DELIVERS TOUCHING ODE TO HER UPBRINGING AND REVEALS BIG ANNOUNCEMENT IN
OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO OUT NOW
TUNE IN: LAUREN ALAINA ON THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW
NASHVILLE, TENN. – Entering a new musical chapter, powerhouse vocalist and
Grand Ole Opry member Lauren
Alaina releases new song “Those Kind Of Women” (preferred music platform), and its official
music video, see below.
Following the release, Alaina joined fellow
American Idol-alum Kelly Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
“It's all about
the women who raised me,” Alaina shared
about the song with PEOPLE. “I was really fortunate to be raised around a bunch of very
strong women. And when we cut this song, when we recorded this song, I was not
pregnant nor thinking about becoming pregnant. It's funny how things fell into
place.”
Highlighting
Alaina's “standout voice” (The Tennessean) and
“relatable persona” (MusicRow), the heartfelt new track
– produced by lauded hitmaker Joey Moi and penned by Lainey Wilson, Monty
Criswell, Derek George and Lynn Hutton – is an ode to her raising and a
testament to her loved ones' faith, belting lyrics like “whatever kinda hell
they were goin' through, Jesus was right there with 'em.”
The song's
official music video directed by Justin Clough depicts the chapters of Alaina's
life from girlhood to mother-to-be, with a cameo from her own mother and
unveils the celebratory news of her pregnancy at the end of the video –
confirmed via PEOPLE.
With three
chart-topping hits under her belt – RIAA Platinum-certified “Road Less
Traveled,” 9X Platinum “What Ifs” with her childhood friend Kane Brown, and 3X
Platinum “ONE BEER” with labelmate HARDY and Devin Dawson – Alaina will hit the
road with Rascal Flatts on their highly-anticipated Life Is A Highway Tour next month.
Kelly
Clarkson Show
Lauren
Alaina opens up about finding out she was pregnant after filming her music
video "Those Kind Of Women," and Kelly gives her advice for her
upcoming tour with Rascal Flatts. Lauren also reflects on Trisha Yearwood
inducting her into the Grand Ole Opry.
ABOUT LAUREN ALAINA
Grand
Ole Opry member and Big Loud Records powerhouse Lauren Alaina is unveiling a
new musical chapter with the release of “Those Kind Of Women,” out now.
Signaling more new music on the horizon, the release is the first taste of new
music since her six-song 2023 EP Unlocked.
Alaina
has earned three chart-topping hits: RIAA Platinum-certified “Road Less
Traveled,” 9X Platinum “What Ifs” with her childhood friend Kane Brown, and 3X
Platinum “ONE BEER” with labelmate HARDY + Devin Dawson. The Georgia-born
force, who American Songwriter notes is
“on a seemingly limitless upward trajectory,” has shared the stage with Alan
Jackson, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Martina McBride, and
more.
This
year, she joins the much-anticipated Rascal Flatts Life Is A Highway Tour. The vocalist has performed on
some of the highest-profile stages in the world including PBS' A Capitol Fourth, Dancing
with the Stars, American Idol,CBS' Beyond The Edge, ABC's The Bachelorette, TODAY, Good Morning America, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The
Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, ABC's CMA
Fest specials, CMA and ACM Awards, Nickelodeon's
All That, Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day halftime performance, MLB's World Series national anthem performance, a performance at the White House for President
Obama, and more.
NASHVILLE, TENN. (Thursday, January 8th,
2025) -- On New Years Day, artist-writer Paulina Jayne released her
dynamic and poetic song, "After the Party's Over."
With adds on Spotify's "All New Country" playlist and over 550
playlist adds, over 10,000 monthly listeners and streams climbing by the
minute, Paulina is off to a strong start in 2025. Today, the corresponding
music and lyric video is live on YouTube. Shot by Ryan Reid and Gracie Steele
and edited by Paulina Jayne, the video spells out not just the lyrics, but the
visual aftermath of one memorable party.
