ERIC CHURCH EARNS TWO GRAMMY NOMINATIONS, FOR BEST COUNTRY ALBUM AND BEST COUNTRY SONG

Nods for Desperate Man and “Some Of It” Mark Church’s Eighth and Ninth GRAMMY Nominations

Praised as “one of the most singular working artists in any genre” by Esquire, Eric Church earns two nominations at the upcoming GRAMMY Awards; Best Country Album for his critically acclaimed project, Desperate Man, and Best Country Song for his recent No. 1 hit, “Some Of It.”

Rolling Stone described the album in their July 2018 cover story as “classic Church: expertly crafted and country-radio-friendly, while also pushing boundaries in a way that sounds natural and unforced” and American Songwriter noted in their September/October 2018 cover story that it “sublimates the pain of a tumultuous year into his most adventuresome album yet.”

The album, Church’s sixth, was celebrated as one of the year’s best by American Songwriter, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Variety and Vulture, among others. This marks his third nomination for Best Country Album, having previously being honored for Chief and The Outsiders.

“Some Of It,” written by Church together with Clint Daniels, Jeff Hyde and Bobby Pinson, recently topped the charts at Country radio and also marks his third nod in the Best Country Song category, following “Springsteen” and “Give Me Back My Hometown.”

As Vulture notes, the song “coyly opens with a list of simple truths — ‘Beer don’t keep, love’s not cheap, and trucks don’t wreck themselves’ — and builds to a chorus about life being a game of patience and learning. You think he’s singing about the value of wisdom, and then the bridge deals a haymaker: ‘What really makes you a man / Is being true to her till your glass runs out of sand,’” before noting he “weaves excellence out of ordinary threads.”

However, the reflective track almost didn’t make the album. Church notes, “I was playing the album for a dear friend of ours and my wife was with me. This person loved the album, but my wife said, ‘but let me play you what did not make it,’ and the first thing she played was ‘Some Of It.’ It was always a favorite song of mine, and I listened to it that night and it is just… I am going to regret if I do not record this song. I called my manager that night and said, ‘hey we have got to talk.’ The recording was done, the record was essentially done, but I said, ‘I have got to do this, I have to add this song.’ Initially, all the stuff that I thought was going to be the pillars for this album just bombed. But I think it’s really interesting that the album took on an identity that allowed ‘Some Of It’ to make it from where it started to where it is now, and it just fit in the dialogue. To me, it made the album. I loved the album before it was on there - but it might be my favorite album now that it’s on there, so that’s the way I look at it.”

Church, whose current single, “Monsters,” is currently climbing the charts, has also earned praise for his unique Double Down Tour, which concludes this weekend in Sacramento, Calif. after visiting nearly 30 markets for back-to-back nights of marathon shows sans-opening act.

For more information, visit www.ericchurch.com

ASHLEY MCBRYDE’S “GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE” EARNS TWO AWARD NOMINATIONS FROM THE RECORDING ACADEMY

CMA’s New Artist of the Year Ashley McBryde earned two coveted GRAMMY® nominations for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for her breakout smash, “Girl Goin’ Nowhere,” written by McBryde together with Jeremy Bussey.

“‘Girl Goin’ Nowhere’ is the song that keeps on giving,” McBryde reflects. “I was blown away by our first GRAMMY Nomination for Country Album of the Year last year. And now ‘Girl Goin’ Nowhere’ gets two nominations?! Can’t keep her down. That’s the message Jeremy Bussey and I let off the leash. She’s a fighter. I’m so honored and proud to see this song stay alive.”

“Girl Goin’ Nowhere” recounts the story of an algebra teacher McBryde had in high school who told the Arkansas native that her dream of becoming a songwriter in Nashville was stupid and that she better have a good backup plan. The powerful ballad showcases McBryde’s storytelling abilities, and as NPR noted, “It's a song that can be counted on to hush even the rowdiest club crowd.” Last year, the title track from McBryde’s major label debut album, Girl Going Nowhere, earned a place on The Fader’s Best 100 Songs of 2018 as well as NPR’s Best Songs of 2018.

