Invoking the only trio of people she trusts to keep her secrets, Tiera Kennedy’s “Jesus. My Mama, My Therapist” is a funny, sassy, three-minute, romp with plenty of tempo. It serves as a showcase both for Kennedy’s sweet-toned voice, and for her songwriting, having penned the clever tune alongside friends Emily Falvey, Joe Fox, Trannie Anderson and Emily Landis. After ruling out her bartender, hairstylist, and even her judgmental pastor in the song’s first three lines, Kennedy concludes that her own “holy trinity” is who she’ll confide in when her “heart is half-broke and I'm feeling like hell.” As she sings in the chorus, “Jesus, my mama, my therapist know all about you / They listen, don't judge me, they love me with or without you / This whole town talks way too much / They're the only ones I can trust.” She later details the charms of all three confidantes, singing, “One's making bank, taking notes in a chair / One's looking down from heaven when I'm sending up a prayer / One's a call away when the others ain't there / Yeah, they get me through what you put me through.” In the song’s laugh-out-loud bridge, she adds, “Jesus won't tell God, my mom won't tell my dad / And my therapist contractually can't talk about all that.” Kennedy says of the true to life song, “If you’re from a small town, you know you can’t trust everybody with your business. But, we all have that one group of people we can confide in when times get rough and, for me, it’s Jesus, my mama and my therapist. They always give me sound advice, don’t ever judge me and I know they’ll love me unconditionally. They’re the best sounding board a girl could ask for.” The song serves as a preview of the full-length debut album Kennedy is readying with producers Dann Huff and Cameron Bedell.
Impacting: Monday, August 28th
By: Phyllis Stark

The immensely likable Drew Baldridge is one of those artists who’s as adept at using his right brain as his left. Not content to dwell only on the creative side, his strong business sensibilities have found Baldridge launching his own label, Lyric Ridge Records, assembling a promotion team, and self-releasing his new single, “She’s Somebody’s Daughter.” That promotion team consists of Country industry pros Louis Newman, Bill Heltemes, Steve Pleshe, Megan Youngblood and Chele Fassig. They’re working a song that has already found success on TikTok, generating more than 270 million plays and over 750,000 user-generated videos, not to mention 100 million streams across the distribution platforms. The sweet ballad was written for his wife, Katie, whom he wed in 2021. Baldridge penned it alongside Cameron Jaymes and Jimmy Yeary, and recorded it to be the father/daughter dance at his and Katie’s wedding reception. The artist’s wedding ring even has the song’s title engraved inside. The accompanying music video includes shots from his real wedding, as well as clips of Katie growing up, all serving as a reminder to treat his partner with love and respect because, as the lyrics say, “Even if she’s grown up and moved away / She’s somebody’s whole world / She’s somebody’s baby / And if you don’t treat her right / Hers won’t be the only heart you’re breaking.” Baldridge, who also hosts a weekend show on KKGO (Go Country 105)/Los Angeles, says, “This is a very, very special song for me” that “absolutely changed my life. I hope you love it.” Using that left brain again, Baldridge will stage his own festival for a second time this fall. “The BIG Baldridge and Bonfire Music Festival” expands to two dates this year, September 30th in his hometown of Patoka, IL and October 14th in his wife’s hometown, Nauvoo, IL.
Impacting: Monday, August 21st
By: Phyllis Stark

Runaway June is back with their first new radio single since welcoming newest member Stevie Woodward in 2022 and signing with new label home Quartz Hill Records and its sister management company, Brown Sellers Brown (BSB), earlier this year. The trio, which also includes Natalie Stovall and original member Jennifer Wayne, debuted “Make Me Wanna Smoke” on the nationally syndicated “Bobby Bones Show” in May, a few days before releasing it to the DSPs. Describing the song, the band told Bones, “This is a totally different vibe than what we've done in the past and it's really exciting, very edgy, more rock elements. It has a really cool way of incorporating all of our styles into it. We're really excited about it." Written by Ella Langley, Bobby Hamrick and BSB’s Jason Sellers, the just under three minute, mid-tempo single is about the yin and yang of being passionately attracted to someone who’s bad for you. It describes the person “you can't stop comin' back to, even when you're done,” and cleverly compares that push/pull feeling to a nicotine addiction and other vices with the lyrics, “You make me wanna smoke, you make me wanna quit / You make me wanna drink 'til I'm sick of it / Make me wanna hide away my heart / You make me wanna let you take it way too far.” The three singers bring harmonies and sass to the song, while producer Mickey Jack Cones dials up the rhythm section. Combined, it’ll having you singing along on first listen, and maybe even craving a smoke.
Impacting: Monday, August 28th
By: Phyllis Stark

