CMA Album of the Year nominee Jon Pardi is performing on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” tonight (11/5), ahead of CMA Awards week. Pardi is set to perform his current Top 10 single “Ain’t Always The Cowboy,” which made an impact as a song with “…a clever twist…” (Billboard) that “…gives more than a subtle nod to major Pardi influence George Strait,” (Rolling Stone). “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” is included on Pardi’s recently released Deluxe Edition of his critically-acclaimed album Heartache Medication, which debuted among the top of the Billboard Country Albums chart and was named as the only artist/album in the Los Angeles Times Best Albums Of the Year list.
Tune-in tonight to watch Pardi’s performance of “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” at 11:35 p.m. ET/10:35p.m. CT.
Heartache Medication Deluxe Edition was released on the heels of Pardi’s first CMA Album of the Year nomination (his first nod in the category), his second consecutive ACM Album of the Year nomination, and the Platinum-certification of title track “Heartache Medication.” Soaring with “…fiddles, steel guitar and dive-bar jukebox energy…” (New York Times), critics hailed Heartache Medication as a blend of “honky-tonkin’, boot-stompin’ tracks about whiskey, women and song” (The New York Times) and called Pardi an artist that “…proves that Country music is still thrillingly alive” (Rolling Stone). Heartache Medication Deluxe Edition follows the release of Rancho Fiesta Sessions – an eight-song album that features a combination of songs Pardi is both inspired by, and loves to perform, and the roll-out of his 8-episode digital series “Pardi Time” broadcasting across CMT’s digital platforms. View the trailer here. For more information, visit www.jonpardi.com.
Jon Pardi gets into the Halloween spirit for the new installment of his “Pardi Time” online show. He dons his famous white Elvis Presley jumpsuit and gets into character.
Also in the show, his pal JEremiah goes ghost-hunting, there’s an epic costume party and a date-night with his soon-to-be-bride Summer.
Halloween is Saturday, October 31st, and the holiday, which may be a little different this year with a global pandemic, has some of your favorite country stars getting into costumes, while others are recalling memories of Halloweens past.
Audio / Adam Hambrick talks about one of his favorite Halloween costumes as a kid.
Adam Hambrick (Halloween) OC: …five-years-old. :10 “My grandmother made me a Ghostbusters jumpsuit, and I had the proton backpack and I went as Peter Venkman, the Ghostbuster, when I was five-years-old.”
Audio / Alan Jackson used to take his now grown daughters trick-or-treating when they were young children, but he recalls one costume that he hated. It was an infant costume that made one of the girls look like a little peapod.
AJ (Halloween) OC: …cute, but…[laughs] :17 “Aww, I remember some, when they were infants, they had like these little, they looked like a little pea pod, you know, or something. It’s like a little green pea or something. And I thought man, that’s awful. But Denise liked it, and I guess it was cute, but…(laughs).”
Audio / Billy Currington reminisces about his childhood Halloween memories.
Billy Currington (Halloween) OC: …Halloween. :17 “You know, when I was a kid, I loved the trick and the treat. I loved dressing up. I was always wanting to be Dracula. That was my favorite guy. But, of course, who doesn’t love going door-to-door and getting these buckets of candy? [laughs] So, love, love Halloween.”
Audio / Brandon Lay says since his father was a preacher, their Halloween activities were church-related.
Brandon Lay (Halloween) OC: …let Ryder do. :26 “You know, my dad was a preacher, so Halloween for me (ha) was a little different than most kids. We always had something going on at church, so I think I was usually a character from the Bible and walk around the gym and just try to get as much candy as I can. It sounds a little weird, but I kinda was robbed of the trick-or-treating experience – thanks a lot Mom and Dad – but I’m not bitter about it or anything. We’ll see what we let Ryder do.”
Audio / Brothers Osborne’s TJ and John Osborne talk about dressing up like zombies for Halloween.
Brothers Osborne (zombie costume) OC: (John) …was so fun! :29 TJ: “Literally, you can dress up like a zombie and drag your foot behind you all day and make weird noises, and everyone finds that completely acceptable.” [laughs] JOHN: “One year I dressed up as a ‘90s redneck zombie with a mullet wig and an Alan Jackson denim coat. I never once broke character. That’s part of the thing — you can actually not break character and get away with it. And everywhere I went, even when I ordered a drink, I ordered it like a zombie that was falling apart. [laughs] It was so fun!”
Audio / Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne talks about carving pumpkins with their dad when they were growing up.
Brothers Osborne (carving pumpkins) OC: …or something. :25 “With our dad every year, we would go looking for pumpkins, and we would all get our own pumpkin to carve, and he would buy the biggest pumpkin that they had. It was huge. I mean, it was way too big for any one person, but he would love carving. He’s kind of an artsy guy. He was a great drawer and stuff, and he would carve the most terrifying, vicious looking, scary pumpkin you’d ever seen in your life, and it would be massive. It would be like on a 50-pound pumpkin or something.”
