In celebration of her very first holiday album, A Very Kacey Christmas, Mercury Nashville’s Kacey Musgraves is set to perform on ABC’s Good Morning America (Nov. 30), NBC’s The Tonight Show (Dec. 1) and Late Night (Dec. 7) as well as CBS’ The Talk (Dec. 5). In addition, Kacey is one of the featured performers during tonight’s CMA Country Christmas airing at 8pm ET on ABC.

Produced by Musgraves, Misa Arriaga and Kyle Ryan, A Very Kacey Christmas includes four festive original tracks, co-written by Musgraves, as well as covers of eight holiday favorites. A Very Kacey Christmas features special guests such as Leon Bridges, Willie Nelson as well as The Quebe Sisters and was inspired by holiday classics from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties with specific influences including Bing Crosby in addition to the Andrews Sisters.

The album has already received positive early reviews with The Wall Street Journal noting, “Ms. Musgraves’s album is a kooky mélange of Western swing, Hawaiian music and classic pop.” The Tennessean praises, “A Very Kacey Christmas is the most delightful holiday release of 2016” and longtime music critic Tom Erlewine adds, “the Kacey Musgraves record is the best of the batch: clever, stylish and fun.”

The GRAMMY-Award winner recently launched her headlining A Very Kacey Christmas Tour this past weekend in Windsor, ON. Additional upcoming stops include Nashville, New York City and Washington, DC.

A Very Kacey Christmas is available now: https://goo.gl/y2JlW0

Additional information can be found at: www.KaceyMusgraves.com

Luke Bryan wrapped his 58-city Kill The Lights Tour at the end of October with six sold-out stadium shows including a double play in Boston’s Gillette Stadium, 10 sold out back-to-back concerts in five cities and 1.6 million fans. Today, Luke announced he will extend his Kill The Lights Tour into 2017.

Luke, two-time CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year, will begin the trek in Huntington, West Virginia at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena on February 17th. Luke returns to Madison Square Garden on March 1st where he performed a sold out show at the world’s most famous venue in 2014.

Brett Eldredge will open the Kill The Lights Tour 2017 shows.

Kill The Lights Tour 2017:

2-16     Huntington, WV          Big Sandy Superstore Arena

2-17     Bloomington, IN          Assembly Hall

2-18     Jonesboro, AR             ASU Convocation Center

2-23     Columbia, SC              Colonial Life Arena

2-25     Jacksonville, FL           Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena

3-1       New York, NY             Madison Square Garden

3-3       Manchester, NH           Verizon Wireless Arena

3-4       Providence, RI             Dunkin’ Donuts Center

3-9       Richmond, VA             Richmond Coliseum

3-10     Fayetteville, NC           Crown Coliseum

3-17     Orange Beach, AL       The Wharf

Live Nation is the national tour promoter for the Kill The Lights Tour and Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, is a sponsor. Citi is the official credit card of the Kill The Lights Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets through Citi’s Private Pass Program beginning Nov. 30. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.

About Luke Bryan
Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke has placed 17 singles at No.1 and sold nearly eight million albums. His fifth studio album, Kill The Lights, which is now certified Platinum, debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 (his third to do so) and Top Country Albums charts, closed out 2015 as the best-selling country album of the year and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list. Last month, Luke was honored at an industry party at the Country Music Hall of Fame to commemorate his recent string of 7 consecutive No.1 hits which have sold over 7 million tracks and more than 600 million total combined streams.  His Kill The Lights album has now sold 3.5 million tracks with over 400 million streams. Luke, a two-time ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year, co-hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards this year for the fourth consecutive year.

Kacey Musgraves will perform on the CMA Country Christmas special airing Monday (November 28th), and she’s offering up her own version of “Mele Kalikimaka,” as well as her original “Christmas Makes Me Cry,” which she co-wrote with Shane MacAnally and Brandy Clark for her new holiday album, A Very Kacey Christmas.

Kacey says sometimes Christmas is melancholy, so she decided to write a sad Christmas song for her new holiday album. “I bawled when we wrote it and it was really, really hard for me to actually sing, you know, and I’m away from my family a lot, and you know Christmas is a time to reunite and see people that you haven’t seen all year long and you realize that there’s a lot of distance in the ins and outs of everyday you don’t see each other,” she says. “So, for me, tapping into the sad side of Christmas was also, it was actually weirdly, ironically fun.”

The CMA Country Christmas special airs Monday (November 28th) at 8pm ET on ABC.

Easton Corbin has partnered again with Ram Trucks for its “#RamGivesThanks” online campaign as part of the Ram Nation grassroots volunteer corps of Ram owners and like-minded people willing and ready to lend a helping hand in their communities, especially throughout this season of praise and thanksgiving.

