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LUKE BRYAN SPEAKS ON LIVING A LIFE WORTH WRITING ABOUT (AUDIO)

LUKE BRYAN SPEAKS ON LIVING A LIFE WORTH WRITING ABOUT (AUDIO)

 

Luke Bryan reflects on the importance of living a life full of experiences worth writing an album about. He shared how his time off-stage is spent outdoors—whether it’s working on his farm, organizing his fishing gear, or preparing for the next hunting trip. “You gotta keep living a full life of inspirational things.” He credits this approach to his dad’s advice when he first moved to Nashville, reminding him to never lose touch with the things he loves. Now, Luke Bryan balances his career with family time and his outdoor passions, ensuring he’s always gathering new material for his music.

 

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Luke Bryan – Living A Life Worth Writing About (AUDIO): “Well, with me, I love to, I rarely just lay inside on the couch and watch a day of football or sports. I mean, my thing is when I’m at home, I’m riding around the farm, I’m working on boats, I’m organizing my tackle shop, I’m getting ready for the next hunting or fishing trip or messing with my golf clubs. And then I got boys standing there with me the whole time, relining fishing reels. As long as I can be at home, you know. Yeah, I mean, when I moved to Nashville, my dad goes, make sure you don’t forget about your hobbies and what you love, and I never have. I mean, there’s times that I work hard and don’t get a chance to go on a hunting trip or a fishing trip or something like that. But now I’m a little bit older and can start being a little more stingy with my time, with being at home with the family and the kids and going, doing stuff in the outdoors, whether my children are with me or not, or running down playing a little 18 holes of golf in the morning, then coming back to the house and cooking dinner. And I think, yeah, you gotta keep living a full life of inspirational things. And I’m always knocking around the farm, relining fishing reels, getting bows and stuff packed for my next bow hunting trip. So just… Staying busy and hopefully living gives you more ideas.”

 

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TUCKER WETMORE MAKES A SPLASH WITH WAVES ON A SUNSET EP (AUDIO CUT X CUT)

TUCKER WETMORE MAKES A SPLASH WITH WAVES ON A SUNSET EP

“At the forefront of country music’s crop of newcomers” (Billboard), Tucker Wetmore makes his formal introduction today with his debut EP Waves on a Sunset, out now. Featuring eight tracks, five of which were co-written by Wetmore, Waves on a Sunset was aptly named after the singer-songwriter’s favorite line ‘waves on a sunset’ from his life-changing single “Wind Up Missin’ You.” Wetmore celebrated the milestone release by hosting a surprise pop-up show for fans at Losers Bar & Grill in Nashville last night before kicking off his highly anticipated, sold-out headlining tour, Waves on a Sunset Tour 2024, tonight in Statesboro, Ga.

 

“This EP is the first time I’m getting to show you who I am in a body of work,” shares Wetmore. “With so much I want to say, it’s impossible to do in just eight songs. But by the end of this project, I hope you’re excited to hear more because this is truly just the beginning. I’m beyond proud and thankful to everyone who helped make this possible – the writers, producers, my team, family, friends and especially the fans. This truly wouldn’t be possible without all of you and above all, God.”

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Tucker Wetmore – Waves On A Sunset (AUDIO): “Waves on a Sunset is my very first project and it’s kind of just my introduction to the world of who I am as a person and who I am as an artist and all of the songs are very real life scenarios and all very relatable as I have gone through all of them in my life or going through them right now and I love it all very much and I hope you guys do too.”

 

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Tucker Wetmore – Silverado Blue (AUDIO): “Silverado Blue embodies young love. So it’s talking about those last few moments of those last few months you get with your significant other when you’re young and you’re about to go off to college or life is about to get in the way. And we wanted to make it feel like you can roll your windows down and listen to it down the road. And we just kind of put all that in one song.”

Audio / Tucker Wetmore - Wine Into Whiskey (AUDIO)

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Tucker Wetmore – Wine Into Whiskey (AUDIO): “I wrote Wine Into Whiskey about growing up with four sisters and seeing the relationships that they kind of went through throughout the years and taking a step back and asking myself if they would have heard the words within this song, would they still do what they did and kind of putting the light to situations like that and hopefully changing some of the men of this world.”

Audio / Tucker Wetmore - You, Honey (AUDIO)

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Tucker Wetmore – You, Honey (AUDIO): “You, Honey is a love song from top to bottom. And her name is Bee and honey is what I call her.”

Audio / Tucker Wetmore - Wind Up Missing You (AUDIO)

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Tucker Wetmore – Wind Up Missing You (AUDIO): “Wind Up Missing You is just a feel good song. It’s about that moment when you first meet someone and you feel that spark and you know it’s just a heartbreak waiting to happen and you’re gonna wind up missing them.”

Audio / Tucker Wetmore - Break First (AUDIO)

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Tucker Wetmore – Break First (AUDIO): “Break first is about being on the fence in a relationship. So being stuck between wanting to go have fun and then wanting to settle down and asking yourself which one’s gonna break first, your habits or her heart.”

Audio / Tucker Wetmore - When I Ain't Looking (AUDIO)

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Tucker Wetmore – When I Ain’t Looking (AUDIO): “When I Look In is a song about coming to a realization that the wheel is just best held in God’s hands and that the greatest things are found when you ain’t searching so hard.”

Audio / Tucker Wetmore - What Would You Do (AUDIO)

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Tucker Wetmore – What Would You Do (AUDIO): What Would You Do is about coming to the end of a pretty toxic relationship and just asking the question, what would you do if I did what you did to me?

Audio / Tucker Wetmore - Mister Miss Her (AUDIO)

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Tucker Wetmore – Mister Miss Her (AUDIO): “Mister Miss Her is a song about the classic country story where the guy messes up and he’s stuck missing her and she’s off to better things.”

 

Defining Wetmore’s ultra-modern sound and the boundaries that it confidently pushes, Waves on a Sunset shines a spotlight on his songwriting prowess and ability to select the tracks that speak to his quickly growing fan base. The EP features four previously released songs and four new tracks, including “You, Honey,” “Break First,” “When I Ain’t Lookin’” and “Mister Miss Her,” showcasing the three sides of his current life: the heartbreaker, the heartbroken, and the head-over-heels romantic. All eight tracks back Country Central’sproclamation that “everything he touches turns to gold.” The Tennessean also stands strong in Wetmore’s corner, saying, “Ultimately, he’s succeeding because he’s a quick study of modern tastes, naturally adept at toeing the line between country music, Western culture and global popularity.”