The newest release from Michael Ray is a power ballad about trying to get over a relationship with a combination of bourbon on the rocks and bartender pep talks, only to find that none of that is actually working. The spirits, it turns out, can’t tamp down the demons of his memories. Ray says when he first heard the songwriters’ demo, he knew a woman’s voice in the mix would enhance the song. Enter two-time Canadian Country Music Female Artist of the Year Meghan Patrick. She elevates the track into a proper duet by taking on the second verse solo, and then sharing the subsequent choruses with Ray, where they lament, “Spirits and demons won't bring no healin' / Ain't no miracle at the bottom of the bottle I'm drinkin' / It's just a buzz on a broken heart barely beatin' / Gas on a fire mix in whiskey and you leavin’.” Ray says that in choosing a duet partner, he and producer Michael Knox “went through so many thoughts and names. They were all great, but nobody felt quite right. And it’s funny, because the answer was right under my nose. I’ve been friends with Meghan for years … She’s got a voice that can blister concrete, and a gift to reach right into a song and rip its heart out, put it in her throat and meet you line for line with some intense emotions.” As for the song itself, Ray says it’s “everything life and Country music is: temptation, melody, knowing better, getting tougher and being real.” Taken from Ray’s June-released “Dive Bars & Broken Hearts” EP, “Spirits And Demons” is a well-written song with a universally relatable theme, performed by two great vocalists. We’ll certainly drink to that!
Impacting: Monday, August 28th
By: Phyllis Stark

A real life love story with an unhappy ending inspired Teddy Robb’s new single, “Question The Universe.” But while it was Robb’s romance, the song was actually written by a friend who observed the whole thing going down: Old Dominion’s Brad Tursi. Last year, Robb fell hard for a woman who not only was already in another relationship, she was days away from moving across the country to Los Angeles. It ended badly for Robb when the woman left anyway, even after he expressed his feelings. That got Tursi working on a song about a man ruefully asking his creator, “Right person, wrong time / She's perfect, God why’d you have to go and do me so dirty like that? / Gimme everything I want and nothing I can have.” He continued his lyrical lament, saying, “I wanna hold her, but somehow / She’s leaving in the morning someone got to her first / It’s things like this make me question the universe.” By the end of the song, after trying hard to change the woman’s mind, he concedes defeat, admitting, “I did everything I could / But it’s just the right person, wrong time.” Robb, a former Monument Records artist now going the independent route, released the song to DSPs in April. He says, “Losing someone you love — and the person you believe is your soulmate — is devastating to the heart. It’s something that can make you question life, love, God and even the universe. This song is based on a true story of experiencing that feeling.” While the plan was for Robb and Tursi to write it together, by the time Robb arrived, an inspired Tursi had finished it himself. Robb quickly recorded it, telling American Songwriter that, on the bright side, “It was cool to know that an experience I was living was worthy of a song.”
Impacting: Monday, August 7th
By: Phyllis Stark

The wedding song of 2023 is here! Long one of Country music’s best vocalists, Grammy-nominated artist David Nail’s new single is a deeply personal one, yet relatable to anyone who has ever proposed, or been proposed to. Written solely by Nail, “Best Of Me” shares the story (in under three minutes) of asking his now wife Catherine’s father for his blessing to marry her. The lyrics are sweet, yet reflect the nervousness of a hopeful groom politely telling his future father-in-law, “I know you don't know me / As well as you'd like to / So I think we should have a talk / Sir, if you've got a few.” He lays his intentions bare in the chorus, singing, “I don't have much money / And I don't have the ring / But what I got's a whole lot better / Than all those fancy things / I swear to you I'll love her / Until my dying day / I’ll give her the best of me / If you'll give her away.” What dad could say no to that? The song’s emotional moments just keep coming, as Nail tells his future father-in-law, “She's your only daughter / And ya'll are thick as thieves / So maybe there's a chance you know / How much she feels for me.” Then he likely seals the deal when he adds, “Sir, I sure hope you will approve / ‘Cause I know there's no other man / She's loved more than you.” The song has been bolstered by early support from KJKE (93.3 Jake FM)/Oklahoma City, where co-Operations Manager Kevin Christopher tells All Access, “David has such an undeniable voice and I believe this song is relatable to so many dads who have a daughter that has married or is about to. It's struck a chord with our audience and is doing well.” Nail says of the track, “People always say the best songs are ones that come from a real place or a real experience. These lyrics, almost word for word, rewind time back to the afternoon I sat in Catherine’s kitchen and told her folks of my intentions.” The song’s music video includes never-before-seen actual footage of Nail’s 2009 wedding to Catherine at the Travellers Rest Historic House Museum in Nashville. The single is taken from Nail’s four-song EP of the same title, released on June 30th. Watch for him touring across the country this summer and fall, with dates booked into October.
Impacting: Now
By: Phyllis Stark

