Toby Keith will be posthumously awarded an honorary degree at the University of Oklahoma’s Commencement ceremony next moth. The country star, who passed away in February of this year, was a huge OU sports fan and a longtime donor to the university.
Dierks Bentley will headline the Big As Texas Festival, taking place at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds near Houston May 10th-12th. Thomas Rhett and Billy Strings will also headline. Maddie & Tae, Anne Wilson, Tracy Byrd, Clay Walker, Dwight Yoakam, Corey Kent, Los Lobos and others will also perform.
Tyler Hubbard threw out a ceremonial first pitch prior to the White Sox vs. Reds game at the Guaranteed Rate Field earlier this month. Watch as he gears up for his perfect pitch and interacts with the newest member of the Chicago Bears, Jonathan Owens, and Olympian Simone Biles, as well as pitcher Tanner Banks.
Last weekend, Luke Grimes appeared on CMT Hot 20 Countdown to talk about his new music, his musical influences, his television show Yellowstone and much more.
Luke Grimes has released the new track “All Apologies.” The cover of the iconic Nirvana song was recorded at one of Grimes’ fall tour stops in Boston at The Roadrunner.
Grimes released his debut full-length album Luke Grimes earlier this year. Produced by Dave Cobb, Grimes wrote/co-wrote 10 of the album’s 13 songs. Grimes is returning for a second year to perform at this year’s Stagecoach Festival on April 27th and will be playing at various festivals throughout the summer.
About Luke Grimes Luke Grimes is a natural-born creative: an actor, musician, singer, and songwriter who releases his self-titled debut album on March 8. Luke Grimes, produced by Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton) arrives on the heels of Grimes’ gritty, acclaimed 2023 EP, Pain Pills or Pews, and features 13 tracks. Ten songs were co-written by Grimes, including “No Horse to Ride,” which debuted at No. 7 on the Country Songs sales chart in 2022 and accumulated 43.3M release-to-date global on-demand streams. Spotify highlighted the song on the cover of its Country Hits 2023 playlist, with the song in the No. 1 position. Grimes’ recording of “Hold On,” a highlight of Pain Pills or Pews that also appears on Luke Grimes, has amassed 27.4M global streams, adding to Grimes’ nearly 105M total global streams to date of all his music.
Known for his role as Kayce Dutton on the hit TV drama Yellowstone, Grimes grew up in Ohio playing music in the church and listening to the Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings records his father played him. Later, he moved to L.A. and joined an Americana band as its drummer before relocating to Montana, where Yellowstone films. Now writing in Nashville with hit songwriters like Rodney Clawson, Nicolle Galyon, the Love Junkies, Aaron Raitiere, and Brent Cobb, Grimes is sharing his personal story — of the loss of his father and meeting his wife — with country fans.
In 2023 he played upwards of 20 festivals, including Stagecoach, Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival, and Under the Big Sky Festival, and headlined his own sold-out tour. Grimes will make a return to Stagecoach in April 2024 with his highly anticipated full-length album under his belt.
Mercury Nashville / Range Music recording artist Luke Grimes released his debut full-length album, Luke Grimes. Produced by Dave Cobb, of the album’s 13 songs, ten were co-written by Grimes who “has repeatedly proved that he’s a for-real country artist” according to MusicRow. A vinyl edition of the album will be available on May 17th, but fans can pre-order it HERE.
Luke Grimes (difference between acting and music) OC: …someone else’s. 1:16
“The one big way that they’re different is that, you know, there’s nothing to hide behind with the music. I feel like, you know, with the other job getting to know me was never part of the job. The point was that you didn’t get to know me, that you could believe me as something else and the more you get to know me maybe the less believable that is. So I think a lot of – you know a lot of mystery is a good thing for people who play characters versus the music is way more personal and it’s my words coming out of my mouth most of the time versus someone else’s. And the job here really is to let people in to the point where maybe they can relate and realize that it’s not – you know it’s not just them. We’re all human and we all go through things. And that’s the kind of music that I’ve always liked and the stuff that has always been important to me has been stuff that made me feel like we’re all kind of in this together and music is such a human thing and a shared experience. And any kind of story can be that but the actual, the voice is my own rather than someone else’s.”
Luke Grimes will release his debut full-length album, Luke Grimes, on Friday (March 8th). Produced by Dave Cobb, of the album’s 13 songs, ten were co-written by Grimes. The album follows the fall 2023 release of Grimes’ EP Pain Pills Or Pews, which has amassed 105M Total Global streams to date. Out today is one of the album’s new tracks, “God And A Girl.” Listen to the new song HERE.
