“On the opening night of her first arena tour, the country-pop star offered a mix of catharsis and humor as she brought her latest album to life.”
Billboard

 “Kacey Musgraves burns bright in emotional, visual St. Paul tour opener”
Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Musgraves turned in a show that felt truly special… she’s going to settle in just fine as a newly crowned arena performer.”
Twin Cities Pioneer Press

Six-time GRAMMY Award-winning, singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves embarks on her sold-out North American tour, “star-crossed: unveiled,” promoted by AEG Presents. Kicking off last night in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the shows see Kacey performing selections from her critically acclaimed album star-crossed for the first time and marks her first-ever triumphant arena tour across America. With stops including New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden, Dallas’ American Airlines Center in her native state of Texas, and Bridgestone Arena in her current home of Nashville, Kacey ends the tour on a high note at LA’s famed Crypto.com Arena. The shows feature support artists King Princess and MUNA; more information on tickets is available HERE.

Musgraves’ fourth studio album star-crossed was hailed as one of 2021’s best albums by the likes of Billboard, Stereogum, Complex, Uproxx and People Magazine. Upon its release, USA Today raved “the genre-defying singer is back with an even more sonically adventurous new effort,” The New York Times described star-crossed as “the psychological hangover to Golden Hour,” and Pitchfork noted “she sounds alternately vulnerable and triumphant.”

Once again nominated for two GRAMMY-Awards including Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for “Camera Roll” from star-crossed, Musgraves continues to move audiences with her authentic, confessional, and poignant songwriting. Her emotional performance of “Camera Roll” opened the season of Saturday Night Live; more recently, Kacey made a special appearance on Sesame Street singing “All The Colors of the World” and graced the cover of V Magazine. This past weekend she made a memorable appearance on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! 

“star-crossed: unveiled,” is a welcome and celebratory return to live music and Kacey’s long-awaited return to the stage following her groundbreaking album Golden Hour, and subsequent Oh, What A World: Tour that spanned over two years. The live dates included an arena tour with Harry Styles and headlining venues including New York’s Radio City Music Hall, as well as festivals including Coachella, Stagecoach, Fuji Rocks Festival, Global Citizen Festival, Austin City Limits, Outside Lands, Newport Folk Festival, Bonnaroo, Governor’s Ball, Farm Aid, Lollapalooza and more.

Country music star Chris Stapleton gets candid with 60 Minutes about songwriting. 

“You can’t possibly know how everybody’s gonna feel about a song that you write. That’s impossible to know… You have to take it to the people. I trust people.” 

"You can't possibly know how everybody's gonna feel about a song that you write… You have to take it to the people."

Country music star Chris Stapleton gets candid with 60 Minutes about songwriting. See the interview, Sunday. https://t.co/mEN4CWeXMW pic.twitter.com/bR4Zr4oWfZ

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) January 13, 2022

Chris is currently making his way to the top of the country charts with “You Should Probably Leave” from his latest album, Starting Over.

See the interview this Sunday (January 16th) on CBS.

http://60Minutes.com

32 Bridge Entertainment / EMI Records Nashville recording artist Jon Langston will make his Grand Ole Opry debut on February 22nd. Watch him surprise his band and crew with the bucket-list announcement here. Tickets are available here.

“The Opry is such a sacred place and stands for everything country music is,” shares Langston. “I’m honored to be able to step into that circle, just like my heroes have before me.”

Langston is currently on the road for his ALL GOOD OUT HERE TOUR, with home-state stops this weekend in Tifton, GA (1/21) and Franklin, GA (1/22). For a full list of upcoming tour dates and ticket information, visit http://www.jonlangston.com/tour/.

New music is on the horizon for Langston, following recent releases “Try Missing You” and “When You’re Lonely”. The heartwarming “Try Missing You” video is out now, with Sounds Like Nashville advising, “warning: this song will make you emotional.” Also stacking acclaim, “When You’re Lonely” is praised by Billboard for its “extra edge, thanks to his slightly gritty vocal,” while MusicRow notes the “toe-tapping country rocker rolls along righteously.”