Girl Going Nowhere was released in March 2018 via Atlantic Records/Warner Music Nashville. The Jay Joyce-produced album garnered the talented singer/songwriter her first GRAMMY® nomination for Best Country Album and was the only debut album nominated in the category. After notching spots on several “Best Albums of 2018” lists, McBryde also laid claim to the only debut country album on The New York Times, Paste, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, UPROXX and Variety’s year-end wrap ups and was the sole country album on Slate’s “Best Albums” list.

Having paid her dues in dive bars, McBryde spent 11 years in Nashville writing songs and playing for anyone who would listen. With the release of Girl Going Nowhere, McBryde proves she’s got what it takes. Put simply by NPR, “Ashley McBryde established herself as country music’s most charismatic, naturalistic new voice.”

The awards will be presented Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020 during a live television broadcast of the 62nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards on CBS.

For tour dates and more information, visit AshleyMcBryde.com

TANYA TUCKER NOMINATED FOR FOUR GRAMMY® AWARDS, LEADS ALL COUNTRY NOMINEES

NOMINATIONS INCLUDE SONG OF THE YEAR AND COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR

WHILE I'M LIVIN', TUCKER'S FIRST NEW ALBUM IN 17 YEARS, PRODUCED BY BRANDI CARLILE AND SHOOTER JENNINGS

Tanya Tucker received four GRAMMY® Award nominations including Song Of The Year: “Bring My Flowers Now,” Best Country Album: While I'm Livin’, Best Country Solo Performance: “Bring My Flowers Now,” and Best Country Song: “Bring My Flowers Now.” The four nominations lead all 2020 Country GRAMMY® nominees. Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, While I’m Livin’, Tucker’s first new album in 17 years was released in August. The 62nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards will take place on January 26, 2020 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

“I wish I had a trampoline to jump on right now! This is just unbelievable,” says Tucker. “I couldn’t have done this without the fans, Brandi and Shooter, and the whole Tanya Tucker Team. What’s different now more than ever is the fans on social media and streaming made this record an instant success. What just happened, I’d never, ever fathom.”

The four nominations mark a career high for the original country outlaw. Nominated for 10 GRAMMY® Awards over her illustrious five-decade career, Tucker landed her first nomination with “Delta Dawn” in 1972 for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Female.

The critically acclaimed album, which The New Yorker declares, “captures one of America’s great vocalists at her peak,” and Rolling Stone calls “a stunning exuberant album that ranks among the year’s best,” is produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings and marks Tucker’s first for Fantasy Records and Sawyer & Garner Management. The record is her first Top Ten debut and tenth Top 10 album.

While I’m Livin’ is largely comprised of songs written by Carlile, the twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth and Tucker. “It’s a musical biography of sorts,” said Carlile, “about Tanya’s real life and the places she’s seen, and it’s narrated by the greatest country and western singer this side of Johnny Cash.”

Tucker is currently touring the U.S. with performances slated at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA and Ryman Auditorium in Nashville (see full list below). Variety says of Tucker’s recent sold-out performances at The Troubadour, “How many of us took Cash or Haggard for granted enough to pass up easy opportunities to see them on their last tours, but would pay thousands of dollars for the opportunity now? These are mistakes we have a chance to atone up for by seeing Tucker while she’s living. And strutting.” Tickets and VIP packages are available HERE.

BRANDY CLARK LANDS TWO MUCH DESERVED GRAMMY NOMINATIONS (AND SHOULD WIN)

Now six career GRAMMY nominations for “country music’s most reliable character witness” (The Washington Post)

In another example of a year to be remembered, 2016 has distinctly highlighted the hard work and dedication of acclaimed singer/songwriter Brandy Clark. Announced earlier today on Grammy.com, CMA-Award winner Brandy Clark received nominations for Best Country Album for Big Day in a Small Town and Best Country Solo Performance for “Love Can Go to Hell” off the sophomore album. Released this summer, Big Day in a Small Town debuted Top 10 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and quickly gained the attention of critics including Laura Snapes of The Guardian, who praised "(Big Day) speaks to a vast audience who weren’t hearing themselves in country."

Clark, whom The Plain Dealer's Chuck Yarborough calls "the best wordsmith in Nashville," landed on multiple critics' "best of" lists this year, including Rolling Stone's 25 Best Country & Americana Albums So Far and 45 Best Albums of 2016 So Far, TIME Magazine's Best Songs of 2016 So Far, NPR's Top 100 Songs of 2016 and Songs We Love, and American Songwriter's Top 50 Albums of 2016.

