Steve Wariner is set to release his 20th studio album, All Over The Map, on Oct. 28 via SelecTone Records.

The 12-track album is a tribute to Wariner’s myriad of influences. The multi-talented vocalist and instrumentalist produced the album and co-wrote 10 of the tracks. He also played guitar, upright bass, drums, pedal steel, lap steel, and sings on seven of the tracks. Five other tracks are instrumentals.

He also brings in several musical colleagues, including Ricky Skaggs, Duane Eddy, Eric Johnson, Jack Pearson, Tommy Emmanuel and John Knowles. Emmanuel and Knowles are the only two other living musicians, in addition to Wariner, to have received the coveted title of Certified Guitar Player from guitar icon Chet Atkins. Both join Wariner on “CGP.”

The album also includes “When I Still Mattered To You,” a song Wariner wrote with Merle Haggard on a cruise ship in 1996 but had never previously recorded.

“Drop Top” (featuring Jack Pearson)
Written by Billy Love

“Meanwhile Back In Austin” (featuring Eric Johnson)
Written by Steve Wariner

“When I Still Mattered To You”
Written by Merle Haggard and Steve Wariner

“Nashville Spy-Line” (featuring Duane Eddy)
Written by Duane Eddy and Steve Wariner

“CGP” (featuring Tommy Emmanuel and John Knowles)
Written by Steve Wariner

“The Last Word” (featuring Ryan Wariner)
Written by Ryan Wariner

“Mr. Roy”
Written by Steve Wariner

“Way It Goes” (featuring Greg Martin)
Written by Steve Wariner

“Down Sawmill Road” (featuring Ricky Skaggs)
Written by Steve Wariner

“Modulation Situation”
Written by Steve Wariner

“Girl Like You”
Written by Sam Hawksley, Ian Moss and Steve Wariner

“Augustine’s Dream”
Written by Steve Wariner

It has been 10 years since superstar couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have taken their Soul2Soul Tour on the road, and Tuesday evening (Oct. 4), they gave fans a taste of the upcoming production at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.

Billed as “Sam & Audrey,” a moniker taken from the couple’s full names (Samuel Timothy McGraw and Audrey Faith Perry), the show sold out in 12 minutes after tickets went on sale one day earlier.

After a video montage announced their upcoming world tour, the couple entered from opposite sides of the Ryman stage, performing their signature 1997 hit, “It’s Your Love” as the Ryman crowd, a mix of fans and industry members, jumped to its feet.

“We are going back on the road on tour!” said Hill. “We are going to go from side to side, south to north, all the way around the globe.”

“2017 we are going back on the road. We are going to do a Soul2Soul Tour. We’ve been waiting on this for a long time,” said McGraw.

“I feel so sentimental right now,” said Hill. “I feel like if I talk right now, I might cry.”

Hill let her supple, country-soul voice do the talking for her, as she ran through the night’s first solo set of hits including “This Kiss” and “Mississippi Girl” before proving she can do southern bluesy fare just fine with a rendition of Aretha Franklin’s “Dr. Feelgood.” Though Hill has been out of the spotlight for some time, she seemed rejuvenated during her set, cutting a striking figure as she worked both sides of the stage.

She returned to her catalog of hits with “Cry,” “Stronger,” and her debut single, a cover of Janis Joplin’s “Piece Of My Heart,” which sounded more akin to Joplin’s original than Hill’s 1994 recording.

McGraw returned to the stage for the smoldering “Angry All The Time,” before taking his own solo turn with “Something Like That” and “Shotgun Rider.”

“I love my job! I flat out love my job,” he told the crowd. “Sometimes I’m good at it and sometimes I’m bad at it and sometimes I’m OK at it but I always love it,” before introducing his recent smash “Humble and Kind,” penned by ace songwriter Lori McKenna.

“There ain’t nothing in the world like a kickass song. If you don’t believe me try to write one,” McGraw told the crowd. The performance was a highlight of the superstar’s set, pairing a timeless song with an A-list performer and classic venue, and instantly bringing the Ryman crowd to its feet.

“You’re pretty good, Lori!” McGraw praised the songwriter as the crowd’s thunderous ovation shifted from the singer to the writer, who was in attendance. It was clear that top-shelf songwriters are still superstars in this town.

You only get to live one time so let’s live it up tonight, McGraw sang during “Here Tonight,” a track from Damn Country Music. Both McGraw and the crowd seemed to sense the incomparable, history-making event this Ryman show would be, and live it up they did, as the crowd sang along to each word. Screaming, crunching guitars ushered in a performance of “Real Good Man,” as McGraw wrung out the sensuality in each lyric as he swaggered from one end of the stage to the other.

Though separately, Hill and McGraw have more than solidified their superstar status in Nashville, their onstage chemistry becomes enchanting when they share the stage.

As performers, they balanced each other during “Like We Never Loved at All,” with Hill standing tall and arching back as she powered through the song’s money notes, poised by McGraw hunching low to the Ryman stage’s wooden floorboards for much of the song, as his gravelly baritone provided a solid undercurrent.

They followed with Bob Seger’s “ We’ve Got Tonight,” which Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton also covered in 1983. The powerful closing song brought the crowd to its feet once again, and they stayed there until the couple returned for a one-song encore.

Seated center stage, knee-to-knee and facing each other around a microphone, the McGraw and Hill seemed the only ones in the room as sang “I Need You” to one another, with Hill keeping rhythm with her right hand on McGraw’s leg.

The evening was a taste of the couple’s upcoming Soul2Soul 2017 tour, but judging by the Ryman show, it also proved that after 20 years together, this superstar couple has plenty of fire left in them, both musically and personally.

The Soul2Soul 2017 tour launches April 7 in New Orleans, and includes a Nashville date at Bridgestone Arena on Aug. 4.

Sony Music Nashville and River House Artists have inked a joint venture deal by signing Luke Combs to River House Artists/Columbia Nashville. Combs’ first single, “Hurricane,” leads his forthcoming full-length album This One’s For You.

The tune was co-written by Combs, Thomas Archer and Taylor Phillips, and produced by Scott Moffatt.

Combs, a North Carolina native, began developing his songwriting talent in the summer of 2011, while attending Appalachian State University. After three years of playing with his band around his home state, Combs moved to Nashville in 2014.

Combs was the first recording artist signed by Lynn Oliver-Cline‘s independent label and publishing company River House Artists when it launched in August. Oliver-Cline previously worked as VP, Publishing and A&R for Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Artists before launching River House Artists.

The video for “Hurricane” premiered on CMT Music in September, and Combs joined CMT’s Artist Discovery campaign, which includes exclusive world video premieres and custom on-air and cross-platform promotions.

Combs is set to perform at Nashville venue Exit/In on Wednesday, Oct. 19, beginning at 7 p.m.