Reba McEntire is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her 1990 album, Rumor Has It, by re-releasing the project on Sept. 11. Reba’s iconic album featured four Top 10 hits, including “You Lie,” “Rumor Has It,” “Fancy” and “Fallin’ Out of Love.”
The vinyl version of the re-released album features a bonus track: an acoustic version of “Fancy” that was recorded live at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The digital and CD versions of the re-released album feature the aforementioned acoustic version of “Fancy,” as well as a new dance remix of “Fancy” by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Audé.
“I never imagined I’d get the chance to put out an album for a second time,” says Reba. “It’s just so much fun to look back and remember where we were and what we were doing when they were originally released. This album, in particular, is very special to me because it was the first time I got to record with [producer] Tony Brown and he was the reason I finally got to record ‘Fancy.’ Now here we are 30 years later and I never end a show without singing that song.”
Listen to Reba’s new dance remix of “Fancy” below.
Russell Dickerson and wife Kailey welcomed their first child—a baby boy named Remington Edward Dickerson—on Sept. 10.
Russell revealed the news via Twitter on Sept. 11, saying, in part: “BABY RD IS HERE!!!!!! I’m so excited to introduce the newest member to the #RDFam, Remington Edward Dickerson.”
Russell and Kailey were married in 2013.
Russell is trying to score his fourth No. 1 single with “Love You Like I Used To,” which is currently No. 19 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. The Top 20 tune, which is the first sample of new music from Russell’s upcoming sophomore album, serves as a love letter to Kailey.
“The beginning of this song is intentionally different from me,” says Russell. “It makes you think it is a breakup song, but it is really a lead up to how great loves evolve and get better over time. Like all of my songs, I’ve lived it. I started dating my wife 10 years ago, and it is true—I don’t love her like I used to, and I think a lot of people will be able to relate to this song. It’s a really special song that I’m crazy proud of!”
After topping the charts with “Yours” and “Blue Tacoma” in 2018, Russell scored his third No. 1 single with “Every Little Thing” in November 2019. All three of Russell’s No. 1 songs are featured on his 2017 debut album, Yours.
Lee Brice released a new video for “Hey World,” featuring Season 7 The Voice alum Blessing Offor.
The new tune is the title track to Lee’s upcoming fifth studio album, which will drop on Nov. 20. Lee released the album’s hope-filled title track in May to address the COVID-19 pandemic. “Hey World” was penned by Lee, Dallas Davidson and Adam Wood in late March after the guys found themselves inundated with a negative news cycle regarding the pandemic.
“We wrote this song from an introspective, truthful place and probably what most people are actually feeling right now,” says Lee. “With everything that is happening in the world currently and how fast paced we are as a society in general, sometimes you just want everything to stop—just to appreciate what we do have. People are suffering and it can’t be ignored.”
The upcoming album’s lead single, “One of Them Girls,” is currently No. 4 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.
Hey World will follow the release of Lee’s 2017 self-titled album, which spawned No. 1 hit, “Rumor,” and Top 20 hit, “Boy.”
“Hey World is just my next step in life,” says Lee. “Where I am, who I am, what I love, and what I feel. From the songs, to the production, to the order they play in, I always have and still do make it my goal to get better and better at what I do. Short of my family, my wife and friends, my music is the deepest part of me. So, I am overjoyed to say that I think I have made my best project to date. I stand by everything I have ever done, but pull from it as well to help me exceed my own expectations. Because of my team, my co-producers, my engineers, my label, I was able to make what I hope will be my most successful album to date.”
The Americana Honors & Awards on Sept. 16 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium has been cancelled. The ceremony is usually the centerpiece of AmericanaFest, which typically features more than 100 artists performing at different venues throughout Nashville, however, this year’s AmericanaFest was cancelled earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plans are being made to announce the winners of the 2020 Americana Awards later this fall.
Americana Music Association executive director Jed Hilly released a statement on Sept. 11, which you can read below.
Dear Friends,
I trust you and your loved ones are well. I write today to inform you that despite all our hope, logistical wrangling and passion, we have concluded that it would not be safe to conduct the Americana Honors & Awards at the wonderful and historic Ryman Auditorium next Wednesday, September 16, 2020.
We’ve carefully evaluated safety measures both with an audience and without. It is our conclusion that if just one person walked out of the Ryman with COVID-19, we would not be able to forgive ourselves. We are making new plans to celebrate the nominees and to proclaim the winners later this fall, and we hope to have details on that shortly with an official announcement date soon.
