Kip Moore recently opened up his Nashville home and showed Men’s Health what is in his fridge and explained his workout regime. Kip reveals he has never had a personal trainer and he’s come up with his own routines that work best for his body.
His latest song is “She’s Mine,” which is currently climbing the country charts.
Women in Country Music will unite for a historic, not-to-be-missed opening performance at this year’s CMA Awards. The entire show is set to pay tribute to the great women of country music, led by show hosts Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton. The performance will also feature Terri Clark, Sara Evans, Crystal Gayle, The Highwomen (comprised of Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires), Martina McBride, Jennifer Nettles, Tanya Tucker and Gretchen Wilson, each performing iconic Country songs for a monumental decades-spanning medley never before seen.
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The show will also feature an additional multi-artist performance with Little Big Town, Maddie & Tae, Kelsea Ballerini, Ashley McBryde, Lindsey Ell, Carly Pearce and Runaway June. The group will come together for an epic performance of an iconic CMA Song of the Year and CMA Single of the Year.
“It’s definitely going to be heartfelt,” says Carrie. “The whole tone this year is obviously taking a look at women in country music. And I love the fact that there’s a theme happening. I hope that’s kind of something that maybe we adopt for future CMAs. It probably makes things harder for everybody else, but it’s just so nice to just be heartfelt and celebrate, you know, women in country music.”
The 53rd Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Carrie, Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton, will be broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday (November 13th) at 8pm ET on ABC.
Carrie Underwood (CMA Awards 2019 theme) OC: …it is heartfelt. :48
“It’s definitely going to be heartfelt. The whole tone this year is obviously taking a look at women in country music. And I love the fact that there’s a theme happening. I hope that’s kind of something that maybe we adopt for future CMAs. It probably makes things harder for everybody else, but it’s just so nice to just be heartfelt and celebrate, you know, women in country music. So, I feel obviously, Dolly and Reba and myself all have you know, we’ll have our moments of I don’t want to say comedy, but I feel like Dolly and Reba are both so good at those like one liners that just kill. So, I can’t imagine there not being some of those in there. But, you know, I feel like it is heartfelt.”
Little Big Town made a stop at Vevo’s New York City studios for a performance of their latest single, “Over Drinking.” The track, written by Cary Barlowe, Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley, Hillary Lindsey and Steph Jones, is from their upcoming album, Nightfall, which will be released January 17th.
In celebration of Veteran’s Day, current three-time CMA nominee Dierks Bentley continues to bolster his Desert Son clothing line in partnership with premium quality men’s brand Flag & Anthem as he launches an exclusive graphic tee today, supporting the non-profit organization Folds of Honor. As a longtime advocate for the organization, all proceeds from the exclusive t-shirt will help provide educational scholarships to spouses and children of American’s fallen and disabled service-members. The t-shirt features Bentley’s signature Riser Bird in a camouflage print and is available now at www.flagandanthem.com.
Pegged as “one of Country music’s most enviable brands, equal parts affability and authenticity” (Forbes), Bentley continues to be a dominant voice for the genre with over 6.4 billion overall digital streams. Reaching a new creative high while “making music designed to challenge” (New York Times), Bentley co-wrote 10 of 13 tracks on THE MOUNTAIN, which earned him the highest debut sales of his career and became his seventh chart-topping album. Bentley has amassed countless nominations from the ACMs, CMAs, Billboard Music Awards, and GRAMMYs while being currently nominated for CMA “Male Vocalist of the Year,” “Single of the Year” and “Music Video of the Year.” He has created professional endeavors outside of the music industry by not only creating a lifestyle collection but also four “Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row” locations across the country as well. For more information visit www.dierks.com.
Flag & Anthem launched in 2016 as a premium quality men’s brand intended to fill a void in the marketplace. They created a brand with superior attention to detail, quality, and fit at an accessible price point. The brand exemplifies a refined, rugged look with an authentic, vintage aesthetic. Seasonal collections feature casual button-downs, elevated knitwear, signature chinos, trucker hats, a variety of canvas bags, as well as a recent expansion into women’s woven shirts. In Spring 2018, Flag & Anthem started a long-term partnership with country music star Dierks Bentley on the brand’s Desert Son product line. The brand’s Fall ’19 campaign debuted its second ambassador All-Pro NFL football player Christian McCaffrey. Flag & Anthem is available at www.flagandanthem.com and such retailers as Stitch Fix, Bloomingdale’s, Dillard’s, Buckle, Von Maur, Scheels and hundreds of specialty boutiques across the country.
