Month: September 2022

Kane Brown and his wife, Katelyn, are a busy power couple juggling Kane's demanding country music career with their home life raising two daughters together.

So when they get some time to themselves, they don't usually spend it on a fancy night out at a club or a party. In a new Q&A video that shows the couple playing Jenga and answering questions, Kane and Katelyn agree that their perfect date night involves staying in.

However, they might have slightly different thoughts about the specifics.

“Netflix and chill,” Kane says with a big grin, when asked about his go-to date night idea. And while Katelyn's on board with staying at home, she prefers different date night activities.

“I don't wanna go out for a date night. I like to stay home, and sitting on the front porch and, like, drinking wine,” she says.

In the video, the couple also answers several more questions about Kane's music and their life together, including sharing their daughter's first word: “Daddy.”

Kane and Katelyn are partners in life, but on Kane's new album, Different Man, they're also partners in the studio. The pair teamed up for a collaboration, called “Thank God,” which appears on the album’s track list.

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Breland‘s debut album, Cross Country, is officially out now.

Dustin Lynch has a new song out called “Wood on the Fire.” Both the song and an audio visual for it are out now.

Maddie & Tae just dropped the music video for their latest release, “Spring Cleaning.” The song comes off Through the Madness Vol. 2, which the duo will put out September 23.

Morgan Wallen joins up-and-comer Larry Fleet for a new duet version of “Where I Find God.”

Randy Houser released a new song called “Rub a Little Dirt On It.” The track comes off his upcoming new album, Note to Self.

In case you missed it, Parker McCollum made his Austin City Limits debut this week. Meanwhile, his current single, “Handle on You,” is currently rising up the country charts.

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This week, Tyler Hubbard embarked on his first tour as a solo artist with Keith Urban's The Speed of Now World Tour. To celebrate, he released a music video that encapsulates the come one, come all vibe he seeks to provide with his live show.

That video is for his song “Everybody Needs a Bar,” which appears on his six-track EP, Dancin' in the Country. The clip was filmed at the home of a Nashville, Tennessee, art director who built his garage into a bar.

“Making the video for Everybody Needs a Bar' was an amazing experience,” Tyler says. “Everybody should have a place — their own version of a bar — to go where they feel a sense of welcoming and belonging. I think we were able to create that vibe in this video.”

Plus, he's got a special relationship with the actors in the music video: Tyler hired them for another video set to come out next month, “Baby Gets Her Lovin’,” and the gang had so much fun that he invited them to stay for the “Everybody Needs a Bar” shoot.

“Having all these actors out with me for two videos made the process incredibly fun and I think in its own way told the story of the song,” the singer adds.

Meanwhile, “5 Foot 9” — Tyler's first single as a solo artist — is currently inside the Top 10 at country radio.

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One of the most tender moments on Kane Brown's Different Man album comes in “Pop's Last Name,” a ballad that honors the grandfather who helped raise him.

“My pop's last name / Still feel his hand here on my shoulder / I still hear him say / You'll understand when you get older' / Today I couldn't be any more grateful, thankful or proud to say / I got my pop's last name,” Kane sings in the chorus of the song.

“He was my only father figure because my dad's been in prison since I was a child,” the singer explains in an appearance on Today's Country Radio With Kelleigh Bannen, adding that his granddad died last year.

“He was the guy that came and taught me baseball, you know, took me on drives,” he continues.

Kane's granddad took him to visit Civil War monuments in his home state of Georgia, a memory that the singer immortalizes in the lyrics of “Pop's Last Name.”

He also stood up for young Kane during difficult times, like when he was being abused by his stepfather. “When I was going through child abuse and stuff with my stepdad…I wasn't going to get to go to baseball practice one day, he came and took me out of the house and was like, He's coming with me,'” Kane recounts.

“[He] was just a big father figure,” he adds. “And so I had to write a song about him.”

“Pop's Last Name” is on the track list of Different Man, which arrived on Friday.

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