Florida Georgia Line‘s Life Rolls On is still a little over a month away from being released on February 12th, but the guys are sharing with fans today one of the new tracks from album!
“New Truck” is all about the excitement of getting a new ride!
FGL’s Tyler Hubbard says “With ‘New Truck’ we were like, ‘Man, this feels good. I just want to ride around in my truck, listen to this, and have a song to jam to.’” Tyler adds, “When any of our buddies get a new truck now, we can send it to them and say, ‘Yo, bump this in the truck!’”
FGL’s Brian Kelley agrees, “It feels really different and fresh. It’s got a fun innocence about it too.”
Check out the lyric video for “New Truck” right here…
Florida Georgia Line’s Life Rolls On — available February 12th — includes “New Truck”, along with their current Top 20 single “Long Live” and their latest number-one (the 17th of their career) “I Love My Country.”
Check out the track list for the rest of the album…
1. “Long Live” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder, David Garcia, Josh Miller
2. “Life Looks Good” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder, Jaren Johnston
3. “Countryside” – Blake Redferrin, Jake Rose, Michael Whitworth
4. “Always Gonna Love You” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Ross Copperman, Corey Crowder, Michael Hardy
5. “I Love My Country” – Kane Brown, Corey Crowder, Chase McGill, Ernest Keith Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, Will Weatherly
6. “Hard To Get To Heaven” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder, Josh Thompson
7. “Long Time Comin’” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Jordan Schmidt, Canaan Smith
8. “Interlude” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder
9. “Ain’t Worried Bout It (Album Version)” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder, Dallas Davidson, Ben Hayslip
10. “Beer:30” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder, Canaan Smith, Ernest Keith Smith
11. “New Truck”* – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder, Jeff Gitelman, Raysean Hairston, Blake Redferrin, Priscilla Renea
12. “Eyes Closed” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Ross Copperman, Corey Crowder, Michael Hardy
13. “Second Guessing (From Songland)”** – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder, Ester Dean, Andrew DeRoberts, Shane McAnally, Griffen Palmer, Ben Simonetti, Ryan Tedder, Geoff Warburton
14. “Good To Me” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder, Canaan Smith
15. “U.S. Stronger” – Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley
16. “Life Rolls On” – Ben Burgess, Alysa Vanderheym, Emily Weisband
Photo Credit: John Shearer
Additional images courtesy of BMLG Records
The sophomore effort from Morgan Wallen is available today!
Dangerous: The Double Album arrives with 30 tracks, and Morgan says each one will give the listener something different, “I felt every song is unique and told a unique story, and I was proud of all of them…so, we just kind of said ‘Why not’.”
Morgan shared that when the idea for the double album was originally brought up, he didn’t think there was anyway he could complete something like that — then 2020’s quarantine hit, and he did have the time.
Morgan thinks that the same time at home that gave him the opportunity to create the 30 songs for Dangerous: The Double Album, is the same thing that will create a demand in fans for new music.
So, having a maximum offering of songs at this moment in time, might be just what fans are searching for, Morgan says “Especially right now, I think people are really eager for music and they need music…I need it. So, I don’t know, it just seemed like the right time to do something like this. It was a lot of work, but it’s been very rewarding so far, and I’m really proud of what we came up with.”
The double album’s title is taken from a very personal song for Morgan, “I wrote that song after I got into a little bit of trouble. We added a love interest story, into the song, just to make it…hopefully relatable to a larger amount of people, but it’s honestly a song that I wrote to myself a couple of weeks later, it was…I felt like I learned some things. I wanted to write it to myself, like a letter almost. That song is unique in that perspective.”
Turning that lesson song into the name of this project just made total sense to him, “It just felt right…in a way, to be able to write a song to myself. It just seemed like this album…what a better way to describe the album too. Lessons I’ve learned, and things I want myself to know so it felt just appropriate to title the whole project that.”
When it comes to lessons learned in life, and lessons learned with his status as a public figure, Morgan is doing the best he can, “I wasn’t raised up to understand how to handle it…I don’t think my mom cultivated me to be famous, I’m just…still just figuring it out. Most of the time I feel like I got my hands on the reigns pretty good.”