Audio / Brothers Osborne talk about their favorite Halloween candy.
Brothers Osborne (Halloween candy) OC: (John) …go stale. [laughs] :34 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.” [laughs]
Audio / Brothers Osborne’s TJ Osborne talks about one of his favorite childhood Halloween costumes.
Brothers Osborne (Halloween costume) OC: (TJ) …I love it. :37 TJ: “There was a costume I had when I was a kid that my dad made. I was a caterpillar, no, you were a caterpillar and I was a spider. And so I don’t know if you’re familiar with pipe insulation? It’s like these black tubes, and so I had these little black pipe insulators as my legs.” JOHN: “There were strings attached to him that would hold some of the black pipe insulators under his hands, and he’d put working gloves on the end of them and so when he’d raise his arms, all of the little spider legs would raise up with it. [laughs] I’m telling you, our parents were total hippies. They were just…” TJ: “Artsy-fartsy hippies. I love it.”
Audio / Darius Rucker loves Halloween, especially because it’s his kids’ favorite holiday.
Darius (Halloween) OC: …I’m into. :06 “Halloween’s big for me, because the kids love it. It’s my kids’ favorite holiday, so anything they’re into, I’m into.”
Audio / Dierks Bentley talks about the Halloweens of his childhood.
Dierks Bentley (Halloween) OC: … …around home. [laughs] :23 “Oh, when I was a kid, I was all into fireworks. Growing up in Arizona, we couldn’t get ’em, so we’d have ’em shipped in illegally. I still remember the name of the guy we’d call. His name was Joe, and he’d bring in, ship ’em in a package with no writing on ’em. We were all about M-80s in the mailboxes and bottle rocket wars. To me, as a kid, Halloween was fireworks, was blowing up stuff around home. [laughs]”
Audio / Eric Church recalls his favorite Halloween costume.
Eric Church (Halloween) OC: …Franklin Street. 1:18 “My favorite Halloween costume really came, I remember when I got a little older my first year of college, there’s this thing they do every year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina – 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 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 yiou 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. [laughs] The whole time peiople’d 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.”
Audio / Jon Langston talks about his favorite Halloween show a few years ago when his band surprised him on stage.
Jon Langston (Halloween show) OC: …memorable Halloween. :59 “So we played a show a few years ago in Baton Rouge and I go off stage and I come back on stage for the encore. I don’t know this until midway through the song, I’m just into the crowd, like I’m engaged. I’m in the zone, and I just see everyone, like everybody else behind me but me and I’m like what’s going on. I turn around and each of them has a different huge mask on, like one of those stuffed animal masks, like my drummer has a dinosaur head on. My guitar players, one of ‘em has monkey head on, the other has a unicorn head on. And my bass player has like a, I think a dog or cat head or something like that. I couldn’t finish the song I was laughing so hard just seeing them playing with these like oversized huge mask heads on Halloween night. That was funny. It was a good prank, so that was probably the most memorable Halloween.”
Audio / Jon Pardi talks about his favorite Halloween costumes as a child.
Jon Pardi (Halloween) 1 OC: …the Superman. :15
“Man, I went through phases of costumes – the Superman costume, then it was a ninja, then I was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle one year. I remember rockin’ the Superman.”
Audio / Jon Pardi reveals his favorite Halloween candy.
Jon Pardi (Halloween candy) OC: …during Halloween. :06
“Man! The candy corn is pretty good, and that’s seasonal, so it only kinda pops out during Halloween.”
Audio / JORDAN DAVIS TALKS ABOUT HIS FAVORITE HALLOWEEN COSTUMES OVER THE YEARS.
Jordan Davis (Halloween) OC: …jet black. :49 “I can remember being really big into Power Rangers. I always liked the Red Ranger. I remember being Red Ranger one Halloween. I remember me and my br4other being big into the Ninja Turtles. I was Donatello one year, which I think was the purple turtle. I think, though, my favorite Halloween was I was in college and I went as Luigi from Mario and Luigi, and I actually grew a legit mustache and dyed it jet black and ran into an ex-girlfriend at the costume shop and completely forgot I had the mustache on. So, when Is saw her, she was like, ‘So, you’re going with a mustache nowadays, huh?’ [laughs] I remember being like, ‘I swear this is part of my Halloween costume.’ [laughs] When I dyed my mustache, my top lip was black for a week. Like I really did dye it jet black.”
Audio / JORDAN DAVIS TALKS ABOUT HIS FAVORITE HALLOWEEN CANDY.
Jordan Davis (Halloween candy) OC: …some Starbursts. :21 “My favorite Halloween candy [is] probably Reese’s or M&M’s, although I love the variety of Starburst. It’s one that I feel like I only eat at Halloween, because I feel like at Halloween one of the popular ones is the two-piece Starburst things. So, probably Reese’s, M&Ms and throw in some Starbursts.”
