Dwight Yoakam has dropped a new song, “I’ll Pay the Price,” from his forthcoming album, Brighter Days. The 14-track project will be Dwight’s first full-length effort in nine years, and it’s slated for release Nov. 15.
“Drop Everything” singer Carlton Anderson is rolling out a new track, “Let Me Get That for You,” on Friday. The announcement arrived on Carlton’s Instagram alongside a snippet of the tune and a presave link previewing the song’s romantic cover art.
Brooks & Dunn will appear on TalkShopLive Nov. 11 at 5 p.m. CT to talk about their upcoming star-studded new album, REBOOT II. For more information, and to preorder signed copies of their project, visit talkshop.live.
If you’ve heard Tucker Wetmore‘s music, you know it’s not straight-up traditional country.
That, in part, is because of his upbringing, which comprises a multigenre list of musical influences.
“I was inspired by a lot of different artists and genres,” says Tucker. “I grew up kind of a mutt when it came to music.”
“When it came to reggae, rock, pop, hip hop, country, I kind of just listened to it all,” the rising singer/songwriter says. “Anyone from people like J Boog, Otis Redding or Chris Stapleton.”
Tucker’s debut single, “Wind Up Missin’ You,” is now approaching the top 10 of the country charts.
For tickets to catch Tucker on his ongoing headlining Waves on a Sunset Tour, visit tuckerwetmore.com.
Looking for some dating advice in the form of a country song? Look no further than Jon Pardi‘s “Friday Night Heartbreaker.”
“‘Friday Night Heartbreaker’ is a very cool song. It's something that caught my ear when I first heard it. I love the, you know, I call it like the hot girl warning – the heartbreaker, the stay-away-from-this-girl-even-though-you're-probably-going-to-try-to-talk-to-her,” Jon tells the press.
“It's kind of a fun song. I feel like girls really like that kind of stuff,” says the “Last Night Lonely” singer. “And it's kind of spooky sounding, rock ‘n’ roll country.”
“Friday Night Heartbreaker” previews Jon’s forthcoming as-yet-untitled Mr. Saturday Night follow-up.
“Mary, Did You Know?” “I'll Be Home For Christmas” “Christmas to Remember” “The First Noel” “Baby, It's Cold Outside” (feat. Cade Foehner) “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” (feat. The Piano Guys) “Go Tell It on the Mountain” (for KING & COUNTRY feat. Gabby Barrett) “O Holy Night” “Last Christmas” “Grown-Up Christmas List” “Silent Night”
Parker McCollum has been a dad for almost three months now and to him, fatherhood has been a “major, major blessing.”
“It's just been so good. Hallie Ray's healthy and feeling great. And, you know, Major‘s starting to smile a little bit and I get to give him a little bottle every now and then, which is cool,” Parker shares with the press.
“Every time I hold him, he starts to get fussy and I don't really have the touch yet. So the bottle helps with that,” the “Pretty Heart” singer notes.
“But man, it's just been so good and everybody was right. It took a few weeks for me to kind of get it and for me to really get over the fact that it's going to be different from here on out,” says Parker. “I was kind of freaked out there for a little while. Man, everybody was right.”
“It's the greatest thing in the world,” he adds. “That's my boy.”
Parker’s slowing things down for the rest of the year with five remaining shows on his tour schedule. But he’ll ramp things up in January for his What Kinda Man Tour, which kicks off Jan. 23 in Athens, Georgia.
Chris Young‘s back in writing mode for his Young Love & Saturday Nights follow-up.
Chris hopped on Instagram Tuesday to share a selfie of him and his co-writers shot after their session together.
“Wrote a summer song with these fellas today!” the “Gettin’ You Home” singer wrote via onscreen text and thanked his co-writers Ray Fulcher, Andy Sheridan and Ty Graham in the caption.
Young Love & Saturday Nights arrived in March and spawned its chart-topping title track and single, which became Chris’ 14th career #1.
The Associated Press reports that Former President Donald Trump has defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to win the 2024 presidential election.
Early Wednesday morning, Trump cleared the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency with a win in Wisconsin. The former president ended up with at least 279 electoral votes after clinching wins in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin, with Harris winning at least 219 votes. The race was marked by literal history, including two assassination attempts and 34 felony convictions against Trump, already having been impeached twice and faulted for mismanaging the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Trump 78m will be the oldest person to take the oath of office at his inauguration on Jan. 20. His running mate, freshman Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, 40, will preside over the Senate as the country’s first millennial vice president. Harris, 60, underwent a historic bid to become the nation’s first female president, first Asian American president and second Black president.
Trump said in his victory speech at his election headquarters in Florida: “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president. And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and for your future. Every single day, I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body.”
