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  • KIP MOORE MAKES TIME TO VISIT ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL.

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    Kip Moore visited St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® last week in Memphis, TN and spent time with patients as they got creative with some arts activities.  The visit comes as Moore gears up to headline Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater next month, as part of “The Big 98’s Annual Guitar-B-Que Benefitting St. Jude.” Watch highlights from Moore’s visit here.

    Moore recently revealed dates for his headlining ME AND MY KIND TOUR, which will see Moore visit cities across the US and Canada through early December and includes red-hot newcomer Jon Pardi. A constant road warrior that continues to be “met with more deafening applause” (CMT) Moore is currently on the road for Miranda Lambert’s Keeper Of The Flame Tour.  Hailed as a “career song” by Billboard, Moore’s current single “Running For You” continues to climb the charts and is taken from Moore’s critically acclaimed sophomore album WILD ONES, that Taste of Country deems is “tailored for his live show and the thousands of die-hard fans that pack theaters several times each week to see him,” and Huffington Post declares as “one heck of an album… set to produce hit after hit after hit.” WILD ONES follows Moore’s debut album UP ALL NIGHT which was certified GOLD by the RIAA and spawned three No. One hit singles including GOLD certified “Beer Money,” PLATINUM certified “Hey Pretty Girl,” and the DOUBLE PLATINUM breakout hit “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck.”

    For more information and a full list of tour dates visit kipmoore.net.

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    Kip Moore with Tyler, a patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

    Kip Moore with patients Keandra, Alyssa and Tyler

  • DIERKS BENTLEY RELEASES THE VIDEO FOR ‘DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS.’

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    Dierks Bentley released the new music video for his latest single, “Different for Girls,” featuring Elle King, today (July 20th). The Today Show went behind-the-scenes of the video, which was filmed at a soundstage in Brooklyn, New York.

    Check out both the video and the behind-the-scenes clip below.

     

    Video / BTS of the "Different For Girls" music video

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  • DIERKS BENTLEY SET TO PREMIERE THE VIDEO FOR ‘DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS’ WITH DUET PARTNER, ELLE KING.

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    Dierks Bentley premieres the video for his latest single, “Different for Girls,” his duet with Elle King on NBC’S Today Show and Access Hollywood on Wednesday (July 20th). Additionally, Today host Dylan Dreyer sits down with the collaborators on the Brooklyn, New York set as they share a behind-the-scenes look with fans at the making of the video (7/20 at 9:00A ET/CT on NBC). “Different For Girls” enters the  Top 20 this week.

    “I like how the song creates some dialogue about the different ways guys and girls deal with heartbreak,” said Bentley. “The video shows both sides of the stereotype and in the end, the ‘girl’ is the one who works through it and is able to move on.  Wes and I have made a lot of videos together, and he always nails it.”

    Hailed as a stand out track by critics ranging from Rolling Stone to PEOPLE to StereoGum, the thought provoking new video was directed by Wes Edwards and follows two people as they navigate the seemingly insurmountable task of getting over a broken heart.

    “The same character who handles a breakup with a mind-numbing bender in ‘Beach’ reaches a new level of maturity in ‘Different for Girls,’ recognizing that women typically take a more sensible approach to emotional healing” – Billboard

    For more information and a full list of tour dates for visit www.dierks.com

  • SAM HUNT ENTERS THE TOP 10 WITH HIS LATEST SINGLE, ‘MAKE YOU MISS ME.’

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    Sam Hunt has cracked the Top 10 on the country charts with his latest single, “Make You Miss Me,” which  makes him the first solo male artist since Mark Chesnutt in 1991 to have songs from his debut album hit Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.

    The song, which Sam wrote with Josh Osborne, Matt Ramsey, is about a guy who wants to make himself as unforgettable to a particular girl as possible.

    It’s implied that he wants to make her miss him the way that he misses her when she’s not with him,” says Sam. “The attitude of the singer is a confident one, but there’s also a vulnerability there because he really likes this girl and he misses her, so his only option is to make sure that he’s not forgettable, and he figures out a way to make her miss him.”

    You can catch Sam performing “Make You Miss Me” when he makes a stop at Cheyenne Frontier Days Thursday (July 22nd) and at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington on Friday (July 23rd) as part of Kenny Chesney’s 2016 Spread the Love Stadium Tour.

    Audio / Sam Hunt explains what the guy is doing in the song “Make You Miss Me.”

