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Dierks Bentley sends fans searching for 'Gravel & Gold' treasure

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Dierks Bentley‘s tenth studio album arrives on Friday, and some lucky fans will be able to pick up a very special edition of Gravel & Gold. 

It’ll also be available simultaneously on vinyl, and 50 of those records boast some sweet surprises: The limited edition vinyl packages will include tickets to his tour, and a $150 gift card for his Desert Son clothing and merch. 

Thursday night, Dierks plays a special Road to Gravel & Gold show at the CMA Theater inside the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum. You can livestream it starting at 8 p.m. ET on Twitch channel 3point5.

Here’s a list of the locations where you might be able to uncover one of the special copies of Gravel & Gold on vinyl: 

Boise, ID – Record Exchange
Charlotte, NC – Lunchbox Records
Charlotte, NC – Repo Record
Chicago, IL – Reckless Records
Coeur d’Alene, ID – The Long Ear
Detroit, MI – Dearborn Music
Fort Lauderdale, FL – Radio-Active Records
Fort Wayne, IN – Wooden Nickel Records
Hamilton, OH – Main Street Vinyl
Indianapolis, IN – Indy CD & Vinyl
Indianapolis, IN – Karma Records (East)
Indianapolis, IN – Karma Records (NW)
Indianapolis, IN – Karma Records (West)
Kansas, MO – Josey Records
Keene, NH – Bull Moose
Lancaster, PA – BZDC
Lansing, MI – The Record Lounge
Nashville, TN – Grimey's
Nashville, TN – Vinyl Tap
New York City, NY – Rough Trade
Niles, OH – The Record Connection
Orlando, FL – Park Ave CD's
Overland Park, KS – Vinyl Renaissance
Pittsburgh, PA – Attic Record Store
Portland, OR – Jackpot Records
Portland, OR – Music Millennium
Portsmouth, NH – Bull Moose
Raleigh, NC – Hunky Dory
Saint Louis, MO – Euclid Records
Saint Louis, MO – Vintage Vinyl
Salem, NH – Bull Moose
San Diego, CA – M-Theory Records
San Francisco, CA – Amoeba Music
San Jose, CA – Streetlight Records
Santa Cruz, CA – Streetlight Records
Seattle, WA – Easy Street Records
Seattle, WA – Silver Platters
Tampa, FL – Mojo Books and Records
Tampa, FL – Sound Exchange
West Babylon, NY – Looney Tunes
Wilkes-Barre, PA – Gallery Of Sound

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Presley has Pardi's “Heart,” and her dad has a new video

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The video for Jon Pardi‘s latest hit, “Your Heart or Mine,” is set to arrive on Friday. 

The new dad made the announcement on his socials, along with a short clip that shows him leaning against a wall in a southwestern locale as an attractive woman walks by. You’ll be able to see the full video starting at 11 a.m. ET Friday via YouTube or Facebook.

It’s been an exciting week for the California native. He and wife Summer welcomed their first child, Presley Fawn, on Saturday. Since then, Jon’s shared photos of him beaming while holding his daughter and even chopping a little wood on Wednesday. 

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Dustin Lynch scatters “Stars Like Confetti” first thing in the morning

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Dustin Lynch will be dropping “Stars Like Confetti” on the Today show next month.

The Tullahoma, Tennessee, native will perform his new single during the third hour of the NBC morning show on March 6. The latest single from his Blue in the Sky album was co-written by Thomas Rhett. 

On March 16, Dustin heads out on the Drunk or Dreaming Tour with Kane Brown and LOCASH.

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Kane Brown returns to CMT Awards & books his acting debut

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Kane Brown will return this year to co-host the 2023 CMT Music Awards alongside Kelsea Ballerini on CBS. The two previously hosted the show together in 2021, and last year, he stepped in alongside Anthony Mackie when Kelsea came down with COVID. 

This year’s show premieres Sunday, April 2, at 8 p.m. ET, live from Moody Center in Austin, Texas. Kane and his wife, Katelyn, will also perform their #1 hit, “Thank You,” for the first time live on broadcast television.

Kane’s also set to make his acting debut on CBS’ Fire Country that same week. He’ll play Robin, “an enigmatic, modern-day train hopper” who aids crash victims, described as a “Robin Hood” who’s “an outlaw on the run with a heart of gold.”

You can tune in to watch Friday, April 7, at 9 p.m. ET.

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9-year-old girl, TV news staffer among three killed in Orlando shooting

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Authorities confirmed that a local TV news journalist and a 9-year-old girl were among three people killed in shootings in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday, while two others were wounded. Authorities said the mother of the 9-year-old child who died was in critical condition and is continuing to “fight for her life.”

Orange County Sheriff John Mina said in a news conference that Keith Melvin Moses, 19, has been arrested in connection with the shootings and is expected to be charged. Mina said that Moses has a lengthy criminal history that includes gun charges and charges for aggravated battery and assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft. The sheriff’s office said they didn’t yet know if the suspect had any connection to the news crew, or the mother and daughter.

Police say the deadly rampage began at 11 a.m. local time when deputies responded to a shooting and discovered a woman in her 20s who had been fatally shot.  Moses allegedly shot and killed a woman in her 20s (with whom he was an acquaintance) on Wednesday morning, and police were called later in the day to two additional shootings near the scene. Sheriff Mina said a 9-year-old child and her mother were shot at one home; and at another scene nearby, staffers from Spectrum News 13 were shot near their vehicle. Authorities located the reporter and photographer for Spectrum News 13 — who were on the scene to cover the homicide which had occurred Wednesday morning — shot in or near their news vehicle. One of the News 13 employees died from their injuries. Mina said it is unclear why the Spectrum News 13 crew members were targeted, or if the suspect even knew whether or not they were members of the media.

