• LUKE BRYAN MAKES HISTORY WITH A SELL-OUT CROWD AT U.S. BANK STADIUM IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

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    This past weekend, reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan made history by being the first artist to play at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, MN, the new home of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings. The sell-out crowd numbered 50,000.

    “Luke Bryan Scores TD in First Show at U.S. Bank Stadium” (headline) – Minneapolis Star Tribune 

    Bryan will continue to reign this coming weekend when he plays his first ever show at the iconic Wrigley Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago Cubs and it is SOLD OUT!  Other stadium dates include AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX on October 22 and he closes the tour on October 29 with a return to Ford Field in Detroit, MI.

    For information on tickets go to www.ticketmaster.com. Citi is the official credit card of the Kill The Lights Tour. Live Nation is the national tour promoter.The Kill The Lights Tour is in promotion of Luke’s Platinum-selling, No. 1 debuting Kill The Lightsalbum which became the best-selling country album of 2015 and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list. Kill The Lights contains four consecutive No. 1 singles, “Kick The Dust Up,” “Strip It Down,” the two-week No. 1 single “Home Alone Tonight” featuring Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town and most recently “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Everyday.”

    Kill The Lights Tour
    8-25                 Kansas City, MO        Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
    8-26                 St. Louis, MO             Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
    8-27                 Chicago, IL                Wrigley Field
    9-1                   Charlotte, NC              PNC Music Pavilion
    9-2                   Raleigh, NC                 Walnut Creek Amphitheater
    9-3                   Raleigh, NC                 Walnut Creek Amphitheater
    9-8                   Brookings, SD              Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium
    9-9                   Denver, CO                  Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
    9-10                 Denver, CO                  Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
    9-15                 Sacramento, CA           Toyota Amphitheatre
    9-16                 Mountain View, CA     Shoreline Amphitheatre
    9-17                 Chula Vista, CA           Sleep Train Amphitheater
    9-22                 Phoenix, AZ                 Ak-Chin Pavilion
    9-23                 Los Angeles, CA          Forum
    9-24                 Irvine, CA                    Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
    9-30                 Salt Lake City, UT       USANA Amphitheatre
    10-1                 Salt Lake City, UT       USANA Amphitheatre
    10-2                 Las Vegas, NV             Luxor Festival Grounds / Route 91*
    10-22               Arlington, TX             AT&T Stadium ***
    10-29               Detroit, MI                 Ford Field
    Dates and Cities subject to change
    *festival date
    **no Little Big Town
    ***Chris Stapleton joins
    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 10th 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) andCrash 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.

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  • LABOR DAY: AJ, BILLY, CANAAN, DARIUS, DAVID, DIERKS, ERIC CHURCH, ERIC PASLAY, JON, LADY A, LUKE

    For many decades, Labor Day was seen as a day for workers to voice their complaints and discuss better working conditions and pay.

    U.S. Congress declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, and on Monday, September 5th, we will once again celebrate the people in every occupation whose work and dedication make this nation great. Labor Day in the United States is a holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. It is a celebration of the American labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of workers.

    Labor Day weekend also signals the unofficial end to summer, and many of the hottest country stars are taking a look back at some of the toughest jobs they had prior to making their mark in music or their dream job now.

     

    Audio / Alan Jackson says that working man values have always been a part of his music.

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    AJ (working people songs) OC: … appreciate that. :28
    “I’ve always written songs and recorded songs, other people’s songs, about workin’ people, and workin’, the workin’ life ’cause I mean, that’s where I’m from. I mean, I worked…I’d already had jobs and worked as a grown person before I ever even thought about bein’ in the music business, so I come from that background, and…although I hadn’t had a job in a long time (laughs), I still remember a lot about it, you know, and I remember what the lifestyle is, and I still appreciate that.”

    Audio / Billy Currington recalls some of the jobs he had before landing his record deal in 2003.

