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Josh Turner will co-host the 10 o’clock hour of NBC’s Today Show with Jenna Bush on Tuesday (March 14th) and will also perform his latest hit single, “Hometown Girl.”

Little Big Town will perform on CBS’s The Talk on Tuesday (March 14th).

Jon Pardi will perform his chart-topping smash, “Dirt on My Boots,” on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers on Tuesday (March 14th), as well as Good Morning America on March 23rd.

Eric Church gave fans in Calgary, Alberta, Canada a special performance on Saturday night (March 11th). Concertgoers were given a mostly solo and acoustic show because of the snow that piled on the roof of the Scotiabank Saddledome. The venue couldn’t handle the snow and the stage setup from Church’s Holdin’ My Own Tour, so the superstar decided to scale back his production and perform a scaled down version of a three-and-a-half hour set.

Jon Pardi scores his second No. 1 single with “Dirt On My Boots” topping the Billboard country radio airplay chart this week. “Dirt On My Boots,” written by Rhett Akins, Jesse Frasure and Ashley Gorley, follows Pardi’s No. 1 Platinum-selling smash, “Head Over Boots.” Both tunes are featured on his No. 1-debuting album, California Sunrise.

“Having two back-to-back No. 1’s is unbelievable,” shares Pardi. “It’s been so great to have an album people believe in.”

Pardi, who is nominated for his very first ACM Award for New Male Vocalist of the Year, makes his late night television debut tomorrow night, March 14 on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. The country singer also performs the hit No. 1 “Dirt On My Boots” on ABC’s Good Morning America March 23rd.

Fans can find Pardi on the What the Hell World Tour with Cole Swindell and Dierks Bentley, and can listen to “Dirt On My Boots” HERE. For additional information, music and tour dates, visit www.JonPardi.com.

Check out Luke Bryan behind-the-scenes of getting ready to perform the National Anthem at this year’s Super Bowl in the  latest episode of LBTV.

Lauren Alaina has reached the Top Five on the country charts with her single, “Road Less Traveled.” The Georgia native says the song is the one that opened the door for her to be able to say what she’d like to through her music.

“It’s the perfect one, because it’s a perfect summary of what I want to say is – accept who you are, love who you are and love everyone else around you and be a good person. That’s the way I think life is about, and that’s what I want to say with my music,” says Lauren. “So, hopefully, I just want to encourage people. I have a really job. I have a really cool opportunity, and if I can make people feel good about who they are in the process, I will feel like I’m winning, because that’s been the hardest thing for me, and I don’t want other people to feel that way.”

Lauren is nominated for the New Female Vocalist of the Year at this year’s ACM Awards. The 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards, hosted by Dierks Bentley and Luke Bryan, will be broadcast live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on April 2nd at 8pm ET/delayed PT on CBS.

With a North American record-setting final tour stop sell-out at AT&T Stadium on his The Cowboy Rides Away Tour, 104,793 fans helped multiple ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year George Strait bring one chapter of his inimitable touring career to a close, but the book is far from over for the iconic artist who continues to rank among country music’s most-streamed artists, logging more than four billion audio streams and counting as of this week.

In 2015, Strait revealed he would perform a series of exclusive worldwide engagements at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas that commenced last April and continue through 2017, including his most recent sold-out dates with Kacey Musgraves. The two Texans closed the Strait To Vegas shows by playing for a capacity crowd of more than 33,000 people between Feb. 17 and 18.

During the closing weekend, Musgraves sat down with Strait to ask him fan-submitted questions via Facebook Live, where he shared things like his bucket list item of fishing in Cuba and his first memory of playing in Las Vegas. But the primary question on every fan’s mind was: “What is the future of his live concerts?”

Strait answered their question: the reputable country star revealed that his exclusive performances in Las Vegas will continue — with a twist. Strait has announced that he will shake things up with an unprecedented two nights of No. 1’s beginning with his April 7-8 shows. With an unmatched 60 singles hitting the top of the charts during the span of his career and more than 283,000 fans streaming Strait’s “60 #1 Hits” playlist on Spotify every month, the King of Country wanted to share these radio hits plus several fan-favorites such as “Amarillo By Morning” and “Troubadour” that, surprisingly to many, never reached No. 1. During Strait’s upcoming 2 Nights of Number 1’s, he will play 30 No. 1 hits Friday, April 7 and 30 No. 1 hits Saturday, April 8, in addition to those “can’t miss” classics.

“I think some fans would throw something at me if I didn’t play those,” Strait noted with his signature grin. “We’re going to try this out in April and change it up for those shows, then see how it goes. It’s important to me to hear what the fans think and take it from there.”

Strait elaborated,”We’re going to be rehearsing, I would say 25 songs that we haven’t played in years, so this should be fun!”

Speaking of hits, his Strait Out of the Box: Part 2 is available now. The impressive three-disc, 56-track collection features 36 hit singles – including 26 No. 1’s – plus two new songs co-written by Strait, along with 18 choice album cuts. Strait Out of the Box: Part 2 spans 20 years of Strait’s career from 1996 to 2016 and follows the highly successful, 8x Platinum-selling 1995 release, Strait Out of the Box.

Ticketing information is available at StraitToVegas.com.

Keith Urban performs his version of Miranda Lambert‘s “Vice” backstage at the Grand Ole Opry.

Josh Turner will release his new album, Deep South, tomorrow (March 10th), and he hopes that his fans are excited about the record.

“I want them to listen to the record and I want that excitement to continue after they’ve heard it and lived with it for a while,” says Josh. “I also want them to hear the maturity and how I’ve grown as an artist and as a person through this record. And I want it to give them a sense of hope and joy and peace after hearing it. So, I’m proud of this record.”

Josh is currently poised to enter the Top 10 on the country charts with his latest song, “Hometown Girl,” which is from his Deep South album.

