• ERIC CHURCH SAYS “WE WERE” FOUND THE PERFECT HOME WITH KEITH URBAN.

    You’ve probably heard the story of how Keith Urban recorded his latest hit, “We Were,” without knowing his buddy Eric Church actually co-wrote the song. Eric, who penned the song with Ryan Tyndell and Jeff Hyde, didn’t realize just how perfect the song was for his pal until after Keith recorded it.

    “That was the coolest thing for me is I didn’t send Keith the song and say, ‘Here’s a song I wrote.’ He found it, and honestly, it fits him more than it fits me. There’s a line in there about ‘two heartbeats in the moonlight/leather jackets on a back of a Harley.’ I don’t ride a Harley. That’s a line, call it ‘poetic license.’ That’s where it came from. He and Nicole used to do that when they first started dating, and they were touring, they would jump on his Harley and they would put on their leather jackets and they’d go ride up in the countryside before the show. I did not know that until after he cut that song,” says Eric. “I truly believe songs find the path that they’re supposed to find, and that one was supposed to be with him.”

    Eric is poised to enter the top of the country charts with his own single, “Some of It.”

    Audio / Eric Church says "We Were" is the perfect song for Keith Urban.

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    Eric Church (We Were-Keith) OC: …becomes a hit.
    “That was the coolest thing for me is I didn’t send Keith the song and say, ‘Here’s a song I wrote.’ He found it, and honestly, it fits him more than it fits me. There’s a line in there about “two heartbeats in the moonlight in leather jackets on a back of a Harley.’ I don’t ride a Harley. That’s a line, call it ‘poetic license.’ That’s where it came from. He and Nicole used to do that when they first started dating, and they were touring, they would jump on his Harley and they would put on their leather jackets and they’d go ride up in the countryside before the show. I did not know that until after he cut that song, I truly believe songs find the path that they’re supposed to find, and that one was supposed to be with him. Now, as it goes No. 1 in a few weeks, um (laughs) I’m gonna rethink that a little. Naw, it was perfect that he’s the guy that did that and did it better than I could’ve done it. I love hearing it on the radio. It’s fun for me. I came to this town to be a songwriter, so for me, I’m not sure if that’s not as proud as I’ve been as when you get a song cut by somebody else and then it becomes a hit.”

  • JON LANGSTON RELEASES THE LYRIC VIDEO FOR HIS HIS NEW SONG, “NOW YOU KNOW.”

    Jon Langston has released the lyric video for his new song, “Now You Know.” The song goes for adds at radio on July 22nd.

     

     

     

    The Georgia native is on the road with Luke Bryan on his Sunset Repeat Tour. The trek kicks off a two-night stand in Wantagh, New York on Saturday (July 13th), and then it will travel to Orange Beach, Alabama on July 19th.

  • KEITH URBAN TO OPEN THE NEW COLOSSEUM AT CAESAR’S PALACE.

    In celebration of the grand reopening of The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, four-time GRAMMY Award winner Keith Urban will bring his acclaimed “GRAFFITI U WORLD TOUR” to Las Vegas for the first time with back-to-back evenings on Sept. 6 and 7. The performances from the reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year will mark the debut of the newly-enhanced Colosseum, as well as the first performances to utilize the venue’s new general admission capability on the main floor, creating a high-energy entertainment experience for fans. The shows are scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.

    Urban is one of the most explosive live performers in music today.  His concerts are critically hailed the world over and feature many of his 24 chart-topping songs including Graffiti U’s “Coming Home,” RIPCORD’s “Wasted Time,” “The Fighter,” his mega hit “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” and seminal No. 1’s including “Somebody Like You,” “Days Go By,” “Long Hot Summer” and “Stupid Boy.”  His now legendary unpredictability has seen Urban performing with fans, with special guests, giving away used show guitars and performing solos perched atop audience seating.

    General ticket prices beginning at $59, plus applicable tax and fees, go on sale to the general public starting Friday, July 19 at 10 a.m. PT at ticketmaster.com or in-person at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace box office. Members of The ‘Ville, Keith Urban’s official fan club, will have access to a presale beginning Saturday, July 13 at 10 a.m. PT.

    Citi is the official presale credit card for Urban’s performances at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Monday, July 15 at 10 a.m. PT through Citi EntertainmentSM. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.