Like so many others in the industry, the impact of COVID-19 has made things difficult for our annual fundraising efforts. Currently, the team in Nashville is focused on our Thriving Roots: A Virtual Community Music Conference (September 16-18) in hopes of bringing our tribe together online, and to help to offset the huge losses we have suffered due to the pandemic and the cancellation of AMERICANAFEST 2020. We have also initiated a fundraising campaign to support our newly created Foundation and you can read more about how to support our mission here.
Thank you for your enduring support of Americana.
Respectfully,
Jed
The Americana Association will host Thriving Roots: A Virtual Community Music Conference on Sept. 16-18. The conference will feature close to 70 sessions, including artist, industry and workshop panels, as well as special events and music breaks.
Next year’s AmericanaFest dates have been set for Sept. 21–26, 2021.
See the full list of 2020 nominees below.
Album of the Year And It’s Still Alright, Nathaniel Rateliff, Produced by James Barone, Patrick Meese and Nathaniel Rateliff Country Squire, Tyler Childers, Produced by David Ferguson and Sturgill Simpson The Highwomen, The Highwomen, Produced by Dave Cobb Jaime, Brittany Howard, Produced by Brittany Howard While I’m Livin’, Tanya Tucker, Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings
Artist of the Year
Brandi Carlile
Brittany Howard
John Prine
Tanya Tucker
Yola
Duo/Group of the Year
Black Pumas
Drive-By Truckers
The Highwomen
Buddy & Julie Miller
Our Native Daughters
Emerging Act of the Year
Black Pumas
Katie Pruitt
Aubrie Sellers
Billy Strings
Kelsey Waldon
Instrumentalist of the Year
Ellen Angelico
Annie Clements
Brittany Haas
Zachariah Hickman
Rich Hinman
Song of the Year
“And It’s Still Alright,” Nathaniel Rateliff, Written by Nathaniel Rateliff
“Bring My Flowers Now,” Tanya Tucker, Written by Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth and Tanya Tucker
“Crowded Table,” The Highwomen, Written by Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby and Lori McKenna
“My Love Will Not Change,” Aubrie Sellers featuring Steve Earle, Written by Billy Burnette and Shawn Camp
“Stay High,” Brittany Howard, Written by Brittany Howard
“Thoughts and Prayers,” Drive-By Truckers, Written by Patterson Hood
The Grand Ole Opry tallied its 4,940th consecutive Saturday night broadcast on Sept. 5 with a showcase featuring a pair of country music’s biggest stars: Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood.
In addition to performing their own solo tunes, the longtime CMA Awards co-hosts treated viewers to a number of duets, including “Remind Me,” “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man,” and “Whiskey Lullaby,” which you can watch below.
Penned by Bill Anderson and Jon Randall, “Whiskey Lullaby” was a Top 5 hit for Brad in 2004. The duet, which featured Alison Krauss, was included on Brad’s 2003 album, Mud on the Tires.
The Grand Ole Opry has aired without an audience present since March 19 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a number of stars have helped keep the Opry’s Saturday night shows rolling along, including Kelsea Ballerini, Darius Rucker, Clint Black, Luke Bryan, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Luke Combs, Dustin Lynch, Craig Morgan, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Ricky Skaggs, Keith Urban, Trisha Yearwood and more.
UT head coach Jeremy Pruitt / Credit: 99.1 The Sports Animal
“We went back to Neyland last night and had somewhat of a scrimmage, got to get in probably somewhere around 40 to 44 plays in situational football. It was good to do. It was pretty sloppy, to be honest. Lots of penalties, especially on the offensive side – false starts, which just goes back to team take off, not having some guys in there being consistent with cadence. Offensively, we put the ball on the ground a few times. Defensively, again the things that you think would show up when you’ve not had a chance to go live in a very long time is missed tackles. So, we have a whole lot of things that we really need to improve on over the next two weeks and we’ve got to work hard to do that. I would suspect that our plan will obviously change a little bit as we move closer to the game. I don’t feel like we have the luxury of just strictly doing like an in-season practice, probably for the first couple of weeks. We really need to kind of stay in camp form and focus on fundamentals. We have some experience at some positions but yet at others we have lots of inexperience. We’ve got to create some consistency, some chemistry in all three phases. There definitely has been some bright spots with some guys that we didn’t know a whole lot about and those guys have got to continue to gain knowledge of the position that they play, which will give them a chance to contribute this year. As we get some of these guys back, we really need to focus on special teams. It’s probably been the biggest battle for us over the last 10 to 14 days, is kind of creating the same unit out there on special teams and kind of taking the next steps.”