Dangerous: The Double Album from Morgan Wallen is available now–featuring 30 tracks which includes his latest smash hit that is climbing the charts…”7 Summers” which you can check out right here.
Photo Courtesy of Big Loud Records/Republic Records
In her song “Somebody Like That” Tenille Arts sings “the real thing won’t be easy, it may take a while,” which she says has some truth in it, “It’s very hard to love without limits, because I think if you are hurt in the past by certain things, you immediately put up a wall or…for me in a new relationship it always takes me a minute to be like ‘Why do I feel that way? Oh yeah, it’s because this happened in the past.'”
Tenille says it’s not just about dealing with your past when you’re in a relationship, but it’s also working through the other person’s as well, “It’s also trying to figure out, why does that person feel that way. If they get upset about something, you have to dive in past and be like ‘Oh, this is why they feel that way.'”
When pasts collide, Tenille admits, “I think that does put up kind of barriers in everybody.”
“Somebody Like That” lists all the things that can go wrong with love, but then pivots to the promise of uncompromising love, Tenille says “Hopefully you find somebody who can just knock all of those barriers down.”
Check out Tenille’s Top 20 hit “Somebody Like That.”
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee opened SEC play with a victory over No. 13/13 Arkansas at home on Thursday night, winning 88-73 via an impressive 53.6 shooting percentage.
Senior Rennia Davis and junior Rae Burrell paced UT (7-1, 1-0 SEC), each turning in 26 points. Davis recorded her 33rd career double-double with an all-around effort, adding 11 rebounds, five assists and two steals to go along with her season-high point total. Senior Kasiyahna Kushkituah and sophomore Jordan Horston were also in double digits, chipping in 11 each.
UA (10-3, 1-2 SEC) was led by Chelsea Dungee who finished with 30 points and seven rebounds. Destiny Slocum and Amber Ramirez were also in double digits with 17 and 15, respectively.
Marta Suarez put Tennessee on the board first with a layup in the first 30 seconds, but Arkansas wasted no time catching up with Daniels pouring in five straight points and Ramirez topping it off with a layup to put the Razorback up 7-2 just over two minutes into the game. Burrell heated up two minutes later, scoring on back-to-back possessions to pull UT within one at 9-8 by the media break. Dungee hit a layup immediately following the break to stretch UA’s lead to three, but Davis followed it up with a layup of her own, setting off an 8-0 run to put UT up by five with just over a minute left in the quarter. Arkansas closed out the period with five straight points to trail by just one, heading into the second at 18-17.
Both sides came out of the break hot, with each team scoring on its first three possessions. Arkansas hit three straight treys while Tennessee countered with seven points of its own before forcing two stops that Davis and Burrell punctuated with buckets on the other end, putting the Lady Vols up 29-26 by the 7:26 mark. Dungee broke the drought for the Razorbacks, converting on an old-fashioned three-point play and following it up with a single free throw on the next possession to give Arkansas a one-point lead. Burrell converted on a jumper just before the media timeout, and Kushkituah followed it up after the break, fueling an 8-0 run that put the Lady Vols up 37-30 with 3:23 remaining in the half. UA rallied back with five straight points from Dungee and Ramirez, but Burrell responded by knocking down a contested trey, and Davis followed it up with a layup on the next possession to put UT back up by seven with a halftime score of 42-35.
Tennessee carried its momentum through to the second half as Burrell and Tamari Key combined for the first five points of the period, stretching UT’s lead to 12 by the 8:11 mark. Dungee converted on a three-point play and followed it up with a trey on the next possession to single-handedly fuel a 6-2 Arkansas run that made the score 49-41 with seven minutes remaining in the quarter. The teams then traded buckets until Jordan Walker knocked down a trey with just over four minutes remaining. Davis followed it up with a fast-break layup, and Horston capped it off with a block that resulted in three points on the other end, moving the score to 60-44 less than a minute later. Slocum countered with a trey for the Razorbacks, but Kushkituah hit a layup and Burrell came up with the steal and the score on the next possession to stretch the margin to 17. UA rallied back within 12 with one minute to go, but
Burrell and Davis closed out the quarter with a combined six points while holding the Razorbacks to three to send the game into the final stanza with a score of 70-55.