Audio / CANDY CORN IS A PRETTY POLARIZING CANDY THAT ONLY COMES OUT AROUND HALLOWEEN. SOME LOVE IT; SOME HATE IT AND NEITHER OPINION IS WRONG. JORDAN DAVIS SIDES WITH THE HATERS (DON’T BLAME HIM), SINCE HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO CANDY CORN.
Jordan Davis (no candy corn) OC: …they’re awful. :05 “You know what I never got? The candy corns. I’ve never been a candy corn guy. I think they’re awful.”
Audio / Josh Turner and his family (including wife Jennifer and their four sons) enjoy dressing up as a family for Halloween. The multi-platinum selling star says his favorite family costumes was a few years ago when they dressed up as Star Wars characters.
Josh Turner (Halloween costumes) OC: …pretty classic. :27 “My favorite family costume was from a couple of years ago when I had my six-and-a-half-month-old beard going, and me and the whole family dressed up as Star Wars characters. So, I was a young Obi Wan Kenobi, Jennifer was Princess Leia, Colby and Marion were Storm Troopers, Hampton was Darth Vadar and Hawk was, I guess, pretty much still a baby, and he dressed up as Yoda. It was pretty classic.”
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Audio / We all know Lauren Alaina loves to dress up, but she also loved to come up with costumes for her brother. She says one of her favorite costumes was when she dressed up her brother…as her.
Lauren Alaina (Halloween-brother) OC: …mad about that! :19 “I always would dress my brother up too, and I’d say not my best costume, but his best costume when I put makeup all over him and made him, he looked JUST LIKE ME, but I put extensions in his hair and a little hat on his head and I put makeup on him and my cheerleading outfit. It fit him. I was so mad about that!”
Audio / Luke Bryan says you can tell a lot about your neighbors from what kind of Halloween candy they hand out.
Luke Bryan (Halloween) OC: …your teeth. :21 “You can find out a lot about your neighbors by what kind of candy they put out. So, well, like full bars of Snickers bars, that’s what, and Reese’s cups, [but] the old chocolate popcorn ball of stuff, that’s no good either, like Dots – you get Dots one time of year and they pull your teeth.”
Audio / Luke Bryan talks about his Halloween traditions.
Luke Bryan (Halloween) 2 OC: …with all that. :33 “My tradition for Halloween is Caroline picks the outfit. I never know what I’m wearing. So that day, I’ll talk to the neighbors ‘cause I have a tractor back there and I’ll go get my tractor and get a big long trailer, and then I’ll run down to…a couple miles from the farm, we’ve got a big hay farmer that keeps hay and you run in there and pay him for his hay bales. And I’ll load the hay up and get the hayride ready and we’ll take all the kids behind the tractor and have a fun Halloween with all that.”
Audio / Luke Bryan says his wife Caroline usually pick out his Halloween costumes....and if you follow her on Instagram, you know she's already been testing out new costumes.
Luke Bryan (Halloween costumes) OC: …always has. :20 “Me and Caroline did one year where I dressed up as the old lady, and she dressed up 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 is big, she loves Halloween and always has.”
Audio / Maddie & Tae sit on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to scary movies.
Maddie & Tae (Halloween) OC: …princesses. :24 TAE: “Oooooh, Halloween [is] my favorite holiday. Anyone who knows me knows I love all things scary and gory, so especially on Halloween all the scary movies that come out in theaters, I am there every single time.” MADDIE: “And I never go with her because I hate scary things.” TAE: “You know what’s funny? As little girls, everyone wants to dress up as princesses, and I think I was a witch like six years in a row. I just wanted to be scary.” MADDIE: “Girl, I was like Jasmine and you know [other] princesses.”
Audio / Mickey Guyton was raised in a very religious household, so she didn’t really celebrate Halloween and only went trick-or-treating one time.
Mickey Guyton (Halloween) OC: …the costumes. :50 “Growing up, my parents were very, very conservative Christian, and so they viewed Halloween as a pagan holiday. BUT, I got to go trick-or-treating once in my life, and I dressed as a clown because my mom made me this clown suit and that was the best. We were in Moody, Texas. It was all three of my siblings and myself and we had so much candy that it lasted for months and months. My parents eventually had to throw it away because we had so much candy. And it was one of the most amazing, magical experiences I’ve ever had, because I never got to celebrate freaking Halloween. I tell you what, this son of mine is gonna definitely going to be celebrating trick-or-treating. Like I can’t wait to dress him up in all of the costumes.”
Parker McCollum (favorite Halloween candy) OC: … “What I can eat like 6,000 of are Tootsie Rolls. If I eat one Tootsie Roll, I’m gonna eat 30. Man, they’re so good.”
Audio / Travis Denning talks about his favorite – and probably most embarrassing – Halloween costume.