About Jon Langston:
Jon Langston grew up in Loganville, GA, listening to music by his heroes Alan Jackson and the Eagles. Earning a Division 1 college football scholarship, Langston always thought football would a part of his life, but after his sixth concussion left him blind for fifteen minutes, his football career ended abruptly. He picked up his guitar – untouched since eighth grade – and re-taught himself how to play. Performing at open mic nights and honing his songwriting led to the 2013 release of self-penned, “Forever Girl,” the first song he ever wrote. That release kicked off his music career, culminating in sold out shows across the country and over 500 million career streams. Once a fan attending Luke Bryan’s Farm Tour in Athens, GA, Langston experienced a full circle moment by joining Bryan on the Farm Tour in 2017 and 2018, and again as support on his Sunset Repeat Tour in 2019. Langston signed a publishing deal with Sony ATV, management with KP Entertainment, and is the first artist signed under Bryan’s label 32 Bridge Entertainment with EMI Records Nashville. He released his anticipated EP Now You Know in 2019, featuring six original songs he co-wrote. Langston’s debut major label single, “When It Comes To Loving You” hit No. 1 on the all-genre iTunes Chart and his single “Now You Know” reached the Top 30 on the country radio airplay charts. His recent releases “Happy Ever After,” “Try Missing You” and “When You’re Lonely” highlight his adept songwriting and classic country influences. Catch Langston out on the road for his headlining ALL GOOD OUT HERE TOUR.

Country star, Jordan Davis, will make his debut appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this Friday (January 14th). Davis will mark his official debut with a performance of his Platinum-Certified hit single, “Buy Dirt.” Check local listings for air dates and times.

Jordan is excited about playing the show for the first time. “You know, that’s one of those calls that you want, I mean…you know what Fallon has done for so many musicians, the spotlight that he’s able to shine on songs and up-and-coming talent,” he says. “So, just to really be honest with you, to have my name in that running is pretty crazy, much less to get the call to come and do it. So, you know I’m excited. My band’s excited. I’m grateful for the opportunity and looking forward to getting up and playing.”

Featuring country superstar Luke Bryan, “Buy Dirt” is the vulnerable title track and centerpiece of Davis’ powerful Buy Dirt EP. “Buy Dirt” is Davis’ fastest moving single to date, currently No. 4 and climbing on the country radio charts. Amassing more than 250 million streams worldwide, the song has been inside the Top 200 country streaming chart all 32 weeks since release and inside the Top 5 for 14 weeks. “Buy Dirt” received a nomination for Musical Event of the Year on the 55^th Annual CMA Awards, Davis’ first CMA nomination of his career.

About Jordan Davis
MCA Nashville’s Jordan Davis has been named an “Artist to Watch” by Billboard, Rolling Stone, CMT, Pandora, Shazam, Amazon Music, Sounds Like Nashville, The Tennessean, SiriusXM, Whiskey Riff, and more. A Native of Shreveport, Louisiana, Davis graduated from LSU and briefly pursued the path of his degree working as an environmental consultant; however, his passion for music and songwriting eventually compelled him to move to Nashville in the summer of 2012. In 2018, Davis released his Gold-certified debut album, Home State, which features his three consecutive No. 1 hits: Platinum-Certified “Slow Dance In A Parking Lot,” the Double Platinum-Certified “Singles You Up” and Platinum-Certified “Take It From Me.” In 2019 Davis won Best New Country Artist at the iHeart Radio Music Awards and was a two-time nominee for ACM New Male Artist of the Year. He was also named Billboard’s Top New Country Artist of 2018 as well as Country Aircheck/Mediabase’s Most Heard New Artist of 2018. Davis has since accumulated over 2 billion streams worldwide. The hitmaker released a six-song, self-titled EP featuring a collaboration with pop superstar Julia Michaels titled, “Cool Anymore.” In May 2021, Davis released his new eight song EP, Buy Dirt. Davis co-wrote every song on the EP except for the John Prine inspired “Blow Up Your TV,” who Davis cites as one of his most important influences on his life and music. Davis has previously toured with the likes of Kane Brown, Rascal Flatts, Jake Owen, Kip Moore, Brett Young and Old Dominion.

Brothers Osborne will appear on an upcoming episode of ABC’s Nightline (weeknights at 12:35am ET).

Jon Langston will makes his Grand Ole Opry debut on February 22nd.

What rhymes with 2/22/22..
My @opry debut pic.twitter.com/dDgj3IoarV

— Jon Langston (@JonTLangston) January 19, 2022

Dierks Bentley is among the new inductees for the 2021 Walk of Fame Class. The ceremony is scheduled to take place April 5th at the Walk of Fame Park in downtown Nashville beginning at 2pm CT. Connie Smith, Bobby Bare and Keb’ Mo’ will also be inducted. Inductees “are recognized for their significant contributions to preserving the musical heritage of Nashville and for contributing to the world through song.”

