Mitch Rossell‘s new single, “Ran Into You,” features country music superstar Trisha Yearwood. Rossell co-wrote with Tommy Karlas and Dave Turnbull, and didn’t have to ask twice for Yearwood to join him on the track. Rossell wrote a song that her husband, Garth Brooks, recorded, and also joined them on his massive World Tour. “I’ve been a Mitch Rossell…
Nashville is considered by many to be the birthplace of hot chicken. As the story goes, Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack founder, Thornton Prince III was quite the womanizer, and after being out reportedly with another woman, his girlfriend made him hot chicken as a way to get revenge on him. Unfortunately for her, but fortunately for Nashville, he loved…
Jake Hoot won Season 17 of The Voice by singing country songs like Trace Adkins‘ “Every Light in the House,” “That Ain’t My Truck” by Rhett Akins, and more. Hoot just returned to his pure country roots over the weekend, performing the Roger Miller classic, “King of the Road.” The song has been covered by numerous other artists…
The music community mourned in 2019 when renowned producer, songwriter and musician Busbee tragically passed away from brain cancer, at just 43 years of age. After his funeral, and inspired by words songwriter Barry Dean said in tribute to Busbee, Carly Pearce penned the poignant “Show Me Around.” The song, a hopeful look of Heaven, earned high praise from…
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…