October has been a busy month for country music superstar and four-time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan as he began taping episodes of American Idol around his “Sunset Repeat Tour” and spending time in the recording studio. Today, Luke debuts a new single at radio with the world premiere of “What She Wants Tonight.” The song, written by Luke, Ross Copperman, Hillary Lindsey and Jon Nite and produced by Jeff and Jody Stevens, is the follow up to Luke’s 23rd career #1 single “Knockin’ Boots” and is the second release from an upcoming studio album. The video for “What She Wants Tonight,” directed by Michael Monaco, premiered today (check it out below). “What She Wants Tonight” is available at all digital retailers HERE.
“I have wanted to get together with this group of writers for a long time,” said Luke. “We came up with some really infectious hooks for this song and I think women listeners are going to like that the girl in the song controls the dynamic of the situation. I’ve been wanting to get a big rocking tempo out for some time and this is certainly it.”
This Sunday night Oct. 27 Luke will chat and perform “What She Wants Tonight” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as part of the show’s five special post-game editions to follow NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
Earlier this week, Luke was surprised during his “Opry Goes Pink” performance at the Grand Ole Opry with a special presentation by the Academy of Country Music naming him the first-ever recipient of the ACM Album of the Decade Award for his 2013 four-times Platinum album Crash My Party. The ACM Album of the Decade Award recognizes an album that has impacted country music over the decade. The factors to be considered are, but are not limited to the success at radio of singles released from album, album concept, commercial media, sales and streaming, artistic merit and ACM Award recognition.
About Luke Bryan
Luke Bryan is a two–time Academy of Country Music and a two–time Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year, a five-time host of the ACM Awards, a two–year celebrity judge on ABC’s “American Idol,” a NSAI Artist/Songwriter of the Year, and was named a CMT Artist of the Year six consecutive years. Bryan has more certified digital singles than any other country artist, with 46 million tracks and 12 million albums with four Billion music streams. Bryan has now placed 23 singles at #1, 12 of which he co-wrote. In May 2019, Luke kicked off his “Sunset Repeat Tour” with special guests Cole Swindell and Jon Langston and played for 50,000 fans its opening weekend and followed by a sold–out show in Boston’s Gillette Stadium. The tour wraps in Detroit tomorrow bringing Luke’s career stadium shows to 36.
In 2018, Bryan opened Nashville’s only six-floor entertainment facility in the heart of Music City, LUKE’S 32 BRIDGE FOOD + DRINK. The name was inspired by Bryan’s childhood home near Route 32 Bridge in Lee County, Georgia.
Luke Bryan (WSWT follow-up to Knockin’ Boots) OC: …certainly it. :38
“I decided to come with ‘What She Wants Tonight’ after ‘Knockin’ Boots,’ because certainly ‘Knockin’ Boots’ was a fun summer song, but this song feels like, it’s just got some uptempo magic to it. When you say, ‘She gets what she wants, and I get to be what she wants tonight,’ I mean, I think women are going to like hearing that subject matter and just how the girl in the song kind of controls the dynamic of the situation. I’ve been wanting to get a big rockin’ uptempo out for some time, and this is certainly it.”
The nominees for this year’s CMA Album of the Year include Eric Church for Desperate Man and Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty.
Eric’s sixth studio album, Desperate Man, marked the end of the longest break in his career between putting out new music. In the three years since the sudden, surprise release of Mr. Misunderstood (named 2016 CMA Album of the Year), though, he has experienced some of the highest peaks and some of the biggest challenges in his work and in his life. He got a sense of where the album was headed after writing “The Snake” and “Hippie Radio.” Eric also earned nods for both Entertainer and Music Video of the Year (for “Some of It”).
Carrie tallied her fifth nomination for CMA Album of the Year with Cry Pretty, which is her first studio album on Capitol Records Nashville and marks the first time she has co-produced her own album. The lead single and title track, “Cry Pretty” debuted as the #1 song in the U.S. all-genres. Carrie co-produced Cry Pretty with fellow writer/producer David Garcia. Carrie is also nominated for Entertainer of the Year and picked up her 14th consecutive nod for Female Vocalist, a title she’s won five times, including last year.
Thomas Rhett’s Center Point Road, Dan + Shay’s self-titled album and Maren Morris’s Girl round out the category.
The 53rd Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Carrie, Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton, will be broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday (November 13th) at 8pm ET on ABC.
