Stormzy joined Ronan Keating and Harriet Scott on Magic Radio Breakfast to talk about his new album, his life goal and a very special Christmas song.

Country music icon Loretta Lynn died at the age of 90 on 4 October.

Luke Bryan Expands Jockey Partnership With New Outdoors Collection

Jockey has launched its Jockey Outdoors Collection by Luke Bryan. The collection features long sleeve woven, corduroy and flannel shirts and shackets; a long-sleeve performance fishing shirt with vertical ventilation, rod holder tab on the left chest and a hidden microfiber cloth for easy sunglass cleaning; long-sleeve henleys and crews; graphic tees; and convertible, utility and flannel-lined pants.

“When my friends at Jockey first brought this up it was an easy yes for me,” Bryan explains. “One, they are just a wonderful company with values that align with mine and two, I have always been an advocate for the love of outdoors, so it was a no brainer. Once I got my hands on the product and felt the quality, I became even more fired up for this to show up in the stores.”

“As an avid outdoorsman and already a Jockey brand ambassador, Luke was the perfect fit for this next step for Jockey, allowing us to step back to our roots, incorporate our base layer expertise and develop the Jockey Outdoors Collection, which we think will be a hit with our consumers,” notes Jockey President and COO Mark Fedyk. “Luke was highly involved in the design and painstaking quality standards of the line. His attention to detail, demand for quality, and expectation of performance and comfort aligned perfectly with our brand pillars.”

The Jockey Outdoors Collection is available now. Through the end of 2022, Jockey will donate a portion of the collection’s sales to support adoptive and foster families across the United States.

 

 

Maren Morris Celebrates Some New RIAA Gold

Grammy-winning artist Maren Morris headlined Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood Bowl last Thursday (Oct. 13) with special guest appearances from John Mayer and Hozier. During the stop, she also received an official plaque for her newly Gold-certified track “Circles Around This Town,” the lead single from her latest album Humble Quest.

Humble Quest, released in March via Columbia Nashville and nominated for Album Of The Year at this year’s CMA Awards, debuted at No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and broke the record for most first day and first week streams globally on Amazon Music for a country album by a female artist.

The Hollywood Bowl show came in the midst of Morris’ “Humble Quest Tour,” wrapping up in December with a headline date at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

 

 

Bailey Zimmerman Plays Sold Out Album Launch Show In Nashville

Ahead of the release of his debut EP, Leave The Light On, last Friday (Oct. 14), Bailey Zimmerman made a pit stop in Nashville for a special launch party and his first-ever Nashville headlining show.

The celebrations began with a MAXXED Diesel Custom Lifted Truck Show block party that featured vendor giveaways and games for attendees. Fans filled the performance space at Yee-Haw Brewing Co. for the evening’s main event where Zimmerman performed his mega hits “Rock And A Hard Place,” “Where It Ends,” current top 10 single “Fall In Love” and more.

 

The Outlaws Donate $25,000 To MusiCares

Henry Paul of The Outlaws recently continued the band’s annual tradition of donating to MusiCares, a nonprofit that provides financial assistance for medical expenses to uninsured musicians. Paul presented a $25,000 check to Alicia Warwick, Senior Executive Director of the Recording Academy’s Nashville Chapter.

“Our commitment to this cause has raised over $100,000 in the past six years and we will continue to support MusiCares as we move forward,” explains Paul. “We’d like to thank the Robert E. & Marie Orr Smith Foundation for their generous support, our charity manager, Lori Eyler and friends for their hard work, the Four Horsemen Society for their ongoing contributions and Outlaws fans everywhere. Together we are making a difference.”

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The Tennessee Titans and Nashville Mayor John Cooper have officially announced a deal between the organization and city to build a new, enclosed stadium that would cost over $2 billion without burdening the Nashville taxpayers.

This new stadium will open up a world of possibilities for Nashville as the planned stadium will fit between 55,000 to 60,000 spectators. A brand new, state-of-the art stadium will attract events such as the Super Bowl, NCAA College Football Playoffs, the Grammys and create an atmosphere for CMA Fest that has never been seen before. An enclosed arena will guarantee an inclement weather-free experience for Titans fans and concert-goers.

This monumental deal will be paid for by a sales tax in Nissan Stadium, marking a 130-acre radius around the stadium’s campus, and with a 7 percent hotel occupancy tax in Davidson County. No money from the city’s general fund will go towards the stadium’s construction.

“This new stadium proposal protects Metro taxpayers by not spending a single dollar that could be spent elsewhere on our core priorities like education and public safety,” Cooper noted in his press conference. “Doing nothing was not a legal option for us, and renovating the current stadium proved to be financially irresponsible, so we are proposing a new stadium paid for by the team, the state, tourists and spending around the stadium–not by your family.”

Funding for the new stadium comes from four separate revenue sources, described in detail below. The Titans, the NFL, and personal seat license (PSL) sales represent the largest source of funding for the new stadium. General obligation bonds are not a part of the proposal, and zero dollars are required from Metro’s operating budget.

Sources of Funding For the New Stadium:

• Football-Related Sources: Titans, NFL (subject to final NFL approval), and PSL sales ($840 million)
• State: A one-time contribution ($500 million) contingent on the building of a new, enclosed stadium
• Hospitality: Tourists and visitors through a new 1% hotel/motel tax contingent on the building of a new, enclosed stadium
• Stadium/Campus: Sales and use taxes collected at the stadium and on its campus.

