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  • LUKE BRYAN TAKES HIS RESCHEDULED FARM TOUR TO SOUTH CAROLINA AND HELPS OUT LOCAL FOLKS AFFECTED BY FLOODING.

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    Luke Bryan and the sponsors of his “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2015” are joining forces to raise funds to purchase food and supplies to help those affected by the flooding in South Carolina. Luke’s originally planned Farm Tour concert on October 3rd in Columbia, South Carolina will now play this Sunday, November 1st at Colt Creek Farm in Pelion, South Carolina.

    The “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2015” sponsors, led by Red Gold Tomatoes pledge of $20,000 of canned tomatoes, including Bayer, Cabela’s, CMS Nashville, Miller Lite, ATG, Citibank, Bad Boy Buggies and Red Gold’s can suppliers Ball Corp., are all jumping in to support South Carolina.

    To donate:  https://www.youcaring.com/harvest-hope-451442 Proceeds from the donation drive will go to the Harvest Hope Food Bank located in Columbia, South Carolina. As the state’s largest food bank, Harvest Hope provides for the needs of hungry people by gathering and sharing quality food with dignity, compassion and education. Since 1981, its mission has been to feed the hungry across 20 counties of South Carolina. In the last year alone, Harvest Hope distributed over 28 million pounds of food and is continuing its effort by aiding victims of the flood disaster.

    Citi® is the official credit card of the “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2015.”  For more information visit www.citiprivatepass.com.  For additional “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2015” information, including where to get tickets, go to www.lukebryan.com/farmtour

  • LUKE BRYAN WILL KICK OFF THE SALVATION ARMY’S ANNUAL RED KETTLE CAMPAIGN THIS YEAR.

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    Luke Bryan will perform LIVE at AT&T Stadium during halftime of the Dallas Cowboys game against the Carolina Panthers on Thanksgiving Day, November 26TH, kicking off The Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle Campaign. The nationally televised halftime performance marks the 19th year the Dallas Cowboys have partnered with The Salvation Army to launch the iconic annual campaign, which raises millions of dollars throughout the holiday season. Donations help provide meals and shelter for families and Christmas toys for millions of children, in addition to numerous other social services programs year-round, such as substance abuse programs, shelter and counseling for victims of domestic violence, and military veteran assistance.
    “As a football fan, I’m especially excited to be performing on Thanksgiving Day,” says Luke Bryan. “It’s also an honor to spotlight two great organizations like Dallas Cowboys and The Salvation Army and raise awareness for all the great work they do.”
    The Red Kettle Campaign runs from Thanksgiving Day through Christmas Eve and is the largest and longest-running fundraiser of its kind. It raised $144.7 million last year alone, with more than $2 billion raised since the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day partnership began in 1997.For the second year, this campaign will include an invitation for donors to share their reasons for giving on social media, and Luke Bryan will add his own #RedKettleReason.
    “This summer, we celebrated the 150th anniversary of The Salvation Army, and this holiday season marks the 125th Red Kettle Campaign. That is over a century of dedication to meeting human need across the globe,” said Lt. Col. Ron Busroe, national community relations and development secretary for The Salvation Army. “Our hope, in partnership with the Dallas Cowboys and Luke Bryan, is to continue to spread the word that The Salvation Army is here for those trying to overcome obstacles in their lives during the holidays and year-round.”
    As the reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan has sold nearly eight million albums with 30 million digital tracks and placed 14 songs at the top of the charts.  He is currently a double nominee for the upcoming CMA Awards as “Male Vocalist of The Year” and “Entertainer of The Year.” Bryan’s “Kick the Dust Up Tour” kicked off in May 2015, and he is currently making his rounds through the country performing in sold-out venues everywhere.
    The Red Kettle Kickoff halftime show has been nationally televised for all of its 19 years, reaching millions of viewers with the campaign’s message. Luke Bryan is the newest addition to a list of Red Kettle Kickoff celebrity halftime performers, including Selena Gomez, Kenny Chesney, Enrique Iglesias, Keith Urban, Daughtry, Jonas Brothers, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Sheryl Crow, Destiny’s Child, Toby Keith, LeAnn Rimes, Creed, Jessica Simpson, Billy Gilman, Clint Black, Randy Travis and Reba McEntire.
    In addition to giving online or to the traditional bell ringers that will be stationed at retail locations across the country, supporters can donate through the Army’s text-to-give program. By texting the word “KETTLE” to 80888, donors can send $10 to the Red Kettle Campaign.
    From its humble beginnings as a Salvation Army captain’s start-up program in 1891 in San Francisco, the Red Kettle Campaign has grown into one of the most recognizable and important charitable campaigns in the United States. It provides toys for kids, coats for the homeless, food for the hungry and countless social service programs year-round. As part of the campaign, more than 25,000 Salvation Army volunteers throughout the country ring bells and solicit donations to the Red Kettles.

