Month: July 2022

Maren Morris has teamed up with Amanda Shires on the latter singer’s new song, “Empty Cups.”

Brandi Carlile has unveiled the lineup for the 2023 Girls Just Wanna Weekend, which features Maren Morris, Wynonna Judd, Brittney Spencer, hit songwriter Natalie Hemby and more. Tickets go on sale to the public July 15 at 2 p.m. ET. 

Stagecoach Festival 2023 will take place April 28-30 in Indio, California. Advance passes are available for 24 hours beginning July 15 at 1 p.m. ET. The date for the general sale for the public will be later this year.  

Outlaw Music Festival featuring Willie Nelson & Family, The Avett Brothers, Black Pumas, Larkin Poe and Particle Kid has added three new dates across California from October 14-16. Tickets for the general public go on sale July 15 at 1 p.m. ET. 

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Maren Morris has created a new “olympic sport” onstage. 

On Tuesday, Maren posted an amusing video that shows her singing onstage as she tries to track down the security guard to deliver an important message. Dressed in a glitter fringe top and jean shorts, Maren can be seen strutting around the stage performing a cover of Fiona Apple‘s “Criminal” while attempting to get the security guard’s attention to tell him to let her friends stay in the front row. 

While singing lyrics, “heaven help me for the way I am/Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done,” the superstar can be seen pointing to the guard as her friends make their way to their front-row seats, not missing a beat. 

“The Olympic sport of chasing down the venue security guard to let your friends stay in the front row while also not missing a lyric,” Maren shares in the caption, adding a gold medal emoji for her victorious efforts. 

Maren is currently embarking on her Humble Quest Tour, which takes her all across the U.S. and Canada through December. 

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Life on the road as a famous country star may sound glamorous, but Old Dominion is here to set the record straight. 

Before hopping onstage recently, the band took to Instagram to share the hilarious reality of life backstage while on tour, with a video of bass player Geoff Sprung casually clipping his nails. 

“It’s the little things, it’s the small details — people don’t see them, but they can feel them,” Geoff remarks outside the tour bus as patrons can be seen streaming into the stadium in the background. “Earlier I did my toes. You can tell a show when I’ve done my toes. A little more spry, a little more fluid,” he adds jokingly.

“It’s a glamorous lifestyle. This is how the stars do it it, right?” OD quips in the caption. 

The CMA Award-winning band has been keeping fans updated on all the adventures they’ve had while on the road as part of Kenny Chesney‘s stadium-sized Here and Now Tour, taking place through the end of the summer. 

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Luke Combs has a specific mindset when it comes to live performing. 

Looking back on his early career, Luke recalls having meetings with managers who told him he was more suited to be a songwriter than an artist. Now that he’s a country superstar who has sold out arenas and has 14 number-one hits to his name, Luke says his approach to performing comes from a desire to leave a good impression on every person who attends his show. 

“Nobody looks at music. They listen to music. And I knew if I could write great songs and put em out, you'd listen to me and go, ‘I really like that,'” Luke explains to Variety. “And then when you come to see a show.I'm not crazy enough to think everyone in there is going to go, ‘This is the best show I've ever seen! This guy's the best thing ever.’ My goal was always to have no one walk out and go, ‘That was a bad show.'” 

The hit singer also hopes that attendees will find a song or moment in the show they connect to most and recognize his passion for his music and fans. “You can't be everybody's favorite. But I never wanted anybody to walk out and go, ‘That show let me down.’ And I don't think that I've done that,” he concludes. 

Luke released his latest album, Growin’ Up, in June, and it became the highest debut for a country album this year. His current single, “The Kind of Love We Make,” is ascending up the top 20 on country radio.

He’ll embark on the Middle of Somewhere Tour this fall.  

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Keith Urban‘s tour lineup is expanding. 

Tyler Hubbard has been added to Keith’s The Speed of Now World Tour as an opening act, joining previously announced opener, Ingrid Andress.

Tyler, who recently launched his solo career after a decade as a member of Florida Georgia Line, will hop on the tour in the fall, beginning on September 3 at The Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California and wrapping up his run on November 4 at the Peoria Civic Center in Illinois. 

“I'm psyched that my brutha Tyler Hubbard is going to come out and join Ingrid [Andress] and me on the fall leg of my Speed of Now World Tour,” Keith says in a statement. “It's going to be a blast!”

“To be asked to be on that tour with them is incredible. I can’t wait to get out, play some new songs for you guys, hang out and share a stage with Keith and Ingrid,” Tyler raves in a video, praising Keith as one of his “longtime heroes and good buddies.” “I’m super excited, can’t wait to see you guys on the road.”  

Tyler also announced that he has a new song called “Way Home” dropping on Friday. His latest single, “5 Foot 9,” is climbing up the charts, currently at #20. 

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Looking back on his breakthrough album, Golden Road, Keith Urban says the songs have stood the test of time in a way he didn’t imagine when he was making the record 20 years ago.

Released in 2002, Golden Road features several of the Australia native’s signature hits, like “Somebody Like You” and “You’ll Think of Me,” and he attributes the album’s enduring success to its “good bones.” Golden Road debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and has since been certified triple Platinum. 

“Some of these songs have proved much more resilient than I imagined at the time, not that I was thinking that far ahead. I never have, I’m always in the moment. I wasn’t thinking about these songs being played 20 years later,” Keith explains. “It’s crazy, but I think they were built right from the beginning, and so they continue to have good bones … I think they can take a fresh coat of paint every few seasons and not lose their center, but still flow with the other songs really well.” 

Looking at his career as a whole, Keith notes that while his sound has evolved over time, the heart of his music hasn’t changed, one of the many ways his songs connect through the years. 

“I think for all the changes that I may have or not have made musically over the years, there is threads that go through all of it. I didn’t go make a speed metal record one year and then polka the next record. There’s threads through all of it, and I think playing live is the premier opportunity for me to show that those songs thread together and make sense together much more than sometimes albums alone,” he says. 

Keith recently dropped his new single, “Brown Eyes Baby.” 

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