Arkansas kicked off the fourth with five quick points by Slocum and Taylah Thomas, but Davis hit a layup to set off a 6-0 run that put the Lady Vols back up by 16 with 6:27 to play. UT would build its lead to as many as 20 before Arkansas rallied back with a 7-0 run to pull within 13 with just under two minutes to go. Tennessee, however, closed things out with a comfortable advantage, winning 88-73.
Up Next: Tennessee hits the road to face LSU on Sunday in a 1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET matchup. The game will be streamed on SECN+.
Dominating the Paint: The Lady Vols out-rebounded the Razorbacks 49-36 and outscored them in the paint, 52-20. Tennessee has now out-rebounded every opponent, besting them by an average of 48.8 to 32.1.
“Re” Making Moves:Rennia Davis’ 26 points moved her past the 1,500-point mark to a total of 1,512 career points, surpassing Daedra Charles (1,495), Michelle Snow (1,497), Gwen Jackson (1,508) and Bashaara Graves (1,509) to move into 20th place on UT’s all-time scoring list. Additionally, she recorded 11 rebounds to push her career total to 803 and become just the 19th Lady Vol to join the 800-rebound club.
Big-Time Bench Play: Tennessee’s bench outscored UA’s bench, 20-0. It’s the seventh time this season UT’s bench has outscored the opponents’ and the first time it has held an opponent’s reserves scoreless.
Defense Limits High-Scoring Razorbacks: Coming into the contest, Arkansas owned a scoring average of 88.9 ppg. while holding opponents to just 70.3 ppg. The Lady Vols basically flipped the script in beating UA, 88-73. The 73-point total was the Razorbacks’ lowest of the season. A big reason for the lower total was UT limiting Arkansas to only 31.9 percent shooting from the field. It was the seventh time in eight games the Lady Vols had held an opponent to 32 percent or lower.
Another Happy Opener: Tennessee improved to 33-6 all-time in SEC openers, including 18-3 at home. It marked the Lady Vols’ seventh straight victory in a league opener, improved UT to 5-0 vs. Arkansas in conference lid-lifters and pushed the Big Orange’s all-time series margin to 31-5 vs. the Razorbacks.
Make It Two Wins Over Top-15 Teams: After defeating No. 15/15 Indiana in Bloomington, 66-58, on Dec. 17, the Lady Vols picked up their second win over a ranked team with the 88-73 triumph over No. 13/13 Arkansas. It marked the first time Tennessee had recorded two or more victories over a ranked opponent in the same season since 2017-18.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee infielder Max Ferguson was named to the Perfect Game/Rawlings Preseason All-America second team this week.
The sophomore infielder led the SEC with nine stolen bases while batting .333, scoring 12 runs and hitting two homers in 13 games played during the shortened 2020 season.
Entering his third season with the Vols, Ferguson has been tabbed one of the top 2021 MLB Draft prospects by D1Baseball.com (No. 24) and Baseball America (No. 48).
During his two seasons on Rocky Top, Ferguson has totaled 32 hits, 23 runs scored, 15 RBI, 27 walks, and 13 stolen bases despite missing a large portion of his freshman season due to injury.
Ferguson was one of 14 SEC players named to Perfect Game’s three preseason All-America teams. The honor marks the first All-America recognition for Ferguson during his career. The Florida native was named to the SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll in 2019 and 2020.
To see Perfect Game’s complete list of All-America teams, click HERE.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Los Angeles Athletic Club announced the John R. Wooden Award® presented by Wendy’s® Midseason Top 25 Watch List, and Tennessee’s Rennia Davis is among the players in consideration.
Chosen by a poll of national college basketball experts based on their performances during the 2020-21 season thus far, the list consists of 25 student-athletes who are front-runners for the sport’s most prestigious honor.
The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2021 John R. Wooden Award Women’s Player of the Year presented by Wendy’s. Players not chosen to the preseason or midseason list are still eligible for the Wooden Award™ National Ballot.
