Lady A released a deluxe version of their 2012 holiday album, On This Winter’s Night, on Oct. 30.
On This Winter’s Night Deluxe features the 12 tracks from their 2012 album, with four new recordings: “Wonderful Christmastime,” “Little Saint Nick,” “That Spirit Of Christmas” and “Christmas Through Your Eyes,” which the trio co-penned.
“We’ve always loved the holiday season, but it has become even more magical now that we’re parents,” says Lady A’s Hillary Scott. “So, we thought we’d add on a new, original song that was inspired by our kids and our take on a few of our favorites, which has brought us so much joy. I think we could all use a little extra holiday cheer this year!”
Listen to Lady A’s new rendition of “Wonderful Christmastime” below. The holiday standard was written and recorded by Paul McCartney in 1979.
On This Winter’s Night Deluxe
“A Holly Jolly Christmas” (Johnny Marks)
“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector)
“All I Want For Christmas Is You” (Walter Afanasieff, Mariah Carey)
“I’ll Be Home For Christmas” (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram)
Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum hosted an online fundraiser via YouTube on Oct. 28 that featured a who’s who of country stars.
Big Night (At the Museum) paired country music stars with historic instruments for a one-of-a-kind night of music. Artists taking part included Alison Brown, Kane Brown, Brad Paisley, Dan Tyminski, Carlene Carter, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBryde, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw, Keb Mo, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart and The War and Treaty.
Brad Paisley and Dan Tyminski opened the program by performing Buck Owens’ “Buckaroo.” Brad played Don Rich’s 1964 Fender Telecaster and Tyminski played Buck’s red, white and blue American acoustic guitar.
During the free concert, viewers were encouraged to donate to the Museum through YouTube Giving. More than $500,000 has been raised.
Watch Brad and Tyminski’s performance below.
photo courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum
Cam released her highly anticipated sophomore album, The Otherside, on Oct. 30.
Over the past three years, Cam wrote the record with frequent collaborators Tyler Johnson and Jeff Bhasker in Los Angeles, Nashville and New York. The 11-song offering also features tunes co-penned by Sam Smith (“Happier for You”), Harry Styles (“Changes”) and Tim Bergling (“The Otherside”).
“I’ve got some stories to share from a formative chapter in my life,” says Cam. “Personal changes and perspective changes, learning to accept the jumble of darkness and light in myself and in others. It’s terrifying and electric and the point of being alive.”
The new project follows Cam’s 2015 major-label debut album, Untamed, which featured “Burning House,” “Mayday” and more.
Cody Johnson released an acoustic cover of Reba McEntire’s “Whoever’s in New England” on Oct. 30.
Filmed at Orb Recording Studio in Austin, Texas, the new clip features Cody performing the tune with his acoustic guitar. Reba scored a No. 1 hit with the single in 1986.
Cody and Reba recently joined forces for a new duet, “Dear Rodeo.” Penned by Cody and Dan Couch, the original version of “Dear Rodeo” is featured on Cody’s 2019 major-label debut album, Ain’t Nothing To It. The tune is a personal one for Cody, who spent many years riding rodeo bulls. The native of Sebastopol, Texas, gave up his quest to be a world champion, but he’s never gotten over his love of the sport. The song struck a chord with Reba, who grew up on her family ranch in Oklahoma competing in barrel racing.
Watch Cody’s new cover of “Whoever’s in New England” below.
Sam Hunt stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Oct. 28 to perform his new single, “Breaking Up Was Easy in the ’90s.”
Penned by Sam, Chris LaCorte, Zach Crowell, Josh Osborne and Ernest K. Smith, “Breaking Up Was Easy in the ’90s” is currently No. 37 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart after three weeks. The tune is featured on Sam’s No. 1 sophomore album, Southside, which was released in April 2020.
The new breakup song has Sam yearning for the days before smartphones and social media, as he croons the chorus: “I’m sick of sitting at the house / Dying on my phone / Wishin’ I was somewhere I could be alone / Try to let you go but somethin’ always reminds me / I bet breaking up was easy in the ’90s.”
