Maddie & Tae can’t wait to hit the road with Carrie Underwood on The Cry Pretty Tour 360 on Wednesday (May 1^st). They said fans could expect a really high energy show when they walk on stage.

“We are keeping it fun and upbeat. But not straying away from those soft, vulnerable songs as well,” says Maddie Marlow, revealing, “we have a really fun cover we’re going to sneak into this little set that is so exciting. I wish I could spill the beans, but…”

She adds, “it’s unexpected, but super fun; a couple new songs that haven’t been released yet and a lot of songs that have been released. So, hopefully our fans with memorize that EP, so we’ll be playing all of those songs out there. Hopefully they will know the words by then.”

Maddie & Tae just released their five-song EP, One Heart to Another, which features their latest song, “Die From a Broken Heart.”

Carrie Underwood kicks off The Cry Pretty Tour 360 on Wednesday (May 1st), and the show will once again be in-the-round, which gives her a bigger connection to her audience.

“I absolutely love my stage being in the middle of the arena. There is something about it that I feel so much more connected with every single person in that building,” says Carrie. “I feel like we’ve always done a great job of like having big amazing stage sets and putting on a show, but there’s something completely different – and I remember with the “Storyteller” tour, I was like, ‘Ooh, I hope this is going to be okay. I’m changing everything up,’ But there was just some connection happening. I could see everybody in the arena, every single face. I could have individual connections with people.”

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— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) April 28, 2019

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The Cry Pretty Tour 360, which also features Maddie & Tae and Runaway June, launches May 1st in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Carrie is currently hitting the airwaves with her latest song, “Southbound.”

Today, Country artist Brandon Lay released an Amazon Original cover of Trisha Yearwood’s “Walkaway Joe,” available to stream and purchase only on Amazon Music, listen HERE. Starting Friday, Amazon Music listeners can find the track on “Country Heat,” and can also simply ask, “Alexa play the Amazon Original by Brandon Lay” in the Amazon Music app.

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Additionally, fans can catch Lay performing festivals across the country beginning with Stagecoach this afternoon. Playing on the SiriusXM Spotlight Stage, the performance will mark his first time gracing the stage at the famed Indio, Calif. music festival.

Last year, Lay toured with Kenny Chesney and released a series of singles including “Speaker, Bleachers and Preachers” and “Yada Yada Yada,” which Rolling Stone describes as “a breezy, unruffled look at the way young love makes nonsense of all other concerns.”

Lay was named a 2019 Artist to Watch by The Tennessean, Vevo, CMT, PopCulture.com, The Boot, Country Music Tattle Tale, and more. Lay is currently in the studio writing and recording for his debut album.

Platinum-selling duo Maddie & Tae are “setting the stage for a bright journey” (Sounds Like Nashville) with their eagerly-awaited new EP One Heart To Another (Mercury Nashville), available today. Featuring five tracks, predominantly co-written by Maddie & Tae’s Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye, and produced by Jimmy Robbins and Derek Wells, the highly-anticipated project represents stories of love, loss and redemption. Available HERE, the collection serves as a snapshot of more music to come from the award-winning duo later this year.

One Heart to Another offers the “confessional” (Rolling Stone) “Friends Don’t,” the quickly applauded new single “Die From A Broken Heart,” touting 36 million streams and fresh at country radio following undeniable fan and critical demand – and the recently released “Tourist In This Town,” a song Music Row praises for its “spunk, vocal verve and tempo.” The swaggering kiss-off “New Dog, Old Tricks,” a winking, hip hop-inflected anthem that marks the first outside cut Maddie & Tae has recorded and vulnerable title track “One Heart To Another,” round out the boldly honest collection, which shows “a more sophisticated side” (Associated Press).

“The amount of gratitude I feel towards our fans is indescribable,” said Marlow. “We’ve waited four long years to release new music, and so have they. This EP is not only a collection of songs to us, but a reminder that dedication, passion, and perseverance always pays off. This feels so surreal, and it’s only the beginning.”

“This collection of songs is our unfiltered story and we’re so proud to tell it,” adds Dye. “Over the past couple of years, we’ve experienced love, pain, redemption and everything in between. And we wouldn’t change a thing.”

One Heart To Another Track List:
1.  Friends Don’t (Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Jon Nite, Justin Ebach)
2.  Die From A Broken Heart (Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Jonathan Singleton, Deric Ruttan)
3.  Tourist In This Town (Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Barry Dean, Jimmy Robbins)
4.  One Heart To Another (Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Jonathan Singleton, Deric Ruttan)
5.  New Dog Old Tricks (Laura Veltz, Jesse Frasure)

Up next, the duo is gearing up to bring their “signature harmonies” (Rolling Stone) on the road as part of Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty Tour 360, kicking-off next Thursday, May 1 in Greensboro, N.C. The tour will hit 55 cities throughout North America on its run.

Award-winning duo Maddie & Tae are drawing praise for their new music “anchored around their stellar vocal pairings and some of the tightest harmonies on Music Row (Rolling Stone). “The sound is identifiable while still representing a distinct step forward” (Billboard), giving fans a taste from their debut on Mercury Nashville, available now. Maddie & Tae first broke out in 2013 with their brilliant take down of bro-country, “Girl In A Country Song,” which took Country radio by storm, skyrocketing to the top of the charts and quickly going PLATINUM. The duo became only the third female duo in 70 years to top the Country Airplay charts, also earning trophies from the Country Music Academy and Radio Disney Music Awards along with multiple ACM, CMA and CMT Award nominations. Receiving widespread praise from NPR, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, Glamour and others, country music’s hottest stars including Dierks Bentley, Lee Brice and Brad Paisley have welcomed Maddie & Tae on the road, with Carrie Underwood recently inviting the duo out as direct support on her 2019 Cry Pretty Tour 360 kicking-off in May. For additional information, visit www.maddieandtae.com.