"'After the Party's Over' started as a poem. Food, guitars, string
lights, red solo cups, blue adirondack chairs in the back yard, a roaring fire
pit, conversation in every corner of the house and a little napkin with a
number scribbled on it - the picture of a party I had once thrown. I wrote this
lyrical poem to take you on a reminiscent journey of the parties passed, the
times we'll remember and the nights we'll forget with the people we love the
most. The music makes you feel the rise of the adrenaline and the crash, the
nostalgia and the promise you make with your friends that they'll always come
back over."
Paulina and Mike Hicks (Rascal Flatts, Keb’Mo’,
NoBigDyl) produced this record at Welcome to 1979 in Nashville. Her band included a-list session musicians: Terence
Clark (Keith Urban - drums and percussion), Steve Mackey (Dolly
Parton - bass), Nate Dugger (Drew Holcomb - nylon guitar),
Mike Hicks (B3, Wurlitzer), Paulina Jayne (acoustic guitar), Emoni
Wilkins (background vocals), Ron Poindexter (background
vocals). Devonne Fowlkes (background vocals), Jeremy
Bernstein tracked the session with assistants, Brandon Clark and Ebony
Haymer. Sean Moffitt (Keith Urban, Cece Winans)mixed
the record and Joe Causey (Voyager Mastering) mastered it.
About Paulina Jayne
“There's Dolly Parton junior!” says Ronnie Dunn (Brooks &
Dunn) after Paulina’s performance at Bridgestone Arena where
she opened for Keith Urban and Vince Gill. A
moment-making, energy-infectious, loud-laughing and full of depth personality
and host, Paulina has never met a stranger.
She has a cowriting catalog of #1
hit songwriters from JT Harding to Shane McAnally to Rob
Crosby,Dave Turnbull, Michael Farren, Billy
Montana and the list goes on. Paulina has played Live Nation festivals
from Faster Horses to Watershed and performed at renowned venues, like The
Bluebird Cafe, St. Andrews Hall, Pine Knob and so many more.
She plays
guitar, piano, bass, mandolin and banjo and produces her own music, often
collaborating with Mike Hicks (KebMo, Rascal Flatts, NoBigDyl).
In 2025,
Paulina is releasing a new song almost every month and featuring them on her
viral Tiktok account. Paulina has received an ASCAP Award, a
sponsorship with Ford Motor Company Community Fund and several
music video features on CMT. She is a proud celebrity ambassador of
Miss Amazing, Inc., and is endorsed by AMI Guitars, G7th Capos and Bluesman
Vintage Guitars. Paulina is joy personified - a fun-loving girl and a
storytelling woman. Learn morehere!
Sony Music Nashville artist Corey Kent has spent more than 15
years cutting his own path through a tangled wilderness of stumbles and
setbacks … and never once come close to waving a white flag. The result…his
sophomore album, Black Bandana, named a “Best Album”
by NPR’s All
Songs Considered with Rolling
Stone noting his “charismatic vocals lift every
song.” The platinum-selling Kent kicked off his headlining Black
Bandana Tour on Sept. 21.
Available
now, listen to Black BandanaHERE(preferred music platform) or below:
**** USE the Playlist play control2nd left from top of the screen to
see the playlisted..tracks and select one to play from the drop down menu
*** 👇
2.Damn
Good Country Song (Ben Burgess / Michael Lotten / Whitney Phillips) 2.28 1.6 million streams
3.Black
Bandana (Corey Kent / Rocky Block / Jordan Dozzi / Brett Tyler) 4:26 283K
streams
4.Never
Ready (Corey Kent / Austin Goodloe / Joybeth Taylor / Lydia Vaughan) 4:41 2.4 million streams
5.Break
Like That (Thomas Archer / Jacob Hackworth / AJ Pruis / Brett Tyler) 2:59 214K
streams
6.Nothing
But Neon (Corey Kent / Austin Goodloe / Joybeth Taylor / Lydia Vaughan) 3:27 153K streams
7.Now
or Never feat. Lauren Alaina (Sam Ellis / Ryan Hurd / Geoff Warburton) 2:54 5.1 million streams
8.Rust
(Corey Kent / Casey Brown / Jacob Davis / Travis Wood) 2:50 6.9 million
streams
9.This
Heart (Thomas Archer / Blake Bollinger / Jacob Hackworth / Michael Tyler) 3:07 23.8 million streams (#37 Hot Country Songs)
10.So
Far (Corey Kent / Joe Fox / Lauren Hungate) 194K streams
Kent also surprised fans with the release of a music video for his current
single, “Now or Never” featuring Lauren Alaina. The
Tennessean called the track a “steel guitar-aided ‘80s-style power
ballad” and the video captures that spirit with the duo delivering angst and
drama in the clip. Watch the video directed by Wales Toney HERE(Track 7 above).