"I put my whole heart into Big Day in a Small Town, as did all of the co-writers, musicians, and producer Jay Joyce," shares Clark, "So for it to be so well-received not only by the fans and press, but now also by the GRAMMYs is a really sweet reward."

Celebrated for her keen depiction of small towns and their antiheroes, Clark's bold second album Big Day in a Small Town has been revered as "gritty and visceral" (Associated Press), "aggressive and big-grinned" (SPIN) and was described by SALON Magazine's Erik Nelson as "simultaneously harrowing, cynical, uplifting and just plain funny.”

"When you memorialize human lives with this level of care, you’re writing music that’s meant to last," read a review from The Washington Post's Chris Richards, "Like Clark’s protagonists, these songs want to survive. And they will."

The Jay-Joyce-produced album has garnered national praise by fans and critics alike, including Wall Street Journal heralding it an album that presents “country-song genius on the order that Loretta Lynn and Merle Haggard got us used to,” and Rolling Stone saying it’s “music tooled alternately for stadiums and songwriting circles, commercial and public radio, line-dance bars and coffee shops.”

Big Day in a Small Town is the "cousin" to Clark's critically-acclaimed debut album12 Stories which was featured on "Best of" lists from New York Magazine, NPR, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, New York Post and The Boston Globe in 2013. That same year, Los Angeles Times called it “the country debut of the year."

MAREN MORRIS MOST NOMINATED COUNTRY ARTIST WITH FOUR GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS

BEST NEW ARTIST

BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE 

BEST COUNTRY SONG

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM

THIS WEEK MORRIS RECEIVING ‘BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST’ AWARD  AT BILLBOARD WOMEN IN MUSIC AND PERFORMING ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 

Maren Morris closes out a banner year with FOUR nominations, making her the most nominated Country artist, for the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards including BEST NEW ARTIST in the General Field category as well as THREE in the Country category, BEST COUNTRY ALBUM for Morris’ co-produced major label debut album HERO which Rolling Stone listed as No. 13 of their 50 Best Albums of 2016 and BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE and BEST COUNTRY SONG for “My Church,” the song Morris co-wrote with busbee and that Garden & Gun magazine named as the Song of the Year.

“I've grown up watching the GRAMMYS, and they are such a pinnacle for an artist. I'm so honored to be nominated by my peers who I am so inspired by every day,” says Morris.

The 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards will air live on the CBS Television Network on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Adding to the excitement of the week, Morris is set to receive the “BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST” Award at the 11th annual Billboard Women in Music gala (Friday, December 9th) and is making her first appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live as the musical guest for the December 10th episode.

KELSEA BALLERINI NOMINATED FOR BEST NEW ARTIST AT THE 59th ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS

“Peter Pan” Soars To Platinum Success; Fantasy-Themed Single Is Her Second 1-Million Seller

“Yeah Boy” Quickly Climbing The Country Radio Charts

Quickly becoming one of country’s most beloved new superstars, KELSEA BALLERINI is nominated for Best New Artist in the all-genre category at the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 12.

Humbled by receiving her first GRAMMY nomination, Ballerini instantly took to social media Tuesday morning to share her sweet reaction. “I was 15 the first time I saw a GRAMMY. It was in a studio I was recording some of my first demos in. I remember asking if I could hold it, being its biggest fan, and knowing how important it was,” she recalled on Instagram. “I wish I could go back and tell that 15 year old starry eyed girl that she'd be nominated a few years later. #BestNewArtist @recordingacademy” Read her additional tweet here.

She also took a moment to record a special video message to her fans:

Today is the best day. pic.twitter.com/ygiAioMubS

— Kelsea Ballerini (@KelseaBallerini) December 6, 2016

The Black River artist is also celebrating her fastest-selling single to date, “Peter Pan,” which has now been officially certified PLATINUM by the RIAA.

An epic, girl-power anthem about a love interest who will never grow up, “Peter Pan” was co-written by Ballerini with Jesse Lee and Forest Glen Whitehead and is her second taste of PLATINUM success following the breakout debut, “Love Me Like You Mean It.” Both tracks, plus the GOLD-certified “Dibs,” were part of Ballerini’s groundbreaking first album, THE FIRST TIME.