    About The Salvation Army
    The Salvation Army, established in London in 1865, has been supporting those in need in His name without discrimination for more than 130 years in the United States. Approximately 30 million Americans receive assistance from The Salvation Army each year through a range of social services: food for the hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to the elderly and ill, clothing and shelter to the homeless, and opportunities for underprivileged children. Eighty-two cents of every dollar donated to The Salvation Army are used to support those services in 5,000 communities nationwide. The Salvation Army tracks the level of need across the country with the Human Needs Index (HumanNeedsIndex.org). For more information, go to salvationarmyusa.org or follow on Twitter @SalvationArmyUS.

    About Luke Bryan
    Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke Bryan has placed 14 singles at #1 and sold nearly 8 million albums with 30 million digital tracks from his five studio albums. He has been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music (twice) and the Country Music Association. Luke’s new album Kill The Lights recently debuted at #1 on both the Billboard Top 200 and Top Country Albums charts. This is Luke’s third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. Kill The Lights is the third-largest-selling album debut in all genres in 2015 at the time of release, after R&B / hip hop releases from Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Kill The Lights is also the highest country album debut in the last two years, since his own Crash My Party debuted at #1 in August 2013.
    About the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Foundation
    In the area of community service, the Dallas Cowboys and Jones Family Foundation’s mission is built upon an overall philosophy of helping those who don’t have the strength, the resources or the means to help themselves, with a primary focus on partnership with The Salvation Army. With the Cowboys organization having enjoyed immense and unprecedented success, the Jones Family feels a very strong obligation to take the visibility, energy and celebrity of one of the world’s most powerful sports franchises and channel those dynamic forces toward the bigger purpose of making a difference. Recognized as one of the world’s most generous families, the Joneses enlist the talents, skills and resources of all the Cowboys players, coaches, cheerleaders and every member of the organization to provide a unique and cutting edge approach to community outreach. More information about the Dallas Cowboys and the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Foundation can be found on http://www.dallascowboys.com/.
    For more information about The Salvation Army and the Red Kettle Kickoff, please visit blog.salvationarmyusa.org,facebook.com/SalvationArmyUSA or twitter.com/salvationarmyus.

  • LUKE BRYAN SPENDS A SECOND WEEK AT NO. 1 WITH ‘STRIP IT DOWN.’

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    Luke Bryan’s “Strip It Down” is spending a second consecutive week at No. 1 on both the Billboard and Country Aircheck country charts. The song, which he co-wrote with Ross Copperman and Jon Nite, is the second chart-topping single from his latest album, Kill the Lights.

    “Nothing is better than when you hear that song and you’re at a place in your artist career where you know the second you hear it, ‘Bam! That’s gonna be on there,’” says Luke. “There’s no way around me not recording that song and that’s a fun feeling.”

    Luke is nominated for Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year at next week’s CMA Awards. The 49th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, November 4th at 8pm ET on ABC.

    Audio / Luke Bryan, who’s spending a second week at No. 1 with “Strip It Down,” is thankful for the songs he’s being sent from some of the best songwriters and the songs he writes with hit tunesmiths.

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    Luke Bryan (songs) OC: …on the album. :24
    “Nothing is better than when you hear that song and you’re at a place in your artist career where you know the second you hear it, ‘Bam! That’s gonna be on there.’ There’s no way around me not recording that song and that’s a fun feeling. But you just have to be thankful that you’re getting so many songs sent your way and try to pick what stirs your emotions and your heart and follow your heart and put ‘em on the album.”

  • HALLOWEEN 2015: AJ, Billy, Brothers Osborne, Canaan, Darius, David, Easton, Eric, Jon, Lady A, Luke, Scotty

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    Halloween is Saturday, and the holiday has some of your favorite country stars getting into costumes, and they also recall memories of Halloweens past.

    Audio / Alan Jackson used to take his daughters trick-or-treating when they were young kids, but he recalls one costume that he hated. It was an infant costume that made one of the girls look like a little peapod.