Title track “Black Bandana” helped set the tone for the
album Billboard calls,
“music for those whose lives have been seasoned by rocky times."
Co-written with Rocky Block, Jordan Dozzi, and Brett Tyler, the slow-burning
call to stand your ground pairs tender country-rock reverence with a
big-picture mindset, helping tie all of Kent’s struggle, success, and plans for
the future together. The album was almost finished when he wrote it, Kent says,
but he was happy it “derailed” the project.
“It encapsulates the journey. The reason we’re here is because we didn’t give
up, and the whole record is a call to action against all odds,” he explains.
“When the going gets tough and everybody quits, you be the one that stays the
course and never gives up. I think there’s a lot of people that relate with
that.”
Co-writing
six of Black Bandana’s 10 songs, what Kent ultimately wanted was to
mix themes of integrity, resilience and family with a sonic setting befitting
the mission. Finding the midway point between cinematic electric guitars and
heart-pounding drums meet a warm, gravel-road rasp, as Kent brings classic rock
into the present tense.
Other tracks fuse that “wave of black bandana” call to action with Kent’s
let-it-ride mentality. The dark and smoky soul of “Ain’t Gonna to Lie” kicks
the album off with a rough-edged ‘70s rock spirit for a tune that on the
surface, finds a guy fessing up about the damage to his broken heart. But
really, it’s another call to be unapologetically honest, in whatever you stand
for.
Tunes like “Damn Good Country Song” beg for a chance to get destroyed by love,
matching Kent’s tender growl with a bare minimum of back alley R&B
production – just enough to make the torchy track strut. And while previously
released “Never Ready” emerges as a fully-realized full-circle ballad,
with Kent acknowledging the fleeting nature of our most precious blessings,
tracks like current single “Now or Never (feat. Lauren Alaina)” seek to strike
while the romantic iron is hot – a seize-the-moment power duet built on
orchestral “’80s hair metal ballad vibes.”
“Break Like That” smolders with a singalong promise of fidelity, and while
“Rust” tributes a love that will weather the elements, tracks like “Nothing But
Neon” and “This Heart” sway with somber classic rock heartache.
A Bixby, Oklahoma native now based in Dallas, the proud husband and father has
become a decorated artist on the rise, growing from humble heartland roots into
a Platinum certified Number One hit maker with 950 million career streams, and
a black bandana on his neck. But today, that Black Bandana is
more than an accessory – and not just the title track of his sophomore
major-label album, which Music Row calls, “gently but
unrelentingly uplifting.” It’s his rally cry.
“It started from riding motorcycles and wanting something over your face so you
didn’t swallow a bug,” the singer-songwriter says. “But then it turned into a
staple I wear on stage, and then a symbol of the path through my career, and
life. Through all the ups and downs, the one constant thing was this relentless
hope – this relentless pursuit of believing that if I don’t give up, I can get
where I’m going.”
With a self-built story that has seen success and disaster, keeping that belief
wasn’t always easy – but it’s been paying off. Rising from the vibrant Red Dirt
country scene as the embodiment of authenticity, Kent set his sights on
Nashville as a teen, bringing his self-penned catalog of country-rock anthems
with him. But after the pandemic coincided with the loss of his first
publishing deal, Kent was forced to move to Texas and get a job on a paving
crew to pay the bills, yet he stubbornly refused to call music quits.
Honky-tonks and dancehalls on both sides of the Red River became his stomping
ground, and slowly but surely, the black bandana spirit grew.
Fast forward a few years and the hit single “Wild As Her” (released
July 18, 2022 | No.3 Billboard Country Airplay) proved he was right all along.