"PLATINUM IS SO MANY. Knowing this song had the reaction it did and that a million people liked it enough to welcome it into their radios and stereos and lives is so incredible," Ballerini shares. "As a songwriter, that is one of my proudest accomplishments so far."

Resonating strongly with country fans since its release in March, “Peter Pan” was already a historic milestone, making Ballerini the first female artist – including duos or groups – to hit #1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart with her first three singles. Simultaneously, the fantasy-themed tune rose to the top spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, also making Ballerini the first female artist to score a double #1.

A visually-stunning video for the track was directed by Kristin Barlowe and has already been viewed over 22 million times on YouTube, which can be watched here.

Heading for a strong finish to 2016, Ballerini kicked off her first ever headlining tour – aptly titled THE FIRST TIME TOUR – claiming sold out dates in Washington, D.C., her hometown of Knoxville, TN, Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, MN, Boston, New York City, and Buffalo, NY. The tour continues this week with upcoming shows at The Wiltern in Los Angeles (12/8) and a two-night run at Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (12/9-10) before wrapping in Houston, TX (12/14).

Meanwhile, Ballerini’s new single – the fun-and-flirty “Yeah Boy” – is currently making its way up the charts. She’ll also perform at Kelly Clarkson’s Miracle on Broadway benefit concert in Nashville, TN on December 16.

For updated tour dates and information on Kelsea Ballerini’s THE FIRST TIME Tour and brand new Fan Club visit the newly launched KelseaBallerini.com and reach out to her on social media!

2017 GRAMMY NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

The 2017 Grammy Award nominees have been announced. Here are some of the Country/Americana/Roots/Gospel nominees this year. For an entire list of nominees, click here.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

“A Sailor's Guide to Earth” - Sturgill Simpson


BEST NEW ARTIST

Kelsea Ballerini

Maren Morris 

BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE

"Love Can Go to Hell" - Brandy Clark

"Vice" - Miranda Lambert

"My Church" - Maren Morris

"Church Bells" - Carrie Underwood

"Blue Ain't Your Color" - Keith Urban

BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN ALBUM

“Love Remains” — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family

BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE

“Different For Girls” — Dierks Bentley featuring Elle King

“21 Summer” — Brothers Osborne

“Setting the World On Fire” — Kenny Chesney & P!nk

“Jolene” — Pentatonix featuring Dolly Parton

“Think of You” — Chris Young With Cassadee Pope

BEST COUNTRY SONG

“Blue Ain't Your Color” — Clint Lagerberg, Hillary Lindsey & Steven Lee Olsen, songwriters (Keith Urban)

“Die a Happy Man” — Sean Douglas, Thomas Rhett & Joe Spargur, songwriters (Thomas Rhett)

“Humble and Kind” — Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim McGraw)

“My Church” — busbee & Maren Morris, songwriters (Maren Morris)

“Vice” — Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM

“Big Day In a Small Town” — Brandy Clark

“Full Circle” — Loretta Lynn

“Hero” — Maren Morris

“A Sailor's Guide to Earth” — Sturgill Simpson

“Ripcord” — Keith Urban

BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC PERFORMANCE/SONG

“Priceless” — For King & Country

“Thy Will” — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family

BEST ROOTS GOSPEL ALBUM

“Better Together” — Gaither Vocal Band

“Nature's Symphony In 432” — The Isaacs

“Hymns” — Joey+Rory

BEST AMERICAN ROOTS PERFORMANCE

"Ain't No Man” — The Avett Brothers

“Wreck You” — Lori McKenna

BEST AMERICANA ALBUM

“True Sadness” — The Avett Brothers

“This Is Where I Live” — William Bell

“The Cedar Creek Sessions” — Kris Kristofferson

“The Bird & the Rifle” — Lori McKenna

“Kid Sister” — The Time Jumpers

BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM

“Original Traditional” — Blue Highway

“Burden Bearer” — Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

“The Hazel and Alice Sessions” — Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands

“North By South” — Claire Lynch

“Coming Home” — O'Connor Band With Mark O'Connor

BEST RECORDING PACKAGE

Reckless Kelly's “Sunset Motel” — Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds, art directors

