Can’t make it to Nashville for CMA Fest? Don’t worry, TalkShopLive is streaming Dolly Parton, Cody Johnson and Lainey Wilson‘s CMA Close Up Stage interviews live on its platform. You’ll also be able to shop exclusive CMA Fest and artist merchandise. For more information, head to talkshop.live/channels/cma.
Daniell Bradberry is dropping a new piano ballad, “Broken Boy,” on Friday and it’s available for presave now.
Country duo LOCASH will drop a remix of their track, “Hometown Home,” on Friday. You can presave the song now to hear it as soon as it drops.
Luke Combs has shared a heartfelt note he penned for his sons, Tex Lawrence and Beau Lee.
“To My Boys, first and foremost I will always love you, no matter what,” Luke writes, before dedicating his upcoming track, “The Man He Sees in Me,” to them.
“With this song I want you to know that even though I’m not perfect, I try my hardest everyday to be the best version of myself for you both. I’ll make mistakes along the way and some days you’ll be sick of your old man I’m sure but dang we’ll have some fun too,” he says.
“I can’t wait to see what you both turn out to be like and I hope someday down the road I get to watch you and your kids do the same,” he concludes the note, before signing off, “Love, Dad.”
“The Man He Sees in Me” arrives on digital platforms Thursday at 4 p.m. ET. While you wait, check out an acoustic, live performance clip on social platform X.
Luke’s latest single is “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” from Twisters: The Album, and it’s #18 and ascending the country charts.
To see Luke on his ongoing Growing Up and Getting Old Tour, visit lukecombs.com.
There’s a first time for everything, even for Chris Young.
The country star recently stopped his show to help a pregnant fan with her gender reveal.
“Good Lord, I’m sorry to the people in the back of the crowd. Hang on, I got to do this. Are you serious?” Chris asks the fan who was at the front of his concert.
“So this says, ‘Chris, will you do my gender reveal?’ I’ve never done one of these before,” Chris reads the sign she made, before asking her if she’s hoping for a boy or girl.
He then hands the sign back to her to open the envelope, which contained the sex of the baby.
“It’s a girl. I’m so glad,” Chris announces to the crowd. “For everybody who can’t hear what’s going on, I was like, ‘What are you hoping for?’ She goes, ‘A girl.’ Oh cool, no pressure.”
“It’s a girl. She’s having a girl,” he shares as the crowd erupts in excitement.
The country superstar has announced that his seventh studio record, About A Woman, is dropping Aug. 23.
“From top to bottom, I wanted to exude joy and fun with this project – and really just make people move,” says Thomas. “I went into making this record with a fearless attitude, put my blinders on and my head down to try and make really fun music.”
The album’s main inspiration? His wife of 11 years, Lauren.
“I feel like if you were to ask me what this record is about, the answer would be it's about one woman, my wife, and it gave me an opportunity to say ‘I love you’ in a lot of different ways,” Thomas shares.
About A Woman‘s lead single, “Beautiful as You,” is currently approaching the top 30 of the country charts. A second preview of the project, “Gone Country,” arrives Friday and is available for presave now.
Here’s the track list for About A Woman:
“Fool” “Overdrive” “Gone Country” “Beautiful as You” “Can’t Love You Anymore” “After All The Bars Are Closed” “Church” “Back to Blue” “Country for California” “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Woman” “What Could Go Right” “Boots” “Don't Wanna Dance” “I Could Spend Forever Loving You”
Jelly Roll is already the father of two children from previous relationships, Bailee and Noah, but he and his wife, BunnieXO, are now actively trying to have a baby together.
While appearing on the Bussin’ with the Boys podcast, Jelly revealed that one of the main reasons he recently lost 60 pounds was that he wants to stay healthy enough to see a future child into adulthood.
“My wife and I are talking about having a baby, and it really made me realize that, at almost 40, I was like, it means I got to live to at least 60. I got to see this kid into college,” he said in an excerpt that Bunnie posted on her Instagram.
Over the footage, Bunnie posted the following message: “Papabear dropped a surprise on this pod today. We had planned on doing this privately, but decided our ivf journey needed to be shared because we've always been so open. And w/all odds stacked against us, it's always been hard & we have only just begun.”
“We have been meeting with IVF doctors & exploring all our options to add to our family,” she continued. “J & I are so excited & scared all at the same time. We genuinely never thought we’d want to add to our family but something changed this year & we both just want a piece of us together to add to our already perfect family w/Bailee & Noah.”
“So here we go, y’all!” she concluded. “Send all your love our way.”
She captioned the post, “God Willing- Baby DeFord 2026.”
Megan Moroney made her long-awaited The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon debut on Tuesday.
Donning a silver dress, Megan performed the emotional “No Caller ID” onstage with her band.
“Here you come again, and there you go/ No coincidence, you always know/ When I’m movin’ on, you move back in/ With a half-a**, ‘Sorry, how you’ve been?’/ Why do you do it? Do you just hate losin’?/ Here you come again, who could it be?/ It’s 3 a.m., no caller ID,” Megan sang as she strummed her silver glitter-adorned acoustic guitar.
“SO HAPPY I CANT BELIEVE THIS ISNT AI,” Megan said on social platform X while resharing a fan’s X post featuring photos of her on television.
“No Caller ID” previews Megan’s sophomore album, Am I Okay?, which arrives July 12 and is available for preorder and presave now.