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Maddie & Tae’s One Heart to Another EP is out today (April 26th), and the five-song collection includes “Friends Don’t,” “Tourist in This Town,” the title cut, “New Dogs Old Tricks” and their brand new single, “Die From a Broken Heart.”

They chose “One Heart to Another” as the title of the new project because of what it meant to them when they first wrote it.

“We chose ‘One Heart to Another’ to be the title track because when we wrote it, it was a really special day,” says the duo’s Taylor Dye. “We were pretty much in between our deals at the point and were very confused and very just insecure as people, and songwriters and a duo. And you know, it was just one of those days we went into a writing room and just didn’t care what anyone would think about the music we were writing. We just thought ‘You know what? Let’s write something that means something to us, and let’s say stuff we’ve never said, be bold, tell the truth.’ So, that really is what shaped the entire record at that point. Was just kind of being bold and being unapologetic about it, and so ‘One Heart to Another’ just fit that perfectly.”

Maddie agrees, adding, “It is one heart to another. It’s our heart to our fans. So, it was kind of that song means a couple of different things. Like Tae said, writing ‘One Heart to Another’ gave us the confidence to continue on and to continue with this project. So, it’s our little song that started it for us.”

The two are gearing up to hit the road as part of Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty Tour 360, kicking off May 1st in Greensboro, North Carolina.

One Heart To Another Track List 

1.  Friends Don’t (Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Jon Nite, Justin Ebach)
   2.  Die From A Broken Heart (Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Jonathan Singleton, Deric Ruttan)
   3.  Tourist In This Town (Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Barry Dean, Jimmy Robbins)
   4.  One Heart To Another (Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Jonathan Singleton, Deric Ruttan)
   5.  New Dog Old Tricks (Laura Veltz, Jesse Frasure, Emily Weisband)

The two are also featured on the soundtrack for the new film, Breakthrough, with a song called “People Need People,” which they co-wrote with songwriter Jimmy Robbins. The soundtrack is available now!

Jordan Davis made his debut on ABC’s Strahan and Sara on Thursday (April 25th). He performed his latest song, “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot.” Check it out below.

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Jordan will be in Reno on Friday (April 26th), followed by shows in San Jose on Saturday (April 27th) and at Stagecoach in Indio, California on Sunday (April 28th).

MADDIE & TAE ONE HEART TO ANOTHER EP AUDIO TOOLKIT

We have compiled an array of content — liners and a few soundbites – from MADDIE & TAE to equip you with some tools that we hope will come in handy and help you roll out tracks leading up to – and following – the release of the duo’s new ONE HEART TO ANOTHER EP. Check out the content below (including the cuts and transcriptions).

 Maddie & Tae are set to release new music from their upcoming EP, titled One Heart to Another The five-song collection will be released on April 26th. All but one of the songs were co-written by Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye, including their recent hit “Friends Don’t,” as well as “Die From a Broken Heart” and “Tourist in this Town,” as well as the title track and the song “New Dog Old Tricks.”

The highly-anticipated project represents stories of love, loss and redemption and is a snapshot of more music to come from the award-winning duo later this year. “This is much more than just a new project for us. It has been our light at the end of tunnel for the past two years. It is about two best friends experiencing this highest of highs, the lowest of lows, and everything in between together. We hope our fans hear the vulnerability, heart break, strength, truth and passion we’ve poured into this. This is only the beginning,” said Marlow.

“The journey to create this project was long, but beautiful,” added Dye. “We put our heads down and tried to be the best artists we could be. And to us that looked like writing lyrics from a very honest place and sharing them with the hopes that someone out in the world feels less alone. So here is One Heart to Another. From our hearts to yours.”

Click here to download the One Heart to Another EP Audio Toolkit.

Adam Hambrick has released the new installment of his “1 Mic, 1 Take” of his song, “Broken Ladder,” live from Capitol Studios in Hollywood.

Adam is currently rockiin’ his way up the country charts with “Rockin’ All Night Long.”

George Strait didn’t just write and record a song called “Código,” he’s also one of the investors in the company producing Código 1530 tequila. He didn’t mean to get into the liquor business, but when he was playing golf down in Mexico with a couple of friends, one brought a bottle of it to the course, where they sipped it. George said it was the best tequila he has ever tasted.

“The tequila itself, we started thinking about doing something – or at least I did – probably 10 years ago when I first tasted it down in Mexico,” recalls George. “My friend Feddy and Ron, those two guys that are involved in Código now. We were all out playing golf and Feddy brought this tequila out, well, it didn’t even have a name. Nobody had ever tried it. He said, ‘You guys gotta try this. It’s the best tequila that there is.’ So, we did, and then we started taking bottles home that weren’t marked or anything, and we were going, ‘How are we gonna get this into the States?’ ‘Cause I would get some of my friends to try it, and they loved it and we just thought it would be a great thing to have it in the States.”

He adds, “None of us were really looking to try to get in to a new business, honestly. I do what I do. Feddy was a very successful real estate guy in Cabo, and Ron was formerly the CEO, the guy at Crocs. And so, we just decided we wanted to do it, and here we are two-and-a-half years into the deal and we’re in all 50 states. So, I think that’s pretty good. It’s doing really well.”

George is making his way up the country charts with his latest song, “Every Little Honky Tonk Bar,” from his Billboard No. 1 album, Honky Tonk Time Machine.

You can catch George performing at Ohio Stadium in Columbus (Ohio) June 8th and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass August 17th. For more information, visit www.GeorgeStrait.com.