The Country Vibe News

A lot of artists who are single will tell you there’s no time for love because their time is consumed by their career, but Hunter Hayes is not one of those artists.  He tells The Country Vibe, “Talk about time, I don’t know, there’s always time for that.  There’s always time for a good relationship that’s working.”  For him, it’s a matter of finding the right person.  “I’m searching for that, trying to figure out what that means, trying to figure out what I can contribute,” he says.  “I don’t want to waste anybody’s time and I don’t want to get into a relationship and be just a pain… I want to contribute to a relationship as much as anyone else does, if not more.  And I want it to be mutual and I want it to work.”

Hunter’s first three singles – “Wanted,” “Somebody’s Heartbreak” and “I Want Crazy” have all been about love.  “I’m sort of searching, I’m sort of trying to figure things out.  And to be totally honest, I haven’t figured out a thing yet,” he laughs.  “But I’m still searching and these songs are sort of my way of trying to figure that out.  That’s my way of saying, this is what’s up.”

Meanwhile, Hunter says it’s the search for love that continues to inspire him musically.  More of that inspiration will likely show up on his forthcoming album, Encore, which is a deluxe edition of his debut CD, featuring eight new songs, including duets with pop star Jason Mraz and Pistol Annie‘s Ashley Monroe.  Encore is available now for pre-order here and will be released on June 18th.

A lot of artists who are single will tell you there’s no time for love because their time is consumed by their career, but Hunter Hayes is not one of those artists.  He tells The Country Vibe, “Talk about time, I don’t know, there’s always time for that.  There’s always time for a good relationship that’s working.”  For him, it’s a matter of finding the right person.  “I’m searching for that, trying to figure out what that means, trying to figure out what I can contribute,” he says.  “I don’t want to waste anybody’s time and I don’t want to get into a relationship and be just a pain… I want to contribute to a relationship as much as anyone else does, if not more.  And I want it to be mutual and I want it to work.”   Hunter’s first three singles – “Wanted,” “Somebody’s Heartbreak” and “I Want Crazy” have all been about love.  “I’m sort of searching, I’m sort of trying to figure things out.  And to be totally honest, I haven’t figured out a thing yet,” he laughs.  “But I’m still searching and these songs are sort of my way of trying to figure that out.  That’s my way of saying, this is what’s up.”   Meanwhile, Hunter says it’s the search for love that continues to inspire him musically.  More of that inspiration will likely show up on his forthcoming album, Encore, which is a deluxe edition of his debut CD, featuring eight new songs, including duets with pop star Jason Mraz and Pistol Annie‘s Ashley Monroe.  Encore is available now for pre-order here and will be released on June 18th.

Florida Georgia Line, Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles and Shania Twain all be presenters on this Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards.  They’ll join performers Taylor Swift, The Band Perry and Kacey Musgraves, in representing country music on the show that will air live from Las Vegas at 8pm ET/7pm CT on ABC.

Florida Georgia Line, Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles and Shania Twain all be presenters on this Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards.  They’ll join performers Taylor Swift, The Band Perry and Kacey Musgraves, in representing country music on the show that will air live from Las Vegas at 8pm ET/7pm CT on ABC.

Carrie Underwood confesses in the new issue of Marie Claire, “I’m not a mushy person at all.”  She’d rather see a horror flick than a chick flick and she says growing up, “We were never a huggy family or a ‘let’s talk it out’ family.”  She has two sisters, but because they are 10 and 13 years older than her (Carrie readily admits that she was “an accident”) she says, “I have the only-child syndrome going on.  I’m a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed.”  She does wish she were softer and able to form relationships better, but she laughs and says, “I’m not a sociopath.”

Besides not really being a people person, according to her mom, Carrie is also a pretty un-phased person when it comes to her celebrity and success.  For instance, her family has a storage unit where they keep some of her career memorabilia and stage clothes but Carrie says, “Maybe my kids will have fun playing dress up in the clothes.  But I can’t see saving the stuff for a museum, some giant monument to my awesomeness. That’s Dolly. That’s Loretta. Not me.”

Some might say she comes by her humility honestly.  Despite all of her success which affords her just about any luxury she might want, her parents still live in the same modest house where she was raised because they won’t let her buy them a new one.  Carrie even says she once got in trouble for buying her dad a $400 generator for Christmas.  “My parents are really great people who want nothing to do with any of this.”  In fact, the last time she brought her tour to Oklahoma her dad didn’t go to the show because it was hunting season.   Carrie jokes, “I’m the black sheep of the family.  The black-crystal sheep. Swarovski.”

