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  • KACEY MUSGRAVES ANNOUNCES HOMECOMING BENEFIT SHOW.

    Kacey Musgraves
    NASHVILLE, TN (July 13, 2015) – GRAMMY-award winning artist, Kacey Musgraves, has announced a special homecoming show this fall in Mineola, Texas, on September 26 at the Mineola Nature Preserve. The announcement comes in the midst of an already-busy second half of 2015 for Musgraves, whose latest tour, The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue, kicks off in August.
    The country star plans to donate all proceeds from the event, which will include local food vendors and a live auction, to the art and music programs in the Wood County school system. Up-and-coming country acts John & Jacob and Wade Bowen will serve as the show’s openers, and Wood County students will provide additional entertainment.

    “I’m so excited to be coming back to my hometown to play and help in keeping music and art programs alive in schools! I was lucky to have a solid support system as a kid and I can only hope that a fun event like this will be a small step for someone else,” said Musgraves.
    Tickets for the show will go on sale Friday, July 17, and will be available on www.kaceymusgraves.com and at the Mineola Town Hall.
       
    For more information on Kacey Musgraves visit www.kaceymusgraves.com

  • LUKE BRYAN IS THE ONLY COUNTRY ARTIST TO SELL OUT VANDERBILT STADIUM.

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    Luke Bryan
    Nashville – (July 13, 2015) – On Saturday night, Luke Bryan sold-out his Vanderbilt Stadium show on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville and now joins an elite list of musicians who have also sold-out the field- the Dave Matthews Band, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones and U2.  Thus making Luke the only country act to sell out a concert at this stadium and marking his seventh consecutive stadium concert sell out to date.
    See the highlights of the show here: http://youtu.be/g0m_M4uGdlo .
    Luke’s “Kick The Dust Up Tour” continues this weekend with a double night performance in St. Louis, MO and then onto Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, OH.  The tour will run through October, taking only a short break in August for the release of KILL THE LIGHTS, his fifth studio album in stores Friday, August 7.
    2015 “Kick The Dust Up Tour”:
    7-16        St. Louis, MO                       Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
    7-17        St. Louis, MO                       Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
    7-18        Cincinnati, OH                    Paul Brown Stadium
    7-20        Gilford, NH                           Bank of NH Pavilion at Meadowbrook
    7-21        Gilford, NH                           Bank of NH Pavilion at Meadowbrook
    7-22        Gilford, NH                           Bank of NH Pavilion at Meadowbrook
    7-24        Indianapolis, IN                   Klipsch Music Center
    7-25        Indianapolis, IN                   Klipsch Music Center
    7-26        *Twin Lakes, WI                  Country Thunder Festival
    7-30        Scranton, PA                        The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
    7-31        Pittsburgh, PA                       First Niagara Pavilion
    8-1          Pittsburgh, PA                       First Niagara Pavilion
    8-15        *Brownsville, OR                 Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival
    8-21        Atlanta, GA                          Philips Arena
    8-22        Atlanta, GA                          Philips Arena
    8-26        Salt Lake City, UT              USANA Amphitheatre
    8-27        Salt Lake City, UT              USANA Amphitheatre
    8-29        San Francisco, CA             Levi’s Stadium
    9-3          Darien Center, NY               Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
    9-4          Darien Center, NY               Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
    9-5          Cleveland, OH                    FirstEnergy Stadium
    9-11        Philadelphia, PA                  Susquehanna Bank Center
    9-12        Philadelphia, PA                  Susquehanna Bank Center
    9-17        Jacksonville, FL                   Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
    9-18        Tampa, FL                            MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
    9-19        West Palm Beach, FL         Coral Sky Amphitheatre
    9-20        West Palm Beach, FL         Coral Sky Amphitheatre
    9-24        Charlotte, NC                       PNC Music Pavilion
    9-25        Raleigh, NC                          Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
    9-26        Raleigh, NC                          Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
    9-30        Fort Wayne, IN                   M & J Farms                                        Farm Tour
    10-1        Lexington, KY                    Talon Farm & Winery                       Farm Tour
    10-2        Knoxville, TN                     Maple Lane Farms                              Farm Tour
    10-3        Columbia, MO                    Culler Farms                                       Farm Tour
    10-7        Starkville, MS                     Holtcamp Farms                                Farm Tour
    10-8        Tuscaloosa, AL                   Twin Creeks Farms                           Farm Tour
    10-9        Macon, GA                         Midway at Central City Park         Farm Tour
    10-10     Valdosta, GA                       MJ Taylor Farms                              Farm Tour
    10-15     Sacramento, CA                  Toyota Amphitheatre
    10-16     San Diego, CA                      Sleep Train Amphitheatre
    10-17     Irvine, CA                             Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
    10-18     Irvine, CA                             Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
    10-22     San Antonio, TX                  Alamodome
    10-23     Dallas, TX                             Gexa Energy Pavilion
    10-24     Dallas, TX                             Gexa Energy Pavilion
    10-28     Chicago, IL                           United Center
    10-29     Chicago, IL                           United Center
    10-30     Detroit, MI                           Ford Field
    *Festival / event dates (not “Kick The Dust Up Tour” date / line up)
    For up to date information on Luke, the tour and tickets go to www.lukebryan.com or www.livenation.com.

