Luke Bryan‘s “Knockin’ Boots” climbs to the top of the country charts this week. The song, which was written by Gordie Sampson, Hillary Lindsey and Jon Nite, is not backing down any time soon, as it’s a fan favorite during the four-time Entertainer of the Year’s shows this summer.

“I think one of the most things that I’m hearing is it’s very, very, very catchy. I think it’s just a fun, catchy song,” Luke told us recently. “I like to think of some songs as are you gonna want to be out on a boat dancing and having fun out on the lake. It’s one of those songs. You know, it’s a big ole fun uptempo, and every and then when I find the right kind of uptempo, certainly on the heels of a summer tour – the Sunset Repeat Tour – it’s gonna fun having it out there and watching the fans dancing in the aisles.” Find the audio of Luke talking about “Knockin’ Boots” here.

Luke takes his Sunset Repeat Tour – featuring Cole Swindell and Jon Langston – to Bethel, New York on Thursday (September 12th), Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday (September 14th) and Louisville, Kentucky on Sunday (September 15th).

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Huge thank you to fans, radio and my team for this #1. I think this song is so fun and it’s such a blast singing it. Again thank you to everyone who supports me and allows me to do what I love. Shout out to writers @gordiesampson, Hillary Lindsey, and @jnitewriter. Love y'all.

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Jordan Davis just released the latest installment of his “Home State Stories” video series on Tuesday (September 10th). Titled “High School-Busted,” the Louisiana native shows that you always get caught — eventually. Jordan and his brother Jacob wanted to park in the lot near their high school as opposed to the lot down the street, but the rule was you had to have three people in the car to park in the front lot. Check out Jordan’s story of how they got away with parking in the front lot…until they got busted.

Episode 8: High School – Busted #HomeStateStorieshttps://t.co/gK8WpfR03i

— Jordan Davis Music (@JordanCWDavis) September 10, 2019

Jordan, who is currently climbing the country charts with his latest song, “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot,” has a few dates in the U.S. before he heads across the pond with dates in Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Amsterdam and London in early October. For more information on his tour dates, go to jordandavisofficial.com.

Kip Moore made a landmark return to The U.K. this past week, doubling the capacity size of the venues he most recently played across the pond in May of this year.  Moore kicked off the full-throttle run at the renowned Roundhouse in London on September 2nd, followed by packed shows in Glasgow, Scotland and Belfast and ended the full band, high-energy stint with a special headlining performance at The Long Road Festival in Lutterworth, UK on Saturday (September 7th). Throughout the run Moore made waves with his live show that “offers a rock edge to traditional country music” (Londonist) as he was praised as “without a doubt the best live performer on the Country circuit right now” (Entertainment Focus).

Moore will continue his “wildly successful” (Chicago Tribune) ROOM TO SPARE: ACOUSTIC TOUR for a third leg this fall, following two previously sold-out runs meeting capacity crowds at every stop in the U.S., Canada and The U.K.. Inviting special guests Tucker Beathard, Devin Dawson and Kylie Morgan along for select dates, the run is set to launch in Grand Rapids, MI on 10/10. For a full list of tour dates, visit kipmoore.net.

Moore’s new single “She’s Mine” was one of the most-added songs at country radio upon its debut and is taken from his upcoming fourth studio album, of which more details will be revealed in the coming weeks. The forthcoming project follows his ROOM TO SPARE: THE ACOUSTIC SESSIONS EP which sparked his acoustic tour and his third studio album SLOWHEART, which garnered instant praise from critics as his “most complete, cohesive declaration of his artistic sensibilities yet” (NPR), as well landing on multiple “Best Of” lists including Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, UpRoxx, Bobby Bones Show and many more. SLOWHEART included Moore’s fourth No. One single and follows the critical acclaim that surrounded Moore’s sophomore album WILD ONES and his PLATINUM debut album UP ALL NIGHT that spawned three No. One hit singles. For more information, visit kipmoore.net.

Keith Urban just released an acoustic video for his song, “We Were.”

Keith is set to perform at the Hometown Rising Country Music and Bourbon Festival in Louisville, Kentucky September 15th.

Last night, Carrie Underwood unveiled the new opening for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, along with Joan Jett, as last year’s Super Bowl champions,the New England Patriots, played host to the Pittsburgh Steelers.  Carrie, who stars in the NBC SNF show open for the seventh consecutive year, welcomes Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Joan Jett, who makes an appearance during the performance.

We got this, @JoanJett !! 🖤🏈 https://t.co/bMxtt53DTN

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) September 9, 2019

“We always look for ways to keep the Sunday Night Football open fresh and exciting. This year, we thought the best way would be to kinda kick it back OG and go back to ‘Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,’ which was the first theme song of this SNF era,” said Carrie. “So, I thought, ‘Well, how do we make that new and exciting, and for me, I was like, ‘What if we got Joan Jett in the mix?’ ‘Would she ever do anything like that?’ We got super lucky that she was excited to be on board. The song is one of hers – ‘Hate Myself for Loving You’ – that they rearranged to fit Sunday Night Football, so I just feel like having her involved just felt really right.” Download the audio from Carrie here.