BEST ALBUM NOTES

“The Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection” — Mikal Gilmore, album notes writer (Kris Kristofferson)

BEST MUSIC FILM

“American Saturday Night: Live From the Grand Ole Opry” — George J. Flanigen IV, video director; John Burke & Lindsey Clark, video producers

GRAMMY NOMINEE CAM TO MAKE "TONIGHT SHOW" DEBUT ON JANUARY 11

Appearance Will Include a Performance of Her GRAMMY-Nominated, Platinum-Certified, #1 Country Smash, “Burning House”

Critical Acclaim Continues for Cam’s Untamed Album as She Returns to the Grand Ole Opry This Friday

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Nashville, TN – Arista Nashville/RCA Records singer/songwriter Cam hit #1 in December with her Platinum-certified country smash, “Burning House,” and the Best Country Solo Performance GRAMMY® nominee will perform the song in her debut appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, January 11.

Featuring “Burning House,” the singer’s Untamed album released on December 11 to a wealth of critical acclaim from such outlets as The New York Times, Rolling Stone Country, the Associated Press, AllMusic, and many more, with The Washington Post recently ranking Untamed #1 among “The Month’s Best Music.”

Touting Cam as “Nashville’s hottest new star,” Entertainment Weekly spotlight Cam in its “Breaking Big” segment in its December 31 issue, while PEOPLE calls Untamed “excellent,” placing it among the magazine’s “PEOPLE Picks” for the January 4 issue.

Ahead of her Monday debut on The Tonight Show, Cam will be in Nashville this Friday, January 8, as she makes her fourth appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.  Details and ticket information can be found at Opry.com.

Last month, Cam’s Untamed leapt onto Billboard’s Top Country Albums sales chart at #2 and earned 2015’s best first-week album sales by a debut country artist.

With the recent RIAA Platinum certification of “Burning House,” Cam became the only female country artist last year to achieve a Platinum single from a major-label debut album released in 2015.

With each song co-written by Cam, Untamed was produced by GRAMMY®-winner and current Producer of the Year, Non-Classical GRAMMY nominee Jeff Bhasker (Bruno Mars, Beyoncé, FUN., The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift) and two-time Album of the Year GRAMMY nominee Tyler Johnson (Ed Sheeran, OneRepublic, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Mikky Ekko).

Untamed is available for sale at http://smarturl.it/CamUntamed.

Follow Cam on Twitter @camcountry and on Instagram at https://instagram.com/camcountry/.

GRAMMY NOMINEE CAM TOPS OFF 2015 WITH A #1 SONG AND THE YEAR'S BEST FIRST WEEK ALBUM SALES BY A DEBUT COUNTRY ARTIST

Platinum-Certified “Burning House” Hits #1 at Country Radio as Cam’s Untamed Album Debuts at #2 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart!

Cam’s Music Cited among the Best of 2015 by The Washington Post, AP, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone Country, and more!

Grammy nominee singer/songwriter Cam vaults to #1 at country radio this week with her smash single, “Burning House,” as her major-label debut album, Untamed, explodes onto Billboard’s Top Country Albums sales chart at #2.  Cam achieves 2015’s best first-week album sales by a debut country artist, with sales of 37,000, according to Nielsen Music.

Untamed also debuts at #12 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, with 45,000 units in album activity based on the chart’s multi-metric sales and streaming methodology.

Cited among the year’s best country albums by Rolling Stone Country, The Washington Post, Brooklyn Magazine, and Renowned for Sound, Untamed has earned critical acclaim from Entertainment Weekly, the Associated Press, and many more.

Untamed “mingles roots and radio appeal,” hails The New York Times, while AllMusic lauds Untamed as “prime commercial country: it’s crisp, open-hearted, and friendly, fresh in its presentation and classical in its construction.”

Roughstock writes, “The album is an eleven track cornucopia of confident rhythms, rhymes and reason and instantly announces a major force in country music is about to blossom before our eyes.”

In an “A” grade review, Nash Country Weekly cheers, “With a catalog of beautifully written tracks and a voice that is simultaneously ethereal and gritty, Cam effortlessly moves from a whisper to a roar.  And we dig it.  A lot.”

The Daily Tribune (Michigan) calls Untamed “both slick and earthy, maybe the smoothest synthesis of country and pop since Taylor Swift,” predicting that Cam’s “Next Big Thing potential couldn’t be more clear.”

