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Kenny Chesney’s Greatest Hits Goes Gold

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This Day in Country Music History, January 22

2013: Capitol releases Lady Antebellum’s “Downtown” to radio.

2012: Brad Paisley performs “Camouflage” in a short halftime set during an NFL playoff game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The New York Giants defeat the 49ers in the game, 20-17.

2005: Darryl Worley’s “Awful, Beautiful Life” leads him to the top spot on the Billboard country singles chart.

2001: Kenny Chesney’s “Greatest Hits” is certified gold and platinum by the RIAA.

1994: Hal Ketchum performs “Small Town Saturday Night” as he joins the Grand Ole Opry.

1991: RCA releases Aaron Tippin’s first album, “You’ve Got To Stand For Something”.

1990: For the third straight year, Randy Travis leads country winners at the American Music Awards with a trio of trophies, including Favorite Country Single, for “Deeper Than The Holler.” Other country victors: Reba McEntire, Alabama and Clint Black.

1969: Glen Campbell earns his first gold single from the RIAA for “Wichita Lineman”.

1952: Alabama bass player Teddy Gentry is born in Fort Payne, Alabama. The band mixes country with southern rock in becoming the hottest country act of the 1980s, eventually entering the Country Music Hall of Fame.

1949: Exile lead vocalist J.P. Pennington is born in Berea, Kentucky. Founded in 1963, Exile becomes one of country’s top groups during the 1980s, with Pennington and bass player Sonny Lemaire co-writing the bulk of the band’s hook-filled hits.

Dierks Bentley Announces 2018 Mountain High Tour

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To share his 2018 Mountain High Tour dates, Dierks Bentley and his opening acts re-enacted a mountain high. At least, we think it was acting…

Brothers Osborne and Lanco will join the “Woman, Amen” singer for a 40-date tour that begins in May in Maryland and works across the midwest before wrapping in California. The first tickets will go on sale on Friday.

“I’ve been friends with T.J. and John for a long time and I have loved watching their career explode,” Bentley says of opening act Brothers Osborne. “I’m just getting to know the boys in Lanco but I love their music and the energy they bring to the stage.”

The announcement came via press release and sketch video. During the five-minute-long video the group meet in the woods to learn from a dreadlocked spiritual advisor played by Bentley. After sipping from the same cup they begin to hallucinate before passing out until the next morning. The real Dierks Bentley finds them in pretty rough shape when his tour bus pulls up after daybreak.

Musically, Bentley released “Woman, Amen” earlier this month, announcing that it was the lead single from his upcoming The Mountain album, expected in early 2018. See stops on the 2018 Mountain High Tour below.

Dierks Bentley’s 2018 Mountain High Tour Stops:

Columbia, Md.
Holmdel, N.J.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Clarkston, Mich.
St. Louis, Mo.
Kansas City, Mo.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Indianapolis, Ind.
Bethel, N.Y.
Darien Center, N.Y.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Raleigh, N.C.
Charlotte, N.C.
Alpharetta, Ga.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Virginia Beach, Va.
Bristow, Va.
New York City
Jacksonville, Fla.
West Palm Beach, Fla.
Tampa, Fla.
Austin, Texas
Houston, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Albuquerque, N.M.
Phoenix, Ariz.
Mountain View, Calif.
Sacramento, Calif.
San Diego, Calif.
Los Angeles, Calif.

23 Rising Female Country Singers Unite for ‘Time’s Up’

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Twenty-three of country music’s rising female stars got together to make a powerful statement. “Time’s Up” is a collaborative message that adds to a swelling conversation about mistreatment of women in society.

The seed of the song was planted during the Golden Globes, where dozens of actors and actresses wore black to support Time’s Up, a legal defense fund set up to support victims of sexual harassment and assault.

Singer and Taste of Country RISERS star Kalie Shorr co-wrote the song, saying that she felt the weight of it all during those moments.

“It came together so easily and flawlessly because the amazing girls of Song Suffragettes were so passionate about the cause and willing to move around their schedules to make it happen,” Shorr says. She’s an original member of Song Suffragettes, a weekly all-female singer-songwriter round at the Listening Room in Nashville.

“Now the way it is / Becomes the way it was / Yeah you’ll always lose if you’re fighting love / Say good things come to those that wait / But we’ve waited long enough / Our time is here, our time is now, our time has come / And your time is up,” the Song Suffragettes troupe sings at the chorus.

“The team behind Song Suffragettes hustled so hard to make this project come to life making our idea a reality,” Shorr adds about the video-making process. “I have been so inspired by this whole reckoning that’s been happening and it just felt so obvious to connect that to what we do at Song Suffragettes.”

