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…
Todd Tilghman may have left his role as a pastor in Meridian, Mississippi to move to Tennessee and pursue music full-time, but he is still very much involved in ministry. The father of eight says sharing the gospel is still just as important to him as ever, even if the way he delivers the message is different. “It’s almost…
The first time Kelsea Ballerini heard herself on the radio was not at all like she envisioned. The then-21-year-old had just released her first single, “Love Me Like You Mean It,” and was still too broke to afford much of anything — including heat in her Jeep. “I just remember being in my car, freezing, wrapped up in a…
