Kacey Musgraves wrote her song “Butterflies” about a week after meeting her now-husband, singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly. Rarely will you find a sweet love song on one of Kacey’s albums, but “Butterflies” is a glimpse into Kacey’s heart and mind with what she was going through and feeling following their fateful meeting.

“It’s actually the first song I wrote after meeting my now-husband,” says Kacey. “Everything from the lyrics down to the production really represents this floaty, dreamy feeling that I got as soon as he came into my life. I wrote this song with Natalie Hemby and Shane McAnally back in 2016 in the Spring when I had gotten off the road and tried to get back to my creative roots of just writing again just to write and explore new ideas. I had just met Ruston, so my world had been completely flipped upside down, so this is a great sonic representation of that.”

“Butterflies” is from Kacey’s new record, Golden Hour, which also features the songs “Space Cowboy,” “High Horse” and many others.

Kacey plays the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California this weekend and has a few more dates on Little Big Town’s The Breakers Tour before heading out on the road with Harry Styles.

The members of Lady Antebellum are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the release of their self-titled debut album. Today, we take a look back at their second No. 1 song, the international smash “Need You Now.” The band co-wrote the song with Josh Kear and produced it with Paul Worley. It was the lead-off single and title track for their second album, Need You Now, and was first released in the States in August 2009.

“Need You Now” spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, won four Grammy Awards in 2011, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The song has been certified sextuple platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).

The trio is currently making their way up the country charts with their latest, “Heart Break,” which they performed on Sunday night’s ACM Awards.

Jon Pardi interrupted Lauren Alaina’s Social Media Correspondent duties to present her with the award for New Female Vocalist of the Year.

Cue the tears! @JonPardi interrupted @Lauren_Alaina's Social Media Correspondent duties to present her with the award for New Female Vocalist of the Year. #ACMawards pic.twitter.com/i4viqwhgJk

— ACM Awards (@ACMawards) April 15, 2018

Today, MCA Nashville singer/songwriter Clare Dunn releases her brand new single, “More.” Clare, writing the song with Gordie Sampson and Josh Kear, shows us a glimpse of her sentimental side.

“More” is available now HERE and impacts country radio June 4th.

A dynamic new artist on the country music scene who has garnered critical praise as a “masterful guitar player who can do it all” (CMT), Clare joined American rock icon Bob Seger for his 2015 Ride Out Tour where she earned nightly standing ovations. The Colorado native with “swaggering confidence and soulful vocals” (Rolling Stone) also hit the road with country superstar Miranda Lambert on her recent Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour, as well as with country music’s platinum-selling artist Chris Young on the I’m Comin’ Over Tour. Clare, named “One to Watch” by USA Today, Billboard, The Boston Globe and Rolling Stone, wrote all of the songs on her self-titled EP including fan favorites “Move On,” “Tuxedo” and the emotional “Old Hat.”

In addition to her regular tour schedule, Clare has upcoming performances at Nashville’s famed Grand Ole Opry and the CMA Music Festival.

For more information, please visit www.ClareDunn.com.

Sam Hunt releases his brand new single, “Downtown’s Dead,” today. Dropping hints on his socials all day Tuesday, Hunt’s new song, co-written by Hunt with Zach Crowell, Josh Osborne, Shane McAnally and Charlie Handsome, is now available HERE and it is making its world premiere today with iHeart country radio.

New single, out tomorrow…”Downtown’s Dead”

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New single, out tomorrow…”Downtown’s Dead”

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New single, tomorrow…”Downtown’s Dead”

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“Downtown’s Dead” is the first new single from the critically-acclaimed, GRAMMY-nominated superstar since last year’s record-breaking, 5x Platinum-selling smash, “Body Like A Back Road.” At 34 weeks, Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” set the record for the most weeks at No. 1 in the six-decade history of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and earned Hunt the 2017 Academy of Country Music Award for “Single Record of the Year.” Hunt will also receive the ACM Gene Weed Milestone Award at the ACM Honors ceremony this summer in recognition of this unprecedented achievement. Additionally, “Body Like A Back Road” was the No. 1 most-streamed and the No. 1 most-downloaded country song of 2017, received CMT’s inaugural Song of the Year Award for 2017, and it is nominated for two Billboard Music Awards – Top Selling Song and Top Country Song. Hunt is also nominated for the Billboard Chart Achievement Award, Top Country Artist and Top Country Male Artist at this weekend’s celebration. Fans can vote for Hunt’s Chart Achievement nomination HERE and tune in to the 2018 Billboard Music Awards live on Sunday, May 20 at 8pm ET on NBC.

Hunt hits the road this month as a special guest on Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country Tour – XL Stadium Sized along with country star Jon Pardi and opening artists Morgan Wallen (May-Aug) and Carly Pearce (Sep-Oct). Kicking off May 31 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, ONT., Hunt, Bryan and Pardi will hit 13 of North America’s biggest and best sports stadiums including MetLife Stadium (NYC), Great American Ball Park (Cincinnati), Raymond James Stadium (Tampa), Heinz Field (Pittsburgh), Fenway Park (Boston), Target Field (Minneapolis), Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles), Sports Authority Field at Mile High (Denver), Busch Stadium (St. Louis), Wrigley Field (Chicago), BC Place Stadium (Vancouver) and Ford Field (Detroit).

