Month: August 2022

Chapel Hart, the country trio who went viral with their performance of “You Can Have Him Jolene” on America’s Got Talent, returns to the show for the next round Tuesday. It airs on NBC at 8 p.m. ET. 

Pilgrimage Festival has released the performance schedule for the two-day event featuring Chris Stapleton, Elle King and more. The festival takes place in Franklin, Tennessee, September 24 and 25. 

HottieFest: The Big Splash is returning to Moon Palace, Cancun, next year. Hootie & the Blowfish, Gin Blossoms and Everclear are performing at the festival January 25-28. Additional artists will be announced in the coming weeks. 

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Walker Hayes has a new song coming next week that’s inspired by his dog. The hit singer took to Twitter to share that he’s releasing a new song, “That Dog’ll Hunt,” next Friday. It’s about his childhood dog, named Skeeter, who holds a special place in his heart.

“Y'all this is Skeeter. The best dog I ever had,” Walker shares alongside a photo of himself as a teenager, holding the floppy-eared pup in his hands. “We will be singing about him together 8/26.” 

The new track arrives in the midst of Walker’s current single, “Y’all Life,” climbing up the country charts. His previous single, “AA,” became a top five hit earlier this year. 

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Brian Kelley is reflecting on Florida Georgia Line‘s journey before their hiatus. 

Over the weekend, the duo performed in Woodstock, Illinois, as part of a contest T-Mobile held to provide a $3 million “tech makeover” to a small town in America. It marks one of the final shows on this year’s calendar before going their separate ways. 

Bandmate Tyler Hubbard is working on a solo album and prepping to go on tour with Keith Urban, while Brian is preparing for his residency at Tribe Kelley Surf Post, the Florida clothing store he owns with wife Brittney. He says he’s looking to the future with gratitude for what they’ve accomplished. 

“Every step of the way, we’ve had a blast. Even in the hard times where we were driving in a van and not sure if anything’s going to happen,” Brian shares with ?E! News. “We love creating and we’re super grateful that our music resonates to so many different people in so many different locations. It really is a dream come true every time we get to play our songs live. When we live them out with everybody, you get to see the power of music and it’s so much bigger than just us onstage in that moment. It’s bringing everybody together and that’s a feeling that you can’t really replicate.”

FGL’s last show this year is on August 31 at the Minnesota State Fair. 

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Kane Brown is on a new music frenzy. 

On Tuesday, the hit singer dropped new song “Go Around” off his upcoming album, Different Man. The fiddle-filled number finds him singing about a woman who’s caught his eye and he’s “hell bent” on changing her mind. 

“We could be a story about love in a bar/Or a ‘what if’ song on an old guitar/You ain’t gotta worry ’bout showing them cards/’Cause I ain’t in the business of breaking hearts/So give me a go around,” he sings. 

“Go Around” arrives in the wake of Kane’s current single, “Like I Love Country Music,” reaching the top of the country charts this week, becoming his eighth #1 hit. The Georgia native has also shared crossover single “Grand” off the album, which comes out on September 9. 

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Gabby Barrett is opening up about the reality of performing live while pregnant. 

Gabby is currently on the road opening for Jason Aldean‘s Rock N’ Roll Cowboy Tour. She’s also pregnant with her and husband Cade Foehner‘s second child, who is due in early November. She recently sat down with fans for a Q&A on her Instagram Stories and was asked how she was feeling touring while being pregnant with the baby boy. She admitted that it poses a series of challenges. 

“I love performing. It is getting difficult, though. What people don’t really see is a lot of sitting around all day before the show, which makes everyone groggy,” she explained. “I struggle with very low blood pressure almost every day in this pregnancy, which makes it hard to have energy to perform.” 

The “I Hope” hitmaker also revealed that when she was pregnant with their first child, Baylah, she came down with a “bad case” of PUPPP rash that covered her whole body until after the baby was born. She also experienced postpartum preeclampsia, which includes having high blood pressure and excess protein in urine after childbirth.

“I had to get on blood pressure medication when I was 20,” she said. “Thankful God provides doctors for help!”

Gabby’s last day on tour with Jason is August 27. 

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Blake Shelton is going back in time with his new single.

On Friday, the country superstar will drop “No Body” alongside a ’90s-themed video that features line dancing and sees the singer donning a mullet wig, a nod to the famous hairstyle Blake had back in the day. On Instagram, Blake teased a clip of the video, which was filmed at a country bar in Los Angeles.

“Had to bring back the mullet just for y’all,” Blake writes in the caption, adding in a statement. “I get excited and feel like a kid every time we release new music. But this song in particular takes me back to the 90s when I was in high school and first moved to Nashville, because it feels like what the music sounded like at that time.” 

“No Body” follows Blake’s 2021 single, “Come Back as a Country Boy,” which reached the top 20 on country radio.  

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