There’s a new installment of “Home State Stories” with Jordan Davis. In the latest episode, he and his dad reminisce over the bunk beds he shared with his brother, singer-songwriter Jacob Davis, the Ninja Turtle bicycle he rode to school and his childhood nickname, “Stick Figure,” which was given to him because he was so thin growing up.

Jordan is currently riding his way up the country charts with his latest song, “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot.” It’s the follow-up to his recent chart-topper “Take It From Me,” which he co-wrote with his brother Jacob and songwriter Jason Gantt.

Jordan has a few fair and festival dates before heading back out with Rascal Flatts August 22nd in Mansfield, Massachusetts. For more information on his tour dates, go to jordandavisofficial.com.

Once, Twice, Three Times a…Judge! Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, host Ryan Seacrest will return for their third season of American Idol together on ABC. Radio host Bobby Bones returns as mentor to the contestants. Auditions for the upcoming season have been taking place since July 23^rd, and the show will debut sometime next Spring.

Last year, Luke was excited to return to the show for the second season, because he knew what to expect.

“I’m more excited this year because I know what to expect. I’m not going to be scared the whole time. The fact that me and Lionel and Katy and Ryan we have one season under our belt; we know how much we can have fun with one another. We know how serious the contestants take it. We’re excited. I mean, I know we’re more excited than last year, just because we know what to expect, and it’s gonna be a lot of surprises and a lot of fun.”

The Georgia native and four-time Entertainer of the Year says he loves being a judge on the show and helping make dreams come true. “We love the role – me and Katy and Lionel and Ryan – we’re having a great time doing this. If we weren’t having a good time, it would change the whole dynamic. To be able to facilitate these kids’ dreams is very special.”

Luke, who is closing in on Top 5 with his latest smash “Knockin’ Boots,” takes his Sunset Repeat Tour to Bangor, Maine on Thursday (August 8th).

The trio is getting back together! Ready for another season of laughs, tears and wigs flying on @AmericanIdol. Get out there and audition! You never know, #TheNextIdol could be you… pic.twitter.com/TNwHZNrcRV

— Luke Bryan (@lukebryan) August 5, 2019

New season, let’s go! So excited to be heading back to @AmericanIdol along side @KatyPerry & @LukeBryanOnline! Time to find another superstar! 🌟#TheNextIdol pic.twitter.com/DDFw9559Fx

— Lionel Richie (@LionelRichie) August 5, 2019

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Travis Denning is a fan of all types of music, and he feels all of the different musical influences can be found in his music, especially his latest song, “After a Few.”

“I’m a songwriter at heart. I love telling stories. I try to be as goofy and funny as possible at all points in my life, but really, I’m a huge lover of music,” says Travis. “That’s probably the first thing that I ever fell in love with was loving all kinds of music. For ‘After a Few,’ I hear my love for the Allman Brothers Band, I hear my love for AC/DC and Motorhead, and then I hear my love for Halsey and Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande and all this pop and stuff and just take all that and put it in one song to where it said I still wanna tell you a story, I still want to get on a tailgate and pick up my guitar and be able sell you a song, but I love to play guitar. Here’s my guitar playing, and I was influenced by all this kind of music, here’s this melody that’s probably different. For me, ‘After a Few’ is probably more indicative of what I want to bring to the table throughout my career.”

Some of his influences include the Allman Brothers, AC/DC, Stevie Wonder, Motorhead and the Marshall Tucker Band.

Travis will take his guitar and his songs to Bristol, Tennessee when he performs at the Bristol Motor Speedway August 17th.

Keith Urban has released a new video for his latest hit, “We Were.” The clip was filmed in one-take by a single camera and follows Keith as he moves from one recording studio to another and another while performing the song.

Keith takes his show to Endicott, New York on August 16th.

On Friday, Jon Pardi premiered the highly-anticipated music video for the title-track off of his upcoming album, Heartache Medication, out September 27th and available for pre-order (HERE). Directed by Carlos Ruiz, the new music video premiered officially with YouTube Music, and finds the ACM and CMA winning singer/songwriter quickly receiving an uplifting and much-needed pick-me-up after catching a glimpse of a remedy that’s smiling back at him from the dancefloor. Pardi dusts off his boots and puts them to work on an all-out choreographed line dance, set to a backdrop of kaleidoscope lights. People.com revealed an exclusive teaser video in advance (HERE).

“This is the first time we ever used choreography. We ended up doing practices in my barn at home and Summer and I had such a great time. It was out of my comfort zone, but I love how it came out. I loved being able to dance together, and I think it’s just one of the videos where you just feel good when you watch it,” said Pardi.

Pardi is featured as a co-writer on several of the songs off his forthcoming album Heartache Medication, and returns as a producer for the third time (California Sunrise, Write You A Song). Heartache Medication pairs him again with California Sunrise co-producer Bart Butler, and with Ryan Gore joining as first-time co-producer.

Pardi’s highly-anticipated headlining Heartache Medication Tour with opening artist Riley Green kicks off with two back-to-back, sold out shows at the historic Ryman Auditorium on Oct. 1st and 2nd. Pre-order the album Heartache Medication (HERE). For more information and to purchase tickets to the upcoming tour dates, visit www.jonpardi.com.