    In addition, Caesars Rewards members, Caesars Entertainment’s loyalty program, as well as Live Nation and Ticketmaster customers will have access to a presale beginning Wednesday, July 17 at 10 a.m. PT. All presales end Thursday, July 18 at 10 p.m. PT.

    The current CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year and four-time GRAMMY Award winner Keith Urban released “We Were” – on May 14th – his first new single of 2019. It comes after the 2018 release of Graffiti U and his acclaimed “GRAFFITI U WORLD TOUR,” which played to more than a million fans in seven countries on three continents. Besides four GRAMMY Awards, Urban has won 13 Country Music Association Awards, 11 Academy of Country Music Awards, four People’s Choice Awards and four American Music Awards. He is also a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

  • VINCE GILL RELEASES A LYRIC VIDEO FOR “I DON’T WANNA RIDE THE RAILS NO MORE.”

    Vince Gill just released the lyric video for “I Don’t Wanna Ride the Rails No More,” a song from his upcoming album, Okieavailable August 23rd.

     

     

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  • CAYLEE HAMMACK’S FATHER DOES SOMETHING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE SINGER’S MUSIC VIDEO FOR “FAMILY TREE.”

    Caylee Hammack’s “Family Tree” video features several friends and family members, most notably her mother with a stack of her own Tupperware, as well as her father, who did something the Georgia-born singer has never really seen before – wear shorts.

    “He is the guy with the white beard, kinda looks like Santa, if Santa owned a Harley. He’s wearing fishing lure shorts and flip flops, and I swear to goodness, I don’t know if me or the Good Lord has ever seen his legs. (laughs) That man is more of a Wrangler jeans and steel-toed boots kind of boy, or kind of man,” says Caylee. “But, he put on shorts and flip flops for that video, so he could look all casual with the pink flamingos and beach chair on the front lawn. He’s a trooper.”

    The clip for her single was directed by Dano Cerny (Elle King, The Chainsmokers), and it also features her sister, cousins, producers and friends.

    Caylee is scheduled to perform at festivals this summer, then joining Dierks Bentley for several dates, as well as hitting the road with Miranda Lambert this fall.

    Audio / Caylee Hammack talks about her father being in the music video for “Family Tree.”

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    Caylee Hammack (Family Tree video – Dad) OC: …a trooper. :35
    “So, my dad is in the video, as well. He, I guess, debuts right after my Mom in the music video. He is the guy with the white beard, kinda looks like Santa, if Santa owned a Harley. He’s wearing fishing lure shorts and flip flops, and I swear to goodness, I don’t know if me or the Good Lord has ever seen his legs. (laughs) That man is more of a Wrangler jeans and steel-toed boots kind of boy, or kind of man. But, he put on shorts and flip flops for that video, so he could look all casual with the pink flamingos and beach chair on the front lawn. He’s a trooper.”

     

     

  • LUKE BRYAN’S “CRASH MY PLAYA” 2020 FESTIVAL HAS SOLD-OUT!

    Due to excitement from fans wanting to participate in one of the world’s most unique destination concert and all-inclusive beach vacations, Luke Bryan’s CRASH MY PLAYA 2020 has SOLD-OUT six-months ahead of the event!

    We are truly happy with how this event has grown and how the fans are eager to come back year after year,” said Luke.

    As previously announced, Luke will headline two nightly concerts on the beach. Jason Aldean makes his Crash My Playa debut in 2020 with one headlining performance while Dustin Lynch returns for his 6th straight year to perform both on the main stage as well as poolside for one of his infamous pool party sets. Additional performers will be announced soon.

    CRASH MY PLAYA 2020 will take place January 22-25, 2020. In order to provide a more holistic experience, the event will be hosted at just one resort for the first time, The Moon Palace Cancún. From sun-up to sun-down, the resort sizzles with energy and is ranked amongst the best in the region on TripAdvisor. This oceanfront sanctuary offers a vibrant spectrum of magnificent rooms, all-inclusive food and drink, 24-hour concierge service, relaxing pools, on-site restaurants, and bars, as well as plenty of activities on both land and sea, including offsite adventures to Isla Mujeres, Rio Secreto, and Chichen Itza.

    For more information about CRASH MY PLAYA 2020 visit: www.crashmyplaya.com

    Luke is currently making his way up the country charts with his latest smash hit, “Knockin’ Boots.”

