Carrie Underwood’s My Savior album is out! The 13-track record was a lifelong dream for Underwood, who made the inspirational record as much for herself as for her fans, using the songs as a source of encouragement amid the struggles of last year, due to the pandemic. “Everybody’s lives were changed and affected in some ways over the past…
Chevel Shepherd‘s Everybody’s Got a Story EP is out! The seven-track record features songs by Kacey Musgraves, Shane McAnally, Brandy Clark and more — an impressive project for Shepherd to use to make her mark in country music. “Right after I won The Voice, I had been wanting to put out music so bad, and I had been…
Rising star Jennifer Smestad has a brand-new single out, “Can’t Have Mine.” The song, which Smestad wrote with Shelby Darrall and Noby Sidez, was born from a personal experience one of her co-writers brought to the table. “Shelby came in with the idea of, ‘You took your time. Now you can’t have mine,’ because it’s something she was going…
Todd Tilghman’s highly-anticipated video for “Jesus and You” is out! The video was shot in Meridian, Mississippi, where Tilghman, his wife Brooke and their eight children lived until he left his job as the pastor of a church, and moved to Tennessee after winning The Voice to focus on music. “‘Jesus and You’ is actually a song —…
Rory Feek just dropped his duet with Trisha Yearwood, “Met Him In a Motel Room.” The song is from his upcoming Gentle Man album, out on June 18 on Gaither Music. Feek wrote the song — one of only two he wrote on Gentle Man — with Jamie Teachenor. “The song is about a woman of the night… sort…
Carrie Underwood‘s My Savior album is out! The 13-track project is full of hymns that Underwood grew up singing as a child, and still are important to her today. After finishing her holiday My Gift album, Underwood found solace in immediately starting to work on My Savior. “When we were working on My Gift and kind of immediately decided…
Chevel Shepherd won Season 15 of The Voice in 2018, on Kelly Clarkson‘s team, when she was just 16 years old. Now, as Shepherd readies the release of her debut Everybody’s Got a Story EP on Friday, March 26, she is relying on the lessons Clarkson taught her while on the reality TV talent show — mostly to…
The Oak Ridge Boys just released a brand-new song, “Love, Light and Healing,” inspired by the challenges of the previous year. The song is from an upcoming new album, Front Porch Singin’, out on June 11. “We just wanted to do that chorus strong,” Joe Bonsall tells People of recording the song. “It fits so well right now. It’s…
2020 was hard for so many artists, including Lady A, who had massive tours planned that were abruptly canceled as COVID-19 made its mark on the country. For Lady A, the trio made up of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, the inability to perform songs from Ocean, their eighth studio album and one they had poured so…
When Rob Lundquist joined Home Free in 2008, he thought it was a temporary gig, on his way to a real job. In his wildest dreams, the Minnesota native never imagined that it would turn into his career for more than a dozen years. “I went to college for vocal performance, and didn’t really know about a cappella until…
