The GRAMMY Awards will be handed out on Sunday (February 12th), and several of your favorite country artists may be walking away with a trophy.

Keith Urban has nominations in three categories, including Best Country Solo Performance for his recent multi-week No. 1 song, “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” which is also up for Best Country Song. His record, Ripcord, competes for Best Country Album.

Dierks Bentley with Elle King are nnominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Different for Girls,” while Brothers Osborne are also up for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “21 Summer.”

Vince Gill scored a couple of nominations, including Best Americana Roots Song for penning “Kid Sister,” which is also the title of his Best Americana Album with his band The Time Jumpers.

Hillary Scott & the Scott Family are nominated for Contemporary Christian Song for “Thy Will” and Best Contemporary Christian Album for Love Remains.

Keith Urban will perform his latest single, “The Fighter,” with Carrie Underwood. Little Big Town will also perform on the show, in addition to previously announced performers Maren Morris, Adele, The Weeknd, Alicia Keys, as well as Sturgill Simpson, Gary Clark, Jr. and Chance The Rapper.

The 50th Annual Grammy Awards, hosted by James Corden, will air live from the Staples Center in L.A., February 12th at 8pm ET on CBS.

Best Country Solo Performance:
“Love Can Go To Hell” — Brandy Clark
“Vice” — Miranda Lambert
“My Church” — Maren Morris
“Church Bells” — Carrie Underwood
“Blue Ain’t Your Color” — Keith Urban

Best Country Duo/Group Performance:
“Different For Girls” — Dierks Bentley Featuring Elle King
“21 Summer” — Brothers Osborne
“Setting The World On Fire” — Kenny Chesney & P!nk
“Jolene” — Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton
“Think Of You” — Chris Young With Cassadee Pope

Best Country Song:
“Blue Ain’t Your Color” —  Clint Lagerberg, Hillary Lindsey & Steven Lee Olsen, songwriters (Keith Urban)
“Die A Happy Man” — Sean Douglas, Thomas Rhett & Joe Spargur, songwriters (Thomas Rhett)
“Humble And Kind” — Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim McGraw)
“My Church” — busbee & Maren Morris, songwriters (Maren Morris)
“Vice” — Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)

Best Country Album:
Big Day In A Small Town — Brandy Clark
Full Circle — Loretta Lynn
Hero — Maren Morris
A Sailor’s Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Ripcord — Keith Urban

The members of Little Big Town are among the artists paying tribute to The Bee Gees during a live concert taping that is scheduled to take place Tuesday (February 14th). The event, which is titled Stayin’ Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees, honors the 40th anniversary of the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. The group are scheduled to perform “How Deep is Your Love” on the show.

“Our first choice from our brainstorming was like ‘How Deep is Your Love,’ and we thought well somebody probably already took it. You know, I mean it’s such a great song, but they didn’t and so that’s going to be our moment,” says LBT’s Karen Fairchild. “And we’ve been working it up, you know, for the last week or so and we’ll go into rehearsals like right around the Grammys and get it all worked out. There’s a string section and everything it’s really, really going to be beautiful.

Keith Urban, Celine Dion, John Legend, Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, Tori Kelly, Nick Jonas and Pentatonix, as well as Barry Gibb, one of the co-founders of the famous brotherly trio, are also scheduled to perform during the concert, which will be broadcast at a later date on CBS.

Josh Turner will be among the artists celebrating the life and career of his hero, Randy Travis, on Wednesday (February 8th) at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. The concert event, 1 Night, 1 Place, 1 Time: A Heroes and Friends Tribute to Randy Travis, will also include performances by Garth Brooks, Alabama, Kenny Rogers, Chris Young, Jeff Foxworthy, Michael Ray, Scotty McCreery, Wynonna, Mark Chesnutt, Kane Brown, Chris Janson, Joe Nichols, Travis Tritt and many others. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Randy Travis Foundation for stroke research and rehabilitation.

Josh, who says he probably wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for Randy Travis, will perform “Three Wooden Crosses,” which Randy took to the top of the charts in 2003.

“Randy was the guy that basically got me thinking about doing this for a living. Had it not been for Randy, I don’t know if I would’ve had this passion in me to leave my home and everything I knew and come to a strange town and chase something that wasn’t guaranteed,” says Josh. “But Randy made it seem like ordinary guys could come and be a star, you know? He’s also taught me too that there’s more to it than just the stardom part of it. It’s all about how you treat people. It’s working hard; it’s maintaining an image; it’s maintaining your voice and your craft and just delivering quality to the fans year after year. He’s set that standard for guys like me, and I try to live up to that as much as I can.”

Josh is currently making his way up the country charts (nearing Top 15) with his latest single, “Hometown Girl,” from his upcoming album, Deep South, which is available March 10th.

