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Brett Young honoring daughter's first birthday with "safe and responsible" celebration

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Riker BrothersBrett Young and his wife Taylor are throwing their daughter Presley a pandemic-friendly birthday party. 

The couple is celebrating their daughter’s first birthday on October 21, and while it may not be the party they originally envisioned, they are taking extra precaution to keep the infant and family members safe. 

The couple plan to have a very small gathering at their home in Nashville, with Taylor’s parents and a close group of friends joining in the festivities. The singer says that attendees have not been traveling and have been tested for the virus.

“We’re kinda gonna treat it like a work day, unfortunately for Presley. It’s gonna be a little less exciting and a little less extravagant while being safe and responsible,” he explains.

“We still want to make sure we celebrate her because she’s the best thing that ever happened to us, so her first birthday is really special to all of us,” he continues. “So, it’ll be limited, it’ll be safe and tasteful and responsible but she’s gonna have a little birthday.” 

Presley and Taylor are the inspiration behind Brett’s current single “Lady” that leads off his upcoming third studio album. 

By Cillea Houghton 
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Miranda Lambert teases organic "Settling Down" video

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ABC/Mark LevineMiranda Lambert and her husband Brendan McLoughlin take center stage in the upcoming video for her current single, “Settling Down.” 

Last night, the country superstar shared a teaser of the video, dropping in full on Wednesday. The opening shot sees Miranda donning a pair of cowboy boots with a satin blue gown adorned with white tulle that blows in the breeze as she gallops on a majestic black and white horse.

The three-shot preview includes a smoldering shot of her husband in a tuxedo, along with the two clasping hands.

Brendan recently joined Instagram, the trio of photos posted thus far capturing life on their Tennessee farm. The couple wed in January 2019.  

“Settling Down” is the third single off Miranda’s chart-topping 2019 album Wildcard, its predecessor being the number one hit “Bluebird.” Wildcard is nominated for Album of the Year at the CMA Awards. 

By Cillea Houghton 
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Garth Brooks' long awaited 'FUN' album gets release date

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Copyright 2018 Blue Rose, Inc.Garth Brooks is ready to have some FUN.

The country superstar unveiled the news today that his latest studio album FUN will be released on November 20.

The album has been in the works for nearly two years, Garth releasing lead single “All Day Long” in June 2018. He announced earlier this year that he was waiting for the right time to share the project, hoping to avoid releasing it in the middle of a pandemic. 

But in an interview with People, the singer says he had delayed its release long enough.

“Truthfully, I just think I ran out of time. This should have been released last Christmas because we’d been working on it forever,” he explains. “So I think it’s just time, you know?” 

The project features 14 new songs, including the hit collaboration with Blake Shelton on “Dive Bar,” “Stronger Than Me,” a touching ode to his wife Trisha Yearwood with whom he recorded a cover of Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga‘s “Shallow” from A Star is Born. 

Unreleased songs fans have to look forward to are “It’s a Hard Way to Make an Easy Living,” “Sometimes You’ve Got to Die to Live Again” and “Amen.”  

“It’s something we keep saying: How wrong is it to have fun when everybody’s suffering?” Garth continues, adding that seeing fans’ reactions to his virtual performances throughout the year, calling them an “escape,” encouraged the album’s release.

“…You kind of walk that line as an entertainer. What’s your job? Even though times are hard for people, aren’t they looking to the entertainment business for an escape?” he says. “I would just love to see us all kind of take a deep breath, maybe smile a little bit.” 

FUN follows Garth’s 2016 album Gunslinger.  

By Cillea Houghton 
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Runaway June goes 'Game of Thrones' on 'When I Think About Christmas' cover

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Broken BowThe cover of Runaway June‘s new holiday EP, When I Think About Christmas, gives the impression Jennifer Wayne, Naomi Cooke, and Natalie Stovall are standing in a snowy, tree-lined scene. 

But that’s actually far from the truth.

“Nothing like being in fur coats in a hundred degrees in a field in Tennessee,” Natalie laughs.

“It was fun though. Yeah, I mean it was hot!” Naomi agrees.

The “We Were Rich” hitmakers set out to forego traditional silver, gold, and green trappings, in favor of a more rustic look.

“We really wanted the visual side of the music to feel and look and capture the sound,” Naomi explains. “You know, there’s a lot of like Appalachian kind of mountain sounds in this music. There’s fiddle and banjo.”

“And we just wanted something a little different,” she continues. “Normally, like Christmas album covers have got a lot of red and it’s very glam.”

Though you could certainly argue the three women still look plenty glamorous, at one point, they worried they might be going a little too far with their “blue steel” and furs.

“We just really wanted to step outside of that box a little bit and bring more wintery elements,” Naomi reflects. “But it was funny because we had to kind of fight with that a little bit, because we were like, ‘Maybe this looks a little too a Game of Thrones.'”

“And then we were like making jokes about ‘Winter is coming,'” she adds, as the three laugh. “And we’re like, ‘Oh, okay, this is really fun. Let’s just do this.'” 

The five-song EP combines favorites like “Sleigh Ride,” “O Holy Night,” and “Let It Snow” with two new songs, “Christmas on the Radio” and the Jennifer-Wayne-penned title track. It’s available now. 

By Stephen Hubbard
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“Lose You”: Jordan Davis reflects on what a good thing he’s got in his latest tune

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UMG NashvilleIn his pulsing, mid-tempo new song, “Lose You,” Jordan Davis makes time to appreciate a relationship worth hanging on to, no matter what.

“People break up, fall in and outta love / But giving this up is something I just won’t do,” he sings. “And I don’t wanna give you a reason to leave me / Watch you drive off in the night / I never wanna feel that freedom that people say they find…”

It’s a song ripped straight from the pages of Jordan’s own life, as a husband and new dad to baby daughter Eloise Larken. He came up with the idea for the song while comparing relationship notes with his co-writers, who are also happily coupled up.

“When I sat down with the guys in the writer’s room that day, we were all just talking about our wives and we realized, ‘Hey, we are all married to amazing women so let’s not mess this up,’” the singer remembers.

Fun fact: One of the co-writers of “Lose You,” Josh Kerr, is a newlywed who married Maddie & Tae bandmate Tae Dye back in February.

“Lose You” follows Jordan’s current single, “Almost Maybes.” He decided to release the track after teasing it on social media, a pandemic-era alternative to testing out unreleased material live during shows.

“In a normal year we’d have our live show to try out new music and see what connects with the audience. Since we can’t do that, it has been fun to share on social media and see the response,” he explains. “Fans were loving this one, so we thought, ‘Why wait to release it?’”

By Carena Liptak
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