Scotty McCreery takes some time away from the stage to enjoy a game of mini golf with boys. Find out who claims the crown of Putt Putt champion in Episode 11 of ScotTV. For more go to scottymccreery.com.

Scotty is currently making his way up the charts with his latest single, “See You Tonight.”

Go behind-the-scenes of Lady Antebellum‘s latest single, “Goodbye Town.” The trio talk about writing the song with tunesmith Josh Kear and what the song means to them. Also check out some exclusive performance video of the song, as well, in the latest episode of Webisode Wednesday!

Nashville, TN – Aug. 26, 2013 – Award-winning singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley’s lead single “I Hold On” has already caught the attention of fans on the road, but today Country Radio is helping Bentley launch the track’s lyric video online. Fans can visit 120 radio station websites to watch and share Bentley’s first-ever lyric video, which includes memorable images pulled from Bentley’s own photo collection.

To watch the lyric video for “I Hold On,” click here: http://www.tweematic.com/iholdon/index.php?pid=119
 
Officially available at Country Radio and on iTunes today, the new single was handpicked as USA Today’s “Song of the Week,” calling it “the 2013 version of ‘I Walk The Line.’” The Houston Chronicle noted, “it has the same simmering groove that marks his strongest material, while Yahoo! suggests “the anthemic ‘I Hold On’ couldn’t possibly be more predestined to be a hit.” “I Hold On” is the lead single off Bentley’s forthcoming seventh studio album RISER. For more information on new music, visit www.dierks.com.

Luke Bryan says THANK YOU to his fans for the success of his recent No. 1 album, Crash My Party, released on August 13th.

For many decades, Labor Day was seen as a day for workers to voice their complaints and discuss better working conditions and pay.

It’s been 119 years since the U.S. Congress declared Labor Day a national holiday, and on Monday, September 2nd, we will once again celebrate the people in every occupation whose work and dedication make this nation great.

Labor Day weekend also signals the unofficial end to summer, and many of the hottest country stars are taking a look back at some of the toughest jobs they had prior to making their mark in music or their dream job now.

AJ (working people songs) OC: … appreciate that. :28
“I’ve always written songs and recorded songs, other people’s songs, about workin’ people, and workin’, the workin’ life ’cause I mean, that’s where I’m from. I mean, I worked…I’d already had jobs and worked as a grown person before I ever even thought about bein’ in the music business, so I come from that background, and…although I hadn’t had a job in a long time (laughs), I still remember a lot about it, you know, and I remember what the lifestyle is, and I still appreciate that.”

Billy Currington (Labor Day) OC: …record deal. :40
“I started working like at [age] 12, landscaping. This was summer, every summers, and roofing. I started when I was about 16 roofing houses, and that was probably one of my toughest jobs because down there in south Georgia, it gets hot, so doing that every day all summer long. The pawn shop when I moved to Nashville was one of my favorites, even though it was one of my least favorites. The concrete job was my least favorite of all – six years of that, and I couldn’t take it no more. After that job, that was my turning point. Either I’m going to do something else for a living [laughs] or quit and try to really focus on music and get this record deal.”

Darius Rucker (Labor Day) OC: …pizza. :15
“I was fifteen, and I worked at a pizza place, and the guy decided that at fifteen, that I could not only clean the floors and wash the dishes, but I also had to make pizza. So, for two months, he taught me how to make pizza.”

David Nail (Labor Day) OC: …Dilly Bar. :32
“The first job that I ever had was working at Dairy Queen. One of my very best friends in the world’s mother purchased a franchise, so it was kinda a cool place to work. You put me in an ice cream place, it’s a recipe for disaster. So, Kathy Jeffers, her mother tends to tell people it was a ‘mutual separation,’ but I can vividly remember her saying that they were going to lose money if they continued to let me work, because I was eating more food than I was selling. But, it was a great two days that I spent there, and I had many a Dilly Bar.”

Dierks Bentley (Labor Day) OC: …generosity. :26
“Personally, the fans give me amazement. That’s the only word to really sum it up. I look out in the crowd, you know, usually see a lot of faces and fans are cheering. I know each one of these like from the road-the signs are from California…Michelle and Kayla live up in the Ohio area. They’re all, I just see them, and I’m like, ‘Wow!,’ they’re all from different regions. You know when you’re in a different region of the country and you just see certain fans. These people are way more hard core than I am, and I’m just amazed by their generosity.”