Until the recent release of their short video, “The Drive,” most of us had no idea how close we came to losing the beloved creative partnership of Dan + Shay. So it’s with extra grateful hearts that we once again get to enjoy their world-class vocal blend on new single “Save Me The Trouble.” In “The Drive,” the duo openly discussed some dysfunction in their partnership that led to four months of not speaking to one another. Now, they’ve not only healed the rift, but have a full album, “Bigger Houses,” coming on September 15th. The project’s first single, “Save Me The Trouble,” is about a guy falling hard for a girl in a bar, yet already anticipating that she’s ultimately going to break his heart. As they sing in the chorus, “Why don't you save me the trouble / Give that heartache to somebody else / If you're the kinda girl that's only gonna wanna love and leave / A guy like me alone in this bar drinkin' double / Why don’t you save me the trouble.” Admitting he’s powerless to resist, the guy is begging the lady for an out “before you go wreck my whole life.” An ascending melody and cold ending add to the song’s impact. PR materials for “Bigger Houses,” their fifth album, promise that “Save Me The Trouble” sets the tone for the set “that emphasizes a more live, stripped-down feel.” The duo’s Dan Smyers, who co-produced the album, says, “We’re so proud of ‘Save Me The Trouble.’ This is honestly one of our favorite songs we’ve ever written and recorded. Every time I listen to it I just think, ‘Shay Mooney is the greatest singer in the entire world, singing his tail off in this one.' Ever since the day we wrote this one and started recording it, we were envisioning getting to sing this onstage in front of a crowd, and we feel like this is going to be a huge sing-along in our show.” The song got off to a strong start at Country radio with 134 first-week stations, the biggest add date in the duo’s history. Watch for their performance of the single on NBC’s “TODAY” show Citi Concert Series on Friday (7/21).
Impacting: Now
By: Phyllis Stark

The new single from Dylan Schneider is told from a unique perspective. A woman’s new boyfriend is verbally taking down her ex with a dose of brutal honesty. The song was released to DSPs in the fall of 2022 after Schneider posted a snippet of the then still unfinished tune’s chorus, and the sound went viral with thousands of creator videos. The mid-tempo track, which Schneider wrote with Brett Tyler and Lalo Guzman, now comes to radio warmed up with plenty of familiarity. Schneider says the song is “about a guy that messed up with a good girl, and now she’s moving on to bigger and better things.” It doesn’t mince words, opening with lines, “I hope it hurts / I hope you’re mad / I hope you're thinkin' how that girl was the best you ever had / I hope you're drunk, and it don't help / I hope you spend the last few months feelin' sorry for yourself.” The woman’s new boyfriend goes on to tell her ex in the chorus, “I hate to break it to you / But she's movin' on like you thought she'd never would / And if I'm bein' honest with you / When she's in my arms, she says it feels like it should” before assuring the ex he isn’t missed. In the song’s funniest line, the new guy shows no mercy when he finishes off his lady’s former flame, telling him, “I hope you try to call her late at night when you're alone / And she don't answer 'cause she's with me / And we're a little tied up, if you know what I mean.” Schneider says the song, “had everything we wanted from a breakup anthem, and then when I posted it online, I couldn’t believe the reaction. We immediately got back in the writing room and put everything we had into this song. I hope everyone loves the full version as much as I do.”
Impacting: Monday, July 24th
By: Phyllis Stark

