher, as the 10 duet projects she did with Conway Twitty are not counted in that 50 number.
Loretta Lynn is one of the most awarded musicians of all time. She has been inducted into more music Halls of Fame than any female recording artist, including The Country Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and was the first woman to be named the Country Music Association‘s Entertainer of the Year in 1972. Loretta also was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2003 and a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
Check out the trailer for Still Woman Enough from Loretta Lynn right here…
Still Woman Enough is available for pre-order now in in digital, CD and 12“ vinyl LP formats HERE
Exclusive Still Woman Enough merchandise bundles are also available: HERE
Niko Moon is climbing the country airplay charts with his debut song “Good Time” – and now he’s giving fans a little something special to listen to in 2021.
Niko released his Good Time Campfire Sessions EP – 6 songs captured live outdoors around a campfire, with accompaniment by guitarist Jared Martin and percussionist Jon August.
The tracks include…
01 “Good Time”
02 “Drunk Over You”
03 “Way Back”
04 “Paradise To Me”
05 “Good At Loving You”
06 “Dance With Me”
Check out Niko Moon’s Campfire Sessions version of “Good Time”…
Photo Credit: Matthew Berinato
Additional images courtesy of Sony Music Nashville
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Lady Vols held off a scrappy LSU squad in a back-and-forth affair on the road on Sunday, winning 64-63 in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
It was Tennessee’s first win in Baton Rouge in its last four trips, and Kellie Harper picked up her first career victory in the venue as a head coach and former Lady Vol player.
Junior Rae Burrell led Tennessee (8-1, 2-0 SEC), finishing with 18 points and three rebounds. Sophomore Tamari Key turned in a season-high 12 points and six rebounds, and sophomore Jordan Horston also found her way into double figures with 11 points.
LSU (4-6, 2-2 SEC) was paced by senior Khayla Pointer who logged 25 points and five assists. Tiara Young was the next highest scorer for the Tigers with 11 points and three rebounds.
Tennessee came out of the gate hot, jumping out to a 4-0 lead off a Key put-back and a steal and score by Horston in the opening minute. Pointer responded with four quick points for LSU, and the Tigers matched UT bucket for bucket through the next four minutes as the teams went into the media timeout with the score tied at 10. Following the break, Pointer gave LSU its first lead of the game with a 3-pointer, and Young followed it up with a layup to put the score at 15-10 by the 4:30 mark. UT closed the gap to one point in the closing minutes of the quarter, scoring primarily from the free-throw line, but a layup by Young at the buzzer gave LSU a 19-16 lead heading into the second quarter.
The Tigers stretched their lead back to five with an Ajae Petty layup on their first possession of the second period, but Jordan Walker answered with a trey on the other end for UT to cut it to two. The two-point deficit would hold until Pointer and Rakell Spencer combined for four-straight points to put LSU up 29-23 four minutes in. Key countered with a layup before the media break, and Marta Suárez followed it up with another following the timeout to pull UT within two with 3:23 left in the half. The Lady Vols continued to chip away, reclaiming the lead at 31-30 off a Davis jumper at the 1:33 mark. Young hit a pair of free throws to go back up by one, but Davis closed out the half with a layup to send UT into the locker room with a one-point advantage at 33-32.
LSU shot a hot 61.5 percent in the first quarter, but Tennessee held them to just 33.3 percent in the second. For the half, the Tigers shot 46.4 percent from the floor while UT managed an even 50 percent.
Key once again opened the scoring for UT, hitting a layup 20 seconds into the third period. Burrell followed it up with a layup off a Suárez steal, stretching UT’s lead to 37-32 by the 9:19 mark. The Tigers bounced back with a 5-0 run to tie the score at 37-all with 6:52 to play in the quarter. Kasiyahna Kushkituah hit a pair of free throws to put Tennessee up by two, but Pointer responded with a free throw and a layup to put LSU up 40-39 at the media timeout. Faustine Aifuwa added a layup before Burrell responded with five-straight points to put UT up 46-44 at the 3:14 mark. Pointer answered with back-to-back layups to provide the game’s eighth lead change, but Burrell closed out the period with a trey to send UT in the final stanza ahead 47-46.
Horston opened the fourth quarter with an old-fashioned three-point play, but Pointer and Awa Trasi combined to tie it up at 52-all with 6:36 left in the game. Horston put in a pair of free throws, but Karli Seay hit a jumper to tie it back up before Tennessee launched into a 6-0 run, fueled by Kushkituah and Burrell, to lead 60-54 with 3:19 remaining. The Tigers whittled the deficit to two before Key hit a layup to put UT’s lead back at four, but Pointer also hit a layup on the other end to keep LSU within striking distance. Horston again stretched UT’s lead to four, but Young scored on a 3-point play to put the score at 64-63 with only 28 seconds to play. LSU managed to get up a shot just before the buzzer, but the attempt was no good, and Horston came up with the rebound as time expired to move UT to 2-0 in SEC play.
Next Up: The Lady Vols return home to host Georgia on Thursday in a 6:30 p.m. ET contest that will be broadcast on the SEC Network.
Key Back In Double Digits: Sophomore Tamari Key logged a season-high 12 points, recording her first double-digit point total since scoring 17 against Ole Miss on Feb. 27, 2020.
Big-Time Boards: The Lady Vols out-rebounded LSU, 39-25. They have now won the rebounding battle in every game this season, out-rebounding opponents by an average of 47.7 to 31.3.
Kasi Heating Up: Over the last four games, senior Kasiyahna Kushkituah is averaging 10.3 ppg. and 5.3 rbg., a considerable improvement over the first five games of the season in which she averaged just 3.4 ppg. and 4.4 rbg.
Watch highlights from Tennessee basketball’s 68-54 win at Texas A&M on Saturday. Video courtesy of the SEC Media Portal. Vol Network broadcast call is heard throughout the highlights.
The Tennessee at South Carolina and Vanderbilt at Missouri men’s basketball games of Jan. 12 have been postponed due to a combination of positive tests, contact tracing and subsequent quarantining of individuals within the Missouri and South Carolina basketball programs, consistent with Southeastern Conference COVID-19 management requirements. Makeup dates for the two games have not been determined at this time.
With the cancelation of those two games, Tennessee will now play at Vanderbilt at 7 p.m. ET Tuesday, Jan. 12, on ESPN2. The Volunteers and Commodores will meet again in Knoxville on Saturday, Jan. 16, in a previously scheduled game at 6 p.m. ET on SEC Network.
At this time, Tennessee has no game scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 24 (the original date of its game at Vanderbilt).
The SEC’s COVID-19 management requirements, as developed by the SEC’s Return to Activity and Medical Guidance Task Force, are available on SECsports.com (PDF).
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