Travis Denning (Halloween costume) OC: …Busch Light. :21 “Honestly, I think one of my most proud and embarrassed Halloween costumes is I went as Terry from Reno 9-1-1. I had the roller skates, the short-shorts, the tied-up shirt. Looking back, it wasn’t the manliest thing I ever did, but it got a lot of laughs. And I think that year my favorite candy I ever had was Busch Light.”
In this week’s episode, Jon Pardi plays matchmaker; “Gentleman Jon” gives advice on how to keep your love life spicy, and we get an exclusive house Pardi guitar tour!
CMA Album of the Year nominee Jon Pardi was surprised with an RIAA Platinum certification plaque for his hit single, “Heartache Medication” while working on an excavator on his property, on Tuesday (10/6). Pardi’s Manager Melanie Wetherbee was tasked with delivering the plaque on behalf of UMG Nashville, Pardi’s label home. In a special video, Pardi thanked the songwriters, co-producers, his managers, the label and his fans. Watch the video, here: https://youtu.be/dW8tirxdJvU.
“Heartache Medication” topped both the Billboard and Country Aircheck/Mediabase charts and garnered millions of on-demand streams, marking Pardi’s fourth #1, joining previous chart-topping hits “Dirt On My Boots,” “Head Over Boots” and “Heartache On The Dance Floor.” “Heartache Medication” is the title track off Pardi’s critically-acclaimed album Heartache Medication. His current single “Ain’t Always The Cowboy,” off that same album, is currently Top 15-and-climbing on the Billboard Country Airplay charts. For more information, visit www.jonpardi.com.
Audio / Prior to releasing the song, Jon Pardi said the song “Heartache Medication” is a song that picks you up when you’re feeling low.
Jon Pardi (Heartache Medication song) 1 OC: …singing it a lot. :41 “I love this song. This title is kind of different, you know kind of about drinkin’, getting to feel better, kinda lost somebody, it’s time to move on, but you’re not sad. You’re happy. It’s feel-good, kind of like medication that you need. So, ‘Heartache Medication’ that’s kind of the way we wrote it. I wrote it with Natalie Hemby and Barry Dean – great writers. It’s very upbeat and traditional, but it’s also just, I think, relevant in a way that it picks you up when you’re feeling down, or if you’re feeling good, it makes you feel extra good, and who doesn’t like a good ole fiddle intro? So, I think it’s gonna be awesome, and I hope y’all dig it, and I’ll be singing it a lot.”
CMA Album of the Year nominee Jon Pardi is premiering his digital variety series “Pardi Time” tonight with CMT. The all-new 8-episode digital-variety series was shot, directed and hosted by the Platinum-selling singer/songwriter/producer (with help from CMT) and is all things, and all sides, Jon Pardi. The series kicks off tonight on CMT’s Facebook and YouTube channels at 5p.m. CT.
“Pardi Time” features segments like Dear Jon, a hilarious take on advice from ‘The Gentleman’, Pardi Snacks, his cooking (and cocktail) themed how-tos, and Til Death Do Us Pardi, the real REAL on his engagement and wedding planning (and re-planning – thanks, COVID), plus Pardi Tunes and so much more. Episodes will roll out weekly across CMT digital platforms.
Check out the first episode below.
Pardi just released the Deluxe Edition of his critically-acclaimed 2019 album Heartache Medication on Friday (10/2), featuring three new bonus tracks including the new version of his Top 15 and climbing single ‘Ain’t Always The Cowboy’ (Western Version). Heartache Medication (Deluxe Edition) is the extended version of Pardi’s critically-acclaimed album Heartache Medication, which debuted among the top albums on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and garnered the “hero in the making” (Variety) a double nomination as both artist and producer for ACM’s Album of the Year category and a nod for CMA’s Album of the Year. Pardi also recently received a 2020 CMT Music Awards nomination for ‘Beer Can’t Fix’ with Thomas Rhett in the “Collaborative Video of the Year” category.
CMA Album of the Year nominee Jon Pardi releases Heartache Medication DeluxeEdition today. Featuring three new bonus tracks- “Bar Downtown,” “Beer Light” and “Ain’t Always The Cowboy (Western Version),” the expanded album of his critically-acclaimed album Heartache Medication celebrates the one year anniversary of the original album release and his first, back-to-back headlining shows at the famed Ryman Auditorium (10/1-2/2019). Teaming up again with longtime collaborators Bart Butler and Ryan Gore, the triple threat producer, singer and songwriter co-produced all three new tracks. “Bar Downtown” premiered on Rolling Stone Countryyesterday (10/1)and fans can listen to the full 17-track Heartache Medication Deluxe EditionHERE.
Heartache Medication Deluxe Edition comes on the heels of Pardi’s recent, second consecutive ACM Album of the Year nomination and his current CMA Album of the Year nomination (his first nod in the category). With the release of his highly-lauded album Heartache Medication, Pardi doubled-down and “…cut a path through modern country by stubbornly sticking to fiddles, steel guitar, and dive-bar jukebox energy” (The New York Times). Critics hailed his blend of “honky-tonkin’, boot-stompin’ tracks about whiskey, women and song” (The New York Times), named him the only country artist/album represented in the Los Angeles Times “Best Albums of the Year” list (#4) and called him an artist that “…proves that Country music is still thrillingly alive” (Rolling Stone).