Corbin, a longtime Ram truck owner and partner, released the first in a series of “#RamGivesThanks” videos as part of the campaign. The video will be released in conjunction with the 90^th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade® where Corbin will perform “Let’s Ride,” the song he released exclusively for Ram Trucks.  Ram is the Official Truck of the Macy’s Parade and all parade floats are towed by Ram trucks. In the first #RamGivesThanks video, the No. 1 selling recording artist visited a fire station in his home state of Florida to praise the work by delivering a hot meal and saying thank you to the first responders for their service. This was very special to Corbin because his Dad was a law enforcement officer as well as a veteran and his step-brother a police officer.

“#RamGivesThanks” and Ram Nation are the Ram brand’s tribute to hard-working Americans and the story of people who are the backbone of the country.

Ram has partnered with Corbin several times in the past several years. He was one of five country music artists that participated in the Ram Truck brand’s 2012 “Road to the Ram Jam” sweepstakes and concert. Ram Trucks continued to work with Corbin in 2013 as part of the brand’s “Year of the Farmer” initiative highlighting the importance of farmers in America. As a former National FFA Organization member, Corbin made a series of visits and private concerts across the country to thank the hard-working and dedicated FFA members for all they do to further the notion that there’s a “farmer in all of us.”

RAM NATION

Ram Nation is a grassroots volunteer corps of Ram owners and like-minded people willing and ready to lend a helping hand in their communities when an opportunity arises. Truck owners interested in answering future calls to help, whether its mobilizing volunteers to assist in disaster relief efforts or proactive community outreach initiatives, can sign up for Ram Nation at RamTrucks.com/RamNation.

About Easton Corbin:
Mercury Nashville recording artist Easton Corbin is lauded for his traditional country sound, authentic lyrics and mastery of understatement. American Songwriter says, “Easton Corbin has one of those rare, glorious voices that was made—just made—for singing country music.” His self-titled debut album released in 2010 and spawned back-to-back hits “A Little More Country Than That” and “Roll With It;” making him the first country male artist in 17 years to have his first two consecutive singles reach No. 1.  In 2012 the Gilchrist County Florida native released his sophomore album, All Over The Road, which included the Top 5 hits “Lovin’ You Is Fun” and “All Over The Road.”  Corbin set a career-best debut on Country Airplay with his top 5 hit single, “Baby Be My Love Song,” from his No. 1 debuting album About To Get Real. Corbin is currently on tour with Carrie Underwood’s The Storyteller Tour. 

Click HERE for Easton Corbin’s Playlist.

About To Get Real is available now: http://umgn.us/AboutToGetReal

For more information on Easton Corbin go www.EastonCorbin.com

George Strait just released his new box set, Strait Out of the Box: Part 2, last Friday (November 18th), and one of the new songs garnering a lot of attention is “Kicked Outta Country,” which he co-wrote with Jamey Johnson after a conversation they had one night.

George says he’s been very fortunate and certainly very blessed to have the career he has right now. “It’s just something that happens at some point in everyone’s career. It doesn’t mean I have to like it, but ‘cause I always expected it was gonna come at some point. It’s a little hard to take after all these years to release something at radio, and it doesn’t get played anymore because for so long I just kinda got used to hearing things on the radio,” says George. “Anyway, the song’s kinda about that. I’ve been very fortunate, don’t get me wrong. I’ve had a lot of longevity in this business, and I’m very grateful for it. I’ve got a lot of great fans out there who still support me. They come out to my shows in Vegas and it’s a great night. It’s great seeing ‘em, and I’m very blessed.”

King George, who began his career before his 1981 hit “Unwound” hit the airwaves, says he still loves making music and will continue to do so as long as his fans want it.

The Country Music Hall of Famer and entertainer is definitely one of the hippest guys around. For example, George and Jamey weren’t in the same room, hell, probably not even the same state when they wrote the song. They did it by texting lyrics back and forth. “We wrote it all with texting,” says George. “We wrote the whole song texting. [laughs] Well, I mean people do it all the time now. It’s so common. I see Bubba Skyping and writing with somebody somewhere and it’s just so easy to do. Yeah, I just started scribbling stuff down and I’d send it, he’d send something back, I’d send something back and that’s the way it happened.”

I just wrote a new song today
I pulled out my old guitar, and I started to play
Pressing my fingers into the strings
I felt the feeling a country song brings

I did some Jones, and one for The Hag
Waylon and Willie, and the great Johnny Cash
They all got kicked outta country back then
But then one day country came calling again

Cash stomped out the footlights
Haggard, he had a ball
And Willie and Waylon, they stole the nation
And Jones showed up after all

The other new song on Strait Out of the Box Part Two is “Gotta Go Through Hell,” which George co-wrote with his son, Bubba, and iconic tunesmith Dean Dillon.

