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  • TYLER HUBBARD ANNOUNCED AS CLOSING GUEST AT NSAI’S TIN PAN SOUTH SONGWRITING SEMINAR!

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    Tyler Hubbard

    More than 20 songwriters and music industry professionals are set to participate in the Nashville Songwriters Association International’s (NSAI) longest-running educational event, Tin Pan South Songwriting Seminar on March 27 and 28, 2023!  This year’s event is presented by Belmont University and to round out the already-impressive list speakers, NSAI is proud to announce songwriter-artist Tyler Hubbard as the closing guest interview!

    While certainly recognized as one half of the multi-platinum selling duo Florida Georgia Line, a slightly lesser-known fact about Hubbard is that he has penned over 100 songs recorded by artists including Jason Aldean, Chris Tomlin, Zac Brown, Kane Brown, and his own duo Florida Georgia Line. Hubbard was also a writer on “Cruise,” which earned the genre’s first RIAA Diamond single certification, and he was a writer on the Diamond-certified “Meant To Be.” Hubbard’s passion and honesty with his songwriting ultimately inspired him to begin recording works for a solo project, leading to the release of his debut solo single and 20th No. 1 hit, “5 Foot 9,” which is also certified Platinum by the RIAA. Co-written by Hubbard, Jaren Johnston and Chase McGill, “5 Foot 9” is one of 18 songs written on Hubbard’s self-titled album Tyler Hubbard which was released January 27, 2023.

    The closing interview with Hubbard on Tuesday will wrap up two days at Belmont’s Fisher Center For the Performing Arts filled with educational panels, Q&A Sessions, and interviews where top members of the music industry will cover topics including publishing, sync, co-writing, demo sessions, streaming, and more.

    Tin Pan South Songwriter Seminar is only the beginning of a songwriter-filled week as it leads into the start of the Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival presented by Regions! March 28-April 1, 2023, over 400 songwriters will perform during the five-day event where ten venues throughout Nashville will join together with NSAI to bring the world’s largest songwriter-only festival to fans for the 31st year in a row.

    Tyler is scaling the country charts with his latest single, “Dancin’ In The Country.”

  • PRISCILLA BLOCK RELEASES DELUXE EDITION OF HER HIT DEBUT ALBUM – WELCOME TO THE BLOCK PARTY – OUT NOW.

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    Priscilla Block

    Priscilla Block exploded onto the country music scene last year following the huge success of her viral hit song, “Just About Over You.” Since then, her infectious personality, authentic country sound and undeniably relatable lyrics have captured fans around the world. Now, Priscilla is releasing the Deluxe edition of her wildly successful debut album, Welcome To The Block Party Deluxe, available now.

     

    LISTEN:   Welcome To The Block Party Deluxe Edition

     

    Recently, Priscilla released one of the new Deluxe album tracks, “Me Pt. 2,” along with its lyric video. The moving track, written by Priscilla, follows her summertime anthem, “Off The Deep End,” which is also featured on the Deluxe album.

     

    Welcome to the Block Party Deluxe Album Track Listing:

    1. Welcome To The Block Party
      2. My Bar
      3. Heels In Hand
      4. Like A Boy
      5. I Know A Girl ft. Hillary Lindsey
      6. Ever Since You Left
      7. Thick Thighs – Block Party Version
      8. I Bet You Wanna Know
      9. I’ve Gotten Good
      10. Wish You Were The Whiskey
      11. Just About Over You
      12. Peaked In High School
      13. Getting Even*
      14. Me Pt. 2*
      15. Little Bit*
      16. Off The Deep End*

    *Deluxe tracks

    “This past year was really big for me, especially releasing my debut album. When we were selecting songs for Welcome To The Block Party we had so many songs to choose from, which is why I’m super excited for the deluxe album. Four more songs that complete the Block Party era.”  – Priscilla Block

    After a year of huge career successes, including her first RIAA Platinum certification for her viral hit, “Just About Over You,” first nominations for ACM and CMT Awards, appearing on national TV including The Kelly Clarkson Show, ELLEN and The Tamron Hall Show, headlining her first tour and recently announced 2023 iHeart Radio Award nomination; Block is primed to take the year by storm with new music and tour dates – notably opening for Shania Twain on select dates during her highly anticipated Queen of Me Tour.

     

    Priscilla’s recently released duet with Justin Moore, “You, Me, And Whiskey,” has amassed over 37 million global streams since its fall release and it has garnered 2 million+ on-demand streams for 5 consecutive weeks. She is also hitting the road with Moore on select dates for the You, Me, And Whiskey Tour.

    All upcoming tour dates and tickets for Priscilla Block can be found here.

     

    Audio / Priscilla Block talks about her hopes for her album, Welcome To The Block Party.

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    Priscilla Block (fan hopes for WTTBP) OC: …that you need. :18
    “I hope that when people listen to this album, everyone feels heard. I think there’s a song for any phase of life that you’re in – whether you’re going through a breakup, whether you’re in your sad girl phase, whether you’re in your big F-U phase or your party phase – whatever that is, I think that you can find a song that you need.”