After a disappointing breakup, the guy is fine as long as he stays busy, and stays in the city. But as soon as he gets out to the country, or the “outskirts” as they’re called in this new Sam Hunt single, the memories come flooding back of the quieter life he and his previous love had planned “back in the holler where the green grass grows.” That’s the gist of this new, mid-tempo single, in which Hunt vividly describes the life the former couple had planned in a Southern town filled with “round bail river valley backroads.” While it’s not made clear what went wrong in the relationship, they were apparently “that close to ditchin’ this town and settlin’ down out here on the outskirts.” They were going to give up the “fast life / Have a couple babies, raise 'em up right / Take 'em to the river, get 'em baptized.” Instead, he’s filled with regret for leaving, noting, “If I'd have had a lick of damn sense / I’d be on the greener side of that fence.” Writers Hunt, Zach Crowell, Jerry Flowers, and Josh Osborne even tossed in one funny line, with the now single guy lamenting that, had he carried on with his plans to build a family with the ex, he wouldn’t be “livin' in this condo / Hangin' out with Hailey from Toronto.” The song is the latest from five-time Grammy nominee Hunt, and serves as the title to his “Summer On The Outskirts Tour” with Brett Young and Lily Rose, which kicked off July 6th, and runs across the country with stops including Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Detroit, New York City and St. Louis.
Impacting: Monday, July 17th
By: Phyllis Stark

Rising star Kidd G may only be 20 years old, but he apparently struggles with sleepless nights just like the rest of us slightly older folks. In his case though, the sleeplessness is caused by a bad breakup. At least that’s the storyline of his new single, “Daylight Savings,” which finds him begging for more daytime hours because the nights are when he struggles with memories of his ex. As he sings in the chorus, “I just need some daylight savings to save myself from seeing her / These late night cravings make me think and toss and turn on every light, pull every blind up inside of this house / Never thought the man on the moon and the stars in the sky would break me down.” Written by Georgia native Kidd G (Jonathan Gabriel Horne) with Alex Maxwell, Joybeth Taylor and Gabe Foust, the song features some clever wordplay, plus electric guitar-driven tempo, and wraps up in a neat little package at under three minutes long. It’s the first new music of the year from the TikTok and YouTube star, who was chosen as one of Billboard’s “21 Under 21” list for 2023. He says the song is “based on a literal dream I had, a bad dream. I’m in this old relationship that keeps haunting me and I just can’t stop going back to it. ‘Daylight Savings’ is a means of processing those emotions. The feeling I get with this song is closure, finally being able to close that chapter and move on in my life with myself and others.” His headlining “Anywhere But Home” tour runs through mid-November.
Impacting: Monday, July 17th
By: Phyllis Stark

In his latest single, 24-year-old rising star Warren Zeiders sings about a relationship that’s as passionate as it is potentially toxic. Zeiders, who wrote the song with Jared Keim and Ryan Beaver, says the ballad is “about a relationship, a person, something in your life that you know is not good for you, but you continue to keep going back.” In this case, it’s a woman who nightly “rolls up when the wine is gone / Like a record on repeat / Leaning on old memories / And talking 'bout what we used to be / She'll probably be the death of me / But damn if it ain't sweet.” Describing the woman as the titular “pretty little poison,” he goes on to compare her kiss to cyanide. And like an addiction, he’s powerless to resist her, singing “We all need some kind of fix / For me she's the one I pick / Nothin' else will do the trick / She's all I need.” The gravelly-voiced singer’s unusual word pronunciations (atypical for someone hailing from Hershey, PA), make listeners lean in a bit to follow the story. “Pretty Little Poison” is the title track from Zeiders’ debut album, releasing on August 18th, and also the name of his headlining tour, which runs through mid-November. It’s the follow-up to his RIAA platinum-certified “Ride The Lightning.”
Impacting: Monday, July 10th
By: Phyllis Stark

Morgan Wallen’s career is on fire, and his uptempo, ridiculously catchy, and Country as dirt roads new single is likely to only add to that inferno. Released to DSPs in late January as an early taste of March’s blockbuster “One Thing At A Time” album, “Everything I Love” is finally making its way to Country radio as a single, and it’s a good one! Written by Wallen, Ashley Gorley, Ernest Keith Smith and Ryan Vojtesak, the song’s writing credits also extend to Gregg Allman and Robert Kim Payne due to its clever use of a riff and a few lyrics from The Allman Brothers Band’s 1971 single, “Midnight Rider.” Wallen’s song is based on the idea that a failed relationship ruined “damn near everything I love” because he shared all of those things with the ex, including that Allman Brothers song! It’ll be interesting to see if Wallen’s song sparks fresh in the Allmans the way Cole Swindell’s “She Had Me At Heads Carolina” did for Jo De Messina.
Impacting: Now
By: Phyllis Stark

