Nashville, TN (February 10, 2015) – Capitol Records Nashville’s Mickey Guyton will join Brad Paisley on his Crushin’ It World Tour starting May 15th in Philadelphia, PA.

“I am so excited and thankful to Brad for inviting me to tour with him,” shares Mickey.  “This opportunity to share my music with fans on the road is truly a dream becoming a reality. May 15 can’t come fast enough!”

Mickey’s debut single is the powerful “Better Than You Left Me” which broke Country Aircheck history for the most one-week adds for a debut act’s first single.  Co-written with Nathan Chapman, Jennifer Hanson and Jenn Schott, the single was USA Today’s Song of the Week. Since releasing her single, Mickey has appeared on many Who To Watch for in 2015 lists including NPR, Billboard, Rolling Stone Country, Spotify, Yahoo! Music, Huffington Post, Mashable, Taste of Country and Nashville Lifestyles.  The video for “Better Than You Left Me” can be viewed here.

Mickey’s 2015 “Crushin’ It World Tour” dates include:
May 15          Susquehanna Bank Center                       Philadelphia, PA

May 16          Walnut Creek Ampitheatre                       Raleigh, NC

June 4           Ak-Chin Pavilion                                     Phoenix, AZ

June 5           Hollywood Bowl                                     Los Angeles, CA

June 6           Sleep Train Amphitheatre                        San Diego, CA

June 12         Sleep Train Amphitheatre                        Sacramento, CA

June 13         Shoreline Amphitheatre                           Mountain View, CA

June 20         Windy City Lake Shake Festival                Chicago, IL

June 26         First Niagara Pavilion                    Pittsburgh, PA

June 27         FarmBorough Country Music Festival         New York, NY

June 28         Darien Lake Performing Arts Center          Darien Center, NY

July 17           Blossom Music Center                             Cleveland, OH

July 18           Faster Horses Country Music Festival         Brooklyn, MI

July 24          Bethel Woods Center for the Arts             Bethel, NY

July 25          XFINITY Theatre                                    Hartford, CT

July 26          Saratoga Performing Arts Center              Saratoga Springs, NY

August 28      Riverbend Music Center                          Cincinnati, OH

August 29      Klipsch Music Center                               Indianapolis, IN

August 30      Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre                St. Louis, MO

Sept 17         Isleta Amphitheater                                Albuquerque, NM

Sept 19         USANA Amphitheatre                    Salt Lake City, UT

Sept 25         XFINITY Center                                     Boston, MA

Sept 26         Jiffy Lube Live                                      Washington, DC

Sept 27         Farm Bureau Live                                  Virginia Beach, VA

Oct 2            MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre     Tampa, FL

Oct 3            Cruzan Amphitheatre                    W. Palm Beach, FL

More dates will be added.  For updated tour and ticket information, please visit www.mickeyguyton.com.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(February 9, 2015) – NOW That’s What I Call Music!, and the Academy of Country Music are partnering for the first time to release NOW That’s What I Call The ACM Awards 50 Years. The latest installment in the best-selling, multi-artist album series will feature 2 discs as well as a digital collection of songs from ACM award-winning artists celebrating the Academy’s 50^th Anniversary.

Highlights from the track list, which spans the ACM Awards’ 50-year history, include recent smash hits such as “The House That Built Me” by Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” on disc one, as well as classics such as “Always on My Mind” by Willie Nelson, “Why Not Me” by The Judds, and “He Stopped Loving Her Today” by George Jones on the second disc.  Other superstar artists featured include Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, Alabama, Faith Hill, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and many more.

The album will be released on March 31^st, just in time for the 50^th Academy of Country Music Awards broadcast LIVE on Sunday, April 19^th at 8:00pm ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network. All of the Academy’s proceeds from sales of the album will go to ACM Lifting Lives, the philanthropic arm of the Academy of Country Music, dedicated to improving lives through the power of music.

Full details with the entire track listing to be released soon.

NOW That’s What I Call ACM Awards 50 Years is a joint venture from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and the Academy of Country Music, distributed by Universal Music Group Distribution. The NOW That’s What I Call Music! series is a joint venture from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.  NOW and NOW That’s What I Call Music!are registered trademarks of Universal Music Group and its affiliates.

NOW That’s What I Call Music! debuted in the U.S. in 1998, following 15 years of multi-platinum international success. The series has generated sales exceeding 250 million albums worldwide, including more than 94 million in the U.S.  All 53 volumes in NOW’s numeric U.S. series have charted in Billboard’s Top 10, including 18 which have reached #1.

