Two-time reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan will wrap his “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016” this Saturday and a portion of the proceeds from the eight year run will bring his total of awarded college scholarships to 50. The “Luke Bryan Farm Tour Scholarship” is granted to a local college student from a farming family within the communities the tour has played.

The tour resumed in Batesville, Mississippi last night, the first concert back since his collar bone surgery over the weekend to repair a break from a mountain bike accident. The ever-positive Luke upheld ‘the show must go on’ attitude not missing a beat and continued with the remaining three shows scheduled last week. Fans unable to attend a farm tour show were able to tune-in for a livestream on Luke’s Facebook page last Friday from Greenback, Tennessee.  Sounds Like Nashville was along for that show too. Watch their story here- https://youtu.be/0qX02ox5SYg .

“Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016”

October 13       Prairie Grove, Arkansas          Ogden Ranch

October 14       Centralia, Missouri                  Stowers Farm

October 15       Effingham, Illinois                   Mid America Motorworks

Luke’s first-ever Farm Tour EP, Farm Tour…Here’s To The Farmer is available digitally now

Luke’s arena and stadium tour, “Kill The Lights Tour,” will come to a close this month with two remaining stadium shows, the AT&T Stadium in Dallas on October 22 and October 29 at Ford Field in Detroit.

The “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016” is sponsored by Bayer, Chevy, Green Giant, Miller Lite, Cabela’s and Polaris.

About Luke Bryan

Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke has placed 16 singles at No. 1 and sold nearly eight million albums with 30 million digital tracks from his five studio albums. He has twice been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. His fifth studio album, Kill The Lights, debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 (his third to do so) and Top Country Albums charts and closed 2015 with the best-selling country album of the year and the 10^th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list. In Luke’s stellar 2015 year, he performed for 1.5 million fans in concert, had three albums on the Top 15 Year-End Country Albums list- Kill the Lights (#1), Spring Break…Checkin’ Out (#10) and Crash My Party (#15), was the most streamed artist of 2015, placed six songs in the Year-End Top Country Streaming Tracks list, had his own exhibit at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (“Luke Bryan: Dirt Road Diary”), performed live during halftime at the Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving and wrapped up the year with a live Times Square performance on ABC’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” Luke recently co-hosted the ACM Awards for a fourth consecutive year and is performing in venues and stadiums across the U.S. on his “Kill The Lights Tour” through this fall.

For a one-stop shop for everything Luke Bryan, his community of fans have unparalleled access to his life through Luke Bryan’s official App. Launched in June 2015 in partnership with Disciple Media, the app offers everything from exclusive live streams to updates from the road, competitions to video premieres, exclusive merchandise and more. The App is available now on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Visit www.LukeBryan.com or follow Luke on Twitter @LukeBryanOnline, Instagram and Facebook.

Luke also is helping families in need.

Share #Thankful4Ag or visit https://t.co/wBi38EHw0s and we'll donate a meal through @FeedingAmerica to a family in need. @BayerUS pic.twitter.com/1Fpz67wDO9

— Luke Bryan (@LukeBryanOnline) October 12, 2016

Lauren Alaina rides a MOTORIZED BEER COOLER. Lauren asks strangers what it’s like to take the road less traveled and has some car trouble.

For the first time ever, Shania Twain’s full album catalog will be available on vinyl. Twain is an international superstar and a five-time GRAMMY Award-winning artist. With more than 75 million albums sold worldwide, Twain remains the top-selling female country artist of all time.

The vinyl releases include Shania Twain, Twain’s Platinum-selling 1993 debut; The Woman in Me, her GRAMMY Award-winning, Double Diamond-selling 1995 release; Come On Over, the best-selling studio album in Soundscan history by a female artist in any genre and the best-selling country album of all time with over 40 million units sold worldwide; and UP!, Twain’s third consecutive Diamond-selling album release. As with its original release, UP! has both a Country (green) and a Pop (red) version available. The entire collection is available now for pre-order HERE and available for purchase at record stores and anywhere vinyl albums are sold this Friday, Oct. 14.

CMT recently announced Twain as the first female artist to receive its prestigious Artist of a Lifetime Award for her indelible impact and achievements in country music. Previous recipients of CMT’s Artist of a Lifetime Award include the legendary Kenny Rogers and Merle Haggard. The ceremony, taped live at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, premieres Thursday, Oct. 20 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CMT.

“Forever Country” made its international premiere on radio stations across the world Friday morning (September 16^th). The star-studded single is now available for streaming and download.