“I’ve spent the last couple of years trying my best to make something that I would be proud to put into the world. Now, all I can hope for is that it finds a few people to connect to and it makes them feel like they aren’t going through all of this alone. That’s what my favorite music has always done for me.”– Luke Grimes
Luke Grimes Album Track List:
Burn (Luke Grimes, Randy Montana, Josh Thompson)
Playin’ On The Tracks (Luke Grimes, Brent Cobb)
Hold On (Foy Vance, Ilsey Juber)
Black Powder (Luke Grimes, Brian Allen, Dave Cobb, Chris Powell)
Ghost Of Who We Were (Luke Grimes, Rodney Clawson, Nicolle Galyon)
Oh Ohio (Luke Grimes, Jessi Alexander, Jon Randall)
God And A Girl (Tucker Beathard, Dillon James, Jason Nix)
What Angels Do (Luke Grimes, Ryan Beaver, Bart Butler)
No Horse To Ride (Luke Grimes, Tony Lane, Jonathan Singleton)
Wait For The Rain To Die Down (Luke Grimes, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose)
Ain’t Dead Yet (Luke Grimes, Aaron Raitiere)
South On 75 (Luke Grimes, Brent Cobb, Dave Cobb, Aaron Raitiere)
Worst Of Me (Hayes Carll)
About Luke Grimes: Luke Grimes is a natural-born creative: an actor, musician, singer, and songwriter who releases his self-titled debut album on March 8. Luke Grimes, produced by Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton) arrives on the heels of Grimes’ gritty, acclaimed 2023 EP, Pain Pills or Pews, and features 13 tracks. Ten songs were co-written by Grimes, including “No Horse to Ride,” which debuted at No. 7 on the Country Songs sales chart in 2022 and accumulated 43.3M release-to-date global on-demand streams. Spotify highlighted the song on the cover of its Country Hits 2023 playlist, with the song in the No. 1 position. Grimes’ recording of “Hold On,” a highlight of Pain Pills or Pews that also appears on Luke Grimes, has amassed 27.4M global streams, adding to Grimes’ nearly 105M total global streams to date of all his music.
Known for his role as Kayce Dutton on the hit TV drama Yellowstone, Grimes grew up in Ohio playing music in the church and listening to the Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings records his father played him. Later, he moved to L.A. and joined an Americana band as its drummer before relocating to Montana, where Yellowstone films. Now writing in Nashville with hit songwriters like Rodney Clawson, Nicolle Galyon, the Love Junkies, Aaron Raitiere, and Brent Cobb, Grimes is sharing his personal story — of the loss of his father and meeting his wife — with country fans.
In 2023 he played upwards of 20 festivals, including Stagecoach, Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival, and Under the Big Sky Festival, and headlined his own sold-out tour. Grimes will make a return to Stagecoach in April 2024 with his highly anticipated full-length album under his belt.
Audio / Luke Grimes talks about growing up with country music and church hymns.
Luke Grimes (music growing up) OC: …liked about it too. 1:06 “My parents are from the Appalachian Mountains, country music was a very big deal for them growing up. My dad became a pastor and music is also a big deal in church and these old hymns – in a lot of ways, they’re related. You know, Hank Williams wrote ‘I Saw The Light,’ which I thought was just some old church song. I didn’t realize he wrote that. Religion and church and music and sort of country life, all these things kind of went hand-in-hand and my dad also liked the old Outlaw guys, that was sort of a secret that people in church didn’t know as much, because he didn’t really want to offend anybody. You know, some people really don’t listen to secular music, but he played me all of that stuff too. What was cool about it was how honest those guys were being, and they can be these really masculine guys, but tell you about their feelings, you know, which is rare. It’s rare for grown men that are like that to be vulnerable, and I really liked that about that music, and I think that’s what my dad liked about it too.”
Mercury Nashville / Range Music recording artist Luke Grimes today released the song “Clay Pigeons,” a cover of famed Texas artist, Blaze Foley’s song “Clay Pigeons,” which originally was released in February of 1989.
“In my opinion, Blaze Foley is one of the more underrated singer songwriters in the history books of country music,” said Grimes. “He truly was outlaw country in every sense, and he practiced what he preached. Clay Pigeons is not only my favorite song from Blaze, but one of my favorite songs of all time. The structure, melody, and lyrics are all so simple, yet they come together to say something so profound. The songwriting is masterful. There has always been something so comforting to me about the melancholy feel of this song.”
Grimes is currently on tour and has more dates throughout the end of the year.
Backstage at her Grand Ole Opry appearance, Reba McEntire was presented with a plaque for her song “Fancy.” It has been certified double-platinum and has more than 400 Million Streams.