The 50th Academy of Country Music Awards is dedicated to honoring and showcasing the biggest names and emerging talent in the country music industry.  The show is produced for television by dick clark productions and will broadcast LIVE from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX on Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network. Allen Shapiro, Mike Mahan, R.A. Clark and Barry Adelman are executive producers.  Bob Romeo is executive producer for the Academy of Country Music.

ACM Lifting Lives® is the philanthropic arm of the Academy of Country Music dedicated to improving lives through the power of music.  Through partnerships with artists and strong ties in the music industry, ACM Lifting Lives develops and funds music-related therapy and education programs, and serves members of the community who face unexpected hardships through its Diane Holcomb Emergency Relief Fund. Through generous donations and the support of artists and fans, ACM Lifting Lives is able to fund everything from disaster relief and helping communities in need, to music education in schools and music camps for those with disabilities, to supporting programs that use music therapy as a means to help our veterans and wounded warriors, while providing grants to help them ease back into life. For more information, please visit www.ACMLiftingLives.org.

Luke Bryan continues his reign at the top of both country charts this week with his latest smash, “I See You.” The song is the sixth No. 1 song from his multi-platinum album, Crash My Party.

“What an amazing situation to be in to have six No. 1s off an album. When we got to the fourth No. 1, we kinda started talking about, ‘Well, what if we could get five?’ And then the fifth one happened so fast,” says Luke. “I just have been in the situation to where I’m like, ‘Man! I’m glad when singles can go fast, because that adds to the live show. When people come back to see my show this year that they saw last year, I’ll have four more hits to throw at ‘em, and heck, that’s 20 minutes of new music that they’ll have at the live show.’ So, I love that. You do that for a few years, then you’ve got a lot of variety of hits to throw at people for your live show.”

*Luke is getting ready to hit stores with his latest – and final – Spring Break album, Checkin’ Out, March 10th.
*Luke is nominated for four ACM Awards this year, including Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Song of the Year (“Drink a Beer”) and Vocal Event of the Year (“This is How We Roll” with Florida Georgia Line).

Kip Moore has just released his new single, “I’m to Blame,” which he wrote with Justin Weaver and Westin Davis. With the new song, he’s owning who he is and he’s not apologizing for it.

“Today in such a politically correct society, we really wanted to write a song about not apologizing about who we are and not scared to speak our mind kind of people, and we wanted to write a song around that whole kind of thing,” says Kip. “And that’s what it is – it’s a very aggressive, intense, no apologies kind of song about the kind of person you are, and it’s not about being rude. You’re owning who you are as an individual, and that’s what the song is.”

Kip is nominated for ACM Best New Artist. Fan voting is open now through Feb. 10 at voteacm.com and VoteACM.CMT.com.

The Georgia native is on the road now, but will also hit the stage on Dierks Bentley’s Sounds of Summer Tour.

Eric Church is nominated for four Grammys, including Best Country Album (The Outsiders), Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for “Give Me Back My Hometown” and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for Keith’s latest single, “Raise ‘Em Up.” The North Carolina native also has a coveted performance slot, as well.

We’re sure he has a primo spot near the stage this year, but back in 2012, he was hanging out in the aisle because Kathy Griffin was sitting in his seat and wouldn’t budge. “She was in our seat at the Grammys. It’s not her fault, I guess, but she wouldn’t get out of the seat, so when we arrived at the Grammys to sit in the seat, we had a little standoff. You know, first Grammys,” says Eric. “My wife and I ended up having to sit in the aisle right before they did the nominees for Country Album [laughs], which would have been great if we won, ’cause then they would’ve had to pan over to Kathy Griffin and us sitting in the aisle. So, literally, they just about didn’t let us in. So, to go from there to being able to play the show is pretty cool.”

The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards will air live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles Sunday (February 8th) on CBS.

Kelleigh Bannen asked her fans what cover they wanted to hear from the 57th Annual Grammy Awards New Artist of the Year category.

Go behind-the-scenes with Dierks Bentley at his Super Bowl Tailgate show.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 5, 2015)Country music superstar Brad Paisley has announced his 2015 tour, “Crushin’ It World Tour,” which kicks off May 15 in Philadelphia, PA.  The tour will continue across the United States and Canada during the summer months with more dates to be added. Special guests will be reigning ACM New Artist of the Year Justin Moore and highly anticipated newcomer Mickey Guyton.

