The Oak Ridge Boys celebrated their 10th anniversary as Grand Ole Opry members over the weekend, marking the occasion with a special Grand Prix performance on the Opry stage.
Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke has tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, the band has canceled four shows on their current tour. The group told fans that Rickey is “home resting and responding well to treatment.”
Viral TikTok star George Birge has officially released his debut single, “Beer Beer, Truck Truck.”
Maddie & Tae get by with some creative thinking, good friends and a good sense of humor in “Life Ain't Fair,” their just-released new summertime song that’s an anthem for anyone who’s ever been down and out.
“You'd think with all this rain I'd find a four leaf clover / But I'm pulling weeds round a broken lawn mower,” the duo sing in the song’s personality-packed, breezy chorus. “That's all right, I'm gonna take / All of these lemons and make some lemonade / You bring the Crown, I'll bring the chairs / And we'll laugh at how life ain't fair…”
On social media, Maddie & Tae say their new song was inspired by life's frustrating aspects and how differently they can play out, based on how a person chooses to react to them.
“How we handle those moments is what can turn a bad day into a bad week,” they explain. “Sooo…we're trying to take a new approach, in the form of good friends, good vibes, cheap wine and a new song!”
“Life Ain't Fair” follows Maddie & Tae’s current single, “Woman You Got.” This fall, they'll hit the road with Brett Young for his The Weekends Tour.
In his new docuseries, Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary, the country superstar recounts the personal ups and downs that he struggled with during the early days of his career.
Early on, the singer admits, he struggled to leave his small Georgia hometown and family behind in order to chase his dreams of a career in music. But in a new episode with ABC's Live with Kelly and Ryan, Luke credits his dad with giving him the push he needed to strike out on his own.
“I thought that my role was to take over the family business, and him kinda telling me, Life is short, life is precious. You only get one go-around at this life. So go chase your dreams so that you can never regret [not doing that,]'” he remembers.
“I mean, we all have the friends and the people in our lives who never truly went out there and chased all their dreams,” Luke goes on to say. “He really encouraged me to not be that person. So when he told me that, when I got his blessing, it took any of the pressure and any of the stress that I had to stay in my little hometown.”
Without that encouragement, the singer might never have tried his luck in Music City — or become one of country music's biggest stars.
“I picked a date, I moved to Nashville, and thank God, the rest is history,” Luke concludes.
On Friday, Tim McGraw will premiere the music video for his new track, “7500 OBO,” and the singer has a special surprise to share: The clip stars his youngest daughter, Audrey.
Tim broke the news on Instagram this week, sharing a snapshot of himself and Audrey standing together in front of a blue Ford F-150. Tim also reminded fans to tune into YouTube to watch the premiere. After the video airs, YouTube Premium subscribers will have access to a special afterparty featuring an interview and performance.
“7500 OBO” is the latest single to come off of Tim's Here on Earth album, which came out in 2020. The song tells the story of “an 06, stick-shift dark blue F-150” that he just can't bear to keep due to the memories and heartbreak that he associates with it.
Audrey is the youngest of Tim's three talented daughters with his fellow country star wife, Faith Hill. Earlier this year, the singer also shouted-out his fatherly pride to daughter Maggie after she graduated from Stanford University, while his third daughter, Gracie, has demonstrated plenty of her own musical talents on social media videos.
For their part, Tim and Faith are also expanding their skill sets: The musical couple will star in a prequel to the Yellowstone TV series, it was announced last week.
Travis Denning‘s 6-song EP Dirt Road Down is available now!
Travis’s statement about naming the album, “I think the reason we picked Dirt Road Down as the title of the EP was it looked great standing on its own – that could be the easy answer – but I just loved the encompassing feeling of Dirt Road Down. It sounds like, the same way the song approaches it so many different ways, to me it’s like another dirt road down.”
This will be Denning’s second album following Beer’s Better Cold which peaked at #20 on the Country Billboards.
Congratulations to Bruce Springsteen’s daughter Jessica, her team brought home a silver medal in equestrian team jumping. The 29-year-old Springsteen competed on her 12-year-old Belgian Warmblood stallion, Don Juan van de Donkhoeve.
Jessica gave a shout out to her horse on social media stating, “there’s no horse in the world I’d rather be on this journey with, thank you Don. You’re my horse of a lifetime.”
Springsteen competed with her teammates Laura Kraut and Mclain Ward who brought home the 2008 gold medal in the same sport. Well done team USA.
Reba McEntire opened up to fans about her experience with COVID-19 during a recent livestream on TikTok, encouraging everyone to remain vigilant about the spread of the virus.
The country legend and her boyfriend, actor Rex Linn, both caught COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, she explained.
“It's not fun to get this. I did get it. Rex and I got it and it's not fun,” she detailed, according to People. “We were both vaccinated and we still got it, so stay safe, stay home and be protected the best you can.”
The singer added that taking precautions is especially important as case numbers begin to rise again. “I just want to say one thing: This has been a hard year and it's getting rougher again. You guys, please stay safe,” Reba insisted. “Wear your mask. Do what you have to do. Stay home.”
Last week, the singer indefinitely postponed a public memorial she's planned for August 8 to celebrate the life of her late mom, Jacqueline, who died in March 2020.
Reba explained that the postponement was due to an uptick in local COVID-19 cases, adding that her mom would “scold us to pieces for putting on a memorial on her behalf with so many lives in danger of COVID exposure.”
Selena Gomez recently reflected on her past as a Disney child star. While promoting her new series”Only Murders in the Building”, she stated she didn’t know what exactly she was doing.
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Zac Brown Band brought their The Comeback Tour to Boston's Fenway Park on Sunday, and they made a little bit of history in the process.
The band last played the beloved baseball park — which is home to the Boston Red Sox — in 2019 for back-to-back nights during The Owl Tour. During those appearances, they set a venue record, becoming the only musical act to sell out 11 consecutive shows at Fenway Park.
But as of Sunday night's performance, ZBB has one-upped themselves yet again: Their sold-out show marked 12 consecutive sell-outs at the venue.
The milestone comes in the middle of a busy summer full of new music. The group's current single, “Same Boat,” is inside country radio's Top 20. Meanwhile, they've dropped a number of other songs, including two co-written by Luke Combs and another that’s a duet with buzzy Americana up-and-comer Marcus King.
The Comeback Tour continues later this month with a stop in Maryland and will last through mid-October, ultimately wrapping up with a hometown show grand finale at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.
Jamie Spears filled out court documents stating her daughter needs to be put under a 5150 psychiatric hold. Jamie claims that her current conservator Jodi Montgomery suggested it.
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