Five-time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan exclusively premiered the new music video for his smash hit “Up” with Facebook today. The video was shot by Shaun Silva, a director whom Luke has worked with multiple times in the past including videos for “All My Friends Say,” “Country Girl Shake It For Me,” “I Don’t Want This Night To End,” “Crash My Party” and more. Written by Jeremy Bussey, Taylor Phillips, and Bobby Pinson “Up” is the sixth single from Luke’s #1 debuting BORN HERE LIVE HERE DIE HERE album that already contains five consecutive #1 singles.   Watch the “Up” video HERE.

The video is set in a barn where a small-town gathering is taking place. The crowd is watching film footage, scenes of weddings, homecomings, and football games. In in the same barn at a different time, Luke performs the song and is watching his own movie. Shaun (director) captured Luke viewing his film for the first time, so his reactions are real and authentic. His footage includes personal videos of his family while he was growing up as well as new footage shot in recent months, fishing with his dad, hunting with his two sons, holding his kids for the very first time. At the close of the video the people of the town are seen lighting lanterns to be lifted-up and released to the heavens.

“When I saw the footage of my boys with both their grandfathers and then the closeup clip of my brother basically looking at me it was so overwhelming,” said Luke. “I could not be prouder, not only of the message of this song, but also how this video turned out.  I hope everyone enjoys watching it as much as I have.”

Music Row claims “Up” is “Beautifully produced, with airy, echoey space around Luke’s vocal. The melodic song holds snapshots of simple country living. Faith is the key. An endearing single with a new sonic direction for this superstar.” “Up” made its debut on the charts as the ‘most added’ song at country radio and is one of Luke’s fastest rising singles.

About Luke Bryan
Since his debut, Bryan has garnered 27 No. 1 hits and has more RIAA certified digital singles than any other Country artist with 68.5 million. His worldwide global streams are 17.2 billion and he has sold nearly 13 million albums. His headline concert tours have played sold-out shows for 12 million fans inclusive of 36 stadium concerts, Farm Tours, Spring Break shows, and seven sold-out ‘Crash My Playa’ destination concert events. Bryan has won over 50 major music awards including five wins as Entertainer of the Year. His third and most recent Entertainer win was awarded by the Academy of Country Music in 2021. Additional awards include six recognitions as a CMT Artist of the Year, NSAI Artist/Songwriter of the Year, the first-ever recipient of the ACM Album of the Decade Award for Crash My Party, seven CMT Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, and four American Music Awards—as well as being named Billboard’s Top Country Artist of the 2010s, the Most Heard Artist of the Decade by Country Aircheck, and the Artist Humanitarian Recipient by the Country Radio Broadcasters last year. Also in 2021, IMDbTV, Amazon’s premium free streaming service, began airing his original five-part docuseries “Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary.”

This February, Bryan is set to return as a celebrity judge for a fifth season, alongside Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, on ABC’s “American Idol.”

Visit www.LukeBryan.com or follow Luke on Twitter @LukeBryanOnline, Instagram and Facebook.

Brothers Osborne are getting ready to release the deluxe edition of their GRAMMY-nominated album Skeletons this Friday (January 21st). Scoring a nod for Best Country Album at the upcoming 64^th GRAMMY Awards, the critically acclaimed project includes the new tracks “Headstone,” “Midnight Rider’s Prayer,” and “Younger Me.” Pre-order Brothers Osborne’s Skeletons Deluxe HERE.

“Headstone” is produced by Jay Joyce while “Midnight Rider’s Prayer” was recorded at John Osborne’s home studio and co-produced by the duo and, with Willie Nelson’s personal blessing, uses elements of “On the Road Again.” “Younger Me,” also currently GRAMMY-nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, rounds out the Skeletons Deluxe track list.

John Osborne says “Midnight Rider’s Prayer” almost made their previous album, but it didn’t quite fit the duo’s second album. “We almost put this on our previous album Port Saint Joe, but it didn’t quite fit at the time, so we decided to retool to make it sound more like Brothers Osborne sounds these days,” he says. “But we wrote the song back when we were in a van and a trailer and we made this song really dark and minor, and we ended up using the chorus from Willie Nelson’s ‘On The Road Again’ with Willie’s blessing. And it’s just cool. I mean it gives a good window as to lyrically where we came from, but sonically where we’re at today.”