Eric Church (Labor Day-odd jobs) OC: …bought at 2am. 1:27
“I had an awful job. I’ve had a lot of awful jobs…my worst one was when I first came to Nashville. I got a job at the Shop at Home Network. I worked midnight, graveyard, midnight to eight. That was bad enough but then I would work all night, go home, shower and then I had writing appointments all day because I was trying to get a career started. I’d go write songs and get meetings just trying to get signed. And end up getting done at 3 of 4 with all of that, I’d go home, take a shower or sleep for a little bit and then I had to be at work again at midnight. So the schedule was bad enough, however, what I had to do at the job…I sold knives from midnight to 7 or 8am. And, anytime somebody calls you at 3 or 4am and needs 200 knives for $19.95, it’s automatically an alarming situation. And I just, I was young and I’d been in a lot of these people’s shoes, I had done this…I knew they were drunk. I knew what they had done. They’d just come home from the bar, flipped on Shop at Home and said, ‘You know what? I need that.’ So the reason the job didn’t last long for me is that I was maybe the worst salesmen in history because I ended up talking a lot of these people out of it, I’d say, ‘I’ll tell you what man, go to bed, call me, I’ll be here in the morning. If you get up in the morning and want these knives you call me back.’ Because I knew what was going to happen, you know. They bought 200 knives for $19.95…first of all some of these people you didn’t know whether you should call the cops. What do you need 200 knives for? Even though I’m selling them…what do you need them for? So, it was awful doing that job. And then they got rid of me because, they were like, ‘You’re the worst. I can’t believe you’re talking people out of it.’ I was like, ‘Man I know…I’ve been there.’ [laughs] I’d want some to talk me out of buying some of the stuff I’ve bought at 2am.”

Eric Paslay (Labor Day) OC: …could print. :34
“My first official job was working at a screen printing place in Texas during the summer in a metal building that had no AC. We printed on fanny packs – really cool — and these other little bags. And it was eye doctors that, some company if you bought supplies through them, they’d put your logo on fanny packs for your customers to put in a drawer somewhere. Fanny packs are cool, if you like ‘em. You know, we’d like time ourselves to see how many fanny packs you could print.”

Jon Pardi (Labor Day) OC: …so bored! :17
“The worst job I ever had was at Hometown Grocery Store. I didn’t want to work, I was 15, and I did not want to work at the grocery store. Bagging was fun, but they sent me down the aisles to pull up cans and turn ‘em around and face ‘em, and I would just get so bored!”

Keith Urban (Labor Day) OC: …great feeling. :24
“Seeing people connect to the music is the absolute, hands down, the biggest reward for me. Especially when you go to a place you’ve never been to before, and there’s all these people. I mean lots of people out there that you’ve never met a single one of them, and they’re singing to every word, and you realize that it’s not just a pretty melody, they get your songs. It’s amazing. It’s a great feeling.” 

Kip Moore (Labor Day-worst job) OC: …than that. :21
“I’d have to say my worst job ever was laying sod in the south Georgia heat. There’s nothing than that, especially when somebody would think that you’re waiting for the next sod patch to be thrown to you and you got your back turned, and all of a sudden, that big ole piece of sod hits you right on the back. You got nowhere to clean up, and you’re just stuck with dirt on your back for the rest of the day. It doesn’t get any worse than that.”

Lady A (Labor Day) OC: …I had a lot of crummy jobs. :31
CK “I used to…” HS: “… knock out asbestos walls.” CK: “I did that for a long time. But even before that, I used to do lawn care every summer. Oh, man, I do not miss that. Just glad those days are over. I get out here and play music for a living. It’s a lot more fun. But yeah, I used to do that, and I used to work as a bag boy at a golf course once. I did that for a couple of summers. I had a lot of crummy jobs.”

Luke Bryan (Labor Day-jobs) OC: …Nashville… 1:07
“At age 12 thru 13, I worked at Rubos IGA Supermarket in Leesburg, GA. I worked during the summers on Monday and Tuesday. I stocked and cleaned up the produce.  They paid me under the table…I peeled off all of the brown lettuce. Let’s see, when I was 15, I was a cashier at K-Mart for two months. I worked at K-Mart for two months, and then I reverted back to Rubos because it didn’t really make sense for me to drive all the way into Albany and work for K-Mart. The benefits were great though-you’d get an hour-long on the blue light special. So I started back at Rubos, and then I quit Rubos and worked for my Dad-just awful just driving tractors through cotton all day, and spraying pesticides that eventually would turn your hair green. And then at some point, I started playing guitar. And well, after college I went back and worked for my dad and continued to spray and haul fertilizer around. And then I moved to Nashville…”

As we mentioned earlier this week, Kip Moore is looking forward to his new album, and he announced to media prior to his “Hey Pretty Girl” No. 1 party on Thursday (August 22nd) at Nashville’s Flying Saucer that his next single will come from the new project.

“We’re about to jump to a new one – we’re going in to finish the record on Tuesday. Now, we’re just trying to figure out which one we want to go with first,” says Kip. “Makes me sad kind of, because there is so many I love still on this first record…but, it’s time to jump to a new one. There is just a new body of work I’ve been sitting on that I’m just itching for people to hear.”

Kip, whose Up All Night was the best-selling debut album from any country artist released last year, is currently on tour with Toby Keith’s Hammer Down Tour. Check kipmoore.net for more information and tour dates.

Kip Moore (next album) OC: …people to hear. :22
“We’re about to jump to a new one – we’re actually going in to finish the record on Tuesday. Now, we’re just trying to figure out which one we want to go with first. Makes me sad kind of, because there is so many I love still on this first record. ‘Crazy One More Time’ is probably my favorite song to this day that I have ever written, but maybe I can release that like third or fourth record – come back out with it. But, it’s time to jump to a new one. There is just a new body of work that I’ve been sitting on that I’m just itching for people to hear.”

Dierks Bentley‘s latest single, “I Hold On,” begins hitting the airwaves on Monday. The latest episode of DBTV features a live performance of the song, which is the official lead single from his forthcoming album, Riser.