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    Billy Currington (Labor Day) OC: …record deal. :40
    “I started working like at [age] 12, landscaping. This was summer, every summers, and roofing. I started when I was about 16 roofing houses, and that was probably one of my toughest jobs because down there in south Georgia, it gets hot, so doing that every day all summer long. The pawn shop when I moved to Nashville was one of my favorites, even though it was one of my least favorites. The concrete job was my least favorite of all – six years of that, and I couldn’t take it no more. After that job, that was my turning point. Either I’m going to do something else for a living [laughs] or quit and try to really focus on music and get this record deal.”

    Audio / Canaan Smith talks about the bad jobs he had before signing a publishing deal and later a record deal.

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    Canaan Smith (worst jobs) OC: …of that. [laughs] :54
    “I’ve had some terrible jobs. I was a janitor for a while, and I mopped floors, vacuums all kinds of, picking up dog poop, taking out trash, just basically somebody’s beyatch [laughs], that was my job. I did that for two-and-a-half years before I signed a publishing deal. Before that, actually my very first job, I got fired from. It was some sort of candy/chocolate store. My mom dropped me off one time, and I went to work and I was like I think I can do this, and then two shifts later I just didn’t show up because I didn’t understand the concept of having to look at a schedule to see when you come in. I just didn’t show. I just thought they’d call me, ‘Hey, we need you to come in.’ I didn’t know. I was 15 years old, and never worked and that kind of stuff. I always cut grass when I was a kid and cleaned golf clubs – whatever I could do to make some money. But, yeah, I got fired from my first job. I’m pretty proud of that.” [laughs]

    Audio / Clare Dunn discovered her love of music while working on her family’s farm in Southern Colorado.

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    Clare Dunn (discovered music) OC: …that way. :40
    “I did most of my music discovery as a young girl driving a tractor for most of the day – 10, 12 hours a day, you have nothing but the radio as your companion, basically, to keep you entertained. So, there was a local country radio station, and they, along with my parents’ love of music, I mean, that’s how I found Keith Urban and George Strait. My mom is a huge Waylon Jennings’ fan. And so music for me, I discovered it driving long hours on a tractor or hauling water to a cattle in a pickup by myself or through my parents’ love of music. And so, I was really fortunate that way.”

    Audio / Darius Rucker recalls one of his worst jobs before turning to music.

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    Darius Rucker (Labor Day) OC: …pizza. :15
    “I was fifteen, and I worked at a pizza place, and the guy decided that at fifteen, that I could not only clean the floors and wash the dishes, but I also had to make pizza. So, for two months, he taught me how to make pizza.”

    Audio / David Nail recalls his first job at Dairy Queen.

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    David Nail (Labor Day) OC: …Dilly Bar. :32
    “The first job that I ever had was working at Dairy Queen. One of my very best friends in the world’s mother purchased a franchise, so it was kinda a cool place to work. You put me in an ice cream place, it’s a recipe for disaster. So, Kathy Jeffers, her mother tends to tell people it was a ‘mutual separation,’ but I can vividly remember her saying that they were going to lose money if they continued to let me work, because I was eating more food than I was selling. But, it was a great two days that I spent there, and I had many a Dilly Bar.”

    Audio / Dierks Bentley makes a living performing for his fans, and he can’t say enough about them.

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    Dierks Bentley (Labor Day) OC: …generosity. :26
    “Personally, the fans give me amazement. That’s the only word to really sum it up. I look out in the crowd, you know, usually see a lot of faces and fans are cheering. I know each one of these like from the road-the signs are from California…Michelle and Kayla live up in the Ohio area. They’re all, I just see them, and I’m like, ‘Wow!,’ they’re all from different regions. You know when you’re in a different region of the country and you just see certain fans. These people are way more hard core than I am, and I’m just amazed by their generosity.”

    Audio / Eric Church talks about one of his worst jobs.