Carrie, who is making her way to the top of the country charts with “Southbound,” resumes The Cry Pretty Tour 360 Tuesday (September 10th) in San Diego.

Little Big Town announced this morning, the release of their ninth studio album Nightfall, and accompanying headline tour, The Nightfall Tour. The foursomes’ new album will drop January 17th, 2020 succeeding a once-in-a-lifetime performance at the historic Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16th, 2020. This is the first mainstream country performance featured at Carnegie Hall since Alan Jackson in 2013.

The tour will continue the following two nights at The Apollo and will proceed all spring in over 30 of the most prestigious theaters in the country, closing with two nights at Denver’s art deco gem, The Paramount. Every show excluding Carnegie Hall will feature critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Caitlyn Smith.

Pre-sales for the tour begin today at NOON EST and will continue through Thursday night. American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets in select markets before the general public beginning September 11th at 10am local time through September 12 that 10pm local time. Tickets go on sale everywhere September 13th at 10am local time. Carnegie Hall will follow an hour later at 11am EST.

Join us at Nightfall with special guest @caitlynsmith. Pre-sale starts at 12pm ET. https://t.co/psnW7TnJKn pic.twitter.com/PhMFdr1Zk5

— Little Big Town (@littlebigtown) September 9, 2019

Little Big Town also released new song, “Over Drinking” to all DSP’s last night. The single, written by Jesse Frasure, Cary Barlowe, Hillary Lindsey, Ashley Gorley and Steph Jones is the first official single off of Nightfall and features Fairchild on lead with the band’s signature vocal harmonies woven throughout. The group will be performing the song for the first time, this Thursday in the 8am hour on NBC’s TODAY. Listen to the track here.

Travis Denning grabbed his trusty acoustic guitar to perform his favorite Vince Gill song, “Whenever You Come Around.”

Had fun singin’ one of my favorite country songs of all time. Y’all check out my cover of @VGcom’s "Whenever You Come Around" https://t.co/IAFyfXG4TU

— Travis Denning (@Travis_Denning) September 5, 2019

“Vince has obviously been a huge influence on me as far as a guitar player and a singer,” says Travis. “(‘Whenever You Come Around’ is) just one of my favorite ballads of all time.”

Travis is currently making his way up the country charts with “After a Few.”

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – SEPTEMBER 07: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, Darius Rucker and Mark Bryan of Hootie And The Blowfish performs at Bridgestone Arena on September 07, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Essential Broadcast Media)

Twenty-eight years after performing their first Nashville show at the revered rock club Exit/In, Hootie & The Blowfish brought their Group Therapy Tour to the city’s Bridgestone Arena for a sold-out show Saturday night. 

The trek coincides with the 25th anniversary of the band’s breakthrough album, Cracked Rear View, now certified 21-times Platinum, and the crowd was on their feet throughout the night singing along to the album’s classic songs “Hold My Hand” and “Time” before raising their lit-up cell phones for the GRAMMY Award-winning ballad, “Let Her Cry.” 

The show also included Hootie & The Blowfish’s new track, “Rollin’,” from their upcoming studio album, Imperfect Circle, due out November 1. Lead singer Darius Rucker’s solo country hits “Alright” and “Wagon Wheel” dotted the setlist along with Hootie fan favorites “Running From an Angel” and “I Go Blind.” Rucker called R.E.M. “the band that made us want to play music” before paying tribute to them with a cover of “Losing My Religion.” 

Towards the end of the night, Hootie welcomed show openers Barenaked Ladies onstage for a cover of The Beatles’ “I Get By with a Little Help from my Friends.”  For the encore, the band treated fans to an intimate performance of “Goodbye” before bringing the energy back up with a little bit of Kool & the Gang’s “Get Down on It” mixed into their final song, “Only Wanna Be With You.” 

Hootie & The Blowfish’s Group Therapy Tour continues with a three-night stand in the band’s hometown of Columbia, S.C. on September 11, 12 and 13 before the band takes their show to the U.K. & Ireland next month. 

For more information, visit www.Hootie.com, and follow on Facebook @hootieandtheblowfish, Twitter @HootieTweets and Instagram @hootieofficial.

About Hootie & the Blowfish
With the rich, bluesy vocals of Darius Rucker and gleeful harmonies of guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and drummer Jim “Soni” Sonefeld, Hootie & the Blowfish have sold over 25 million records worldwide to date after their infectious melodies hit the airwaves in 1994 with hits such as “Hold My Hand,” “Let Her Cry” and “Only Wanna Be With You.”