Watch Sam perform “Breaking Up Was Easy in the ’90s” below.
With four children ranging in age from 1 to 17, Jason Aldean has his hands full at home. Add a pandemic to the mix, and Jason and wife Brittany are trying—like the rest of the country—to keep things in their household as normal as possible under anything-but-normal circumstances. For Jason, that means celebrating holidays like Halloween with his family, but staying as safe as possible.
As Jason told Kix Brooks of American Country Countdown, he’s planning to give his kids—Keeley, 17, Kendyl, 13, Memphis, 2, and Navy, 1—the best Halloween possible under the circumstances.
“You know, I really just kind of hate it for all these kids,” says Jason to Kix. “Whether it’s kids that can’t go trick-or-treating for Halloween or whether, you know, my oldest daughter is a senior in high school this year, so her senior year is weird, and it’s just a weird time for everybody. This whole thing is just kind of bizarre, and I think, you know, we’re just ready for some normalcy. So for us, I mean, our goal is even when things aren’t normal, like they are now, we try to at least make it as normal as possible. If that means all of us getting dressed up for Halloween and doing a scavenger hunt for the kids to go find candy—I don’t know what it’s gonna be at this point—but we’ll do something to make it fun for them until we can get past all this stuff.”
Family scavenger hunts, watching movies, playing games, making crafts and more are safe and fun ways to celebrated Halloween in 2020.
Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum hosted an online fundraiser via YouTube on Oct. 28 that featured a who’s who of country stars.
Big Night (At the Museum) paired country music stars with historic instruments for a one-of-a-kind night of music. Artists taking part included Alison Brown, Kane Brown, Carlene Carter, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBryde, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw, Keb Mo, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart and The War and Treaty.
During the show, Miranda paid tribute to John Prine by singing “That’s the Way That the World Goes ’Round” and accompanied herself with Prine’s David Russell Young custom-made guitar. Prine died in April from COVID-19 complications.
During the free concert, viewers were encouraged to donate to the Museum through YouTube Giving. More than $500,000 has been raised.
Watch Miranda’s performance below.
photo courtesy of Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum hosted an online fundraiser via YouTube on Oct. 28 that featured a who’s who of country stars.
Big Night (At the Museum) paired country music stars with historic instruments for a one-of-a-kind night of music. Artists taking part included Alison Brown, Kane Brown, Carlene Carter, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBryde, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw, Keb Mo, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart and The War and Treaty.
During the show, Tim McGraw played Keith Whitley’s C.W. Parsons acoustic guitar and sang Whitley’s “Don’t Close Your Eyes.”
During the free concert, viewers were encouraged to donate to the Museum through YouTube Giving. More than $500,000 has been raised.
Watch Tim’s performance below.
photo courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum
Halloween is right around the corner on Oct. 31, and it seems like everyone has a great story about the holiday, so we caught up with Luke Bryan, Gabby Barrett, Brett Eldredge, Ashley McBryde, Luke Combs, Eric Church and more to share their spooktacular tales.
Luke Bryan: Favorite Costume
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“Me and [wife] Caroline did one year where I dressed up as the old lady, and she dressed up as, as she called herself, a dirty old man. So, she went around acting like an old man saying snide comments to everybody. That was a fun one. The main thing is Caroline loves Halloween and always has.”
Ashley McBryde: Favorite Costume
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“My friends and I take Halloween really seriously, and we try to have a themed party every year. One year we did superheroes only. We did it in East Nashville where it was super likely there would be children stopping by for candy. We had Thor, and we had the Green Arrow, we had two different versions of Batman . . . we had 1960s Batman and we had the Dark Knight Batman, we had Penguin, we had the Hulk. I got to be Wonder Woman . . . My favorite part of it was, we’d sit on the porch and kids would come by and they would see super heroes, and they would tell their parents, ‘Mom! It’s Batman!’ and they would run up on the porch and we’d give them candy, and some of them were dressed as superheroes too! Of course, it’s Halloween. And we would say, ‘We’ve been fighting crime all night, where have you been?’ and they were like, ‘We’ve been getting candy!’ That was, hands down, my favorite Halloween, so that gets to be my favorite costume.”
