Pulse – Country Music News

Jimmie Allen will debut the music video for his single "be alright" on The Kelly Clarkson Show this Monday (April 24th), marking the first world broadcast music video premiere on the show since its launch. Jimmie will also appear as a guest on the show, billed as The Gift of Music Hour episode in celebration of Kelly's birthday.

Jimmie said, "I grew up a fan of shows like TRL, 106 & Park and Top 20 Country Countdown. I miss the days where it was like the world stopped and just watched to see the visual creation by an artist of a song that people were slowly starting to hear, or a song that people knew. I feel like the visual gives a song a new meaning and a new perspective, and I really wanted to find a way to have a world premiere of ‘be alright.' Thank you so much to Kelly Clarkson and her team for having me on the show and letting me do that!"

Following the broadcast debut, the music video for "be alright" will be available everywhere digitally at 5:30 p.m. CT on Monday. It was co-directed by Jimmie, who also stars in the clip alongside The Goldbergs' actress Hayley Orrantia. It was shot on the Warner Bros. lot in Los Angeles.

"be alright (15 edition)" – a special version of the song – went to Country radio earlier this month. It's the second single off Jimmie's latest album, Tulip Drive.

Brad Paisley is returning to headline Nashville's "Let Freedom Sing" July 4th concert held in the city's downtown area. He last headlined the event in 2021, according to The Tennessean. Brad will be joined by new Country duo War & Treaty, Indie-folk singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim, and rising Country artist Tiera Kennedy.

One dollar from every "Let Freedom Sing" t-shirt sold will benefit The Store, a local free grocery store opened by Brad and his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, "to combat food insecurity in Middle Tennessee," according to the newspaper..

According to organizers, "Let Freedom Sing" draws at least 200,000 attendees.

Corey Kent has his very first hit on his hands with "Wild As Her," a Top Five at country radio and climbing on the charts. While a successful songwriter in his own right, Corey didn't have a hand in writing this one, which was penned by Morgan Wallen, Brett Tyler and Kelly Archer.

Prior to landing his first major label record deal, Corey was signed to a publishing deal and found it frustrating that his songs weren't being recorded because the artists themselves wanted a hand in writing their own music. He tells us that having been in that situation, he made a promise to himself to give other writers a chance. "I made a pact when I was a staff songwriter that if I ever got the chance to really be a full-blown artist, that real great songwriters, their songs would get a shot on my record. It they're better than what I wrote it's going on the record, and so that was the case with this song. It was a great song. It deserved to see the light of day. (I) wish I would've wrote it but I didn't and here we are, and I'm glad that we recorded it, and you know what's even cooler than winning and having a hit is winning and having a hit with friends."

Corey was recently chosen as one of the Opry NextStage Class of 2023.

Jordan Davis introduced a new musical partner via his social media on Tuesday (April 18th) night -- NFL great Peyton Manning! It's not clear whether this was a continuation of the celebration for Jordan's latest Number One hit, "What My World Spins Around," which was held earlier in the day in Nashville, or if the two were just out on the town, but they teamed up on a rendition of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues." Davis shared the video with the caption, "Just confirmed that @peytonmanning is opening the Damn Good Time Tour."

Jordan will headline the Damn Good Time Tour this fall with official opening acts Gabby Barrett, Conner Smith and Kameron Marlowe, to name a few.

Parmalee and Jelly Roll are collaborating on a song called "Boots On Broadway," Country Now reports. The two acts debuted it during this weekend's Country Thunder festival in Phoenix. There is no word on when or if the song will be released to radio.

Parmalee told the outlet, "We've been friends like 10 years. He's one of our first people we met when we moved to Nashville. He comes out of our house and our lawyer introduced us, and he rolls out there with a couple of his buddies. They (were) just fresh out (of prison) too…(We were like) I don't know if we going to write a song going to get robbed!"

Parmalee also opened for Jelly Roll when he played his sold-out headlining show at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena in December.

Parmalee is currently climbing the charts with "Girl In Mine." Jelly Roll also has a Top 30 and climbing with "Need A Favor."

