Month: March 2023

Sam Hunt‘s got a date at the Mother Church of Country Music.

The “Water Under the Bridge” hitmaker revealed the surprise show on his socials Wednesday.

“I can't remember the last time we got to play a show in Nashville. Come spend a little time with us March 10th at the @theryman!” Sam invited his fans, while also sharing the code for the concert’s presales, which are underway now. 

We don’t know much about Hunt’s tour plans for 2023, save for a couple April dates at Resorts World Las Vegas, and a handful of fairs and festivals. 

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After a cryptic Instagram post teasing new music, Tim McGraw has finally shared what’s to come – a brand-new single titled “Standing Room Only.” 

“Some of you guessed it! New single ‘Standing Room Only’ coming March 10th,” he wrote in his latest Instagram post. There, he also urged fans to presave the song if they wanted to hear a preview clip soon. 

In the accompanying blue-tinted single cover, Tim is dressed in a tucked-in black shirt and jeans, with his signature black cowboy hat on.

Tim’s last studio album was 2020’s Here on Earth, which received the deluxe treatment in 2021. The expansive 24-song collection included the radio singles “I Called Mama,” “7500 OBO” and “Undivided,” which featured Tyler Hubbard.

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Dierks Bentley just dropped his 10th studio album, Gravel & Gold, but fans wonder if he is planning to take the new music on the road. So far, no tour news has been announced, which is why a fan tweeted that she’s waiting for Dierks to “release some tour dates.” 

To his followers’ delight, Dierks responded shortly after with a tease, “There's an announcement you might want to hear this Friday [curious eye emoji].” 

Dierks’ last tour was his 2021 and 2022 Beers On Me Tour.

Gravel & Gold is out now. The 14-song project includes its lead single, “Gold,” which is currently at #11 on the country chart. 

Will Dierks announce a new tour soon? Keep an eye on his socials this Friday.

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Kane Brown has collaborated with a number of artists since he first came on the scene, including Khalid, Marshmello, Nelly, blackbear and Swae Lee. But his most recent collaborator means the most to him – because she’s his significant other.

Kane’s latest hit is a duet with his wife, Katelyn Brown, called “Thank God.” But this isn’t a case of someone just randomly putting their spouse on a song: Before the two married, Katelyn had her own music career. She was managed by Johnny Wright – who’d worked with Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC – and released several singles. She also graduated from Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music.

“Me and Kate have been trying to release a song for like five years now,” Kane says. “And we kept getting songs coming in. We thought that, y’know, each of them was the song for us but it never felt right.”

Finally, Kane says, “My buddy Josh [Hoge], he sent me a song called ‘Thank God,’ and I listened to it and I fell in love with it. And then kept listening to it and kept listening to it. I was like, ‘This could be a duet.’ So I asked Kate, and Kate fell in love with the song and now it's one of my favorite songs.”

Katelyn and Kane sang the song onstage for the first time late last year, and they’ll perform it on TV together on April 2 at the CMT Music Awards, which Kane is co-hosting with Kelsea Ballerini.

A few days ago, Kane told People magazine of Katelyn, “I keep telling everybody she’s my secret weapon.”

Kane and Katelyn will celebrate their fourth anniversary in October. They have two daughters, Kingsley and Kodi.

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It’s an interesting time for Luke Combs: As “Going, Going, Gone” reaches the top of the country chart, he’s experiencing one of the happiest periods of his life. 

In 2020, the North Carolina native married his wife, Nicole, and in June of last year his son, Tex, was born.

Luke believes the contrast between his sad song on the radio and the sweet life at home says something about the power of a song.

“I can be in this amazing place, and then come up with this guitar riff and have this song title that my co-writer goes … ‘I get that. I’m there right now,'” Luke reflects. “And you just try to bottle that magic while you have it, and know … they’re writing from a place of being in that moment.”

“And you could be writing for someone who, you know, at some point will be in that moment. … So I think that’s the super cool thing about it,” he adds.

Luke reveals “Going, Going, Gone” was actually a hint that his current album would have a continuation.

“That’s the last track on Growin’ Up. And the point of that was to go, ‘OK, well, this is where we’re going,'” he explains. “Like, I didn’t announce when Growin’ Up came out that there was gonna be a second part to this thing.”

“But I wanted people to go, ‘You know, this track 12, I really like that thing. It’s this new sound. It’s different, it’s something else, but I still love it and I still can relate to it,'” he continues. “And I wanted to let people know that that’s kind of where this was going, right, like leading into this next album.”

The other part, Growin’ Old, is set to arrive March 24. 

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