Davis, a 6-foot-2 senior guard/forward from Jacksonville, Fla., is averaging 12.3 points and 8.1 rebounds per game while shooting 45.6 percent from the field and 76.9 percent from the free-throw line. After a slow start this season, the SEC’s second-leading returning scorer has put up 15.7 ppg. and 10.7 rpg. with a pair of double-doubles over the past three contests. She has hit 59.4 percent (19-32) from the field, 60.0 (3-5) on threes and 100.0 (6-6) on free throws during that span, which included an upset of No. 15 Indiana in Bloomington on Dec. 17.
In the most recent game vs. Lipscomb, Davis helped UT improve to 6-1 on the season with a 19-point, 11-rebound double-double. It marked the 32nd of her career, tying her for sixth in Lady Vol history with hall-of-famer Tamika Catchings.
Davis is on her way to becoming one of only five Lady Vols who rank in the top 10 in both career scoring and rebounding average. The others are Patricia Roberts, Chamique Holdsclaw, Candace Parker and Catchings. She also is in the process of becoming only the 13th UT woman to average double figures in scoring all four years of her career.
The National Ballot consists of 15 top players who have proven to their universities that they meet or exceed the qualifications of the Wooden Award. Voters will rank in order 10 of those 15 players when voting opens prior to the NCAA Tournament and will allow voters to take into consideration performance during early round games.
The Wooden Award All American Team™ will be announced the week of the “Elite Eight” round of the NCAA Tournament. The winner of the 2021 John R. Wooden Award will be presented by Wendy’s following the NCAA Tournament in April.
About the John R. Wooden Award
Created in 1976, the John R. Wooden Award Program hosts the most prestigious honors in college basketball recognizing the Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player for men and women, the Wooden Award All American Teams for men and women and the annual selection of the Wooden Award Legends of Coaching recipient.
Honorees have proven to their university that they meet or exceed the qualifications of the John R. Wooden Award as set forth by Coach Wooden and the Wooden Award Steering Committee, including making progress towards graduation and maintaining at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA. Previous winners include Larry Bird (’79), Michael Jordan (’84), Tim Duncan (’97), Kevin Durant (’07), Candace Parker (’07; ’08), Maya Moore (’09; ’11), Chiney Ogwumike (’14), Breanna Stewart (’15; ’16) and last year’s recipients, Sabrina Ionescu of Oregon and Obi Toppin of Dayton.
Since its inception, the John R. Wooden Award has contributed nearly one million dollars to the universities’ general scholarship fund in the names of the Wooden Award All American recipients and has sent more than 1,000 underprivileged children to week-long college basketball camps. Additionally, the John R. Wooden Award partners with the Special Olympics Southern California (SOSC) each year to host the Wooden Award Special Olympics Southern California Basketball Tournament. The day-long tournament brings together Special Olympics athletes and Wooden Award All Americans and coaches in attendance. It is hosted at the Los Angeles Athletic Club during the John R. Wooden Award Weekend.
For up-to-date information on the Wooden Award, please go to www.woodenaward.com and follow the Wooden Award on Facebook at www.facebook.com/woodenaward and @WoodenAward on Twitter and Instagram.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Nine team blocks and an all-around outing from senior Wooden Award candidate John Fulkerson propelled the ninth-ranked Tennessee basketball team past Arkansas, 79-74, on Wednesday at Thompson-Boling Arena.
Over the course of the night, Tennessee (8-1, 2-1 SEC) committed just five turnovers, while forcing Arkansas (9-2, 1-2 SEC) to turn it over 20 times.
Fulkerson stuffed the stat sheet Wednesday, scoring 16 points, reeling in eight rebounds, blocking three shots and dishing off three assists.
National Defensive Player of the Year candidate Yves Pons blocked another four shot attempts, upping his career total to 110 and moving him into 15th on the program’s career blocks list. After turning down an invite to last year’s NBA Draft Combine and returning to Rocky Top, Pons has opened SEC play with 13 total blocks through the first three league games.
Pons also scored six points and pulled in three rebounds in Wednesday’s win.
James added nine rebounds, three blocks and a steal, while Bailey added a block and a steal to his own stat line.