For more information on music, tour dates and tickets, please visit www.SamHunt.com.

For an intro liner for “Downtown’s Dead,” click here.

Jordan Davis scored his very first No. 1 this week with “Singles You Up,” which topped both the Country Aircheck and Billboard country charts. The song, which he co-wrote with Justin Ebach and Steven Dale Jones, is the first release from Jordan’s debut album, Home State.

“‘Singles You Up’ was written with two buddies of mine back in Nashville,” explains Jordan. “One of ‘em had just gotten engaged, and when he came in we were congratulating him on it, and the saying ‘You’re smart enough not to single her up’ was thrown up, and I think we all kind of knew that we needed to write that. We actually wrote it really, really quick, I mean right when we got done, we knew we had something special. So, we have a blast playing it, and I can’t be happier that it’s my debut single. It’s a song that means a lot to me.”

Jordan will join Chris Janson on Jake Owen’s Life’s Whatcha Make It Tour, which kicks off May 18th in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is currently scheduled to wrap September 22nd in Ogden, Utah.

While in Las Vegas for the 53^rd Annual ACM Awards, EMI Nashville’s Brothers Osborne performed to a packed crowd at a special FRYEDAYS event as part of their ongoing partnership with the authentic and timeless lifestyle brand Frye. The event was held downtown at the Zappos Headquarters and was also available via livestream to fans at home.

John and TJ Osborne are nominated again for “Vocal Duo of the Year” as well as “Music Video of the Year” for their Top 10 rowdy hit “It Ain’t My Fault” at the upcoming 53^rd ACM Awards.  In 2017, the singer/songwriter siblings added their name to the record books as the only duo besides Brooks & Dunn to win both ACM “Vocal Duo of the Year” and ACM “New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year” Awards in the same year.

As anticipation builds for the release of the Maryland natives’ sophomore album on April 20, NPR’s “First Listen” is exclusively streaming Port Saint Joe in its entirety, click HERE. Critics continue to praise the new album with NPR noting, “it’s an excellent Southern rock and roll jam with a blues underbelly” and The New York Times calling it, “an invigoratingly footloose follow-up.”

Brothers Osborne recently announced their first headlining UK tour set to launch May 4 in Dublin, Ireland with additional stops in Belfast, London, Manchester, Glasgow and more. The duo will then join Dierks Bentley on the “Mountain High Tour” kicking off May 17 in Columbia, MD. Tickets and additional information can be found at www.brothersosborne.com

For a full list of tour dates, news, images and more, visit: www.BrothersOsborne.com

It’s been slightly more than five years since Kacey Musgraves released her debut album, Same Trailer Different Park (March 19th, 2013). The collection spawned a huge career for the Texas native, resulting in numerous awards (CMA Awards, ACM Awards, Grammys, etc.), as well as fan-favorite tunes – “Merry Go ‘Round,” “Blowin’ Smoke” and “Follow Your Arrow.”

In some ways, Kacey has changed because of her experiences and travels, as well as falling in love and gaining a husband, however, she explains she hasn’t changed too much creatively. “I’ve always known exactly who I am. I’ve had a strong core about myself in what I’m willing to do and not do, and that has not changed and that will never change. All I’ve ever wanted to do for myself is to work towards achieving total musical freedom, and I’m on my way to doing that. I started doing that when I put out Same Trailer and it was exactly me. It was exactly what I wanted to say, and I’m always going to evolve and change and hopefully grow as an artist.”

For her latest collection, Golden Hour, she experimented with new sounds and new collaborators. “With Golden Hour, it was natural for me just to explore new sounds and new inspirations. I worked with different songwriters this time, different producers, and it was super refreshing and exciting for me.”

Kacey is currently exploring Japan (which has been on her bucket list) after playing one of their biggest festivals. You can check out her Instagram for photos and videos of her experience.

When she returns to the States, she is set to perform at the Bayou Country Superfest 2018 in New Orleans May 27th before embarking on a tour with British pop sensation Harry Styles in Dallas on June 5th.

Kacey Musgraves is set to perform on The Late Late Show With James Corden (CBS) on Thursday (May 17th).

George Strait is scheduled to close out the 2019 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo on March 17th, 2019. His appearance at the Rodeo will mark his 30th career performance. The remaining line-up will be unveiled in January.

Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood pick up the ACM Vocal Event of the Year Award for “The Fighter,” which they recorded for Keith’s 2016 album, Ripcord. The song topped the country charts last August.

“It was a really simple idea that you’re in a relationship, at the beginning of the relationship, and in my case, the girl is saying, she just wants reassurance, and I thought I’d love to hear that in a song where the girl says really simple things, like ‘What if I fall?’ And the guy’s like, ‘I won’t let you fall?’ ‘And if I cry?’ ‘I’ll never make you cry.’ ‘And if I get scared?’ The guy says, ‘I’ll hold you tighter, and when they’re trying to get to you, I’ll be the fighter,’” says Keith. “I just liked the simplicity of all that, because that’s been my experience. More often than not, the more real, simple scenario is pretty universal.”

Keith has hit the country charts with his latest hit, “Coming Home,” from his upcoming Graffiti U album, set for release April 27^th.

Carrie has just released her new single, “Cry Pretty.”