The ACM/CMA winning artist recently became the first country artist to have two #1 singles on Country Radio in 2020. Heartache Medication Deluxe Edition follows the release of “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” (Western Version) and Pardi’s RANCHO FIESTA SESSIONS– an eight-song album that features a combination of songs Pardi is both inspired by, and loves to perform-and his ACM/CMA nominated album, HEARTACHE MEDICATION. Pardi is currently nominated for CMT Awards’ Collaborative Video of the Year category for his collaboration on the #1 hit single “Beer Can’t Fix” with Thomas Rhett. For more information visit www.jonpardi.com.
Heartache Medication Deluxe Edition Track List:
Old Hat (Jeff Hyde, Matt Jenkins and Ryan Tyndell)
Heartache Medication (Jon Pardi, Barry Dean and Natalie Hemby)
Nobody Leaves A Girl Like That (Bart Butler, Marv Green and Jimmy Yeary)
Ain’t Always The Cowboy (Brandon Kinney and Josh Thompson)
Me And Jack (Jon Pardi, Rhett Akins, Bart Butler and Luke Laird)
Don’t Blame It On Whiskey (Featuring Lauren Alaina) (Eric Church, Michael Heeney, Luke Laird and Miranda Lambert)
Tied One On (Bart Butler, Chase McGill and Jamie Paulin)
Oughta Know That (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler and Luke Laird)
Tequila Little Time (Jon Pardi, Rhett Akins and Luke Laird)
Buy That Man A Beer (Clint Daniels, Justin Lantz and John Pierce)
Call Me Country (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler and Driver Williams)
Just Like Old Times (Jon Pardi, Jeff Hyde and Michael Heeney)
Love Her Like She’s Leaving (Bart Butler, Dean Dillon and Jessie Jo Dillon)
Starlight (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler and Jeffrey Steele)
Bar Downtown (Josh Osborne, Josh Thompson, Matt Dragstrem)
Beer Light (Jon Pardi, Brice Long, Jeff Hyde)
Ain’t Always The Cowboy (Western Version) (Brandon Kinney and Josh Thompson)
Jon is making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “Ain’t Always the Cowboy.”
CMT today announced “Pardi Time,” an all-new 8-episode digital-variety series with Platinum-selling singer/songwriter/producer Jon Pardi, premiering on Tuesday, October 6th on CMT’s Facebook and YouTube channels.
Shot, directed, and hosted by Jon Pardi (with help from CMT), “Pardi Time” is all things, and all sides, Jon Pardi. With segments like Dear Jon, a hilarious take on advice from ‘The Gentleman’, Pardi Snacks,his cooking (and cocktail) themed how-tos, and Til Death Do Us Pardi, the real REAL on his engagement and wedding planning (and re-planning – thanks, COVID), plus Pardi Tunes and so much more. Episodes will roll out weekly across CMT digital platforms.
“We were lucky enough to work with Jon on our first episode of ‘Off The Road,’ a mini doc that was completely self-shot by Jon in early April. After seeing the first round of footage, we had a hunch fans would love it – and they did! The feedback was incredible, but we knew there was so much more for fans to see,” shared Melissa Goldberg, CMT’s Senior Director of Digital & Social. “Jon is an incredible star and creative partner, and we are so excited to show-off more of his dynamic personality. We know our CMT fans will love taking a peek into his home life, resonate with his authenticity and get a kick out of his crazy antics.”
Pardi is set to release the Deluxe Edition of his critically-acclaimed 2019 album Heartache Medication this Friday, October 2, featuring three new bonus tracks and a new version of his latest single ‘Ain’t Always The Cowboy’ (Western Version). Heartache Medication (Deluxe Edition) is the extended version of Pardi’s critically-acclaimed album Heartache Medication, which debuted among the top albums on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and garnered the “hero in the making” (Variety) a double nomination as both artist and producer for ACM’s Album of the Year category and a nod for CMA’s Album of the Year. Most recently, he received a 2020 CMT Music Awards nomination for ‘Beer Can’t Fix’ with Thomas Rhett in the “Collaborative Video of the Year” category.
“Pardi Time” is the newest CMT digital series in a line of premium offerings from the brand that includes “Off the Road”(formerly “On the Road”) capturing real-life moments off the road with country’s top talent, including Pardi and Brothers Osborne, “Another Round,” which brings Music City’s celebrated ‘in the round’ format to life and has featured the iconic Williams family, “CMT Hit Story,” where artists like Tim McGraw and Kelsea Ballerini & Halsey have shared stories behind their hit songs, and many more.