    Audio / LINER Priscilla Block (deluxe available now)

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  • JORDAN DAVIS HAD TIME TO MAKE SURE HIS NEW ALBUM WAS “RIGHT” BEFORE RELEASING IT NEXT WEEK.

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    Jordan Davis

    Jordan Davis has been working hard on his brand new album, Bluebird Days, and he says he’s grateful for the time he had to work on it and didn’t have to rush getting it out into the marketplace.

    “The making of Bluebird Days was definitely a little weird in that half of it was recorded during COVID, you know, which gave us more time to get things right, but at the same time made things tough to get musicians in to play,” says Jordan. “It was weird in the recording process of I, but I think the good thing is that it gave us a lot of extra time to make sure the songs were right, gave us time to write more, we didn’t feel as rushed, and you know this is the sophomore album for me so, this was a big one and I wanted it to be special, and I knew what I wanted to do with it. So, I was really happy that we did have a little bit of extra time to make sure that this one felt right.”

    The album, available everywhere February 17th, will include Jordan’s multi-week, 2x Platinum No. 1 single, “Buy Dirt,” which earned Davis his first Song of the Year win last Fall at the 2022 CMA Awards.  The collection will also include his most recent multi-week chart-topper, “What My World Spins Around,” as well as his brand new single, “Next Thing You Know.”

    Jordan is north of the border for a string of shows in Canada. Tonight (February 9th), he performs in Vancouver, followed by shows in Edmonton on Saturday (February 11th) and Calgary on Sunday (February 12th).

     

    Audio / Jordan Davis made part of his new record, Bluebird Days, during the global pandemic, but he says it gave him time to make the record he wanted to make.

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    Jordan Davis (making Bluebird Days) OC: …felt right. :45
    “The making of Bluebird Days was definitely a little weird in that half of it was recorded during COVID, you know, which gave us more time to get things right, but at the same time made things tough to get musicians in to play. It was weird in the recording process of I, but I think the good thing is that it gave us a lot of extra time to make sure the songs were right, gave us time to write more, we didn’t feel as rushed, and you know this is the sophomore album for me so, this was a big one and I wanted it to be special, and I knew what I wanted to do with it. So, I was really happy that we did have a little bit of extra time to make sure that this one felt right.”

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  • DIERKS BENTLEY IS LOOKING FOR A CLOSE GAME AT THIS YEAR’S SUPER BOWL.

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    Dierks Bentley

    Dierks Bentley is looking forward to watching the match-up between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles at Sunday’s (February 12th) Super Bowl. He’s also looking forward to watching the night’s entertainment, including Chris Stapleton’s rendition of the National Anthem, Rihanna’s half-time performance and, of course, the commercials.

    “I’ve been to the last Super Bowl in Arizona. It was the New York Giants against the New England Patriots. I was actually sitting next to Peyton Manning. I did not know him at the time. He was there rooting on his brother Eli, which was pretty cool to see that whole thing playing out,” says Dierks. “Now we have two brothers playing actually in the Super Bowl at the same time. The Kelce Brothers. I think the mother’s name is Donna, so it’s a crazy story for her. It’s gonna be a great day and a really sad day for her. It’s kind of a no-win situation for her. But that’s a cool event to have those guys playing together. I think they said other firsts in the Super Bowl to have two black quarterbacks for the first time starting in Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes, so both those guys are awesome. I’m just hoping for a close game, you know? Looking forward to the half-time show, the commercials, you know? That half-time show, it’s a million dollars a minute, and it’s a 13 ½ minute half-time show, so just Rihanna, all the collaborations, the surprises, the whole thing’s so fun. But yeah, the longer it can be closer, the better the Super Bowl is for me.”

    A self-proclaimed Rihanna fan, Dierks says he would like to see more country music performers at next year’s Super Bowl. 
    “And another cool first for him, Chris Stapleton is playing the Super Bowl. He’s doing the National Anthem. For me personally, I’d be very happy watching Chris doing the half-time show. He would be amazing, and I think people would really love it. I’m a big Rihanna fan too. I’d like to sit down with Rihanna and figure out how she made 1.7 billion dollars. That’d be an interesting conversation. (laughs) But I think in 2024, we need country as the half-time show. I’m just gonna say the Hot Country Knights are available.”

    The only all-country music half-time show took place in 1994 with Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt and the Judds. Shania Twain took part in the half-time show in 2003, alongside No Doubt and Sting. Previous country stars singing the National Anthem include Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, the Dixie Chicks, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Mickey Guyton.

    Also performing this year are Emmy-winning actor Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbot Elementary) with “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pre-show. Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds will also perform with a rendition of “America the Beautiful.”

    A cool note — Oscar winner Troy Kotsur will sign the national anthem alongside Stapleton. Kotsur won an Academy Award in 2022 for Best Supporting Actor for his work in “CODA,” becoming the second Deaf person ever to win an acting Oscar after Marlee Matlin.

    The Big Game kicks off at 6:30pm ET/5:30pm CT Sunday (February 12th) on FOX.