Achieving fame is a goal for many artists, but as we’ve heard before, getting to the top can feel both lonely and disconnecting. Dierks Bentley addresses that topic in his new single, “Something Real,” which opens with the lines “Sometimes a crowd makes me lonely / Sometimes a shot just makes me sad.” The song works on two levels. Some of the lyrics appear to address Bentley’s desire to find and write songs that mean something. The rest of the lyrics address a need everyone can relate to: cultivating a lasting relationship that keeps you grounded. On the song’s career-related level, Bentley sings in a remarkably honest verse, “I can’t really pour my heart out / On the FM radio / Cause the way I’m really feeling / Won’t fill up the coliseum on the edge of Tupelo.” He then goes on to detail what he’s seeking, presumably, in a songwriting session: “I wanna hear about a deep cut, a heartbreak / Yeah tell me ‘bout your hard times, your mistakes / Give me something that’ll burn I can turn into something I can feel / Yeah I want somethin’ real.” He also takes a small dig at more typical Country radio hits, singing, “I like a long drive down a backroad / Pretty girl sitting at a bar / But those roads don’t go forever, pickup lines don’t always get her / And that neon just goes dark.” Shifting the song’s focus toward his own life and family, Bentley then sings, “I want a love that feels like home / Yeah I want a conversation / Like a sunset and a song, I can feel down in my bones.” The resilient Country star says of the song, “I think we are all seeking something a little deeper than what’s on the surface, the things we see on social media. For me, that looks like putting my phone down, getting out in nature with my family, writing songs with my friends … doing the things where I find a real connection.” The next single from his 10th studio album, “Gravel & Gold,” Bentley wrote “Something Real” on a Colorado writing retreat with Ross Copperman, Michael Hardy, Ashley Gorley and Luke Dick. In striving to write a song about wanting something real, the five songwriters managed to craft one of the most honest, authentic songs Country radio has heard in quite some time.
Impacting: Now
By: Phyllis Stark

In what might just be a dream scenario, Country radio has a new single voiced by the great Dillon Carmichael, co-written by superstar Luke Combs, and co-produced by the irrepressible Jon Pardi. What’s not to love about that? Carmichael’s “Drinkin’ Problems” also has tempo, clocks in at close to the three minute mark, and has a light-hearted, “Friday night at the bar” theme that has served Country radio well time and time again. In the song, Kentuckian Carmichael and friends are drinking away their “B.S. and stress” at the local watering hole, and he lists his homeboys and their hardships by name: “Bobby's buying beer 'cause he can't pay his rent / George's new Ford’s got a deer-sized dent / Billy's old ex is texting him again.” Yep, he confirms in the chorus, “We all got drinkin' problems / It's 'bout that time we get to workin' on 'em / We'll be cold can holdin' / Keep that jukebox rollin' / Ordering rounds till we think we forgot 'em / Unless you got a better way to solve 'em / We'll keep on drowning our drinkin' problems.” Combs — no stranger to “cold can holdin’" — co-wrote the fun single with Thomas Archer, Ray Fulcher and Erik Dylan, and Pardi produced it alongside Ryan Gore. It’s Carmichael’s first new song since the release of the deluxe edition of his sophomore album, “Son Of A” last fall. After debuting it for fans at the recent CMA Fest in Nashville, “Drinkin’ Problems” got its broadcast world premiere on SiriusXM’s “The Highway” on June 14th. It’s the first taste of more new music to come from the rising star later this year. Drink it up!
Impacting: Monday, June 26th
By: Phyllis Stark

Fresh off three consecutive #1 hits, multi-platinum artist Parker McCollum has released the second single from his brand-new “Never Enough” album to radio. “Burn It Down” was written by McCollum and the Love Junkies (Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose), and produced by fellow Texan Jon Randall, who employs an ear-catching “stuttering” instrumentation in the opening bars. Lindsey also contributes backing vocals on the slow-burning single, and is a part of its music video as well. The song chronicles a relationship that has ended so completely that the guy simply wants to burn down the house the couple shared to erase any lingering memories of the romance. With “goodbye strung out on the lawn,” he sings in the first line, “the line between us was drawn.” So he wants to leave inside the house a laundry list of possessions and remembrances, including the bed they “loved in all night” “every word, every fight,” “every last song that I wrote / ‘Bout me and you growing old,” along with “every sliver of hope” and “everything I know.” Pile it all up, he instructs, and then, “burn it down / ’Til it’s ashes and smoke / Burn it down / To the smoldering coals / Burn it down / ’Til I don’t want you no more.” Fire it up on your playlist!
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By: Phyllis Stark