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    “This sentiment came out of knowing a girl who, and girls in general, that tend to have the personality to be very into something one minute and over it the next, and not really ever having been in a relationship with a guy because she was over before it could get started. This is a song about a guy who says he’s not gonna let that happen. He’s gonna be memorable. He’s gonna make her miss him. It’s implied that he wants to make her miss him the way that he misses her when she’s not with him. The attitude of the singer is a confident one, but there’s also a vulnerability there because he really likes this girl and he misses her, so his only option is to make sure that he’s not forgettable, and he figures out a way to make her miss him.”

  • LUKE BRYAN PLAYS HIS FIRST TWO-NIGHT STADIUM STAND IN BOSTON.

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    This past weekend, reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan  played his first two-night stadium stand at Gillette Stadium in Boston (Foxborough) – home to four-time Super Bowl Champions New England Patriots and the first of five stadiums Bryan will play this year on his Kill The Lights Tour. Bryan was joined this weekend by Little Big Town, Chris Stapleton, Dustin Lynch and DJ Rock.  View an excerpt from the show HERE.

    Luke made headlines at the Boston Globe with his “winning moves” and was touted as “a virtuoso”.  The Sun Chronicle headline emphasized Luke being in his “musical prime” and “keeping the audience on their feet.”

    Luke’s upcoming stadium concerts include the grand opening of U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, MN on August 19th, the new home of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, his debut at the iconic Wrigley Field in Chicago on August 27th and the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX on October 22. He closes out the tour on October 29th with a return to Ford Field in Detroit, MI.

    For information on tickets go to www.ticketmaster.com. Citi is the official credit card of the Kill The Lights Tour. Live Nation is the national tour promoter.

    The Kill The Lights Tour is in promotion of Luke’s Platinum-selling, No. 1 debuting Kill The Lights album which became the best-selling country album of 2015 and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genreBillboard Top 200 Year-End list. Kill The Lights contains four consecutive No. 1 singles, “Kick The Dust Up,” “Strip It Down,” the two-week No. 1 single “Home Alone Tonight” featuring Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town and most recently “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Everyday.”

    Kill The Lights Tour
    7-21                 Scranton, PA                         The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
    7-22                 Pittsburgh, PA                       First Niagara Pavilion
    7-23                 Pittsburgh, PA                       First Niagara Pavilion
    7-28                 Canandaigua, NY                 Constellation Brands Marvin Sands PAC
    7-29                 Philadelphia, PA                    BB&T Pavilion
    7-30                 Philadelphia, PA                    BB&T Pavilion
    7-31                 Saratoga Springs, NY           Saratoga Performing Arts Center
    8-11                 Cleveland, OH                       Blossom Music Center
    8-12                 Cleveland, OH                       Blossom Music Center
    8-13                 Cincinnati, OH                      Riverbend Music Center
    8-14                 Cincinnati, OH                      Riverbend Music Center
    8-19                 Minneapolis, MN                 U.S. Bank Stadium
    8-21                 Calgary, AB                          Country Thunder Calgary*
    8-25                 Kansas City, MO                   Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
    8-26                 St. Louis, MO                       Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
    8-27                 Chicago, IL                          Wrigley Field
    9-1                   Charlotte, NC                        PNC Music Pavilion
    9-2                   Raleigh, NC                           Walnut Creek Amphitheater
    9-3                   Raleigh, NC                           Walnut Creek Amphitheater
    9-8                   Brookings, SD                       Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium
    9-9                   Denver, CO                           Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
    9-10                 Denver, CO                           Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
    9-15                 Sacramento, CA                   Toyota Amphitheatre
    9-16                 Mountain View, CA               Shoreline Amphitheatre
    9-17                 Chula Vista, CA                    Sleep Train Amphitheater
    9-22                 Phoenix, AZ                          Ak-Chin Pavilion
    9-23                 Los Angeles, CA                   Forum
    9-24                 Irvine, CA                              Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
    9-30                 Salt Lake City, UT                USANA Amphitheatre
    10-1                 Salt Lake City, UT                 USANA Amphitheatre
    10-2                 Las Vegas, NV                       Luxor Festival Grounds / Route 91*
    10-22               Arlington, TX                       AT&T Stadium ***
    10-29               Detroit, MI                            Ford Field
    Dates and Cities subject to change
    *festival date
    **no Little Big Town
    ***Chris Stapleton joins

    Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke has placed 16 singles at No. 1 and sold nearly eight million albums with 30 million digital tracks from his five studio albums. He has twice been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. His fifth studio album, Kill The Lights, debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 (his third to do so) and Top Country Albums charts and closed 2015 with the best-selling country album of the year and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list. In Luke’s stellar 2015 year, he performed for 1.5 million fans in concert, had three albums on the Top 15 Year-End Country Albums list- Kill the Lights (#1), Spring Break…Checkin’ Out (#10) and Crash My Party (#15), was the most streamed artist of 2015, placed six songs in the Year-End Top Country Streaming Tracks list, had his own exhibit at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (“Luke Bryan: Dirt Road Diary”), performed live during halftime at the Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving and wrapped up the year with a live Times Square performance on ABC’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” Luke recently co-hosted the ACM Awards for a fourth consecutive year and is performing in venues and stadiums across the U.S. on his “Kill The Lights Tour” through this fall.  
    For up to date information on Luke, the tour and tickets go to www.lukebryan.com or www.livenation.com.  

  • DAVID NAIL FULFILLS A GOAL WITH HIS NEW ALBUM, ‘FIGHTER.’

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    David Nail’s new album, Fighter, will be making a lot of people happy when they listen to all 11 tracks, and for David, that’s wonderful, but he also wanted to make himself happy. His fourth studio album, which was released on Friday (July 15th), includes several fulfilling goals for the singer, including his collaboration with one of his biggest influences, Vince Gill, on the song “I Won’t Let You Go.”

    “I always treat a record like if this is my swan song, like if this is the last piece of music that I ever make, selfishly like I want to push my buttons,” says David. “I want to make me happy. I want it to fulfill some of my goals in life. One of my biggest influences in the world is Vince Gill, so I kinda had always wanted Vince to sing on a song…I’m so thankful and so blessed that he said yes.”

    David wrote or co-wrote seven of the 11 songs on the album and even recorded other collaborations with Lori McKenna on “Home,” Logan Brill on “Champagne Promise,” Brothers Osborne on “Good at Tonight,” as well as “Old Man’s Symphony,” which features Bear and Bo Rinehart of Needtobreathe.

    On Sunday (July 17th), David threw out the first pitch at the Philadelphia Phillies baseball game as they played host to the New York Mets.

    David is set to perform his latest single, “Night’s on Fire,” on NBC’s Today Show on Monday (July 18th).

    Fighter is available now: http://umgn.us/fighter

    Audio / David Nail talks about the collaboration he did with Vince Gill on his new album, Fighter.

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    David Nail (collaborations) 1 OC: …he said yes. :53
    “I always treat a record like if this is my swan song, like if this is the last piece of music that I ever make, selfishly like I want to push my buttons. I want to make me happy. I want it to fulfill some of my goals in life. One of my biggest influences in the world is Vince Gill, so I kinda had always wanted Vince to sing on a song, but it was always like why ask him to sing on a song just so you could say you had Vince Gill on a song. But when I wrote that song, we decided that we were gonna record it and when we started recording it, it was just the most obvious things in the world. I’m so thankful and so blessed that he said yes.”

    Audio / David Nail is proud of the collaborations with Vince Gill, Lori McKenna, Brothers Osborne, Logan Brill and Bo and Bear Rinehart on his new record, Fighter.

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    David Nail (collaborations) 2 OC: …as an artist. :54
    “I just felt like there was some people that were my idea. Lori McKenna helped write ‘Home,’ and just hearing her sing the demo was really important for me to have her. I love her voice. The Brothers Osborne song they co-wrote, so it was just natural. I’d just been on the road with them for three or four months. This sounds really ridiculous, but hey man, if it all ends tomorrow, like I can go back to Kennett, Missouri and say, ‘Man! Vince Gill just sang on my record. Lee Ann Womack just sang on my record, Lori McKenna, Sarah Buxton, you know, and that makes me feel like hey, not only were they great songs, but those people thought enough of me as an artist to agree to do it, to want to do it, to be a part of it, and so that’s fulfilling to me as an artist.”

  • CANAAN SMITH INTRODUCES A NEW INITIATIVE, SMASH CANCER.

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    Canaan Smith just announced his new charitable initiative, Smash Cancer, which benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. On stage earlier this year, Smith had an impulse to smash something, and seeing the overwhelming fan response led Canaan to an idea of how to make all this fun on stage also an opportunity for one of the charities he holds most dear.

    Canaan now autographs the drum and auctions it off after each show to fans in attendance to raise money for the organization. Prior to its official launch, Smash Cancer has already raised nearly $20,000 for St. Jude, with Guitar Center generously donating a considerable number of drum sets and guitars to the cause.