About Jon Pardi:
The ACM/CMA winning artist recently became the first country artist to have two #1 singles on Country Radio in 2020, and is gearing up to release the Deluxe Edition of his critically-acclaimed album Heartache Medication. Heartache Medication (Deluxe Edition) follows the release of “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” (Western Version) and his latest release, RANCHO FIESTA SESSIONS– an eight-song album that features a combination of songs Pardi is both inspired by, and loves to perform-and his CMA nominated album, HEARTACHE MEDICATION. HEARTACHE MEDICATION debuted among the top albums on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and was named on Rolling Stone’s “Best Albums of the Year” and The Los Angeles Times “Best Albums of the Year” (#4) list as the only country artist/album represented. A “hero in the making” (Variety), Pardi is noted for his “long-lasting mark on the genre” (Music Row) and his impressive ability to carve out his own path creating “the kind of country music multiple generations came to know, and love can still work on a mass scale” (Variety). Filled with fiddle, twang and steel guitar, Pardi continues to “apply new ideas to country’s old sounds” (Los Angeles Times) and “bring authenticity back into Country music” (People).
Jon Pardi will release the deluxe version of his album, Heartache Medication, on Friday (October 2nd). Heartache Medication (Deluxe Version) is the extended version of Pardi’s critically-acclaimed album Heartache Medication,” which debuted among the top albums on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and garnered the “hero in the making” (Variety) a double nomination as both artist and producer for ACM’s Album of the Year category and a nod for CMA’s Album of the Year. October 2nd is the one year anniversary since Pardi, for the first time, headlined back-to-back nights of the Ryman Auditorium during his album release week for Heartache Medication, and it’s also the night he got engaged.
Pardi delivers the Deluxe Version with his previously released 14 tracks, plus three new bonus tracks including “Bar Downtown,” “Beer Light,” and a new version of his current hit single “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” (Western Version).
*View the full tracklisting below.
The ACM/CMA winning artist recently became the first country artist to have two #1 singles on Country Radio in 2020. Heartache Medication (Deluxe Version) follows the release of “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” (Western Version) and Pardi’s RANCHO FIESTA SESSIONS– an eight-song album that features a combination of songs Pardi is both inspired by, and loves to perform-and his ACM/CMA nominated album, HEARTACHE MEDICATION. For more information visit www.jonpardi.com.
Heartache Medication (Deluxe Version) Track List*
Old Hat (Jeff Hyde, Matt Jenkins and Ryan Tyndell)
Heartache Medication (Jon Pardi, Barry Dean and Natalie Hemby)
Nobody Leaves A Girl Like That (Bart Butler, Marv Green and Jimmy Yeary)
Ain’t Always The Cowboy (Brandon Kinney and Josh Thompson)
Me And Jack (Jon Pardi, Rhett Akins, Bart Butler and Luke Laird)
Don’t Blame It On Whiskey (Featuring Lauren Alaina) (Eric Church, Michael Heeney, Luke Laird and Miranda Lambert)
Tied One On (Bart Butler, Chase McGill and Jamie Paulin)
Oughta Know That (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler and Luke Laird)
Tequila Little Time (Jon Pardi, Rhett Akins and Luke Laird)
Buy That Man A Beer (Clint Daniels, Justin Lantz and John Pierce)
Call Me Country (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler and Driver Williams)
Just Like Old Times (Jon Pardi, Jeff Hyde and Michael Heeney)
Love Her Like She’s Leaving (Bart Butler, Dean Dillon and Jessie Jo Dillon)
Starlight (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler and Jeffrey Steele)
Bar Downtown (Josh Osborne, Josh Thompson, Matt Dragstrem)
Beer Light (Jon Pardi, Brice Long, Jeff Hyde)
Ain’t Always The Cowboy (Western Version) (Brandon Kinney and Josh Thompson)
Audio / LINER Jon Pardi (deluxe HM available Friday)
Jon Pardi (story behind Beer Light) OC: …which is awesome. :
” ‘Beer Light’ is a song we wrote on a bus trip last year, and it was so cool. Jeff Hyde had this melody and it was just so awesome. They kind of wrote the song, and I kind of came in and we kind of changed the melody and we talked about ‘beer light.’ It’s kind of this moving on song where he’s kind over his wild days of partying to get over this girl and trying to drown his sorrows and now he’s just chill with a cold beer in his hand and having a good time and sitting under that old neon sign, which I think is really cool in a different way to say that, which is awesome.”
Audio / JON PARDI TALKS ABOUT HOW WELL "BAR DOWNTOWN" AND "BEER LIGHT" WILL FIT ON THE DELUXE VERSION OF HIS ACM AND CMA-NOMINATED ALBUM, HEARTACHE MEDICATION.