Hannah Ellis puts a clever twist on the meaning of “wine country” in her uptempo new single, which humorously describes how her upscale side seamlessly coexists with her down home roots. The lyrics explain that she’s got “expensive taste, but she’s small town made,” and is “a little California in Kentucky,” her home state. In one particularly inspired couplet, she sings, “I put the boujee in the backroads / Give me some good juice and some George Jones.” There are also witty lyrics about how she’s “cabernet in a Solo cup / throwing down with my pinkie up,” and describing her style as “black Luccheses” paired with “dukes like Daisy.” Clearly, Ellis and co-writers Clint Lagerberg and Nick Wayne (her husband) had a blast in the writer’s room creating this one. After debuting it (naturally) during the Napa Valley event, “Live In The Vineyard Goes Country” this past spring, the song got a more public (and memorable) launch at CMA Fest in Nashville, where a flash mob in the audience performed a choreographed dance to it while Ellis sang on the Chevy Vibes Stage. (Watch here.) Ellis says the song is “based on the idea that life is not all about this OR that. It’s more about this AND that. I’m boujee AND I’m backroads. You don’t have to choose one lane. Drive ‘em all.”
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By: Phyllis Stark

The blending of Carly Pearce and Chris Stapleton’s stellar voices gives us the dream duet we didn’t know we needed. On “We Don’t Fight Anymore,” the two Country stars sing about a love so dead, the couple doesn’t even argue anymore. They simply no longer care enough to even fight. The ballad’s lyrics are devastating: “I don't even look into your eyes / ‘Cause the truth is I don't even care if you're lying,” Pearce sings in the opening verse; “We talk about the weather if we talk at all,” she adds in the second. Stapleton joins Pearce on the choruses, and gets a few step-out lines of his own near the end of the song, where he lets loose on “I wish you would say something / You wish I would say something,” further solidifying that the relationship they’re describing may be beyond repair. After all, as they sing in the chorus, “We don't cuss and we don't care enough to even hate.” Brutal. Pearce wrote the song with Shane McAnally and Pete Good, and it marks her first turn as a co-producer (alongside McAnally and Josh Osborne). The follow-up to her two, back-to-back #1s, “We Don’t Fight Anymore” got a debut week boost via world premieres and features across iHeartMedia, Audacy, Beasley Media Group and SummitMedia Country stations nationwide. It’s the first new music from the rising star since her acclaimed third studio album, “29: Written In Stone.” Pearce says the song “embodies a place that I think, if we are honest with ourselves, we’ve all felt at some point in a relationship. The distance that feels heartbreaking, yet you’re also indifferent.” She adds, “I’ve always been a writer who never wanted to shy away from the ‘uncomfortable’ moments in all of our lives, and this song feels too important not to share. Having Chris Stapleton join me … was a dream come true, and he unlocked an element to the story that I didn’t even know it needed.”
Impacting: Now
By: Phyllis Stark

The U.S. radio debut from Canadian artist (and now Nashville resident) Josh Ross is a brooding ballad about missing a loved one, and trying to drink away the void. The opening lines in this week’s second most added Country single set the scene: “I don't wanna spend another night alone / Reaching for the space you left in our bed tonight / So I guess I'll call some buddies up / Get gone, take another shot in some Broadway dive.” The song goes on to implore a lover to return home, sending up “a white flag waving, come and save me … Cause baby, I’m in trouble.” Written by Ross and Mason Thornley, the dark song’s best lines find Ross lamenting, “Wishing you would call but you won't / That it'll get better but it don't / ‘Cause Jack D and Jesus ain't you.” Initially signed to Universal Music Canada, Ross has previously scored two Top 5 hits on Canadian Country radio with “First Taste of Gone” and “On A Different Night,” and his catalog has more than 100 million global streams. Named one of Spotify’s “Hot Country Artists To Watch” for 2023, Ross’ new single, “Trouble,” reached the #1 spot on Spotify’s New Boots Playlist and was featured in the FOX TV series “Welcome To Flatch.” It can currently be heard on Spotify’s “Hot Country” playlist, Apple Music’s “Today’s Country,” and Amazon’s “Country Heat,” among others. He’s currently supporting Nickleback’s “Get Rollin’ Tour” (along with Brantley Gilbert) on 35 shows across the U.S. and Canada through the end of August. Also watch for Ross performing “Trouble” when he opens for Bailey Zimmerman on “Religiously. The Tour” in 2024, after previously joining Zimmerman on a run of shows earlier this year.
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By: Phyllis Stark