Josh is set to perform on NBC’s Today Show on Tuesday (March 14th).

Dierks Bentley is featured on the soundtrack for the feature film, The Shack, with the song, “Days of Dark.” He co-wrote the tune with some of his “guys” in Nashville, based on the plot and story of the book that was turned into a major movie, starring Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw and Radha Mitchell.

“I couldn’t be more humbled, honored, excited, proud that a song of mine that I was a co-writer on made it into the soundtrack for the movie The Shack,” says Dierks. “The idea of the song is that these days of dark need to be overcome. It has kind of a dark title, but at the end it’s kind of an emotionally uplifting song. I feel like The Shack is the same way. It’s a very powerful book. I think the song fits perfectly for the movie. It’s one of the first movies I ever had a song in.”

The Phoenix native is joined by Lady Antebellum, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Brett Eldredge, Dan + Shay, Kelly Clarkson and NEEDTOBREATHE, among others.

Dierks is currently sitting inside the Top 20 with his song, “Black,” the title track of his latest album, which is up for Album of the Year honors at this year’s ACM Awards. Dierks is also nominated for Male Vocalist of the Year and Vocal Event of the Year for “Different for Girls,” featuring Elle King. Dierks and Elle won the CMA version of that award, Musical Event of the Year, for “Different for Girls” in November.

The 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards, hosted by Dierks and Luke Bryan, will be broadcast live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on April 2nd at 8pm ET/delayed PT on CBS.

Josh Turner’s highly-anticipated new album, Deep South, releases everywhere this Friday, March 10TH on MCA Nashville. This is the multi-platinum-selling, award-winning country star’s sixth studio album and the excitement is clear.

“I learned a lot through that process, and I think I grew as a writer and as an artist. But there’s been a lot of life that’s been lived in those four years too,” says Josh. “It’s not just the musical aspect, but the life stuff affects the music side of things. There’s been health things that have happened. We had a child since I started this record making process. The business itself has changed a lot, and there’s been a lot of changes on the business side for me. So, it’s just a really culmination of all that – life and lessons and age and just the kinds of songs that I came across, the kinds of songs I wrote, just the backstories on all of it.”

Turner takes his rich baritone to NBC’s TODAY Show March 14 to perform his Top 15 hit “Hometown Girl.” The catchy tune is moving critics and fans alike with over 100k in digital sales and topping an impressive 60 million streams across all platforms. Before heading to New York, Turner takes to the road for Deep South album release events across the southeast beginning in Key Largo, Fla. March 9; Orlando, Lakeland and Ocala, Fla. March 10; Atlanta, Ga. March 11 and Birmingham, Ala. March 12.

Deep South Track Listing:

1.  Deep South

2.  All About You

3.  Hometown Girl

4.  Beach Bums

5.  Southern Drawl

6.  Where The Girls Are

7.  Never Had A Reason

8.  Wonder

9.  One Like Mine

10. Lay Low

11. Hawaiian Girl

 Fans can pre-order Deep South HERE and find Turner’s official Deep South playlist HERE. For more information on Josh Turner including a list of his upcoming tour dates, visit www.JoshTurner.com.

 

Audio / Josh Turner talks about the time between albums.

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Josh Turner (over four  years since he’s released an album) OC: …four-year span. :41
“This record is going to come out a little over four years after I started the record making process. What’s ironic about this record is that I started writing in January of 2013 for this record. because I wanted to get a jumpstart on the next record because I just knew that it would be a smart idea to try to go ahead and start that process for when they wanted another record. Well, it turns out I had plenty of time, but there was no way I could have foreseen that. But it was a good learning experience for me because I wrote I mean I think at this point of by the time we finally decided what songs were going to be on this record and we finished recording and everything I think I was up to like 75 or 80 songs that had been written in that four-year span.”

Audio / Josh Turner says he’s lived a lot of life and learned a lot as a songwriter since he released his last album, Punching Bag, in 2012.

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Josh Turner (a lot of life lived between albums) OC: …Deep South. :53
“I learned a lot through that process, and I think I grew as a writer and as an artist. But there’s been a lot of life that’s been lived in those four years too. It’s not just the musical aspect, but the life stuff affects the music side of things. There’s been health things that have happened. We had a child since I started this record making process. The business itself has changed a lot, and there’s been a lot of changes on the business side for me. So, it’s just a really culmination of all that – life and lessons and age and just the kinds of songs that I came across, the kinds of songs I wrote, just the backstories on all of it. It’s been cool to see all of that stuff kind of being boiled down to this project, Deep South.”

Jon Pardi makes his late night television debut March 14th on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers where he will perform his latest Top 5 hit “Dirt On My Boots.” Pardi will also visit ABC’s Good Morning America March 23rd to perform the grooving hit tune. “Dirt On My Boots” currently has over 20 million streams on Spotify and it has remained Top 5 in combined sales and streams of current country singles for an incredible 14 weeks in a row.

“Dirt On My Boots” follows Pardi’s No. 1 Platinum-selling smash, “Head Over Boots,” the lead single off his No. 1-debuting album, California Sunrise. Released in June on Capitol Records Nashville, Pardi’s album landed on multiple “Best of the Year” lists including Rolling Stone, Music Aficionado, The Tennessean and NASH Country Daily.

Pardi, who recently earned his first ACM Award nomination for New Male Artist of the Year, is currently on the road with Cole Swindell and Dierks Bentley for the What the Hell World Tour in addition to his own headlining shows. Upcoming dates include Tallahassee, FL; Las Vegas, NV and San Jose, CA.

To listen to “Dirt On My Boots” and more songs that inspired California Sunrise, click HERE or use the playlist embed code found HERE. For more information, images, music and tour dates, please visit www.JonPardi.com.