Carrie Underwood returns to the road on Saturday (October 15th) in Greenville, South Carolina with THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR. She’s been hard at work putting the much-anticipated show together for fans, and she can’t wait to hit the stage.

“I think for me being able to play live and go on tour and be on stage, every night it’s so much fun,” says Carrie. “That two hours I’m on stage, I don’t know, it’s like you’re, I get to play a character, I get to go into this other world and everybody’s having a good time and I’m having a good time. I mean I feel like I was just born to sing, so that’s my favorite part of the day is when I get to sing.”

The trek, which will also feature Jimmie Allen, will make stops in 43 U.S. cities including New York City, Nashville, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta and Denver, before wrapping in Seattle, Washington on March 17th.

We are ONE week away from the kickoff of the #DenimAndRhinestonesTour! 💜💎

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— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) October 8, 2022

Carrie is nominated for three CMA Awards this year, including Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year and Musical Event of the Year with Jason Aldean for “If I Didn’t Love You.” The 56^th CMA Awards, hosted by Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning, will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 9th at 8pm ET/7pm CT on ABC.

Sam Hunt became a first-time father this past May with the birth of his daughter, Lucy. He has said fatherhood has changed his life immensely in many ways.

“It has given me a whole new sense of purpose at home and out on the road,” says Sam. “I just have a new appreciation for life in general, I think. I leveled up overnight, like evolved 10 or 20 years overnight I felt like. It’s been great. I’ve been loving every second of it.”

Sam is currently making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “Water Under The Bridge.”

Mickey Guyton brings her celebrated vocals to her brand-new song “How You Love Someone” out today. Written by Lori McKenna, Jordyn Shellhart, and Ben West, and produced by Karen Kosowski, “How You Love Someone” poses the questions one asks when learning the intricacies and depths of another in those early stages of love.

“This song touched my heart in the best way,” shares Guyton. “My dear friend Jessy Wilson sent this to me, and it literally brought tears to my eyes when I heard it. Since becoming a mother, love has taken on an even greater meaning, so this song really resonated with me. I’m so happy I got to record it and support songwriters in Nashville.”

Listen to “How You Love Someone” HERE

Consequence of Sound notes, “Mickey Guyton often manages to capture all the things that make country music great.” With more music expected this year, “How You Love Someone” and the recently released “Somethin’ Bout You,” follow Guyton’s groundbreaking, GRAMMY-nominated debut album Remember Her Name. The critically acclaimed 16-song project was hailed by the Associated Press as “a powerful and personal debut,” while Guyton earned praise from NPR which noted, “[Guyton] raises the rafters and distills emotion with impeccable clarity. Her high notes thrill, her nuance in storytelling captivates. A star for our times claims her place.”

Last month, Guyton performed at Global Citizen Festival where after her own set, she joined Metallica for an epic rendition of “Nothing Else Matters.” She has also recently performed on NBC’s TODAY Citi Concert Series, The Jennifer Hudson Show and SHERRI, and it was also recently announced that Guyton will appear on Sesame Street for the season 53 premiere on Nov. 3.

About Mickey Guyton
Capitol Nashville’s Mickey Guyton “raises the rafters and distills emotion with impeccable clarity. Her high notes thrill, her nuance in storytelling captivates. A star for our times claims her place” (NPR). With more music expected this year, Guyton’s latest song “How You Love Someone” and the recently released “Somethin’ Bout You” follow her critically acclaimed debut album Remember Her Name.

With Remember Her Name, Mickey made history as the first Black artist to earn a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album. Title track “Remember Her Name” also landed Mickey with GRAMMY nominations for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. This follows Mickey’s groundbreaking GRAMMY nomination as the first-ever Black female solo artist to earn a nod in a country category (Best Country Solo Performance) for “Black Like Me” which she performed as part of the 2021 awards ceremony. “Black Like Me” was named one of the Top 10 all-genre songs of 2020 by NPR, Billboard and Associated Press.  She also co-hosted the 56^thAcademy of Country Music Awards on CBS along with Keith Urban and she was named CMT’s 2021 Breakout Artist of the Year. Audiences around the world watched Mickey deliver a powerful message of inclusivity and togetherness with her “awe-inspiring,” “soulful and soaring” national anthem at Super Bowl 56 in Los Angeles.

