Scotty McCreery had a multi-platinum, No. 1 hit with “Five More Minutes,” and now the hit song is being turned into a movie! According to Billboard, a Christmas movie called Five More Minutes, based on the song, will premiere on the Hallmark channel next month. The movie, which stars Nikki DeLoach and David Haydn-Jones, is about a woman…
Tim McGraw had a No. 1 hit in 2016 with “Humble and Kind,” but he almost didn’t even record it. The song, written by Lori McKenna, is on McGraw’s 2015 Damn Country Music album. McKenna sent the song to McGraw, who had an immediate emotional reaction to the tune, but wasn’t initially convinced it was for him. “She was…
Zach Williams is spreading holiday cheer with his first-ever holiday album! The record, I Don’t Want Christmas to End, is filled with classics like “Silent Night” and “Run, Run, Rudolph,” along with the original title track. Williams recorded the project at the renowned FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. “We knew we wanted it to have a rock and…
Only a lucky few were able to secure tickets to Garth Brooks‘ back-to-back shows at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium next month, but there might still be hope. The country music superstar hints he might add more shows, after more than 22,000 people tried unsuccessfully to get tickets after they went on sale. “I am stunned at the number of people…
Raleigh Keegan is honoring his mother with his song, “Our First Goodbye.” The song, from his recent Clocks Roll Forward album, was written about his birth mother, who gave birth to him while in prison on drug-related charges, and chose to give him up for adoption so Keegan could have a better life. “I found out later that…
Kelly Clarkson has dropped a festive Christmas song, “Glow,” featuring Chris Stapleton. The song, from her just-released When Christmas Comes Around album, was one Clarkson knew right away that she wanted to sing with Stapleton, but never thought he would actually agree. “I was so excited. So excited. He turned it around so fast after I asked him. I…
Lady A just dropped a new song, “Friends Don’t Let Friends,” featuring a few of their famous friends. The song, from their just-released What a Song Can Do album, features Carly Pearce, Darius Rucker and Thomas Rhett on the fun new tune. It’s fitting that Pearce is included on “Friends Don’t Let Friends,” since Lady A just wrapped up…
Zac Brown might be outspoken about a lot of things, but politics isn’t one of them. The founder and leader of his eponymous the Zac Brown Band penned his current Top 10 hit, “Same Boat,” with Ben Simonetti and Jonathan Singleton as a way to promote unity, and combat the divisiveness that seems to permeate the country right now….
Lady A‘s long-awaited What a Song Can Do album will be out on Friday, October 22. To celebrate, the trio, made up of Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood, will perform a show at Skydeck in Assembly Food Hall, located at Fifth & Broadway. “It’s a big week,” Haywood says in a video posted on social media. “We…
Ricky Skaggs is opening up about the impact Charlie Daniels had on his own life and career. In an interview with John Rich, on The Pursuit! with John Rich, Skaggs said Daniels lived life to the fullest, up until the very end. “Joy,” Skaggs recalled, when asked what word comes to mind when he thinks of Daniels. “That man…