As for the song “Headstone,” the guys got a little “wild and crazy” after partaking of a gift from one of their bandmembers. “We were all set up and ready to play and we decided to take some microdosing of magic mushrooms, which normally you don’t feel anything,” John recalls. “Well, this particular batch that we got from our bass player should have come with a warning because it was way, way stronger than any of us predicted. So, that’s why the song ended up being five minutes of trippy guitar solos (laughs) and changing time signatures and it got really, really wild and crazy. After listening back the next day we thought, ‘Okay, maybe we need to wait on this song for a little while.’ But you know, after these past two years of the pandemic, quarantining, the state of the world, I think that we could all use a little trip right about now.”

Named to multiple end of year “best of” lists, including the all-genre Rolling Stone Best Songs of the Year and Billboard’s 100 Best Songs of 2021, “Younger Me” also topped Billboard’s Best Country Songs of 2021 list. The outlet declares, “The song serves as a beacon of hope for anyone whose early years are filled with doubt, fear, confusion, and just feeling different from those around them.”

The reigning CMA Vocal Duo of the Year performed “Younger Me” at this year’s CMA Awards and TJ prefaced the performance by sharing, “for many years I would watch this show, year after year, and I always thought how incredible it’d be and I’d dream of being here on this stage, and there were so many things that were so many hurdles for me. And I always truthfully felt like it would never be possible because of my sexuality to be here.” Watch their performance of “Younger Me” here.

Skeletons Deluxe Track List:

1. Lighten Up (John Osborne, TJ Osborne, Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk)
2. All Night (John Osborne, TJ Osborne and Andrew DeRoberts)
3. All the Good Ones Are (TJ Osborne, Lee Miller and Craig Wiseman)
4. I’m Not for Everyone (John Osborne, TJ Osborne, Luke Dick and Natalie Hemby)
5. Skeletons (John Osborne, TJ Osborne and Andrew DeRoberts)
6. Back On The Bottle (John Osborne, TJ Osborne and Hayes Carll)
7. High Note (John Osborne, TJ Osborne, Casey Beathard and Dustin Christensen)
8. Muskrat Greene (John Osborne)
9. Dead Man’s Curve (John Osborne, TJ Osborne and Lee Miller)
10. Make It a Good One (John Osborne, TJ Osborne and Stephen Wilson Jr.)
11. Hatin’ Somebody (John Osborne, TJ Osborne and Casey Beathard)
12. Old Man’s Boots (John Osborne)
13. Younger Me (John Osborne, TJ Osborne, Kendell Marvel)
14. Headstone (John Osborne, TJ Osborne, Kendell Marvel)
15. Midnight Rider’s Prayer (John Osborne, TJ Osborne, Paul Moak, Willie Nelson)

The guys are making their way up the country charts with their latest single, “I’m Not For Everyone.”

As a father of two young children — two-year-old Eloise and four-month-old Locklan — Jordan Davis had the best time this past Christmas.

“This was Locklan’s first Christmas. Eloise is a little more tuned-in to it, so it really is, there’s no better day of the year than that,” says Jordan. “I think she loves to open presents, and so she opened everybody’s presents, whether it was for her, for my mother-in-law, for mom, it didn’t matter. Eloise was going to help open it. She didn’t care what was in it. She just wanted to rip the paper off. And to be honest with you, that was the coolest thing of, that was my favorite part of this holiday season was just seeing the joy she had for ripping off wrapping paper.”

He said after the second half of 2021, it was good just to spend some downtime with family. “Running so wide open as we did towards the tail-end of 2021 – we played a lot of shows in a small amount of time – so being able to have that time just with family and to slow down, we needed it and I hated to see it go, but I’m glad to know that they had fun.”

Jordan is currently making his way to the top of the country charts with his smash hit, “Buy Dirt,” featuring Luke Bryan.

The Josh Turner Scholarship Fund For The Arts is currently accepting scholarship applications through February 1st, 2022. Established by Turner and his wife Jennifer in 2008, those eligible to apply must be high school seniors from South Carolina wishing to enter the music business or undertake a career in the arts. The scholarship is intended to support students primarily from rural areas, and applicants must be focusing on a career that will introduce them to various opportunities in the music business or some discipline of the arts.