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    Eric Church (Labor Day-odd jobs) OC: …bought at 2am. 1:27
    “I had an awful job. I’ve had a lot of awful jobs…my worst one was when I first came to Nashville. I got a job at the Shop at Home Network. I worked midnight, graveyard, midnight to eight. That was bad enough but then I would work all night, go home, shower and then I had writing appointments all day because I was trying to get a career started. I’d go write songs and get meetings just trying to get signed. And end up getting done at 3 of 4 with all of that, I’d go home, take a shower or sleep for a little bit and then I had to be at work again at midnight. So the schedule was bad enough, however, what I had to do at the job…I sold knives from midnight to 7 or 8am. And, anytime somebody calls you at 3 or 4am and needs 200 knives for $19.95, it’s automatically an alarming situation. And I just, I was young and I’d been in a lot of these people’s shoes, I had done this…I knew they were drunk. I knew what they had done. They’d just come home from the bar, flipped on Shop at Home and said, ‘You know what? I need that.’ So the reason the job didn’t last long for me is that I was maybe the worst salesmen in history because I ended up talking a lot of these people out of it, I’d say, ‘I’ll tell you what man, go to bed, call me, I’ll be here in the morning. If you get up in the morning and want these knives you call me back.’ Because I knew what was going to happen, you know. They bought 200 knives for $19.95…first of all some of these people you didn’t know whether you should call the cops. What do you need 200 knives for? Even though I’m selling them…what do you need them for? So, it was awful doing that job. And then they got rid of me because, they were like, ‘You’re the worst. I can’t believe you’re talking people out of it.’ I was like, ‘Man I know…I’ve been there.’ [laughs] I’d want some to talk me out of buying some of the stuff I’ve bought at 2am.”

    Audio / Eric Paslay talks about his first job…printing logos on fanny packs.

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    Eric Paslay (Labor Day) OC: …could print. :34
    “My first official job was working at a screen printing place in Texas during the summer in a metal building that had no AC. We printed on fanny packs – really cool — and these other little bags. And it was eye doctors that, some company if you bought supplies through them, they’d put your logo on fanny packs for your customers to put in a drawer somewhere. Fanny packs are cool, if you like ‘em. You know, we’d like time ourselves to see how many fanny packs you could print.”

    Audio / Jon Pardi talks about his worst job, which was at a grocery store.

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    Jon Pardi (Labor Day) OC: …so bored! :17
    “The worst job I ever had was at Hometown Grocery Store. I didn’t want to work, I was 15, and I did not want to work at the grocery store. Bagging was fun, but they sent me down the aisles to pull up cans and turn ‘em around and face ‘em, and I would just get so bored!”

    Audio / Kip Moore recalls his worst job...ever.

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    Kip Moore (Labor Day-worst job) OC: …than that. :21
    “I’d have to say my worst job ever was laying sod in the south Georgia heat. There’s nothing than that, especially when somebody would think that you’re waiting for the next sod patch to be thrown to you and you got your back turned, and all of a sudden, that big ole piece of sod hits you right on the back. You got nowhere to clean up, and you’re just stuck with dirt on your back for the rest of the day. It doesn’t get any worse than that.”

    Audio / Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum tells us what he used to do to make a buck before finding success as a musician.

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    Lady A (Labor Day) OC: …I had a lot of crummy jobs. :31
    CK “I used to…” HS: “… knock out asbestos walls.” CK: “I did that for a long time. But even before that, I used to do lawn care every summer. Oh, man, I do not miss that. Just glad those days are over. I get out here and play music for a living. It’s a lot more fun. But yeah, I used to do that, and I used to work as a bag boy at a golf course once. I did that for a couple of summers. I had a lot of crummy jobs.”

    Audio / Luke Bryan talks about the different jobs he worked in and around Leesburg, Georgia, before heading to Nashville to pursue a career in music.