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Twin-engine plane crashes in Little Rock, Ark, killing all 5 aboard

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A twin-engine plane crashed near the Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Ark., on Wednesday afternoon, killing all five people on board. The Little Rock Police Department tweeted that emergency departments were alerted to the crash at 12:02 p.m., with callers reporting a crash near the 3M plant that is in the area. Sources from the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed there were no survivors.

The sheriff’s office said the plane was about a mile from the Clinton National Airport when it crashed after departing the airport. The plane was reportedly a Beech BE20 that was on its way to Columbus, Ohio.

Lt. Cody Burk, spokesman for the department, said it is unclear if weather played a role in the crash. A line of thunderstorms with wind gusts up to 46 mph swept through the heart of Arkansas at about the time of the crash.

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Dierks Bentley walked down the road three times before he arrived at 'Gravel & Gold'

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It was a long road to Gravel & Gold, Dierks Bentley‘s tenth album, which arrives Friday. 

His last studio effort, The Mountain, came out way back in June of 2018, though he’s since topped the chart with “Gone” and “Beers on Me.” 

Dierks thought he was ready to make his record in Nashville in March 2021, but that didn’t turn out to be the case. He admits COVID testing and wearing masks killed the studio vibe that’s so important. He even hung a picture of Buck Owens, hoping it would help, to no avail. 

Six months later, he tried again with producer Luke Dick. Even though they were producing “B+, A-” material, Dierks walked away knowing what he wanted.

“I started realizing at that point that what this whole idea of a 10th album meant to me is I wanted it to be a collection of everything I’d done…” he reflects. “[It] should have that Luke Dick stuff, but it should also have the bluegrass and the nineties and the traditional.” 

Then, the third time worked.

“It’s just a feel thing, you know? It’s like when I sip whiskey, I can’t tell you all the different flavors. I just know good or bad or great or ‘Wow!'” he laughs.

“You just know when it’s right,” Dierks continues. “And that third time around… we’d been grinding hard enough, been back in town long enough, had a vision for what I wanted to say, it just kind of all came together.”

On Thursday at 8 p.m. ET, you can livestream Dierks’ Gravel & Gold performance from the Country Music Hall of Fame via Twitch channel 3point5.

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Brandi Carlile, The Black Keys to headline inaugural Evolution Festival in St Louis

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Brandi Carlile and The Black Keys were announced as headliners for the inaugural Evolution Festival, set to take place in St. Louis, Missouri on August 26th and 27th at Forest Park. Other performers on the lineup include Ice Cube, The Black Crowes, Ben Harper, Modern English, Morgan Wade, and Brittany Howard.

Tickets are on sale now via EvolutionFestival.com. Weekend general admission tickets start at $99.50 per person, with three levels of Weekend VIP experiences starting at $199.50 per person, all-inclusive hotel packages and a limited number of premium cabanas. A portion of the ticket sales will be donated to the non-profit Forest Park Forever and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s Music Gives campaign to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

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Kelsea Ballerini shares details of divorce from Morgan Evans; Evans responds

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Kelsea Ballerini appeared on the Feb. 22 episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and opened up about the end of her 5 year marriage to Morgan Evans. Ballerini recalled first meeting Evans in March 2016 and that things moved fast, with Evans proposing in December of that same year after just nine months of dating. Ballerini said she swore she would never get married because of her parents’ “nasty” divorce, but the pair wed one year after their engagement in December 2017. Ballerini said things began falling apart when she felt Evans wasn’t prioritizing her, and “there was such a sense of disconnection” between them.

Ballerini noted that she and Evans had a “really beautiful conversation” about their divorce in August 2022, but they haven’t spoken again after their split. Said Kelsea: “I was just really honest. I just said, like, I’ve loved what this has brought in my life and I respect you and I respect me, and because of that I can no longer be in this marriage And I really want to do this together and I really want to, like, honor the good that we’ve experienced by doing this the right way. It was beautiful. We cried. We hugged. It was sweet … And then something changed and … I haven’t talked to him since.” Ballerini admitted that when Evans released his song “Over For You” within weeks after that conversation, it made her “livid.” On Valentine’s Day 2023, Ballerini released her “Rolling Up the Welcome Mat” EP, which chronicles her side of the break-up. Ballerini also said during the podcast interview that she was ready to date again, and confirmed that she is not single, saying she is having “fun” and “just vibing” with “Outer Banks” actor Chase Stokes.

Following Ballerini’s podcast interview, Evans posted a statement to Instagram saying: “It’s really sad for me to see this person, who I spent so much of my life with, and loved with all my heart, saying things that aren’t reality and that leave out what really happened. She knows I’m not the type of guy to speak on those things publicly If this is what she needs to heal, I hope it helps. All I ask is that if you’re on my pages, please don’t be mean. Don’t be mean to Kelsea, don’t be mean to each other. Life’s too short.”

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Bebe Rexha announces North American summer tour dates

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Bebe Rexha announced that she’s hitting the road this summer, travling across North America on the 20-date Best F-n Night Of My Life summer tour. The tour kicks off May 31 at The Van Buren in Phoenix, Arizona, and will make stops in Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia, Orlando, San Diego and more before wrapping up June 30 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, California.

Artist Presale and VIP Packages for Rexha’s Best F-n Night Of My Life tour are on sale now, with the general on-sale beginning Friday, February 23 at 10 a.m. local. To purchase tickets, head HERE.

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