    For more Super Bowl-related audio, click HERE.

    Dierks is making his way into the Top 10 on the country charts with his latest single, “Gold,” which is from his upcoming album, Gravel & Gold, available February 24th.

     

    Audio / Dierks Bentley is looking for a close matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs.

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    Dierks Bentley (Super Bowl 2023) 1 OC: …is for me.  :57
    “I’ve been to the last Super Bowl in Arizona. It was the New York Giants against the New England Patriots. I was actually sitting next to Peyton Manning. I did not know him at the time. He was there rooting on his brother Eli, which was pretty cool to see that whole thing playing out. Now we have two brothers playing actually in the Super Bowl at the same time. The Kelce Brothers. I think the mother’s name is Donna, so it’s a crazy story for her. It’s gonna be a great day and a really sad day for her. It’s kind of a no-win situation for her. But that’s a cool event to have those guys playing together. I think they said other firsts in the Super Bowl to have two black quarterbacks for the first time starting in Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes, so both those guys are awesome. I’m just hoping for a close game, you know? Looking forward to the half-time show, the commercials, you know? That half-time show, it’s a million dollars a minute, and it’s a 13 ½ minute half-time show, so just Rihanna, all the collaborations, the surprises, the whole thing’s so fun. But yeah, the longer it can be closer, the better the Super Bowl is for me.”

     

    Audio / Dierks Bentley talks about the entertainment, including Chris Stapleton's performance of the National Anthem, at this year's Super Bowl.

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    Dierks Bentley (Super Bowl 2023) 2 OC: …are available. :28
    “And another cool first for him, Chris Stapleton is playing the Super Bowl. He’s doing the National Anthem. For me personally, I’d be very happy watching Chris doing the half-time show. He would be amazing, and I think people would really love it. I’m a big Rihanna fan too. I’d like to sit down with Rihanna and figure out how she made 1.7 billion dollars. That’d be an interesting conversation. (laughs) But I think in 2024, we need country as the half-time show. I’m just gonna say the Hot Country Knights are available.”

  • DARIUS RUCKER’S RIVERFRONT REVIVAL MUSIC FESTIVAL RETURNS TO NORTH CHARLESTON’S RIVERFRONT PARK IN OCTOBER.

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    Darius Rucker

    Three-time GRAMMY Award-winner Darius Rucker and SRE Entertainment announce the return of breakout music festival Riverfront Revival to North Charleston’s beautiful Riverfront Park on Saturday, October 7th and Sunday, October 8th, 2023.

     

     

    “This family-friendly music and cultural festival featured food, community, and all things Lowcountry in a vibrant celebration of local pride and music,” enthused Destination Luxury of 2022’s inaugural event, noting “the exuberant response from festival attendees.”

    The 2023 lineup will be announced soon and promises another great run of performances mixing the best of country and rock, including eagerly anticipated new music from Rucker himself, as well as some of the Lowcountry’s best food, libations, art and culture for attendees to enjoy while they jam.

    Early access presale tickets are available now with prices starting at $140 for general admission and $475 for VIP (plus taxes and fees; layaway plans available starting at $25). VIP tickets, which include an exclusive merch package, dedicated entrance, priority and up-close viewing areas at both stages, dedicated bar and access to VIP lounge areas and premium restrooms, are limited and will sell out quickly. Visit RiverfrontRevival.com to sign up now for Riverfront Revival’s e-newsletter and you’ll automatically receive a code to secure early access tickets via email.

    “We were overwhelmed with the support and attendance of our first Riverfront Revival and are thrilled to bring the festival back for more fans to enjoy,” says SRE Entertainment partner Rob Lamble. “This is a festival built by Charlestonians who want nothing more than to showcase the best our city has to offer with great music, culture and food.”

    “Charleston’s hometown spirit was on full display last year and showed us what a local music festival meant to this community,” adds Rucker. “We know 2023 is going to be an even greater experience for fans and we can’t wait to see you there!”

    Rucker and the Riverfront Revival team are also excited to announce that proceeds from each ticket sold will once again benefit the Arts in Healing program at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Rucker is passionate about giving back to the Charleston community and has raised millions of dollars throughout his career for the hospital where his late mother was a nurse.

    For more details, visit RiverfrontRevival.com and follow @riverfrontrevival on Facebook and Instagram.

  • VALENTINE’S DAY AUDIO 2022

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    Alan Jackson / Billy Currington / Carrie Underwood / Dierks Bentley / Eric Church / Jon Pardi / Jordan Davis / Josh Turner / Keith Urban / Kylie Morgan / Little Big Town / Luke Bryan / Maddie & Tae

    Each year on February 14th, many people exchange cards, candy, gifts or flowers with their special someone. The day of romance we call Valentine’s Day is named for a Christian martyr and dates back to the 5th century.

    Over 190 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.

    We’ve got some thoughts and feelings and more about love, romance and marriage from several of your favorite country artists. A few are new and some have become our favorites over the years. Which country stars are romantic? Which ones have a good reason to celebrate the holiday that’s all about love?