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    Luke Bryan (Labor Day-jobs) OC: …Nashville… 1:07
    “At age 12 thru 13, I worked at Rubos IGA Supermarket in Leesburg, GA. I worked during the summers on Monday and Tuesday. I stocked and cleaned up the produce.  They paid me under the table…I peeled off all of the brown lettuce. Let’s see, when I was 15, I was a cashier at K-Mart for two months. I worked at K-Mart for two months, and then I reverted back to Rubos because it didn’t really make sense for me to drive all the way into Albany and work for K-Mart. The benefits were great though-you’d get an hour-long on the blue light special. So I started back at Rubos, and then I quit Rubos and worked for my Dad-just awful just driving tractors through cotton all day, and spraying pesticides that eventually would turn your hair green. And then at some point, I started playing guitar. And well, after college I went back and worked for my dad and continued to spray and haul fertilizer around. And then I moved to Nashville…”

  • LABOR DAY 2016 LINERS: Billy, Bros. O, Canaan, Clare, David, Darius, Church, Paslay, Jon, Kacey, Keith, Kip, LBT, Luke, Sam, TBP and more

    Audio / LINER Billy Currington (Labor Day)

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    Hey y’all! It’s Billy Currington, wishing you a very happy Labor Day weekend.



    Audio / LINER Brothers Osborne (Labor Day)

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    This is TJ, and I’m John, and we are Brothers Osborne, wishing you a happy and work-free Labor Day weekend.

    Audio / LINER Canaan Smith (Labor Day)

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    Hey! What’s up, guys? I’m Canaan Smith. Have a great and work-free Labor Day weekend.



    Audio / LINER Clare Dunn (Labor Day)

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    Hey! What’s up? This is Clare Dunn, and I hope you have a Happy Labor Day weekend.

     

    Audio / LINER Darius Rucker (Labor Day)

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    Hey! It’s Darius Rucker, and I hope you have a have a happy work-free Labor Day weekend.



    Audio / LINER David Nail (Labor Day)

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    Hey guys! It’s David Nail, wishing  you a very happy Labor Day weekend.

    Audio / LINER Eric Church (Labor Day)

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    Hey! It’s Eric Church, and I hope you have a have a happy Labor Day weekend.



    Audio / LINER Eric Paslay (Labor Day)

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    Hey! It’s Eric Paslay, and I hope you have a happy and work-free Labor Day weekend.

    Audio / LINER Jon Pardi (Labor Day weekend)

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    Hey! It’s Jon Pardi, and I hope you have a happy and work-free Labor Day weekend.



    Audio / LINER Kacey Musgraves (Labor Day weekend)

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    Hey! It’s Kacey Musgraves, hoping you have a happy Labor Day weekend.

    Audio / LINER Keith Urban (Labor Day weekend)

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    Hi everybody! This is Keith Urban, wishing you a very happy Labor Day weekend.



    Audio / LINER Kip Moore (Labor Day)

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    Hey—what’s happening guys? This is Kip Moore, wishing you a happy and work-free Labor Day Weekend.

    Audio / LINER LBT (Labor Day)

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    Hi! We’re Little Big Town, hoping you have a work-free Labor Day weekend.



    Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (Labor Day)

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    Hey! It’s Luke Bryan, and I hope you have a have a happy Labor Day weekend.

    Audio / LINER Sam Hunt (Labor Day)

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    Hey everybody! I’m Sam Hunt. Have a great and work-free Labor Day weekend.



    Audio / LINER TBP (Labor Day Weekend)

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    Hey everybody! We are The Band Perry, wishing you a happy and work-free Labor Day Weekend.

  • LUKE BRYAN TAKES FANS BEHIND-THE-SCENES AT HIS GILLETTE STADIUM SHOWS.

    Luke Bryan takes fans backstage and behind-the-scenes of his recent Gillette Stadium shows in the latest episode of LBTV.

    Video / LBTV 2016 Ep. 11

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  • NEWS AND NOTES: Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum, Eric Paslay, Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton

    Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman appears on the Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay show tomorrow (August 18th). See if Kimberly can take down the celebrity chef beginning at 10pm ET on The Food Network.

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    Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley has been tapped as the NSAI Song Contest Grand Prize Mentor this year.

    Eric Paslay will appear on GAC Playlist August 29th at 12p and 3p ET.

