Carly Pearce has already done so much in country music, but there is still a lot more that she wants to do. The Grand Ole Opry member looks to her own musical heroes as she approaches 2025 with a new resolve to continue to make great country music. “People like my heroes that continue to raise the bar and…
Carrie Underwood kicked off 2025 on a high note. The mother of two performed at the Grand Ole Opry, singing “Good Girl,” “Garden,” “Two Black Cadillacs,” and “Something In The Water.” “Garden,” from Underwood’s 2022 Denim & Rhinestones record, was inspired by her love of spending time digging in the dirt. “I’ve taken up some hobbies over the past…
Blake Shelton doesn’t care if people buy his entire record or not. The 48-year-old just wants people to listen to whatever he releases, however they choose. “I don’t care how people buy music as long as they’re interested enough to buy it,” Shelton says (via WKML). “I just want to make music, and perform it, and write it. It…
Brantley Gilbert has a hit single at radio again, this time a duet with Ashley Cooke. The two singers combined their talents for “Over When We’re Sober,” a song written by Gilbert, along with Jelly Roll, Justin Wilson and Brock Berryhill, for Gilbert’s latest album, Tattoos, released in September. “Jelly Roll and I were working on the album, and…
Brett Eldredge is back with brand-new music. The 38-year-old just released “Gorgeous,” his first single since “Songs About You” came out in 2022, and his first on his own label. “I took some time to step away, start my own label, wrote some music that made me feel free to embrace all the different parts of myself and had…
Kenny Chesney could soon have his 34th No. 1 hit. The Tennessee native is in the Top 25 with his latest single, “Just To Say We Did,” one of five songs Chesney co-wrote for his latest BORN album, released last year. The song, which Chesney wrote with Brett James, David Lee Murphy and Matt Dragstrem, is very much who Chesney is,…
Blake Shelton sang his new single to usher in 2025. The Oklahoma native performed “Texas” live at his newest Ole Red, this one in Las Vegas, with his performance televised as part of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025. Shelton opened his Ole Red Las Vegas in January of 2024, the largest of his six…
Carrie Underwood sang through several of her hits as part of her performance headlining Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025. The mother of two performed “Church Bells,” “Pink Champagne” and “Before He Cheats,” to help ring in the new year. Underwood was part of a star-studded show which also included performances by Blake Shelton, HARDY, Ernest,…
Lainey Wilson knows how to overcome a broken heart. The Louisiana native learned early in her career that life doesn’t always work out as she planned, creating a resilience and tenacity in her she likely otherwise would not have had. In a recent conversation on Artist Friendly with Joel Madden, Wilson remembers a specific time in her life when…
Trisha Yearwood is mourning the loss of President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on December 29. Carter, who served as President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, became an outspoken advocate and staunch supporter of Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that provides affordable housing for families in need. Both Yearwood and her husband, Garth Brooks, also…