     

     

    Audio / Alan Jackson talks about his love for wife, Denise, over the years.

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    AJ (Valentine’s Day) OC: …continue to. :24

    “We got a lot of history together now, and we’re happier than we’ve ever been. So, she’s still beautiful, and she’s always inspired songs. I mean, one of my early hits was a song called ‘I’d Love You All Over Again,’ I wrote for her for our 10th anniversary. I mean, there’s been a zillion songs that have pieces of our good days and bad days inspired, and they continue to.”

    Audio / Billy Currington recalls his first real Valentine’s Day.

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    Billy Currington (Valentine’s Day memory) OC: …took off running. :21
    “Yeah, I remember my first girlfriend. I was in first or second grade, but anyway, I remember it was Valentine’s Day and your mom going, ‘You’ve got to give your girlfriend something, and you’ve got to go give it to her.’ I’ll never forget — we got her a box of chocolates or whatever it was. I remember going down to her classroom and knocking on the door, getting her to come to the door. I remember handing it to her, and then I took off running.”

    Audio / Carrie Underwood is all about the chocolate most couples give each other on Valentine’s Day.

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    Carrie Underwood (Valentine’s Day-chocolate) OC: …white chocolate. :14
    “Chocolate’s every woman’s friend – in their time of need or in their time of happiness or in their time of sadness or madness, chocolate is my friend. Anything with caramel in it, ooooooooh. White chocolate’s good too. You can’t beat some good white chocolate.”

    Audio / DIERKS BENTLEY SAYS THE MOST INTERESTING GIFT HE AND HIS WIFE CASSIDY HAVE GIVEN EACH OTHER WERE MIXTAPES OF SONGS.

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    Dierks Bentley (Valentine’s Day-most interesting gift he’s given his wife) OC: …formulate yourself. 1:19
    “When ‘What Was I Thinkin’’ was released in 2003, I didn’t know what my life would look like, and all of a sudden, I found myself out on the road full-time, just gone. So, the place where I was staying, I had some friends pack it up and move it into a storage facility…and in there I found some letters that she and I had written back and forth when we were dating. I was working at The Nashville Network and she was working out in San Francisco and found some letters I had written her and I’d gotten back and some stuff she’d sent me, including a CD of songs she’d been listening to, back when you made CD mixes and there’s like these three hearts on that CD. I just found that it was so meaningful for me those gifts you give each other before any money, before anything else was going on, just music, giving of mixtapes was so cool. She reminded me of a mixtape that I had sent her. I’d sent it to her via FedEx, because it was so important she get this as quickly as possible. This was sadly before, I guess we had internet back then, but you really couldn’t send songs over the internet. I think the most interesting thing I’ve given her and she’s given me was just mixtapes, because there’s nothing like music to put into words and the thoughts you have in your head that you can’t formulate yourself.”

    Audio / Jon Pardi says he has learned a lot about love and about Valentine’s Day from his wife, Summer.

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    Jon Pardi (Valentine’s Day – Summer) OC: …for you. (laughs) :35
    “One thing Summer has taught me is that gifts are cool, diamonds, blah, blah, blah, but to take your time and clear your mind and write something about what she means to you on a card is probably the most least expensive and the biggest price you can give her is just to write and tell her how much you love her on a little card. That’s what she taught me for Valentine’s Day, so I just do that. It’s way cheaper. (laughs) And of course, I always say to her, ‘Babe, every day is Valentine’s Day for you.’” (laughs)

    Audio / Jordan Davis talks about meeting his wife in New Orleans. They were both there attending separate weddings.

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    Jordan Davis (meeting wife) OC: …here we are. :47
    “My college roommate was getting married in New Orleans. My wife was in New Orleans for a totally separate wedding. Both wedding parties were staying at the same hotel, so we met, the first time, in the lobby of the hotel. I’m actually wearing a necklace that has the coordinates to that hotel. Then the next day, me and my brother walk into a bar in New Orleans, and her and her friends were sitting in the corner, and I was like, ‘Hey-that’s the girl from the lobby.’ She was actually dating somebody at the time. But we kind of exchanged numbers and stayed in contact, and about two months later, a month later, she came into town for CMA Music Fest and told me that she no longer had a boyfriend, and here we are.”

    Audio / Jordan Davis talks about the Valentine's Day tradition he and his wife Kristen enjoy to this day.

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    Jordan Davis (Valentine’s Day tradition) OC: …happy Valentine’s. (laughs) 1:04
    “When it comes to Valentines, Kristen is way more romantic than I am. I’m not a very romantic guy. I have worked on it.  I’ve tried to get a little bit better over the years. Kristen loves chocolate so she’s good for a big chocolate box, but here’s our thing about Valentine’s Day, and this is the God’s honest truth. We’ve been going to Olive Garden on Valentine’s Day since we met. We’ve continued that tradition. I think it started with her and a friend, they used to always go to Olive Garden on Valentine’s Day before they started dating, or before they got in a relationship. So, we have carried that out, so this year will be our, I believe our eighth Valentines in a row where we go in for endless salad and bread sticks. So, if its Valentine’s Day, and you’re at an Olive Garden, we could be next to each other. So, yeah, hope to see somebody out there at the table next to us just hammering on some breadsticks. So, happy Valentine’s.” (laughs)

    Audio / Josh Turner says his wife would call him a romantic, but now that they have four children, it takes a bit of work to make time for each other.