The remaining $760 million will come from revenue bonds issued by the Metro Sports Authority to be repaid through the revenue streams described above, all of which, per state statute, can only be used for this project or other stadium-related costs.

“I’m grateful to Amy Adams Strunk, Burke Nihill and the entire Titans organization for their commitment to Nashville,” Cooper added. “Residents’ tax dollars can go to core city services because the Titans have stepped up to cover future ongoing maintenance on the new stadium. I’d also like to thank Governor [Bill] Lee and our partners at the state legislature for recognizing the Titans’ enormous economic contributions. Together, we are making sure that the Titans stay in Tennessee for generations to come.”

The proposed stadium would be built directly east of Nissan Stadium on land that is currently parking lots. As part of the proposal, Metro would regain control of over 66 acres of land, including the existing Nissan Stadium site. Land that would have remained surface parking for the next 17 years can now serve Nashville with a large park, greenways, affordable housing, a multi-modal boulevard, local businesses and more–all without selling any public land.

The Titans have agreed to maintain and backstop upkeep over the life of the lease, and Metro will own the stadium when the lease expires–creating a multi-billion dollar asset for the city.

“Nashville’s new stadium will be a game changer for the community, enhancing the national and international reputation of our great city and state and delivering world-class events to our doorstep that we could never have dreamed of 25 years ago,” says Titans President and CEO, Burke Nihill. “We couldn’t be more appreciative of Mayor Cooper’s commitment to prioritizing the taxpayers of Nashville and his vision for a bold future on the East Bank. We look forward to the discussion of these terms with Metro Council and the Sports Authority, and hearing from our neighbors in the community as this process continues.”

The new lease will run for a minimum of 30 years, and the new stadium could be ready as early as the 2026 NFL season.

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Jason Aldean‘s “Rock N Roll Cowboy Tour” lit up Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Friday night (Oct. 14), bringing 100 minutes of action to a packed house.

John Morgan, Chase Rice and DeeJay Silver warmed up the stage for the multi-Platinum artist, who opened the night with the fitting “Lights Come On.” With the crowd audibly showing their excitement, the Georgia native and his five-piece band ripped right into “Girl Like You” and took it all the way back to his first album with “Amarillo Sky.”

“It’s been about four years since we played here at Bridgestone,” Aldean shared with the hometown audience. “We’ve had this one circled on the calendar for quite a while so I have a feeling tonight’s gonna be a good time and that we might be here for a while. You guys settle in.”

Promising a stacked show of new songs from his recently released double album, Macon, Georgia, as well as familiar songs from past albums, Aldean went into his most recent No. 1 single, “Trouble With A Heartbreak,” before rolling through some of his nearly 20 years of hits. The entertainer gave lively performances of his ode to Nashville in “Crazy Town,” his essentially evergreen “Big Green Tractor,” “Take A Little Ride” and more.

After taking a temp check with the crowd, Aldean set the stage for his newest single to country radio, “That’s What Tequila Does,” and brought the tempo down a tick with “Got What I Got” and “When She Says Baby,” which proved to be a crowd favorite as they screamed it back to the cowboy hat-donned singer.

“One thing I notice is that whenever artists play their hometown show, we kind of like to call up some friends and bring them on stage,” he noted, starting a string of musical guests who would take the stage. John Morgan returned to the mic first, accompanying Aldean on the Ashley Monroe and Brett James-penned smash “The Truth.”

Next, the crowd was surprised by Miranda Lambert walking on stage as her hit “Kerosene” blasted through the speakers. “Miranda and I go back a long way. I always said if I wanted to be a chick in country music, I’d want to be her.” The pair broke out into their 2018 hit, “Drowns The Whiskey,” marking only the second time they’ve been able to perform it live.

Next up, Aldean unveiled the final guest to grace the stage: country star Morgan Wallen. Accompanied by deafening screams from the audience, Wallen broke out solo into “Whiskey Glasses.” As the crowd erupted and chanted their praises, Aldean shared the story behind his monster hit “You Make It Easy.”

“A lot of people may not know this, but before Morgan really started to have some hits of his own, we recorded a song that he wrote and it was a pretty big song for us. I thought maybe I would get him to stick around. We’ve never done this song together before so I thought [we might do it tonight],” he said before the two entertainers swapped verses to the tune.

The decorated vocalist then took his turn at the keyboard for “If I Didn’t Love You,” which featured Carrie Underwood delivering her lines on Aldean’s massive video wall. He fired off into “Tattoos On This Town,” “We Back” and “Dirt Road Anthem,” all of which earned roaring background vocals from the crowd.

“If you’ve ever been to one of our shows then you know that we do things a little differently. A lot of times, somewhere toward the end of the show, you guys think the show is over, the artist goes backstage, and you guys sit out here and clap for 5-10 minutes trying to get them to come back out and play a couple more songs. It’s called an encore, but I call it bullshit,” Aldean stated. “I just want to play you guys everything we got and when the show’s over, it’s just over.”

Aldean explained that this was his favorite part of the show and that it was time to kick it into overdrive for the last blast of songs. Starting with “My Kinda Party,” which showed off his band’s impressive musicianship, the award-winning artist delivered a one-two punch to close the nearly two dozen-song set with “She’s Country” and his breakout 2005 hit “Hicktown.”

The “Rock N Roll Cowboy Tour” will take a break this coming weekend for the Country Thunder Festival in Florida, but will pick back up with shows in Iowa (Oct. 27), Missouri (Oct. 28) and Kansas (Oct. 29).

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