The EP opens with Wetmore’s latest release “Silverado Blue,” which Holler praised for its “relatable lyricism and his ear for a killer melody.” His breakout track “Wine Into Whiskey” follows, which turned heads as it debuted on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, bringing Forbes to say, “clearly he’s off to a great start.” The in-love side of the project can be seen in “You, Honey,” before segueing into his follow-up Billboard Hot 100 single “Wind Up Missin’ You.” The “surefire hit” (Billboard) went on to become his first single at Country radio and is currently in the Top 20 and climbing. The second half of the EP features “Break First” where he explores inner conflict over an 1980’s-inspired pulse. “When I Ain’t Lookin’” celebrates life’s unexpected blessings before the “achy breaky” (Seattle Times) “What Would You Do?.” “Mister Miss Her” rounds out the EP with a raw, acoustic ballad that embraces heartbreak.

LISTEN: WAVES ON A SUNSET

Waves on a Sunset Track List:

  1. “Silverado Blue” (Written by Tucker Wetmore, Brett Sheroky, Dan Wilson)
  2. “Wine Into Whiskey” (Written by Tucker Wetmore, Jacob Hackworth, Justin Ebach)
  3. “You, Honey” (Written by Tucker Wetmore, Josh Thompson, Michael Lotten)
  4. “Wind Up Missin’ You” (Written by Tucker Wetmore, Thomas Archer, Chris LaCorte)
  5. “Break First” (Written by Michael Tyler, Matt Roy, Lauren Hungate, Matt Dragstrem)
  6. “When I Ain’t Lookin’” (Written by Austin Goodloe, Thomas Archer, Michael Tyler, Tucker Beathard)
  7. “What Would You Do?” (Written by Tucker Wetmore, Gabe Foust, Jacob Hackworth, Jaxson Free)
  8. “Mister Miss Her” (Written by Blake Pendergrass, Jaxson Free, Chris LaCorte)

Only six months into his burgeoning career, the Kalama, Wash. native has already notched two RIAA GOLD certified tracks, was named Billboard’s Rookie of the Month, made his Grand Ole Opry debut and was tapped as Spotify’s RADAR artist. Barstool Sports asserts, “This guy is going to be a megastar. Get familiar with the name now.” His debut EP Waves on a Sunset, out now, is set to further solidify his place as one of country music’s compelling new voices.

 

Following his support slot on Luke Bryan’s FARM TOUR 2024 and recent appearance supporting Cole Swindell at Red Rocks, Wetmore will launch his nearly sold-out headlining tour, Waves on a Sunset Tour 2024, today (10/4), kicking off in Statesboro, Ga. The highly anticipated tour, which marks Wetmore’s first-ever headlining run, will hit 17 cities and feature direct support from Hannah McFarland, Eli Winders and Ashland Craft. Come 2025, Wetmore will join Thomas Rhett’s BETTER IN BOOTS TOUR 2025 as direct support. For tour dates, announcements and more, keep up with Wetmore on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and his website at tuckerwetmore.com.

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ERIC CHURCH STEPS UP IN HOME STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA’S “DARKEST HOUR” (AUDIO)

ERIC CHURCH STEPS UP IN HOME STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA’S “DARKEST HOUR” (AUDIO)

BANNER ELK, N.C. – To provide immediate relief following the devastation of Hurricane Helene while also providing ongoing funds to support a more resilient future for North Carolina, Eric Church announces he is signing over all of his publishing royalties for his new song to the people of North Carolina. The song, Church’s first new solo release in over three years, is titled “Darkest Hour” and is now available everywhere. Listen HERE.

 

Audio / Eric Church - "Darkest Hour (Redeeming Helene)" Audio Intro

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Eric Church – “Darkest Hour (Redeeming Helene)” Audio Intro: “Hey everybody, it’s Eric Church. This is my song, Darkest Hour.”

Audio / Eric Church - "Darkest Hour (Redeeming Helene) Audio Story

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Eric Church – “Darkest Hour (Redeeming Helene) Audio Story: “The Darkest Hour isn’t just another song. It’s a story for the unsung heroes, the people who show up when the world’s falling apart. When the night’s at its blackest, this is for those who are holding the light, guiding the lost and pulling us through. It’s for the ones who are standing tall when we’re all low, reminding us that even in your darkest hour, there’s still a way forward.”

Audio / Eric Church - "Darkest Hour (Redeeming Helene): Thoughts On Devastation and Raising Awareness

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Eric Church – “Darkest Hour (Redeeming Helene): Thoughts On Devastation and Raising Awareness: “You know, the area affected by Hurricane Helene, the mountains of Western North Carolina, is an area that I spend half the year in now. I grew up there, but we spend four or five months there. And it’s just heartbreaking and devastating to see what’s happened there to people’s lives. There’s communities that are… literally just gone, where the waters came through or just catastrophic wind damage, water damage. And the community, I live in there in the summer, was greatly affected. And we had a lot of people there that their lives were affected. These are my neighbors, these are my friends, these are my community members and family members. And it’s just, it’s a devastating thing. And this song, Darkest Hour, was the best way I could think to try to help. We’ve been helping with boots on the ground stuff and trying to do stuff, but this is something that will live beyond just the immediate recovery. And this is a thing that’s, it’s gonna take a long time. This is not a quick thing to fix. And hopefully this song forever will be able to contribute to that. And if nothing else, raise awareness for what’s… what’s happening in the mountains there, as well as East Tennessee.”

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Eric Church – “Darkest Hour (Redeeming Helene): ChiefCares.com Audio: “Hey this is Eric Church. I’m devastated by the hurricane destruction in the mountains of western North Carolina, East Tennessee, and other parts of the country. These are our family members. They’re our friends, they’re our neighbors, and they’re in dire need of help. If you’re able to help others in this time of need, you can find ways to donate today at ChiefCares.com.”

 

 

“From Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, Upstate South Carolina, parts of Georgia and even Florida which took a direct hit, there are so many places that were impacted. Specifically in the area that I’m from, the mountains of Western North Carolina were devastated. There are places that are just biblically gone. These are our family members, they’re our friends, they’re our neighbors – and they’re in dire need of help,” reflects Church. “And I’ve been in the studio for a while, trying some different things and exploring creativity. I had this song that I’d written, and the line that struck me in light of the recent devastation was ‘I’ll come running,’ because there are a lot of people out there right now who are in their darkest hour and they need people to come running. We were going to wait to release music until next year, but it just didn’t feel right to wait with this song. Sometimes you give songs their moment and sometimes they find their own moment.