On if the SEC has had any involvement with Cade Mays’ appeal …
“I have specifically not spoken to Greg (Sankey) about it. I obviously have spoken to William King (SEC Associate Commissioner for Legal Affairs and Compliance), who represents the football side. I know how this goes. There’s all kinds of policies and rules that have been voted on over the years. I understand that the time that some of these rules were voted on, why they were. Here’s the but though, with what’s going on in our country right now over the last six months with a pandemic, there’s probably not one family in America that has not suffered in the last six months. It’s unusual times. To me, there’s a big part of all of this that I’ve been very concerned about with all of our players and all of our young people, is mental health. I can’t imagine being a child from five or six to age 25 or 30 that they feel like their youth is being taken away, the things that they’re used to doing. So, with that, everybody that’s playing NCAA football this year, their eligibility doesn’t count, so everybody on our team can come back and play another year. A senior can be a senior again, a freshman can be a freshman again. This is not just about Cade (Mays). I would say everybody that tried to transfer, to me, it would be foolish for anybody that’s capable of enabling this, it would be foolish of us not to do that just for what’s right.”
On if any of the players who were in quarantine last week are back at practice…
“Well we’ve had so many guys out, I can’t keep up with who’s available and who’s not available. And it changes by the day. So, to be specific on names, my days have really run together when it comes to that, so I probably wouldn’t be much good.”
On the QBs and WRs and if there is a No. 2 QB…
“Well we’ve really had a lot of offensive players out, so it has been very tough to create some chemistry on that side of the ball. Whether it is in the o-line, running backs or wide receivers. I feel like these guys have continued to improve every day. It has been exciting for me to watch them do that because they’ve had some adversity during this camp, and I’m sure there will continue to be adversity throughout the season, but it’s been good to see those guys on the offensive side respond. We’re nowhere near where we need to be consistency-wise. Some of our older guys have two or three good plays, then a bad one, two or three good plays then a bad one. It’s hard to sustain offense, to sustain drives and that’s something we are going to have to be able to do. Got a lot of work there and we’ve got to really hone in here in the next 10 days and make strides as a football team in all three phases in the next 10 days. There’s going to be a lot of work that’s got to get done.”
On who would take over as interim head coach if he gets put in quarantine …
“Tee (Martin) is the assistant head coach. Jim Chaney, I think he’s the winningest head coach in the history of Tennessee football at 1-0 so I know he would not want that. He is going to take that mark with him for the rest of his life so he would absolutely be out. Obviously, it would be Tee.”
On making Alontae Taylor, Jeremy Banks and Jordan Allen two-way guys to pad depth …
“No, we’ve not worked anybody both ways. There are probably times in special situations that we can use other guys. We’ve really not done that. We’ve really been trying to stick to the basic fundamentals; keeping our schemes very simple. No. 1 we hang on to the football, two we cause some turnovers and three we get guys to play fast.”
On talking with the SEC on making contact tracing a uniform policy …
“I’m no expert when it comes to that. I do believe the contact tracing is different from state-to-state.”
On the defensive line …
“There were a couple of guys that showed improvement to me. Prime (Kurott) Garland I thought had his best practice. Ja’Quain Blakely continues to work hard. He’d been out a few days but he’s back. We’re taking baby steps up there, and we’ve got to continue to do that. The next several practices are really big practices for those guys. We need to get out of the baby steps and probably start taking some leaps.”
On pinpointing where contact tracing is from …
“Our contact tracing has mainly been roommates. I think in some states it is six feet without a mask for 15 minutes, but here in Knoxville where we’ve got the biggest hurdle is actual roommates, whether they live there or not all the time.”
On if having players out because of contact tracing will be a distraction for the team…
“Well it’s no distraction to us. We take who’s there each day and we work hard to make them be the best players they can possibly be. Our No. 1 thing here is protect our players – that’s the No. 1 thing. I’m not sure that we’ve had a few more numbers as far as tracing. We’ve tested a lot, and we might have tested more than anybody else out there. I have no idea, but we’ve done a lot of testing to make sure that we’re trying to create the proper environment because safety has been the No. 1 priority for us. I realize we’re getting ready to start a football season and we’re working hard to put the best product we can out there on the field. We’ve tried to follow the rules exactly as they’ve been presented to us, and we’ll continue to do that.”
On how the coaches are keeping the players from being distracted…
“I don’t know how much distraction there has actually been. We practice every other day. From a standpoint of demand, for a fall camp, this has been more like spring ball. I don’t think there have been distractions. We’ve been in Zoom meetings for a very long time, so when the kids aren’t here, they’re in Zoom meetings so it’s not like they’re totally away from a mental standpoint. From a team-building part of it, having a group of guys together for a long period of time to help create chemistry has been tough to do.”