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    Josh Turner (Romantic) OC: …long time to come. :26
    “If you ask my wife Jennifer if I was a romantic, she would definitely say, ‘Yes,’ but she knows that sometimes my hectic schedule and our busy lifestyles can kind of interfere with the romantic side of things. But we do try to make efforts towards being together and having adult conversations and taking time away from the children and doing things that husbands and wives do, so we’ll definitely try to continue that for a long time to come.”

    Audio / Keith Urban talks about the support he and his wife, Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, give each other, which is especially important when two creative artists are married to each other.

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    Keith Urban (Nicole support) OC: …very important. :17
    “I feel very blessed that I have the support of my family like I do. It’s a beautiful thing having two artists because we understand the passion and the responsibility of what we get to do. It’s very important.”

    Audio / Kylie Morgan says her husband Jay Allen is the most romantic person she's ever met.

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    Kylie Morgan (Valentine’s Day) OC: …I’ve ever had. :33
    “Man, I will say my husband Jay Allen, who is also a country music artist if you guys haven’t heard of him, he is the most romantic person I’ve ever met in my entire life, truly. For Valentine’s Day, gosh, two years ago, I came home to the entire house being lit with tiny candles, a whole dinner made with my favorite bottle of wine, and this was even before he proposed. So, a lot of people thought that he was gonna pop the question that night, but he saved that for a later time. But it was the most magical Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had.”

    Audio / Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman says falling in love with her husband, Stephen Schlapman, came as a big surprise.

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    Little Big Town (Kimberly falling in love) OC: …healed me. 1:20
    Kimberly: “Well, I wasn’t planning on falling in love, at all. I didn’t want to…I wasn’t sure that I ever would.  So, my husband now and I were just really good friends, and after my late husband died all my friends were calling me, all the time. Just checking up on me. He was just an old friends. We had known each other for about six years and he started calling me just like everybody else did.  But, he started calling me more than everybody else did [laughs]. We had both been through similar losses, he hadn’t lost a mate but he had lost a close friend, so we kind of bonded over that. I grieved, kind of, at him a lot. He took my grief, I had a lot of grief left, and he just took it and listened and accepted it and was so understanding and let me talk about my late husband all the time. We still talk about him a lot, and he’s totally fine with it. He says that, that made me who he fell in love with and he never minds if I bring anything from the past up which is just really sweet. I was shocked, I remember when I first realized that I was having feelings. I just thought, OK, this is so weird.  What is this?  I haven’t felt this in a long, long, time. This is weird. But, eventually I allowed myself and it’s been the most beautiful gift of my life. It pulled me out of the deepest hole that I’ve ever been in and healed me.”

    Audio / Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook had a chemistry performing together, but it wasn’t until they each found themselves single…at the same time…that sparks flew romantically. The pair, who wed in 2006, have a son, Elijah.

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    Little Big Town (Jimi & Karen fell in love) OC: (Kimberly) …to be together. :48

    JIMI: “We were in the band a long time before there was ever anything which is interesting. I think there was always something underlying there that we were kind of trying to ignore. And then when the opportunity came, when all of us, ended up single kind of at the same time, a very strange turn of events for the band in a lot of different ways. And those feelings, you were able to come out with them finally. It was like, we’re single. Let’s get together. And, you know, she has a beautiful heart and she’s absolutely gorgeous and I just love her dearly.”

    PHILLIP: “Get a room!” [laughs]

    KIMBERLY: “They’re a perfect match. They really are. They were meant to be together.”

    Audio / Little Big Town’s Phillip Sweet was ready for love when he met Rebecca, his wife since 2007.

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    Little Big Town (Phillip – reasons fell in love) OC: …real love. :17
    “I think everything that I had gone through before had prepared me to be ready to see that there was genuine love there for me, and my Rebecca.  So, it was just a great time, I wouldn’t have been ready before I met her…Now it’s just been a really great journey to heal through the past and to know real love.”

    Audio / Luke Bryan talks about marrying Caroline, his college sweetheart.

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    Luke Bryan (married college sweetheart) OC: …married. :27
    ”I married my college sweetheart. We dated back in college and broke up for nearly six years, and while I was off doing my Nashville stuff and touring and writing songs, she was finishing getting her career kind of going. Man, we just kinda bumped into each other one night, and it was like bam, here we are married.”

    Audio / Maddie & Tae’s Taylor Kerr talks about her husband, songwriter Josh Kerr. The pair are just about to celebrate their third anniversary as a married couple (they got married February 21st, 2020).