Featured on Untamed and ranked #1 on Rolling Stone Country’s “25 Best Country Songs of 2015,” Cam’s “Burning House” has been cited among the year’s best songs on multiple lists, including Entertainment Weekly’s all-genre “40 Best Songs of 2015,” Taste of Country’s “Top 10 Songs of 2015,” and Billboard.com’s “10 Best Country Songs of 2015,” which summed up Cam’s breakthrough smash with the declaration, “a star is born.”

Of the 10 songs chosen by the Associated Press for its “Top Songs of 2015,” “Burning House” is the only country single to make the all-genre list, with AP praising it as “country radio’s most refreshing song.”

With the recent RIAA Platinum certification of “Burning House,” Cam is the only female country artist this year to achieve a Platinum single from a major-label debut album released in 2015.

Fans can be watching for Cam on Christmas night as FOX re-airs American Country Countdown’s Top 10 Stories of 2015, December 25, at 9 PM/ET.

With each song co-written by Cam, Untamed was produced by GRAMMY®-winner and current Producer of the Year, Non-Classical GRAMMY nominee Jeff Bhasker (Bruno Mars, Beyoncé, FUN., The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift) and two-time Album of the Year GRAMMY nominee Tyler Johnson (Ed Sheeran, OneRepublic, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Mikky Ekko).

Untamed is available for sale at http://smarturl.it/CamUntamed.

Follow Cam on Twitter @camcountry and on Instagram at https://instagram.com/camcountry/.

MIRANDA LAMBERT RECEIVES THE GRAMMY FOR BEST COUNTRY ALBUM AT THE 57TH ANNUAL GRAMMY™ AWARDS

Photo Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

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Nashville, TN – Acclaimed singer/songwriter Miranda Lambert received the second GRAMMY of her career for BEST COUNTRY ALBUM for her fifth studio album, Platinum, on RCA Records Nashville at last night’s 57th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles, CA.

From the GRAMMY Award stage Lambert said “Thank you so much. I love every album in this category. I’m so, so thankful for this. I poured my heart and soul into this record. Frank Liddell, Chuck Ainlay, Glenn Worf, are amazing producers. And all the musicians that played on this, and all the writers, and all the people that make it happen and get it to the people, get it to the fans. Thank you so much for this amazing night. I love you all.”

In addition to her GRAMMY win, Lambert also took center stage with her own style of sassy-but-sweet swagger along with her band for raucous pyro-filled performance of her latest song for country radio, “Little Red Wagon.” A performance that SPIN ranked #1 of the night stating “simply talking about the most awesome performance from the night’s festivities, it’s no contest.”

The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards aired live from Los Angeles on CBS.

T. GRAHAM BROWN HEADED TO THE GRAMMY AWARDS

New Album Features Collaborations with Vince Gill, Leon Russell, The Oak Ridge Boys, Steve Cropper, Jimmy Fortune, Jason Crabb and more!

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (January 21, 2015) – T. Graham Brown, one of the most distinctive song stylists in Country Music, is continuing to make some history of his own. Forever Changed, his latest project, has just netted the Georgia native a Grammy nomination for Best Album in the Gospel Roots category. The awards will be presented on February 8 in Los Angeles.

The album, which will be released on January 27 through Sony RED/Provident/Mansion Entertainment, as well as iTunes, showcases the stylist’s deep and reverent love of Gospel music. The album features guest appearances from some of the top names in the business, such as Country Music Hall of Fame member Vince Gill, who lends his talents to “He’ll Take Care Of You.” Other iconic artists that appear on Forever Changed include The Oak Ridge Boys, Leon Russell, Sonya Isaacs, Steve Cropper, and former Statler Brothers tenor singer Jimmy Fortune, Jeff & Sheri Easter, The Booth Brothers, and Three Bridges. The thirteen-track set was co-produced by Mark L. Carman and T. Graham Brown, and includes such heart-rending performances as the classic “People Get Ready,” the Bill Anderson co-written “Which Way To Pray,” as well as a new version of his 1999 self-penned hit single “Wine Into Water,” which details his successful battle with alcohol abuse.