Eric Church (hardest record to make) OC: …we ended up. 1:20
“Well I think, really from the last tour, the Holding My Own Tour, I realized that I am very grateful and humble that we get to do what we do. To go on every night, no openers and play for three hours, and see the way music has affected people lives, and they have affected mine. But it has turned into this thing, its own, living breathing organism that happened. And coming off of that, the biggest fear that I had was I didn’t just want to go back into the studio and make a record just because it was time to make a record. And I had some stuff going on. I mean, I had a personal thing with my health, and then I had, then Vegas happened and that will be with me forever. So, I think there was stuff that I had to process on the early part of making this record. And frankly, it made it difficult early. I mean it was tough. It was the toughest record that I’ve made out of all of them. It’s funny, it’s just like anything you do creatively, when you think this is what it’s going to be, this where we are headed, I promise you, were headed here. This is where you are going. Creativity will take over and you will end up on another path and that’s what happened here. And to credit, I think, the way we make records, or try to make records, is we will pay attention to that. We will change course, and we are not afraid to change course. So, I think for me, my favorite thing about this album, is I know where we started and where we ended up.”
Carrie Underwood (growth between albums) OC: …writing about. 1:07
“I feel like between Storyteller and Cry Pretty, there was definitely a lot of growth for me as a person – emotional growth and spiritual growth and my family. And I feel like just kind of taking more ownership in my thoughts and my feelings and my wants and my creative abilities and just taking more ownership over all of those things and wanting that to translate into this album. I like to take time between projects. It’s like when do you have time to live the life you’re writing about? It’s so important to me. I like to go on tour and when I’m out, I’m out. I’m on the road. We are working hard. We’re killing it. We’re doing what we do. When I write, I want to write. I want to immerse myself in that. Whatever I’m doing, I want to completely immerse myself in and that includes living a life, and I just feel like that’s so important. And for me as a mom and as a wife and as a friend and daughter and all of those things, it’s just important to take a minute to live a life worth writing about.”
Lauren Alaina and her partner Gleb Savchenko delivered a stunning cotemporary performance to “The Other Side,” a beautiful new song and reflection of faith composed by the young star while coping with the loss of her stepfather, Sam Ramker. Lauren danced to the deeply personal song in remembrance of Sam on the one-year anniversary of his passing. Lauren, who wrote the song with Jon Nite and Zach Kale, says, “I wrote ‘The Other Side’ in Sam’s memory. I wanted to create a song that did him justice.” She continues, “He couldn’t hear me sing without crying because he was so proud of me… I wrote this song so that he can live on, and never be forgotten.”
Encouraged by Savchenko to dance as though she was speaking to her stepdad, Lauren and her partner gave a moving performance drawing 26 out of 30 points, the couple’s highest score thus far in the competition. “The Other Side” follows Lauren’s recently released single, “Getting Good,” playing on country radio now.
Make sure to tune in to Dancing With the Stars on Monday (October 28TH) at 8pm ET/7pm CT on ABC to watch Lauren and her partner Gleb dance on a special Halloween-themed show AND don’t forget to ADD (or convert) her new single, “Getting Good.”
CUTS 1-9:
CUT 1: LINER Lauren Alaina (Tune Into DWTS)
“Hey y’all, it’s Lauren Alaina. Don’t forget to tune in to Dancing With the Stars on ABC on Monday.”
CUT 2: Lauren Alaina (Hello)
“Hello.”
CUT 3: Lauren Alaina (How Are You)
“Hey! Thank you. How are you?”
CUT 4: Lauren Alaina reveals she rehearsed her contemporary dance so much because she wanted to focus on thinking about her stepfather during her emotional dance this past week on Dancing With the Stars.
Lauren Alaina (thinking about stepfather during dance)
OC: …through it. :34
CUT 5: It was such an emotional moment for Lauren, especially after her dance when she went over to her mother.
Lauren Alaina (emotional)
OC: ….really, really proud of her. :26
CUT 6: Lauren Alaina talks about what she did following her emotional performance on Dancing With the Stars – went to dinner with her family and friends, just want her stepfather would have wanted her to do.
Lauren Alaina (what she did following her dance)
OC: …that was nice. :36
CUT 7: Lauren Alaina says she’s grown in ways she never would had it not been for Dancing With the Stars.
Lauren Alaina (what she’s learned about herself during the DWTS process) OC: …in my life. 1:38
CUT 8: Lauren Alaina loves to dress up, so she says she’s so pumped for Halloween night on Dancing With the Stars.
Lauren Alaina (looking forward to Halloween night) OC: …in my element this week. :23
CUT 9: Lauren Alaina (Thank you guys)
“Thank you, guys. Have a good day.”