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    Maddie & Tae (Tae talking about husband Josh) OC: …that way, you know? :45
    “From the moment I met Josh, he never shied away from sharing what’s on his heart. For me, sharing what’s on my heart is sometimes hard, but he always created the environment and dynamic of it’s totally normal to open up and let people to see that side of you. And so, the more we spent time together, the more I kind of adopted that mindset of like, ‘Okay, I can be vulnerable. I can take risks. I can put myself out there and maybe get rejected, but maybe it could be awesome.’ Our relationship is that to a T. I was skeptical at first and I was scared, and he was scared. And we both just, we went all in, and I felt so safe to go there with him and he’s always made me feel that way, you know?”

  • CARRIE UNDERWOOD KICKS OFF 2nd LEG OF “THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR” TO PACKED ARENAS ACROSS FLORIDA.

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    Carrie Underwood

    Carrie Underwood kicked off the second leg of her 43-city arena tour, THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR, in Florida last week, playing to packed houses in Miami (February 2), Tampa (February 4), and Jacksonville (February 6). The first leg of the tour launched in October with a sold-out show in Greenville, SC, and wrapped November 19.  A critical and commercial smash, the tour makes stops in 25 U.S. cities during the second leg, including New York’s Madison Square Garden, Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, and L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena before concluding in Seattle, WA on March 17. Underwood is joined on THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR by special guest Jimmie Allen on all dates. The tour is promoted by AEG Presents.

    Highlights of the show included Underwood’s performance of her hit single “Ghost Story,” and her current single, “Hate My Heart,” from her Denim & Rhinestones album. “Hate My Heart” is currently climbing the charts and the music video, directed by Shaun Silva, is now available on all platforms.

    Upcoming dates for THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR follow:
    THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR 2023

    February 7, 2023 Atlanta, GA State Farm Arena
    February 8, 2023 Charlotte, NC Spectrum Center
    February 10, 2023 State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center
    February 11, 2023 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
    February 14, 2023 Charleston, WV Charleston Coliseum
    February 15, 2023 Washington DC Capital One Arena
    February 17, 2023 Boston, MA TD Garden
    February 18, 2023 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
    February 21, 2023 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
    February 22, 2023 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
    February 24, 2023 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena
    February 25, 2023 Pittsburgh, PA PPG Paints Arena
    February 26, 2023 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena
    March 1, 2023 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
    March 2, 2023 Cincinnati, OH Heritage Bank Center
    March 4, 2023 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
    March 8, 2023 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
    March 11, 2023 Glendale, AZ Desert Diamond Arena
    March 13, 2023 Los Angeles, CA Crypto.com Arena
    March 14, 2023 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center
    March 16, 2023 Portland, OR MODA Center
    March 17, 2023 Seattle, WA Climate Pledge Arena

    $1 from each ticket sold for THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR is contributed to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation (t2t.org), which has been helping America’s heroes since 9/11 by providing mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building custom-designed smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders.

    Following the conclusion of THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR, Underwood resumes her ongoing REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency at the Resorts World Theatre in 2023.  The first artist to grace the stage of the new 5,000-seat, world-class theatre, she debuted her residency with a sold-out run in December 2021 and went on to perform additional sold-out runs through Spring 2022.  Tickets are on sale now at https://www.axs.com/carrieinvegas for 2023 dates commencing June 21 and continuing through December, produced by Concerts West/AEG Presents

     

  • NEWS AND NOTES: Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, Chris Stapleton, Chrissy Metz

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    Keith Urban will premiere the official music video for his latest single, “Brown Eyes Baby,” on Wednesday (February 8th) at 11am CT on Facebook.

    Don’t forget to tune into TalkShopLive with Dierks Bentley on Tuesday night (February 7th) beginning at 6:30pm ET. He’ll talk about his upcoming album, Gravel & Gold, which drops February 24th.

    Chris Stapleton teams up with P!nk once again for a duet on her new album, Trust Fall, which will be available next Friday (February 17th). The song is “Just Say I’m Sorry,” and it’s the closing track on her new album. The first time they paired up was in 2019 for “Love Me Anyway.”

    https://twitter.com/Pink/status/1620957652519100418

     

    Chrissy Metz co-wrote a children’s book with her boyfriend Bradley Collins and illustrator Lisa Fields. “When I Talk To God, I Talk About You.” The picture book, which is about faith, prayer and the loving bond between parent and child, will be released February 14th.

    https://twitter.com/ChrissyMetz/status/1623020299644960768

     

  • COUNTRY STARS AND FOOTBALL ARE A GREAT COMBINATION.

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    This Sunday (February 12th), millions of people around the world will be tuning in to the Super Bowl (the Big Game) as the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs, including some of your favorite country artists.

    Fresh from his sizzling performance at Sunday night’s (February 5th) Grammy Awards, Chris Stapleton will head to Arizona to perform the National Anthem prior to the Super Bowl.

    Babyface will perform “America The Beautiful,” and Abbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph will sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The U.S. Navy will conduct a flyover during the National Anthem to celebrate 50 years of women being admitted in the military branch. Rihanna will be the half-time performer this year.