An untamed tribute to a free-spirited stunner, the track re-invigorated Kent’s
career as a now Double-Platinum-certified No. 1 at country radio, and the lead
single off his major label album debut, Blacktop. Despite never
cracking country radio’s Top 40, Kent’s trust-your-gut second single “Something’s
Gonna Kill Me” went Gold (and is now approaching Platinum status),
proving his message was connecting. And momentum kept building, with Kent
hitting the road alongside Jason Aldean, Ashley McBryde, Parker McCollum and
more. Next-big-thing accolades came in from CMT, Opry Next Stage and more, but
even as Kent became the most played new artist on country radio for all of
2023, he kept the underdog, who-cares-about-conventional-wisdom mentality. And
so did his fans.
For Kent, the point was that his fans have the same independent spirit he does,
and he took that lesson into his next chapter. Settled into his ranch in Texas
and intent on being fully present as husband and father, while also achieving
his dreams, his second album is all about finding balance, keeping clear eyes
on what’s important – and waving that Black Bandana for all to
see.
“We all face our own demons. We all face our own setbacks, and I hope this
record serves as encouragement,” he says. “It would be really easy to lean on
the past and go ‘Look at what I’ve done,’ but I’m still excited about the
records I’ve yet to create. I’m excited about the shows I haven’t played yet.
I’m excited about unlocking new levels of my craft, and writing more songs that
people connect with deeply. …I still live for those moments.”
Kent is also connecting with friends on the road in his new podcast “Bus Call.”
The podcast finds Kent chatting with everyone from country music star Bailey
Zimmerman to 2023 Doak Walker Award winner, OSU Running Back Ollie Gordon. The
Texas Troubadour and his guests share laughs, inspirational moments and talk
through the ups and downs of both business and personal life. Listen
to the first two episodes of season one now and stay tuned for a new episode
each month.
The Oklahoma native will be joined by Braxton Keith, Kaitlin Butts, Max McNown,
Karley Scott Collins and Lauren Watkins on select dates for his headlining,
international Black Bandana Tour, which kick-offs in Paso
Robles, California on Sept. 21. The road warrior will trek across both the U.S.
and U.K. with stops in New York, Boston, Atlanta, Dublin, London and more into
early 2025. Tickets are on sale now. Purchase at coreykentofficial.com.
ANNOUNCED AS SUPPORT ON BROTHERS OSBORNE’S 10 DATE UK & IRELAND TOUR!
LONDON,
UK / NASHVILLE, TN.
– (For Immediate Release) – Warner Music Nashville’s Tyler Braden
bares his soul, and personal burdens, on new anthemic track “Above The Water”, released earlier this
month on October 4, 2024.
He
will also be embarking on a 10-date tour across the UK and Ireland in January,
supporting Brothers Osborne.
Full
dates can be found below.
Braden
wrote “Above The Water” with Daniel Agee,Ian Harrison,
and Sarah Turner.
About
the new song, Braden says "On the surface, 'Above The Water' feels like
a religious song, and it can be if that’s what the listener needs it to be.
Deep down though, it’s a song about knowing that it’s ok to struggle. It’s
about being aware and recognizing those struggles, and knowing that overcoming
them takes time, and that’s ok, too. We are human and aren’t supposed to be
perfect."
The
new song follows Braden’s hit “Devil You Know” (released Feb 2,
2024) which is closing in on 200 million streams, after garnering 10+ million
views across social media platforms in the first two weeks it posted this past
spring.
Now
accompanied by a powerful music video that visually reflects its raw lyrical themes,
the track continues to draw in listeners worldwide.
Braden
will be crossing the Atlantic in January 2025, joining Brothers Osborne on
their “Might As Well Be Us World Tour”. This will be Braden’s second time
performing in the UK, after his appearance at C2C: Country to Country
festival in 2023.
Brothers
Osborne
“Might As Well Be Us World Tour w/ Tyler Braden
Tyler Braden has the gritty powerhouse vocal, the expressive pen and the
ability to deliver a lyric with complete conviction worthy of a headliner.
Braden began crafting his sound as a teenager in Slapout, AL, where he
demonstrated his mettle playing four-hour cover sets.
He
continued to perform between shifts as a firefighter in both Montgomery and
Nashville; a set at the homegrown Whiskey Jam concert series in January 2017
paved his path to today.
