Want to see what The Locked & Reloaded Tour is all about? The latest episode of DBTV has Dierks Bentley and the whole crew locked and loaded in Columbia, Knoxville and Roanoke during the first week out.
Dierks is currently sitting inside the Top 10 with his latest single, “Tip It On Back,” which he performs to a enthralled crowd night-after-night.
Gary Allan performs his hit song, “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain),” on NBC’s The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Wednesday night (January 23rd). It’s the first single from his brand new album, Set You Free, which arrived in stores this week!
Scotty McCreery returned to American Idol in Charlotte on Wednesday night. The Season 10 winner, who’s at work on the follow-up to his debut album Clear As Day, greeted the contestants waiting in line to audition…signed autographs…received a marriage proposal…and ran into a former junior high classmate.
Ever since the day the 19-year-old singer from North Carolina took home the coveted title in 2011, he basically can’t go anywhere in public without being recognized.
AUDIO: Scotty McCreery talks about going out in public.
Scotty McCreery (going out in public) OC: …it’s fun. :09
“It’s definitely weird, you know. It’s a big life change. It’s just one of those trade-offs that comes from doing this kind of job, but it’s fun. It’s fun.”
Why don’t you sing along to Lady Antebellum‘s new single, “Downtown,” with their lyric video. Check it out below!
SINGER/SONGWRITER KACEY MUSGRAVES TO RELEASE HER DEBUT ALBUM, SAME TRAILER DIFFERENT PARK, ON MARCH 19
MUSGRAVES RECEIVES NOMINATION FOR NEW FEMALE VOCALIST FOR THE 48TH ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS
EMBRACED BY ROLLING STONE, ESQUIRE AND NPR
Nashville, TN – Mercury Records singer/songwriter Kacey Musgraves will release her debut album, Same Trailer Different Park, on March 19th. The album is co-produced by Musgraves, Shane McAnally and Luke Laird and features her current single and top 15 hit “Merry Go ‘Round.” Musgraves wrote or co-wrote all tracks on the album.
“The making of this record was such a fun and meaningful time for me,” said Musgraves. “As a writer, singer and producer I learned so much throughout the whole process. I am proud and excited to present a project alongside Shane McAnally and Luke Laird that came from a very real and inspired place in my brain and heart.”
The 24-year-old Texas native has garnered massive critical acclaim with the release of “Merry Go ‘Round” and her reputation for portraying an honest and sometimes uncomfortable truth has been featured in multiple press outlets. Esquire named Musgraves as one of their “15 Music Artists to Watch” and said “This supernaturally effortless East Texan is a songwriter’s songwriter to the point where it’s going to be as fun hearing the songs that don’t wind up on the radio as the ones that do.”
Rolling Stone gave “Merry Go ‘Round” FOUR STARS and named it one of their “50 Best Songs of 2012” while NPR named her as their “Best New Artist of 2012” and included her in the “Best Music in 2013 preview.”
Musgraves recently received her first country music award nomination for New Female Vocalist for the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards held in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7. Fans can vote at www.VoteACM.com and www.GACtv.com/ACM January 21st – February 4th.
Little Big Town has invited Musgraves to open their Tornado Tour starting January 31st in Murray, KY and this summer she will join Kenny Chesney’s No Shoes Nation stadium tour. For a full list of tour dates please visit www.kaceymusgraves.com.
Download “Merry Go ‘Round” on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/KMMerryGoRound
Follow @KaceyMusgraves on Twitter: http://twitter.com/KACEYMUSGRAVES
Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KaceyMusgravesOfficial
Lady Antebellum have just released their brand new single, “Downtown,” the first single from their upcoming album due out later this year. The song is fresh, upbeat, sassy and fun, and as Lady A’s Hillary Scott says a bit “quirky.” She also is proud of the girl in the song as she stands up for herself. “I liked the girl in the song is not afraid to just be like, ‘What are you doing? Why aren’t you doing this?’” says Hillary. “Like being so forward and strong, just empowered, I think. I loved it. I love the voice that she has in the song.”
“There’s some sass to this track that makes it really fun to sing…it’s definitely a roll down the windows and bob your head kind of thing,” said Lady A’s Hillary Scott in a press release. “We thought it was a fun way to launch the next record and a fitting preview of what’s to come!”
Lady A will debut the track next week on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (January 28th) and fans can catch a second performance the following week on CBS’s The Talk (February 6th). The group also announced this week that they will collaborate with Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks for an all new CMT CROSSROADS episode set to tape next week in Los Angeles and air later this year.
AUDIO: Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott loves that the girl in the band’s new single, “Downtown,” is strong and unafraid.
Lady A (strong girl) OC: …in the song. :16
“I just loved it. I thought it was playful. I liked the girl in the song is not afraid to just be like, ‘What are you doing? Why aren’t you doing this? Like being so forward and strong, just empowered, I think. I loved it. I love the voice that she has in the song.”
AUDIO: Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott says the band’s new single is “fun.”
Lady A (quirky song) OC: …seriously. [laughs] :23
AUDIO: Lady Antebellum intro liner for “Downtown”
AUDIO: Lady Antebellum :90 vignette for “Downtown.”