“This song, ‘Darkest Hour,’ was the best way I could think to try to help. We’ve been helping with boots on the ground efforts, but this is something that will live beyond just the immediate recovery. This is not a quick thing to fix, so hopefully ‘Darkest Hour’ will be able to contribute to that for a long time to come. This song goes to my home, North Carolina, now and forever.”

He continues, “‘Darkest Hour’ is a song dedicated to the unsung heroes, the people who show up when the world’s falling apart. This is for the folks who show up in the hardest times, offering a hand when it’s most needed, and standing tall when others can’t. Even in your darkest hour, they come running. When the night’s at its blackest, this is for those who are holding the light, guiding the lost and pulling us through. The message of the song specifically in this time is about Hurricane Helene and the people that need help, but in a broader view, it’s about any challenging times that we have in our life, which we’ll all have. And it’s always important to know that in your darkest hour, there are people that will come running, there are people that will help. And I think it’s also important to be one of the people that go running when other people need help.

For additional audio content surrounding Eric Church’s new song “Darkest Hour (Helene Edit) click HERE.

 

About Eric Church

A seven-time ACM Award winner, four-time CMA Award winner (including the highest honor for Entertainer of the Year) and 10-time GRAMMY nominee, Church has amassed a passionate fan base around the globe known as the Church Choir, plus a critically acclaimed catalog of music. He is currently working on new music as the follow up to his most recent chart-topping project, the Heart & Soul triple album, which featured the results of a marathon session during which he spent nearly a month writing and recording a song per day while sequestered in rural North Carolina. This followed his Gold-certified Desperate Man, which earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album (his third nod in the category) and prior releases including the Platinum-certified Sinners Like Me (“How ’Bout You,” “Guys Like Me”), Carolina (“Smoke a Little Smoke,” “Love Your Love the Most”) and Mr. Misunderstood (“Record Year,” “Round Here Buzz”), the Double-Platinum certified The Outsiders(“Like a Wrecking Ball,” “Talladega”) and the 3x Platinum-certified Chief (“Springsteen,” “Drink In My Hand”), as well as 36 Gold, Platinum and multi-Platinum certified songs. Church is also a minority owner of the Charlotte Hornets, a co-owner of the iconic Field & Stream brand, has his own SiriusXM music channel, “Eric Church Outsiders Radio,” his own liquor offering, Whiskey JYPSI, and recently opened Chief’s, a six-story venue on Nashville’s famed lower Broadway.

 

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Media Contacts for Eric Church:

Ebie McFarland | Janet Buck

Essential Broadcast Media, LLC

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Leigh Malleus | Jodi Dawes
EMI Records Nashville
leigh.malleus@umusic.com | jodi.dawes@umusic.com

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BRAD PAISLEY DROPS NEW SINGLE “TRUCK STILL WORKS” (AUDIO)

Country music superstar Brad Paisley is releasing a new song across all platforms today, “Truck Still Works”. The song, written by Paisley, Chris Dubois, Will Bundy, Hunter Phelps and Rodney Clawson, and produced by Luke Wooten and Paisley, had its Country Radio world premiere yesterday and impacts country radio on Monday, September 30.

 

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Brad Paisley – Truck Still Works (Intro Audio): “Hey it’s Brad Paisley and this is my brand new song Truck Still Works.”

Audio / Brad Paisley - Truck Still Works (Story Audio)

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Brad Paisley – Truck Still Works (Story Audio): “Truck Still Works is really about a return to the nostalgia of the glory days of when you were driving around in your first four-wheel drive.”

 

The on-purpose sonic direction and lyrics of “Truck Still Works” are an ode to one of the biggest hits of his career, “Mud On The Tires” which he wrote with Dubois and became a #1 single in 2005. “Truck Still Works” is one of many songs Brad has written lately that has new inspired an entirely new album to come.

“‘Truck Still Works’ is a track where everything old is new again,” says Paisley. “We debated on how much to really allude to the original (“Mud On The Tires”) and there were questions like ‘Do you moonlight in a duck blind, catfish on a trot line?’ What do you not put in, what’s too much, what is enough and what is not enough? And trust me, we tried each of those and it was really fun. I think it was Chris Dubois’ idea to end the first verse with the line, ‘How about a little test drive down by the lake.’ It was really fun to go through the process of what makes this song both new and old. What I love about it is that the groove, the feel, is all very modern and very country. We hope it’s a blast for anyone who’s a current fan or for someone to become a new fan.”

Brad is also slated to perform “Truck Still Works” on the American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special airing Sunday, October 6 at 8PM ET on the CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+.

 

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LUKE BRYAN NEW ALBUM: MIND OF A COUNTRY BOY (AUDIO CUT X CUT)

Five-time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan has released a new studio album today, Mind Of A Country Boy.

Mind Of A Country Boy track listing/songwriter credits:

  1. “Mind Of A Country Boy” (Luke Bryan, Ben Hayslip, Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins)
  2. “Love You, Miss You, Mean It” (Ben Hayslip, Jacob Rice, Jordan Minton, Rhett Akins)
  3. “Country Song Came On” (Ryan Beaver, Dan Alley, Neil Medley)
  4. “Pair Of Boots” (Bobby Pinson, Taylor Phillips, Tofer Brown, Jaxon Free)
  5. “But I Got A Beer In My Hand” (Chase McGill, Matt Dragstrem, Geoff Warburton)
  6. “Kansas” (Chase McGill, Hillary Lindsey, Matt Dragstrem)
  7. “Country On” (Mark Nesler, David Frasier, Mitch Oglesby, Styles Haury)
  8. “Fish On The Wall” (Dallas Davidson, Chris Tompkins, Ben Johnson)
  9. “She’s Still Got It” (Rodney Clawson, Heather Morgan, Will Bundy, Jim McCormick)
  10. “Closing Time In California” (John Byron, Mark Holman, Hillary Lindsey, Chase McGill)
  11. “For The Kids” (Luke Bryan, Justin Ebach, Brad Tursi)
  12. “Southern and Slow” (Matt Dragstrem, Josh Thompson, Chase McGill)
  13. “I’m On A Tractor” (Neil Thrasher, Lee Thomas Miller)
  14. “Jesus ‘Bout My Kids” (Jeff Hyde, Tucker Beathard, Ben Stennis, Brad Rempel)

 

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Audio / Luke Bryan - Mind Of A Country Boy (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – Mind Of A Country boy (Story Audio): “Mind of a Country Boy, obviously the title track of my album. When we wrote this, we wanted to put a lot of stuff in the song that’s like really country stuff that you got to be a country boy to know what I’m talking about. And I think we were able to do that. We tried to, there’s a lot of cliche stuff that can go in a song describing country boys, but we tried to do, you know, we tried to come up with some new terminology. And I think we did a pretty good job.”