Track Listing:

1. He’ll Take Care Of You (with Vince Gill)

2. From A Stronger Place

3. Soul Talk (with Jason Crabb)

4. Forever Changed

5. Shadow Of Doubt (with Leon Russell)

6. The Power Of Love (with Jeff & Sheri Easter)

7. Out Of The Rain

8. People Get Ready (with Jason Crabb, Leon Russell, Steve Cropper, The Oak Ridge Boys)

9. Pillow Of Mercy (with The Booth Brothers)

10. Midnight Rainbow (with Three Bridges)

11. Which Way To Pray (with Sonya Isaacs)

12. How Do We Know (with The Oak Ridge Boys)

13. Wine Into Water (with Jimmy Fortune)

The disc marks another stunning chapter in a career that began in the mid-1980s with his signing to Capitol Nashville. His first single for the label, “Drowning In Memories” hit the Billboard Top-40, and helped the singer kick off a series of hits that included “I Tell It Like It Used To Be,” “I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again,” and the number one singles “Hell and High Water,” “Don’t Go To Strangers,” and “Darlene.” Brown’s talents also earned him several commercial endorsements, including Taco Bell, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Mountain Dew, and Dodge Trucks. Brown continues to bring his unique mix of Country and R&B to fans throughout the United States each year, and can be seen on such popular RFD-TV series as Country’s Family Reunion and Larry’s Country Diner.

KENNY ROGERS & DOLLY PARTON NOMINATED FOR THE THIRD TIME TOGETHER AT THIS YEAR'S GRAMMY AWARDS

"You Can't Make Old Friends" Nominated For Best Country Duo/Group Performance

NASHVILLE, Tenn (December 9, 2013) – Is the third time a charm for Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton? Kenny & Dolly received their third joint Grammy nomination on Friday night, December 6th for “You Can't Make Old Friends” for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. The song is featured on Rogers’ latest Warner Bros. album of the same name.

The nomination is the third for Kenny & Dolly as a duo. They were previously nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group in 1984 for “Islands In The Stream,” and then again in 1986 for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for “Real Love.”

Kenny Rogers, the newest member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and recent recipient of the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s CMA Awards had this to say about the nomination: “I'm excited and very flattered about this opportunity and am convinced I should work with Dolly more often if we're getting these kinds of results,” remarked Rogers.

Country Music Hall of Fame member Dolly Parton added, "I was so excited and proud to hear that the Grammys have nominated Kenny and I for Best Country Duo/Group Performance on ‘You Can't Make Old Friends.’ I am also very proud to hear that ‘Jolene’ made the Grammy's Hall of Fame. Thank you everyone!"

“You Can't Make Old Friends” and the 30-year friendship between the two Grammy Award winners is showcased in Kenny & Dolly: An Intimate Conversation, which premieres tonight (Monday, December 9) at 9:00 p.m./ET on Great American Country. In a relaxed setting, the two stars chat about memories they’ve shared over the years and the chemistry they share that has led to one of the most enduring partnerships in popular music.

ANDY GRIGGS' LATEST PROJECT, NAKED, LANDS ON INITIAL GRAMMY BALLOT IN FOUR CATEGORIES

Album of the Year, Best Country Album, Song of the Year ("Me On His Mind"), and Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance

Nashville, Tenn. (October 23, 2013) - Andy Griggs often says, “there is no defining a style of song. As long as there’s soul, it has a place in music.” Griggs took these words to heart when he set out to record and produce his latest album, NAKED, which is all acoustic...one singer/songwriter, one guitar, one track.
"I am honored that my music is being recognized by the members of the Grammy's (National Recording Academy), and my peers. It is a very humbling experience,” says Andy Griggs.

Country Weekly says “most listeners latch onto a song because of a melody, a voice or a lyric. So Andy Griggs did something really clever. He stripped away the high-tech production on his new album, Naked, and presents the things you love—a melody, a voice and an amazing stack of songs.” Armed with just his guitar and accompanied by his earthy soul-filled vocals, Griggs penned original tunes for his new offering, as well as covered songs from artists that influenced him like Waylon’s “Old Timer” and Willie’s “Angel Flying Too Close To the Ground.” Country Weekly bestowed it with 4 stars, the highest rating Griggs has had on any album.

