Eric Church is releasing the three-album project, Heart & Soul” this spring, and now he’s giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the records.

For the project, Eric brought his producer, band and songwriters to the mountains of North Carolina for a month-long retreat and turned a restaurant into a studio. In the clip Eric says that he felt that everyone was a bit too comfortable making his record “Desperate Man,” which made it a harder record to make, noting that for “Heart & Soul,” “I wanted to make everybody really uncomfortable.”

The first album in the project, “Heart,” drops April 16th, which will by followed by “&” dropping April 20th, but just for members of Eric’s fan club the Church Choir, and “Soul” on April 23rd. Check out the behind-the-scenes video below.

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Comedy fans who check out Kristen Wiig’s new movie “Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar” will be surprised to see a cameo by Reba McEntire. The singer turns up as Trish, the gal the two title characters seem to be obsessed about. She makes an appearance as a sea spirit who saves Barb and Star from drowning.

“I’m not advertised as being in the movie, it’s been this secret,” Reba tells “USA Today.” “But afterward my friends were texting me saying, ‘I knew you were going to be Trish.’ That was icing on the cake for me.”

Apparently Kristen and her co-star and co-writer Annie Mumolo personally reached out to Reba with a letter begging her to sign on for the role. And once she read the script she was glad to do it. “I just wanted to know where, when, and what am I going to wear?” she says. “I was so ready and excited to do it.”

And it sounds like she loved shooting the movie in Cancun. She notes, “Oh, my gosh, I had these hunky guys around me making sure I was safe. I loved every minute of it.”

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If you have a hard time relaxing or even sleeping, Keith Urban is now here to help. In case you missed it, Keith has recorded a new song, “I Am Home,” for the app Calm, which aims to reduce stress and help people fall asleep.

“So, I’ve never written a ‘sleep song’ before,” Keith says. “This process was different on every level because I wasn’t trying to come up with a hook/chorus.” He adds, “It felt like an incredible amount of liberation and freedom to just let the things flow and move where they wanted to go.”

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Blake Shelton just dropped the video for his latest single “Minimum Wage,” which may make folks miss live shows even more. The clip, shot by Gwen Stefani’s brother Todd, has Blake and his band performing at a club packed with fans.

Blake tells CMT the clip was shot at Ole Red in Tishomingo, and there were a lot of COVID protocols in place, with everyone being tested, with temperature check, social distancing and more.

He notes, “There’s a lot of camera magic happening too because it looks like the place was packed.”

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The Grand Ole Opry’s 95th anniversary is being celebrated this weekend with a new NBC special. “Grand Ole Opry: 95 Years of Country Music,” hosted by Blake Shelton and Brad Paisley, airs Sunday.

The special will feature performances recorded at the Grand Ole Opry, with a lineup that includes Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Garth Brooks, Kane Brown, making his Grand Ole Opry debut, Lady A, Little Big Town, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dolly Parton, Darius Rucker, Marty Stuart, Carrie Underwood and Trisha Yearwood.

It’s already been confirmed that Kelsea will sing Keith Whitley’s “When You Say Nothing At All,” Dierks and Marty will duet on Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson’s “Pancho & Lefty,” and Lady A will share their take on Randy Travis’ “Forever and Ever, Amen.”