    Luke Bryan welcomes friend and his former ACM Awards co-host Blake Shelton as a headliner for the third year of Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa, an all-inclusive concert vacation set for January 19-22, 2017 in Riviera Maya, Mexico. After two sold-out years, the hottest country music destination event keeps getting better and better. The Caribbean beach vacation will also feature Luke headlining two of the four nightly concerts. Additional performers to be announced soon.

    Chris Stapleton‘s “Parachute” is being used in Dodge Ram commercials. Check them out below.

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  • THIS DAY IN HISTORY: August 16th

    On August 16th, 2012, Luke Bryan’s “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)” is certified double-platinum.

    Audio / In 2012, Luke Bryan talked about the success of “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)” – the first single from his then new album, tailgates & tanlines.

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    Luke Bryan (Country Girl) OC: …It shows. :59
    “That’s the most amazing part out of the business is to get a song idea and to write it and dream it up to become this big fun thing that you pray it’s gonna be. For it to happen that way is such a pleasure. Me and one of my best friends, Dallas Davison wrote it and we kind of felt like it was going to be what it is. I think that the song, I kind of compare it to ‘I Like It, I Love It.’ It’s not going to change the world, but people are never going to get tired of hearing it and getting up and dancing and having a big old time to it. And that’s what the song’s about, I felt like when we recorded it, I felt like it was always going to need to be the first single. And it’s fun to have it go this way and to be a big old fun up tempo song that people are wanting to go dance and make up dance routines and party down and have fun with it, it shows.”

  • LUKE BRYAN TAKES FANS BEHIND THE SCENES OF HIS KILL THE LIGHTS TOUR ON SUNDAY TODAY JULY 31ST.

    Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan spent time with NBC’s Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist in Boston (Foxborough) before he kicked off the first of a two-night stand at Gillette Stadium – home to four-time Super Bowl Champions New England Patriots. Bryan talked to Geist about his family, career and the significance and feeling of getting to this pinnacle of playing two-nights at Gillette Stadium. Not to mention being the first of five stadiums he will play this year on his Kill The Lights Tour. Bryan also gave Geist and Sunday TODAY viewers a peek behind-the-scenes onstage. Tune in to NBC’s Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist on Sunday, July 31st. Check local listings for time.

    Luke’s upcoming stadium concerts include the grand opening of U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, MN on August 19, the new home of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, his debut at the iconic Wrigley Field in Chicago on August 27 and the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX on October 22. He closes out the tour on October 29 with a return to Ford Field in Detroit, MI.

    For information on tickets go to www.ticketmaster.com. Citi is the official credit card of the Kill The Lights Tour. Live Nation is the national tour promoter.

    The Kill The Lights Tour is in promotion of Luke’s Platinum-selling, No. 1 debuting Kill The Lights album which became the best-selling country album of 2015 and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genreBillboard Top 200 Year-End list. Kill The Lights contains four consecutive No. 1 singles, “Kick The Dust Up,” “Strip It Down,” the two-week No. 1 single “Home Alone Tonight” featuring Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town and most recently “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Everyday.”
     