“Me On His Mind," the song that has landed on the initial Grammy ballot for "Song of the Year" and for "Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance” has a very special meaning to Griggs. "What can I say? How could I end an acoustic album without my brother? I can’t. I was 18yrs old and I walked into the living room late one night to him singin’ a song that he had just written. He said, ”Check this out!” and started over. Luckily, he had a little tape recorder on the coffee table and pushed record. Now my brother wrote some incredible songs in his short life, but this one goes above and beyond. He died three weeks later. It took a long time for me to listen to that cassette tape that now sits tightly in my gun safe. When I play that song, I close my eyes, choke back a tear and smile and think about him singin’ that song to his little brother, not knowing how much it would relate to me later in life."

NAKED is available digitally on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/naked/id598987879

NAKED Track Listing

1. Old Timer

2. Understanding Hank

3. Heart Hush

4. You and Cocaine

5. Superman

6. I Wonder Do You Think of Me?

7. De’m Boyz

8. Thrown Away

9. Long Time Coming

10. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground

11. Between an Old Memory And Me

12. Blue Train

13. Me On His Mind

Griggs continued, "I’m addicted to pure and raw feelings that’s as still and quiet as the wind. Throwing your heart out whether it’s healthy or broken! Exposing a hurting soul! Bearing and giving it all with that ol’ piece of wood and 6 strings! It’s underwear on the couch, singing until daylight! It’s vulnerability to yourself! It’s vulnerability to your friends! It’s vulnerability to a crowd of strangers! In short, it’s all about bein’ NAKED!"

For more information about Andy Griggs, visit andygriggs.com

TATE STEVENS TO BE FEATURED AT GRAMMYS

THE X FACTOR WINNER TATE STEVENS TO BE FEATURED AT THE 55^TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS

Pepsi to Debut Stevens’ New Music Video for “Holler If You’re With Me” During Awards Show; Song Available for Download Beginning February 5 on iTunes

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Belton, Missouri native Tate Stevens captivated viewers worldwide on FOX’s The X Factor Season 2 with his emotive and powerful country vocal performances—never placing less than second throughout the entire competition. Now, from appearances on one star-studded stage to the next, Stevens will unveil a first look of his debut music video for the song “Holler If You’re With Me,” at the 55^th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 10 on CBS at 8 p.m. EST/PST. The new music video will debut during the GRAMMY broadcast complements of The X Factor sponsor Pepsi, as part of the grand prize awarded to Stevens in addition to his $5 million recording contract with Syco Music/RCA Nashville. 

Additionally, the song, “Holler If You’re With Me,” will be available for download on iTunes beginning Tuesday, February 5.

Starting out the competition as a 37-year-old blue collar construction worker with humble roots and a seemingly far-fetched dream of becoming a country music superstar, Stevens’ recent win on The X Factor proved to the world that in fact, dreams do come true. “Things are moving very fast since the finale of X Factor, and we’re already laying down tracks for my new album that will be out this spring. I truly feel so blessed to have been given this opportunity,” Stevens says.

Viewers of the 55^th Annual GRAMMY Awards can expect the new video “Holler If You’re With Me” to be what Stevens calls “a feel good anthem song,” and the accompanying video to encompass the picturesque scenery of Simi Valley, Calif. “Having chased this dream for nearly a decade, I was certainly familiar with the concept of a music video, but I had no idea what to expect. In spite of the 50 mph winds, everyone on the set had a great time. It’s a party song and so it was only fitting that we threw a party! I’m sure more than a few folks watching the GRAMMYs at home can relate,” Stevens says beaming.

As spring approaches, Stevens is gearing up for the release of his debut country album, which he says will have an overall upbeat, feel-good tone. A true singer’s singer and songwriter, he plans to write many of the songs on the record, teaming up with Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip, Shane Minor and David Lee Murphy. Renowned Nashville producer, Blake Chancey, will produce the record.

Included in his co-writes for the album, Stevens recently collaborated with his long-time idol, country singer/songwriter Joe Diffie. “The moment I sat down in that room with Joe it hit me – this is my life now, this is my chance to follow in the path of my heroes and make my own unique mark on the genre – and that’s exactly what I plan to do.”

Stay tuned for updates and the latest career happenings by visiting www.tatestevensofficial.com or follow him on Twitter @tatestevensctry.