  • CHECK OUT ALAN JACKSON’S APPEARANCE ON CBS SUNDAY MORNING.

    Alan Jackson

    Alan Jackson appeared on CBS Sunday Morning this past weekend, prior to releasing his album, Angels and Alcohol, this Friday (July 17th).

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  • ALAN JACKSON SET TO RELEASE ANGELS AND ALCOHOL ON FRIDAY.

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    Alan Jackson

    Alan Jackson is set to release his new album, Angels and Alcohol, his first studio album of all new music in three years. The album is titled after one of the songs on the album, which was the perfect heading describing the entire collection.

    “It sounded like a good title to me,” says Alan. “This song is about such a wide expanse of your life. It’s about life and love and crying and dying and heartache and drinking and having a good time and Friday nights – all things, to me, that have always been a part of country music…Country music is always about so many things. I felt like this title – Angels and Alcohol – kind of is [from] one end to the other.”

    Angels and Alcohol, which includes the lead track “Jim and Jack and Hank,” is available Friday (July 17th).

    Catch Alan on NBC’s Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday (July 15th) and Today show on Friday.

    Audio / Alan Jackson talks about the title of his new album, Angels and Alcohol.

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    Alan Jackson (Angels and Alcohol) OC: …the other. :42
    “It sounded like a good title to me, first of all. I don’t know. People always ask me about country music, and I even say this on stage a lot when I say hello at the beginning of my shows, you know, about how I’m gonna do country music for ya. This song is about such a wide expanse of your life. It’s about life and love and crying and dying and heartache and drinking and having a good time and Friday nights – all things, to me, that have always been a part of country music. It’s not just, a lot of music’s just about love or lost love, typically. Country music is always about so many things. I felt like this title – Angels and Alcohol – kind of is [from] one end to the other.”

  • LITTLE BIG TOWN’S ‘GIRL CRUSH’ MAKES HISTORY.

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    Little Big Town

    NASHVILLE, TN (Thursday, July 9, 2015) – GRAMMY award-winning country group, Little Big Town, makes Billboard history as their reign continues atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart for the 11th consecutive week with their smash hit, “Girl Crush.”

    Little Big Town’s 11th week in the #1 spot sets a new record as the longest run by a group (of at least three members) in the chart’s history ousting the previous record set by The Browns with “The Three Bells” in 1959.

    “Crush” additionally logs its third consecutive week and 11th week overall as the #1 country download on the Nielsen SoundScan Digital Country Songs Chart; making it the most downloaded song in country music for 2015 with sales totaling nearly 1.4 million.  The hit single is also currently sitting in the #5 position on the country radio charts and is heading towards a #1 record in the coming weeks.

     

  • ALAN JACKSON LAUNCHES MEDIA BLITZ PRIOR TO RELEASING HIS NEW ALBUM, ANGELS AND ALCOHOL.

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    Alan Jackson

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 9, 2015) – Country superstar Alan Jackson will launch Angels and Alcohol, his first studio album of all new music in three years, with a major media blitz that kicks off today, Thursday, July 9 at NPR and on NPR mobile applications for an NPR FIRST LISTEN where fans have the opportunity to stream the album in its entirety before it is available on July 17. On Sunday, July 12, Jackson will be featured on CBS SUNDAY MORNING. The multi-platinum selling Grammy winner will perform on the TONIGHT SHOW starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday, July 15, and will celebrate album release day with a performance on the Toyota Summer Concert Series on TODAY live from Rockefeller Plaza (Friday, July 17).

    Click HERE to go to the NPR FIRST LISTEN of Jackson’s new album Angels and Alcohol.