Kacey Musgraves came by her artistic talent naturally. Her parents, sister, grandmother and cousins are all creative, but in different ways. The Texas native’s talent is obviously her penchant for capturing real life in song and music and being a conduit for that message with her voice. Her mother not only taught her to sing harmony, but also is an artist herself. “My mom’s an artist with all different kinds of mediums – paint – but she’s always working on something different. Last time, she had like this huge, life-sized horse that she had made out of driftwood, and it was beautiful,” says Kacey. “My Mee Maw, she’s a soap maker. She makes soap, and they’re beautiful and they smell really good and they’re all-natural. My sister has an Etsy store, and she’s constantly creating something and sewing pillows and taking pictures.” Her parents also own a print shop, which among other things, creates graphic designs for labels, T-shirts and more.
AUDIO: Kacey Musgraves comes from a very creative and artistic family.
Kacey Musgraves (creative family) OC: …and music. :51
“There’s not any musicians, per se, in my family. I mean, my mom has like a musical ear and can pick stuff out on the mandolin. She kinda taught me to sing harmony. But they’re all very creative in their own right, and it’s weird…my mom’s an artist with all different kinds of mediums – paint – but she’s always working on something different. Last time, she had like this huge, life-sized horse that she had made out of driftwood, and it was beautiful. My Mee Maw, she’s a soap maker. She makes soap, and they’re beautiful and they smell really good and they’re all-natural. My sister has an Etsy store, and she’s constantly creating something and sewing pillows and taking pictures. My dad and my mom have had a print shop for the past 20-plus years, where they do stuff like Kinkos, like faxes and copies, but then they also do graphic design for labels and T-shirts and stuff like that. So, everyone just kind of has their own, I don’t know what it is. Mine was singing and music.”
AUDIO: George Strait explains one of the reasons why they chose the cities for his final tour, The Cowboy Rides Away.
George Strait (cities on tour) OC: …set them up. :22
“We’re trying to go to cities that we have been going to for a long, long time. We’re trying to make one final appearance there. Like I said earlier, what if something comes up there that I want to do? I won’t have a problem, I’ll go do it. That’s kind of the way we chose the dates and set them up.”
Gary Allan arrives in stores with his new album, Set You Free, on Tuesday (January 22nd). Gary co-wrote five of the 12 songs on the project, including his current hit, “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain),” as well as co-produced the project with producers Mark Wright, Jay Joyce and Greg Droman.
The California native is very proud of his eighth studio album. “Anytime you put something out there, it’s nerve-wracking, and you just hope somebody likes it, but this is one of my favorite things I’ve done,” says Gary. “I’m really excited to get this out and see it fester and see what people gravitate towards.”
Catch Gary performing his hit single, “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain),” on NBC’s The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Wednesday (January 23rd).
Set You Free Track List:
1. “Tough Goodbye” (Josh Thompson / Tony Martin)
2. “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)” (Gary Allan / Hillary Lindsey / Matt Warren)
3. “Bones” (Keith Gattis)
4. “It Ain’t The Whiskey” (Greg Barnhill / Jim Daddario / Cole Deggs)
5. “Sand In My Soul” (Brad Warren / Brett Warren / Blair Daily)
6. “You Without Me” ” (Gary Allan / John Lancaster / Rachel Proctor)
7. “One More Time” (Gary Allan / Matt Warren / Hillary Lindsey)
8. “Hungover Heart” (Matt Warren / James LeBlanc)
9. “No Worries” (Gary Allan / Odie Blackmon / Pat McLaughlin)
10. “Drop” (Joel Shewmake / Bruce Wallace / Brian White)
11. “Pieces” (Gary Allan / Odie Blackman / Sarah Buxton)
12. “Good As New” (Pat McLaughlin / Billy Burnette)
AUDIO: Gary Allan says he’s very proud of his new album, Set You Free.
Gary Allan (best album) OC: …right now. :12
“This whole album, I’m really proud of the whole thing – that’s the best way to feel when you turn it into the label ‘cause I don’t ever choose. I don’t like to pick singles. I like [the label] to pick. I’ve got a great team right now. All of our ducks are in a row right now.”
AUDIO: Gary Allan says he’ll be a little nervous as he releases his new album, Set You Free, this week.
Gary Allan (release week) OC: …be positive. :28
“For me, it’s nerve-wracking in the sense, not watching the numbers, but watching what resonates and what people gravitate towards. I had the exact same feeling when I finished the record and I had to play it for Mike Dungan, the new head of our label, I felt like I was auditioning for my job. And anytime you put new music out there, because I’m so anti-people’s opinion when I’m making it, so when you’re done and you do put it out there, you just pray that it’s gonna be positive.”
AUDIO: Gary Allan says he is excited to release his new album, Set You Free.
Gary Allan (one of favorite albums) OC: …gravitate towards. :12
“Anytime you put something out there, it’s nerve-wracking, and you just hope somebody likes it. But this is one of my favorite things I’ve done. I’m really excited to get this out and see it fester and see what people gravitate towards.”
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