Month: September 2022

Kane Brown is giving fans a preview of the duet with his wife, Katelyn. 

The superstar took to Instagram to share a snippet of the highly anticipated duet, “Thank God,” that finds the husband and wife singing together for the first time.

The song features a soft, pop-country melody as Kane and Katelyn’s voices unite singing, “I thank God/I get to wake up by your side/I thank God your hand fits perfectly in mine/And thank God you loved me when you didn’t have to/But you did, you do/And he knew/Thank God for giving me you.”

“So excited,” Kane shared alongside the video of them recording in the studio. “Are y’all ready?” Katelyn adds.

Kane also shared photos from the music video that takes them to a tropical location. A pair of black-and-white pictures shows the singer overlooking misty mountains and driving in a car with his wife, with the windows and top down. Katelyn also shared a photo of them from the set singing with each other on the beach at sunset. 

“Thank God” is featured on Kane’s new album, Different Man, which is out on Friday. 

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Luke Combs lost his voice during a recent concert, but that didn’t stop him from keeping the show going.   

During his second night headlining Maine Savings Ampitheater in Maine this weekend, the superstar stopped mid-show to tell the audience that he knew he wasn’t going to be able to sing “as good as I normally do.” To make up for it, he refunded all of the tickets and continued on with the show.

“We’re still going to play the show, but it’s not going to be what I think it should be for you guys having to pay for it, so we’re going to put on the best free show we can put on,” he explained with a hoarse voice, adding that he was “so upset” about the situation. 

“I’m going to give you everything that I have and I am so sorry,” he continued, getting emotional as the crowd cheered. His speech led into a performance of his most recent #1 hit, “Doin’ This.”

The night before, Luke paid it forward to two young fans, Bo and Tanner, who paid $200 total for their tickets by stacking wood. When the singer saw their sign from the audience, he paid the boys $140 in cash and promised to pay the remaining $60.   

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Cole Swindell's hit song “She Had Me at Heads Carolina” is a throwback to 90s country and a love letter to Jo Dee Messina's original “Heads Carolina, Tails California.”

But the original concept for the song was even bigger. It was supposed to be a duet with Thomas Rhett, who is a co-writer on the track — an idea that emerged while Cole was on TR's The Center Point Road Tour last year.

“Me and Thomas Rhett had talked about that on tour last year,” the singer explains. “The original plan was for me and him to sing a song. We didn't really know what.”

Eventually, they landed on “Heads Carolina,” which Cole knows might have come as a surprise to some fans in terms of being the ’90s song he'd choose to tribute. “Of all the ’90s country songs we all love, I don't think anybody would have thought we'd pick that one,” he says. “But I think that's what makes it special.”

The most difficult part of writing it, Cole continues, was figuring out the right way to honor the original song — and ultimately, having to pivot away from their idea of singing it as a duet.

“That was a challenge, because we finally had to realize, Hey, it might not work with me and you singing this,'” he says, adding that he and TR both quickly put their plans aside to focus on making the song as great as possible.

“Let's just write it at the right angle, because this could be a massive idea,” Cole recalls telling TR during the write.

“She Had Me at Heads Carolina” comes off of Cole's latest album, Stereotype.

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Chase Rice held quite a few interesting jobs before becoming a country star, including lots of high-profile gigs, like being on reality TV.

But when it comes down to the toughest jobs he's ever worked, Chase says that nothing compares to being a college football athlete — not even working on a NASCAR pit crew.

“The hardest job I ever had was college football,” says the singer, who's a former linebacker for the University of North Carolina.

“It isn't a job — it's a full-time job, but you know, back then we didn't get paid for it,” he continues. “But that was much harder [than NASCAR], because there's just a more strenuous, longer season. Well, I don't know about a longer season, but it was just harder — it flat out was.”

For one thing, the level of sustained physical activity was more grueling — “A 4 1/2-hour day, when you're playing the whole time, is a lot harder than five or six pit stops” — and for another, there was more pressure involved.

“The hard part comes when you've got a guy like Jimmy Johnson and championships on the line,” Chase continues. “So there is a whole lot of pressure. [NASCAR] is a very, very hard job. But for me, football is harder.”

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