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‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ just earned another Daytime Emmy nod, but despite the honor, fans are wondering if this could be its final season. Continue reading…
The Boot – Country Music News, Music Videos and Songs
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The Boot – Country Music News, Music Videos and Songs
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The Boot – Country Music News, Music Videos and Songs
“My heart is absolutely broken,” Scotty McCreery says. Continue reading…
The Boot – Country Music News, Music Videos and Songs
Fans first met a young Emily Ann Roberts on The Voice, where she finished Season 9 as runner-up. Since then, she has blossomed into a standout artist with deep roots in classic country and bluegrass, carving out a massive following on social media along the way. Her journey, which is still unfolding, is nothing short of inspiring.
While on the popular NBC competition show, Roberts received invaluable advice from her coach-turned-friend (and later tourmate), Blake Shelton. During a recent appearance on Southern Living’s Biscuits & Jam podcast, she reflected on his wise words, revealing that Shelton inspired her to stay true to herself, no matter what.
“When I was on the show, I sang a lot of traditional country music because that’s what I love… And Blake pulled me aside and was like, ‘Don’t let anybody change you. You know, the music that you make and what comes out of you naturally, that’s what you have to follow, and that’s what you have to honor,’” she recalled. “And that meant so much to me to have someone as successful as he is tell me to stay true to myself, you know, just the way that I am.”
Roberts says she has carried Shelton’s words of wisdom with her and continues to lean any time she’s tempted to stray from her roots.
“That was something that I pulled from for years when I got to Nashville because the music that I wrote didn’t sound like what Kelsea Ballerini was doing and what Maren Morris was doing. They were, like, huge at the time when I was in town for the first time. And so it was really tough because I had a lot of opinions and voices telling me like, ‘You need to sound more like this in order to be competitive,’ and all that. But it’s very cool how it seems like, 10 years later, things have come back around,” she explained.
The East Tennessee native has since toured with Shelton on multiple occasions — including his Friends & Heroes Tour, making for a full-circle moment for the former Voice contestant.
With Shelton’s word still in the back of her mind, Roberts continues to stay on her path, never shying away from her true identity as an artist. Her debut album, Can’t Hide Country, was infused with traditional country and bluegrass roots, and her latest releases, “Scratching Out A Living,” “Easy Does It,” and “The Fence” continue to reflect her authentic style.
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Jordan Davis brings heartbreak to life in a unique way with the release of his brand-new music video for “Bar None.”
The video opens with Davis alone in a dimly lit bar, surrounded by moody neon lights and stained glass windows, seemingly reflecting on the pain of a recent breakup. As the emotion builds, so does the intensity of the video. Suddenly, the walls, floor, and ceiling begin collapsing inward, as if the weight of his heartache is literally closing in on him.
“Bar none/ Now I’m getting goner than your long gone boots/ Nothing I’m working on works on you/ I’ve been breaking every bottle open/ Doing what a banged up broken heart does/ Gonna need three or four more/ Baby if moving on had a scoreboard/ It’d say you and your memory one/ Me and this bar none,” he sings while trying to escape the walls closing in on him.
The Patrick Tracy-directed video comes to a climax as the bar explodes, leaving Davis standing in the middle of a parking lot with debris flying around him.
“Bar None” is Davis’ current single from his highly anticipated new album, Learn The Hard Way, which arrives on August 15.
Written by Ben Johnson, Hunter Phelps, and Lydia Vaughn, the song marks a bit of a departure from what fans have come to expect from the Louisiana native, but it appears the risk of trying something new is clearly paying off. The song is currently climbing the country charts and sits inside the Top 20.
“Bar None is a song that was sent to me, a song that truly from the demo just kind of stood out as different right off the bat. It kind of pulled me in, something I wanted to hear more of. Glad we cut it, love the way it turned out, Davis recently shared. “I think it’s something that’s a little different from me, but something I’m excited about to play live.”
Davis opened up about the album-making process with Country Now and shared that is was born out of a desire to get back to his roots and the sounds of his debut album, Home State.
“Not just going back and trying to make a record that I’ve already made, but going back and diving into the kind of the bluesy soul music that I listened to in college, the southern rock and roll that my dad grew me up on,” Davis explained. “I think that gave me something to aim for and it gave Paul [DiGiovanni] something to aim for in the studio cutting it. So I think that’s where we wanted to go back and be like, ‘Hey man, let’s not just talk about influences. Let’s actually try to show some of these influences through these songs.’”
Fans will have the opportunity to catch Davis performing “Bar None” and the rest of his hits on his headlining Ain’t Enough Road Tour, with dates across the U.S. Mitchell Tenpenny and Vincent Mason will appear on the trek as special guests.
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