Author: Brennen Kelly

Rolling in the money. At this point, Sunday Night Football and Carrie Underwood are pretty much synonymous. This year marks the country singer’s 12th season performing Sunday Night Football’s opener, taking over for fellow female country superstar, Faith Hill, during the 2013 season. For years, many have wondered just how much the “Undo It” singer makes per year for her performance, and it seems like we’ve finally got a number. According to a report from SportsKeeda.com, Underwood received a whopping $1 million per game during the 2023 season. While it’s a little hard to determine just how many times her “Waiting All…

“That pisses me off.” Last week, many in the country music world and at large grieved the losses of the 60 victims shot and killed at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada on it’s seventh anniversary on October 1st. The Route 91 Harvest Festival famously featured headlining performances from Eric Church, Sam Hunt and finally Jason Aldean, who was performing on stage during the shooting, which lasted for 11 minutes and injured over 850 people. Today, Aldean appeared on the podcast of the co-writers of his highly-controversial 2023 #1 hit, “Try That In a Small Town,” aptly named the…

Took it like a champ. Last night, Luke Combs ended his two-night run in The Gorge, located in Quincy, Washington, in style. Backed by the likes of the hottest act in independent country, Wyatt Flores, along with the Gold Chain Cowboy himself, Parker McCollum, Combs delivered a knockout 23-song set. With a setlist that included the likes of “Beautiful Crazy,” “Hurricane,” “Beer Never Broke My Heart” and even a medley of covers that included Train’s “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” and Shania Twain’s “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?,” the unintentional highlight of the show very well might have…

Following the success of 2015’s Grammy-nominated, Mr. Misunderstood, Eric Church had some major shoes to fill. When you release an album as well-rounded and captivating as Mr. Misunderstood was, it’s hard to produce a worthy follow-up. Though I wouldn’t go as far as to say it is as good as the masterpiece that Mr. Misunderstood is, Desperate Man is certainly flirting with it.  In Desperate Man, Church delivered something that was severely missing in his 2021 Heart & Soul project. That is the cynicism and overall maturity that was shown in both Desperate Man and Mr. Misunderstood. Though it may not seem like it on the surface, the album contains a lot of interesting concepts. None…

One of the greatest songs ever written. It’s no stretch to say that Bob Dylan is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. From “Tangled Up In Blue” to “Like a Rolling Stone,” the legendary singer/songwriter has won nearly every award imaginable including Grammys, a Nobel Prize and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. With that being said, he has influenced a plethora of today’s best and brightest songwriters. Inspiring the likes of Zach Bryan, Evan Honer or Colby Acuff (to name a few), Dylan has become one of the go-to influences for many in the alt. country scene. Today,…

As mentioned, Aldean has been a longtime partner with the Macon Children’s Hospital and has performed multiple benefit concerts to raise money for the hospital. Most notably, the “You Make It Easy” singer raised over $700,000 dollars in 2017 when he performed alongside Luke Combs. In a TikTok posted by Georgia native, Ian Brown, it was revealed that Aldean had, in fact, raised the $618,393 as well as his motivation to continue raising money for the hospital, “One of the reasons I got involved with this is that I’m from here. I got four kids of my own… If I…