    Check out all the action from State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The Big Game will air on FOX with the kickoff scheduled at 6:30pm ET/5:30pm CT.

     

    Audio / Billy Currington says he loves watching football.

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    Billy Currington (football fan) OC: …love football. :36
    “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. 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. But [I] love football.”

    Audio / Carrie Underwood has been part of Sunday Night Football for 10 years, and she loves being the voice of the famed institution.

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    Carrie Underwood (loves being a part of SNF) OC: …my whole life. :54
    “I love being the voice of Sunday Night Football because I grew up watching football…from birth. I’m from Oklahoma – we’re a football state. It’s just a part of the country that everybody has their teams and there’s such an energy about it. We would drive down to Dallas and watch the Cowboys play whenever we could. There’s just something about being at a live sporting event or watching it on TV. You have your favorites. They have their rivals. There’s an excitement to it that really, it’s unlike anything else, so being a small part of that is absolutely amazing. It’s been so wonderful working with everybody at SNF, and I count myself very lucky and very blessed that I get to be a small part of something that I’ve loved my whole life.”

    Audio / DARIUS RUCKER IS A HUGE FOOTBALL FAN, AS EVERYONE PROBABLY KNOWS BY NOW, AND HE EXPLAINS WHY HE LOVES FOOTBALL SO MUCH. SIDENOTE: HE’S A HUGE MIAMI DOLPHINS FAN, AND WORD HAS IT, JUST TO BE ABLE TO MEET THEN DOLPHINS QUARTERBACK, DAN MARINO, HE ASKED HIM TO BE IN A HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH VIDEO FOR “ONLY WANNA BE WITH YOU.” DARIUS IS ALSO COMMISSIONER OF SEVERAL FANTASY FOOTBALL LEAGUES, AS WELL.

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    Darius Rucker (football) OC: …football season. :20
    “Ever since I was five years old, I’ve loved football, and I love how physical it is. I love the chess match of the game. I love the speed of the game. I love college football, but for me watching pro football is better because the speed is so much more. For me, there’s two times a year, man — football season and waiting for football season.”

    Audio / Jon Pardi talks about football and his love for the San Francisco 49ers.

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    Jon Pardi (football) OC: …two great teams. :12
    “I grew up playing football and it was always the 9ers, you know? Like we looked up to those guys. I looked up to the 49ers. It was like our local team, and I guess I just never lost that spark from when they went to the Super Bowl.”

    Audio / LITTLE BIG TOWN’S BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED KAREN FAIRCHILD WAS A BADASS GROWING UP WHEN SHE WAS PLAYING QUARTERBACK FOR HER POWDER PUFF FOOTBALL TEAM.

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    LBT (football story) OC: …my lip. :40
    “I was the quarterback to my powder puff team. I was running the ball and I came around the corner – this was in high school – and a foreign exchange student, I think her name was Inga (KIMBERLY: “Inga.”), and I didn’t want to fumble ‘cause my brother and my dad were there, and I come from this very athletic family, so I held onto the ball. I knew I was going to go down, so I let my head hit first and I bit all the way through, but I didn’t fumble and I had a hole in my face, though. The sad thing is that it was just flag football, but I left my flags on and cleats and everything, ‘cause it looked cool, and I had blood running all down my jersey. I went to the emergency room like that, and they sewed up my lip.”

    Audio / LUKE BRYAN TALKS ABOUT SOME OF THE FOOD HE LIKES TO HAVE WHILE WATCHING THE SUPER BOWL.

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    Luke Bryan (Super Bowl food) OC: …over again. :22
    “Definitely Super Bowl is like the queso, the Frito Lay scoops with the Ro-tel situation. I guess it’s like, what’s the black-eyed pea stuff too? All of that, just stuff that you can sit there and have lots of sodium, and then just, it’s like Thanksgiving all over again.”

    Audio / PRISCILLA BLOCK SAYS SUPER BOWL SUNDAY IS SO MUCH FUN.

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    Priscilla Block (Football/Super Bowl food) OC: …what happens. :23
    “I mean, I feel like the Super Bowl is like just such a fun day. I’m really excited for the half-time show. I feel like that’s usually why I’m there, is to watch the anthem and the half-time show, but yes, excited to eat all the bad things. And I’m honestly, I don’t feel pulled any way this year. I wish the (Tennessee) Titans were in it, but we’ll see what happens.”

    Audio / SAM HUNT LOVES THAT THE SUPER BOWL MIXES HIS TWO LOVES – MUSIC AND FOOTBALL.

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    Sam Hunt (Super Bowl & music) OC: …combined there. :24
    “It’s become such a massive pop culture event, and I love that they’ve incorporated music and entertainment with the sport itself and the entertainment value that comes from that. It encompasses just a strong representation of American culture, and I’m a huge music fan, obviously, and I’m a huge sports fan, so those are two of my favorite worlds combined there.”

    Audio / SAM HUNT, A FORMER UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM QUARTERBACK, WAS INSPIRED BY RETIRED INDIANAPOLIS COLTS AND DENVER BRONCOS QUARTERBACK AND NFL HALL OF FAMER PEYTON MANNING WHEN HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL.