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Luke Bryan – Love You Miss You Mean it (Story Audio):Love You, Miss You, Mean It is obviously my current single that’s out. And when I heard the song, it just kind of made me think about my marriage and my relationship with my wife. We kind of dated in college, took some time off and then we finally got back together. So this song tells the story of young love taking a little break and then circling back around and making it happen.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - Country Song Came On (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – Country Song Came On (Story Audio): “Country song came on, country song came on is like a honky tonk gem for me. When I heard it, I was like, you know, it brings me back to the days when I was playing a lot of honky tonks early in my career. And the fact that I was able to put ETC, which is a nod to Earl Thomas Connelly, one of my favorite artists ever, just makes me smile every time I hear it. And this song will definitely make you want to drink a draft beer.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - Pair Of Boots (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – Pair Of Boots (Story Audio): “Pair of Boots is obviously, I got three boys in the house. They’re tracking mud all through the house with their boots. And hey, boots are a rite of passage for certainly boys and boys around my house. So when I heard this song and how the songwriters were able to color the pictures of what boots are in a rural country family, it’s pretty special stuff. And I love everything about this song. One of the best written songs I’ve heard in a while. And so glad it’s on this album.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - But I Got A Beer In My Hand (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – But I Got A Beer In My Hand (Story Audio): “But I Got a Beer in My Hand is obviously a single that we had out last year. And hey, it’s just big old fun when you got a beer in your hand. There’s no way not to have a good time.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - Kansas (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – Kansas (Story Audio): “Kansas is certainly a love song in the way the writers were able to describe love by using Georgia and California and Colorado and obviously, you know Doing the analogy of wheat fields in Kansas. It’s just a really well done song and I cannot wait hopefully to be doing this in front of a lot of people one day.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - Country On (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – Country On (Story Audio): “Country On was obviously the first single off this project and I love the patriotism in this song. I love the unity that the song creates and from the rodeo imagery to the small town sports stuff to the Hey Hey USA. Been doing this song for a year and a half on the road and anytime I get the crowd singing Hey Hey USA it’s pretty powerful, watchin’ everybody be proud to be part of this great country of ours.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - Fish On The Wall (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – Fish On The Wall (Story Audio): “Fish on the wall is just a good old fun kind of up tempo that reflects back to what was on my brain when I was in those teenage years, my formative years. But all we were really trying to do was just, like I said, go try to catch a big fish, something that we were proud of, and brag about it to all our buddies.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - She's Still Got It (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – She’s Still Got It (Story Audio): “She Still Got It is a really well done song that talks about a guy in a bar seeing an old flame of his and realizing, man this girl, she still got it. The way they wrote the verses with the images in the verses are really, really cool. It’s one of the more, it’s like a whisper kind of singing style and it’s something that I’ve never done. I’m not good at whispering. I’m typically the loudest person in the room. So when I had to kind of really sing this song soft, it was a learning curve for me and it’s a really tough song to sing, but I love how it turned out.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - Closing Time In Califorina (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – Closing Time In Califorina (Story Audio): “Closing Time in California is a new style of song that I’ve never done. Obviously using the falsetto in the choruses is, I’ve done it on a couple things through the years, but this is, you know, a lot of people have commented on that and just the, you know, just the challenges of the guy that’s singing the song, trying to still be in love with a girl all the way across the country, coming home late, he’s waking up. I just love the whole mood of this song and you can really feel the hurt that the writers did a good job at just making you feel the hurt that this guy’s going through.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - For The Kids (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – For The Kids (Story Audio): “For the Kids is definitely one of the more emotional songs that I’ve ever written. I think when you hear the power of this, so many marriages out there go through different phases of their marriage and I think anybody with a long-term marriage has woke up and they’re like, yeah, the only thing that’s keeping us going is these kids. Because kids, they don’t mean to but they are… they demand a lot. And so sometimes the marriage gets a little pushed in the background because of the kids. So this song touches on all that. And I think at the end of the day, I hope it makes married couples kind of sit back, sit on the porch and go, hey, let’s have a day for ourselves and not always be for the kids every single day.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - Southern and Slow (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – Southern and Slow (Story Audio): “Southern and slow is just, hey, it’s about slowing it down from time to time. And when you’re in the country and when I go home down to my place in South Georgia, I slow it down a lot. A lot of times I never even hit the pavement. I go to the dirt road and I don’t see pavement for like a week. And that’s what southern and slow is all about.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - I'm On A Tractor (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – I’m On A Tractor (Story Audio): “I’m on a tractor is just the perfect picture of me getting out there on my farm, riding around on a tractor, checking out. The cell phone service doesn’t work. And the beauty of being on a tractor is you wake up and there’s like a field of hay or grass and then you get done on the tractor and you’ve just, you’ve cut the hay, you did some plowing, some tilling, and you can look back at your work and be like, hey, I just did that. And I’m on a tractor is about those moments and just kind of checking out mentally.”

Audio / Luke Bryan - Jesus 'Bout My Kids (Story Audio)

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Luke Bryan – Jesus ‘Bout My Kids (Story Audio): “Jesus About My Kids is just about teaching your kids the relationship of their faith and the relationship with Jesus and how, gosh, I mean, you pray so much for your children’s health and happiness and well-being and make sure that they live this life and get through this life. And then, you know, just how the songwriters were able to… do the little twist to make this work is really, really special. And I think this song is gonna touch a lot of people’s hearts because we’ve all, you know, we’ve all been there. You know, I used to talk to my kids about Jesus and now I’m talking to Jesus about my kids is just a great way to state something that’s so real and I can’t wait for people to enjoy this song.”

 

“Mind Of A Country Boy Tour”

10-5     Oklahoma City, OK       Paycom Center*

10-6     Des Moines, IA             Wells Fargo Arena*

*Rescheduled dates

Farm Tour 2024

9-28     Smithton, PA                Cunningham Family Farm*

*Never played before

 

Crash My Playa 2025 is celebrating its 10th anniversary January 15-18, 2025 at the luxurious Moon Palace Cancún, a AAA Four Diamond Awarded resort. ACM-nominated Crash My Playa, has delivered sold-out concert vacations with country’s biggest stars for a decade, and next year promises to be the most spectacular yet.

