It takes a brave person to open up about their own struggles with mental health, especially someone as in the public eye as Dan + Shay‘s Dan Smyers. Fortunately, Smyers is not only unafraid to share about his own mental health challenges, but willing to admit what makes him struggle the most. “Full disclosure, my mental health lives in…
Montgomery Gentry‘s Eddie Montgomery is embarking on a new chapter, this time as a solo artist, four years after his bandmate, Troy Gentry, passed away. The 58-year-old announces the release of his debut solo record, Ain’t No Closing Me Down, out on October 29. “Troy is with me and will always be with me. He helped me write this…
Ben Gallaher is making his mark at radio with his current single, “Every Small Town.” The rising star was inspired to write the song by his upbringing in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, as well as what he has experienced by spending the last several years on the road. “When I wrote ‘Every Small Town’ with Jim Collins and Ash Bowers,…
Scotty McCreery‘s Same Truck album, out now, is filled with 12 songs he co-wrote, sharing a new side of him as an artist, songwriter and person, a decade after he burst onto the country music scene by winning Season 10 of American Idol. Of all the songs on the record, including his recent No. 1 hit, “You Time,”…
Alan Jackson‘s daughter, Mattie Selecman, is opening up about the loss of her husband, Ben Selecman, in an accident on a boat dock in 2018, less than a year after they were married. Selecman, who wrote about her journey in the upcoming Lemons on Friday book, out in November, says the loss was not only devastating for her, but…
Blake Shelton‘s upcoming Body Language Deluxe album features a few special guests. In addition to Gwen Stefani , who joins him on their No. 1 hit, “Happy Anywhere,” and the Swon Brothers, who join him on the title track, the new deluxe version also features both HARDY and Brooks & Dunn. HARDY, who co-wrote three of the tracks on Body…
Home Free‘s Austin Brown and Tim Foust recently stepped out on their own for a collaboration of “My Maria.” The song, written by B. W. Stevenson and Daniel Moore and released by Stevenson as a single, was a No. 1 hit for Brooks & Dunn in 1996. Although the two singers have made a name for themselves singing all-vocal…
Mitchell Tenpenny will headline his first-ever show at the Ryman Auditorium, on October 10, as part of his To Us It Did Tour. The proceeds from Tenpenny’s Ryman show will go to his own non-profit, the 10Penny Fund, created to honor his father, who passed away from cancer in 2014. Every year on October 10 (10-10), the singer…
Randy Travis has left an indelible mark on country music, which he will now be honored for, at the upcoming CMT Artists of the Year ceremony. The Country Music Hall of Fame member will receive the Artists of a Lifetime Award, given out to only a handful of artists, in acknowledgement of his numerous accomplishments in country music. “To…
Morgan Wallen has been banned from attending the CMA Awards, in spite of receiving a nomination. The singer, who was nominated for Album of the Year (for Dangerous: The Double Album), will not be allowed to attend the awards in person, after he was caught on camera uttering a racial slur. Earlier this year, the CMA Awards announced that…