His
Warner Music Nashville EP, NEON GRAVE, combines deep-rooted
country tradition with the rollicking, high-energy instincts of a born rock ‘n’
roller. The project’s flagship single, “Try Losing One,” hit No. 1 on SiriusXM
The Highway’s Hot 30 Countdown.
Braden is currently making waves with the viral track “Devil You Know”
– a won’t-back-down anthem that attracted 10+ million views across social media
in just two weeks. In April 2024 “Devil You Know” hit the Country radio
airwaves, and as of September 2024, “Devil You Know” is a bona fide hit with a
whopping 180+ million streams and over 50k+ ‘creates’ on TikTok.
With
385+ million global streams to his name, Braden is now taking stages
world-round. After a dynamic first leg of his headline The Real Friends Tour,
with five sold-out shows, the Alabama native will round out the year with the
tour's second leg before supporting Warren Zeiders in the new year.
He’ll
also join Brothers Osborne on their Might As Well Be Us world tour,
hitting the UK and Ireland in January 2025. Braden has graced the stage with
top acts like Luke Bryan, Brooks & Dunn, Brantley Gilbert, Chris Stapleton,
Dierks Bentley, and Mitchell Tenpenny. His studio recordings capture the same
high-energy vibe as his live shows, resonating with fans across the globe.
Kelsea
Ballerini releases her new single ‘First Rodeo’
‘FIRST
RODEO’
BRAND NEW SINGLE RELEASED
PATTERNS
NEW ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 25TH
WATCH
THE VIDEO HERE:
4x GRAMMY nominee Kelsea Ballerinihas released her new single‘First Rodeo’, the latest song to be taken from her
forthcoming album PATTERNSout October 25th via
Black River Entertainment.
Kelsea’s new album emerged from the wreckage of her marriage as she found her
way forward into a whole new day. Weighing life’s moments of loss, love and
laughter has defined the singer. Always personal, always unabashed, she’s
measured the reality of growing up in a world that changes quickly.
Navigating loss, finding new love, creating a different kind of relationship
and always leaning on her friends, Kelsea wanted to be honest about
the cause and costs of how life evolves. She also wanted to work with her close
coterie of creatives, notably producer Alysa Vanderheym, Songwriters Hall of
Fame inductee Hillary Lindsey, GRAMMY Songwriter of the Year nominee Jessie Jo
Dillon and Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild.
Following her single ‘Cowboys Cry Too’ featuring Noah
Kahan, which is closing in on 90 million streams, and the confessional ‘Sorry
Mom’, with all the tells of how we fail our parents, ‘First
Rodeo’ offers a young woman willing to seek, but speaking to the
tentativity that being hurt can create. With a vibey track, a bit of cello and
a slightly breathy vocal, Ballerini owns her own experiences and hopes for
something worthy of her heart.
“Listen, there’s a reality that an inner monologue post public breakup is,
'I feel washed up on the heart front. I feel like I don’t know how to do this
anymore,'" she says. "But at the end of the day,
choosing love is bigger, and the honesty of saying please take it slow and be
patient with me can actually be a beautiful and connective moment. 'First
Rodeo' encapsulates that conversation, and more so, that decision within self
to be vulnerable and open and allowing the hope of it all to seep back in.”
To reinforce the tentativity of re-engaging, Ballerini again teamed with
Patrick Tracy for a visually rapturous video filmed on the beach, on a vintage
carousel, in a luxe hotel room, on a boat and in the arms of a new lover. With
an emphasis on golden hour and sunset lighting, there’s a dreaminess to the
clip that matches the record’s own wistfulness.
With another track from PATTERNS available, as well as a
sold-out Madison Square Garden concert to celebrate its release, the multiple
Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music award winner has much to
celebrate in the coming year. Focusing on an album that embraces female
friendship, vulnerability, honesty, jagged spaces and the way relationships
really are, not the way they look on Instagram, she’s released her most
personal and powerful work yet – and she is getting ready to take it all on the
road.
“The visuals are meant to show the emotion, duality, feelings, and landscape
of this record. But as much as it’s personal and my own art and
life, it’s kind of at the point now that it turns into a shared
relationship…where it becomes a different meaning to everyone. Truly, that’s
why I can’t wait to play this record live and see how it all connects outside
of my own journey. Until then, I feel like 'First Rodeo' is the perfect final
taste of the storyline and heart of PATTERNS.”