About Luke Bryan

During his career, Luke has amassed a total of 24 Billion global streams, 11.5 Million global album sales and 55.3M track sales worldwide.  He is the most digital single RIAA certified country artist of all time with 86.5M digital single units and 16M album certified units for a total of 102.5M. He has placed 30 singles at #1, 17 of those Luke co-wrote, and he has accumulated 56 total weeks spent at #1 in his career.

Luke has won 50+ major music awards including five wins as Entertainer of the Year. Additional awards include six recognitions as a CMT Artist of the Year, NSAI Artist/Songwriter of the Year, the first-ever recipient of the ACM Album of the Decade Award for Crash My Party, seven CMT Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, and four American Music Awards—as well as being named Billboard’s Top Country Artist of the 2010s, the Most Heard Artist of the Decade by Country Aircheck, and the Artist Humanitarian Recipient by the Country Radio Broadcasters. In 2023, Luke was honored with the SoundExchange Hall of Fame Award in recognition of his standing as one of the most streamed artists in their 20-year history.

 

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KEITH URBAN: NEW ALBUM “HIGH” CUT X CUT (AUDIO)

Keith Urban’s new album, HIGH, is available now wherever you get your music. He first started working on an album in 2022, but because he felt the album wasn’t quite right due to the parameters he put on himself, he scrapped most of the album and started over, taking only a few songs to the new project. Without the framework he imposed, Keith felt free to make HIGH.

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KU-High-Album Was The One He Was Supposed To Make (AUDIO): “I took this album, the previous album, that had a title and everything, 13 songs, took it in, played it for my inner circle of people, my team, people I trust, in February 2023, and was so excited to play it, and I must have got four or five songs in, and I could feel my own conviction level just deflating about this album. I said, it’s not it, is it? It’s not it, is it? And they’re like, well, you tell me, it’s your record. And I’m like, it’s not, I know it’s not. There’s like a few really strong songs on here. And then the others are, they’re strong too, but everything’s just a bit the same. It all was the same. And I was gutted because I knew that it wasn’t gonna be a quick time between that moment and whatever the record was gonna be to finish. I knew that was gonna take a long time. Sure enough, it took another year of writing and recording. This is the weirdest thing. I’ve made a lot of records. I usually have a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. And I had that with this other start. And it didn’t pan out. And so I was sort of thrown. I’m like, well, I don’t know what to do. And I know this sounds weird. It may not sound weird to certain people, but some people might think I’m completely loopy. But there were several songs. Messed Up As Me was one of them. And there was a few other songs that felt like they were saying to me, we don’t belong here, we belong on this other record, so take us with you and have faith in us and get back in the studio and write, and you’ll see this new record will happen with us in there, and it will be the record we belong to, because we don’t belong with this record. And I did it, I trusted the songs, I moved them over, went back to the drawing board and built outwards from those songs. And man this record came together. 40 minutes running time top to bottom and it was absolutely the record that I was meant to make but wasn’t the one I set out to make.”

 

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Audio / KU-High-01-Blue Sky-SBTS

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KU-High-01-Blue Sky-SBTS (AUDIO): “It was born of wanting to start the record with Straight Line. But when I got into the mixing phase of the song, I messed around with a few different ways for the song to start. Cause it starts with a drum loop and then a little simple riff and then the band kicks in, but it always felt abrupt. It just felt abrupt to me. And I was like, I wish there was a way to set the song up somehow better. And I thought, well, the song makes me think of the kind of thing that might get me going in the morning. Especially if it was an early morning when my alarm clock goes off and I begrudgingly do not want to get up out of bed on a Monday morning. But a song comes on the radio and you’re like, all right, that makes me feel good. Let’s go. And I thought, well, that’s kind of what Straight Line is for. It’s to wake you up and let you know it’s all good. It’s a bit of Blue Sky. So I did the audio of me slamming my alarm clock and set the song up.”

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KU-High-02-Straight Line-SBTS (AUDIO): “It’s a song that is really about recognizing that life can sometimes just become monotonous and routine for me too, for so many people. It can happen slowly. You’re doing your job, you’re showing up Monday to Friday or Monday to Saturday, whatever it is, day in, day out. It’s like rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. You’re doing it and you’re being responsible, but slowly but surely you’re like, my life is not so great. It used to be really fun. What the hell happened? Because it’s life. You’ve got to work. You’ve got to… pay the bills, you gotta take care of things, but it can start to lack color. And I wanted a song that was like an alarm clock going off to kind of wake up all of us and reclaim our life, really. That’s what Straight Line’s about.”

Audio / KU-High-03-Messed Up As Me-SBTS

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KU-High-03-Messed Up As Me-SBTS (AUDIO): “Messed Up As Me is a song about a relationship that is kind of pretty dysfunctional, pretty messy except for one part of it. And that one part of it is amazing. In fact that one part is so good that you figure out just putting up with all the rest that is dysfunctional, possibly toxic, and just messy between the two of you. But that one thing is well worth it.”

Audio / KU-High-04-Wildside-SBTS

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KU-High-04-Wildside-SBTS (AUDIO):  Wildside was just an idea I had. I’ve been in Nashville a long time and I’ve met a lot of girls in Nashville early on, especially a lot of good Southern Christian girls, very proper, well-mannered, polite, disciplined, everything straight laced. You might think five days a week straight laced. And then on a Friday night, man, there’s this other side, there’s this other wild side and it’s amazing. And I just always wanted to write about that. And so I had the title. And then I loved the song Legs by ZZ Top, so I went, I’m gonna use that as the energy, just the energy and the absurdity of Legs. I’ll use that as the inspiration.”

Audio / KU-High-05-Go Home W U-SBTS

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KU-High-05-Go Home W U-SBTS (AUDIO): “A lot of people know Breland, the artist Breland. So Breland and two other guys, Sam Sumpser, Sean Small, the four of us were in a writing situation for two weeks doing nothing but writing songs. And one of the songs we wrote was Go Home W U. We did a sort of quick demo of it and the song set around, this is in 2020, and the song set around for coming up on four years. Three years last year because I sent it to Lainey. I went, I think you’d kill this song, you know, and she loved it.”

