Scotty McCreery, a life-long New England Patriots fan sang the national anthem at the AFC Divisional Playoff Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on Saturday (January 16th). He comes by his love for the team naturally because of his father is originally from New England. Check out his performance below.

Reality rings true in most of Eric Paslay’s songs, even down to the little details like what boots he wears. In his latest single, “High Class,” he sings, “Keepin’ my shades on inside/All dressed in black/Escalade these Luccheses/Yeah baby Cattle up this ‘lac,” and Eric says he’s been wearing Lucchese boots for years.

“I always wear Lucchese boots. I’m from Texas, and they’re made in El Paso, and I love the craftsmanship of ‘em and how they’re made, and how people have worn boots forever,” he says. “And you can re-sole them and reuse them as long as you don’t tear ‘em up too much on the uppers.”

• “High Class” is the first single from Eric’s upcoming album, due out later this year.
• Eric received his first GRAMMY nomination as a recording artist in the Best Country Duo/Group category for “The Driver.” The song is performed by Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley, featuring Eric and Dierks Bentley, and was written by Charles, Eric and Abe Stoklasa. The 58th GRAMMY Awards will air February 15th on CBS.

Luke Bryan asked Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild to sing on his latest smash hit, “Home Alone Tonight,” and she immediately said yes to the offer.

“Any chance to sing with Luke Bryan, I mean, who’s gonna say no to that,” Karen asks. “He’s so freaking adorable and fun. It’s such a great song, and I was just honored that he thought of me and I love the way our voices sound together. It’s kind of a sexy slow jam.”

The two will most likely perform the duet when they hit the road on Luke’s Kill the Lights Tour, which will launch in Evansville, Indiana February 16th, and Karen is looking forward to the opportunity. “I can’t wait to sing it out in front of his crowd. That’s going to be amazing.” Dustin Lynch is also on the bill.

“Home Alone Tonight,” which is currently sitting inside the Top 10 on the country charts, is from Luke’s latest album, Kill the Lights.

Little Big Town is climbing the country charts with their latest single, “Pain Killer.”

Chris Stapleton was the musical guest on NBC’s Saturday Night Live over the weekend. He performed his current single, “Nobody to Blame,” as well as “Parachute,” which are both from his album, Traveller. Check both performances out below.

Chris is nominated for four Grammy Awards, including Best Country Album (Traveller), Best Country Solo Performance (“Traveller”) and Best Country Song (“Traveller”), as well as the all-genre Best Album. The 58th Annual Grammy Awards will air live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles February 15th at 8pm ET

Brothers Osborne are staying a little longer near the top of the country charts with their hit single, “Stay a Little Longer,” that’s just climbed inside the Top 3. The video for the song is also sitting pretty at No. 13 on the CMT Hot 20 Countdown, as well.

The Peter Zavadil-directed clip for “Stay a Little Longer” was shot inside an empty Nashville warehouse and features five real-life couples. What you see is those couples, which range from an older couple to an interracial couple and a same-sex couple, love each other, argue, get back together – all of which reflects reality for each of us.

“Overall, everyone was very supportive and loved that concept, and we had some people that were frustrated with us for putting like a same-sex couple in there and interracial, but at the end of the day, we felt that it was actually more discriminating against people if we were to just leave people out,” says TJ Osborne. “The whole concept was that it’s for everyone, so it’s like let’s put everyone in it. You know, it’s a song we all feel and it’s something that we all go through together. We’re so different as people, but the feeling of love or not love or not sure it it’s love is something everyone understands and goes through.”

“Stay a Little Longer” is from their new album, Pawn Shop, which was released on Friday (January 15th).

In support of the album release, John and TJ will make their national TV debut with NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday (January 18th) followed by the Today show on Tuesday (January 19th).

The duo recently earned their first ever GRAMMY nomination for their current Top 3 hit “Stay A Little Longer.”

Album links:
iTunes/ Google Play/ Amazon – http://umgn.us/PawnShop
CD on Amazon – http://umgn.us/PawnShopCD
Autographed Vinyl / T-shirt bundles on – http://umgn.us/4Dnu

Dierks Bentley is honored he was asked to take part on “The Driver,” the first single from Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley’s upcoming album of the same title, due February 5th. The song, which also features co-writer Eric Paslay, is nominated for a Grammy Award.

“‘The Driver’ is a really great song. I mean, there’s great songs and then there’s really great songs. It’s probably possible that it’s a career type of song for Charles as a songwriter and Eric Paslay, as well, as a songwriter on that record. What a great, great song. It’s kind of like a ‘Turn the Page,’” says Dierks. “It kind of sums up the life of a road musician, but also gets the fans in there and the bus drivers in there, obviously the singers, and it just kind of sums up that life so well that obviously we know and our fans know too. I was truly honored that they asked me to be the third wheel on the song, and I’m just really proud that Charles had the guts to put it out and Capitol Records had the guts to put it out, and it’s so cool that it’s honored for a Grammy [nomination].”

• Dierks just announced the title of his new studio album, Black, which will be released in the coming months.
• Dierks is set to co-host the 51st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards with Luke Bryan April 3rd.

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Scotty McCreery is set to perform the National Anthem at the AFC Divisional Playoff Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium Saturday (January 16th) on CBS at 4:35p ET.

Vince Gill will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the 2016 NHL All-Star Game at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena January 31st. His 14-year-old daughter Corrina Grant Gill will join him, according to The Tennessean.

Sam Hunt will be awarded the Breakthrough Artist Award at the Music Business Association’s luncheon on May 18th during the organization’s annual convention at Nashville’s Renaissance Hotel.

Brothers Osborne will perform on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers on Monday (January 18th), followed by a performance on NBC’s Today show Tuesday (January 19th).

Chris Stapleton will perform live on NBC’s Saturday Night Live as the first musical guest of 2016. Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) will host. Check out the promos below.

Keith Urban made a surprise appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show Wednesday (January 13th) to talk about his new Ripcord World Tour and invite the entire studio audience to his show in Los Angeles.

Keith also talked about his late father, “Bob,” who passed away in December after a long battle with cancer. The “Break On Me” singer gave full props to his father for his love of country music.

Brothers Osborne take a different approach to being a duo. While TJ Osborne takes lead on all of the vocals and plays rhythm guitar, his brother John shreds on lead guitar and provides harmony to TJ.

“It’s really built off of me singing and John playing the guitar,” says TJ. “So, I think it is unique and fun and cool, and it kind of gives two kind of parallels that I think work really nicely together.”

John describes it as a kind of old-school rock approach. “In country music, you have two singers that sing a lot of harmonies and stuff together, and we do that as brothers – sing a lot together – but his voice in the band is his voice and my voice is guitar,” he says. “We look back at a lot of old rock bands like Aerosmith to The Allman Brothers and guys like that, where it’s like a lead singer and the sideman guitar player. That’s the approach that we’re going for, and it seems to be really working for us. It’s kind of carving our path in country music.”

TJ and John, who are riding high on the country charts with their single “Stay a Little Longer,” will release their debut album Friday (January 15th). The two are set to perform on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers on Monday (January 18th), followed by a performance on NBC’s Today show Tuesday (January 19th).

The guys are nominated for a Grammy in the Best Country Duo/Group category for their hit single, “Stay a Little Longer.” The 58th Annual Grammy Awards will air live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles February 15th at 8pm ET on CBS.