    Angels and Alcohol, Jackson’s first studio album of all new music in three years, includes seven self-penned songs including the title track and the album’s first single “Jim and Jack and Hank” released this week to country radio.Angels and Alcohol, his 15th studio album, comes 25 years after his debut landmark album Here In The Real World. Since the release of Here In The Real World, Jackson has released 22 albums including two Christmas albums, two gospel albums, three Greatest Hits collections and a Bluegrass album which included standards and eight original songs written by Jackson.

    The new album was produced by Jackson’s long-time collaborator and friend Keith Stegall who has produced every one of Jackson’s 23 albums over the past 25 years with the exception of one album – Like Red On A Rose (Alison Krauss).

    Angels and Alcohol     is available for preorder by clicking HERE.

    Angels and Alcohol Track Listing:

    1) “You Can Always Come Home”             (Alan Jackson)

    2) “You Never Know”                                (Alan Jackson)

    3) “Angels and Alcohol”                            (Alan Jackson)

    4) “Gone Before You Met Me”                   (Michael White, Michael Heeney)

    5) “The One You’re Waiting On”                 (Adam Wright, Shannon Wright)

    6) “Jim and Jack and Hank”                       (Alan Jackson)

    7) “I Leave A Light On”                              (Alan Jackson)

    8) “Flaws”                                                 (Alan Jackson)

    9) “When God Paints”                                (Troy Jones, Greg Becker)

    10) “Mexico, Tequila and Me”                     (Alan Jackson)


    About Alan Jackson

    The man from rural Newnan, GA, who claims he is just a “singer of simple songs,” has sold nearly 60 million albums worldwide and ranks as one of the 10 best-selling vocalists of all-time in all genres. He has released more than 60 singles—registering 50 Top Ten hits and 35 #1s (including 26 Billboard #1s).  He has earned more than 150 music industry awards—including 18 Academy of Country Music Awards, 16 Country Music Association Awards, a pair of Grammys and ASCAP’s Founders and Golden Note Awards. Jackson received the first-ever ASCAP Heritage Award in 2014 having earned the title of most performed country music songwriter-artist of ASCAP’s first 100 years.  He is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry.

    Alan Jackson is one of the most successful and respected singer-songwriters in music.  He is in the elite company of Paul McCartney and John Lennon among songwriters who’ve written more than 20 songs that they’ve recorded and taken to the top of the charts.  Jackson is one of the best-selling artists since the inception of SoundScan, ranking alongside the likes of Eminem and Metallica.

  • KACEY MUSGRAVES ENLISTS THE HELP OF A SPECIAL PERSON ON HER NEW ALBUM.

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    Kacey Musgraves

    Kacey Musgraves spent a lot of time on her latest album, Pageant Material, and inserted some cool moments into the song. The most special moment is at the beginning of the song, “This Town,” in which she placed the voice of her grandmother (aka Memaw), who passed away last year.

    “There’s a really special moment that happens in the beginning of this song that you’ll hear and it’s a woman’s voice, and it’s my Memaw’s – Barbara Taylor – she passed away last December. It’s my mom’s mom. She was the most interesting woman ever, and she worked in the ER. Her whole career basically, she was an ER nurse. So, she always had these insane stories of like all these crazy people coming in,” says Kacey. “A couple of years ago, she came over to the house and we were all sitting around. It was my mom and dad and my sister and me and her, and we got her going on the stories again, and I secretly pressed record secretly on my phone, and I got all these stories of all these people coming in and things that she saw. And I had forgotten that I did that.”

    Her co-writer, Shane McAnally, urged her to use the recording in the song. “Whenever we were producing ‘This Town,’ I kind of pictured like a radio or like a TV in the background, or like small town conversation. I was going through my voice notes, and…I brought that up. I was like, ‘I have this audio of Memaw talking,’ and he said, ‘What if we put that in the song?’ And it was brilliant, so we found a good part of the story and put it in there.”

    For all you vinyl collectors out there, the (pink!) Pageant Material vinyl record is available this Friday.

    Audio / Kacey Musgraves talks about the song “This Town,” and reveals that there’s a very special moment included in the beginning of the song.