    Go to his tour page to catch where he’s making a “smash” next.

    Video / Canaan Smashes a drum for St. Jude

  • ERIC PASLAY HAS RELEASED HIS NEW SINGLE, ‘ANGELS IN THIS TOWN.’

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    Platinum-selling singer/songwriter Eric Paslay has released his new single “Angels In This Town” to radio stations across the country and it is now available for download and streaming at all digital retail outlets. To stream the song, visit the “Angels In This Town” playlist HERE.
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    Photo by Kevin Grace and Original Street Art by Kelsey Montague“As of late, our world has been impacted by tragedy of all kinds. I’m so grateful we can use ‘Angels in This Town’ to shine a light on all the good that happens every day in our world,” said Paslay. “I’m excited for it to be heard and for it to bring hope and positivity into people’s lives.”


    Paslay will be a special guest on the nationally syndicated radio show, “The Bobby Bones Show,” when “Angels in This Town” is played live on Monday, July 18th. “I am super-pumped to be playing this song on the Bobby Bones show. The message of Pimpin’ Joy and ‘Angels In This Town’ come from the same book,” said Paslay.

    The unique single art is by Original Street Art by Kelsey Montague, located at 11th Ave. South in the Gulch, between the Gulch Crossing and Velocity buildings, Nashville, Tenn.  Montague is an internationally renowned artist that explores how public art, interactive art and social media intersect.  Her murals invite people into the piece and then to share online.  “I believe that art should not be separated from the human experience.  Instead the human experience should have a hand in creating the art itself,” said Montague on her website. To learn more about Montague and her work go to www.kelseymontagueart.com

    “I’m so happy to be working with another creative who is also committed to lifting and inspiring others,” said Montague.

    Paslay adds, “Kelsey is such an amazing artist and I am so excited to partner with her for this artwork. To be a little part of this is a real honor for me. Her signature, #whatliftsyou and her imagery really go hand-in-hand with what “Angels In This Town” is all about.”

    “Angels In This Town,” was written by Paslay, Corey Crowder and Erik Dylan, from his forthcoming sophomore album, DRESSED IN BLACK.

    About Eric Paslay
    EMI Records Nashville breakout country artist, Eric Paslay, delivers a powerful punch as a renowned, Platinum-selling, hit songwriter and dynamic performer. Paslay has celebrated five No. 1 hits including “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” (Eli Young Band), “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” (Jake Owen), “Angel Eyes” (Love & Theft), “Rewind” (Rascal Flatts) and “Friday Night,” the smash lead single from his critically acclaimed self-titled debut album. The Temple, Texas native earned nominations for GRAMMY Best Country Song, ACM Song of the Year and CMA Song of The Year for “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” in 2013 and earned his first GRAMMY nomination as an artist in 2016 for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “The Driver”- a collaboration with friends Charles Kelley and Dierks Bentley. Most recently he was honored with an ACM Song of the Year nomination for “She Don’t Love You” at the 2016 ACMs in Las Vegas. A true artist’s artist, USA Today calls Paslay “flat out-brilliant” and American Songwriter names him an influencer of country music.

    Paslay has joined friends Chris Young and Brad Paisley on tour this past year and is currently out with Toby Keith this summer as part of The Interstates and Tailgates Tour, Presented by Ford F-Series. On the road he has been sharing new songs with fans from his forthcoming sophomore album, DRESSED IN BLACK, including his brand new single “Angels in This Town”- an especially meaningful song for Paslay as it celebrates not only the unexplained miracles in life but also local heroes around the world.

    For the latest information on Paslay go to:

  • ALAN JACKSON IS PART OF NEW ROCK’N ROLL HALL OF FAME EXHIBIT.

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    Alan Jackson is among the more than 50 musical artists featured in a new exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Louder Than Music: Rock, Power & Politics chronicles a variety of times, places and moments where music and American history have crossed paths over the last several decades – Alan is represented by the Jim Triggs guitar he played onstage at the 2001 CMA Awards ceremony in Nashville, where he first performed his iconic “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning),” a song inspired by the events and aftermath of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. The exhibit also includes Alan’s handwritten lyrics of the song.
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    Alan’s guitar is featured alongside artifacts and items from such wide-ranging talents as Beyonce, Bob Dylan, Lady Gaga, U2’sBono and Keith Richards…as well as superstars and music icons such as John Lennon, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder. Louder Than Music: Rock, Power & Politics is open now – the exhibit runs at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland through November 27 (Thanksgiving Weekend), when it will be packed and moved to The Newseum in Washington, DC to be placed on display a week ahead of next year’s Presidential Inauguration.