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    Sam Hunt (Peyton Manning) OC: …with music. :39
    “When I was in high school, I went to a camp called the Manning Academy, and it’s a quarterback camp down in Louisiana. And I got to spend some time with Peyton and Eli, and they have another brother [Cooper]. I’ve followed [Peyton’s] career for a long time,” he says. “Actually, a couple of years ago, I was at a concert of Kenny Chesney’s in Denver, and I was standing there side stage and Jake Owen was there. He had opened up for [Kenny], and I’ve been a friend of his for a little while, and he turned and introduced me to the guy behind us, who I wasn’t aware of at the time, but it turned out to be Peyton Manning. He was just a really nice guy, and it was just pretty cool to be on the stage with two people who inspired me in two different arenas, with Peyton with football and Kenny with music.”

    Audio / TRAVIS DENNING REVEALS HIS GO-TO SUPER BOWL SNACK.

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    Travis Denning (go-to Super Bowl snack) OC: …other pick. :05
    “My go-to Super Bowl snack is buffalo chicken dip, obviously. There’s no other pick.”

     

  • JORDAN DAVIS RELEASES HIS BRAND NEW SINGLE, “NEXT THING YOU KNOW.”

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    Jordan Davis has released his new single, “Next Thing You Know,” as the follow-up to his recent two-week No. 1 single, “What My World Spins Around.” The Louisiana native wrote the tune with Greylan James, Chase McGill and Josh Osborne, and one of the interesting facts about the song is it doesn’t have a chorus.

    “There’s no chorus to this song,” says Jordan. “And I think it’s really cool that all we do is repeat ‘Next Thing You Know’ throughout it, but when you’re trying to write songs for a, a job, not putting a chorus on it is a fast way to get it thrown into the garbage can, and I think that makes me more proud of this song in that this is what we wanted to do with it and we just wanted to be as honest as possible in how fast life goes. I remember leaving, telling somebody like when they were like, ‘Did you write today?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ They said, ‘Did you get anything good?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, we wrote a song that doesn’t even have a chorus.’ And I got the look of like, ‘Well, we’ll probably never hear that one,’ and little did I know it would connect with a whole lotta people.”

    You swear that you’re stayin’ single
    Next thing you know
    You meet a girl at a bar
    And next thing you know
    You get her laughin’
    It’s 2 AM
    You’re telling your buddies
    3 months in that

    She ain’t movin’ in
    Next thing you know
    There’s a U-Haul trailer
    Next thing you know
    Your old apartment
    Is y’all’s new place
    There goes the carpet, but
    The deer head stays

    Next thing you know
    You’re savin’ money like never before, just to
    Spend it all at a jewelry store, gettin’
    Down on one knee on her mama’s porch
    Just prayin’ she don’t say no
    Next thing you know
    Your best man gives a half-drunk speech and you’re
    Sunburnt on a honeymoon beach and your
    Left hand’s gettin’ used to that ring
    There the next two or three years go
    Next thing you know

    You weren’t really tryin’
    Next thing you know
    There’s a test on the counter
    Next thing you know
    She’s standin’ there cryin’
    Noddin’ her head yes
    You’re half excited
    Half scared to death

    ‘Cause next thing you
    You’re wearing scrubs and a funny white hat and the
    Doctor’s sayin’, how you doin’ there dad and
    Nobody’s ever called you that and
    You take that drive home slow
    Next thing you know
    It’s first steps, first dates, first car, it’s
    11:01 wonderin’ where they are
    Sayin’ that USC’s too far
    It’s amazing how fast 17 years go
    Next thing you know
    Next thing you know

    Next thing you know
    You get to know your wife again and you’re
    More in love than you’ve ever been with a
    Lot of years of remember when’s
    And still some down the road
    ‘Cause next thing you know
    You got a yard full of your kid’s kids and ya
    Take ’em to church, teach ’em to fish, and ya
    Tell ’em stories every chance you get
    About how fast this life down here can go
    Next thing you know
    Next thing you know

     

    After a few dates in the States over this past weekend, Jordan is set to head north of the border beginning with a show in Vancouver on February 9th.

     

     

    Audio / Jordan Davis talks about his new single, "Next Thing You Know."

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    Jordan Davis (Next Thing You Know) OC: …whole lotta people. :47
    “You know, there’s no chorus to this song. And I think it’s really cool that all we do is repeat ‘Next Thing You Know’ throughout it, but when you’re trying to write songs for a, a job, not putting a chorus on it is a fast way to get it thrown into the garbage can, and I think that makes me more proud of this song in that this is what we wanted to do with it and we just wanted to be as honest as possible in how fast life goes. I remember leaving, telling somebody like when they were like, ‘Did you write today?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ They said, ‘Did you get anything good?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, we wrote a song that doesn’t even have a chorus.’ And I got the look of like, ‘Well, we’ll probably never hear that one,’ and little did I know it would connect with a whole lotta people.”

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