Brad Paisley is a critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, guitarist and entertainer whose talents have earned him numerous awards, including three GRAMMYs, two American Music Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music Awards and 14 Country Music Association Awards (including Entertainer of the Year), among many others. He has been a proud member of the Grand Ole Opry since 2001. Paisley has written or co-written 20 of his 23 #1 singles with the first being in 1999 with “He Didn’t Have To Be.” “Perfect Storm,” was #1 on the country charts for two weeks and is from his chart topping 2014 album Moonshine in the Trunk. His current single is “Crushin’ It” from the same album. He is currently headlining his Country Nation World Tour presented by KRAFT Cheese through March 2015. Paisley has recently partnered with Boot Barn® and developed an exclusive line of jeans, hats, T-shirts, jewelry, belts and woven shirts called Moonshine Spirit by Brad Paisley.

Texas native, Mickey Guyton’s debut single is the powerful “Better Than You Left Me” which she co-wrote.  The single broke Country Aircheck history for the most one–week adds for a debut act’s first single.  Mickey has appeared on many Who To Watch for in 2015 lists including NPR, Billboard, Spotify, Yahoo! Music, Huffington Post, Mashable, Taste of Country and Nashville Lifestyles. She was also recently featured in the Wall Street Journal and “Better Than You Left Me” was USA Today’s Song Of The Week. On January 10, Mickey made her Grand Ole Opry debut at the historic Ryman Auditorium.  Her emotional and powerful performance brought the audience to a spontaneous standing ovation.  She is currently putting the finishing touches on her Capitol Records Nashville debut album.

LOS ANGELES – (Feb. 5, 2015) – With music’s biggest night approaching, Eric Church gave the folks at CBS a rare behind the scenes look at the 100-plus person production of his wildly popular “The Outsiders World Tour.”

Camera crews followed the GRAMMY Award-nominated performer and his crew for 24 hours on a recent 220-mile run from Fresno, California, to Los Angeles. They captured the monumental effort it takes to put on the nine-month tour–assembling and tearing down the stage and lighting rig which stage manager Sam Coats called “100,000 pounds of rock your city” and loading it into 14 tractor-trailers after each show–and the difficult 18-plus-hour days crews work to pull it all off.

“These guys, they’re my family,” Church told CBS’ Mark Strassmann. “They would have my back in any situation and I would have theirs.”

“The Outsiders World Tour” hits SAP Center in San Jose, California, on Thursday night and then fans can catch Church performing live on the 57th annual GRAMMY Awards this Sunday on CBS. Church heads into Sunday’s show and performance with four nominations, including Best Country Album for “The Outsiders” and Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for “Give Me Back My Hometown.”

Church told Strassman that his live show is the key to his popularity and that “The Outsiders World Tour” was planned to celebrate with fans. “I felt like this was our moment,” Church said. “… I don’t think we have any of our other success without (touring).” Check the interview out here: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/eric-church-massive-tour-operation-behind-the-scenes/.

Church will perform at the Houston Rodeo on March 3 and then restart “The Outsiders World Tour” on March 4 at the Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. Several members of “The Outsiders” tour crew have been with Church for years and he hopes new fans will come out and see what a little teamwork can accomplish.

“They’ve busted their ass since 7 a.m.,” Church said of his crew, “and they’ve been out there doing what they do. And I feel like when I walk out there, I get to, for them, spike the ball.”

To buy tickets or learn more about Eric Church, visit www.ericchurch.com orwww.facebook.com/ericchurch and follow @EricChurch on Twitter.

Little Big Town’s latest single, “Girl Crush,” is racing up the country charts, but there’s been a little confusion on the part of a few folks about the actual theme of the song. If you listen to the lyrics, you’ll see it’s just about good old-fashioned jealousy.

“The lyric of ‘Girl Crush’ is written in a kind of sexy way, so some people might turn it off when they get to ‘I wanna taste your lips’ and all that, but once they get to the hook, they go, ‘Oh! It turns,’” says LBT’s Karen Fairchild. “It’s about a girl saying, ‘Why do you love her and not me?’ And that’s what makes it. You’ve got to lean in a little bit, but the fans are really loving this one.”

The reigning CMA and ACM Vocal Group of the Year will embark on the new leg of their Pain Killer Tour March 5th in Savannah, Georgia with Chris Stapleton. First, they’ll head across the pond to do a few shows in the U-K beginning February 10th in London.