Eric Church has built a reputation for making every live show special with one-night-only set lists, unique arrangements, and stripped solo shows. Now “our greatest working rock star” (Stereogum) is pushing the envelope even further with a not to be missed two-night solo stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Tuesday, Aug. 9 and Wednesday, Aug. 10.

Fan club members will have the first chance to purchase tickets and travel packages during the fan club pre-sale, starting March 4, on ericchurch.com.  The one or two night travel packages include lodging at Denver’s Hotel Monaco, transportation to and from the venue, and tickets in the first 20 rows. This package and tickets will also be offered to the public beginning at 10 a.m. MT on March 11 by visiting www.axs.comor by phone at (888) 929-7849.

The performances offer fans one of the few chances this year to see the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year nominee. Church, who’s up for six awards at the April 3 CBS-broadcast award show, has mostly laid low since The Outsiders World Tour’s two-year run concluded and the surprise release of new album Mr. Misunderstood last November. He’s only scheduled a few shows so far in 2016, and with an album’s worth of new music to debut you can bet every single show will be special.

A four-time ACM Awards winner, in addition to the top honor Entertainer of the Year, Church is also up for Album of the Year for Mr. Misunderstood, Male Vocalist of the Year, Video of the Year for Top 15 single “Mr. Misunderstood,” Vocal Event and Song of the Year for “Raise ‘Em Up” with Keith Urban.

Church recently released “Record Year,” the second single from Mr. Misunderstood. The song, which namechecks Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key of Life, Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger, John Lee Hooker’s One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer among others from Church’s stack of vinyl, was dubbed the “most moving moment” on the new album by Rolling Stone.

About Eric Church
The two-time Country Music Association and four-time Academy of Country Music Award winner cemented his reputation as a maverick by releasing his 2015 album Mr. Misunderstood as a surprise, delivering it to fans before announcing its existence and putting it on sale. The current single, “Record Year,” is the second following the Mr. Misunderstood title track, and the album helped Church earn six ACM Award nominations for the April 3, 2016 show broadcast on CBS. The North Carolina native received a huge response from his fans, who made Church 2014’s top-selling country music artist with the year’s highest debut and sales of any release in the format as the critical and commercial success The Outsiders reached Platinum status. Debuting at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart and Top Country Albums chart, The Outsiders garnered GRAMMY, CMA and ACM Album of the Year nominations and featured his No.1 hits “Give Me Back My Hometown” and “Talladega” as well as multiple nominee “Like A Wrecking Ball.” The Outsiders is the follow-up to Church’s Platinum-certified CHIEF, named the 2012 Album of the Year by both CMA and ACM, and GRAMMY-nominated for Best Country Album. The LP featured five Top 20 singles: “Homeboy” (certified Platinum for sales in excess of 1 million); the Top 10 “Like Jesus Does” and the Top 5 “Creepin’” (both certified Gold for sales in excess of 500,000); and two No. 1 hits “Drink in My Hand” (certified Platinum) and “Springsteen” (certified Double Platinum for sales in excess of 2 million singles). Church’s 2006 debut album, Sinners Like Me and his sophomore album Carolina (2009) are both RIAA Gold certified.

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Luke Bryan used the extra day in this leap year (February 29th) to bring lunch to firefighters in Franklin, Tennessee,as part of Chevrolet’s #DayItForward.  “Some of the guys who work at this particular station had saved somebody’s life that was jogging,” Luke said. “So with my extra 24 hours, it was a no-brainer for me to come by and show these firefighters a little bit of love and respect.” The reigning ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year showed up unannounced and brought them a good ole southern meal of meatloaf, mac and cheese, green beans, salad and pies.

Chris Stapleton has released a music video for “Fire Away,” a song from his award-winning album, Traveller. The concept of the clip, which features Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, X-Men) and Margarita Levieva (The Black List, Revenge) and directed by Tim Mattia, was conceived by Chris.

The clip, which takes you through a young married couple’s first happy moments that quickly turn tragic, is helping to bring awareness to mental health issues, specifically through the Campaign to Change Direction. The organization was introduced to Chris through Foster and hopes to begin conversations about the five signs of mental illness, which are featured in the video. Nearly one in five people have a diagnosable health condition and most of them do not speak up.

Chris is currently blazing up the country charts with his single “Nobody to Blame,” which is also from his album, Traveller.

At this year’s ACM Awards, he’s nominated for Male Vocalist, New Male Vocalist, Album of the Year for Traveller, Song of the Year for “Nobody to Blame” and Vocal Event of the Year for the song “Hangover Tonight” with Gary Allan. The 51st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd at 8pm ET on CBS.

Check out the video here: http://www.chrisstapleton.com/fire-away/

Album buy link: http://umgn.us/Traveller

Keith Urban scores his 20th No. 1 single as “Break on Me,” leaps to the top of both the Billboard and Country Aircheck country singles charts. The song, written by Ross Copperman and Jon Nite, is a feeling Keith can relate to from both sides.

“‘Break On Me’ is just one of those songs that I, the first time I heard it, it hit me in all the right ways, because having been in that place where I’ve needed someone to ‘break on,’ but also of course being someone who could be strong for somebody else,” says Keith. “I’d gotten the song and not long after that was when [my wife] Nic lost her dad, and I found myself living out that song.”

“Break on Me” is the second the second single from his upcoming album, Ripcord, and the follow-up to his previous No. 1, “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16.”

• Keith will certainly have a place for this song and many other No. 1 hits when he hits the road on his Ripcord World Tour, featuring Brett Eldredge and Maren Morris, on June 2nd in Kansas City.
• Keith is set to headline the sixth annual All for the Hall concert with pal Vince Gill April 12^th at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. The show’s theme is Mashville: The Music City in 2016 and will feature performances by Luke Bryan, Peter Frampton, Sam Hunt, Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Maddie & Tae, Emmylou Harris, Peter Frampton and Florida Georgia Line, among others.
• You can also catch Keith every Wednesday and Thursday on the final season of American Idol on FOX at 8pm ET.