Chris Janson will be joined by Vince Neil and Gavin DeGraw to perform the third annual Big Machine Music City Grand Prix's "Friday Freedom Tribute Concert" on August 4th, which is the event's opening day. On August 5th, Megan Moroney and Dillon Carmichael will be among the performers on the iHeartRadio Stage. For ticket information, visit musiccitygp.com/tickets.

Jordan Davis celebrated his fifth Number One hit, "What My World Spins Around," with a party at the Four Seasons hotel in Nashville yesterday (Tuesday, April 18th). Jordan was joined by his co-writers on the song, Ryan Hurd and Matt Dagstrem.

While five Number One hits may seem like old hat, Jordan tells us each one is significant, especially "What My World Spins Around." "Every one is special, I think, and these two guys know how hard Number One songs are to get, but also, too, this one is like a little more special. Ryan was the first co-write I had when I moved to Nashville. That was in like 2012 so to fast-forward here, we finally got a song recorded, it got singled, it worked. That's kind of a cool backstory, and I mean, you look forward to these. Like I said, they're tough to get so they're fun to celebrate when they happen."

Jordan is racing up the charts with his latest single -- and potential sixth Number One -- "Next Thing You Know" -- which currently sits inside the Top 20 on the Mediabase chart.

Morgan Wallen has partnered with The Ryl Company's iced tea, Ryl Tea, a sugar-free iced tea drink with no artificial ingredients, according to the company's website. He shared the news on social media with a few pictures of himself with company executives along with a video writing, "Wanted to bring y'all a taste of Tennessee… so I'm working on something special for you guys with @therylcompany. Stay tuned…" Morgan is also reportedly an investor in the company.

Via a release, he said, "When I'm on tour, I train daily so I can bring everything I have to the stage, so finding Ryl, an iced tea with no sugar and with no artificial ingredients, has been awesome. I can't wait to do more with them."

Ryl Tea comes in a several flavors including Peach, Lemon, "OG Green" and Raspberry. The beverage is currently available in major grocery store chains across the Northeast, including Wegmans, Shoprite and Whole Foods Market.

Wynonna Judd fans will get an exclusive look at her life and career, including dealing with the shocking death of her mother, Naomi Judd, in the upcoming documentary, Wynonna Judd: Between Hell And Hallelujah, which will premiere on Paramount+ on April 26th.

Wynonna said, "It's real and it's raw, it's celebration and sadness. It is all of the people who I leaned on during one of the toughest seasons of my life. I wanted the opportunity to tell my story in my voice. If doing so helps one person out there choose life, then I am grateful."

In addition to on-stage and behind-the-scenes moments from The Judds: The Final Tour, the documentary also includes footage of Wynonna spending time at her Nashville area home with her family, according to Country Now.

Wynonna Judd: Between Hell And Hallelujah also features special guest appearances by Ashley McBryde, Brandi Carlile, Faith Hill, Little Big Town, Kelsea Ballerini, Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood.

The documentary will air internationally in Canada, the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria on July 19th.

The Judds: Love Is Alive - The Final Concert is set to air on CMT on Saturday, April 29th at 8 p.m. ET. The concert special will air the day before the one-year anniversary of Naomi's death.

It appears that Zach Bryan and Travis Tritt have patched things up. Zach took on Travis last week over the issue of transgender people in response to Travis' tweet that he was taking Anheuser-Busch products off his tour rider after the company collaborated with a transgender influencer. On Sunday (April 16th), Zach tweeted, "@Travistritt and me talked for an hour and a half last night, eye to eye. It was nice to meet an old legend. We disagree on some things and agree on some things and it seems the world did not end My dad almost cried at his set can everyone stop being so weird." Travis responded, "So glad we had a chance to chat, Zach. Even better to discover that we have so much common ground. All the best to you on your first European tour!"

After Travis' original tweet about Anheuser-Busch, Zach tweeted, "I mean no disrespect towards anyone specifically, I don't even mind @Travistritt. I just think insulting transgender people is completely wrong because we live in a country where we can all just be who we want to be. It's a great day to be alive I thought," he wrote in reference to one of Travis' hit songs.