A full list of all 23 singers that appear in the music video is available here:

Kalie Shorr, Tasji Bachman, Chloe Gilligan, Savannah Keyes, Mignon, Gracie Schram, Tiera, Jenna Paulette, Emma White, Jordyn Mallory, Emma Lynn White, Regan Stewart, Kim Paige, Jenna McDaniel, Madison Kozak, Jenny Ray, Tenille Arts, Tristan McIntosh, Tia Scola, Alexis Gomez, Candi Carpenter, Trannie Stevens, Lena Stone (vocals only).

Dierks Bentley Announces New Album

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There’s a reason Dierks Bentley has been sporting a mountain man look recently.

The singer’s ninth studio album, The Mountain, is slated for later this year. The project is a departure for Bentley, although not to the extent of Up on the Ridge, his bluegrass album from 2010.

The album was inspired by Bentley’s performance at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2017. He returned to Telluride on a songwriter’s retreat with Natalie Hemby, Luke Dick, Ross Copperman, Jon Randall, Jon Nite, and Ashley Gorley, and as he tells NPR, Bentley wrote and recorded most of The Mountain there last year. The end result will have a Western feel to it, he says, although a snippet of the title track falls very much in line with what he’s been working toward on recent albums including Home, Riser and Black.

“What I said to the musicians was, ‘Look around you. Look at the mountains,'” he tells NPR. “‘I can’t verbalize this. Just go for a hike, take the gondola, get some coffee, walk around town, take in the vibe of this location. That’s what I need you to make the record sound like.'”

No specific details about the remaining songs on The Mountain have been revealed, although the 42-year-old indicated he would release the first single in January. The album is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed, gold-certified Black, which featured hits in “Somewhere on a Beach,” “Different for Girls” and “Black.”

Last month Bentley shared two new songs, “Burning Man” and “Living” with fans at a concert in Las Vegas. It was a quiet fall for him on social media until he recently began teasing this new project.

The Mountain is currently available for pre-order via Dierks.com. Fans who pre-order the album will receive a key to The Mountain that will unlock extra tracks, bonus videos, special merchandise and VIP experiences with Bentley on his 2018 tour.

John Rich’s Granny Had to Approve His New Whiskey

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John Rich of Big & Rich celebrated his 43rd birthday (Jan. 7) a day early, with a Saturday night party at his house introducing the launch of his new Redneck Riviera whiskey. When discussing the creation of the liquor to his guests, Rich admitted that before he could put his stamp on the drink, he had to run it by someone very important first: His grandma.

“I had to run this by the greatest whiskey drinker that I personally know,” Rich explained, in a video captured by Nashville Noise. “Someone who drank whiskey decades longer than I have; someone I trust implicitly. I trust her taste and her opinion probably more than any other human being on the face of the earth: My Granny Rich.”

As Rich explained, his granny will be 86 in February, and she’s one tough/self-reliant lady. She still holds down a 40-hour-a-week job, lives alone without assistance, and “has been a whiskey sipper since she said she was 14 years old.”

Rich hilariously related bringing the whiskey to his grandma’s shop for her to have a taste, cautioning her that it was only 10:30AM, perhaps a bit early for alcohol. “She said ‘That’s never stopped me before,'” he grinned.

Granny Rich ended up telling her grandson that the whiskey was a lot smoother than any other that she’d ever had, and apparently even had a little more…or perhaps a lot more. “Well, John Daniel, I done think you rung the bell,” was her final judgement.

So, all whiskey drinkers heed: If it’s good enough for Granny Rich, it’s got to be some pretty good stuff overall!

Rich also pointed out that the whiskey is a strongly American product. Made in Portland and soon to be made more widely available, even the liquor’s bottle is made in the USA.

The artist created his Redneck Riviera brand in 2014, dubbing it America’s “work hard, play hard” brand celebrating the everyman. It includes bars in Nashville and Las Veags, as well footwear, apparel, hospitality and licensed products.

Maren Morris Named Honorary Chairwoman for TMP

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Maren Morris has accepted an important role in her home state of Texas. The trailblazing country star is now honorary chairwoman for the Texas Music Project.

The main mission of the nonprofit organization is to “encourage, promote, produce, and advance music education programs” across the state of Texas. Morris participated in the organization through its songwriting camp when she was 16 years old, traveling to California with her peers to hone in on her songwriting skills.

“Education, songwriting, Texas, you blend those all together and that’s what the heart of me is and so to be the honorary chairman … is really incredible,” Morris says in accepting the position. She follows in the footsteps of previous honorary chairman Willie Nelson. “I like to represent Texas in any way, shape or form that I can, so this is a huge honor.”

Texas Music Project offers a variety of programs including music therapy, supplying instruments and music lessons to children battling deadly diseases at Texas Children’s Hospital and more.

“Making music dreams come true is what we at TMP are all about, and Maren’s story is just another in a long line of continued music education success stories. We can’t wait to see what more music Maren brings us and the help she can bring in spreading the word on saving the arts in Texas,” the organization says in a statement on their website.

Morris is nominated at the 2018 Grammy Awards in the category of Best Country Solo Performance for “I Could Use a Love Song.”

 

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