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Cole Swindell has announced his headlining “Down To The Bar Tour” in early 2022. Swindell will be joined by Travis Denning and Ashley Cooke on the road, kicking things off on Feb. 17, 2022 in Peoria, Illinois.

Said Swindell: “I am so excited to kick off 2022 back on the road with a headlining tour. “I’ve been big fans of Travis Denning and Ashley Cooke for a while now so to be able to get them for this tour is exciting. The fans are going to be in for a lot of surprises on this tour! It will be hard to top 2021, but getting this tour out there already has me excited for the new year.”

Swindell’s “Down Home Crew” fan club members can purchase tickets beginning today, December 7 at 10 a.m. local time, with general sale tickets for most markets going on sale either this Friday (December 10) or December 17. Check www.coleswindell.com for further details.

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Dan + Shay are celebrating this holiday season by sharing a new music video for their song, “Officially Christmas.”  The duo announced on Instagram: “IT’S ALREADY DECEMBER, the snow’s fallin’ too (well, everywhere but nashville), so we made an officially christmas music video for you.”

Dan + Shay have released a handful of Christmas songs over the past couple of years, including “Pick Out a Christmas Tree” earlier this year. That song is currently the most-streamed holiday number across all genres in the U.S.

Take a look at the video for “Officially Christmas” – here.

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Country trio Pistol Annies will stream their first ever holiday special, titled Pistol Annies Hell of a Holiday Special.  The program will be hosted by country radio personality Blair Garner and can be viewed on the group’s Facebook page, starting December 15 at 8 p.m. ET. Pistol Annies members Miranda Lambert, Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe will perform songs from their new album and conduct a sit-down interview. The trio also say it will serve as a fundraiser for the Music Health Alliance, writing on Instagram,“It’s gonna be a hell of a holiday…special!  December 15th, we’re performing songs off the record, sharing some memories and chatting with @blairgarner and it’s all to benefit an organization dear to our hearts, @musichealthalliance”

The trio has also released an official video for “Snow Globe,” capturing a live performance of the track. Hell of a Holiday features 10 original tracks written by the Pistol Annies, plus standards including “Sleigh Ride,” Merle Haggard’s “If We Make it Through December,” and “Auld Lang Syne.”

The Pistol Annies Hell of a Holiday Special will stream on the group’s Facebook page December 15 at 8 p.m. ET.

Pistol Annies Announce ‘Hell Of A Holiday” Christmas Special

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Kane Brown has been announced as a co-host for the holiday special A Home for the Holidays.  Brown’s co-hosts include Justin Bieber, Alessia Cara and Darren Criss.

A Home for the Holidays features performances from a number of different artists and was recorded at The Grove in Los Angeles. The special broadcast spotlights uplifting stories of American children who were adopted from foster care. For his segment of the show, Kane will introduce and perform for the Rodriguez family, including a young girl named Marjorie, who was placed in foster care as a toddler and lived in six different homes by the age of five. After finally finding a home with Jerry and Celine Rodriguez, Marjorie finally found her forever family.

Home for the Holidays will air on December 5 at 9:30 p.m. ET on CBS.

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Carrie Underwood kicked off REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency at Resorts World Las Vegas on Dec. 1. According to a press release, the show featured “dancers, aerialists, a virtual orchestra, a stunning array of one-of-a-kind costumes, a breathtaking finale centered on a brilliant [and] a never-before-seen water wall feature.”

Due to popular demand, Underwood has already added additional dates to the residency, which runs for dates throughout December as well as select dates in March and April. The country superstar just announced six new dates for May of 2022.  This marks the first Vegas residency for Underwood, following fellow country artists George Strait and Shania Twain with Vegas residencies. Strait launched Strait to Vegas in 2016, while Twain’s Let’s Go! residency kicked off in 2019.

Tickets are expected to go on sale Monday, December 6 at 10 AM PST.  For more information, head here.

Carrie Underwood Extends Las Vegas Residency

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Randy Travis has just released the “From The Vault” edition of his 30-year-old Christmas single “There’s A New Kid In Town.” The new version of the song features the country icon alongside rising country performer Drew Parker.