Sam Hunt’s brand new single “Body Like A Back Road” impacts radio today as the No. 1 most-added song and the highest-debuting single of the country star’s career landing at No. 21 on the Billboard country airplay chart. Rolling Stone calls the tune written by Hunt, Zach Crowell, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, “a laid back, breezy track that’s pure summer.” The song also shot to No. 1 on the digital sales and streaming chart with over 61,000 tracks.

Hunt’s recently announced 15 In A 30 Tour with special guests Maren Morris, Chris Janson and Ryan Follese is one of summer’s most-anticipated tours and has already sold-out eight shows including two nights in Los Angeles, Denver and Nashville. New markets have been added to the tour and tickets for Phoenix go on sale this Fri, Feb. 10. Visit www.SamHunt.com for more details.

15 In A 30 Tour Dates

June 1              Cleveland, OH             Blossom Music Center

June 2              Indianapolis, IN           Klipsch Music Center

June 3              Cullman, AL                Rock the South

June 11            Hunter, NY                  Taste of Country Music Festival

June 15            Toronto, ONT              Budweiser Stage

June 16            Detroit, MI                   DTE Energy Music Theatre

June 17            Pittsburgh, PA              KeyBank Pavilion

June 23            Gilford, NH                 Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion

June 24            Hartford, CT                XFINITY Theatre

June 25            Holmdel, NJ                P.N.C. Bank Arts Center

July 7               St. Louis, MO              Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

July 8               Chicago, IL                  Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre**

July 9               Cincinnati, OH             Riverbend Music Center

July 13             Atlanta, GA                 Verizon Amphitheatre

July 14             Tampa, FL                   MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre

July 15             Miami, FL                    Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre

July 21             Bangor, ME                 Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion

July 22             Boston, MA                 Xfinity Center

July 23             Rochester, NY             Constellation Brands – Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center

July 27             Virginia Beach, VA     Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach

July 28             Raleigh, NC                 Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek

July 29             Charlotte, NC               PNC Music Pavilion

Aug 10             San Diego, CA             Sleep Train Amphitheatre

Aug 11             San Francisco, CA       Shoreline Amphitheatre

Aug 12             Sacramento, CA           Toyota Amphitheater

Aug 15             Los Angeles, CA          Greek Theatre

Aug 16             Los Angeles, CA          Greek Theatre

Aug 19             Phoenix, AZ                Ak-Chin Pavilion*

Aug 21             Denver, CO                 Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Aug 22             Denver, CO                 Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Sept 2              Lexington, KY             Red, White & Boom

Sept 15            Philadelphia, PA          BB&T Pavilion

Sept 16            Washington, DC          Jiffy Lube Live

Sept 22            Nashville, TN              Ascend Amphitheater

Sept 23            Nashville, TN              Ascend Amphitheater

Additional Dates To Be Announced

*On Sale Feb. 10

**On Sale Feb. 17

Live Nation is the official promoter of the 15 In A 30 Tour.

Since his 2014 Montevallo release, Hunt has accumulated over 2.53B streams and has earned an additional 10.5M in RIAA single certifications. Montevallo topped the Billboard Country Albums Chart in its first week and remains the best-selling debut album for a country artist since 2011. The album landed on multiple “Best of” lists including the Associated Press, Billboard, Country Weekly, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, SPIN Magazine, Village Voice and The Washington Post. It also produced a record-breaking four No. 1 singles and five Platinum and Multi-Platinum-selling hits including “Leave the Night On,” “House Party,” “Take Your Time,” “Break Up In A Small Town” and “Make You Miss Me.”

For information on Sam Hunt, his new single “Body Like A Back Road,” the 15 In A 30 Tour and more, visit www.SamHunt.com.

Keith Urban is set to co-host the third hour of NBC’s Today Show on Tuesday (February 7th).

Dierks Bentley, Lady Antebellum, Chris and Morgane Stapleton, and many others are featured on a new tribute album, Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams. The 11-track album will be released May 26th, in honor of Williams’ birthday the following day. See track list below.

Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams Track List: 
1. “Tulsa Time” –  Pistol Annies
2. “I Believe in You” – Brandy Clark
3. “We’ve Got a Good Fire Goin'” – Lady Antebellum
4. “Some Broken Hearts Never Mend” – Dierks Bentley
5. “Amanda” – Chris Stapleton feat. Morgane Stapleton
6. “Till The Rivers All Run Dry” – Alison Krauss
7. “Love Is On A Roll” – John Prine feat. Roger Cook
8. “If I Needed You” – Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires
9. “Maggie’s Dream” – Trisha Yearwood
10. “Lord I Hope This Day is Good” – Keb’ Mo’
11. “Good Ole Boys Like Me” – Garth Brooks

Four-time Grammy Award winner Keith Urban releases the fifth single from his Grammy Award-nominated album RIPCORD today.  “The Fighter,” featuring Carrie Underwood, comes on the heels of six consecutive #1 songs, including four from RIPCORD, highlighted by its predecessor “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” which received two Grammy Award nominations for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song.