Mickey and her music have been featured on the cover of Billboard and profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times and Rolling Stone. Over the last year she has been featured in American Songwriter, BBC News, CBS This Morning, Ebony, Elle, Ellen, Entertainment Weekly, Essence, HITS, SHERRI, The Jennifer Hudson Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine’s Vulture, PEOPLE, Pollstar, TODAY Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, USA Today, Variety, VIBE, The View, Vogue, The Washington Post and many more.

Mickey Guyton released a new song, “How You Love Someone,” on Friday (October 7th). She says the tune “is such a special song to me, and I’m so excited to be able to share it.”

https://twitter.com/MickeyGuyton/status/1578236586348748800

Carrie Underwood talks about her new Denim & Rhinestones Tour, her rise to fame and her Top 20 videos on CMT’s Hot 20 Countdown this weekend — Saturday (October 8th) and Sunday (October 9th) at 9a ET/8a CT.

If this episode doesn’t have you Blown Away, we don’t know what will! @carrieunderwood joins for 3️⃣ hours where she reveals insider secrets to her live show, struggles following quick success & CONFESSES! Don’t miss her & her top 20 videos this Saturday & Sunday on @cmt! pic.twitter.com/dvL6vsXYHI

— CMT Hot 20 Countdown (@cmtHot20) October 6, 2022

All Carrie, All weekend! The #DenimAndRhinstones queen joins us for the entirety of #cmtHot20 where we’ll count down the 20 biggest music videos of her career! Can’t wait to see which @carrieunderwood hit tops the countdown? Neither can we! Tune in Sat & Sun mornings on @cmt! pic.twitter.com/xD69kqQdMV

— CMT Hot 20 Countdown (@cmtHot20) October 7, 2022

Travis Denning experienced basic training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina the U.S. Army ‘s main training center for Basic Combat Training. You can see the behind-the-scenes of his visit on Circle All Access television on Saturday, October 15th beginning at 9:30pm CT/10:30pm ET.

This Saturday you can watch one of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten to do. Experiencing basic training at Ft Jackson and truly understand the process and hard work was so insightful and a blessing. Watch it on @CircleAllAccess Saturday Oct 15 at 10:30/9:30ct @GoArmy @USArmy pic.twitter.com/yUDRJjslVY

— Travis Denning (@Travis_Denning) October 10, 2022

Award-winning Mercury Nashville duo Maddie & Tae brought their headlining CMT Next Women of Country Tour Presents: All Song No Static Tour to Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl Wednesday night (10/5), performing to a wall-to-wall crowd of fans, industry, and friends. The pair delivered a high-energy set filled with #1 hits (“Die From A Broken Heart,” “Girl In A Country Song”), fan-favorite tracks (“Bathroom Floor,” “Woman You Got”) best-loved album cuts, and new music from their recently-released eight-song collection, Through The Madness Vol. 2.

Moments before taking the stage, Maddie & Tae were surprised by UMG Nashville President Cindy Mabe with a plaque for their sophomore album, The Way It Feels, officially earning GOLD certification by the RIAA after surpassing sales of 500,000 units.

Photo Credit: Timothy Hiehle
Pictured (L-R): Haley McLemore (Otter Creek Entertainment), Royce Risser (EVP Promotion, UMG Nashville), Taylor Kerr, Cindy Mabe (President, UMG Nashville), Damon Moberly (SVP Promotion, Mercury Nashville), Maddie Font, JT Pratt (Otter Creek Entertainment)

The confident second half of the duo’s 1-2 punch, Through The Madness Vol. 2, is available everywhere now, offering a harmony-drenched song cycle and a clear-eyed measure of two young women coming into their own. The Baltimore Sun praises, “With 10 years in the industry, the dynamic duo has formed a bond that shines through their music,” while Holler. notes, “the duo succeeds when leaning into their own vulnerability, finding nuanced ways to further experiment with their dynamic vocals.”