    Kill The Lights Tour
    7-29                 Philadelphia, PA                   BB&T Pavilion
    7-30                 Philadelphia, PA                   BB&T Pavilion
    7-31                 Saratoga Springs, NY          Saratoga Performing Arts Center
    8-11                 Cleveland, OH                      Blossom Music Center
    8-12                 Cleveland, OH                      Blossom Music Center
    8-13                 Cincinnati, OH                      Riverbend Music Center
    8-14                 Cincinnati, OH                      Riverbend Music Center
    8-19                 Minneapolis, MN                U.S. Bank Stadium
    8-21                 Calgary, AB                          Country Thunder Calgary*
    8-25                 Kansas City, MO                  Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
    8-26                 St. Louis, MO                       Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
    8-27                 Chicago, IL                         Wrigley Field
    9-1                   Charlotte, NC                       PNC Music Pavilion
    9-2                   Raleigh, NC                         Walnut Creek Amphitheater
    9-3                   Raleigh, NC                         Walnut Creek Amphitheater
    9-8                   Brookings, SD                      Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium
    9-9                   Denver, CO                          Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
    9-10                 Denver, CO                          Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
    9-15                 Sacramento, CA                  Toyota Amphitheatre
    9-16                 Mountain View, CA               Shoreline Amphitheatre
    9-17                 Chula Vista, CA                    Sleep Train Amphitheater
    9-22                 Phoenix, AZ                          Ak-Chin Pavilion
    9-23                 Los Angeles, CA                   Forum
    9-24                 Irvine, CA                              Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
    9-30                 Salt Lake City, UT                 USANA Amphitheatre
    10-1                 Salt Lake City, UT                  USANA Amphitheatre
    10-2                 Las Vegas, NV                       Luxor Festival Grounds / Route 91*
    10-22               Arlington, TX                        AT&T Stadium ***
    10-29               Detroit, MI                             Ford Field
    Dates and Cities subject to change
    *festival date
    **no Little Big Town
    ***Chris Stapleton joins
     
    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 10th biggest selling album on the all-genreBillboard 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 up to date information on Luke, the tour and tickets go to www.lukebryan.com or www.livenation.com.
     
  • LUKE BRYAN IS ON THE ‘MOVE.’

    Luke Bryan has just released his new single, “Move,” the fifth single from his Kill the Lights album. The song that he wrote with his bandmate, Michael Carter, and Jay Clementi, is the follow-up to his previous four No. 1 hits from Kill the Lights – “Kick the Dust Up,” “Striip It Down,” “Home Alone Tonight” and “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day.”

    Luke says “Move” features all of the fun you could have in a song. “It’s what I envision, big ole country dance clubs across the country playing that and it filling up and everybody having a great time,” says Luke. “There’s a little inside story about a girl that moves to the south and she’s kind of shy and then she gets in with these kind of rebel crowd girls and they teach her how to let her hair down and all that, it’s pretty fun. A lot of imagery in that. Kind of a cool picture painted in that, and [I’m] really proud that I got to write that song with Michael Carter and Jay Clementi.”

    You can catch Luke “moving” on stage when his Kill the Lights Tour makes a stop in Scranton on Thursday (July 21st) and Pittsburgh on Friday (July 22nd) and Saturday (July 23rd).

    Audio / Luke Bryan talks about the song, “Move,” which he co-wrote with Michael Carter and Jay Clementi.

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    Luke Bryan (Move) OC: …off on it. :38
    “‘Move’ is all the fun you could want to have in a song in my opinion. It’s what I envision, big ole country dance clubs across the country playing that and it filling up and everybody having a great time. And when you talk about there’s a little inside story about a girl that moves to the south and she’s kind of shy and then she gets in with these kind of rebel crowd girls and they teach her how to let her hair down and all that, it’s pretty fun. A lot of imagery in that. Kind of a cool picture painted in that, and [I’m] really proud that I got to write that song with Michael Carter and Jay Clementi. We worked out butt off on it.”

    Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (Move intro)

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  • LUKE BRYAN PLAYS HIS FIRST TWO-NIGHT STADIUM STAND IN BOSTON.

    This past weekend, reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan  played his first two-night stadium stand at Gillette Stadium in Boston (Foxborough) – home to four-time Super Bowl Champions New England Patriots and the first of five stadiums Bryan will play this year on his Kill The Lights Tour. Bryan was joined this weekend by Little Big Town, Chris Stapleton, Dustin Lynch and DJ Rock.  View an excerpt from the show HERE.

    Luke made headlines at the Boston Globe with his “winning moves” and was touted as “a virtuoso”.  The Sun Chronicle headline emphasized Luke being in his “musical prime” and “keeping the audience on their feet.”

