January 13, 2022
Walker Hayes is getting ready to make good on his National Championship bet. He’s a Bama fan, but that didn’t work out too well for him. So now he has to record a version of his song “AA,” which namechecks Bama’s Nick Saban, with one that celebrates the Bulldogs’ Kirby Smart.
Keith Urban is getting animated. He’ll be the voice of an animated toad in the new Netflix movie Back to the Outback. His little toad character sings, too!
Eric Church says that being told “no” inspired him to succeed. He says to remember that Nashville told Randy Travis to put a hat on and they told George Strait to take the hat off, so… there’s that.
He says that having kids helps songwriting… Thomas Rhett says that having kids helps him with the songwriting process… [[ANITTY]] Cue: “Most days, I sit down to write a song and I’m like, ‘I got nothing.’ And then somebody will say something about their kids or their significant other and all of a sudden, we’re all on the same page and all of a sudden, we have something to say,” he tells us. “And so, I am truly mind-blown by how records are made in the first place, and how ideas get there, but somehow they do.”