Currently nominated for Duo of the Year at the upcoming 56^th Annual CMA Awards, Maddie & Tae will continue their headlining tour with tonight’s stop in Huntsville, AL (10/7). After hitting major markets coast to coast, they will wrap the tour with three back-to-back shows in the Midwest next weekend. To purchase tickets, visit https://www.maddieandtae.com/tour.

About Maddie & Tae:
Award-winning duo Maddie & Tae channel their unbreakable bond, honest songwriting and “some of the tightest harmonies on Music Row” (Rolling Stone) into their new collection of songs Through The Madness Vol. 2, out now. Together as longtime friends and music collaborators, Maddie Font and Taylor Kerr co-wrote each of the project’s tracks, as well as all 8 songs on Through The Madness Vol. 1, including their most recent single, “Woman You Got,” plus fan-favorite songs “Strangers” and “Madness.” The pair drew praise for their No. 1 debuting The Way It Feels album, including the Double Platinum-certified No. 1 hit, “Die From A Broken Heart.” With “Die From A Broken Heart” topping the country airplay charts, Maddie & Tae became the first and only female twosome with multiple No. 1s.

Maddie & Tae first broke out in 2013 with their brilliant counter to bro-country, the Platinum-selling smash, “Girl In A Country Song,” which took Country radio by storm, skyrocketing to the top of the charts and establishing them as only the third female duo in 70 years to top the Country Airplay charts. They recently took home Group/Duo Video of the Year (“Woman You Got”) at the CMT Music Awards, and were nominated a seventh time for Vocal Duo of the Year at the 55^th CMA Awards. They have earned trophies from the Radio Disney Music Awards and CMA Awards, along with multiple ACM, Billboard and CMT Award nominations. Maddie & Tae have received widespread praise from Associated Press, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, The Tennessean, The Washington Post, Glamour and others. The celebrated duo has toured with country music’s hottest stars including Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, and Brad Paisley. They are currently headlining the CMT Next Women of Country Tour Presents: All Song No Static Tour in 2022, hitting major markets coast-to-coast. For additional information, visit www.maddieandtae.com.

Tyler Hubbard released a new music video today for the song “Baby Gets Her Lovin’,” off his six-song project Dancin’ In The Country. The unofficial video for the song premiered exclusively on Facebook. The song, co-written by Hubbard, Jesse Frasure and Canaan Smith, and co-produced by Hubbard, Frasure and Jordan Schmidt, is a groovin’ love song that Hubbard describes as a “really fun song I can envision everyone line dancing to.”

The concept for the “Baby Gets Her Lovin’” video was Hubbard’s idea – swaggering roller-skating meets honky-tonk. Hubbard grew up roller-skating every weekend at the Sparkles Family Fun Center in Lawrenceville, GA. Skating at the neighborhood rink was such a big part of his youth, that Hubbard kept his high school roller skates, and he is wearing them in the video. Shot in Nashville, the video features not only Hubbard’s band, but also a mix of local talent, line-dancers, choreographer Lauren Williamson (“Dancin’ In The Country” video) and several skaters from Atlanta. Hubbard cast some of the local skaters himself, when he met them during a practice skate to prepare for the video shoot. He had such a fun time shooting “Baby Gets Her Lovin’” that Hubbard asked several of the dancers and skaters to be in the already released “Everybody Needs A Bar” video that was shot later that day.

“I wanted to shoot a video that was visually unique and different, and that really represented the feeling of the song, so we took it to the skating rink and mixed it up a bit,” says Hubbard. “There is a groove to the music where I could see people skating and line dancing and just really moving with fluidity to the song. We had a big party at the skating rink and had a great time shooting the video. It was special to me too, because I grew up going to the skating rink as a kid – I actually skated all the way through high school. So, it was nostalgic for me to go back to a skating rink, shoot a music video and bring back some of the elements of my childhood that I loved. It also gave me a chance to dust off my skates, which was something I hadn’t done in a while.”