If you’re going to be in Nashville for CMA Fest, you can catch Megan’s performance at the Chevy Riverfront Stage and Nissan Stadium main stage on Sunday. More details can be found at cmafest.com.
Three associates of former President Donald Trump associates, who were allegedly tied to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, have been charged with forgery in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony charges against Kenneth Chesbro, former Dane County Judge Jim Troupis, and Mike Roman in Dane County Circuit Court. Chesbro is accused of hatching the plan, Troupis represented Trump in Wisconsin and Roman delivered the paperwork of fake electors to a Pennsylvania congressional staffer to hand them off to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6. All three were working for Trump in 2020 during Trump’s effort to take the state’s electoral votes.
Wisconsin is one of five states that have charged individuals for taking part in an elaborate scheme to approve fake electors for Trump in states where Biden won the vote. The fake elector’s plan is one of the foundations for charges brought against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith in his Washington, D.C., case. That case is currently on hold while the Supreme Court decides if Trump’s claim of absolute immunity is warranted.
Cheseboro and Roman are also named as co-conspirators in similar election cases in Arizona and Georgia, while Troupis has been cited in Wisconsin only.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed a new executive order on immigration that bars asylum to migrants who cross the southern border unlawfully, and temporarily shut down asylum requests once the average number of daily encounters tops 2,500 between official ports of entry.
The White House announced online: “These actions will be in effect when high levels of encounters at the southern border exceed our ability to deliver timely consequences,” saying that the policy change “will make it easier for immigration officers to remove those without a lawful basis to remain and reduce the burden on our border patrol agents.”
Biden’s executive order suspends entry of non-citizens who illegally cross the southern border and makes it easier to remove those who cross when the southern border is “overwhelmed” and to remove respective migrants who “do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States.” The executive order limiting the unlawful daily crossings to an average of 2,500 “will be discontinued when the number of migrants who cross the border between ports of entry is low enough for America’s system to safely and effectively manage border operations.” The president’s order would come under the Immigration and Nationality Act sections 212(f) and 215(a) suspending entry of noncitizens who cross the southern border into the United States unlawfully. Humanitarian exceptions will be made, including for unaccompanied children and victims of trafficking.
Biden’s executive order comes a day after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials reported rising injuries and fatalities among migrants due to heat and dehydration as summer approaches and temperatures recently topped 100 degrees in the El Paso, Texas, sector. Border Patrol agents responded to several emergencies involving migrants suffering from “severe heat related illnesses,” which claimed four lives over the past weekend.
“Whirlwind. That’s what it’s been. Seems like it comes up in every conversation. Anytime I open a book, I see the word ‘whirlwind,'” shares Lainey Wilson.
That’s why she’s naming her forthcoming fifth album Whirlwind.
“It’s like, this is it. Way too many signs have pointed to it,” Lainey tells ABC Audio.
Beyond the whirlwind of her life and career, the reigning ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year says Whirlwind will be the best project she’s released – and she’s very confident of that.
“It’s weird because I actually told somebody the other day, I said, ‘If this record right here never wins a thing, I still know it’s the best stuff that I’ve ever done, and I can lay my head down at night knowing that a 100%,'” Lainey recalls.
“I mean, truth is, I didn’t start writing music … to win awards. It’s just something that has a nice thing that’s come along with it,” the “Hang Tight Honey” singer says. “So I think you got to make sure that you’re writing for the same reasons, and that’s what we did with this stuff.”
If you’re going to be in Nashville for CMA Fest, you can catch Lainey performing at Nissan Stadium on Saturday before her sit-down interview at the CMA Close Up Stage on Sunday.
Not going to be in Nashville? Fret not, you can livestream Lainey’s interview on TalkShopLive.
To see Lainey on the road this summer and fall on her Country’s Cool Again Tour, visit laineywilson.com.
Lainey Wilson will become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry after receiving a surprise invitation to join the Opry family from longtime Opry member Reba McEntire.
McEntire extended the honor after Wilson after she performed her latest single, “Hang Tight Honey” on the finale of NBC’s, sharing: “Lainey, I am so proud of you. You did a wonderful job. I have heard that I’ve inspired you and what you’ve done so far, and I am thrilled to death if I had anything to do with your career, ’cause you are blowing it up.” I was so proud of you at the ACMs the other night, and I couldn’t be more proud to be the one that helps you continue to bridge the gap between our generations, keep ’em all goin’. I’d like to be the person who invites you to be an official member of the Grand Ole Opry.”
Wilson tearfully accepted, hugging McEntire on stage and sharing: “somebody pinch me. This is the moment little Lainey dreamed about ever since her first trip to Nashville. My family’s over here tonight, and I will say, they took me to Nashville when I was nine years old and we went to the Grand Ole Opry, and we saw Bill Anderson and Crystal Gayle and Little Jimmy Dickens, and I knew that I wanted to play there, I wanted to do it. It is so crazy that you’re asking me to be a member ’cause I look up to you so much. I’m not talking about just musically, but the way that you carry yourself and your work ethic, you inspire me every day.” She ended by thanking McEntire for “the surprise of a lifetime.” McEntire later presented Wilson with a gift commemorating the occasion, a custom-made belt buckle reading “Opry” and “Lainey” with “2024” emblazoned on its reverse side.
Wilson will be inducted into the Opry family on Friday, June 7th.