Jon Pardi (Bar Downtown and Beer Light on HM Deluxe) OC: …awesome. :23 “‘Bar Downtown’ is awesome. I love this, and I heard this song back when we could go downtown. I thought it was great, and it was just an infectious melody and it’s that wondering where she is kind of song, and I love those kind of songs so I’m glad it made it on the Heartache Medication Deluxe. But I felt like these two songs fit on the Deluxe and when they come out, hearing them all together with the Heartache Medication playlist, it’s gonna be awesome.”
The nominations for this year’s CMT MUSIC AWARDS were announced on Wednesday (September 23rd), and several UMG Nashville artists were among the nominees.
Sam Hunt picked up three nods, including Video of the Year (“Hard To Forget”); Male Video of the Year (“Hard To Forget”) and CMT Performance of the Year (“Fancy” from CMT Artists of the Year show).
Carrie Underwood, who reigns as the most awarded artist in CMT Music Awards history with 20 wins, is up for two awards including Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year for “Drinking Alone;” and Little Big Town is also up for a pair of awards including Video of the Year (“Sugar Coat”) and Group Video of the Year (“Wine, Beer, Whiskey”).
“Breakthrough Video of the Year” nominees include Caylee Hammack (“Family Tree”) and Travis Denning (“After a Few”).
The finalists for “Video of the Year” will be announced on October 12; fans will be able to vote throughout the week until October 16 to determine the winner.
Fan voting begins today at vote.cmt.com and continues until 12PM ET/11 AM CT on Monday, October 12. The top five “Video of the Year” finalists will be revealed at that time.
The finalists for “Video of the Year” will be announced on October 12; fans will be able to vote throughout the week until October 16 to determine the winner.
The nominees for the “2020 CMT Music Awards” are:
VIDEO OF THE YEAR Best video of the year; awarded to the artist (male, female, group/duo or collaboration) and the video director. Final nominees announced on 10/12, with final voting held until 10/16 and announced in-show.
Ashley McBryde – “One Night Standards”
Blanco Brown – “The Git Up”
Carrie Underwood – “Drinking Alone”
Dan + Shay – “I Should Probably Go To Bed”
Keith Urban – “Polaroid”
Kelsea Ballerini – “homecoming queen?”
Little Big Town – “Sugar Coat”
Luke Combs – “Beer Never Broke My Heart”
Miranda Lambert – “Bluebird”
Old Dominion – “Some People Do”
Sam Hunt – “Hard To Forget”
Tanya Tucker – “Bring My Flowers Now”
The Chicks -“Gaslighter”
Thomas Rhett – “Remember You Young”
FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR Best video by a female artist; awarded to the artist
Ashley McBryde – “One Night Standards”
Carrie Underwood – “Drinking Alone”
Gabby Barrett – “I Hope”
Kelsea Ballerini – “homecoming queen?”
Maren Morris – “The Bones”
Miranda Lambert – “Bluebird”
MALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR Best video by a male artist; awarded to the artist
Jason Aldean – “Got What I Got”
Luke Bryan – “One Margarita”
Luke Combs – “Even Though I’m Leaving”
Morgan Wallen – “Chasin’ You (Dream Video)”
Sam Hunt – “Hard To Forget”
Thomas Rhett – “Remember You Young”
GROUP VIDEO OF THE YEAR Best video by a group; awarded to the artists
Lady A – “Champagne Night”
Little Big Town – “Wine, Beer, Whiskey”
Midland – “Cheatin’ Songs (Live From the Palomino)”
Old Dominion – “One Man Band”
The Chicks – “Gaslighter”
The Highwomen – “Crowded Table”
DUO VIDEO OF THE YEAR Best video by a duo; awarded to the artists
Brothers Osborne – “All Night (Studio Performance)”
Dan + Shay – “I Should Probably Go To Bed”
Florida Georgia Line – “Blessings”
LOCASH – “One Big Country Song”
Maddie & Tae – “Die From A Broken Heart”
BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO OF THE YEAR Best video from an artist’s major breakthrough album; awarded to the artist (male, female or group/duo)
Blanco Brown – “The Git Up”
Caylee Hammack – “Family Tree”
Gabby Barrett – “I Hope”
Ingrid Andress – “More Hearts Than Mine”
Riley Green – “I Wish Grandpas Never Died”
Travis Denning – “After a Few”
COLLABORATIVE VIDEO OF THE YEAR Best video from a collaboration; awarded to the artists
Blake Shelton with Gwen Stefani – “Nobody But You”
Carly Pearce and Lee Brice – “I Hope You’re Happy Now”
Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber – “10,000 Hours”
Kane Brown featuring Nelly – “Cool Again”
Marshmello and Kane Brown – “One Thing Right”
Thomas Rhett featuring Jon Pardi – “Beer Can’t Fix”
CMT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR Musical performance on a television show, series or variety special on CMT; awarded to the artist (individual, group or duo)
From CMT Artists of the Year: Ashley McBryde – “One Night Standards”
From CMT Crossroads: Brooks & Dunn and Luke Combs – “Brand New Man”
From CMT Artists of the Year: Chris Young – “Drowning”
From CMT Crossroads: Halsey and Kelsea Ballerini – “Graveyard”
From CMT Artists of the Year: Sam Hunt – “Fancy”
From CMT Crossroads: Sheryl Crow and Chris Stapleton – “Tell Me When It’s Over”
Audio / MADDIE & TAE TALK ABOUT THE EMOTIONS THAT TOOK PLACE WHILE FILMING THE VIDEO FOR THEIR LATEST SONG, “DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART.”
