NASHVILLE, Tenn. (August 12, 2015) – This morning on a live interview with SiriusXM’s The Highway, dynamic country newcomer Clare Dunn announced her forthcoming five-song EP due out September 18 on MCA Nashville. Included on the EP is Clare’s major label radio debut, “Move On,” which country star Dierks Bentley calls out as a “bad ass song” with a “totally unique vibe.”

Clare co-wrote and co-produced all five songs on her EP, presenting a gratifying blend of country and rock. NPR asserts the “Colorado-raised country newcomer is a little bit Florence, a little bit Bonnie and a whole lot rock and roll.” This magnetic rising star also plays lead guitar on every track both in the studio and in her impressive live show. Clare is a fearless performer and guitar player, drawing numerous comparisons to Bonnie Raitt and Keith Urban while recently out on tour with American rock icon Bob Seger. The Boston Globe commends Clare’s “big voice and serious guitar prowess,” while Rolling Stonenotes, “it’s easy to see why Seger himself recruited her [Clare] to open for him on his last tour.”

In addition to earning praise from Billboard, NPR, Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, USA Today and more, Clare has been tapped to join Miranda Lambert on the Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour as well as Chris Young on the I’m Comin’ Over Tour this fall.

Clare Dunn EP Track Listing:

1.  Ferrari (Clare Dunn, Jennifer Decilveo)

2.  Move On** (Clare Dunn, Jesse Frasure)

3.  Tuxedo* (Clare Dunn, Ben West, Brett James)

4.  Old Hat * (Clare Dunn, Tom Douglas)

5.  Cowboy Side Of You*** (Clare Dunn, Terry McBride, Brandon Hood)

Produced by Clare Dunn

*Produced by Clare Dunn and Ben West

**Produced by Clare Dunn and Jesse Frasure

***Produced by Clare Dunn and Terry McBride

For information, music, tour dates and more on Clare Dunn, please visit, www.ClareDunn.com.

Audio / Clare Dunn talks about the excitement of going into the recording studio to record her own music for the first time.

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“That thrill and that moment, that realization that ‘Oh my God, this is real. I really get to do this.’ I dreamed for so long of actually getting to go and work in my own studio and be able to have place that I could call my own. I’m not having to worry about being kicked of, like am I sneaking in here in somebody else’s session? It was my space and my little world. It was my piece of the world that I got to just do whatever I wanted, and that freedom of that was something that I never experienced and so I just soaked it up. I tried to get them to let me bring a couch in there so I could sleep. And they were like “Ehh well, you’re going to need a shower. We don’t want you running around here smelling up the place and whatever.’”

Luke Bryan performed his latest single, “Strip It Down,” on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night. He also played the popular game, Catchphrase, along with actor Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU, Oz). Check both out below.

With the NFL preseason beginning and college football games taking place, Billy Currington’s latest single, “Drinking Town with a Football Problem” is the perfect soundtrack. The Georgia native has always been a football fan, even dating back to when he was a kid and was a big Dallas Cowboys fan.

“I’m a big football fan. I mean, when I was growing up, if you asked me who my favorite team is now, I couldn’t tell you,” says Billy. “But when I was a kid, it was the Dallas Cowboys. And I don’t know if it was because my mom bought my brother a Pittsburgh Steelers pennant for some reason, and bought me a Dallas Cowboys pennant, and of course over the year I fell in love with the Cowboys, and then I wanted a jersey the next Christmas, and then the next one, I wanted [more Cowboys stuff]. So, I became a long-term fan with those guys. But I like it all now that I’m older. I’ll watch any game, it doesn’t matter who’s playing.”

“Drinking Town With a Football Problem” is from Billy’s latest album, Summer Forever.

You can catch Billy performing his latest hit on the road with Tim McGraw’s Shotgun Rider Tour. The next stop on the tour is Friday (August 14th) in Birmingham, Alabama.

