Month: April 2023

It’s no secret that Carly Pearce shares a close relationship with her mom, Jackie. That’s why the floodgates  opened when Carly’s mom first saw the emotional music video for her daughter’s single “What He Didn’t Do.”

“I played it for her, and I thought that she would really love it just because it’s so beautiful,” Carly recalls. “And she started crying when it was over, and she told me that she didn’t like it. And I asked her why, and she said because it’s too real of what happened. And I was kind of like, ‘That’s great, Mom. That’s exactly what I was lookin’ for. Thank you.'”

“But as a mother,” Carly adds, “I think she knew what I was trying to convey throughout the video, and I think it took her to a real emotional place of knowing that I really did feel like I was drowning.”

“What He Didn’t Do” served as the final single from Carly’s latest album, 29: Written In Stone. The song reached the top of the country charts last month and earned Carly her fourth number one hit.

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Kip Moore hit new career milestones with his recent debut concerts in South Africa. This sold-out trek included a stadium show boasting over 25,000 fans and two arena shows. His headlining Damn Love World Tour will continue in Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K., as well as the U.S. View photos from Kip’s South Africa concerts on Instagram.

Warner Music Nashville’s Jordyn Shellhart shared on Instagram that she’s dropping a new song, “When Something’s Got To Give” on Friday, April 7. The song will be the latest preview of her forthcoming debut album, Primrose, due out May 19.

“I Love This Life” hitmakers LOCASH will perform on Bravo’s hit show Summer House on April 10 before joining Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live later that night. Summer House airs at 9 p.m. ET, and Watch What Happens Live airs live at 10 p.m. ET. 

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Brett Young‘s dropping a new song, “Dance With You,” on April 14.

Sharing the news on Twitter, Brett says, “I always imagined that my first dance at my wedding would be with the only person I would slow dance with for the rest of my life. It was true for me. Call me a hopeless romantic, but I love stories about dreams coming true.”

Brett’s latest project is 2021’s Weekends Look A Little Different These Days. The eight-track set includes the singles “Lady” and “You Didn’t.” 

Brett is currently on the road for his 5 Tour 3, 2, 1 trek with openers Morgan Evans and Ashley Cooke. Brett and Ashley also collaborated on a wedding version of Ashley’s “Never Til Now” in February.

Presave “Dance With You” now.

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Get ready for new music, Michael Ray fans. A forthcoming EP from Michael, titled Dive Bars & Broken Hearts, is arriving on June 23.

Michael shared the big news on Instagram on Wednesday, April 5, after teasing an announcement earlier in the week.

“I'm a kid from central Florida, raised singing at the Sunshine Opry, playing Froggers, turning it up when Jones, Hank Jr. and later Montgomery Gentry hit the dial. I like the ones who hit their country straight up and hard. I knew one guy who makes that kind of country, my new producer Michael Knox. The more we talked, the more I knew he understood where I came from,” Michael wrote. “My kind of country doesn't come from TikTok or a TV show, it's all those straight up country singers who knew life doesn't always turn out like you think, but you keep going.”

He continues, “I'm from a family of EMTs, cable-splicers, first responders; they had to get up and go to work, no matter what was happening… and when they got home, they reached for the music, whether they were going out with my grandpa Amos to watch him play, or some band they were playin' in. That's a whole different way to do this, and Knox got it. Just like he knows how dive bars and broken hearts are a lot like George Jones songs and steel guitars. they go together.”

Michael’s latest studio project is his Higher Education EP, which dropped in 2021 and featured the hit single “Whiskey And Rain.” In 2022, Michael released two live EPs, The Warehouse Sessions and The Bootlegger Sessions EP.

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Get a glimpse of Morgan Evans‘ heart with his forthcoming EP, Life Upside Down.

Arriving on April 21, the five-song set will feature “On My Own Again” and Morgan’s current single, “Over For You,” both of which are out now.

“I called the EP ‘Life Upside Down’ because this collection of music could only have come from this time, when my life felt exactly that,” Morgan shares in a statement. “To me, these five tracks journey through unexpected heartbreak, self-rediscovery, new beginnings and a new found gratitude for the present moment.”

Morgan recently released a cinematic music video for the autobiographical “On My Own Again.”

“8 shows, 7 countries, 3 bicycles, 2 goats & 1 camel. For a song documenting a poignant moment in my life, I thought it'd be appropriate to make a video the same way,” says Morgan. “I invited the guys behind the ‘Over For You’ music video and the docuseries on the road in Morocco, Europe, Ireland and the UK for one of the adventures of my life so far.”

On the tour front, Morgan’s currently opening for Brett Young on his 5 Tour 3 2 1 and will join Billy Currington on select dates later this year.

Life Upside Down is available for presave now.

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Hot on the heels of the news of her upcoming Country Music Hall of Fame induction, Tanya Tucker has announced that she’s releasing a new album on June 2.

Titled Sweet Western Sound, the project is produced once again by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings. Tanya first enlisted the pair to produce her Grammy-winning album, While I’m Livin’, which dropped in 2019. 

“Sweet Western Sound is another revelation and I'm excited to see what folks think of our new endeavor,” Tanya says. “It's always a trip working with Brandi and Shooter. I didn't know if we'd be working together again on a new album after While I'm Livin'. But we did it!”

“Lots of new things we did this time and I even co-wrote some of the songs, which means a lot to me,” she adds. “Brandi says we're magic together, and I'm starting to believe her.”

Tanya also recently announced that she’s performing at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on June 3 and 4.

Fans can preview Sweet Western Sound with new track “Kindness” and preorder the album now.

Here’s the complete track listing for Tanya’s Sweet Western Sound?:

“Tanya” 
“Kindness” 
“Breakfast in Birmingham” featuring Brandi Carlile 
“Waltz Across a Moment” 
“Ready as I'll Never Be” 
“The List” 
“Letter to Linda” 
“City of Gold” 
“That Wasn't Me”
“When the Rodeo Is Over (Where Do the Cowboys Go?)” 

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