Last week, Travis responded to Zach writing, "Zach, Been trying to reach out to you through your manager. Since we are both playing the Two Step Inn Festival in Georgetown, TX this Saturday, I was hoping we could chat in person. I will be there all day on Saturday. Please let me know if we can chat. Thanks."

Clearly, the two did meet up at the festival and came to an understanding.

Jimmie Allen, Brett Young, Mitchell Tenpenny, Brantley Gilbert, Chris Lane, Jelly Roll, Riley Green, RaeLynn, Charles Esten, and Shawn Johnson are among those participating in this year's third annual Rock ‘N Jock Celebrity Softball Game benefiting Folds of Honor Tennessee. The event will be held at Nashville's First Horizon Park on Monday, June 5th, and tickets are on sale now at https://fevogm.com/event/2023rock.

Folds of Honor Tennessee supports the families of America's fallen or disabled service members and first responders.

Luke Combs revealed that his new single will be "Love You Anyway" during his sold-out concert at Nashville's Nissan Stadium on Saturday (April 15th). Last week, he gave fans a choice between that and "5 Leaf Clover" and asked them to vote. Luke promised to reveal the winner over the weekend, which he prefaced by telling the crowd, "It was real close. I think it was 51% to 49% so it was neck and neck . . ."

"Love You Anyway" follows up his latest chart-topping hit, "Going, Going, Gone," and is featured on his new album, Gettin' Old.

Luke's World Tour rolls on to Ford Field in Detroit on Saturday (April 22nd).

Nate Smith will release a deluxe version of his debut, self-titled album in addition to the regular album, both on April 28th. Due to fan demand on his social platforms, Nate Smith (Deluxe) will include the track "World On Fire" and five other new songs.

Nate said, "It has been so much fun making this album, and I really believe in every one of these songs. Releasing an album has always been a goal of mine, but at the end of the day it's really not about me. It's about being able to reach other people with music that means something."

Last week, Nate was nominated for New Male Artist of the Year at the upcoming ACM Awards. The show will stream live on Prime Video on May 11th at 8 p.m. ET from the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, TX.

Nate will perform at Stagecoach for the first time on April 28th, the same day his debut album will be released. He will join Thomas Rhett on his Home Team Tour 23, which will kick off May 4th in Des Moines, IA, and play in a total of 40 cities this summer.

Darius Rucker will return to Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Monday, June 5 for his 14th Annual Darius and Friends concert benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The event, which unofficially kicks off the week of CMA Fest in downtown Nashville and has raised more than $3 million to date, will feature an all-star roster of friends to be announced in the coming months.

Darius tells us: "I mean, it's really crazy to see how Darius & Friends how far it's come because it was funny, we decided to do it on a Monday because we had nothing going on Monday the week of CMA Fest and so we decided to do it then and now it's kind of like the unofficial kickoff it keeps getting bigger and bigger every year, that's pretty awesome and that's exactly what we wanted to do."

Tickets to the 14th Annual Darius & Friends benefit concert start at $69 and go on sale to the general public on Friday (April 21st) at 10 a.m. CT via AXS.com.

In addition to the release of her new book, Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots, Reba McEntire will release an accompanying 14-song album also titled Not That Fancy. The book will be released on October 10th while the album is set to drop on October 6th.

The album features stripped-down versions of some of Reba's most iconic songs, in addition to her new single, called "Seven Minutes In Heaven."

The Not that Fancy book includes over 50 recipes from Reba's family traditions and her restaurant, Reba's Place; never-before-seen photographs and never-before-told stories from Reba's personal and professional life and simple,and not-that-fancy lifestyle tips.

Old Dominion will release a new song called "I Should Have Married You" on Friday (April 21st). The track was written and produced by Old Dominion's Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff Sprung and Brad Tursi alongside songwriter Shane McAnally.