CUT 1: LINER Lauren Alaina (Tune Into DWTS)
“Hey y’all, it’s Lauren Alaina. Don’t forget to tune in to Dancing With the Stars on ABC on Monday.”
CUT 2: Lauren Alaina (Hello)
“Hello.”
CUT 3: Lauren Alaina (How Are You)
“Hey! Thank you. How are you?”
Lauren Alaina (thinking about stepfather during dance)
OC: …through it. :34
Lauren Alaina (emotional)
OC: ….really, really proud of her. :26
Lauren Alaina (what she did following her dance)
OC: …that was nice. :36
Lauren Alaina (what she’s learned about herself during the DWTS process) OC: …in my life. 1:38
Lauren Alaina (looking forward to Halloween night) OC: …in my element this week. :23
“Thank you, guys. Have a good day.”
Luke Bryan played his final “Sunset Repeat Tour” show in Detroit’s Ford Field on Friday night bringing the tour to a close with a capacity crowd and marking his 36th career headline stadium concert. Over one million fans attended his concerts in 2019. The “Sunset Repeat Tour” featured some of Luke’s buddies including rising superstar Cole Swindell, EMI/32 Bridge Entertainment recording artist Jon Langston and DJ Rock.
Detroit, MI | Sunset Repeat Tour
This year on the road has been one of the best of my career. Having three of my closest friends join me on stage each night will be hard to beat. I am so proud of them and the careers they continue to build. When they surprised me onstage Friday night with that plaque I was blown away. My fans continue to make this journey more than I could ever imagine. I am so thankful. Cole Swindell Jon Langston DJ ROCK
Posted by Luke Bryan on Monday, October 28, 2019
On stage at Ford Field Cole, Jon, Luke’s manager and record label presented Luke with a new music plaque signifying his continued domination in the format with more RIAA certified digital singles than any other country artist with 54 million digital singles, 12.5 million albums and seven billion streams.
“This year on the road has been one of the best of my career,” shared Luke. “Having three of my closest friends join me on stage each night will be hard to beat. I am so proud of them and the careers they continue to build. When they surprised me onstage Friday night with that plaque I was blown away. My fans continue to make this journey more than I could ever imagine. I am so thankful.”
The “Sunset Repeat Tour” opened in May playing for 50,000 fans its first weekend and was hailed as one of the best summer tours of the season. Luke, the ‘consummate showman’ as touted by the Boston Globe, played over 40 shows this year including his 11th annual “Farm Tour” which will wrap with its final date Oct. 30. The tour was featured on NBC’s TODAY Show and the Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks® Spectacular.
Luke has a new single at radio with “What She Wants Tonight,” written by Luke, Ross Copperman, Hillary Lindsey and Jon Nite and produced by Jeff and Jody Stevens. The single is the follow up to his 23rd career #1 single “Knockin’ Boots” and is the second release from an upcoming studio album.
During an Opry performance last week, Luke was surprised onstage by the Academy of Country Music announcing him as the first-ever recipient of the ACM Album of the Decade Award for his 2013 four-time Platinum selling album Crash My Party. The ACM Album of the Decade Award recognizes an album that has impacted country music over the decade. The factors to be considered are, but are not limited to, the success at radio of singles released from album, album concept, commercial media, sales and streaming, artistic merit and ACM Award recognition.
Ahead of her final U.S. show on her sold-out headlining Oh, What a World: Tour II, 6x GRAMMY Award-winning singer/songwriter Kacey Musgraves is set to make history once again by breaking the female attendance record of any genre at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena with 18,373 projected attendees. Due to popular demand, the show was opened up to 360 and additional tickets have been released. The tour, which kicked off in Amsterdam last October, has taken Kacey around the globe, playing the biggest venues of her career in North America, the U.K., Europe, Japan, China, New Zealand, and Australia. Kacey recently played two sold-out nights each at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre and New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, and tomorrow night she completes the Oh, What a World: Tour II with her first-ever arena show. Kacey will be joined at Bridgestone Arena by special guests Maggie Rogers and Yola.