You can read more in the June issue of Marie Claire, which features Carrie on the cover, when it hits stands on Tuesday.

Carrie Underwood confesses in the new issue of Marie Claire, “I’m not a mushy person at all.”  She’d rather see a horror flick than a chick flick and she says growing up, “We were never a huggy family or a ‘let’s talk it out’ family.”  She has two sisters, but because they are 10 and 13 years older than her (Carrie readily admits that she was “an accident”) she says, “I have the only-child syndrome going on.  I’m a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed.”  She does wish she were softer and able to form relationships better, but she laughs and says, “I’m not a sociopath.”   Besides not really being a people person, according to her mom, Carrie is also a pretty un-phased person when it comes to her celebrity and success.  For instance, her family has a storage unit where they keep some of her career memorabilia and stage clothes but Carrie says, “Maybe my kids will have fun playing dress up in the clothes.  But I can’t see saving the stuff for a museum, some giant monument to my awesomeness. That’s Dolly. That’s Loretta. Not me.”   Some might say she comes by her humility honestly.  Despite all of her success which affords her just about any luxury she might want, her parents still live in the same modest house where she was raised because they won’t let her buy them a new one.  Carrie even says she once got in trouble for buying her dad a $400 generator for Christmas.  “My parents are really great people who want nothing to do with any of this.”  In fact, the last time she brought her tour to Oklahoma her dad didn’t go to the show because it was hunting season.   Carrie jokes, “I’m the black sheep of the family.  The black-crystal sheep. Swarovski.”   You can read more in the June issue of Marie Claire, which features Carrie on the cover, when it hits stands on Tuesday.

Lee Brice

Lee Brice tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, Sarah Reevely about three and a half weeks ago.  The two have known each other and dated off and on for over a dozen years and they have a three year old son together named Takoda, but even with so much history, Lee says something has changed now that they are officially married.  “After saying ‘I do,’ it was like a relief for me because I had been getting to a point in my life where I was like so ready for that… This last year I’ve just been so anxious… So to know now that we’re here and we’re ready and we can now take steps forward to start this whole new adventure it’s like a relief.  It’s like, ‘Alright, we got here.  Now we can start.  We can really, really start.’”  They were engaged for about 16 months but Lee confesses, “As a man, when you ask a woman to marry you, like I was ready then.  I could have married her the next day and I would have been ready.”

One other thing that has changed for Lee with married life is the ring he now sports on his left hand.  He’s not sure what it’s made of, but it’s a dark metal, like some sort of graphite or titanium and Lee reveals that in a round-about way he had a hand in designing it.  “I got big ‘ol fat, big hands and so I have to wear big rings,” he explains.  “So we went in to look at rings together and these had these kind of bands and I was like, ‘Man, that’s just gonna look so puny on my hand.’  So I said, ‘Can you call the guy that makes these rings and ask if he can make one wider?’  And they said, ‘Well we don’t make them wider.’  And so then I asked them, ‘Can you just put two together?’  So he just put two together to make it wide enough for me and put a couple of little diamonds in there.  So it’s just a black kind of thing and they said it would be tough and rough because I beat stuff up.”

  Lee Brice tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, Sarah Reevely about three and a half weeks ago.  The two have known each other and dated off and on for over a dozen years and they have a three year old son together named Takoda, but even with so much history, Lee says something has changed now that they are officially married.  “After saying ‘I do,’ it was like a relief for me because I had been getting to a point in my life where I was like so ready for that… This last year I’ve just been so anxious… So to know now that we’re here and we’re ready and we can now take steps forward to start this whole new adventure it’s like a relief.  It’s like, ‘Alright, we got here.  Now we can start.  We can really, really start.’”  They were engaged for about 16 months but Lee confesses, “As a man, when you ask a woman to marry you, like I was ready then.  I could have married her the next day and I would have been ready.”   One other thing that has changed for Lee with married life is the ring he now sports on his left hand.  He’s not sure what it’s made of, but it’s a dark metal, like some sort of graphite or titanium and Lee reveals that in a round-about way he had a hand in designing it.  “I got big ‘ol fat, big hands and so I have to wear big rings,” he explains.  “So we went in to look at rings together and these had these kind of bands and I was like, ‘Man, that’s just gonna look so puny on my hand.’  So I said, ‘Can you call the guy that makes these rings and ask if he can make one wider?’  And they said, ‘Well we don’t make them wider.’  And so then I asked them, ‘Can you just put two together?’  So he just put two together to make it wide enough for me and put a couple of little diamonds in there.  So it’s just a black kind of thing and they said it would be tough and rough because I beat stuff up.”

