Month: April 2022

Garth Brooks announced the one and only return date on his Stadium Tour this week, booking a stop in Salt Lake City for June 2022.

He also made it to the city in 2021, as part of a slate of Stadium Tour shows that took place that year before the COVID-19 pandemic forced him to halt his touring plans for the second time. Garth's 2021 show happened last July at Rice-Eccles Stadium, the same venue that hosted his Stadium Tour last time around.

The stadium — which can hold over 51,000 fans, according to Utah Athletics' website — sold out in just under 30 minutes the first time Garth booked the venue. This time around, tickets for the show go on sale beginning Friday, April 22 at 10 a.m. MT.

The event takes place Saturday, June 18 beginning at 7 p.m. It's one of several Stadium Tour dates on the books for this spring and summer; Garth's also hitting stadiums in Alabama, North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee and more states.

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The long-awaited new Luke Combs album is officially on its way. The singer posted an update on Twitter this week, and while he didn't spill any details about its title or track list, he did give fans a timeline.

“Excited to let y'all know my new album will be out June 24!” Luke wrote.

When it arrives, this will be the singer's third studio album. It's been in the works for quite a while, and he's been teasing new music along the way. Earlier this month, Luke shared a snippet of an unreleased song called “The Kind of Love We Make.”

He's been trying out other unreleased songs at his live shows, like “Tomorrow Me” and “Five-Leaf Clover.” The new album’s lead single,”Doin' This,” is already inside country radio's top ten.

Luke’s new batch of tunes follows his smash hit 2017 debut, This One’s for You, and the equally popular follow-up, 2019’s What You See is What You Get. Both of those projects spawned deluxe versions.

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Elle King admits she’s still processing the success of “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home),” a song she held onto for years before releasing it as a duet with Miranda Lambert. 

As the song claims the #1 on country radio this week, Elle is reflecting on how she wrote “Drunk” years prior to its release as a young writer who lacked the confidence to stand up for her voice, knowing even then that it was a “good song.” 

“It’s a wonderful feeling to be still welcomed into the country world and to have a song that I wrote have this success and that I get to sing on it with my friend. It’s unfolded so many beautiful blessings in my life. I never expected it in a million years,” she professes. “It definitely does feel pretty good to see it rise on the charts and to get a Grammy nomination and to win Video of the Year [at the 2022 ACM Awards]. It’s very fun and wonderful.” 

After feeling the fully embraced by the country music community, the singer, who’s daughter of actor Rob Schneider, confirms that she is working on a solo country album. Elle says she’s about halfway done with the project and will finish recording it in Nashville before hitting the road with Chris Stapletonon his All-American Road Show Tour.

“I’m going to Nashville to finish recording it at the end of this month, so very excited,” she teases. “I’ve still been writing and I haven’t been this excited about music since I don’t know when.”

Elle also reached the top of the country charts with another duet partner, Dierks Bentley, with “Different For Girls” in 2016. 

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Turns out Dolly Parton is up before the sun. 

As a woman who’s busy managing an empire, Dolly wakes up at 3 a.m. each morning to begin her hectic work day. But, it turns out, it’s a family tradition, as her father, Robert Lee Parton, was also up before the crack of dawn as a farmer and sharecropper. 

“I don’t need a whole lot of sleep. I go to bed pretty early, but even if I’ve been up late — it’s just kind of like a little clock inside of me that says ‘it’s 3 o’clock!'” Dolly shares with ?Insider. ?”I do some of my best work there, but I get enough sleep. I don’t require as much sleep as a lot of other people do, that’s kind of a Parton family trait. I’m like my daddy. He was always up early, even if he had to go to bed late.”

Dolly recently released a novel, Run, Rose, Run, and an accompanying album of original songs. She’s set to star in a movie based on the book that she and co-author James Patterson will produce with Reese Witherspoon.

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