Maddie & Tae (DFABH video emotions) OC: (Tae) …feel something. :49 MADDIE: “My role in this is kind of being the narrator and watching my best friend go through kind of like how this inspiration started for this song. So, we just both really, really dug into the like just lowest, lowest parts of our (TAE: “Heartache.”). It was tricky, ‘cause I was like I have to be really, really emotional and I feel bad all the camera guys, especially with Tae’s scenes, they’re just like, you could see their eyes welling up watching her and watching me crying.” TAE: “My parents just happened to be in town when we were shooting, so I was like, ‘When else are you gonna be in town when we’re making music videos, so you have to come,’ cause they’ve never seen it. They came and one specific scene – I’m not gonna say what it is – but it made both of my parents cry. And I walked out and my mom had a red nose and my dad’s like, ‘I wasn’t crying. I wasn’t crying.’ (MADDIE: “Awwwwww.”) And I was like, ‘Oh no.’ Well, if it makes my parents cry, hopefully it’ll makes people feel something.”
Audio / CAYLEE HAMMACK TALKS ABOUT HAVING SOME OF HER FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS FEATURED IN THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR “FAMILY TREE.”
Caylee Hammack (Family Tree video) OC: …world to me. :37 “If you’ve ever wrangled monkeys, that’s pretty much the gist of getting ‘Family Tree’ together because I brought in a bunch of my family members, I brought a bunch of my friends, I brought my dog in, we had a little cast because some of the people couldn’t come in to play the roles. It was a wild day on set, but I think it all came together. Being able to bring my family in that video means the world to me, because ‘Family Tree’ is the introductory course into my music, you know? It’s the appetizer of my tunes, and being able to start that off very strong with all of my family surrounding me, means the world to me.”
Audio / TRAVIS DENNING TALKS ABOUT THE STORY LINE OF HIS MUSIC VIDEO FOR "AFTER A FEW."
Travis Denning (AAF video) OC: …act in it. :50 “One thing I loved about the treatment for the After a Few music video is Justin Clough, who directed it, just had this great idea of the similarities between the relationship and taking a gamble on that and actually taking a gamble on a poker game. And so, we decided to kind of have this story line of me and this girl that I just couldn’t help but go back to and every drink was a gamble into falling back in her arms. And then this other side where I’m going up playing poker and getting more confident and winning money and then finally, everything comes to a T with going all in on this hand, and all of a sudden, I’m all in with her. I just thought it was so cool, and it was just great how the cinematic aspect completely mirrored one another. It was fun to act in it.”
Audio / CARRIE UNDERWOOD TALKS ABOUT “DRINKING ALONE,” WHICH SHE CO-WROTE WITH BRETT JAMES AND DAVID GARCIA.
Carrie Underwood (Drinking Alone) OC: …right now. 1:07 “I had the title, and we just kind of started what does this mean. This is another one that I feel like the title could have gone to a very like sad emotional place, but me being me I still wanted to have that strong kind of character in there. So, I love the fact that this is a breakup song. ‘I’m here at the bar drinking my pain away. You and me can hang out. Why should we both be lamenting over lost love separately? We’re both here doing the same thing. Let’s just do that together.’ I love that the character, I was like I don’t want her like going home with him. I don’t want any of that. I just want it to be like, ‘Okay we’ll just hang out. We’ll drink. We’ll maybe share a corner booth kiss.’ But it’s just more about that night and that moment and that Band-Aid and then going your separate ways. ‘Like this isn’t a thing. I’m not looking to start a new relationship. I’m out of this one. Let’s just let whatever this is be what this is right now.’”
Audio / LUKE BRYAN TALKS ABOUT HIS MULTI-WEEK NO. 1 SONG, "ONE MARGARITA."
Luke Bryan (One Margarita) OC: …margarita. :44 “’One Margarita’ is like the perfect summertime anthem party song, get on your boat, have a great time. The first time I heard it, I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s like the catchiest, most fun party song I’ve heard in a long time.’ Sop, we knew we had something special with the song. We get it recorded, and I’m like, ‘Hey! We’ve got Crash My Playa. What better place to put a song called ‘One Margarita’ out and then do the video?’ So, we go to Crash My Playa and we just start shooting it down there. And the video just feels fun. It came together amazing, and it gives fans a little glimpse of what Crash My Playa is if they’ve never been, and hey-it makes you want to have a margarita.”