The Henningsens

The Henningsens had planned to release their debut album on July 2nd, but instead, in order to more music to fans sooner, they’re going to release a self-titled, four-song EP on May 28th.  “With the single doing so well and the Brad tour underway, we really wanted to be able to have something that we could share with fans right now,” says Clara Henningsen.

The family trio co-wrote all four songs on the EP – “American Beautiful,” “I Miss You,” “To Believe” and “The Color Red” with some of Nashville’s top songwriters.  They’ll continue to work on their debut album, which will be rescheduled for a new release date to be announced.

  The Henningsens had planned to release their debut album on July 2nd, but instead, in order to more music to fans sooner, they’re going to release a self-titled, four-song EP on May 28th.  “With the single doing so well and the Brad tour underway, we really wanted to be able to have something that we could share with fans right now,” says Clara Henningsen.   The family trio co-wrote all four songs on the EP – “American Beautiful,” “I Miss You,” “To Believe” and “The Color Red” with some of Nashville’s top songwriters.  They’ll continue to work on their debut album, which will be rescheduled for a new release date to be announced.

Brad Paisley and Chris Young

Chris Young made a point to get to a theater to see the new Iron Man 3 movie before he hit the road with Brad Paisley on his Beat This Summer Tour because he was sure he wouldn’t have time to see the movie once the tour started.  What he didn’t realize is that Brad likes to set up fun field trips when he’s out on tour for all of the artists and their bands and crews, and this past weekend he rented out an entire theater just outside of Indianapolis and took everyone to see a midnight showing of Iron Man 3 in 3D.  In the past Brad has thrown milkshake parties, taken everyone bowling and set up other fun activities, so there’s no telling what he has planned for Chris, Lee Brice, The Henningsens and everyone who is on the road with him now.

Tomorrow Brad will be a guest on The View and The Late Show with David Letterman to promote his Wheelhouse album and the new tour.

  Chris Young made a point to get to a theater to see the new Iron Man 3 movie before he hit the road with Brad Paisley on his Beat This Summer Tour because he was sure he wouldn’t have time to see the movie once the tour started.  What he didn’t realize is that Brad likes to set up fun field trips when he’s out on tour for all of the artists and their bands and crews, and this past weekend he rented out an entire theater just outside of Indianapolis and took everyone to see a midnight showing of Iron Man 3 in 3D.  In the past Brad has thrown milkshake parties, taken everyone bowling and set up other fun activities, so there’s no telling what he has planned for Chris, Lee Brice, The Henningsens and everyone who is on the road with him now.   Tomorrow Brad will be a guest on The View and The Late Show with David Letterman to promote his Wheelhouse album and the new tour.

Dierks Bentley has announced his next album that he’ll release this fall will be called Riser.  Dierks wrote and recorded the album in the year following his father’s death and it is described as his most personal to date.  The title comes from a song called “I’m A Riser,” about resilience and determination, not only in his personal life, but also in the highly competitive music industry.  “Life in general has a way of knocking you down,” says Dierks. “It’s different reasons for different folks – could be personal reasons, could be family reasons, your job, drugs, alcohol. That song really applies to anybody that’s lived. There have always been those moments when we have to get back up and get on our feet. They are defining moments…breakthrough moments.”

The recording process for Riser was unique because there was no formula.  Some songs were recorded as live songs with the band playing along while Dierks sang, one was recorded on his tour bus and others were recorded in a bit of a make-shift studio at his producer Ross Copperman’s house, who would often stand next to Dierks in the vocal booth to push him to deliver some of his best and most emotional performances. Riser will be released this fall.  You can get updates on when the first single will be revealed by checking back periodically on Dierks.com.


 

Dierks Bentley has announced his next album that he’ll release this fall will be called Riser.  Dierks wrote and recorded the album in the year following his father’s death and it is described as his most personal to date.  The title comes from a song called “I’m A Riser,” about resilience and determination, not only in his personal life, but also in the highly competitive music industry.  “Life in general has a way of knocking you down,” says Dierks. “It’s different reasons for different folks – could be personal reasons, could be family reasons, your job, drugs, alcohol. That song really applies to anybody that’s lived. There have always been those moments when we have to get back up and get on our feet. They are defining moments…breakthrough moments.”   The recording process for Riser was unique because there was no formula.  Some songs were recorded as live songs with the band playing along while Dierks sang, one was recorded on his tour bus and others were recorded in a bit of a make-shift studio at his producer Ross Copperman’s house, who would often stand next to Dierks in the vocal booth to push him to deliver some of his best and most emotional performances. Riser will be released this fall.  You can get updates on when the first single will be revealed by checking back periodically on Dierks.com.