EMI Records Nashville singer-songwriter Brandon Lay’s new single “Yada Yada Yada” is the No. 1 most-added song at Country radio. Rolling Stone describes the song as “a breezy, unruffled look at the way young love makes nonsense of all other concerns.” The Jackson, Tenn. Native co-wrote his new laid-back tune with Heather Morgan and Mikey Reaves. Additionally, Brandon released the lyric video for “Yada Yada Yada” this past Sunday, and recorded a stripped-down performance of the song in the greenroom of Nashville’s famed Marathon Music Works, which can be viewed HERE.

Brandon shares his inspiration behind the song, “’Yada Yada Yada’ is a song I wrote with Mikey Reaves and Heather Morgan.  I had the melody in my head one day as I was driving home from a gig but I didn’t have any lyrics yet, so I was just humming yada yada yada as dummy lyrics (into my phone). A few days later I was in a writing room with the voice memo and Mikey and Heather thought that would make a pretty good title in itself so we went with it.  It’s a fun tune that I hope people will enjoy.” Watch Brandon tell the story behind the song HERE.

Brandon is currently on the road with Kenny Chesney performing on all 19 shows of Kenny’s Trip Around The Sun stadium tour. The remaining shows are listed as follows:

June 23                        Chase Field                                                      Phoenix, Ariz.
June 30                        Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium Denver, Colo.
July 7                          Centurylink Field                                             Seattle, Wash.
July 14                        Arrowhead Stadium                                         Kansas City, Mo.
July 21                        Busch Stadium                                                 Saint Louis, Mo.
July 28                        Soldier Field                                                    Chicago, Ill.
August 4                     Ford Field                                                        Detroit, Mich.
August 11                   Nissan Stadium                                                Nashville, Tenn.
August 18                   MetLife Stadium                                              East Rutherford, N.J.
August 24                   Gillette Stadium                                               Foxboro, Mass.
August 25                   Gillette Stadium                                               Foxboro, Mass.

Check out the lyric video below.

Sam Hunt has released a lyric video for his latest hit, “Downtown’s Dead.” The song is the follow-up to his history-making, multi-platinum “Body Like a Back Road.”

Go behind-the-scenes with Keith Urban and singer-songwriter Julia Michaels on the set of the video for “Coming Home” below.

Also, check out opening weekend for his Graffiti U World Tour right here.

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— Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) June 18, 2018

Darius Rucker enlisted some famous friends to join him on the remake of “Straight to Hell,” which was released in 1989. Pals Luke Bryan, Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum and Jason Aldean joined Darius on the song and the video, which was just released. The four of them seemed to have a rowdy good time on the set of the clip, which features them in a speakeasy during Prohibition back in the 1920s.

“When you’re friends with people in the business, you see ‘em when you can. If you tour with ‘em, you get to hang out sometime, but there’s never really day where the four of us have gotten to sit together all day. We did just about every scene together and it was all of us together, and we just had, man, there was some funny stuff said that day. I was losing my mind laughing. That was a fun day.”

Hopefully, Darius and Lady A will perform the song during their tour together. They’re set to kick off their Summer Plays On Tour, which kicks off July 19th in Toronto.

Jordan Davis made his debut performance at the world-renowned Grand Ole Opry Saturday night (May 12th). Performing “Slow Dance In A Parking Lot” and “Leaving New Orleans” off his debut album Home State, Jordan highlighted why critics and audiences alike have praised the singer/songwriter for “melding the songcraft of artists like John Prine and Jim Croce with the genre’s pop progressiveness” (Rolling Stone).

“To think of the history and the people who have stood here before me, it’s crazy,” says Jordan. “I want to thank the friends, family and everyone who has helped me get to this point.”

Originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, Jordan has made a strong impression with his classic lyric-writing melded with tech-tinged production. After graduating from LSU in 2012 with a degree in Resource Conservation, Jordan moved to Nashville and honed his songwriting craft influenced by his love of lyrically-driven songwriters and genre-defying musicality.

Jordan is nominated for “Radio Disney Country Best New Artist” at the upcoming Radio Disney Music Awards. In addition, Jordan continues to demonstrate his notable songwriting talent with a recent nomination for “Nashville Artist-Writer of the Year” from the Association of Independent Music Publishers after winning The Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Abe Olman Scholarship for Excellence two years ago. Past recipients of that prestigious award include John Legend and Bebe Rexha.

Earlier this year, Jordan made his national TV debut with NBC’s TODAY and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” which can be viewed HERE and HERE. The Louisiana native recently wrapped his first headlining “White Wine and Whiskey Tour” and will embark on Jake Owen’s “Life’s Whatcha Make It Tour” starting this Friday, March 18 at AT&T Field in Chattanooga, TN. Additional upcoming stops include SRP Park in Augusta, GA and UPMC Park in Erie, PA. For a full list of tour dates, news, images and more, visit www.jordandavisofficial.com

Fans can click HERE to listen to Home State.

Dierks Bentley’s The Mountain debuts at No. 1 on the country album chart this week. The collection of songs, which includes chart-topping hit “Woman, Amen,” sold more than 102-thousand copies (including streams) to bow at the top of the country chart and No. 3. This marks Dierks’ seventh No. 1 Country Album debut and highest debut in his career, beating his previous best, Black, at 101,300 in 2016.