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    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.

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    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 / Billy Currington (Trick or Treat)

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    Billy Currington (Trick or Treat)
    “Trick or Treat, baby.” [laughs]

    Audio / Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne talks about carving pumpkins with their dad when they were growing up.

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    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...and not so favorite.

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    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 and John Osborne talk about dressing up like zombies for Halloween.

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    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 / Canaan Smith says his Halloweens of today have changed dramatically since he was a child.

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    Canaan Smith (Halloween) OC: …cornfields. :37
    “I grew up in a Christian family. We went to a private Christian school for a while, so they didn’t allow us to celebrate Halloween like I do now. We did what was called a Hallelujah Party instead, and you still dress up and still get all the candy, but  you go to the high school gym. You play games, you just do, like cornhole and the dunking booth and all kinds of stuff and win prizes, but it was nothing ever scary. I think they had like rules about what outfits you could and couldn’t wear. But now I just love freaking myself out and going to, I love going to haunted houses and haunted cornfields.”

    Audio / Darius Rucker loves Halloween, especially because it’s his kids’ favorite holiday.

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    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 / David Nail talks about his favorite part of Halloween.

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    David Nail (favorite part of Halloween) OC: …it better. :14
    “My favorite thing about Halloween was just the excitement about picking out your costume and talking to your friends and fighting over if you’re going to be this or if they stole the idea from you and if you can do the idea better.”

    Audio / David Nail wants to have the best candy in the neighbrhood.

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    David Nail (Halloween candy) OC: …neighborhood. :19
    “My sister and I would always go out and hide in the trees and the bushes and scare the kids that would come up to our house, which was rare ‘cause we always had the crappiest candy ever. And when I can afford it, I’m gonna have the best dagum candy. I’m gonna blow everybody away. I’m gonna have a line. It’s gonna look like a George Strait meet-and-greet. It’ll be all the way around the neighborhood.”

    Audio / Dierks Bentley talks about the Halloweens of his childhood.

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    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 / Easton Corbin has never dressed up for Halloween as an adult, but one of his favorite costumes as a kid was made by his grandmother.

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    Easton Corbin (Halloween) OC: …pretty warm. :26
    “My grandma made a werewolf outfit for me, and I wore that one year. She got this fake hair and glued it to sweatpants and a sweatshirt. That was a hot outfit. I mean, it got pretty warm.”

    Audio / Eric Church recalls his favorite Halloween costume.

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    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 Pardi talks about his favorite Halloween costumes as a child.

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    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 / Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley reveals one costume he’s always wanted to wear on Halloween.

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    Lady A (Charles costume) OC: …an apple. :19
    CHARLES: “I want to be a banana. I think there’s something so funny and understated about a banana, especially when you’re 6’6” and like your little head’s popping through and you’re a banana.” DAVE: “Do they make ‘em your size?” CHARLES: “I’ve been known to sew a thing or two.” HILLARY: “That’s really random.” CHARLES: “I know. I’ve always wanted to dress up like something, just kind of funny like a banana or an apple.”

    Audio / Lady Antebellum’s Dave Haywood recalls one of his most embarrassing Halloween costumes.

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    Lady A (Dave Haywood costume memory) OC: …50 feet. :20
    “I was a die (1/2 of a pair of dice) for Halloween. I had a big cardboard box that I had painted white and had the polka dots and stuff. And I remember I was walking up this hill to go to this hill and literally fell back down the entire hill [laughter], rolling in this giant cardboard box that I couldn’t do anything about, because I rolled down about 50-feet.”

    Audio / Luke Bryan says you can tell a lot about your neighbors from what kind of Halloween candy they hand out.

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    Luke Bryan (Halloween) OC: …your teeth. :18
    “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 says you can tell a lot about your neighbors from what kind of Halloween candy they hand out.

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    Scotty McCreery (favorite costume and memory) OC: …was happening. :19
    “My favorite Halloween memory would have to be me in my gorilla costume running down the street chasing some little girl I was friends with. I knew her, but I was scaring her half to death. My favorite costume, though, would have to be my Elvis Presley costume. I think I was about 10 years old when that was happening.”

  • LUKE BRYAN SURPRISES A FAN…AND HER REACTION IS PRICELESS.