“Writing ‘The Fighter’ came pretty quickly.  “I could hear most of the song already in my head on the ride to the studio that day, where busbee and I were already working. I was thinking about how long it’d been since I heard a song with a guy and girl actually speaking back and forth to each other.”

For “The Fighter,” Urban enlisted the help of 7-time Grammy-award winning, multi-platinum superstar, Carrie Underwood.

“It comes from a very real place,” said Urban.  “It’s a song about helping to heal and protect someone you love. It’s a song about reassurance that you’ll always be there to take the blows the world can throw.  Carrie and I had sung together before and I thought our voices blended really well – so she was unquestionably the right choice.  It was such a relief that she wanted to do it.”

“I loved the song when I first heard it and was excited to work with Keith on new music,” said Underwood.  “I had such a great time touring Australia and New Zealand with him in December, and can’t wait to perform “The Fighter” on The GRAMMY’S!”

“The Fighter” will see its broadcast debut, when Underwood takes the stage alongside Urban at the 59^th Annual Grammy Awards, Sunday, February 12^th on CBS.

For more official Keith Urban news and information go to www.keithurban.net or follow him on www.facebook.com/keithurban or @keithurban.

Keith Urban releases his new single, “The Fighter,” today. It’s a duet with Carrie Underwood, and the two debuted it live on stage when they toured together Down Under in December. Keith co-wrote the song, the follow-up to his 22nd No. 1 single “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” with busbee, who also co-wrote “Sun Don’t Let Me Down” and “Your Body,” which are also on the album, Ripcord.

Keith said he wanted to write a song that wasn’t a traditional duet, but more of a call-response type of song. “I thought I really would love to write a duet that isn’t the traditional guy and girl singing together, but the girl maybe asking a question and the guy answering her. The early part of relationships sometimes have that need for reassurance, and that’s certainly been my experience,” recalls Keith. “And so, the idea for ‘The Fighter,’ came up with the girl is asking ‘What if I fall?’ And the guy says, ‘I won’t let you fall,’ and she says, ‘If I cry?’ And he says, ‘I won’t make you cry.’ And then she says, ‘If I get scared,’ then he says, ‘I’ll hold you tighter and when the world’s trying to get to you, I’ll be your fighter.’”

Keith is nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Best Country Album (Ripcord), Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for “Blue Ain’t Your Color.”

The 59th Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live from the Staples Center in L.A. February 12th at 8pm ET on CBS.

Brothers Osborne is looking forward to the GRAMMY Awards next Sunday (February 12^th). The duo is nominated for the second time in the Best Country Duo/Group Performance category for their song “21 Summer.” Last year, they were nominated in the same category for their No. 1 hit, “Stay a Little Longer.”

John Osborne says he gravitates toward the performances, especially last year’s between Stevie Wonder and Pentatonix. “I do love the performances and just being in the same room with Stevie Wonder ever,” says John. “Last year he performed with Pentatonix, and it was just insane. It’s one of those things where I keep finding, I’m trying to watch the show, but my head just naturally gravitates to look at Stevie Wonder. Thank God he can’t see, because if he looked at me, I’d look like the biggest creeper ever. I’m just kind of freaking out.”

The guys are currently making their way up the country charts with their new song, “It Ain’t My Fault.”

Luke Bryan took to the stage to perform the National Anthem prior to Super Bowl 51, pitting the Atlanta Falcons against the New England Patriots. The Georgia native performed an a capella version of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” hitting every note flawlessly, earning loud cheers from the crowd and numerous congrats from artists on social media.

Among friends who were there to witness it in person, were Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker with his son Jack and his father.

Luke, whose single “Fast” is currently climbing the country charts, will kick off the final leg of his Kill the Lights Tour February 16th in Huntington, West Virginia.

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— Karen Fairchild (@KarenFairchild) February 5, 2017

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Easton Corbin’s new single, which was written by Ashley Gorley, Jesse Frasure and Rhett Akins, has a new energy and sound that the singer says “makes you feel good.”

“I love ‘A Girl Like You,’ because it has so much energy and it’s so young and it kind of has that bounce on it. It just really makes you feel good when you hear it. I know when I first heard it, it made me really feel good,” says Easton. “Also, what drew me to this song was, it’s a little different than anything I’ve done. I’m all about going up there and trying new things, as long as I can always kinda keep my traditional country there, but also the current sound. I think that’s the key here is to keep your foot in traditional, which is what I do, but also have that element of fresh and new.”

Easton will play “A Girl Like You” when he stops in Columbus, Ohio February 10th.