Jillian CardarelliReleases New Single “I’ll Get Over You” featuring Vince Gill
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. -- September 27, 2024- Country artist and songwriter Jillian Cardarelli released
her new single “I’ll Get Over You”featuring Vince Gill, available now on all
streaming platforms.
The
single, written by Cardarelli, Patrick Murphy and Tina Parol, was
produced by Daniel Dennis.
Known
for her thoughtful songwriting and stunning vocals, Cardarelli cleverly weaves
a familiar storyline about the difficulty of getting over someone that can feel
impossible after a heartbreak. The single uniquely blends traditional country
nostalgia with a tender, contemporary melody, so it’s no wonder country legend Vince
Gill agreed to lend his vocal stylings to the track.
"When
the sun sets in the East, and goes around the moon,
When
the world don’t turn, and the summer sky ain’t blue,
When
the stars don’t glow and Hell’s ice cold and Dolly’s out of tune,
That’s
when I’ll get over you."
"We've
all known that feeling when your heart is hurting and you're trying desperately
to get over someone, but there's no end in sight,” said Jillian Cardarelli. “We
wanted to intertwine the irony and satire of those feelings within the lyrics
-- knowing these things will never actually happen and that's how your heart
feels when you're going through it. It was a true honour to have Vince lend his
amazing voice to the song, which makes it that much more special."
This
is Cardarelli’s ninth release in 2024 among an exciting year of musical
and television projects. Her single "Waiting
on the Sunrise" aired on the popular Fox TV series Farmer Wants a Wife (March) and she was
the celebrity guest host for PBR and Tunnel to Towers Foundation's Never
Forget Concert, a national television special featuring Jelly Roll. Cardarelli
was also a special guest performer for Elvis Week at Graceland, as Elvis
fans connected with her popular single “If I Could Talk to Elvis” featuring Larry
Strickland, Elvis Presley’s background vocalist from The Stamps Quartet.
The
official music video for "I'll Get Over You" began airing on CMT
as well as her Official YouTube Channel on Oct. 2.
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About Jillian Cardarelli
Photo Credit: Dusty Barker
This
Massachusetts native, singer-songwriter Jillian Cardarelli, is blazing
her own path in Music City with her stunning vocals, captivating songwriting
and strong work ethic.
Her debut single, "Rerun," written by Grammy
Award-winning artist Maren Morris, Tina Parol and Jordan
Reynolds made a splash on CMT Music, with the music video spending
two weeks at #1 and several weeks in the Top 10. Her second single, “Souvenirs,” debuted on Radio Disney
Country, while the music video spent eight weeks in the Top 10 on
CMT.com.
Her
inspirational singlem "Strong"featuring
Charles Esten was named one of 2020's Most Powerful Songs by American
Songwriter and Rolling Stone named her a Top New Artist to
Watch. In December 2020, Jillian was honored to be asked to
participate in the National Christmas Tree Lighting Virtual Concert in
Washington, D.C. as she sang the classic, "O Holy Night."Her
song "I Never Do This,"was
named Best New Country Song by Rolling Stone in October
2019.
Her
single “If I Could Talk to
Elvis”featuring Larry
Strickland, Elvis Presley’s background vocalist from The Stamps Quartet,
hit #1 Fan Voted Video on CMT 12-Pack Countdown with appearances
on WSM’s Coffee, Country & Cody, Sirius XM Elvis Radio and she
performed at the Nashville Elvis Festival and at Elvis Week at Graceland.
She
has opened for acts such as Reba, Willie Nelson, Jake Owen, Lee Brice,
Hunter Hayes, Scotty McCreery, Trace Adkins, Dierks Bentley, and Alabama.
In addition to writing and performing, Jillian is passionate about being
involved in charitable organizations like Tunnel to Towers Foundation,
PEDIGREE Foundation, Stand Up 2 Cancer, Band Against Cancer, Musicians on Call,
and St. Jude Children’s Hospital. She often performs for charitable
events and, an avid golfer, plays in various charity golf tournaments around
the country.
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