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ACM New Male Artist of the Year, Zach Top is keeping the momentum going with the release of his highly anticipated sophomore album, Ain’t In It For My Health, out now via Leo33. The project follows his breakout debut, Cold Beer & Country Music, and arrives on the heels of his first No. 1 song at country radio, “I Never Lie.”
The new 15-track collection includes his feel-good lead single, “Good Times & Tan Lines,” and the fan-favorite “South of Sanity,” showing off Top’s blend of traditional country roots and storytelling.
Speaking with Cody Alan on SiriusXM’s The Highway, Top opened up about the mix of excitement and pressure that comes with releasing a second album after a breakout debut.
“I think there’s always a little bit of a, I was nervous before the first one too, but there’s kind of a, I don’t know, it went so well and it’s been such a crazy last year or two that it feels like, yeah, there’s like, dang, we gotta keep…keep the pedal down and keep it getting better,” he told Alan. “But we had a lot of these songs recorded already before we even put out the first project. And then a handful of them have been more recently written and recorded. But I don’t know, I believe in the songs, so it’s not like a nervousness that I think it’s bad or something. But I do hope that, you know, everybody loves it as much as I do.”
During the conversation, Top revealed that the album’s title came from a line in the opening track, “Guitar,” after a suggestion from his producer, Carson Chamberlain. He explained that the phrase carries a bit of a double meaning.”
“I had a few ideas on the title and then my producer, Carson Chamberlain, ended up, we were talking about it and he was like, ‘Man, let me throw something kind of weird at you. Because it’s not a title off the album,’ but it’s a line in the song, ‘Guitar,’… ‘Ain’t in it for my health,’” Top recalled. “And I just thought it was, I dunno, the line is kind of funny to me on its own, but it’s got kind of like a double meaning where it’s kind of like a, ‘Hey, I’m here to stay. It wasn’t a one hit wonder thing. I’m around for a while whether it’s good for me or not.’ So that’s kind of where we’re at.”
To celebrate the release of the new album, Top will embark on another leg of his Cold Beer & Country Music headlining tour, running through the fall. The extensive trek includes stops at major venues such as Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena, Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, two nights at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center, Oklahoma City’s Paycom Center, Charleston’s Credit One Stadium, and Vancouver’s Rogers Arena, among many others.
Before kicking off the headline run, Top will wrap up his summer dates performing as part of Dierks Bentley’s Broken Branches Tour.
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Dierks Bentley is a firm believer in manifestation, recently revealing how he made two of his biggest dreams come true.
During a conversation with Bobby Bones on The Bobbycast, Bentley shared how he manifested earning his pilot’s license and becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
First, Bentley recalled a pivotal moment early in his career when he flew home after a show with Kenny Cheney and Keith Urban on a small private plane.
“It’s me, Kenny, and Keith Urban way back in the day, and Kenny offers to fly me back home and I’m like, ‘yeah, I’d love to fly home with you…’ It’s the three of us in this little private plane. We landed back in Nashville and we pulled into a different airport, not the big airport, but a small little building,” he recalled. “I remember looking up and the building said ‘Signature,’ which is a fixed base operator for private jets…But I was like, this is so cool. We don’t go through the real airport. We’re going through this side thing. And I was like, ‘wow, I want that to be like, I want this. I want to travel this way. This is like 2004.”
He even made “Signature” his computer password as a daily reminder of the dream, despite the career struggles he faced in 2008 and 2009.
“So I made that my password on all my computers and devices. Signature with some other stuff behind it. Long story short, 2008, 2009, my career is totally going off a cliff. I went out there, tried to headline. I spent two years just getting my butt kicked, playing these arenas we’d already booked. I’m playing for like 2,500 people…and that went on for a while, but I’m still typing that thing in there every day.”
Bentley remembered that one day, during a gig with Halfway to Hazard, a plane flew overhead, and he soon learned it belonged to Tim McGraw, who was actually flying himself to his show.
“He came to the gig. We start talking about the plane. It’s this new plane called a Cirrus. It has a parachute built into the airframe. If there’s an accident, you pull the handle and the whole plane comes down under a canopy. He’s like, it’s the only plane that my wife, Faith, will let me fly in,” Bentley explained.
McGraw soon introduced Bentley to his instructor and before he knew it, Bentley was a licensed pilot.