Golden Hour, Kacey’s #1 third studio album, was released in March 2018 to overwhelming critical acclaim. Pitchfork called the album Kacey’s “most accessible record and her most ambitious, a magnetic comfortable culmination of her pop and country instincts,” Vogue declared, “her mesmerizing blend of emotional directness and swirling pop melodies, old-school musicianship and new-school production, is a cross-genre triumph that feels so right for now,” and The Associated Press proclaimed, “’Golden Hour’ will put a smile on your face, and live inside your heart.” Golden Hour was named Apple Music’s Album of the Year, and was recognized as one of the best albums of 2018 by outlets across all genres, including NPR, Time, The Associated Press, GQ, Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, Complex, Stereogum, and American Songwriter, among many others. The album earned Kacey four GRAMMY Awards for Album of The Year and Best Country Album, Best Country Solo Performance for “Butterflies,” and Best Country Song for “Space Cowboy,” and Kacey became the third artist ever to take home Album of the Year at the GRAMMY Awards, Country Music Association Awards, and Academy of Country Music Awards. Following Golden Hour’s massive success, Kacey was honored at both Billboard’s Women in Music event and Variety’s Power of Women event, and she celebrated the opening of her exhibit, All of the Colors, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Throughout 2018 and 2019, Kacey has toured Golden Hour extensively, both as a headliner in her own right and supporting Little Big Town and Harry Styles. She became the first-ever female country artist to play Coachella, performed at Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 in South Africa, and she continued to play major festivals including Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Governors Ball, and Newport Folk Festival, among others. Her electric live shows have garnered rave reviews, with NPR observing, “Kacey Musgraves is magnetic – there are no two ways about it. It’s not just that she can sing like a bird and write like a bard. It’s the calm charisma that a person who knows who she is and wishes the same for others can’t help but exude,” and Variety predicting, “it’s hard to imagine that within the next couple of years Kacey Musgraves won’t be one of the biggest stars in music.”
This year’s Entertainer of the Year nominees include Eric Church, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban, as well as Garth Brooks.
Eric Church tallies up three nominations with his third nod for both Entertainer and Music Video of the Year (this time for “Some of It”). He also notched his fourth career nomination for Album of the Year for Desperate Man.
Chris Stapleton has 16 prior nominations and 10 wins. Chris earns his fifth nod for Male Vocalist of the Year, which he has won consecutively since 2015. “Millionaire” has earned his third nomination for Single of the Year. Chris is also nominated for Entertainer of the Year, his fourth nomination in the category.
Carrie Underwood has three nods this year. She picks up her second nomination for Entertainer of the Year, and she scored her 14th consecutive nomination for Female Vocalist, a title she’s won five times, including last year. This marks her fifth nomination for Album of the Year with Cry Pretty.
Keith Urban, who is the reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year, is once again nominated for the night’s top honor, as well as for Male Vocalist of the Year.
The 53rd Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Carrie, Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton, will be broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday (November 13th) at 8pm ET on ABC.
Eric Church (performing energy) OC: …type of crowd. :40
“Well, I think for me every night I try to empty the tank. There’s always that energy floating around. It’s a palpable thing, and it’s up to me to start that exchange and get the crowd to give it back to me and then watch it build on itself and just to have that experience. We have one night here in whatever city we’re in, you know, we’ve got this night. I’m not gonna see you for a while you’re not gonna see me for a while, you know? And I love being able to capitalize on that moment and trying to live in that moment and get as much energy exchange between myself and the crowd as we can. I love that. That’s my favorite part of what we do. I love being around people, I’m very passionate about my music, and I love people who are passionate about the music too and I love playing a show for that type of crowd.”
Chris Stapleton (CMA 2018) OC: …grateful for it. :30
“These things are always fantastic to win, but when you get nominated or invited to these parties, in my estimation, you’ve already won and you’ve already gotten to be far beyond anything, you know, anybody who’s a musician could ever dream of getting to do, and we get to do that every day, we get to live it every day. As far as thinking about going into anything, I’m always genuinely surprised to win anything, and I’m always grateful for it.”
Carrie Underwood (Entertainer nod 2019) OC: …sorry boys! (laughs) :28
“I personally feel like entertainer. It’s everything, right? So, I feel like people kind of narrow it down to tours, but I feel like there’s so many more components to it. And, you know, I’m blessed and lucky to be nominated, obviously, and fantastic company. It would be amazing, but of course, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want it. (laughs) Sorry boys.” (laughs)
Keith Urban (Entertainer win 2018) OC: …feeling. :28
“It’s an indescribable feeling to get that tonight, because I love playing, I love entertaining, I love putting on shows. I started playing guitar when I was six, so playing, and I came up playing in the clubs – four hours a night, five hours a night, five nights a week. I wasn’t writing songs. I was just schlepping my gear and playing cover tunes and learning my craft. To get to play three or four hours a night of original material is the most extraordinary feeling.”