Growing up in rural South Carolina, Turner attended a small school and did not have the benefit of a comprehensive arts program at his high school.  As a result, he felt behind his fellow students upon entering Belmont University as Commercial Vocal Performance major. “I had never been taught music theory or heard about ear training.  It was like a whole new language for me and I felt lost,” shares Turner.  “There were only 75 people in my graduating class, and that translated into ‘not a lot of opportunities’ when it came to music.  We had academic and sports programs, but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, a chorus the next, but nothing ever lasted.” Turner’s experience at Nashville’s Belmont University, alongside his wife Jennifer’s love of the arts (also a Belmont music major), inspired the couple to start a scholarship fund that would jump-start high school students into a future in the music business or the arts.

The Josh Turner Scholarship Fund For The Arts supports students planning a career that will introduce them to various opportunities in the music business, from performing, writing, or publishing, to managing or producing, or some discipline of the arts, such as graphic design, photography, or painting to name a few. “The requirement to apply for the fund is that the student should be interested in pursuing a job that is directly associated with the music industry or the arts. You don’t have to be a singer or songwriter, so that makes the possibilities endless,” Turner says.

The application can be found at https://www.cfmt.org/grants-scholarships/.

About Josh Turner
With his deep bass voice, Turner has sold more than six million records, reached 3.7 billion global streams, and has become a favorite and unforgettable hitmaker on country radio. With timeless songs like “Long Black Train” and “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” Turner’s five No. 1 singles include “Your Man,” of which the official music video recently surpassed 100 million views.  This comes on the heels of the release of Your Man Deluxe Edition, celebrating 15 years of Turner’s iconic double Platinum-selling album, as well as the release of the mini documentary “Josh Turner Your Man 15^th Anniversary” (Mini Doc). The Double-Platinum-selling “Would You Go With Me,” featured on Your Man Deluxe Edition, recently experienced a viral surge across TikTok leading to a jump in streaming which landed the classic country tune on Spotify’s US Viral 50 along with Spotify Viral charts in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Posting more than 3.7M weekly streams, “Would You Go With Me” moved inside the Top 35 on the Country streaming chart and ranked HOT on Amazon Music’s Voice Index. A native of South Carolina, Turner has received six Inspirational Country Music Awards, and has been nominated for two GRAMMY Awards, five CMA Awards, two ACM Awards, one CMT Award, and seven ACA Awards. To support music and arts education, he created The Josh Turner ScholarshipFund for the Arts to help students pursue their studies in these fields.  Turner and his wife Jennifer, whom he met as a student at Nashville’s Belmont University, have four sons. For more information, please visit www.joshturner.com

Luke Bryan will release the official music video for his latest single, “Up,” on Thursday (January 13th) at noon CT on Facebook.

Tomorrow at 12pm CT only on @FacebookWatch. #UP pic.twitter.com/8jNNiesGtB

— Luke Bryan (@lukebryan) January 12, 2022

The 20th season of American Idol, featuring judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, as well as host Ryan Seacrest, is set to premiere February 27th at 8pm ET/7pm CT on ABC.

This all-star team can't WAIT to meet #TheNextIdol! ✨Season 20✨ premieres Feb. 27 at 8/7c on ABC! 🌟 @lionelrichie @lukebryan @katyperry @ryanseacrest pic.twitter.com/nHAqtxZWBm

— American Idol (@AmericanIdol) January 11, 2022

Keith Urban returns to The Voice Australia for a first for the show — a one-week special. The Voice Generations will air from January 31st for a blockbuster one-week airing and feature coaches Keith, Rita Ora, Guy Sebastian and Jessica Mauboy for the show which has representatives from each generation performing together.

Mark your calendars! A one-week-only special event, #TheVoiceAU Generations premieres Monday January 31 on @channel7 🎤 pic.twitter.com/okKqEVkpui

— The Voice Australia (@TheVoiceAU) January 12, 2022

See the nation’s greatest voices from each generation come together for ONE blockbuster week 🎤👨‍👩‍👧‍👧

The Voice Generations – a global-first special event – coming to @Channel7 and @7plus in 2022. #TheVoiceAU pic.twitter.com/xah3NEhWv6

— The Voice Australia (@TheVoiceAU) December 17, 2021

Jordan Davis joins his buddies Luke Bryan and Darius Rucker on the Beach Stage at the annual Crash My Playa event on January 22nd.  I’m pretty darn sure Jordan will get Luke to help him sing his latest smash hit and their duet, “Buy Dirt.”

Pumped to play with @lukebryan and @dariusrucker at @crashmyplaya for a special Luke & Friends performance on the 22nd…see y’all soon!https://t.co/89TPJ05OaJ pic.twitter.com/QfDkv0O3ow

— Jordan Davis Music (@JordanCWDavis) January 11, 2022