“One of country’s most promising newcomers” (Variety), Capitol Records Nashville’s Caylee Hammack has been tapped as the only country artist set to perform at Rolling Stone’s ninth annual Rolling Stone Live: Chicago Party Saturday for Lollapolooza weekend. Already noticed for “her wildly dysfunctional, highly hysterical, ultimately loving ‘Family Tree’” that “brings a gospel flavor to Dixie Chicks’ freewheeling take on life at the fringes” (HITS Daily Double), the bill includes Pink Sweat$, Harry Hudson and Jade Bird tomorrow as well as Hammack, Japanese Breakfast, Normani and Hayley Kiyoko for today’s “Morning Sessions” from the not-yet-opened Dance Studio. For more information, visit https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/9th-annual-rolling-stone-live-chicago-party-lollapalooza-863091/

Hammack’s commanding stage presence compliments the songwriter and producer’s all-in approach to music, evident in her current single “Family Tree.” The “exultant” (CMT) track debuted as the most-added single at Country radio by a female artist in over three years and has instantly caught the attention of headliners Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert, whom she will hit the road with this summer between sets at some of country music’s biggest festivals including Watershed Music Festival, Seven Peaks Music Festival and more. Fans can watch new performances of “Family Tree” and “Just Friends,” which has her “sounding like the second coming of Dolly before she goes grunge” (Variety) in newly released VEVO acoustic Live Performances HERE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kmIm4CJshc) and HERE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4xUmaCXKU).

Caylee is making her way up the charts with her song, “Family Tree.”

While Dierks Bentley performed on the Today Show this week, he found himself the proud owner of a new puppy. The father of three children and two furbabies already, Dierks was part of a segment about shelter dogs. After peering into the sweet brown eyes of the border collie mix named “Goose” and lovingly holding him and petting him, Dierks couldn’t resist and decided to adopt him.

“I’ve been texting back-and-forth with my wife and kids,” he said during a conversation with Jenna Bush Hager and Willie Geist, while the dog’s adoption paperwork was being taken care of. “They really want a third dog. My wife for her birthday said, ‘All I want is a third dog.'”

“I feel a connection,” he explained. “I feel it’s meant to be.”

The musician said that his three children were already “jumping up and down” with excitement, and so they have decided to fly to Jones Beach for Dierks’ next show to meet the new member of the Bentley family.

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Goose seemed to pick up on the road life pretty quickly, even donning his outfit for Dierks’ ’90s cover band, Hot Country Knights.

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Dierks is “Living” his best life.

At 19, Caylee Hammack got a phone call out of the blue from Luke Bryan, who’d heard her music and urged her to leave small-town Georgia behind. You don’t argue with advice like that, so she threw her clothes in some trash bags and headed to Nashville. So after proving herself in Music City’s Lower Broadway bars by covering everyone from Miranda Lambert to Tom Petty, she started getting noticed. Now, with songs like her single, “Family Tree,” and “Just Friends,”  she’s really getting noticed. VEVO invited her in for some stripped-down performances of a couple of her songs, including “Family Tree.” Check it out below.

Jordan Davis celebrated the chart-topping success of his smash hit, “Take It From Me,” along with co-writers Jason Gantt and his brother Jacob Davis during a party in Nashville earlier this week.

It was a close call, but Jordan and his team were going to celebrate the song’s achievement regardless if it topped the charts or not. It meant the world to him to be able to write a song with his brother and take it to No. 1. The two were actually able to celebrate together when finding each other in Charleston the day hit the top of the charts.

“I knew this was going to be a close call. To be honest with you, I really thought that we were going to stop at No. 2,” says Jordan. “And I remember being in contact with Jacob throughout the night. I actually went to a hotel, and I was staying there by myself because I was flying to Charleston, and I already promised my wife, ‘Hey, you know what? Whatever is gonna happen, we are gonna celebrate this song. It’s been an amazing run. My team did an amazing job in fighting for this song. They knew how special it was for me.’ I started drinking. I remember I texted Jason and was like, ‘Hey man. We got it.’ I called Jake (Jacob), and he was ‘bout half-way asleep. (JACOB: ‘No, I was asleep.’) Well, he was asleep. I woke him up and told him. The next morning, I flew to Charleston and we were actually able to go to breakfast before he flew out of Charleston and I landed. We were actually able to go to breakfast and celebrate it.”

Celebrated “Take It From Me” with the people who made it happen and a lot of family…It was a day I’ll never forget, thank y’all for making this song very special to not just Paul and Jason, but the entire Davis Family 🙏 pic.twitter.com/QnGyyIszVx

— Jordan Davis Music (@JordanCWDavis) July 31, 2019

Jordan is currently climbing the country charts with his latest song, “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot.”

Keith Urban is releasing an acoustic version of his current hit, “We Were,” on Friday (August 2nd).

#WeWere Acoustic • 8.2.19 pic.twitter.com/vrgWco7ES3

— Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) July 31, 2019

Jon Pardi will release the video for his latest hit, “Heartache Medication,” on Friday (August 2nd).

Had a ton of fun making the #HeartacheMedication music video!
Releasing it out into the world on Friday. https://t.co/uzjW0HlWkR pic.twitter.com/VxKoFHm6mh

— Jon Pardi (@JonPardi) July 30, 2019

Clare Dunn has released an acoustic version of “My Love.”

Mickey Guyton recently threw out the first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game…and she made it all the way to home plate.

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She also performed her song “Sister” prior to the game.