  • “CMA FEST” HOSTS SUMMER’S HOTTEST MUSIC PERFORMANCES SUNDAY, AUGUST 4TH AT 8/7c ON ABC.

    If you just happened to miss being in Nashville for the 48th Annual CMA Music Fest or you want to relive the amazing time you had, you can catch all the action as ABC airs the television special, CMA Fest, Sunday, August 4th. The show will feature more than 30 performers, including many collaborations such as Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus and Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood with rock legend Joan Jett, Brothers Osborne with Brooks and Dunn AND Ashley McBryde, Kelsea Ballerini and The Chainsmokers, plus many others. Additional performers include Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Maren Morris, Tim McGraw, Luke Combs, Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Florida Georgia Line, Chris Janson, Miranda Lambert, Old Dominion, Rascal Flatts, Blake Shelton, Thomas Rhett and Brett Young.

     

    Thomas Rhett and Kelsea Ballerini will host this year’s CMA Fest special on Sunday, August 4th at 8pm ET on ABC.

    Audio / BACKSTAGE BEFORE HER NISSAN STADIUM PERFORMANCE AT THIS YEAR'S CMA MUSIC FEST, CARRIE UNDERWOOD EXPLAINED WHY SHE'S A HUGE FAN OF ROCK LEGEND JOAN JETT, WHO JOINED HER ON STAGE TO DO A MEDLEY OF HER HITS.

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    Carrie Underwood (CMA Fest-Joan Jett) 2 OC: …sing with me. :25
    “Just hearing her songs on the radio and the more I got to know and see just how much of a trailblazer she was for, not just women in her genre of music, but women in music in general…I mean, I’m a fan on every level — personally, professionally, musically and honored that she’s heard my name before and agreed to come sing with me.”

  • KEITH URBAN NOT JUST HEARD HIS LATEST SONG “WE WERE,” BUT FELT IT AND “SAW IT.”

    Keith Urban is closing in on Top 15 on the country charts with his latest hit, “We Were.” He says the song “wasn’t just about hearing it, or even feeling it. In a lot of ways, it was seeing it too. I found it a very visual song; so many strong moments of imagery in the song.”

     

     

    You can catch Keith performing at a bunch of festivals this summer, including the Faster Horses Festival in Brooklyn, Michigan on July 19th and Country Jam USA in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on July 20th.

     

  • LUKE BRYAN ANNOUNCES LINE-UP FOR HIS FARM TOUR 2019.

    This fall Luke Bryan will take a break from his arena and stadium “Sunset Repeat Tour” to set up in the harvest fields of six never-before played farms for the eleventh consecutive Farm Tour 2019. Luke’s guests will include Cole Swindell, Mitchell Tenpenny, the Peach Pickers and DJ Rock during the September 26th to October 5th run.

     

    More than 100,000 fans have attended the tour each year since its inception in 2009. Luke will continue giving back to farmers by awarding college scholarships to students from farming families who are attending local colleges or universities near the tour stops. To date, more than 60 scholarships have been granted.

    Bayer is proud to continue their #HeresToTheFarmer campaign. For every hashtag share, Bayer will donate a meal to a hungry American through Feeding America®.  Over the past few years, close to 3 million meals have been donated and over $180,000 went to area food banks and local farmers in each of the tour cities. Visit Bayer.us/en/HeresToTheFarmer to learn more.

    “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2019”

    9/26      Marshall, WI                  Statz Bros. Farm

    9/27      Richland, MI                  Stafford Farms

    9/28      Pleasantville, OH           Miller Family Farms

    10/3      Louisburg, KS               MC Farms*

    10/4      Douglass, KS                Flying B Ranch*

    10/5      Norman, OK                 Adkins Farm*

    *The Peach Pickers do not appear

     

    Tickets for “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2019” are on sale now at www.lukebryan.com/FarmTour.

     

    Luke has once again partnered with CID Entertainment to offer Harvest Time VIP Experiences throughout the 2019 FARM TOUR. VIP Experiences include a ticket, VIP viewing area access, private restrooms, and merchandise gifts. To view the FARM TOUR VIP Experience details, please visit https://www.cidentertainment.com/events/luke-bryan-farm-tour.

    To listen to Luke’s Farm Tour playlist go http://strm.to/FarmTour2019

    Luke is currently climbing the country charts with his latest hit, “Knockin’ Boots.”