Brett Eldredge: Favorite Costume
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“I actually got with a bunch of my friends and we dressed as Teletubbies—whatever those things are—and we went to a bar, and it was just a hit. It was so hot inside those suits, but I was having a great time and everybody just wanted to get pictures with us, and so, Teletubbies definitely has to be one of the craziest things you can be for Halloween.”
Gabby Barrett: Favorite Costume
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“My most memorable Halloween costume was definitely dressing up as Belle [from Beauty and the Beast]. I always loved pretty princesses when I was younger, and I remember Belle was my favorite princess, so I had a big poofy yellow dress on, and my mom did a little tiny bit of makeup on me, and it was the cutest thing ever, and that was my favorite by far.”
Trevor Rosen from Old Dominion: Favorite Costume
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“I had one Halloween where I waited too long to think of anything, so I told my mom, ‘I got it. I’m going to be a mummy.’ I didn’t have a costume, so I took toilet paper, and she was like, ‘I don’t think that’s a good idea.’ I just rolled toilet paper all around me to become a mummy, and shortly into trick-or-treating, it started to drizzle. By the time I got back to the house, I just had little pieces of toilet paper mashed to my body. I did still get candy, so it worked.”
Jon Pardi: Favorite Candy
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“Man! The candy corn is pretty good, and that’s seasonal, so it only kinda pops out during Halloween.”
Tenille Townes: Favorite Candy
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“I’m always more excited for the chocolate-kinda Halloween candy, that’s my favorite!”
The Brothers Osborne: Favorite Candy
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TJ: “I would say, Snickers, Baby Ruth, Kit Kat and Reese’s too.”
John: “I always hated those houses that would give you bad candy, though. You’re like, ‘C’mon. Step it up.’ Spend the extra dollar on a bag, you know?”
TJ: “A house when we were growing up used to give out whole candy bars. It was the best. You were like, ‘That house—that’s the honey hole of candy.’”
John: “I love it, and I love like at the end, like three or four days after Halloween, you would see what candy was left, and it was always like those crappy cheap candies, and they would just go stale.”
Luke Combs: Favorite Candy
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“I lived in an apartment complex at the time, and I’m like, ‘I’m gonna get a bag of these because the trick-or-treaters are gonna love these.’ I had one trick-or-treater, and I gave him like five, and then I had this whole bag, and I think I knew when I bought ’em, no one is gonna come trick-or-treating at my apartment. So, I think I was a little bit guilty of subconsciously of buying those and knowing I’d get to eat all of them if I bought them.”
Eric Church: Favorite Costume
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“My favorite Halloween costume really came, I remember, when I got a little older during my first year of college, there’s this thing they do every year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina called Halloween on Franklin Street. We drove down from Boone, North Carolina. I had a bunch of friends that went to University of North Carolina, and we didn’t have costumes and didn’t realize until we were on the way that we had to have costumes. So, we stopped at a costume place in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s Halloween, so there’s a run on everything and we couldn’t find anything. And we end up getting sent around, driving around town. We end up finding this hole-in-the-wall place, but they had the full costume, Sesame Street outfits. The real deal. The real ones [with] feathers and fur. We were Elmo, Cookie Monster and I was Big Bird, and the Big Bird was the actual Big Bird. It’s about 7-foot-4, and you looked out of the body and then you had these straps that went on since the head was a lot higher. There’s a lot of beer involved in Franklin Street, so we get down there and as the night went on, my straps broke, so the head would pivot. And so, I would be walking one way and the head would be facing the other, and it just became this funny . . . I didn’t know the head was on backwards. I had no idea. I see out of the body, so I’m just kinda walking around and people were talking to my ass-end [laughing]. The whole time people come up and start talking and go, ‘Hey, turn around.’ And I’d turn around, and they’d go, ‘No turn around.’ It was a mess. That year, there was no other Big Bird on Franklin Street.”
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