The quartet met at the University of South Carolina where endless gigs at frat houses and local bars built a major local buzz. Their blend of pop, folk, blues, soul and rock made them hard to pigeonhole, but easily accessible to anyone who loved good music.

Atlantic Records, impressed by their regional draw, signed them and released Cracked Rear View in 1994. The album had been out for six months before the band played on the Late Show with David Letterman which sent sales skyrocketing, eventually landing at No. 1 on the Billboard chart the following spring. Cracked Rear View and the band went on to win two GRAMMY Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, and multiple People’s Choice Awards. Cracked Rear View went on to earn the band Billboard‘s Band of the Year Award in 1996 and the RIAA’s Diamond Award for sales in excess of 10 million units. Cracked Rear View remains among the Top 10 most-certified studios album in music business history.

The band remained a top draw nationwide and released five more albums for Atlantic: Fairweather Johnson, Musical Chairs, Scattered, Smothered & Covered, Hootie & The Blowfish and The Best of Hootie & The Blowfish, as well as Looking For Lucky on their own Sneaky Long Records and LIVE in Charleston, The Homegrown Concert Event DVD and CD. The band took a break from full-time touring in 2007, reuniting annually for a variety of philanthropic events while also pursuing solo projects. 2019 marked the band’s first full-time touring year in over a decade as they embarked on the Group Therapy Tour ahead of Imperfect Circle, their first album in nearly 15 years, due out November 1 under a new record deal with Universal Music Group Nashville.

Travis Denning is a huge Southern Rock fans, citing The Allman Brothers as one of his biggest influences and the cornerstone of the music he makes. He just kicked off a new podcast series, “Headin’ Down South,” which he talks about the foundation of Southern Rock, as well as spotlights certain bands for a “history lesson” on the genre. This week, he debuted the series with part one of a look at The Allman Brothers as well as a few select songs of the iconic group.

“The influence of the Allman Brothers Band specifically to me, and not only my music but my life, was so early that I cannot tell you where it started,” says Travis. “But the earliest thing I can remember was that my dad had their Decade of Hits album, which was pretty much greatest hits. I just remember the cover. It was a blue jean jacket with an Allman Brothers patch on it, and it was just a really close up pocket of that. And that had your most basic introduction to the Allman Brothers music. Looking back now that I’ve dove back into the catalog and all this stuff, it was ‘Statesboro Blues,’ ‘Ramblin’ Man,’ ‘Jessica,’ ‘Melissa,’ ‘Little Martha.’ It was really just kind of like, I say the hits, they only had one radio hit, but it was the hit songs that even just the regular, everyday, occasional Southern Rock fan knows.”

You can listen to this week’s podcast, as well as future installments on Pandora, right here.

Travis is currently making his way up the country charts with “After a Few.”

The opening of NBC’s Sunday Night Football debuts Sunday (September 8th) as last year’s Super Bowl champions,the New England Patriots, play host to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and it will feature Carrie Underwood once again, as well as 13 NFL players.  Carrie, who stars in the NBC SNF show open for the seventh consecutive year, welcomes Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Joan Jett, who makes an appearance during Underwood’s performance.

“We always look for ways to keep the Sunday Night Football open fresh and exciting. This year, we thought the best way would be to kinda kick it back OG and go back to ‘Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,’ which was the first theme song of this SNF era,” says Carrie. “So, I thought, ‘Well, how do we make that new and exciting, and for me, I was like, ‘What if we got Joan Jett in the mix?’ ‘Would she ever do anything like that?’ We got super lucky that she was excited to be on board. The song is one of hers – ‘Hate Myself for Loving You’ – that they rearranged to fit Sunday Night Football, so I just feel like having her involved just felt really right. It was so exciting just to be able to stand up next to her and film the open and get to know her a little bit ‘cause I feel like she’s a person I could learn a lot from. She’s so stinkin’ cool!

Thirteen NFL players, who have accounted for 31 Pro Bowl selections (including 10 2018 Pro Bowlers), four Super Bowl rings, and nine first-round draft picks, are in the show open. Following is the complete list:

Atlanta Falcons WR Julio Jones

Chicago Bears DB Kyle Fuller

Chicago Bears LB Khalil Mack

Chicago Bears QB Mitch Trubisky

Cleveland Browns QB Baker Mayfield

Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott

Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes

Los Angeles Rams QB Jared Goff

Minnesota Vikings QB Kirk Cousins

Philadelphia Eagles QB Carson Wentz

Philadelphia TE Zach Ertz

Philadelphia Eagles DT Fletcher Cox

Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson

Tripp Dixon is creative director of the SNF show open.

For the first time in the series’ 14 seasons, the SNF show open was filmed inside an NFL stadium, with Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Atlanta Falcons, serving as the “stage.”

Carrie, who is currently making her way to the top of the country charts with “Southbound,” resumes the new leg of The Cry Pretty Tour 360 – featuring Maddie & Tae and Runaway June – on Tuesday (September 10th).