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KU-High-06-Chuck Taylors-SBTS (AUDIO): “I was going to write with a new guy called Chase McGill and I was driving to the studio that day to write with him, Jerry Flowers and another guy, Greg Wells. I wanted to show up with something just in case nothing came on the day and I walked in with the melody. I had this whole melody but I had no lyric and God bless Chase McGill, he hands me this lyric called Chuck Taylors and I read it and I went oh my gosh this thing fits perfectly with this melody I’ve showed up with. So the lyric he had and the melody I showed up with were just beautifully waiting for each other to meet. The song was so fun to write, bristling with all the energy I was hoping we could wrangle.”

Audio / KU-High-07-Daytona-SBTS

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KU-High-07-Daytona-SBTS (AUDIO): “Some songs are literal and then some songs are metaphoric. And for me, Daytona is a song that doesn’t have to be about the place if you’ve never been to Daytona. But if you’ve ever had a relationship that was intense, but maybe really brief, and it comes back to you time and again, and something triggers a memory, wherever that place is for you, that’s your Daytona.”

Audio / KU-High-08-Love Is Hard-SBTS

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KU-High-08-Love Is Hard-SBTS (AUDIO): “Love is hard. This song just floored me when I heard it. I knew it top to bottom. I knew it inside and out. I knew I had to put it on this record. I knew there was gonna be the perfect place for it. It’s an incredible song. And I loved getting to sing it and bring the story to life.”

Audio / KU-High-09-Heart Like A Hometown-SBTS

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KU-High-09-Heart Like A Hometown-SBTS (AUDIO): Heart Like a Hometown is one of the four songs that I kept off of my first record that didn’t work out called 615. I loved it when we did it and I didn’t want to lose that. My parents moved around a lot. We moved around a lot when I was a kid. Lived in about nine different homes by about the age of 10. So a hometown for me was my family, my guitar. That very much became my metaphoric hometown, the place where I felt at home and kind of really a place inside of me, a place inside of me. And then when I moved, of course I moved to Nashville and I’m on the other side of the world from where I grew up. And okay, this is gonna be my hometown now and Nashville becomes my hometown. So it’s a beautiful song. And I hear songs metaphorically. They don’t have to be literal for me. And Heart Like a Hometown, I think, is that kind of a song. It could be literal or the hometown could be somebody, but someplace that you can always go back to when you get lost, you want to have that place where you can re-center and remember who you are. Then you can go back out in the world again. And I love those kinds of songs.”

Audio / KU-High-09-Laughin All The Way To The Drank-SBTS

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KU-High-09-Laughin All The Way To The Drank-SBTS (AUDIO): When I play soundcheck with my band, I have a drummer, Terrence Clark, he’s a great drummer. I found on soundcheck days, he would always play something that I would start jamming. And I’d be like, I feel like we’re writing a song. It’s so inspirational to play with him. So I called Michael Lozando, who’s a great producer, musician, songwriter, and I said, can I bring my drummer Terrence in and… Can the three of us just jam music all day, just as a three piece? You play bass, he’ll play drums, I play guitar, and we’ll just jam all day. And we’ll just see if we get a bunch of music happening. And we ended up capturing nine different tracks, one of which was the music for Laughin’ Away to the Drank. We’re making it up just in the zone, jamming. We’re just jamming, really jamming. And the song came out of it, and I call Ben Burgess who I really wanted to work with because I love his lyrics. And I played him all these things we’d worked on and we got to that one. And he went, man, I like this song. And I said, well, I don’t have a title or anything. And he said, what about laughing away to the bank? And when he said it, I immediately went, Oh, laughing away to the drank would be so much better. And I know what the song is going to be about. So let’s go for it. And, um, but the song was born of a jam session, which is why the band sounds so loose and spirited and energized and then we built a song on top of it.”

Audio / KU-High-11-Dodge-In-A-Silverado-SBTS

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KU-High-11-Dodge-In-A-Silverado-SBTS (AUDIO): “Track 10 on the album is a song called Dodge in a Silverado and was actually the last song that we recorded. Actually, the album was pretty much done and this song came along. There’s just certain songs that I feel immediately and I felt this song, it felt classic, felt like this song had been around forever and I just loved it. I loved the song. When we finished recording it, I just felt like I wanted to keep playing and we did. So there’s a bit of a long guitar outro on this one.”

Audio / KU-High-12-Break The Chain-SBTS

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KU-High-12-Break The Chain-SBTS (AUDIO): “When we wrote it, I knew I wanted to end the album with it. And the album wasn’t even finished or I didn’t know what songs were going to be on the album, but I knew I wanted to end with that. That’s just one of those beautiful divine days that happen when it’s time for that song to come out. And this was meeting a guy called Mark Sibley. Troy Tomlinson said, you should meet this guy. I think the two of you would hit it off. And I call him and go to his house and meet him for the very first time, walk into his studio. And he had a guitar in a stand, this acoustic guitar, but it looked really unusual and I picked it up and started playing this guitar pattern. And while I’m playing it, he’s already got a microphone and he’s putting it next to my guitar and we’ve said nothing to each other. We’re like, okay, here we go, we’re writing a song. And this melody came and this lyric came too late, is it too late for me to listen, for me to change? And it just, it just flowed, it just flowed out. I did the music quickly. Mark went over and started working on, on building a bit more of the track. I went and sat on his couch and I got a legal pad out cause I like to write, write and I’m writing. And I get to this second verse and I just, I just start weeping on this guy’s couch, like just crying, crying on this guy’s couch who I’ve just met. He looks over at me and he goes… must be true. And then went, went right back to work. And it was the perfect reaction because it let me stay in, in the place I was at with no judgment and I could finish the song. And then I got on the mic and I sang it top to bottom and then did some harmonies and everything just went quickly. There was no, I didn’t second guess it. I just did it. He sent me the track the next day, pieced together, and I just said, I think we should leave this one alone. I think this is, this is real. I’m not going to go and track it with the band on a proper session and all this BS. We’re just going to leave it like that.”

 

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KASSI ASHTON: DEBUT ALBUM “MADE FROM THE DIRT” CUT X CUT (AUDIO)

Kassi Ashton‘s highly anticipated debut album Made From The Dirt, is available now wherever you get your music. This album, seven years in the making, showcases Kassi Ashton’s raw talent, unique style, and unfiltered storytelling. Known for her fiercely independent spirit, Kassi Ashton’s Made From the Dirt is an unvarnished reflection of her upbringing in California, Missouri, and her journey to find her place in the world.