You can sing with Luke Bryan! Download Sing! Karaoke by Smule‘s app and you can sing along to “Kick The Dust Up” with Luke too. http://bit.ly/Sing-With-LukeBryan

Check out a sampling below.

Luke Bryan’s new album, Kill The Lights, hits stores and all online retailers on Friday (August 7th). The 13-track collection was produced by Jeff Stevens and his son Jody Stevens and contains 13 songs, six of which were co-written by Luke including the title track.

Luke hopes fans who pick up a copy of Kill the Lights will have all of their expectations fulfilled. “I want them to be going ‘Oh yeah, this is what we wanted, this is what we expect,’ Luke explains. “I think when you hear ‘Kick the Dust Up’ right off the bat, it sets a tone that I’m right here with what I am, but then when you start getting into ‘Kill the Lights’ and hear that new kind of sound of that song, and then even with some of the other tracks like ‘Fast’ and then even ‘To the Moon and Back,’ those go down that ‘Drink a Beer’ seriousness that I was able to do a little bit on Crash My Party. And now it worked on Crash My Party, and now I’m confident to do it certainly on this album and more albums to come.”

And for those of you who want even more Luke Bryan music, Target has an exclusive Kill the Lights package with three additional songs, all of which the Georgia native co-wrote.

Kill the Lights is the follow up to 2013′s Crash My Party, which has been Luke’s most successful album to date. The album includes six consecutive No. 1 singles, been certified double platinum after selling more than two million copies, along with eight million digital downloads overall.

He’s headlining his Kick the Dust Up Tour, which features opening acts Randy Houser and Dustin Lynch. The trek also includes seven stadium dates, which also feature Florida Georgia Line, as well as Thomas Rhett on select dates.

Luke, the reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year, will perform on Good Morning America Friday as part of the show’s 2015 Summer Concert Series in Central Park. He’ll also perform his new single, “Strip It Down,” on NBC’s Tonight Show on Monday (August 10th).

Kill The Lights Track List:

​1.  Kick The Dust Up (Dallas Davidson, Chris Destefano and Ashley Gorley)
2.  Kill The Lights (Luke Bryan, Jody Stevens and Jeff Stevens)
3.  Strip It Down (Luke Bryan, Jon Nite and Ross Copperman)
4.  Home Alone Tonight (Featuring Karen Fairchild) (Jody Stevens, Cole Taylor, Jaida Dreyer and Tommy Cecil)
5.  Razor Blade (Jeff Hyde, Ryan Tyndell and Rodney Clawson)
6.  Fast (Luke Bryan, Rodney Clawson and Luke Laird)
7.  Move (Luke Bryan, Michael Carter and Jay Clementi)
8.  Just Over (Chase McGill, Brad Tursi and Jessie Jo Dillon)
9.  Love It Gone (Jody Stevens and Jay Clementi)
10. Way Way Back (Luke Bryan, Ashley Gorley and Rodney Clawson)
11. To The Moon And Back (Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey and Tony Lane)
12. Huntin,’ Fishin’ And Lovin’ Every Day (Luke Bryan, Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins and Ben Hayslip)
13.  Scarecrows (Ashley Gorley, Trevor Rosen and Shane McAnally)

Target Exclusive Tracks:

1. “Corner Booth” (Bryan, Cole Swindell, Jimmy Robbins)
2. “Little Boys Grow Up and Dogs Get Old” (Bryan, Lane)
3. “Buddies” (Bryan, Davidson)

Luke Bryan has released the follow-up to his current No. 1 single, “Kick the Dust Up.” The sultry “Strip It Down,” which he co-wrote with Ross Copperman and Jon Nite, is starting to hit the airwaves, just in time for Friday’s release of his new album, Kill the Lights.

The Georgia native says he’s never really recorded a song like “Strip It Down.” “I’m five albums in. This is my fifth album and I’ve never really done like that slow dance, take your girl and have a big ole, big ole night of romance and all that, and ‘Strip It Down’ kind of does that and I’m interested to see how the fans react to that. I think I got a good picture in my mind of how it’s going to go and I’m excited to see all of that transpire. But I do feel like ‘Strip It Down’ is a really, really special moment on the CD and I don’t think three years ago I could have delivered a song like ‘Strip It Down’ like I wanted to, but it felt right the way we wrote it.”

