TAYLA LYNN DEBUTS FIRST SOLO PROJECT: "TAYLA LYNN SINGS LORETTA LYNN" - AVAILABLE NOW

Tribute Album Just Released via Heart of Texas Records;

Includes Very Special Track with Her Aunt Patsy Lynn and a Loving Greeting from Loretta Lynn

People.com Talks To Tayla Lynn About Her Darkest Days with Addiction and Celebrating Eight Years of Sobriety

PHOTO CREDIT: Tre Twitty

Tayla Lynn, granddaughter of the Queen of Country, Loretta Lynn, is officially releasing her first solo project Tayla Lynn Sings Loretta Lynn after a soft release last month via her website www.taylalynn.com.

A tribute to her illustrious grandmother, Tayla Lynn Sings Loretta Lynn features Tayla Lynn singing 13 of her favorite Loretta Lynn hits, including “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” “Fist City” and “The Pill,” as well as duets on “Sweet Thing” with special guest Tony Booth (singing the part made famous by Ernest Tubb) and the song that defined her grandmother’s career, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” with her Aunt Patsy Lynn Russell. Loretta Lynn is listed as a co-writer on the project and a 14th track will thrill fans with her recorded greeting.

“I love working and writing with Memaw [as she affectionately calls her grandmother],” Tayla Lynn gushes. “Early in my career, she took me out on the road for a year and taught me how to walk the stage, sing a sad song, be funny and treat the audience like you are in their living room.”

Tayla Lynn’s first major musical project was as a member of the trio Stealing Angels (with Caroline Cutbirth and Jennifer Wayne). The group was signed to Skyville Records in 2007; over a five-year period, they toured the country, sang for the troops in Iraq and Kuwait and made a record with veteran producer Paul Worley (Dixie Chicks, Lady Antebellum, Sara Evans). Their songs “He Better Be Dead” and “Paper Heart” both made the Billboard country chart.

But her life up to this momentous point in her career has been anything but easy. In a just-released exclusive People.com article, Tayla recounts her decades-long intermittent battle with addiction. “There was a time when I didn’t want to wake up and see tomorrow,” Lynn admits. During those years, she told People, she was often living with her grandmother. “The way she handled it was, I wasn’t allowed to go on the road. … Going on the road with her was like heaven to me … but she wouldn’t allow it if I got myself in trouble.” Shortly after marrying and becoming a mother, the article explains, Tayla’s demons began roaring back. “You’re sitting there in the middle of this fancy neighborhood in Seattle, not being faithful in your marriage and breastfeeding your baby while you’re doing drugs and all of a sudden you wake up and say to yourself, ‘What in the hell am I doing?!’”

Fans can purchase the album HERE or www.taylalynn.com.

Tayla Lynn Sings Loretta Lynn Track Listing

You Ain't Woman Enough
Somebody Somewhere
Black Eyed Peas and Blue Eyes
Babies
Here I Am Again
Fist City
Sweet Thang (featuring Tony Booth)
God Bless The Children
Old Rooster
The Pill
Wings Upon Your Horns
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (featuring Loretta Lynn)
Coal Miner's Daughter (featuring Patsy Lynn)
Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven Who Says God Is Dead
Greetings from Loretta

Tayla Lynn is currently on tour with Tre Twitty (Conway Twitty’s grandson); a joint album and podcast are in the works. In addition to her musical endeavors, she is also exploring acting. Her first leading role came in the 2017 faith-based film, The Least of These, directed by Mark Nicolosi. She also starred in the Amazon Prime original 2020 film Why We Breathe. Tayla lives with her husband and children at the Loretta Lynn Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

For more information, check out her website, taylalynn.com and follow along on her socials.

CMT MUSIC ADDS JENNY TOLMAN’S “THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD”

Welcome to Jennyville!

Today, America will be introduced to this outrageous fictional town at the heart of country newcomer Jenny Tolman’s debut album when “There Goes the Neighborhood” is added to CMT Music’s video rotation.

Tolman says, "I'm grateful to everyone at CMT for continuing to support females in country music by giving them equal play. The High Class White Trash Welcoming Committee is ready for their big screen debut!"

With a sassy yet savvy approach, director Christina Cooper brings to life a make-believe burg full of gossipy women who are at once lovable and neurotic, catty and competitive. The object of their affection is the new town hottie, though ultimately the joke is on the desperate women in this charming ditty written by Tolman, producer Dave Brainard and tunesmith Mary Haller.

As Nashville Scene writer Brittney McKenna notes, “Nashville can be a tough town for women making country music,” but Tolman counters that dose of reality, she says, by concocting her own playful dreamworld. “[By] offering glimpses at colorful characters who speak larger truths about small-town life,” McKenna adds, “Tolman is as compelling a vocalist and songwriter as she is world-builder.”

The video, which features personal friends of Tolman, will have great appeal to those who can relate to the foibles of southern life. “There’s a huge thread of self-perception and body image … and a whole take on all of society’s pressures,” Tolman says of this and other songs on Neighborhood.



For more information, visit Jenny Tolman.

WILLIAM MICHAEL MORGAN RELEASES NEW MUSIC AND NEW VIDEO WITH THE NEW YEAR

'Whiskey Kinda Night' brings country music comfort to 

die-hard traditionalists

Today, Mississippi native William Michael Morgan releases a new track for country music lovers called “Whiskey Kinda Night.” This is the first of six upcoming releases from a mix of full band production with alternating acoustic classic recordings that William Michael will make available throughout the year.  

The music video was directed by Victoria Metzger, a past winner of the Berkeley Student Film Festival, and was shot at local honky-tonk Scoreboard Nashville.

"Whiskey Kinda Night" written by Morgan, Doug Johnson and Adam Wood is the kind of song that calls up a memory from the days of slow dancing on a hardwood floor. Morgan says, "I've written a bunch of songs with Doug and Adam, who are also the producers on this track, but every once in a while you hit on something special. Very honored to have worked with those guys, the studio musicians and my team on this new project. Sometimes nothing gets you over her like a whiskey kinda night."

Morgan’s new recordings build on the success of his rising young career. He earned a No. 1 single with his Gold-certified debut, “I Met A Girl,” that Rolling Stone described as a “laid-back ode to the joy of romantic discovery” and was named one of NPR Music’s Top 100 Songs of 2016. His widespread adoration from country fans paved the way for his album Vinyl to debut Top 5 on the Billboard Country albums chart, earning critical acclaim in the process. Morgan has a voice that “resonates with the flawless timbre of someone who has been singing country music for decades beyond his years” (Pandora). As one of the 2017 CRS New Faces of Country Music he has already accumulated nearly 100 million on-demand streams.

Listen and download "Whiskey Kinda Night" HERE.