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

    Audio / LUKE BRYAN ENJOYS PUTTING ON HIS ANNUAL FARM TOUR AND HELPING OUT COMMUNITIES.

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    Luke Bryan (Farm Tour) 1 OC: …for the fans. :59
    “Farm Tour is just fun to me, and it’s something that anytime you can start something that starts small and grow it. We never want to make it this really ginormous thing that we can’t control, but we want to make sure it’s on our terms and we love doing it. And then we want to make sure that the communities that we partner up with from the sheriff’s office to the highway patrol guys to the colleges to the college kids, we want to make sure it’s a positive thing  at the end of the day for the communities. Therefore, that’s why we do the scholarships and we hope that we leave these places better than we found ‘em, and we hope people continue to want us back. And we hope we feel like we’re a positive thing for the local economies for these small towns, which wouldn’t necessarily have 15, 20-thousand people converging on ‘em. I hope it’s a positive thing for ‘em and not a negative. I enjoy being out there [performing in] the field and playing for the fans.”

  • CARRIE UNDERWOOD WRAPS THE CRY PRETTY TOUR UK WITH FANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN ATTENDANCE.

     

    Even with her debut performance at the legendary Glastonbury Festival as a key highlight, there were no shortage of memorable moments on multi-platinum, seven-time Grammy Award-winning superstar Carrie Underwood’s THE CRY PRETTY TOUR UK, which concluded a successful arena run on July 4th at London’s famed Wembley Arena.

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    The tour kicked off June 28th in Birmingham, England and brought Underwood’s dynamic production and signature vocal prowess to thousands of fans throughout England, Wales and Scotland with five arena shows. Fans traveled from around the world – England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Australia, Singapore, Israel, Slovenia, Iraq, Canada, the U.S. and more – to attend the UK the shows. THE CRY PRETTY TOUR UK also featured the UK’s best-selling country act of all time, The Shires, as Underwood’s special guest.

    One of the standout moments of the tour was Underwood’s milestone performance at Glastonbury Festival’s iconic Pyramid Stage – which was seen around the world online – and hailed a “triumphant debut” and “itself a true testament to the popularity and quality of [Underwood]” by the Manchester Evening News – where Underwood joined an all-star line-up on the main stage for this year’s festival that also included Janet Jackson, The Killers, Hozier, The Cure, Bastille, Vampire Weekend and Kylie Minogue, among others.

    Glastonbury Festival is regarded as one of the largest performing arts festivals in the world and is known for attracting top acts from every musical genre. In its near 50-year history, the festival has only welcomed a handful of US country artists, and even fewer to perform on the celebrated main stage, including Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash.

    Performing on June 29th under sunny skies to a huge crowd, whose enthusiasm was especially shown during Underwood’s performance of her smash hit “Before He Cheats.” Watch the incredible performance HEREThe Scottish Sun hailed the performance as “spectacular” while The Guardianpraised Underwood’s commanding stage presence, musicianship, deep catalogue and broader musical impact:
    “On ‘Cowboy Casanova,’ she pulls off a battering vocal run that makes its vengeful sentiment (“You better run for your life”) even more brilliantly menacing…she’s often found standing atop a black pyramid, contributing electric and acoustic guitar to her eight-piece band’s brawny chug. It’d be easy to approach Underwood with preconceptions… but there’s an unapologetic libidinousness and femininity to her songs that earns her a place in country’s outlaw lineage, bringing the margins of women’s lives into a genre that has, recently, sought to sideline their experiences despite them being foundational country touchstones.”

    Underwood’s THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360 will resume in North America on September 10th in San Diego, CA and travel through cities such as Los Angeles, CA (STAPLES Center); Nashville, TN (Bridgestone Arena); New York City, NY (Madison Square Garden) and Chicago, IL (United Center) before concluding on October 31 in Detroit, MI. Underwood will once again be joined by special guests Maddie & Tae and Runaway June for an all-female bill on all dates of the tour, sponsored by CALIA and promoted by AEG Presents. The first leg of the tour wrapped in June 2019 after more than 25 dates across North America. For more information regarding THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360, go to http://www.carrieunderwoodofficial.com.

    Carrie is currently scaling the country charts with her smash summer anthem, “Southbound.”