Catch Luke performing the tune when he hits the stage of Good Morning America’s 2015 Summer Concert Series on Friday (August 7th) and NBC’s Tonight Show on Monday (August 10th).

The reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year’s new album, Kill the Lights, hits stores Friday (August 7th).

From People.com:
Just add cupid to Scotty McCreery’s list of credits.

The American Idol alum’s song “See You Tonight” played a key role in helping make a proposal aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Las Vegas even more memorable.

When Greg Freyer surprised his long-distance girlfriend Rebekah Ellis by popping the question aboard her flight back home to Vegas after she visited him for the weekend in June 2014, she didn’t even know he was on the plane.

“We got up at 3:30 in the morning, and I told her I was leaving for work and we hugged our goodbyes, and of course it’s sad because you don’t know when you’re going to see each other again,” Freyer, 24, tells PEOPLE. “We always hate saying goodbye. But instead of going to work, I really went to the airport.”

Freyer boarded his girlfriend’s flight in disguise so she wouldn’t know he was there, and once the plane was in the air, he had the crew play “See You Tonight” over the intercom, and he walked up the aisle to get on one knee and propose.

“That song described our relationship perfectly,” says Freyer of the miles between him and Ellis, 23, at the time. “It talks about ‘hearing your sweet voice.’ Her voice is always the sweetest, most tender voice on the phone, and I just always loved hearing it when we couldn’t be together.”

Of course Ellis said “yes” – sort of. “She was so shocked I don’t even think she said yes, she just nodded her head,” says Freyer.

Fast forward a few months later aboard another Southwest flight, and McCreery, 21, was reading the March 2015 issue of Southwest: The Magazine. He came across a letter written by Freyer thanking the airline for their help in facilitating the in-air proposal.

“I’m not much of a reader, and normally when I’m on a plane, I’m sleeping, but that particular day I couldn’t sleep,” says McCreery. “So I pulled out the magazine to pass the time and all of a sudden I saw my name, so I was like: ‘Let me read this.’

“It was a pretty cool story, and it’s always cool to be part of something in people’s lives that big.”

After reading the letter, McCreery set out in search of the couple, hoping he could meet them and invite them to one of his concerts.

Thanks to social media, Freyer and Ellis – who tied the knot in March – heard about McCreery’s interest in meeting them, and the group finally got together before McCreery’s show in Camden, New Jersey, on Sunday.

“It was just so awesome,” says Freyer. “I mean the whole thing was absolutely incredible.” McCreery is just happy his song played a part in their love story.

“They said it was just kind of their song because they were long distance. He’d always say, ‘I’d drive a million miles to see you,’ and that’s a lyric in the song,” says McCreery.

“That’s really the goal,” he adds. “You’re always hoping your songs affect people in a good way.”

McCreery’s new song “Southern Belle,” the first single off his upcoming album, drops Aug. 24th.

Keith Urban will take to Rockefeller Plaza this Friday morning to perform on The Today Show Summer Concert Series, his first performance in the plaza in two years.  The four-time Grammy Award winner has confirmed that he will perform “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16”, his latest single that currently stands at #12, ready to add to his record breaking streak of Top 10 hits.

Urban is also providing fans with the opportunity to choose one of his songs.  They’re invited to go to http://www.today.com/popculture/fan-pick-vote-song-you-want-keith-urban-sing-today-t35446 to choose from his #1 hits “Long Hot Summer” or “Once In A Lifetime” or “Good Thing”.  Voting closes today (August 4^th).

Urban is currently on tour performing at fairs and festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada and will begin filming for American Idol in August.  The official music video for John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16, the first from Urban’s next studio album, is due to be released next month.

For more official Keith Urban news and ticket information go to www.keithurban.net.