Strait Out of the Box Part Two, which also features his current single “Goin’, Goin’, Gone,” is available now exclusively through Walmart.

Don’t forget to tune in to see Easton Corbin as he appears in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as it makes its way down the streets of New York City on Thanksgiving Day (November 24th). He’ll be on the Colonel’s Roadtrip to NYC by Kentucky Fried Chicken float and will perform. He’ll then return to Carrie Underwood’s Storyteller Tour on Saturday (November 26th) in Las Vegas. Other country singers featured during the Macy’s parade include Brett Eldredge, Kelsea Ballerini and Maddie & Tae.

Eric Church will play the half-time show as the Dallas Cowboys play host to the Washington Redskins game Thanksgiving Day on Fox, kicking off the Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle Campaign.

The members of Lady Antebellum have been working hard in the studio getting ready for their next album.

Jon Pardi and Chase Rice have kicked off their Thanksgiving week by hunting together in Montana.

David Nail is back home in Missouri for the Thanksgiving holidays. When we say home, we really mean home. He and his wife are sleeping in his childhood room at his parents’ house.

Back in my childhood bed for the next few nights. I suppose this very bed is where the dream began. Who would've thought? #fighter

— David Nail (@davidnail) November 23, 2016

Canaan Smith has been touring with The Shires overseas for over a week, and he’s still at it. The trek has 14 more dates and is set to stop in Cardiff, Cambridge, Manchester, Glasgow, York and Liverpool before wrapping on December 11th in London.

George Strait just released his newbox set, Strait Out of the Box: Part 2 on Friday (November 18th), and it features a couple of new songs, including “Gotta Go Through Hell,” which he co-wrote with his son, Bubba, and celebrated tunesmith Dean Dillon. After listening to the song on which the legendary session guitarist Brent Mason played on, George said it kind of reminded him of the theme song from the HBO show, True Blood.

“I haven’t watched it in a long time, but when it was new I watched it a lot. So I heard that, I’m like hmmm, that sounds like something I remember,” says George. “And then I mentioned it. I don’t know if Brent played that on. He could have. It could be Brent. But he’s an amazing guitar player and the guitar part – well, all of his guitar parts are amazing. He plays on a lot of my sessions and most everything that I do.”

Strait  Out of the Box Part Two is a three-disc, 56-track collection, featuring 36 hit singles including 26 No. 1s, plus two brand new songs, his latest radio single “Goin’ Goin’ Gone” and 18 choice album cuts.

NOTE: “Bad Things” was written and recorded by Jace Everett, who was signed to Epic Records in Nashville in 2005.

Lauren Alaina’s voice shines bright on her rousing rendition of the holiday classic, “O Holy Night,” available today, Friday, Nov. 18. The celebratory Christmas anthem receives Lauren’s stunning vocal stamp and perfectly embodies the spirit of the season. Fans can preview and purchase the track HERE.

In addition to the timeless carol, Lauren’s latest single, “Road Less Traveled,” is currently climbing country radio’s Top 20. Written by Lauren with Meghan Trainor and Jesse Frasure, “Road Less Traveled” delivers an empowering message of self-acceptance and embracing your individuality.

Recognized by Rolling Stone as a “Must-See Act,” Lauren is currently touring with country icon Alan Jackson for his 25^th anniversary Still Keepin’ It Country Tour. The young star is one of CMT’s “Next Women of Country” and a Spotify “Spotlight on Country” featured artist. Lauren also joins Martina McBride in the new year for CMT’s annual Next Women of Country Tour.

For more information on Lauren, her music and touring news, please visit www.LaurenAlainaOfficial.com.

George Strait is releasing his new box set, Strait Out of the Box: Part 2, exclusively with Walmart on Friday (November 18th). This impressive three-disc, 56-track collection features 36 hit singles including 26 No. 1s, plus two brand new songs, his latest radio single “Goin’ Goin’ Gone” and 18 choice album cuts, all personally selected by the King of Country Music.

“So, I’ve got this new project coming out, Strait Out of the Box Part 2, and there’s 56 songs on it. Twenty-six of them are number-one records, and the rest are songs that I picked that might have got passed over but that I felt like were strong enough to probably be released if we would have done it,” says George. “So, hopefully, if somebody buys this Strait Out of the Box Part 2, they’ll hear some of those songs that maybe they’ve never heard before.”

Strait Out of the Box: Part 2 spans 20 years of Strait’s career from 1996 to 2016, following the highly successful, 8x Platinum-selling 1995 release, Strait Out of the Box. Strait is one of the most celebrated country music stars in history and Billboard recently named him No. 1 on the Greatest of All Time: Country Artists list. With 60 No. 1 singles and more than 70 million records sold, Strait has more No. 1 songs than any other artist and is third only to Elvis Presley and The Beatles with the most Gold and Platinum albums in history.

