Alan Jackson‘s daughter, Mattie Selecman, is opening up about her grief, three years after losing her husband, attorney Ben Selecman in injuries sustained in a fall on a boat dock in Florida. Selecman writes about the heartbreaking experience in her new book, Lemons on Friday, and the lessons she has learned since becoming a widow when she was just…
Country Faith Bluegrass, the 14-track album of both original and classic songs, is out now. The record includes songs performed by an all-star list of artists, including Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, the late Charlie Daniels, Marty Raybon, Ricky Skaggs and more. “This is the 10th project in the Country Faith series,” producer Jerry Salley tells…
Home Free is back with a new song and video, this time of the song, “Bless the Broken Road.” Written by Marcus Hummon, Bobby Boyd, and Jeff Hanna, the song became a No. 1 hit for Rascal Flatts, but takes on an entirely new sound with the stellar Home Free harmonies. Home Free filmed the video in Nashville,…
Johnny Gates has just released his East Music Row EP, showing a new side of him as an artist and a songwriter. The rising star celebrates his love of Nashville, and its eclectic environment, in all of the tracks on the project. “Nashville has been my home base since 2008, and immediately I always felt kind of stuck in…
It was Loretta Lynn‘s idea to use her name and influence to create a star-studded show to raise money for those impacted by the deadly floods that took place in Middle Tennessee last month. The storm, which claimed the lives of more than 20 people, including her own ranch foreman, Wayne Spears, left hundreds of people homeless, and multiple…
Blake Shelton is opening another Ole Red bar and restaurant in Nashville! The country music superstar revealed on social media that a new Ole Red is coming, this time to the Nashville International Airport. “Sorry in advance for all the flights y’all may miss!!!!!” Shelton quipped on social media. “See y’all in 2022.” Sorry in advance for all the…
Carly Pearce‘s telling and personal 29: Written in Stone is out. The 15-track record, co-written entirely by Pearce, follows on the heels of her shockingly-honest 29 EP, which detailed her heartbreak over the unexpected end of her marriage to Michael Ray, less than a year after she said “I do.” All seven songs on 29 are on 29:…
Scotty McCreery‘s Same Truck album is out! McCreery wrote ten of the 12 songs on the project, which marks his first release since Seasons Change came out in 2018. Same Truck is McCreery’s fifth studio album, after bursting onto the music scene by winning American Idol in 2011, when he was just 17 years old. The new music…
Alan Jackson has written with numerous other people before, but his new song, “Racing the Dark,” will always be special to him, because it was written with his daughter, Mattie Jackson Selecman. The song is being released along with her upcoming book, Lemons on Friday, which chronicles her journey of grief when her husband, Ben Selecman, died of a…
Trace Adkins wrote two of the 25 songs on his ambitious The Way I Wanna Go album. The Grand Ole Opry member wrote his humorous duet with Blake Shelton, “If IWas a Woman,” as well as the romantic, “It All Adds Up to Us.” Adkins wrote “It All Adds Up to Us” with Kenny Beard and Matt Nolan, but…