“I started flying the next day to gigs because you could fly, if you’re going to play a gig in Indiana, even though it’s only a two hour drive, you’re still going to leave at midnight and the bus to get there. You lose a whole day of your kids, a whole night at home. Now I’m flying a straight line. This little propeller plane… got totally hooked into it. And I remember thinking, well, it’s never going to come true, the dream I had, but this is pretty cool. I’m getting more time at home.”
On day, flying into Chicago in his own small plane, Bentley had a moment of reflection: while sitting next to a professional pilot, he realized he had become one too, with the ‘Signature’ sign above him as a reminder.
“It hit me like, ‘wow. It did happen in a totally different way than I wanted it to,’ which is where the universe works. I put it out there,” Bentley pointed out. “I wanted to sit in the back of a jet that never worked out, but it came back to me in a way where I actually had to go get my pilot’s license and my instrument rating, and I’m actually sitting up left seat in the front of the plane.”
Bentley used the same manifestation approach for another lifelong dream: the Grand Ole Opry.
Pete Fisher was my password forever on my computer, and I did become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. The Opry was such a big part of my life, just that I could play the Opry stage, everything would happen. So I was typing Pete Fisher, who ran the Opry back then. I dunno, it might sound trivial talking about it, but these, these things have happened, but I’m like, I really believe the power of putting it out there, it will come back to you.”
Bentley made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry on April 18, 2003 and was officially welcomed as a member on October 21, 2005.
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Lainey Wilson is at the top of her game. With 16 ACM Awards, 9 CMA Awards, a Grammy, and a coveted spot as a Grand Ole Opry member, she’s cemented her status as one of country music’s biggest stars. On top of that, she’s in the midst of her largest trek yet, the Whirlwind Tour, and now, she’s teasing even more opportunities to expand her acting career.
Wilson, who made her acting debut as Abby, an aspiring musician, during Season 5 of Yellowstone, says the offers to step in front of the camera just keep coming.
“I’m honestly getting pitched things right and left, which is cool,” the Louisiana native recently told Taste of Country Nights. “Opportunities where I am a musician, opportunities where I’m not, opportunities just to write for shows.”
And it’s not just a handful of projects in the mix, Wilson says the possibilities are wide open and that she is currently “entertaining a lot of things.”
Her options are “kinda endless at this point,” she revealed.
While nothing has been officially confirmed just yet, Wilson is exploring her next big move, which will likely come after she makes her feature film debut in Universal Picture’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller Reminders of Him.
While her role hasn’t been revealed just yet, it’s confirmed that Wilson will appear alongside Maika Monroe, who leads a cast that also includes Tyriq Withers, Rudy Pankow, Lauren Graham, Nicholas Duvernay, and Bradley Whitford.
Wilson admitted that her role in Reminders of Him is a “step outside of my comfort zone.”
“This was the first opportunity I’ve had where I wasn’t a musician,” Wilson told iHeartCountry. “And so, I had said after I did Yellowstone, I was like, ‘OK, the next thing I do, I’d like to kind of step outside of my comfort zone and try something I’ve never done. So, this gave me an opportunity to do that, and it was fun. It was, you know, I’m not gonna say easy, but it was like a fun challenge. And I’m excited to do more of it, whatever that looks like.”
According to Deadline, the film’s release has been moved up a week and is now scheduled to arrive in theaters across the country on February 6, 2026.
Director Vanessa Caswill shared on Instagram in mid-June that production on the film had officially wrapped.
Fans will have to stay tuned for more details surrounding Reminders of Him, including the highly anticipated trailer.
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Jason Aldean has spent the past two decades building one of the most successful careers in country music. With 30 No. 1 singles, sold-out tours, and a shelf full of awards, including the title of ACM Artist of the Decade, the Georgia native has cemented his place as a modern country icon.
Though he no longer takes on the grueling tour schedule of 200-plus shows a year like he did early in his career, Aldean continues to hit the road, selling out venues nationwide, and even in other countries, and he has no plans to slow down just yet.
“I don’t think I’m there yet,” Aldean shared during an appearance on the Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard podcast. “… I still enjoy it too much, man.”
While retirement isn’t on his radar, Aldean is thinking about shifting gears, and Las Vegas might be next.
“I look at things that are going on now like The Sphere out in Las Vegas, like, going and doing some residencies,” he said.
“[Kenny] Chesney just did his out there, and Shaun Silva, who is our video director too, did all the content for that … I think Backstreet Boys just did one,” Aldean added.
The Georgia native hinted that fans can likely look forward to a stint in Sin City, which would make sense as he recently opened a Vegas location of Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar.