Luke Bryan was hosts the new special, DOLLY PARTON – FROM RHINESTONES TO ROCK & ROLL, on Tuesday (November 7th) at 10:01pm ET/9:01pm CT. The one-hour special , which features an in-depth interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, features appearances by Sting,Pat Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo, Keith Urban, Darius Rucker, Jordan Davis, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll, Carly Pearce, Luke Combs and Cody Johnson, among others.
Luke Grimes is scheduled to perform on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live (check local listings) on Wednesday (November 8th).
Carrie Underwood is offering fans a special limited edition green vinyl of her Christmas album, My Gift. The new special edition version will include all 11 tracks from the 2020 version of the album, as well as three additional songs including “Favorite Time of Year,” “All Is Well” and “Let There Be Peace/Something In The Water” that she performed on her HBO MAX special, My Gift: A Christmas Special From Carrie Underwood. Click here for more information.
If you are looking to purchase a vinyl copy of Chris Stapleton‘s new album, Higher, you’ll be able to choose from SIX different color variants: translucent milky clear, cola bottle clear, opaque baby pink, opaque bone, opaque brown and standard black. Higher, featuring the superstar’s latest single “White Horse,” is available on Friday (November 10th).
Parker McCollum showed CMT his tour bus, complete with recliners, bunks, drinks, Halloween candy and a humidifier, which has been a game changer for him. Check it out below.
Mercury Nashville / Range Music recording artist Luke Grimes released his debut EP, Pain Pills Or Pews, today (October 20th). Grimes serves as co-writer on six of the eight songs in the collection that was produced by Dave Cobb. The EP features tracks that are highly personal to the country artist, including the fan favorite “No Horse to Ride,” the recently released “Burn” and one of Grimes’ personal favorites, “Ain’t Dead Yet,” amongst others.
“To me Pain Pills or Pews should feel like the very beginning of a story. The songs were chosen because they felt the most personal and even the outside songs felt almost biographical,” said Grimes. “This is my first time putting music into the world in such a significant way and the most important thing with this collection of songs was that it established a relationship with me and anyone who might want to listen. I want to ‘let people in’ so to speak, so that hopefully the story can continue.”
This fall, Grimes will be heading out on the road to bring fans live performances of his songs. Tickets are available at www.lukegrimesmusic.com. Grimes recently performed at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO he will be returning to Stagecoach in Indio, CA in April 2024.
Track Listing Pain Pills Or Pews:
No Horse To Ride (Luke Grimes, Tony Lane, Jonathan Singleton)
Hold On (Foy Vance & Ilsey Juber)
Ghost Of Who We Were (Luke Grimes, Nicolle Gaylon, Rodney Clawson)
Where It’s Blue (Colton Venner)
Burn (Luke Grimes, Randy Montana, Josh Thompson)
Playing On The Tracks (Luke Grimes & Brent Cobb)
Oh Ohio (Luke Grimes, Jessi Alexander, Jon Randall)
Luke Grimes (cutting outside songs) OC: …the context. :50 “One of my favorite things about Nashville and country music and Music Row is that the song is the star. And people can sing songs for generations and pass them down and you have different versions, and a really good song is a really good song. There was no part of me that needed like this percentage of this album to be things that I wrote. It was never like that. It was just kind of honestly going through the process and when we had enough songs we were going to go in and make something. And the whole time that I was writing they were sending me outside stuff and with those two it was as simple as like I understand what they’re saying. I could sing that, and I could mean it and it makes me feel something and I could mean that just as much as something that I wrote down on a piece of paper. I understood the content and the context.”
Luke Grimes will release his debut eight-song EP Pain Pills Or Pews on Friday (October 20th). He wrote six of the songs on the Dave Cobb produced project.
Being the son of a pastor, Luke says the title of the new album came from a song idea and felt like it was how he grew up.
“Really it was a song idea. I mean it still is, but it was a song title I had, and when I was thinking about what to name the album I was like there’s a lot of – there’s a lot of kind of honestly on this album that isn’t fun,” he says. “Some of the themes aren’t so fun and that’s okay. And where I grew up and how I grew up and my dad being a pastor, I just felt like the religious aspect and my upbringing needed to be tied into this album somehow because it’s such a big part of especially this first outing, you know. The idea behind that song was that where certain people are from are sort of your options. So, it felt like where I come from.”
Track List Pain Pills Or Pews:
No Horse To Ride
Hold On
Ghost Of Who We Were
Where It’s Blue
Burn
Playing On The Tracks
Oh Ohio
Ain’t Dead Yet
After the release of his debut EP, Grimes will be heading out on the road to bring fans live performances of his songs this fall. he will be returning to Stagecoach in Indio, California in April 2024.
