Dierks Bentley’s “Black” Takes Him To Iceland

Dierks Bentley traveled to the land where the Game Of Thrones kings duel in his video for his new single “Black,” and he took wife Cassidy along for the glacial experience of a lifetime as well. Bentley filmed with Cassidy in remote areas of Iceland in the new clip, which features breathtaking landscapes and supernatural effects and was shot during a once-a-year storm according to Time.com.

“We’ve been talking about Iceland as a location since before I even released the album last year, but I never thought we’d actually go. The next thing I know, there’s a shoot booked and we are standing on the side of a glacier half-dressed,” laughed Bentley. “We were on a lot of the same locations that ‘Game Of Thrones’ and the Star Wars films have shot, and it’s just crazy what those people go through every day. I had the idea of putting my wife in the video, which is totally taking her out of her comfort zone, but I just couldn’t imagine doing a video for this song without her in it and she reluctantly agreed…but then totally NAILED it. I think the end result is something really special, and it was a trip of a lifetime for everyone involved.”

Brett Young Releases New Clip

Brett Young has released a new video for “In Case You Didn’t Know” today on Vevo. The Jennifer Rothlein-directed video was filmed in Chattanooga and follows Brett as he makes his way to the stage for an intimate performance of the song. Fans can check out behind the scenes footage of the clip here.

Keith Urban’s Behind The Scenes Reveal On Ripcord

Keith Urban has shared a never-before-seen, behind the scenes look into the making of the album Ripcord. The Facebook video can be seen below:

https://www.facebook.com/keithurban/videos/10154587766616077/

The Zac Brown Band will kick off its 2017 “Welcome Home Tour” with two hometown shows May 12-13 at Verizon Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Georgia, in support of the band’s upcoming new album, Welcome Home, which will also release May 12. On the 40+ date tour the band will return to stadiums and amphitheaters across the country including Hollywood Bowl, Wrigley Field, Coors Field, Gorge Amphitheatre and Camden’s BB&T Pavilion where last year they broke the record for the best-attended show in the venue’s 22-year history.

ZBB fan club members have priority access to pre-sale tickets beginning Jan. 17, and general public sales begin Jan. 20. Every online ticket order includes a choice of a physical or digital copy of the new album.

The Country Music Hall of Fame has unveiled the final exhibit it plans to showcase in 2017, “American Currents (The Music of 2016).” The Museum announced its entire, year-long lineup for the first time in its 50-year history this week via its social media channels, and this new exhibit opening in March will chronicle and highlight some of the best musical moments of the previous year through a behind-the-scenes look at all things new and noteworthy from 2016.

Among those artists featured in the new exhibit are Kelsea Ballerini, Brett Eldredge, Mickey Guyton, Miranda Lambert, William Michael Morgan, Maren Morris, Jon Pardi, Margo Price, and Chris and Morgane Stapleton with more to be announced.

As previously revealed this week, the 2017 schedule will also include exhibits on Jason Aldean, Loretta Lynn, Shania Twain, and country music couple Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.

Jessi Colter will return with her first new studio album since 2006’s Out Of The Ashes, when she releases The Psalms, a collection of spontaneous musical interpretations of sacred poems from the Old Testament.

Colter, who offered piano and vocals for the album, collaborated with Lenny Kaye on electric and acoustic guitar. Kaye also co-authored Waylon: An Autobiography, which was published in 2012. The book chronicled the life of Colter’s late husband and creative partner, Waylon Jennings.

The core tracks for The Psalms were recorded nearly a decade ago during two separate two-day sessions in 2007 and 2008, at Dubway studios in Manhattan.

“One morning in 1995, while working with Waylon Jennings on his autobiography in Nashville, I came into the living room to find Jessi Colter at the piano, singing the Psalms,” Kaye recalls in the liner notes for the project. “She would place her fingers on the keys, forming simple chords and expressing melodies as they came to her. There was no forethought, no conception of composition; only the intuitive expression of the spirituality behind these most ancient of sacred poems, the divinity they wellspring within each of us. I listened transfixed while she paged through the Old Testament, choosing each Psalm, finding within them the emotive voice of the Shepherd Boy, the Warrior, ultimately the King that is David. It was one of the most beautiful expressions of belief I had ever witnessed.

“In the early months of 2007 I secured a studio with a good piano. There was no rehearsal. We would select a Psalm. She sat behind the keyboard, gathered herself, and then began to sing. There were one, perhaps two takes of each. Sometimes I accompanied her on guitar. Over the years I decorated them with chosen musicians, careful not to disturb their intimacy or their moment of improvised creation and inspiration.”

“I am thrilled to work with Lenny Kaye and sing King David’s Psalms, the most creative music I’ve ever done,” says Colter, “…and the greatest challenge!!”

Colter is best-known for her collaborations with late husband Jennings, for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit “I’m Not Lisa,” and for her contributions to the platinum-selling Wanted: The Outlaws. A singer and songwriter, Colter has written songs for Dottie West, Nancy Sinatra, Hank Locklin and others, and has released 15 major label albums.

The Psalms will release March 24, 2017 via Legacy Recordings. Colter will also release her autobiography, An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith That Brought Me Home, April 11.

The Psalms Track Listing:

1. PSALM 150 Praise Ye The Lord
2. PSALM 75 Unto Thee
3. PSALM 114 And The Mountains Skip Like Rams
4. PSALM 99 He Is Holy
5. PSALM 24 Who Is The King of Glory
6. PSALM 136 Mercy and Loving Kindness
7. PSALM 151 King David’s Last Psalm
8. PSALM 21 Be Thou Exalted
9. PSALM 45 My Song To A King
10. PSALM 73 Like A Beast
11. PSALM 23 The Lord Is My Shepherd
12. PSALM 72 Arise O King of Old

Jason Aldean is hitting the road on his They Don’t Know Tour beginning Apr. 27 in Toledo, Ohio, with special guests Chris Young, Kane Brown and Dee Jay Silver. The new tour hits 33 cities including Chicago, Washington D.C., Denver, Philadelphia, and Toronto, and tickets for the first dates will be available beginning Jan. 20 at JasonAldean.com and LiveNation.com. Select markets are also part of Live Nation’s Country Megaticket which go on sale Jan. 27 at www.megaticket.com. Live Nation is the official promoter of the tour.