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    Luke Bryan recently surprised a fan and her family at home when he showed up unannounced. You see, Diane Taylor kidneys were shutting down, and her daughter, Lisa — who’s a huge Luke fan — decided to donate one of her kidneys to her mother. The selfless act gave her mother an idea to have Luke surprise her. This particular story had a personal effect on Luke and his entire team, since Jacoby Knott, a lady who works in his office, recently underwent surgery when her cousin donated his kidney to save her life.

    Check out the video below to see Lisa’s reaction to having the CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year knock on her door AND pick her up in his tour bus and take her, her mother and sister to his show that night.

    “Your music has helped me and my mom and my sister get through times that were so dark,” Lisa told Luke.

    “However much you may think that we are making you guys feel good, I swear to God that I haven’t had this much fun in a long time.”

    Luke is currently sitting at No. 1 with his latest single, “Strip It Down.”

     

    Video / Luke Bryan surprises deserving fan

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  • LUKE BRYAN ANNOUNCES HIS 2016 KILL THE LIGHTS TOUR, FEATURING LITTLE BIG TOWN AND DUSTIN LYNCH.

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    Luke Bryan, the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year and two-time ACM Entertainer of the Year, will embark on a brand new tour in early 2016, “Kill The Lights Tour.”  The first leg will launch on February, 16 in Evansville, Indiana with guests Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch.

    Ticket on sales for the “Kill The Lights Tour” begin in November. Citi is the official credit card of Luke’s “Kill the Lights Tour.”  Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning in November through Citi’s Private Pass Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Live Nation is the national tour promoter.

    Last week, Luke wrapped his seventh annual “Farm Tour” after multiple weather delays caused a shift in concert dates along the way. The tour brought 110,000 fans to the seven cities that played so far with the Columbia, South Carolina rescheduled date to be announced soon. A portion of the ticket proceeds are granted for local college scholarships (“Luke Bryan Farm Tour Scholarship”) to students from a farming family within the communities the tour plays. To see highlights from “Farm Tour” watch the new LBTV episode at http://youtu.be/WZqotCoRJDs.

    Luke’s current headline tour, “Kick the Dust Up Tour,” will come to a close the end of this month as it plays a final Sold-Out stadium date in Detroit, Michigan on October, 30 at Ford Field.

    2016 “Kill the Lights Tour” first leg:

    2-18        Evansville, IN                       Ford Center

    2-19        Peoria, IL                              Peoria Civic Center Arena

    2-20        Cedar Falls, IA                     UNI Dome

    2-25        Montreal, QC                       Bell Centre

    2-26        Uncasville, CT                      Mohegan Sun Arena *

    2-27        Uncasville, CT                      Mohegan Sun Arena *

    3-8          Las Cruces, NM                   Pan American Center

    3-11        Little Rock, AR                    Verizon Arena *

    3-12        Bossier City, LA                   CenturyLink Center *

    4-7          Charleston, WV                   Charleston Civic Center Coliseum

    4-8          Baltimore, MD                     Royal Farms Arena

    4-9          Syracuse, NY                        Carrier Dome

    4-14        Toledo, OH                           The Huntington Center

    4-15        State College, PA                 Bryce Jordan Center

    4-16        Charlottesville, VA              John Paul Jones Arena

    4-21        Missoula, MT                       Adams Center

    4-22        Bozeman, MT                      Brick Breeden Fieldhouse

    4-29        Concord, CA                        Concord Pavilion

    4-30        Fresno, CA                            Save Mart Center

    5-12        Omaha, NE                           CenturyLink Center

    5-13        Wichita, KS                           INTRUST Bank Arena

    5-14        Oklahoma City, OK            Chesapeake Energy Arena

    Dates & Cities subject to change

    *no Little Big Town

    About Luke Bryan
    Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke Bryan has placed 14 singles at #1 and sold nearly 8 million albums with 30 million digital tracks from his five studio albums. He has been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music (twice) and the Country Music Association. Luke’s new album Kill The Lights recently debuted at #1 on both the Billboard Top 200 and Top Country Albums charts. This is Luke’s third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. Kill The Lights was the third-largest-selling album debut in all genres at the time of release in August, after R&B / hip hop releases from Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Kill The Lights is also the highest country album debut in the last two years, since his own Crash My Party debuted at #1 in August 2013.