Eric Church is overseas for his European Tour, which has him performing in Stockholm, Sweden Monday night (February 29th) and Oslo, Norway on Tuesday (March 1st). He’ll make stops in Germany, Switzerland and Amsterdam before performing three dates during the C2C Festival (Country to Country) – Dublin, Ireland (March 11th), Glasgow, Scotland (March 12th) and London, England (March 13th).

Eric, who’s previously toured across the pond, talks about some of the highlights of playing Europe.
“The great thing about Europe is, with the trains and with how interconnected it is, is you can just jump on a train and go anywhere,” says Eric. “I remember I was in Germany one day, I had a day off, I was in Munich I think, and I just went to the train station, I was actually not even planning to take a train, but I was walking past the train station and all of a sudden I saw Zurich and I saw all these other countries I could go to, by just jumping on a train, and I just jumped on a train [laughs]. I ended up in Austria, and different places that day, and it was easy. It was an hour and I was back that night. I love being able to just jump on and just go.”

The North Carolina native has hit the airwaves with his latest single, “Record Year,” from his Mr. Misunderstood album.

Eric is nominated for six ACM Awards, including his first-ever ACM Entertainer of the Year nod, as well as Male Vocalist, Album for Mr. Misunderstood, Video for “Mr. Misunderstood” and Vocal Event of the Year for “Raise ‘Em Up” with Keith Urban. He’s also nominated for Song of the Year with Keith for “Raise ‘Em Up” (award also goes to artist). The 51st Academy of Country Music Awards will air live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on April 3rd on CBS.

Kip Moore ended the second leg of his headlining WILD ONES TOUR how he started it: with a string of sold-out shows. Closing out the raucous run this weekend to a packed house in Anaheim, CA, Moore played the last four weekends in a row to capacity venues in Des Moines, IA; Denver, CO; Salt Lake City, UT; Spokane, WA; Portland, OR; San Diego, CA as well as a five-show sold-out stint in Canada.

Kicking off in October last year, the first leg of the WILD ONES Tour also hosted multiple sold-out dates including Boston, MA; London, ON; Toronto, ON; Cleveland, OH; Springfield, IL and a two night run in Chicago, IL that spurred the extension of the tour.

“It’s hard to explain what’s happening out on the road with us and the fans unless you have seen it in person,” said Moore. “These fans have been faithfully returning for the past couple years and so now it really feels like we’re all in this together. They show up and they know every word to every song, whether it’s been on the radio or not, and for that we are truly grateful.”

Hot on the heels of his sold-out tour, Moore will head over to Australia for the first time next month, followed by headlining shows in The UK and Ireland in April.  Fan demand has led to bigger venues being scheduled in Birmingham, UK; Dublin, IE; Manchester, UK and Glasgow, UK and Moore will close out the run with a headlining sold-out date in London, UK. Moore recently released the “beautifully shot music video” (Country Weekly) for his current single “Running For You,” which was taken from Moore’s critically acclaimed sophomore album WILD ONES that VICE declares “sprinkles a little late-night Bonnaroo magic…that’s made to be witnessed live.” WILD ONES follows Moore’s debut album UP ALL NIGHT which was recently certified GOLD by the RIAA and spawned three No. One hit singles including GOLD certified “Beer Money,” PLATINUM certified “Hey Pretty Girl,” and Moore’s DOUBLE PLATINUM breakout hit “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck.”

Brothers Osborne are getting ready to hit the airwaves with their new single, “21 Summer,” which was a slightly different feel to the original version they first recorded.

“Jay had the idea for the song, and it was kind of weird because people loved the original version we had, and we knew people were probably not gonna like the fact that it was changed,” says TJ Osborne. “He’s like, ‘I think it would be really cool to have a song that was a little more, felt like you could put on and it’d just be chill.’ A lot of country records don’t really have that; they’re a little bit more kind of attention grabbing. And so, we loved that idea. We have those songs that are kind of a little bit more in your face, but it’d be cool to have a song that was just very relaxed and kind of almost have that kind of California country thing to it.”

The pair will hit the road with Miranda Lambert and Kip Moore on the Keeper of the Flame Tour later this year.

Brothers Osborne pull in two nominations for this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards, including Vocal Duo and New Vocal Duo of the Year. The ACMs will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd at 8pm ET on CBS.

Dierks Bentley will hit the ice with the Nashville Predators on Sunday (February 27th) in the alumni game against the St. Louis Blues alumni.

Charles Kelley will appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday (March 2nd).

If you want to light up your life, you can do so with a David Nail candle. Inspired by the romantic themes of his hit song, “Night’s On Fire,” the candle boasts the earthy aroma of sage, oak and lavender to relax the body while the lively aromas of orange and amber awaken the mind! Night’s On Fire is subtle and enticing. 12 ounce soy wax candle with an 80 hour burn time housed in a repurposed wine bottle!

Little Big Town is set to receive the Artist of the Year award from the Music Business Association. The band will accept the award during the 2016 Music Biz Awards Luncheon May 18th. Sam Hunt will be honored with the Breakthrough Artist Award.

Toby Keith has been added to The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson along with Hank Williams Jr., Martina McBride, Jennifer Nettles, Lee Ann Womack and Jack Ingram. The concert taping, which pays tribute to the famed singer-songwriter-actor, will take place March 16 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Previously announced artists include Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Darius Rucker, Emmylou Harris, Jamey Johnson, Willie Nelson and Trisha Yearwood.