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    Kacey Musgraves (This Town) 1 OC: …anyone. :54
    “There’s a really special moment that happens in the beginning of this song that you’ll hear and it’s a woman’s voice, and it’s my Memaw’s – Barbara Taylor – she passed away last December. It’s my mom’s mom. She was the most interesting woman ever, and she worked in the ER. Her whole career basically, she was an ER nurse. So, she always had these insane stories of like all these crazy people coming in, ‘these crackheads’… It was a small-town hospital that she worked in, so she would see everything. Just crazy. So we’d always, every time we’d get together with her, we’d be like, ‘What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen lately? Tell us some stories.’ A couple of years ago, she came over to the house and we were all sitting around. It was my mom and dad and my sister and me and her, and we got her going on the stories again, and I secretly pressed record secretly on my phone, and I got all these stories of all these people coming in and things that she saw. And I had forgotten that I did that. I never told anyone.”

    Audio / Kacey Musgraves reveals how her Memaw’s voice ended up on the song, “This Town.”

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    Kacey Musgraves (This Town) 2 OC: …song starts. :46
    “Whenever we were producing ‘This Town,’ I kind of pictured like a radio or like a TV in the background, or like small town conversation. I was going through my voice notes, and I think it was Shane, I brought that up. I was like, ‘I have this audio of Memaw talking,’ and he said, ‘What if we put that in the song?’ And it was brilliant, so we found a good part of the story and put it in there. She’s talking about this girl — and I memorized the whole thing – but she’s like, ‘We had a girl that came in with a drug overdose the other day, and she got real belligerent, and she bit one of the nurses. And I mean, she bit, you could see every tooth.’ She’s like, ‘Took two or three of us to get her off of her.’ And in the end, she says, ‘Yeah, you get some crazy ones.’ And then the song starts.”

    Video / Kacey Musgraves on This Town

    This Town. A special one to me. Written with Luke Laird & Brandy Clark. Might be my fave on Pageant Material

    Posted by Kacey Musgraves on Monday, July 6, 2015

  • CANAAN SMITH NEARING THE TOP OF THE COUNTRY CHARTS.

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    Canaan Smith

    Canaan Smith is poised to enter the top of the country charts with his gold-certified single, “Love You Like That,” a song that is real in every sense of the word and is an example of how an everyday guy says “I love you” to his significant other.

    “I think ‘Love You Like That’ is just a perfect example of how a man’s man can still say I love you without sounding like a girly girl,” says Canaan. “I think the country guys out there, they’re not shying away from singing this song because it’s kind of just like every day dude, just part of our everyday lives is finding the love of your life and that’s a good thing to hold on to. When you find it let them know how long you’re going to love them, long as till the sun comes back and even longer than that, ‘slow as the Mississippi,’ strong as whiskey. Be proud of that love. Be proud of what you’ve got. And I think people are staking their claim and saying, ‘That’s who I am.’”

    The Virginia native will perform in Virginia Beach on Thursday as part of Dierks Bentley’s Sounds of Summer Tour.

    Audio / Canaan Smith says “Love You Like That” is an example of how everyday men say “I love you.”

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    Canaan Smith (Love You Like That) 1 OC: …to that. :40
    “I think ‘Love You Like That’ is just a perfect example of how a man’s man can still say I love you without sounding like a girly girl. So I think – I think the country guys out there, they’re not shying away from singing this song because it’s kind of just like every day dude, just part of our everyday lives is finding the love of your life and that’s a good thing to hold on to. When you find it let them know how long you’re going to love them, long as till the sun comes back and even longer than that, slow as the Mississippi, strong as whiskey. Be proud of that love. Be proud of what you’ve got. And I think people are staking their claim and saying that’s who I am. I can relate to that. Saluting love you like that.”

  • EASTON CORBIN’S ALBUM BOWS AT NO. 1 ON THE COUNTRY ALBUM CHART.

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    Easton Corbin

    Easton Corbin’s About to Get Real album bows at the top of the country album chart this week. The new collection, which features his latest hit “Baby Be My Love Song,” sold more than 20-thousand copies to land at No. 1 on the country album chart and No. 9 overall. Kacey Musgraves’ Pageant Material comes in at No.2 on the country chart, followed by Sam Hunt’s Montevallo, which rounds out the Top 3.

    Easton says he tries to put a lot of truth and authenticity into his music. “I want people to take away from my music that it’s authentic and it’s real and it comes from my heart. It’s who I am,” says Easton. “I feel like that the country music audience out there, their B.S. meter is pretty sensitive a lot of times, and I think deep down they really know if an artist is real.”

    Easton co-wrote three tracks on About To Get Real and once again teamed with producer Carson Chamberlain for the project.