    About Little Big Town
    Grammy Award-winning country group, Little Big Town–consisting of members Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, and Jimi Westbrook– first entered the music scene more than 16 years ago with hits such as “Boondocks,” “Bring It On Home,” “Good As Gone,” and Grammy-nominated single “Little White Church.” With albums Tornado and Painkiller  they have seen massive success with #1 singles “Pontoon,” “Tornado,” “Day Drinking,” and most recently the history-making, best-selling country single of 2015, with “Girl Crush.” The group has earned over 30 award show nominations and in the past 4 years has taken home 10 awards including a Grammy, multiple CMA and ACM awards, and an Emmy award.

    About Dustin Lynch
    Since releasing his Platinum debut single, “Cowboys And Angels,” Lynch has catapulted onto the country music scene. Racking up over 35 million views on YouTube/VEVO, notching 76 million plus streams on Spotify, soaring to #1 on the MTV MusicMeter and selling 2.7 million digital singles, he brings a fresh combination of traditional influences and edgy intensity to the genre. Producers Mickey Jack Cones, Brett Beavers and Luke Wooten showcase his progressive sound throughout his sophomore album, Where It’s At (Broken Bow Records), which debuted at #1 on the iTunes Country Albums Chart upon release and delivered consecutive #1 smashes – “Hell Of A Night” and Platinum-certified, multi-week chart-topper “Where It’s At” – along with his latest single “Mind Reader.” Previously opening for Keith Urban, he is igniting crowds nationwide on Luke Bryan’s 2015 “Kick the Dust Up Tour” and will embark on his first-ever headlining “Hell Of A Night Tour” this November. For information on Dustin Lynch, visit DustinLynchMusic.com.

    For up to date information on Luke, the tour and tickets go to www.lukebryan.com or www.livenation.com.

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  • LUKE BRYAN AND SAM HUNT ADDED TO THE LIST OF PERFORMERS AT THE CMA AWARDS.

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    Luke Bryan and Sam Hunt are two of the latest performers to be announced for this year’s CMA Awards. They’re joined by Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton, who will also perform during the show. Previously announced performers include Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert, Kelsea Ballerini, Maddie & Tae, Eric Church with Hank Williams, Jr., Keith Urban with John Mellencamp and Thomas Rhett with Fall Out Boy.

    Luke, who is the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year, is nominated in that category again in 2015 (he received his first nomination in the Entertainer category in 2013). He is also nominated for Male Vocalist of the Year (he has been nominated in this category every year since 2012). He received his first CMA Awards nomination in 2010 for New Artist of the Year.

    Sam Hunt, who is making his way up the country charts with “Break Up in a Small Town,” is nominated in three categories: New Artist of the Year, plus Single and Song of the Year for “Take your Time,” which he co-wrote with Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne.

    The 49th Annual CMA Awards will be broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 4th at 8pm ET on ABC.

  • LUKE BRYAN LANDS 14TH NO. 1 SINGLE ON BOTH CHARTS; NO. 1 ON ALBUM CHART WITH KILL THE LIGHTS.

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    Reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan just landed his 14th career No. 1 single on both country single charts with “Strip It Down.”  On the Billboard chart, Luke holds the No. 1 chart position on four charts including Country Airplay, Top Country Albums with Kill The Lights, Country Streaming Songs and Hot Country Songs where he is No. 1 for a fifth week.
    “Strip It Down,” written by Luke, Jon Nite and Ross Copperman, is the second No. 1 single from Kill The Lights, his fifth studio album. Kill The Lights became the third-largest album debut in all genres in 2015, next to the R&B /hip hop releases from Drake and Kendrick Lamar and was also the highest country album debut in the last two years, since Luke’s own Crash My Party album release debuted at #1 in August 2013.To hear all of Luke’s No. 1 songs go to https://open.spotify.com/user/lukebryan/playlist/4cubjAd1Bk5ByEQQxQwSjb

     

    Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke Bryan has placed 14 singles at #1 and sold nearly 8 million albums with 30 million digital tracks from his five studio albums. He has been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music (twice) and the Country Music Association. Luke’s new album Kill The Lights recently debuted at #1 on both the Billboard Top 200 and Top Country Albums charts. This is Luke’s third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200.
    Visit www.LukeBryan.com or follow Luke on Twitter @LukeBryanOnline, Instagram and Facebook.

  • LUKE BRYAN ‘STRIPS IT DOWN’ AT THE TOP OF THE CHART.

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    Luke Bryan has climbed to the top of both the Billboard and Country Aircheck country charts this week with his latest smash, “Strip It Down.”