Said Parker of the collab; “I just remember getting to spend quality time with Randy and his family out on his ranch in Texas. Driving around the property and getting to take in all of God’s creation with one of my heroes. It was a very special day and one I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”  Parker added, “I hope [country music fans] can see that I plan on carrying on the kind of country music that Randy started years ago. The kind of music that I want to make [is] country music about fun, faith and family.”

The video for the song resonated with Parker, as Christmas is his favorite holiday and Randy Travis is a personal inspiration. He said: “Getting to feel those Christmas traditions and emotions while watching a video of me getting to spend time with Randy Travis is incredible. There’s a scene in this video of me and Randy sitting on a couch in his awards room at his house. We shot that scene one time and when we got done I told the director that whatever had just happened in that room couldn’t be replicated.”

Take a look/listen to the new edition of “There’s A New Kid In Town” – here.

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Keith Urban announced on social media Wednesday the 2022 North American dates for his The Speed of Now world tour.

The 54-year-old Urban will kick-off the North American leg on June 17, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. before wrapping up Nov. 5 in St. Paul, Minn. Ingrid Andress will join Urban as his opening act. Urban will perform his hits and new songs from his album The Speed of Now Part 1, released in September.

Urban shared with People magazine that he’s looking forward to “re-igniting that person-to-person connection I feel with everyone that comes out to see our shows. It’s pure magic when you look out and see everyone just letting loose. I’ve really missed that! After two years we’re finally gonna get the chance to play some of the new songs we haven’t done live before. We’ll throw in a bunch of the songs that everyone comes to hear, a couple of which we’ll rework a bit, and it’s really gonna be tough to get us off the stage.”

For ticket and other information, head to keithurban.com.

Keith Urban Announces 2022 Tour Dates

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Dirty Jobs star (and occasional opera singer) Mike Rowe has recorded a holiday song with country music artists John Rich and The Oak Ridge Boys.

Rowe posted on social media:  “Couple weeks ago, under circumstances too weird to explain, John Rich and I decided to record a song for Christmas. America’s not having a great time right now, and we thought a song like this might help put a smile on our collective face. It’s called ‘Santa’s Gotta Dirty Job,’ and I’ll warn you right now — the chorus is an earworm that’s gonna be tough to shake. It’s a dirty little ditty that you can download for $1.29, and I hope you will, because 100 percent of the net proceeds are divided equally between mikeroweWORKS and Folds of Honor, two great charities that are making a difference in the lives of skilled tradespeople and families of veterans.”

John Rich tweeted: Howdy! @mikeroweworks and I have a new Christmas song #SantasGottaDirtyJob out today! Proceeds going to @FoldsofHonor and #TheMikeRoweWorks Foundation! WATCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49dCobL213M. Add to your playlist!

Santa’s Gotta Dirty Job, is live on Apple Music right now.  To download Santa’s Gotta Dirty Job, click here.

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Walker Hayes has released his latest single “AA” and also has announced his forthcoming album, Country Stuff The Album.

Country Stuff The Album will include “Fancy Like” as well as the previously released “U Gurl,” along with “AA” and 10 other tracks, including Hayes’ collaborations with Carly Pearce, Jake Owen, and Lori McKenna, and a re-imagined version of “Craig” featuring MercyMe.

Country Stuff The Album is set to drop on January 21, 2022. Hayes will also be kicking off his headlining tour, ‘The Fancy Like Tour,’ in Grand Rapids, MI on January 27th, 2022.

You can take a listen to “AA” at the link – here.

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After more than two years, Turnpike Troubadours are back together. After first dropping hints that their hiatus was coming to a close last week by posting a “Coming Soon” graphic on the band’s website. and wiping their Instagram clean, on Monday morning the band posted a photo of all six members reunited and together once again, snapped by renown music photographer David McClister.

The band includes drummer Gabriel Pearson, guitarist Ryan Engleman, steel guitar and accordion player Hank Early, fiddle player Kyle Nix, bassist RC Edwards, and frontman/singer/songwriter Evan Felker, whose battles with alcohol were the primary reason for dissolving of the band in 2019 after numerous cancelled shows. Felker has since gotten sober and has a young daughter after reuniting with his wife, Staci.