Drake White. Photo: Zack Knudsen

Drake White has released a new documentary, Ladder to the Sky: A Hunts the Healing Story, streaming now exclusively on YouTube.

Ladder to the Sky: A Hunts the Healing Story pulls back the curtain on the singer’s journey from the brink of death following a shocking on-stage stroke in 2019. At the time, medical experts feared he might never walk again, and the thought of potentially playing another gig seemed nearly impossible. But two weeks after the incident, the trail camera in the back of White’s house captured the appearance of a 175-inch buck. The rare vision served as a totem of inspiration, and his fight really began in earnest, with hunting ultimately bringing White back to his feet, back to the stage, and back to life.

Through candid new interviews, White tells this story in his own words joined by friends and confidants such as Riley Green, Zac Brown, Kid Rock, Realtree, and more. To celebrate the documentary, White hosted an intimate premiere and party at Green’s The Duck Blind in Nashville early last month for family, friends, and special guests. Ladder to the Sky: A Hunts the Healing Story was directed by Holt Ingalls and produced by White, Ingalls, Zack Knudson, and Rev White Pictures in association with Hatchee Productions.

Later this fall, White is headlining his second “Benefit For The Brain” concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on November 17 featuring White, Green, Jon Pardi, Kassi Ashton, and more special guests.

White recently served up a set of new singles, “Nuthin’ But a Smile” and “Nights on Fire,” and will be taking the new songs on the road on his headlining “Keep It Movin’ Tour” this fall before joining Riley Green’s 2026 “Cowboy As It Gets Tour.”

Shinedown. Photo: Chris Hollo

Shinedown made their Grand Ole Opry debut Friday night (Oct. 10).

The band was introduced by Carrie Underwood, who said “It is always an honor, and so exciting for me to be at the Opry. Tonight, I am especially honored and excited to introduce our next group. I saw these guys back in concert in 2004 when I was a wee college student and basically, they have not been able to get rid of me ever since! I know that they too are very excited to be here, they love country music, and they love and respect the Grand Ole Opry so much.”

The band started their set with “A Symptom of Being Human,” before moving into their No. 1 song “Three Six Five.” Shinedown then surprised the audience with a performance of a brand new song, “Searchlight.” Brent Smith said “Sometimes when you listen close enough to the universe and you’re willing to receive something from it – a song can come out of thin air,” while introducing the track. “That is something that we don’t take for granted. It’s essentially what happened with this next song: we didn’t find it, it found us.”

Shinedown received a standing ovation to close out the evening. In their post show interview the band said the performance was a “dream come true for us.”

The band will embark on the “2025 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour Presented by Capitol One” this December.

Photo: Riley Mau

Photo: Chris Hollo

Photo: Chris Hollo

Maggie Rose. Photo: Shervin Lainez

Maggie Rose has released her new EP Cocoon, out now on One Riot Records.

Co-produced by Ben Tanner with Davis Naish, the project features the smoldering Grace Potter collaboration “Poison In My Well,” along with new tracks including “Sting,” “Fly” and the title track. Cocoon embodies where Maggie finds herself as both an artist and new mother to son Graham, and sets the stage for 2026 to be her most exciting musical chapter yet.

Maggie recently played Tennessee’s Pilgrimage Festival and surprised the crowd, bringing out Potter to perform “Poison In My Well” for the first time live. The pair will also perform together on The Kelly Clarkson Show on October 30.

Earlier this year Maggie collaborated with Vince Gill for a reimagined version of the Bonnie Raitt classic, “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” and along with touring hosts her own podcast, Salute The Songbird, where she engages in candid conversations with her female musical heroes.

Cocoon Track List:
1. “Relentless”
2. “Cocoon”
3. “Poison In My Well”
4. “Same Way”
5. “Sting”
6. “Fly”

Vince Gill. Photo: David McClister

Vince Gill is celebrating 50 years as a hit-making artist, and to honor the major career milestone, he’s curating a series of EPs, 50 Years from Home, to be released over the course of a year.

The first EP of the series, I Gave You Everything I Had, will be released on Oct. 17 via MCA, Gill’s longtime label home where he recently signed a new a lifetime deal. I Gave You Everything I Had contains six brand new songs all penned by Gill as well as one from his catalog, “Go Rest High On That Mountain,” which includes a new third verse.

It’s been 50 years since Gill chose a path toward music and left his home in Oklahoma to launch his career—a journey that’s taken him to Kentucky then California and finally Nashville, and, as a touring artist, around the world. It has seen him find success as a member of bands such as Pure Prairie League, Rodney Crowell’s Notorious Cherry Bombs, The Time Jumpers and the Eagles, and as an iconic recording artist in his own right. Gill culled the new collections in the 50-year series from over 100 songs written either solo or with others over the past few years, and each of the 50 Years From Home volumes have been meticulously selected to reflect a particular theme, idea, or aspect of his life.

Nostalgia, sentimentality, and mourning are the hallmarks of I Gave You Everything I Had. The title track and “Made Me” examine Gill’s journey in music, gentle songs that reflect the joy and pride that came from the sweat equity of the past five decades. With “Her Heart” Gill honors wife Amy Grant‘s kindness and welcoming spirit toward everyone who crosses her path.

“I Hope Everybody Lives to Be 100” is a country flavored wish Gill wrote shortly after John Prine passed away, and the aching “Benny’s Song” is specifically about the morning Benny Garcia, Gill’s oldest friend and longtime guitar tech, passed away, “When a Soldier Dies,” is a tear-jerker from the viewpoint of the ones left behind, and “Go Rest High On That Mountain” the extended version, closes out the EP.

Gill has even taken part in the design of each EP cover in the series by thoughtfully choosing an instrument from his personal collection to be featured. On I Gave You Everything I Had, he uses a photo of his 1942 Martin D-28 Herringbone guitar purchased in 1975 by selling a Martin given to him by his parents, and using his entire life savings, an important investment in himself at the onset of his career.

“The more I’ve done it, the more I’ve learned how to do it better – how to be more patient, where not to waste my time, what to do and not to do, to be willing to edit myself and keep digging,” says Gill about his process. “Experience is experience; there is no shortcut. This is what comes from doing this for 50 years.”

I Gave You Everything I Had Track List:
1. “I Gave You Everything I Had” (Vince Gill)
2. “I Hope Everybody Lives To Be A Hundred” (Vince Gill)
3. “Her Heart” (Vince Gill)
4. “Made Me” (Vince Gill)
5. “Benny’s Song” (Vince Gill)
6. “When A Soldier Dies” (Vince Gill)
7. “Go Rest High On That Mountain” * extended version (Vince Gill)