George says he’s looking forward to releasing a third box set at some point because he still has something to say.

“I do feel like I still have something to say. I feel like I have a lot of songs in me to write. I have a lot of ideas that I want to get out there for people to hear. I still feel relevant in this business. I feel like I can still sing as good as I ever could,” says Strait. “And my band is great. I love playing with them. Every night we’re out there. And so I don’t see – I can’t just see me not being a part of this. I want to get my records out there.”

Strait Out of the Box: Part 2 is available for only at Walmart.com.

Strait Out of the Box: Part 2 Track List:

Disc 1 (1996-2000)

1. Blue Clear Sky
2. Carried Away
3. Rockin’ In The Arms Of Your Memory
4. I Can Still Make Cheyenne
5. Round About Way
6. Carrying Your Love With Me
7. One Night At A Time
8. Today My World Slipped Away
9. The Nerve
10. I Just Want To Dance With You
11. True
12. Maria
13. We Really Shouldn’t Be Doing This
14. Meanwhile
15. Write This Down
16. The Best Day
17. Looking Out My Window Through The Pain
18. Go On

Disc 2 (2001-2008)

1. She’ll Leave You With A Smile
2. Run
3. Living and Living Well
4. My Life’s Been Grand
5. Cowboys Like Us
6. Desperately
7. Four Down and Twelve Across
8. I Hate Everything
9. Seashores of Old Mexico
10. She Let Herself Go
11. Give It Away
12. Wrapped
13. It Just Comes Natural
14. Texas Cookin’
15. How ’Bout Them Cowgirls
16. Come On Joe
17. Troubadour
18. River Of Love
19. I Saw God Today

Disc 3 (2009-2016)

1. Living For The Night
2. Out Of Sight Out Of Mind
3. Arkansas Dave
4. Love’s Gonna Make It Alright
5. Drinkin’ Man
6. Shame On Me
7. Here For A Good Time
8. House Across The Bay
9. Blue Marlin Blues
10. I’ll Always Remember You
11. Give It All We Got Tonight
12. I Just Can’t Go On Dying Like This
13. That’s What Breaking Hearts Do
14. The Night Is Young
15. I Believe
16. Goin’ Goin’ Gone
17. Everything I See
18. Kicked Outta Country*
19. You Gotta Go Through Hell*

 ACM Lifting Lives® announced today that Jon Pardi has been added to the string of nationwide ACM Lifting Lives Club Shows. Participating clubs have agreed to donate a portion of each ticket sold to ACM Lifting Lives, and the money raised will go to help fund organizations that are improving lives through the power of music. Cowboys Dancehall in San Antonio will host Pardi for this club benefit show on December 31st, with guests Midland opening the show. Tickets are available at http://bit.ly/2eGSVor.

Jon Pardi is one of country music’s fastest-rising newcomers. Pardi’s latest album, California Sunrise, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and has already landed on multiple “Best of the Year” lists including those from Rolling Stone, Music Aficionado, The Tennessean and NASH Country Daily. The album features Pardi’s Platinum-selling No. 1 hit “Head Over Boots” along with his current radio single, “Dirt On My Boots.” Pardi’s sound is undeniably country, and his laid back, fun-loving approach towards life comes through in his music and his raucous live show.

Sold-out ACM Lifting Lives Club shows have already taken place this year at Bluebird in Bloomington, IN; Boondocks in Springfield, IL; CMAC Events in Canandaigua, NY; Coyote Joe’s in Charlotte, NC; Dusty Armadillo in Rootstown, OH; Joe’s Bar in Chicago, IL; Joe’s Live in Rosemont, IL; Midnight Rodeo in Springfield, MO and Stoney’s Rockin’ Country in Las Vegas, NV featuring, Frankie Ballard, The Cadillac Three, Russell Dickerson, Chris Young & Cassadee Pope, Eli Young Band, LOCASH, Montgomery Gentry, Old Dominion, Parmalee, The Swon Brothers and A Thousand Horses.

About ACM Lifting Lives®
ACM Lifting Lives® is the philanthropic arm of the Academy of Country Music dedicated to improving lives through the power of music. Through partnerships with artists and strong ties in the music industry, ACM Lifting Lives develops and funds music-related therapy and education programs, and serves members of the community who face unexpected hardships through its Diane Holcomb Emergency Relief Fund. Through generous donations and the support of artists and fans, ACM Lifting Lives is able to fund everything from disaster relief and helping communities in need, to music education in schools and music camps for those with disabilities, to supporting programs that use music therapy as a means to help our veterans and wounded warriors, while providing grants to help them ease back into life. For more information, please visit www.ACMLiftingLives.org.