“I think the unifying thread that runs through The Mountain would be just happiness and positivity, just a real kind of vibe of being grateful in the moment that you’re in, you know? The album really started off just as a tiny idea of something to do with the West. I wasn’t sure if it was a sonic idea or some sort of lyric or an overall vibe, and I didn’t really know where to go,” says Dierks. “Tthe album kind of wrote itself to be that story of just songs like ‘Living,’ ‘Can’t Bring Me Down’ and ‘The Mountain,’ just the vibe of just being really grateful and inspired by your surroundings and not just the mountain vibe, but the surroundings on the road too. The people that I meet on the road that are climbing their own personal mountains and the stuff they’re trying to overcome. I hear so many stories backstage at the Meet-and-Greets, and I was unknowingly inspired by those stories, and I think that gives the whole Mountain [album] a great metaphor between the actual mountains and the mountains people are pursuing in their own lives.”

Dierks heads back to where the album got started – the Telluride Bluegrass Festival – on Wednesday (June 20th), followed by a performance during Chicago’s Country Lake Shake on Saturday (June 23rd).

On the eve of the release of his ninth studio album, Dierks Bentley will perform a late night album release show on Thursday, June 7th at Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium with all money raised from ticket sales going to the Opry Trust Fund.

In a rare one-night-only event, Bentley will perform all thirteen tracks from THE MOUNTAIN. Bentley’s 2018 tour opener LANCO will also join the lineup. Pre-sale tickets are available Tuesday (May 15th) with a public on sale set for this Friday (May 18th) beginning at 10a CT.

“This album started as the smallest seed of an idea,” said Bentley. “It was inspired by where I am in my life right now, but also by the people I meet out on the road who triumph over hardship every day. We all share this underlying sense of gratitude and hope, which really became the base of THE MOUNTAIN, so I wanted to introduce it as a whole story for the first time with all the fans in town for CMA Music Fest. Doing it at the Ryman and to help out the Opry Trust Fund makes the night even more special.”

The Ryman is the ideal room for sharing THE MOUNTAIN’s “textures of mandolin, banjo, fiddle and flatpicked guitar,” (NPR). Touted as a sonic mix of UP ON THE RIDGE’s bluegrass soul and the modern-rock polish of BLACK, THE MOUNTAIN ranges in style from its rock essence to acoustic folk. Reaching a new creative high, Bentley co-wrote ten of the thirteen songs that are unified by themes of presence and positivity while feeling both rooted and expansive at the same time.

The Arizona native has scored 17 No. Ones and 13 GRAMMY nominations – including at least one stemming from each of his last six albums. Bentley has amassed more than one billion digital streams, countless additional nominations from theGRAMMYs, ACM, CMA and Billboard Music Awards. After his 2017 tour claimed the top spot on Billboard’s Hot Tours selling over 750,000 tickets, Bentley will fuel arenas and amphitheaters throughout the summer with his 2018 MOUNTAIN HIGH TOUR launching this weekend in Columbia, MD (5/18), Holmdel, NJ (5/19) and Camden, NJ (5/20). For more information visit www.dierks.com.

Started in 1965, the Opry Trust Fund’s mission is to help those in the country music industry when they need it the most, by offering financial assistance during their time of need. Since its inception, the Opry Trust Fund has distributed more than $2 million. For more information, visit www.opry.com/trustfund.

Sam Hunt surprised the crowd at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium during CMA Music Fest on Saturday night (June 9th) with a performance of his latest song, “Downtown’s Dead.”

Chris Stapleton popped into his CMA Music Festival Pop-Up store at the George Jones Museum to sign autographs following a pop-up performance at SiriusXM’s Happy Hour at Margaritaville.

As you know Darius Rucker is one of the founding members of the supergroup Hootie & the Blowfish. Their breakthrough album, Cracked Rear View, was just certified 21x Platinum by the RIAA, meaning more than 21 million copies of the collection were sold.

Dierks Bentley will perform during the Today Show’s Citi Summer Concert Series on Tuesday (June 12th), followed by a performance on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday (June 13th).

Chris Stapleton’s album Traveller has been certified triple platinum (3 million copies sold), while Luke Bryan’s “Huntin’, Fishin’, Lovin’ Every Day” and “Drink a Beer” were certified double-platinum. Luke’s “Most People Are Good,” “Light It Up” and “Move” are now gold.

Carrie Underwood will perform her anthemic “The Champion” with Ludacris for the very first time at this year’s Radio Disney Music Awards and will receive their Hero Award. The show will take place at 8pm ET on June 23rd on the Disney Channel. Find out more information right here.

Luke Bryan was featured on CBS Sunday Morning (June 10th), in which the cameras took viewers behind-the-scenes of his recent Musicians On Call visit with young patients in Manhattan.

Shania Twain performs on CBS’ Late Late Show with James Corden Monday night (June 11th).

Kacey Musgraves appropriately dropped a music video for the song, “Mother,” on Mother’s Day (May 13th). The tribute to her mother is featured on Kacey’s new album, Golden Hour.

In other news, Kacey just landed in Tokyo for a week of promotion.  Ahead of her trip, “High Horse” has climbed to the Top 10 on Tokyo’s most listened to Pop station, J-Wave.

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Travis Denning grew up in Warner Robins, Georgia, population of less than 70,000 and named after Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins — who was credited as the Father of Logistics in the modern U.S. Air Force and instrumental in the establishment of the first official and workable Air Force supply maintenance and accountability systems, as well as establishing guidelines for the training of all people, officers, enlisted and civilians working for the Air Force.

Travis, who started playing bars in Warner Robins and the surrounding areas at age 16, loves where he was born and raised.

“I think that was so cool to grow up in a town where people take patriotism, they take values, they take all those things very seriously, but they still know how to have a great time, and we had a great community. I love the high school that I went to. I still keep in touch with a lot of my friends, because they’re real people and they’ve never changed. It’s so easy to see that in my music, because I can’t help but write where I come from, because I love it. I love where I come from; I’m proud of where I come from.”

Travis is currently making his way up the country charts with his song, “David Ashley Parker From Powder Springs.”