    The reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year co-wrote the song with Ross Copperman and Jon Nite. “I heard the piano part and we just started doing lyrics and singing lyrics with that mood and then the title ‘Strip It Down’ came out of that. And then we start in that chorus where you talk about, you know, belt turn loose from these old blue jeans and all that stuff was so visual,” says Luke. “I remember we were like feeling really, really good about this song in the moment. We finished writing it. They close up and head home and a couple of days later Jon and Ross got together and finished the track and sang it and the second I heard it I was like home run.”

    Luke is nominated for Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year. The 49th Annual CMA Awards will be broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 4th on ABC.

    Audio / Luke Bryan talks about writing “Strip It Down” with Ross Copperman and Jon Nite.

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    “I think my manager Keri called me and said ‘Hey, you want to try writing with some new guys that you wouldn’t necessarily write with or have come in contact with?’ And I said ‘Yeah, who do you got in mind?’ And Ross Copperman’s name came up, and I had met Ross a couple of times and I think I was going to write with Ross and I think Ross called me up and he said, ‘Do you mind if my buddy Jon Nite comes out?’ and I said, ‘Yeah.’ I certainly hadn’t ever met Jon and knew of some of his songs that he was having success with. So, they come out to the house, we get set up and Ross is kind of a track guy like Jody. You know a lot of people are writing with track guys these days and it’s pretty fun that these guys can build these ideas, build these ideas of music and me as a singer I get to kind of sing along with them and write the song. And they came out to the house and we hit it off and we started working on Ross hit the spacebar on his computer and I heard that piano part on ‘Strip It Down,’ or I heard the piano part and we just started doing lyrics and singing lyrics with that mood and then the title ‘Strip It Down’ came out of that. And then we start in that chorus where you talk about, you know, belt turn loose from these old blue jeans and all that stuff was so visual. And I remember we were like feeling really, really good about this song in the moment. We finished writing it. They close up and head home and a couple of days later Jon and Ross got together and finished the track and sang it and the second I heard it I was like home run. Cutting it. There you have it.”

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  • SAM HUNT LEADS THE LIST OF COUNTRY NOMINEES AT THIS YEAR’S AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS.

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    Little Big Town / Luke Bryan / Sam Hunt

    Sam Hunt leads the list of the country nominees for this year’s American Music Awards. The “Break Up in a Small Town” singer picked up three nominations, including overall New Artist of the Year, Favorite Male Country Artist and Country Album of the Year (for Montevallo).

    Luke Bryan scores two nominations including overall Artist of the Year and Favorite Male Country Artist. The Artist of the Year nominees also include Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, Meghan Trainor and The Weeknd. The 10 nominees will be narrowed to five based on the votes received through NOVEMBER 11th at 11:59p (ET) and the winner will be determined by the total votes received throughout the entire voting period.

    Voting opened today in all categories except for New Artist of the Year. Fans can vote for each category once per day, per platform in any (or many) of the below ways:

    Via AMAvote.com

    Posting a status on FACEBOOK that includes the nominee’s name and the category’s hashtag within the post(s).

    Posting a tweet on TWITTER that includes the nominee’s name or TWITTER handle, the category name and #AMAs within the post(s).

    Voting for New Artist of the Year Presented by KOHL’s and Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-MOBILE will open on NOVEMBER 1st at 12:01a (ET).

    Winners will be announced when Jennifer Lopez hosts the AMA ceremony, live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles November 22nd at 8pm ET on ABC. For more information, check out TheAMAs.com.

    ARTIST OF THE YEAR
    Luke Bryan
    Ariana Grande
    Maroon 5
    Nicki Minaj
    One Direction
    Ed Sheeran
    Sam Smith
    Taylor Swift
    Meghan Trainor
    The Weeknd

    NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY KOHL’S
    Fetty Wap
    Sam Hunt
    Tove Lo
    Walk The Moon
    The Weeknd

    FAVORITE MALE ARTIST — COUNTRY
    Jason Aldean
    Luke Bryan
    Sam Hunt

    FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST — COUNTRY
    Kelsea Ballerini
    Miranda Lambert
    Carrie Underwood

    FAVORITE DUO or GROUP — COUNTRY
    Zac Brown Band
    Florida Georgia Line
    Little Big Town

    FAVORITE ALBUM — COUNTRY 
    Jason Aldean, Old Boots, New Dirt
    Florida Georgia Line, Anything Goes
    Sam Hunt, Montevallo