 

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Audio / KA-CxC-01-Made From The Dirt

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KA-MFTD-Made From The Dirt (Song) (AUDIO): “Made From The Dirt was about the fact that everything that I value about myself, everything that I would write down if you asked me my favorite parts of me, have been born from struggle, I have gotten from overcoming obstacles. I love to get back up. I hope somebody pushes me down, baby, because when I get back up, I’m gonna be all the better for it.”

Audio / KA-CxC-02-Called Crazy

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KA-CxC-02-Called Crazy (AUDIO): “Called Crazy is about, ladies, let’s have a talk. You’ve been on a date, you’ve made the mistake of asking about exes, and he or she brings up that one crazy girl, and you’re thinking to yourself, I’m worse, and she should have called me because what she did was amateur. Ladies, any man who has ever called me crazy has called me again. This is not poetic, this is cold hard truth.”

Audio / KA-CxC-03-Son Of A Gun

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KA-CxC-03-Son Of A Gun (AUDIO): “Son of a Gun is a story about my parents, how they met, how they maybe shouldn’t have, two rights don’t make a wrong, two wrongs don’t make a right, but they do make me, baby, so do you like the way it tastes? It’s kind of owning where you came from, owning your story, whether it was meant to be, not meant to be, it happened either way.”

Audio / KA-CxC-04-I Don't Wanna Dance

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KA-CxC-04-I Don’t Wanna Dance (AUDIO): “I Don’t Wanna Dance is for those of you who have ever been out with all the perfect ingredients for a Friday night. The margarita is mixed perfectly, the band is good, it’s 75, your outfit is cute, but the person that you want is not there, so none of it matters. If your person isn’t there, what’s the point of dancing? I don’t wanna dance.”

Audio / KA-CxC-05-The Straw

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KA-CxC-05-The Straw (AUDIO): “The straw is about when you’re in a relationship and you’re the person, you’re the side of the relationship that’s doing all the bending, all the breaking, all the changing, all the weight is on your shoulders and the other person doesn’t even seem to notice. There wasn’t one big moment, there wasn’t one big break. I’ve been breaking for a while and the dam finally burst. This goes out to all of y’all.”

Audio / KA-CxC-06-Angels Smoke Cigarettes

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KA-CxC-06-Angels Smoke Cigarettes (AUDIO): “Angels Smoke Cigarettes is about thinking to yourself, if I have guardian angels and I think I do, they must be tired, run ragged from all the things I put them through. But they probably are a lot like me, or they’re a lot like my dad. They’re smoking cigarettes, they’re cussing me, why am I out late? Why am I up to no good? They’re shooting back whiskey just to deal with it, but isn’t that relieving? That those that are looking after you, that are leading you on your path, really understand you to your core?”

Audio / KA-CxC-07-The Stars Know

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KA-CxC-07-The Stars Know (AUDIO): “Next up is The Stars Know. The Stars Know is a nostalgic look back, happy celebration of maybe that summer that you had, wink wink, with a past loved one you don’t want back, but you will cherish forever. The river was rolling honey, the crickets were chirping, you had a great time and there was not a cell phone in sight. You know what I mean.”

Audio / KA-CxC-08-Drive You Out Of My Mind

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KA-CxC-08-Drive You Out Of My Mind (AUDIO): “Drive You Out of My Mind is a desperate, full pedal down, 123 BPM I dare you not to dance, heartbreak fueled race through the night. When the therapy isn’t working, when the booze isn’t working, the quality time with friends, you know you have to get in your car, roll the windows down, put on your main character playlist and just drive with no destination in sight. That’s the only thing that’s gonna fix this baby, and I’ll keep driving until you’re out of my mind.”

Audio / KA-CxC-09-Til The Lights Go Out

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KA-CxC-09-Til The Lights Go Out (AUDIO): “Til The Lights Go Out is for those of you that know you won’t ever quit. No matter what it takes, as long as I’m doing this, I’m gonna keep chasing it. Others don’t have to understand. You could nail my boots to the floor and I’ll still figure out a way to run and I’m not gonna be apologetic about it. Chase your dream, baby. You’re the only one who’s gonna get it. Take it easy, but take it all the same.”

Audio / KA-CxC-10-Juanita

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KA-CxC-10-Juanita (AUDIO): “Juanita is a song about the only grandma I’ve ever had. Such an influence on me, my grandma Juanita. Picture this, a five foot two woman in a little farmhouse. She’s making you a pie, she’s making you some fried chicken. She will put you over her knee and whip you if she needs to. She’s all steel but all grace. That’s my grandma Juanita. This is a song that goes out to her, I know she’s in heaven right now, flapping her wings, smiling down. This is a song for all y’all out there who need a bit of renewal, who need to feel the sun on your back and smell the flowers.”

 

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LUKE BRYAN PREVIEWS SUBJECT MATTER OF NEW ALBUM “MIND OF A COUNTRY BOY” (AUDIO)

LUKE BRYAN PREVIEWS SUBJECT MATTER OF NEW ALBUM MIND OF A COUNTRY BOY 

Luke Bryan shares that his upcoming album Mind Of A Country Boy will delve into more mature themes, reflecting his growth both personally and professionally. Audio below!

 

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LB-NEW ALBUM SUBJECT MATTER (AUDIO): “You know, I remember being 35, 36 years old at spring break with my spring break albums going, you know, I am 35. It’s probably time to hang this thing up. But I’ve always kind of leaned toward youthful fun, you know, just fun party music. I’ve always made, I mean, I hadn’t been just that, but I think I’ve kind of been put in that. Kind of in that category, which I love and I’ve enjoyed. And when people come to my show, I think they come to have a great time. But this album, there’s more mature type subject matters. And when I’m making it, I’m not sitting there, like I’m not even, it’s not like I have a mood board and we have a thought team of people. It’s just me cutting the stuff that gets me.”

 

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PARKER MCCOLLUM GIVES UPDATE ON FIRST FEW WEEKS OF FATHERHOOD (AUDIO)

PARKER MCCOLLUM GIVES UPDATE ON FIRST FEW WEEKS OF FATHERHOOD (AUDIO)

Parker McCollum has recently entered fatherhood after the birth of his son, Major Yancey McCollum. Audio below.