    “Where Were You” captured a still-reeling nation’s emotions unlike any other song – it would go on to be honored with Grammy, CMA and ACM Awards and other accolades…and, 15 years after the events of September 2001, remains a staple of Jackson’s concerts due to fan demand.

    Jackson recently celebrated his 25th year as a member of the Grand Ole Opry with an appearance on its world-famous stage…and he just spent a month at the top of Billboard’s all-genre Music DVD chart with Keepin’ It Country: Live at Red Rocks, a concert DVD captured on tour at the revered Colorado concert venue in 2015. Jackson’s Keepin’ It Country Tour – extended from 2015 into this year – continues this summer with performances this weekend at Ohio’s iconic Jamboree in the Hills (July 15) and the Faster Horses Festival in Michigan (July 17). More shows – available at www.alanjackson.com – follow in August and through the fall.

    ABOUT ALAN JACKSON:
    The man from rural Newnan, GA, who claims he is just a “singer of simple songs,” has sold nearly 60-million albums worldwide and ranks as one of the 10 best-selling male vocalists of all-time in all genres. He has released more than 60 singles – registering 50 Top Ten hits and 35 #1s (including 26 Billboard chart-toppers). He has earned more than 150 music industry awards – including 18 Academy of Country Music Awards, 16 Country Music Association Awards, a pair of Grammys and ASCAP’s Founders and Golden Note Awards. Jackson received the first-ever ASCAP Heritage Award in 2014 having earned the title of most-performed country music songwriter-artist of ASCAP’s first 100 years. He is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry.
    Alan Jackson is one of the most successful and respected singer-songwriters in music. He is in the elite company of Paul McCartney and John Lennon among songwriters who’ve written more than 20 songs that they’ve recorded and taken to the top of the charts. Jackson is one of the best-selling artists since the inception of SoundScan, ranking alongside the likes of Eminem and Metallica. Jackson’s current album, Angels and Alcohol, topped the country album charts when it was released last summer. He is also the subject of a new box set, Genuine: The Alan Jackson Story, available now

  • DAVID NAIL IS A ‘FIGHTER’ FOR HIS CURRENT SINGLE.

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    David Nail releases his new album, Fighter, on Friday (July 15th), and it features his latest single “Night’s on Fire,” which he fought pretty hard to include on his latest album.

    “I knew there was a story behind it, and sure enough it was on hold with another artist. I thought to myself – I won’t say the name – but they had just released a single so I knew they couldn’t be recording it any time soon,” says David. “So, that’s really the first time that I’ve ever tried to manipulate the situation with a song. I immediately started saying, ‘Well, that person’s not close to making a record. They just released another song off this record, and here I am going in the studio next Wednesday. Do you want to guarantee yourself a cut?’ You know, just playing that whole game that publishers and labels and artists play. I even went to the songwriter Jonathan Singleton and was in his ear and texting him.”

    David wrote or co-wrote seven of the 11 songs on Fighter, his fourth studio album.

    Fighter Track List:

    1. “Good at Tonight (featuring Brothers Osborne)
    2. Night’s on Fire
    3. Ease Your Pain
    4. Home (featuring Lori McKenna)
    5. Lie With Me
    6. I Won’t Let You Go (featuring Vince Gill)
    7. Fighter
    8. Babies
    9. Got Me Gone
    10. Champagne Promise
    11. Old Man’s Symphony (featuring Bear and Bo Rinehart of NEEDTOBREATHE)

    Audio / David Nail really wanted to record his hit single, “Night’s on Fire.”

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    David Nail (wanted Night’s on Fire) OC: …texting him. :52
    “For whatever reason, I just felt like there was some drama with this song. And I just said, ‘Hey! Is this something I have access to if I fall in love with it?’ I knew there was a story behind it, and sure enough it was on hold with another artist. I thought to myself – I won’t say the name – but they had just released a single so I knew they couldn’t be recording it any time soon. So, that’s really the first time that I’ve ever tried to manipulate the situation with a song. I immediately started saying, ‘Well, that person’s not close to making a record. They just released another song off this record, and here I am going in the studio next Wednesday. Do you want to guarantee yourself a cut?’ You know, just playing that whole game that publishers and labels and artists play. I even went to the songwriter Jonathan Singleton and was in his ear and texting him.”