Freshman wing Keon Johnson scored a season-high 14 points on 4-of-8 shooting and knocked down all six of his attempts from the foul line—all of which came in the contest’s final two minutes.
Arkansas controlled a large majority of the opening half, knocking down 57 percent of its shot attempts to take a 40-33 lead into halftime.
Out of the break, the Vols reeled off a 9-2 run, with Fulkerson scoring seven of those points to knot things up at 42 apiece with just more than 15 minutes remaining.
The next eight minutes were a back-and-forth affair, with the programs trading the lead twice as the Vols took a slim, 61-59 advantage into the night’s final 7:48.
Tennessee used a number of timely defensive stops and 10 consecutive makes from the foul line in the final minutes to seal the five-point victory.
Turn Me Up: Tennessee’s five turnovers were the fewest committed by the Vols this season, and the +15 turnover margin was the team’s best of the season.
Up Next: Tennessee hits the road this weekend for a Saturday afternoon matchup with Texas A&M. The opening tip from Bryan-College Station is slated for 2 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
Last November Carly Pearce shared with fans the raw emotional moment that was captured when she was presented with the news that she and Lee Brice won the CMA for Musical Event of the Year for “I Hope You’re Happy Now.”
She was doing an interview from home at the time…
Carly now shares that the trophy has arrived!
Along with her smiling photo, Carly added “My team surprised me yesterday with this gem. I have dreamt of winning one of these since I was 5 years old, so there were plenty of tears when I held my very own with my name on it in my hands. Thank you country fans & thank you CMA Country Music Association”
Congrats again to Carly Pearce and Lee Brice on their CMA win, and check out their winning collaboration right here, “I Hope You’re Happy Now.”
Morgan Wallen‘s sophomore effort Dangerous: The Double Album arrives in stores and online in less than 24 hours.
When the process to make his follow-up project to his debut If I Know Me began early last year, Morgan knew he had 20 songs already available, but wasn’t quite sure what to do with them, “At the beginning of 2020, we probably had about 20 songs that we felt were ready to be recorded…that we felt were worthy of being recorded. You know, 20 is a weird number, you can either whittle it down to 15, or you can do…maybe put out 5 here, 10 there, something like that.”
Then after a conversation with his manager, Morgan shares that an idea emerged, “There’s all kinds of things you can do with 20, but we just for some reason gravitated towards the idea of a double album.”
Even with 20 songs already available, Morgan still didn’t think a double album was a viable option, “I personally didn’t think it was going to be possible just because I scheduled to do a lot of touring in 2020…I didn’t think I was going to have enough time to put that much effort, and the proper amount of effort into doing an album like that, so I just kind of passed it off as a pipe dream almost.”
Of course all of this was in consideration very early in 2020 when Morgan’s touring and appearance schedule looked jam-packed…but then as we all know, quarantine hit.
Morgan shares, “When everything happened the way it did…I thought, ‘Well, maybe this might be possible.’ Fortunately, I was able to write 4, 5 songs really at the beginning of quarantine, kind of just right off the bat. Which got us to a number of about 25, that made me feel confident that it would be actually something we could do. We ended up with 30, it’ll be 32 eventually when the exclusive tracks come out, but that was never the goal number, we didn’t really have a goal number in mind, it’s kind of just what happened.”
From pipe dream to reality, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album is heading to fans tomorrow, January 8th, with 30 awesome songs.
One of the 30 tracks is climbing its way up the country airplay chart right now. Check out the music video for “7 Summers” right here…
Have you also checked out the short film inspired by Morgan’s “7 Summers”–it connects the dots that you see in the music video?
When you have a little unexpected quiet time, what do you like to do?
Tenille Townes recently had a little time to kill, so she started to write a song.
Why did she have time to kill? Turns out that she locked her keys in her truck…which evidently, she’s quite good at.
Tenille shared her oops moment with her friends and fans on social media with the following message…
“Well, I spent a little time writing a song on my phone in a parking lot on my tailgate today waiting for a lock out from AAA… They may or may not have told me on the phone that I’m officially out of free ones that come with my membership ha…. this is really a problem lately…. I gotta quit locking my keys in “
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