“So, you know, I think that’s probably in our future, to hit Vegas, do some residencies,” he continued.
A stationary setup in Las Vegas would certainly have its perks, but Aldean admits it’s hard to imagine stepping away from the road completely.
“For me to just stop touring — even doing it the way we do it — man, this is something I wanted to do from the time I can remember,” he admitted. “I’ve gotten to do it for the last 20 years, and they’re still letting me do it.”
Aldean is currently in the midst of his FULL THROTTLE Tour, which will hit Grand Rapids, Michigan; Green Bay, Wisconsin; and St. Paul, Minnesota this weekend.
The trek will continue with stops in Chicago, Birmingham, and Tampa before wrapping up in early November. In 2025, Aldean will take the tour international, bringing it to Australia and New Zealand.
Thu Sep 04 — Grand Rapids, MI — Van Andel Arena
Fri Sep 05 — Green Bay, WI — Resch Center
Thu Sep 11 — Detroit, MI — Pine Knob Music Theatre
Sat Sep 13 — Tinley Park, IL — Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
Thu Sep 18 — Lincoln, NE — Pinnacle Bank Arena
Fri Sep 19 — Des Moines, IA — Wells Fargo Arena
Sat Sep 20 — Sioux Falls, SD — Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
Thu Sep 25 — Lafayette, LA — CAJUNDOME
Fri Sep 26 — Birmingham, AL — Coca-Cola Amphitheater
Sat Sep 27 — Charleston, SC — Credit One Stadium
Fri Oct 03 — Tampa, FL — MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sat Oct 04 — West Palm Beach, FL — iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
Thu Feb 19 — Auckland, NZ— Spark Arena
*Sat Feb 21—Toowoomba, AU — Sunburnt Country
Sun Feb 22 — Brisbane, AU— Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Wed Feb 25— Melbourne, AU — Rod Laver Arena
Thu Feb 26— Sydney, AU — Qudos Bank Arena
*Sat Feb 28— Hunter Valley, AU — Sunburnt Country
*Sun Mar 1— Canberra, AU — Sunburnt Country
*SUNBURNT COUNTRY:
Sat Feb 21 – Queens Park, Toowoomba
Sat Feb 28 – Roche Estate, Hunter Valley
Sun Mar 1 – Stage 88, Canberra
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Fresh off the release of his brand-new album Learn The Hard Way and ahead of the launch of his Ain’t Enough Road Tour, Jordan Davis is riding a career high. Growing up in Louisiana, Davis dreamed of becoming a songwriter and eventually an artist, never imagining all the places music would take him.
In a recent conversation on The Stephan Hogan Podcast, Davis got candid about the self-doubt and gratitude that come with his skyrocketing career, admitting he experiences moments of imposter syndrome.
“I think everybody, maybe not everybody. I don’t want to speak for anybody else, but for me, definitely,” Davis shared. “And it’s hard to not, or at least for me, it’s hard to not when you’re in a town with so many talented people. I go write with people all the time where I’m like, ‘dude, this kid’s great. How’s he not where I’m at?’ I trust that…I’m writing the best songs that I could do. I think that’s been the biggest thing for me to kind of kick that out. But yeah, there’s still some shows that I show up to or rooms that I’m in that I’m like, ‘how am I here?’”
The father of four recalled “barely making rent” just 10 years ago and added, “Now I’m opening a show for Luke Combs in a stadium in Australia, or throw in any other awesome venue or experience that music’s given me.”
For Davis, those moments aren’t so much about feeling like an imposter as they are about fueling his motivation to keep pushing forward.
“To be honest with you, I don’t think imposter syndrome is, I wouldn’t even frame it as that,” he continued. “I would just say for me it’s like… ‘thank you God for putting me in this situation,’ but also realize how hard I have worked to get here and to not just be like, ‘all right, I made it.’ This is it. I think if anything that kind of keeps me, if it is imposter syndrome, it’s something to keep me driving and become a better songwriter, become a better writer, better artist, better singer, better performer, something to continue to get better and not just get in a spot where you feel like, all right, I’m good. That’s a scary place to be.”
Never one to become complacent, Jordan Davis is ready to hit the road as his current single, “Bar None,” continues to climb the charts.
The U.S. leg of the Ain’t Enough Road Tour kicks off on September 11 and runs through October 25. Davis will then take the show overseas for a run across the UK and Europe in February, with stops in Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Zurich, and a major London date at the OVO Arena.
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