Blake Shelton scored the 26th No. 1 single of his career as “God’s Country” ascended to No. 1 on both the Media base chart and Billboard Country Airplay chart this week.
Penned by Michael Hardy, Jordan Schmidt and Devin Dawson, “God’s Country” is Blake’s first No. 1 single since “I’ll Name the Dogs” topped the charts in December 2017.
“This is such a powerful song and I’m so proud to be a part of it,” says Blake. “When I first heard the song I thought it sounded like a remedy. Like a cure. It just sounds like a missing link in country music for the last 10 or 12 years. It feels like a combination of ‘Ole Red’ and ‘Country Boy Can Survive’ to me, which definitely have a place in country music. Those songs are just rare.”
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Singer Caroline Jones, who was on the road earlier this year as part of Kenny Chesney’s Songs for the Saints Tour, enlists a slew of special guests, including Chesney, for the just-released single “Gulf Coast Girl.” The super group of backing artists, dubbed the Pelicanaires, also includes Lukas Nelson,Jimmy Buffett, with whom Jones has also toured, and Buffett’s co-writer on the breezy summer tune,Mac McAnally.
A name-checking travelogue of some of her favorite places, including key tourist destinations such as Destin, Florida, and Gulf Shores, Alabama, “Gulf Coast Girl” finds Jones warmly extolling the virtues of the area’s easygoing vibe with a vocal that’s as sunny and inviting as the locations mentioned.
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Kacey Musgraves’ career has been moving and changing fast over the last couple of years, leaving little time for reflection until she saw her life chronicled behind museum glass.
Musgraves is the subject of a new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum that opens Tuesday and runs through June 2020. The exhibit follows the critically acclaimed “Golden Hour” in 2018 that earned Musgraves four Grammys this year including country album of the year and album of the year, beating fellow nominees Drake, Cardi B and Brandi Carlile.
“I think a lot of people that night were like, ‘Who is this girl?’” Musgraves said. “Which is a funny conundrum to be winning album of the year, and to have people saying, ‘Who are you?’ But in a way, I kind of love that.”