Tyler Hubbard’s first six-song project, Dancin’ In The Country debuted with over 10,000 SPS units (sales plus streaming) making it the second best-selling country EP debut of the year. Dancin’ In The Country also debuted at No.1 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, No. 6 on the Current Country Albums sales chart, and No. 107 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Billboard says of the debut collection, “The singer-songwriter has offered a promising collection of six tracks on Dancin’ In The Country, which make good use of his pliable voice and storytelling panache by supporting them with full-bodied production.” Hubbard’s first single as a solo artist, “5 Foot 9,” already has 159M LTD streams and currently sits at No. 4 at country radio. The song also quickly moved inside the Top 50 on the streaming chart in its first four weeks and currently sits at No. 6 on the Country Streaming Chart. Hubbard’s debut solo album will be released on January 27, 2023.

Hubbard is currently on tour on Keith Urban’s “THE SPEED OF NOW WORLD TOUR.” For information on where to get tickets go to www.tylerhubbardofficial.com.

Keith Urban takes his SPEED OF NOW WORLD TOUR to Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Friday (October 7th) followed by a show in Atlanta on Saturday (October 8th). He says he loves performing live for fans and says his job as a performer is to create a space for people to shut out the world.

“I love what I get to do, that’s like No. 1, that’s the baseline. I’m incredibly grateful for it,” says Keith. “As fun and celebratory as I try and make the experience, I also take my job really seriously, as far as my job is to create almost a utopian existence for everybody that’s come so that they can shut out everything in their life and live in this alternate reality for a good few hours and feel amazing, energized, inspired, connected and to belong to something and to be a part of something. That’s really it. That’s my job.”

Tyler Hubbard and Ingrid Andress are also on the tour, which wraps in the States on November 5th in St. Paul, Minnesota. Keith will then head Down Under in December for a tour in Australia wrapping before the Christmas holidays.

Keith is currently making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “Brown Eyes Baby.”

Jordan Davis and his wife Kristen have already started getting their two young children ready for Halloween. In fact, they’re going shopping today (October 6th) for costumes for Eloise (3 years old) and Locklan (1 year old).

“We actually just figured out Eloise’s Halloween costume, because we’re going Halloween shopping this afternoon,” says Jordan. “So, she’s probably going to pick out the same exact thing as she did last year. She’s heavy into PAW Patrol, so she’s either going to be Skye or Rubble. Locklan, he’s still fighting the walking thing, so he’s crawling everywhere. And I actually found a spider suit for him, where he has like all these legs and he truly is going to look like a spider crawling on the ground. So, those are our two (laughs), we’re gonna have a PAW Patrol and we’re gonna have a spider this Halloween.”

Jordan is currently making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “What My World Spins Around.”

Darius Rucker, along with Lyle Lovett, are joining Reba McEntire on the ABC-TV hit, Big Sky: Deadly Trails this season.

Darius will play the character of “Possum,” and according to the character synopsis, he will portray “a hired gun who works at night like his nocturnal namesake.” Lyle will play his partner “Tex,” described as a “well-mannered cowboy and tracking specialist with a hidden menacing side.”

Reba stars in the show alongside her real-life boyfriend, actor Rex Linn (CSI Miami; Better Call Saul). The pair play a husband-wife duo, who own a glamping business called “Sunny Day Excursions.” “Sunny” and “Buck” are smack dab in the middle of the missing persons-murder-mystery. The show centers around Sheriff Beau Arlen, portrayed by Jensen Ackles (Supernatural, The Boys), private detective Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury–Game Night, Tut, Under the Dome), undersheriff Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick-Bones, Vikings) as they try to maintain law and order in Helena, Montana.

Big Sky airs on Thursdays at 9pm CT/10pm ET on ABC.