On if the team will practice all 25 times allotted…
“We definitely probably will not reach 25 practices. I think it’s important that we’re efficient with our practice time. From a number’s standpoint, I’m not sure that we’re ready to go fall camp, back-to-back-to-back days. That probably would do more harm than good. We want to make sure we’re efficient so we can keep guys healthy and continue to improve as a football team.”
On if he’s talked to other SEC head coaches about their contact tracing requirements…
“I’ve talked to these guys quite a bit, but I can assure you if there was some kind of competitive advantage that somebody could get, they sure wouldn’t be sharing it.”
On if the team has discussed the implications of the upcoming Name, Image and Likeness legislation…
“There are lots of things that go into that rule that nobody knows about yet. There are some things that have to get voted on and have to get some clarity from a state level, federal level and really through the NCAA on exactly what you can do. We’re working hard as a university to be ready for that when all of this stuff is finalized. When it comes to recruiting, that’s not really been a sales pitch for us.”
On watching other program’s football games to see if there are any things to learn and help UT to prepare for what to expect…
“One thing we’ve tried to do as a staff is make sure we have guys that have watched those games. I’ve not watched any. (We want) to see if there are things that come up. Obviously, this is a new experience for everybody that’s involved. We’ll get a chance again to watch this weekend. We’ll definitely be doing that or we’ll have someone on our staff doing that.”
Tennessee Volunteers head football coach Jeremy Pruitt spoke with the media via Zoom call Thursday night after 12 fall practices and a Wednesday scrimmage have been completed.
The 2020 CMT Music Awards—originally slated for June 3—will now take place on October 21.
The show, which was reschedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will air on CMT, with a six-network simulcast across MTV, MTV2, Logo, Paramount Network, Pop and TV Land. The show will celebrate country music’s biggest stars with outdoor performances in and around Music City.
The fan-voted CMT Awards hand out annual awards in a number of categories, including Video of the Year, Collaborative Video of the Year, Breakthrough Video of the Year and more.
Last year, the show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena included performances by Carrie Underwood, Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Bryan, Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett, Boyz II Men, Brandi Carlile, Brett Young, Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Luke Combs and more.
Tune in to CMT, MTV, MTV2, Logo, Paramount Network, Pop or TV Land on Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. CT.
Lee Brice will release his fifth studio album, Hey World, on Nov. 20.
Lee shared the news via Twitter on Sept. 9, saying: “Hey World, do you think it’s time I release a new album?? My new album #HeyWorld releases 11.20.20, and you can pre-save/add/order it FRIDAY. Also available Friday is the new version of ‘Hey World,’ featuring my friend @blessingoffor. Can’t wait for y’all to hear this new music!”
The upcoming album’s lead single, “One of Them Girls,” is currently No. 4 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. Lee released the album’s hope-filled title track in May to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The new tune was penned by Lee, Dallas Davidson and Adam Wood in late March after the guys found themselves inundated with a negative news cycle regarding the pandemic.
“We wrote this song from an introspective, truthful place and probably what most people are actually feeling right now,” says Lee. “With everything that is happening in the world currently and how fast paced we are as a society in general, sometimes you just want everything to stop—just to appreciate what we do have. People are suffering and it can’t be ignored.”
On Sept. 11, Lee will release a new version of the title track that features Blessing Offor, who was on Season 7 of The Voice.
Hey World will follow the release of Lee’s 2017 self-titled album, which spawned No. 1 hit, “Rumor,” and Top 20 hit, “Boy.”
Luke Combs scored his unprecedented ninth consecutive No. 1 single—to start a career—with “Lovin’ On You.” The tune topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart earlier this month after a 12-week run, which is Luke’s fastest climb to No. 1.
On Sept. 9, Luke shared a new fun-loving video for his No. 1 single. Directed by Tyler Adams, the new clip features a 1990s vibe with custom set design, throwback wardrobe and hand-crafted arcade game machines. The new video includes mini versions of Luke, his band and wife Nicole as they enjoy a birthday part at the skating rink.
“Man, this was a fun one,” says Luke. “It honestly felt a lot like when we filmed ‘When It Rains It Pours’ . . . having the band there, and, of course, my beautiful wife Nicole, was really special. The mini versions of all of us was a huge plus and made it all the more fun for this song. We had a blast doing it and hope y’all love it as much as we do!”
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