    Luke’s upcoming stadium concerts include the grand opening of U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, MN on August 19th, the new home of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, his debut at the iconic Wrigley Field in Chicago on August 27th and the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX on October 22. He closes out the tour on October 29th with a return to Ford Field in Detroit, MI.

    For information on tickets go to www.ticketmaster.com. Citi is the official credit card of the Kill The Lights Tour. Live Nation is the national tour promoter.

    The Kill The Lights Tour is in promotion of Luke’s Platinum-selling, No. 1 debuting Kill The Lights album which became the best-selling country album of 2015 and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genreBillboard Top 200 Year-End list. Kill The Lights contains four consecutive No. 1 singles, “Kick The Dust Up,” “Strip It Down,” the two-week No. 1 single “Home Alone Tonight” featuring Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town and most recently “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Everyday.”

    Kill The Lights Tour
    7-21                 Scranton, PA                         The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
    7-22                 Pittsburgh, PA                       First Niagara Pavilion
    7-23                 Pittsburgh, PA                       First Niagara Pavilion
    7-28                 Canandaigua, NY                 Constellation Brands Marvin Sands PAC
    7-29                 Philadelphia, PA                    BB&T Pavilion
    7-30                 Philadelphia, PA                    BB&T Pavilion
    7-31                 Saratoga Springs, NY           Saratoga Performing Arts Center
    8-11                 Cleveland, OH                       Blossom Music Center
    8-12                 Cleveland, OH                       Blossom Music Center
    8-13                 Cincinnati, OH                      Riverbend Music Center
    8-14                 Cincinnati, OH                      Riverbend Music Center
    8-19                 Minneapolis, MN                 U.S. Bank Stadium
    8-21                 Calgary, AB                          Country Thunder Calgary*
    8-25                 Kansas City, MO                   Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
    8-26                 St. Louis, MO                       Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
    8-27                 Chicago, IL                          Wrigley Field
    9-1                   Charlotte, NC                        PNC Music Pavilion
    9-2                   Raleigh, NC                           Walnut Creek Amphitheater
    9-3                   Raleigh, NC                           Walnut Creek Amphitheater
    9-8                   Brookings, SD                       Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium
    9-9                   Denver, CO                           Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
    9-10                 Denver, CO                           Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
    9-15                 Sacramento, CA                   Toyota Amphitheatre
    9-16                 Mountain View, CA               Shoreline Amphitheatre
    9-17                 Chula Vista, CA                    Sleep Train Amphitheater
    9-22                 Phoenix, AZ                          Ak-Chin Pavilion
    9-23                 Los Angeles, CA                   Forum
    9-24                 Irvine, CA                              Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
    9-30                 Salt Lake City, UT                USANA Amphitheatre
    10-1                 Salt Lake City, UT                 USANA Amphitheatre
    10-2                 Las Vegas, NV                       Luxor Festival Grounds / Route 91*
    10-22               Arlington, TX                       AT&T Stadium ***
    10-29               Detroit, MI                            Ford Field
    Dates and Cities subject to change
    *festival date
    **no Little Big Town
    ***Chris Stapleton joins

    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 10th 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 up to date information on Luke, the tour and tickets go to www.lukebryan.com or www.livenation.com.  
  • NEWS AND NOTES: Canaan, Charles, Jon, Luke

    Canaan Smith just got some new ink on his right arm. The tat says, “Two wonders here that I confess — my worth and my unworthiness.” The lyrics are from a Gospel song titled “My Worth Is Not In What I Own” by Keith and Kristyn Getty.

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    Don’t forget to catch Charles Kelley and Rob Thomas on the new episode of CMT Crossroads on Friday (July 1st) at 10pm ET/9pm CT.

    Jon Pardi will perform his hit, “Head Over Boots,” on NBC’s Today Show July 7th.

    Luke Bryan presents a new collection in his 32 Bridge Clothing Line at Cabela’s on Friday (July 1st). It all began with one artist’s love for the outdoors. From Luke Bryan’s original brand, 32 Bridge, comes a new collection: HFE (short for Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day, the title of his recent No. 1 single).