 

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Parker McCollum – Parker Gives Update On Entering Fatherhood (AUDIO): “It’s a major, major blessing. Um, I’ve never talked to God so much in my life as I have the last four weeks, just saying thank you and please give me, please give me the courage and the patience to, uh, to operate this, uh, as he would see fit. So, um, it’s just been so good. Hallie Ray’s healthy and feeling great. And, uh, you know, major starting to smile a little bit and I get to give him a little bottle every now and then, um, which is cool. And It’s nice because he’s not crying. Every time I hold him, he starts to get fussy and I don’t really have the touch yet. So the bottle helps with that. But man, it’s just been so good and everybody was right. It took a few weeks for me to kind of get it and for me to really kind of get over the fact that it’s going to be different from here on out. I was kind of freaked out there for a little while. Man, everybody was right. It’s the greatest thing in the world. That’s my boy.”

 

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WORLD PREMIERE: Assets To Support Release Of New Parker McCollum Single “What Kinda Man” (AUDIO)

WORLD PREMIERE: Assets To Support Release of New Parker McCollum Single “What Kinda Man” (AUDIO)

Parker McCollum is back with his next single to Country Radio, “What Kinda Man.” Below you’ll find audio assets to support the world premiere on Friday, September 13th.

Impacting immediately! 

 

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Audio / PM-WMK-Intro and Outro (AUDIO)

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PM-WMK-Intro and Outro (AUDIO): “Hey, it’s Parker McCollum.”

“What’s up? It’s Parker McCollum.”

“Here’s my new song…”

“…And this is my new single.”

“…And this is the world premiere of my new song.”

“This is my brand new song…”

“That was my new song…”

“What Kinda Man”

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PM-WMK-World Premiere Assets (AUDIO):

“And this is the world premiere of my new single…”

“…And that was the world premiere of my new single…”

“Be sure to tune in to the world premiere of my new single…”

“Don’t miss the world premiere of my new single tomorrow morning…”

“…at 9 a.m., at 8 a.m., at 7 a.m., at 6 a.m., at 5 a.m., at midnight.”

“Stay tuned right here.”

“Listen tomorrow…”

“Listen this Friday…”

“Listen today…”

“Listen every hour to hear the world premiere of my new single…”

“I can’t wait for y’all to hear it.”

“Thanks for listening.”

“Keep listening all day to hear it again.”

“And my new single is out now.”

Audio / PM-WKM-About The Song (AUDIO)

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PM-WKM-About The Song (AUDIO): “I was just making stuff up and wrote a song. And then, you know, typically when I do that, some very genuine thoughts and feelings will come out in the words that I’m just kind of freestylin’ and spitting out. And that’s kind of how I ended up with, forget the man that I am, what kind of man do you need? And kind of ran with that. And, you know, it’s every now and then I get lucky and I felt like I got lucky on this one and was able to have a song that felt fun, but wasn’t cheesy or cliche. That’s a tough thing for me to accomplish. So I really kind of fell in love with the song and was excited to cut it. And it’s pretty, it’s pretty honest. I mean, it’s pretty true. You know, Hallie Ray was that for me. She was, I was never going to get married, never going to have kids. And then I met her and, you know, it completely changed my mind on all of that. So I don’t think if, if I had not met her, I think I, I don’t think I ever would have done the deal. And so the song is kind of a unintentional way of explaining that.”

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“Could not be more excited to share this new music with the world, especially this new single “What Kinda Man.” Lately, I’ve been coming back to this sound and the roots of where I started out. I think this new song is my way of revisiting that and creating something that feels like home to me and my fans. I hope the world loves it.” –Parker McCollum

Be sure to tune in for the upcoming People’s Choice Country Awards where McCollum will take the iconic Grand Ole Opry House stage for the debut TV performance of “What Kinda Man,” and is nominated for “Cover Song of 2024” with his rendition of John Mayer’s “Perfectly Lonely.” The People’s Choice Country Awards air live from the Opry House on September 26th on NBC and streaming on Peacock.

McCollum is currently nominated for “Song of the Year” at the upcoming 58th CMA Awards with his Platinum-certified No. 1 hit, “Burn It Down,” which he co-wrote alongside Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna and Liz Rose.

Fans can also hear McCollum featured on fellow Texan Miranda Lambert’s latest album, Postcards from Texas, for their beautifully melodic track, “Santa Fe,” which is also out today.

An artist who prides himself on connecting with the fans who have avidly supported him and his music, McCollum is one of the top-touring acts in Country. His massively successful Burn It Down Tour will continue through the end of the year where fans can see him performing at venues across the U.S.

For a full list of Parker’s upcoming tour dates and tickets, please visit parkermccollum.com.

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ABOUT PARKER MCCOLLUM:

Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Parker McCollum has reached the ranks of a bona fide Country music superstar by connecting with fans and critics alike through his relatable and authentic sound. His most recent album, Never Enough (released on May 12, 2023 via MCA Nashville), is a statement collection of music that cements his status as one of Country’s strongest new voices. Currently on his massive Burn It Down Tour throughout 2024, McCollum will be performing at some of the most iconic venues around the nation and appearing at Country music’s top music festivals. McCollum has been named an ‘Artist to Watch’ by Rolling Stone, Billboard, SiriusXM, CMT, RIAA, and more with American Songwriter noting, “The Texas native teeters on the edge of next-level superstardom.” Music Row listed McCollum as their 2021 Breakout Artist of the Year and Apple also included him as one of their all-genre “Up Next Artists” Class of 2021. A dedicated road warrior, McCollum made his debut at the famed Grand Ole Opry in 2021 and has sold out major concert venues around the U.S. In March 2022, McCollum made his debut at RODEOHOUSTON to a sold-out crowd with over 73,000 tickets sold, returning to perform at the Opening Day celebration in 2023. He recently made a dream come true with his first-ever Austin City Limits performance, kicking off their 2023 season. In 2022, McCollum earned his first ACM Award for New Male Artist of the Year, took home “Breakthrough Video of the Year” (a fully fan-voted honor) at the 2022 CMT Music Awards and scored two back-to-back CMA Awards nominations (2022 & 2023) for New Artist of the Year. Recently, McCollum scored his second ACM Award for “Visual Media of the Year” for his explosive music video for Platinum hit “Burn It Down.” The hit single marks his fourth consecutive #1 – following his other chart toppers “Pretty Heart,” “To Be Loved By You,” and “Handle On You.” Next up, Parker is set to release some of the most impactful music of his career, with his foot-stomping, shoot-it-straight single, “What Kinda Man,” available on September 13th.

 

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