    The Mercury Nashville artist recently celebrated the release of About To Get Real with appearances on The TODAY Show as well as FOX & FRIENDS and will continue to hit the road this summer.

    Audio / Easton Corbin says he tries to balance his music with fresh modern sounds with his own traditional tendencies.

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    Easton Corbin (balance of fresh & traditional) OC: …traditional sounds. :37
    “I want people to take away from my music that it’s authentic and it’s real and it comes from my heart. It’s who I am. I feel like that the country music audience out there, their B.S. meter is pretty sensitive a lot of times, and I think deep down they really know if an artist is real. And I think to have longevity, you’ve got to be yourself and you’ve got to stay true to what you do. And again, I think that’s where it comes in, I think, where there’s a balance between keeping that fresh, modern sound — but also for me, I love traditional country music because that’s what I do, that’s what I grew up on, and that’s who I am — and I think it’s very important to balance that with traditional sounds.”

  • ALAN JACKSON GETS TOGETHER WITH ‘JIM AND JACK AND HANK’ TO RELEASE HIS NEW SINGLE TO RADIO.

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    Alan Jackson

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 6, 2015) – Country superstar Alan Jackson releases “Jim and Jack and Hank” to country radio today, Monday July 6. The self-penned song is the first single from his upcoming new album Angels and Alcohol scheduled to hit stores and all digital retailers next week, Friday, July 17.

    “It’s a fun little up-tempo tune about the same ole story,” said Jackson. “Girl leaves guy and this time he’s not going to be heartbroken. He says, ‘Just go out the door and take all your junk and everything. I don’t need anything. I got all I need. I got my friends – Jim, Jack and Hank – Jim Beam, Jack Daniels and Hank Williams, Sr. or Jr. or both.”

    Jackson adds of his favorite between friends Jim and Jack, “I’ve had them all, but I’ve always kind of stood by Jack Daniels.” He wryly smiles adding, “He’s helped me through a lot of good and bad times. Helped me write a lot of songs. So he’s a good friend.”

    Angels and Alcohol, Jackson’s first studio album of all new music in three years, includes seven self-penned songs including the title track. Angels and Alcohol, his 15th studio album, comes 25 years after his debut landmark album Here In The Real World. Since the release of Here In The Real World, Jackson has released 22 albums including two Christmas albums, two gospel albums, three Greatest Hits collections and a Bluegrass album which included standards and eight original songs written by Jackson.

    The new album was produced by Jackson’s long-time collaborator and friend Keith Stegall who has produced every one of Jackson’s 23 albums over the past 25 years with the exception of one album – Like Red On A Rose (Alison Krauss).

    Angels and Alcohol is available for preorder by clicking HERE.

    Angels and Alcohol Track Listing:

    1) “You Can Always Come Home”             (Alan Jackson)

    2) “You Never Know”                                (Alan Jackson)

    3) “Angels and Alcohol”                            (Alan Jackson)

    4) “Gone Before You Met Me”                   (Michael White, Michael Heeney)

    5) “The One You’re Waiting On”                 (Adam Wright, Shannon Wright)

    6) “Jim and Jack and Hank”                       (Alan Jackson)

    7) “I Leave A Light On”                              (Alan Jackson)

    8) “Flaws”                                                 (Alan Jackson)

    9) “When God Paints”                                (Troy Jones, Greg Becker)

    10) “Mexico, Tequila and Me”                     (Alan Jackson)


    About Alan Jackson

    The man from rural Newnan, GA, who claims he is just a “singer of simple songs,” has sold nearly 60 million albums worldwide and ranks as one of the 10 best-selling vocalists of all-time in all genres. He has released more than 60 singles—registering 50 Top Ten hits and 35 #1s (including 26 Billboard #1s).  He has earned more than 150 music industry awards—including 18 Academy of Country Music Awards, 16 Country Music Association Awards, a pair of Grammys and ASCAP’s Founders and Golden Note Awards. Jackson received the first-ever ASCAP Heritage Award in 2014 having earned the title of most performed country music songwriter-artist of ASCAP’s first 100 years.  He is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry.

    Alan Jackson is one of the most successful and respected singer-songwriters in music.  He is in the elite company of Paul McCartney and John Lennon among songwriters who’ve written more than 20 songs that they’ve recorded and taken to the top of the charts.  Jackson is one of the best-selling artists since the inception of SoundScan, ranking alongside the likes of Eminem and Metallica.