Harris didn’t speak on Election Night, forgoing her planned event at Howard University. Cedric Richmond, Harris’ campaign co-chair, said she will address her supporters and the nation later Wednesday.
Tropical Storm Rafael gaining strength Tuesday morning after forming in the Caribbean Sea, with forecasters saying it will strengthen into a hurricane with predictions the storm is headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week. Rafael is the 17th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, and it will be the 11th hurricane if it strengthens further. The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday: “Rafael is expected to become a hurricane as it passes near the Cayman Islands with further strengthening before it makes landfall in Cuba.”
NHC forecasters said Tuesday that Rafael was located about 80 miles south-southwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica and 230 miles southeast of Grand Cayman, carrying maximum sustained winds of 60 mph and moving northwest at 13 mph. Forecasters warn that “heavy rainfall” will hit the western Caribbean with heaviest rainfall occurring over Jamaica and portions of Cuba through mid-week.
NHC forecasters said Rafael is “getting better organized” as its center passes Jamaica, and is expected to undergo “steady to rapid intensification” to become a Category 1 hurricane as it passes near the Cayman Islands by Wednesday before weakening to a tropical storm again. The hurricane center’s latest forecast cone, which comes with some uncertainty, has Rafael passing over the western reaches of Cuba on Wednesday afternoon or evening.
The NWS station in Mobile, Ala., says there seems to be an “unusually large amount of uncertainty with the movement of this system later in the week.” Texas does not appear to be in Rafael’s track to see direct landfall, but by mid- to late week, “heavy” rainfall is expected to spread north into Florida and adjacent areas of the Southeast United State. A tropical storm watch was issued Monday afternoon for the lower and middle Florida Keys and for the Dry Tortugas, which was later upgraded Tuesday to a tropical storm warning.
Rafael could potentially bring tropical storm winds to portions of the northern Gulf Coast, including the Florida Keys and south Florida on Wednesday afternoon. Heavy rainfall was expected to spread north into Florida and elsewhere in the southeast U.S. by the middle or end of the week, with as much as 3 inches forecast for the lower and middle Florida Keys.
Cody Johnson recently gave Leather the deluxe treatment as a 25-track project, and now he’s thinking about its follow-up, which he’ll record in 2025.
“This year marks 18 years of playing music live for a living,” says Cody. “I think I poured more into Leather than I have any other album. It’s kind of encouraged me to, you know, next year when I decide to go into the studio and start again, to really try to outdo Leather, if it’s possible.”
Earning three #1 singles and getting to record longer-than-usual albums isn’t something Cody takes for granted.
“Radio really handed us a great deal of momentum with ‘Til You Can’t’ that kind of bled over into ‘The Painter’ and ‘Dirt Cheap,'” Cody tells the press, before recounting the recording process of Leather Deluxe Edition.
“As far as Leather as a whole, we had an opportunity to listen to a lot more great songs because songwriters were reaching out, going, ‘Hey, I have really, really good songs. I want to give you these songs,'” the real-life cowboy recalls. “That, for me, gives me the tools to go in the studio and try to create real good country music that’s going to last and create more ripples.”
Leather Deluxe Edition is out now.
Cody’s latest single, “I’m Gonna Love You” with Carrie Underwood, is in the top 30 and ascending the country charts.
Here’s the full track list for Leather Deluxe Edition: “Work Boots” “Double Down” “Watching My Old Flame” “That's Texas” “Dirt Cheap” “Jesus Loves You” “Whiskey Bent” (featuring Jelly Roll) “Leather” “People in the Back” “Long Live Country Music” (featuring Brooks & Dunn) “The Painter” “Make Me a Mop”
Additional new songs: “Overdue” “The Fall” “How Do You Sleep at Night” “Country Boy Singin' the Blues” “Georgia Peaches” “Damn Good Life” “C’mon Cowgirl” “I Wished It Was You” “Take It Like a Man” “I'm Gonna Love You” (with Carrie Underwood) “Made In the USA” “Over Missin' You” “The Mustang”
Luke Bryan has earned his 31st career No. 1 with his song ‘Love You, Miss You, Mean It‘.
‘Love You, Miss You, Mean It’ was written by Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip, Jordan Minton and Jacob Rice and is included on Bryan’s newly released eighth studio album ‘Mind Of A Country Boy‘.
Bryan recently wrapped his ‘Mind Of A Country Boy Tour’ with the final show taking place in Des Moines, Iowa at Wells Fargo Arena.
The country superstar will also host the new Hulu series “It’s All Country” debuting on November 15, in which he explores stories and inspirations behind country songs and the artists that perform them. Bryan also will serve as co-host of the “The 58th Annual CMA Awards” with Peyton Manning and Lainey Wilson and next year, and he returns as judge on ABC’s ‘American Idol’ alongside Lionel Richie and Carrie Underwood.