Upcoming Show Dates:
11/9
Columbus, OH
Newport Music Hall
11/10
Philadelphia, PA
Theatre of Living Arts
11/30
Minneapolis, MN
First Avenue
12/1
Rosemont, IL
Joe’s Live
12/7
Dallas, TX
The Factory in Deep Ellum
12/9
Austin, TX
Emo’s
12/15
Washington, DC
9:30 Club
12/16
Boston, MA
The Roadrunner
Audio / Luke Grimes talks about the title of his EP, "Pain Pills Or Pews."
Luke Grimes (Pain Pills Or Pews) OC: …I come from. :45
“Really it was a song idea. I mean it still is, but it was a song title I had, and when I was thinking about what to name the album I was like there’s a lot of – there’s a lot of kind of honestly on this album that isn’t fun. Some of the themes aren’t so fun and that’s okay. And where I grew up and how I grew up and my dad being a pastor, I just felt like the religious aspect and my upbringing needed to be tied into this album somehow because it’s such a big part of especially this first outing, you know. The idea behind that song was that where certain people are from are sort of your options. So, it felt like where I come from.”
Mercury Nashville / Range Music recording artist Luke Grimes today released the song, “Burn,” from his forthcoming eight-song EP, Pain Pills Or Pews, which comes out October 20th. Written by Grimes, Randy Montana (Luke Combs, Parker McCollum) and Josh Thompson (Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton), the song was produced by Dave Cobb.
“‘Burn’ came from a simple classic rock style melody and the idea of running headfirst into a heartbreak, almost asking for it,” said Grimes. “The song always had a bit of Tom Petty vibe as he’s always been a big influence for me. Getting in the room with Randy Montana and Josh Thompson showed me what seasoned songwriters can do with a simple idea; I love how this track turned out.”
After the release of his debut EP, Grimes will be heading out on the road to bring fans live performances of his songs this fall. Tickets go on sale today at 10am local time at www.lukegrimesmusic.com. Grimes will also perform for the first time at the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural festival this weekend in Franklin, Tennessee and he will be returning to Stagecoach in Indio, California in April 2024.
About Luke Grimes: Grimes’ debut track, “No Horse To Ride,” debuted inside the Top 10 of the Country Songs sales chart at No. 7. In its second week of release, “No Horse To Ride” racked up 95K Shazams, placing it No. 2 on the Shazam Country chart, No. 2 on the Shazam Top 200 USA chart and No. 37 on the Shazam Global chart, a rarity for a country artist. Spotify placed the song on the cover of its Country Hits 2023 playlist, with the song in the No. 1 position, and the song has been on eight Spotify Viral Charts.
Known for his role as Kayce Dutton on the hit television series, “Yellowstone,” Grimes has been making music for years and is prepping his first major label project. When not on set, Grimes can be found spinning his favorite country albums and songwriting at home in Montana or in Nashville writing with some of Music Row’s elite including Jonathan Singleton, Tony Lane, Randy Montana, Brent Cobb, Jamey Johnson, Love Junkies, Josh Osborne, Jon Randall, and Jessie Alexander.
Grimes grew up playing music in the church as the son of a Pentecostal pastor. His father also laid the foundation for the music he loves, introducing him to the works of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings. The Ohio native is now finding his own voice and style as an artist, inspired by the likes of Colter Wall, Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert, and the late Townes Van Zandt. Grimes continues to tour this summer at fairs and festivals across the country.
Mercury Nashville / Range Music recording artist Luke Grimes has announced he will be releasing an eight-song EP on October 20th, Pain Pills Or Pews. He wrote six of the songs on the Dave Cobb produced project. Fans can now pre-save Pain Pills Or Pews, and on Friday (September 22nd), they’ll be able to download the next track to be released titled “Burn.”
After the release of his debut EP, Grimes will be heading out on the road to bring fans live performances of his songs this fall. Tickets will be on sale at www.lukegrimesmusic.com on Friday (September 22nd) at 10 am local time. Grimes will also be perform for the first time at the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural festival on September 24th in Franklin, Tennessee and he will be returning to Stagecoach in Indio, California in April 2024.
Fans can see a just-released acoustic performance of the EP’s “No Horse To Ride” exclusively on the Western AF YouTube channel HERE.
Luke Grimes (8 song EP) OC: …out with now. :27 “Out of the ones that we have cut so far, those eight just felt, it felt complete as a thing on its own, and it touched on a lot of the bases of the kinds of things that I wanted to say on this first outing. And there was enough sort of different tempos and different feels, and I think, it just felt kind of complete. We just felt like there are some more songs, and we’ll figure those out later, but this felt like the right thing to sort of come out with now.”
