Tim McGraw‘s “Pawn Shop Guitar” is out now. The song, written by McGraw and Tom Douglas, is one of the singer’s most autobiographical songs he has ever released. “My new song, ‘Pawn Shop Guitar’ is really based pretty loosely on me, pawning my high school ring for a guitar, long before I came to Nashville,” McGraw explains. “It captures…
Keith Urban‘s Flow State yacht rock album is out now, but he admits he isn’t sure what’s next. Flow State comes after HIGH, a record Urban released in 2024. By his own admission, Flow State became a happy accident. Urban created Flow State while working in his new studio. Now, the 58-year-old acknowledges that he still isn’t sure what…
Keith Urban‘s Flow State album is out. The record, full of yacht rock covers and one original song, is one he made almost by accident, after purchasing a new studio, and wanting to make music in it when he finished the renovations. In 2025, Urban and his former wife, Nicole Kidman, quietly split up. It’s part of what made…
Jo Dee Messina‘s Bridges album is out. The record, Messina’s first new album since Me came out in 2014, began when Messina had no idea she was writing for herself. “I was writing. I was writing songs with other artists and for other people,” Messina says on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “And then people were like, ‘Man, you should…
Drake Milligan was already having success when he competed on Season 17 of America’s Got Talent in 2022. Still, his time on the show, where he came in third, expanded his audience even more. After AGT, Milligan released Dallas/Fort Worth, his debut solo album, which includes “Sounds Like Something I’d Do,” a song that became his first radio hit….
Ashley McBryde, by her own admission, spent a lot of her career hiding the fact that she was drunk while on stage. It all came to a screeching halt in 2022, when McBryde went to rehab, at the suggestion of some people on her team. McBryde put her life and career on hold to do the hard work, emerging…
Kenny Chesney thought his next album was completed, but he still found room for three more songs. The singer-songwriter reveals that he just added three new tracks to the record he once believed was finished. “It’s a little bit like putting a puzzle together,” Chesney explains. “You know the best possible thing is there; you just have to figure…
Riley Green is a busy man. Between releasing new music, touring, his new gig as a coach on The Voice, exploring more acting roles, and becoming one of Nashville’s biggest celebrities, he doesn’t have a lot of free time. Not that he’s complaining, at least not much. “The biggest battle I face in my career now is just that I’m…
15 years ago, Scotty McCreery auditioned for Season 10 of American Idol in 2011, by singing a cover of Josh Turner‘s “Your Man.” Turner released “Your Man” in 2005, as the title track of his sophomore album. The song is written by Chris Stapleton, Chris DuBois, and Jace Everett. McCreery not only won American Idol, but it began a…
Longtime Grand Ole Opry announcer and WSM-AM host Bill Cody has passed away. Cody was 67 years old when he died on June 9, after battling a lengthy illness. Last month, Cody’s daughter, Hannah, asked for prayers for her father, who was on life support, after going into both heart and kidney failure. “After weeks of being on a roller…