Ramsey said, "There must be a lot of people out there that either need to hear this or need to say it. If you dance hard enough and sing loud enough, maybe the regret will go away! So crank up 'I Should Have Married You' this Friday - and thank you for hounding us about this one since we teased it a few months ago!"

Old Dominion will resume their No Bad Vibes Tour on May 4th in Savannah, GA. The guys had to postpone a few dates recently as Ramsey recovered from injuries sustained in an ATV accident.

The band was recently nominated for ACM Group of the Year for the eighth consecutive year. They have taken home the title the last five years. The ACM Awards will stream live on Amazon Prime on May 11th.

Michael Ray's new video "Get Her Back," seems to have broken his silence concerning the divorce drama with his ex-wife.

Although the song doesn't mention her by name, the video stars an actress that could be the body double for Carly Pearce.

There are scenes of her with her dog, as well as drinking wine and yelling into a phone.

When posting the clip online, he wrote that the song, "speaks for a lot of us who don't wanna feed the fire. That's what's at the heart of this song."

"Get Her Back" will be included on Michael Ray's EP, Dive Bars & Broken Hearts, which will be out on June 23.

Kane Brown took a hard hit on stage when a fan threw their boot at him and hit him directly in the crotch. In a video posted by TMZ, you see Kane fall to his knees to catch his breath and then continues singing "One Thing Right."

He finally lays flat on the floor before autographing the boot and handing it back to someone in the audience.

It happened on Thursday night, (4-13) in Wichita, just as he was getting to the line "I've been at the wrong place at the wrong time."

On Friday night (April 14), Morgan Wallen set the attendance record at 39,609 in Milwaukee at MLB American Family Field.

The show was his first of 58 concerts scheduled in North America this year.

Morgan is on the road promotion his third studio album One Thing At A Time, which has been at the top of the Billboard 200 chart for six consecutive weeks.

The streaming success of the album once again launched Wallen to the #1 spot on the Billboard Artist 100 all-genre chart for his 11th career week, becoming the only core country artist to simultaneously rule the Artist 100, Hot 100 & Billboard 200 charts.

One Thing At A Time has already yielded two #1 hits including "You Proof" which spent 10 weeks at #1.

Jackson Dean has released a new album, Live At The Ryman. Six of the tracks are from his debut album, Greenbroke. The other two were previously unreleased. Jackson co-wrote all eight.

Look for the AMC New Male Artist of the Year nominee to make an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson show tomorrow (4-18).

Nate Smith is set to release his debut album on April 28 and it's packed full of songs that he co-wrote. Nate tells us more about writing the album: "You gotta be really real with the writers. Like you got to be really open and be willing to be completely transparent with them about your life and stuff because they can only help you with what you tell them, you know? So you kind of have to go there a little bit and it's, it can be emotional, it can be hard to do that and stuff but it does make for a better song and they say the more real you are, the more or the more honest you are, the more relatable you are so, I mean, that's something that we've worked really hard on and I've enjoyed finding good songs and I've enjoyed writing good songs, you know, and just kind of being a part of finding songs that rock you know?" :32 (OC: rock you know)

Over the weekend, Parker McCollum released "Tails I Lose," from his upcoming album Never Enough.

About the song, Parker said, "We hadn't heard the phrase ‘heads you win, tails I lose' in a country song before, so we started writing that idea over a melody and dropping all kinds of imagery about breakups."

He co-wrote it with Wade Bowen, Brad Warren, and Brett Warren.

Megan Moroney has released a new song called "Girl in The Mirror." The very personal song will be included on her debut album, Lucky, which comes out on May 5.

Priscilla Block has teamed with the DJ/producer duo of VAVO to release a four song collection of high-energy music. About it she commented: "These are for your late nights out and long days on the water. Here's to Block Party summer!"
Spring Break '23 Remixes is out now.

Corey Kent has announced that he'll release his new album, Blacktop on June 2. The 10-track collection will includes songs written by Morgan Wallen and Ryan Hurd among others. The album features already released tracks, "Man of the House," "How You Know You Made It," "Hood of that Car" and his Platinum selling single "Wild As Her."