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the CMA Awards, the song and biggest music video in Country Music history includes the following CMA Award winners: Alabama, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Brett Eldredge, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, Ronnie Milsap, Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride, Rascal Flatts, Reba, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, George Strait, Randy Travis, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, and Trisha Yearwood.

“Forever Country” is a fresh take on three Country classics: John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again,” and Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.”

A portion of the video will premiere in an exclusive sneak peek during ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” on Tuesday (September 20th).

Immediately following the sneak peek on “Dancing with the Stars,” fans will be directed to ForeverCountry50.com to see the full-length YouTube version of the music video.

“Forever Country,” the single was produced by CMA Award winner and CMA Board member Shane McAnally, and the video was directed by Grammy Award-winning director Joseph Kahn.

The 50th Annual CMA Awards will be hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood and broadcast live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Wednesday, November 2nd (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) on ABC.

Billy Currington’s “It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To” is the No. 1 song on both the Billboard and Country Aircheck country charts.

He co-wrote the tune, which is his 11th chart topper, with a couple of buddies, Shy Carter and Cary Barlowe. It was just by circumstance the Georgia native ended up writing the song.

“A buddy of mine named Shy Carter called me up, he says ‘Well I’m over here with Cary Barlowe, here at your old publishing company, Major Bob”, the first company that gave me a publishing deal. He says, ‘Why don’t you stop by and say hello?’ So I pulled in, walked in, and we got to talking a little bit and it wasn’t long Cary started playing that guitar that you hear on the project,” says Billy. That melody, he started playing that melody. I don’t know what it was, I just started singing, singing lyrics, they just started coming out and Shy be like ‘Man, let’s write this down, let’s finish this’. Within a couple of hours we had finished the song and…I ain’t wrote a song in quite a while before that so it was nice to kinda get back into writing songs again and getting one on my own album.”

Billy is set to perform in San Antonio, Texas on Friday (October 14th) and Fort Worth on Saturday (October 15th).

Luke Bryan released the video to his latest Top 10 hit, “Move,” on Monday (September 19th). Luke co-wrote the song with Michael Carter and Jay Clementi, and it’s the fifth single from Kill the Lights.

Luke will release his first Farm Tour EP, Here’s to the Farmer, this Friday (September 23rd).

Dierks Bentley, Eric Church and Keith Urban, along with Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood and Maren Morris, are the initial performers announced for this year’s CMA Awards.

Dierks has four nominations going into next month’s CMA Awards, including Male Vocalist, Album (Black), Music Video for “Somewhere on a Beach” and Musical Event of the Year for “Different for Girls” with Elle King.

Eric’s nominations include Male Vocalist, Album (Mr. Misunderstood); Single, Song and Music Video of the Year for “Record Year.”

Keith picked up four nominations this year, including Entertainer, which he took home in 2005); Male Vocalist, Album (Ripcord) and Musical Event of the Year for “The Fighter,” featuring Carrie Underwood. While Keith only receives one nomination for Album of the Year, he could receive an additional trophy as producer.

The 50th Annual CMA Awards, Hosted by Brad and Carrie, will broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 2nd at 8pm ET on ABC.

Keith Urban has released the brand new music video for his song “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” the fourth single from his CMA-nominated Album of the Year, RIPCORD. The release includes a special behind-the-scenes look at the making of the video that was filmed last month at Five Star Bar in Los Angeles.  It can be seen exclusively at http://smarturl.it/btsBlueVideo as can a “Blue Ain’t Your Color” making of at http://smarturl.it/behindBlue.

“Approaching how we would make the music video for this song started with how we could keep the simplicity of the song represented visually,” said Urban.  “I love the idea that we kept it stripped down with a 3-piece band.”

“I got to work with this incredible photographer named Carter Smith, who doesn’t do a lot of videos – an extraordinary still photographer – and we had an incredibly good time making the video,” added Urban.

In addition to Keith and a couple of band members, the black and white clip features actress/model Amber Valletta (Hitch, Transporter 2, Revenge).

Urban, who received four CMA nominations late last month, has already celebrated three No. 1s from RIPCORD, which debuted at No. 1 in three countries. Not only did RIPCORD receive Album of the Year honors (an award that Urban has never won), it garnered Best Vocal Event for “The Fighter” featuring Carrie Underwood.  Urban also received nominations for Best Male Vocalist and the highly coveted Entertainer of the Year.

Urban is currently on the road, his ripCORD WORLD TOUR 2016 that will see concerts in four countries (U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand).