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7 days ago
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Texas legends to appear at benefit concert for Hill Country flooding
Texas country music stars, including Miranda Lambert and Parker McCollum, are joining forces for Band Together Texas, a benefit concert to support communities devastated by the recent catastrophic floods. The event, set to take place in Austin, will feature Lambert, McCollum, and a roster of Texas talent performing to raise funds for families in need, including those who lost loved ones in floods that have killed more than 130 people, many of them young children. Proceeds from the concert will support The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country and the Central Texas Community Foundation, organizations working to help rebuild flood-impacted communities. 'Our mission with Band Together Texas is simple — Texans helping Texas,' Lambert said in a statement. 'We're coming together to lift up our neighbors and help them recover and rebuild from this tragedy.' In addition to providing immediate financial support, organizers say the event aims to foster a sense of community and compassion among those affected, uniting people through music and shared purpose.
Yahoo
18-07-2025
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Miranda Lambert, Parker McCollum Announce Texas Flood Relief Concert: ‘We Show Up for One Another'
Texas natives Miranda Lambert and Parker McCollum have teamed up to spearhead the benefit concert Band Together Texas, set for Aug. 17 at Moody Center in Austin. The concert will raise funds to help those impacted by the recent floods that have devastated central Texas. The event will feature performances from a string of the state's musical talents. In addition to Lambert and McCollum, the performers include Ryan Bingham, Wade Bowen, Kelly Clarkson, Ronnie Dunn, Dylan Gossett, Jack Ingram, Cody Johnson, Lyle Lovett, Lukas Nelson, Jon Randall and Randy Rogers Band. More from Billboard Goo Goo Dolls Raising Money For Texas Flood Relief With Red Rocks Sweepstakes Snoop Dogg 'Proud' of Investment and Co-Ownership Stake in Swansea A.F.C. Soccer Team: 'I'm Not a Player, I'm an Owner' Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath's Back to the Beginning Final Show to Be Released in Theaters Other Texans who will make appearances to support the event include actors Matthew McConaughey and Dennis Quaid, as well as former UT Longhorns coach Mack Brown and players Emmanual Acho, Colt McCoy and Vince Young, MLB star and Houston native Roger Clemens plus television host and Dallas native Chris Harrison. In addition to music, the evening will also include tributes to first responders and flood victims, highlighting stories of rescue and resilience from emergency personnel. The event will benefit the The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country and Central Texas Community Foundation. 'One of the things I love about both our artist community and our community in Texas is that we show up for one another, especially in times of such great need like folks in my home state are facing after the flood,' Lambert said in a statement. 'There is so much devastation and loss, yet what's given me hope are the stories of those that have come to the aid of so many. That's what we want to do with Band Together: Texans helping Texas. We hope it is a night that helps with healing while raising awareness and funds for The Community Foundation of Texas Hill Country and the Central Texas Community Foundation.' 'The flooding in the Hill Country of Texas is truly heartbreaking,' McCollum added. 'This place and these people are my community. There is a long road ahead rebuilding, and even though so many families are facing the unimaginable, we're Texas strong. Miranda is inspiring in both her music and how big her heart is, and I'm honored to be joining her for this benefit concert to support our fellow Texans and share a night of healing through music.' The July 4 flooding in central Texas led to the deaths of more than 130 people, while more than 100 individuals remain missing, CNN reports. Additionally, numerous homes and businesses were swept away in the floods, with many communities still being impacted by the destruction from the flooding. Tickets for Band Together Texas will be made available through presale registration, which is open now through Monday, July 21, at 5 p.m. CT at the event's website. Presale passwords will be issued Tuesday, July 22, via registered email. The presale starts Wednesday, July 23, at 10 a.m. CT, with any remaining tickets becoming available at general on sale beginning Friday, July 25, at 10 a.m. CT. See the lineup below: Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Los Angeles Times
09-07-2025
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- Los Angeles Times
Why Parker McCollum's new country album might be the best he'll ever make
Last fall, the country singer Parker McCollum played a gig on the south shore of Lake Tahoe — the final date of a lengthy tour behind 2023's 'Never Enough' — then flew directly to New York City to start work on his next album. 'Probably the worst idea,' he says now, looking back at his unrelenting schedule. 'I was absolutely cooked when I got there.' Yet the self-titled LP he ended up making over six days at New York's storied Power Station studio is almost certainly his best: a set of soulful, slightly scruffy roots-music tunes that hearkens back — after a few years in the polished Nashville hit machine — to McCollum's days as a Texas-born songwriter aspiring to the creative heights of greats such as Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell and Townes Van Zandt. Produced by Eric Masse and Frank Liddell — the latter known for his work with Miranda Lambert and his wife, Lee Ann Womack — 'Parker McCollum' complements moving originals like 'Big Sky' (about a lonely guy 'born to lose') and 'Sunny Days' (about the irretrievability of the past) with a tender cover of Danny O'Keefe's 'Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues' and a newly recorded rendition of McCollum's song 'Permanent Headphones,' which he wrote when he was all of 15. 'Parker's a marketing person's dream,' Liddell says, referring to the 33-year-old's rodeo-hero looks. 'And what happens in those situations is they usually become more of a marketed product. But I think underneath, he felt he had more to say — to basically confess, 'This is who I am.'' Liddell laughs. 'I tried to talk him out of it.' McCollum, who grew up in privileged circumstances near Houston and who's now married with a 10-month-old son named Major, discussed the album on a recent swing through Los Angeles. He wore a fresh pair of jeans and a crisp denim shirt and fiddled with a ZYN canister as we spoke. I was looking online at your —Nudes? At your Instagram. The other day you posted a picture of a box of Uncrustables on a private photo was not supposed to make the internet. That was an accident — my fault. I don't ever post about my plane on the internet. You're a grown man. Why Uncrustables?That's an adult meal that children are very, very fortunate to get to experience. Did you know when you finished this record that you'd done something good?Yes. But I didn't know that until the last day we were in the studio and we listened to everything, top to bottom. The six days in the studio that we recorded this record, I was s—ing myself: 'What the f— have I done? Why did I come to New York and waste all this time and money? This is terrible.' Then on the last day we listened all the way through, and I was like, Finally. Finally what?I just felt like I never was as focused and convicted and bought-in as I was on this record. I felt kind of desperate — like, 'Am I just gonna keep doing the same thing, or are we gonna go get uncomfortable?' Why New York?One reason is that city makes me feel like a rock star. In my head when I was in high school dreaming about being a songwriter or a country singer, I was picturing huge budgets, making badass albums in New York City or L.A., staying in dope hotels — just this fairy tale that you believe in. The other reason is that when you're cutting records in Nashville, people are leaving at 5 to go pick up their kids, or the label's stopping by and all this s—. I just wanted to avoid all of that — I didn't want to record three songs on a Tuesday in June and then record three songs on a Tuesday in August. I wanted to go make a record. Lot of history at Power Station: Chic, Bruce Springsteen, David Mayer wrote a song and recorded it in a day there — that song 'In Repair,' with him and Charlie Hunter and Steve Jordan. That's how I found out about the studio years ago. We actually ended up writing a song in the studio: 'New York Is On Fire.' A very John Mayer title.I wanted to go in the late fall when the trees were changing colors and the air was cool. Why was Frank Liddell the guy to produce?I knew if he understood Chris Knight and the songs he had written that he could probably understand me and the songs I had written. I'd made half a record with Jon Randall, who'd produced my last two albums. And I love Jon Randall — he's one of my closest friends in the world, four No. 1s together, multi-platinum this and multi-platinum that. But I just needed to dig deeper, and Frank was a guy who was down to let the songs do the work. What do you think would've become of the record you were making with Randall?It would've sounded great, and it would've had some success. But I don't know if I would've been as emotionally involved as I was with Frank. Frank got a better version of me than Jon did. What if nobody likes this record?It's like the first time I'm totally OK with that. Country radio moves slowly, which means 'What Kinda Man' may end up being a big hit. But it's not a big hit probably won't be. The only reason that song went to radio is because 'Burn It Down' had gone No. 1, and the label wanted another one. I was like, 'Fine, go ahead.' I've never one time talked with them about what song should go to radio. On this I just don't care. The song that goes to radio is very rarely the best song on the record. What was the best song on 'Never Enough'?Probably 'Too Tight This Time.' It's slow and sad, which is my specialty. You recently told Texas Monthly, 'I don't write fun songs. I've never really liked them.'There's some I like. 'Always Be My Baby' by Mariah Carey f—ing slaps. I love feel-good songs. But in country music, feel-good songs are, like, beer-and-truck-and-Friday-night songs, and those have never done anything for me. 'What Kinda Man' is kind of I think it's still well-written. It's not all the clichés that every song on the radio has in it. What's the best song on this album?'Hope That I'm Enough' or 'Solid Country Gold' or 'My Worst Enemy' or 'My Blue.' Lot of choices. I love this record. I don't think I'll ever do any better. Is that a sad thought?Eh. I don't know how much longer I'm gonna do it anyways. Why would you hang it up?I don't know that I'm going to. But I don't think I'm gonna do this till I'm 70. We've been doing these stadium shows with George Strait — I think I'm out a lot sooner than him. You watch Strait's set?Every night. What have you learned from him?When it comes to George, what I really pay attention to is everything off the stage. No scandals, so unbelievably humble and consistent and under the radar. The way he's carried himself for 40 years — I don't think I've ever seen anybody else do it that well. I'd love to be the next George Strait off the stage. I'm not sure his under-the-radar-ness is possible today.I fight with my team all the time. They're always trying to get my wife and kid in s—, and I'm like, 'They're not for sale.' I understand I have to be a little bit — it's just the nature of the business. But at home, that's the real deal — that ain't for show. I'd imagine People magazine would love to do a spread with you and your beautiful wife and your beautiful offered for the wedding. I was like, 'Abso-f—ing-lutely not.' I don't want anybody to know where I live or what I drive or what I do in my spare time. And nowadays that's currency — people filming their entire lives. Call me the old man, but I'm trying to go the complete opposite direction of that. One could argue that your resistance isn't helpful for your career.I'm fine with that. Fine because you're OK money-wise?I'm sure that plays into it. But, man, my childhood is in a box in my mom's attic. And nowadays everybody's childhood is on the internet for the whole world to see. I'm just not down with that. I don't want to make money off of showing everybody how great my life is. Because it is f—ing great. I feel like I could make $100 million a year if I was a YouTuber — it's movie s—. The way it started, the way I came up, the woman I married, the child I had — there's no holes. Where does the pain in your music come from?I've thought about that for a long time. I don't think it's the entire answer, but I think if your parents divorced when you were little, for the rest of your life there's gonna be something inside you that's broken. My parents' divorce was pretty rowdy, and I remember a lot of it. And I don't think those things ever fully go away. How do you think about the relationship between masculinity and stoicism?It never crosses my mind. Is your dad a guy who talks about his feelings?F— no. Was he scary?I think he could be. My dad's the s—. He's the baddest son of a bitch I've ever met in my life. What image of masculinity do you want to project for your son?When I think about raising Major, I just want him to want to win. Can fully understand you're not always going to, but you should always want to, no matter what's going on. I hope he's a winner. When's the last time you cried?Actually wasn't very long ago. A good friend of mine died — Ben Vaughn, who was the president of my publishing company in Nashville. I played 'L.A. Freeway,' the Guy Clark song, at his memorial service a couple weeks ago. That got me pretty good. You said you're OK if fans don't like this record. I don't need anyone else to like it. I hope that they love it — I hope it hits them right in the f—ing gut and that these songs are the ones they go listen to in 10 years when they want to feel like they did 10 years ago. That's what music does for me. But I know not everybody feels music as intensely as I do. Was that true for you as a kid?Even 6, 7, 8 years old, I'd listen to a song on repeat over and over and over again. I can't explain how deeply emotional songs make me — it controls my entire being. The right song in the right moment is everything to me. Where I live, there's a road called River Road, in the Hill Country in Texas. It's the most gorgeous place you've ever been in your life, and I'll go drive it. I know the exact minute that I should be there in the afternoons at this time of year to catch the light through the trees, and I'll have the songs I'm gonna play while I'm driving that road. You know what song you want to hear at a certain bend in the a little psychotic. Are you one of these guys who wants the towels to hang on the rack just so?I like things very clean and organized. Is that because you grew up in that kind of environment or because you grew up in the opposite?My mom was very clean and organized. But I don't know — I've never one time gone to bed with dirty dishes in the sink. My wife cooks dinner all the time when I'm home, and as soon as we're done, I do all the dishes and load the dishwasher and wipe the counters down. You could never just chill and let it it's messy. It's gross. Do people ever interpret your intensity as, 'This dude's kind of a d—?'People would always tell me I was cocky, and I'd be like, I don't feel cocky at all. I was raised to have great manners: take my hat off when I meet a lady, look somebody in the eye with a firm handshake, 'Yes, ma'am,' 'No, ma'am,' 'Yes, sir,' 'No, sir,' no matter the age or the gender of the person. Manners were such a crazy thing in my childhood — it's the only way I know how to speak to people. So I've always thought it was so weird, in high school, girls would be like, 'Oh, you're so cocky.' I mean, I've seen the 'What Kinda Man' video. You obviously know you look cool.I don't think that at all. I think I look kind of dumb. I'm not sure whether to believe you.I couldn't be more serious. This is very weird for me to say, but Frank finally put into words what I've always felt with every photographer, anybody I've ever worked with in the business since I was 19 years old — he said, 'This record sounds like Parker's heart and mind and not his face.' The fact that I'm not 5-foot-7 with a beard and covered in tattoos — it's like nobody ever thinks that the songs are gonna have any integrity. Boo-hoo for the pretty always called me 'Hollywood,' 'pretty boy,' all this stuff. I guess it's better than calling you a f—ing fat-ass. But I've never tried to capitalize on that at any point in time. I've always just wanted to be a songwriter. But you know how to of? Come on, man — the gold chains, the Lucchese all to compensate for the fact that I don't know what the f— to wear. I know I like gold and diamonds. Loved rappers when I was younger. Waylon Jennings wore gold chains and diamonds, Johnny Cash did — they always looked dope. I was always like, I want to do that too. If the fans' approval isn't crucial, whose approval does mean something to you?George Strait. John Mayer. Steve Earle. My older brother. My dad. You know Mayer?We've talked on Instagram. Why is he such a big one for you?The commitment to the craft, I think, is what I've admired so much about him. It's funny: When I was younger, I always said I was never gonna get married and have kids because I knew John Mayer was never going to, and I really respected how he was just gonna chase whatever it is that he was chasing forever. Then he got into records like 'The Search for Everything' and 'Sob Rock,' and he kind of hints at the fact that he missed out on that — he wishes he had a wife, wishes he had kids. That really resonated with me. I was like, all right, I don't want to be 40 and alone. It completely changed my entire perspective on my future. You played 'Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue' by the late Toby Keith at one of Donald Trump's inaugural balls in January. What do you like about that song?I bleed red, white and blue. I'm all about the United States of America — I'm all about what it stands for. A lot of people get turned off by that nowadays. I don't care — I'm not worried about if you're patriotic or not. But Toby was a great songwriter, and I love how much he loved his country. In that Texas Monthly interview, you said you felt it was embarrassing for people to be affected emotionally by an artist's political used to talk about it, and now it's so polarizing. Am I not gonna listen to Neil Young now? I'm gonna listen to Neil Young all the f—ing time. Why do you think audiences started caring?Social media and the constant flood of information and political propaganda that people are absorbing around the clock. It's just so dumb. I've got guys in my band and in my crew that are conservative and guys that are liberal. It makes no difference to me. Of course you knew how your involvement with Trump would be about being 16, wanting to be a country singer, then getting to go play the presidential inauguration. What a crazy honor. There's not a single president in history who was perfect — not a single one that didn't do something wrong, not a single one that only did wrong. I just don't care what people think about that stuff. Everybody feels different about things, and nowadays it's like two sides of the fence — you either agree with this or you agree with that. I'm not that way. What do you think happens next for you?This is the only record I've ever made that I didn't think about that as soon as I walked out of the studio. I have no idea what the next record is gonna be. Not a clue. If we meet again in two years and you've made a record full of trap beats, what would that mean?Probably that I was on drugs again.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
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Parker McCollum on Making His Rawest Record Yet: ‘It Was the Album You Always Wondered If You Were Good Enough To Make'
Parker McCollum's initial attempt at recording his fifth album was half done when he decided to scrap it and begin again. His aim wasn't to create a project that would necessarily impress fans or the Nashville music industry, but one that would impress himself. 'I got to a point where I was like, 'I've got to go challenge myself again and go find that buzz again,'' he tells Billboard. 'It felt like, 'Just what are you made of? What are these years? Is this to ride off into the sunset now, or is this to go make your best record?' More from Billboard El Fantasma Claims Eighth No. 1 on Regional Mexican Airplay Chart With 'Ya Me Vale Madre' Khalil Fong and Tanya Chua Named Best Male and Female Singers at the 3rd Wave Music Awards Doechii & Tyler, the Creator Preview Pharrell-Produced 'Get Right' Collab During Louis Vuitton Paris Show After thoroughly enjoying working with producer-writer Jon Randall on his two most recent hit-spawning projects — 2021's Gold Chain Cowboy and 2023's Never Enough — McCollum decided to shake it up on his eponymous studio project, out Friday (June 27). He began working with producers Frank Liddell (Miranda Lambert, David Nail) and Eric Masse (Lambert, Waylon Payne, Charlie Worsham), and immediately after concluding his 2024 Burn It Down Tour in October, McCollum flew not to a studio in Music City — where he had recorded much of his recent albums — but to New York City. There, he spent a week laser focused on recording at the legendary Power Station Studio in Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, where such classics as Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. and Rolling Stones' Tattoo You were recorded. 'Some people hate New York City. I love it,' McCollum says. 'It was the first city that came to my mind. I was like, 'You're going to be the most confident son of a bitch for the next seven days in the studio.' It was finally the album you always wondered if you were good enough to make — not for anybody else, didn't need anyone else to like it.' But moments of self-doubt interrupted that feeling of confidence, as he was intent on recording raw, unfiltered songs that felt unmistakably Parker. 'I'd record all day, then go to the hotel, call my dad or [his longtime mentor and Texas music icon Randy Rogers]. I'd freak out, like, 'What have I done? This is career suicide.' Then I'd go back to the studio the next day and keep recording. You're forced to sit there and live with the album for several days in a row, so you're on this journey of 'All right, this is who I am.' But I just never enjoyed making a record as much as I enjoyed this one. Being in New York City, being focused and locked in to see what can I get out of myself musically if I really go there and get it? And Frank and Eric were willing to go there.' The resulting project is permeated with Lone Star State soul and grit, an album with not only the potential to further scale McCollum's career, but to peel back new layers of his personality and artistry. 'Hope That I'm Enough,' which he wrote with Jessi Alexander and Matt Jenkins, is a look at McCollum's relationship with wife Hallie Ray, whom he married in 2022. 'It's how I've always genuinely looked at her and [my] relationship,' McCollum says. 'She's just as good as God can make a woman. I don't know if I'm worthy of anything I've gotten to do in my career or the woman I've gotten to marry or any of this stuff. It's just a very authentic feeling. I was sitting next to her, playing guitar, and this song started to just fall out. She's an easy person to write songs about.' Some of the songs on the album were written at the Power Station studio, though the bulk of the songs were fashioned in Texas. One of the oldest tracks on the album, 'Permanent Headphones,' dates back to when Parker was just 15. He wrote it in his truck, parked outside a Jack in the Box, in a moment when he was 'too stoned to go home,' McCollum recalls. The song struck a chord with his older brother Tyler, a songwriter himself, and became the spark that pushed Parker to take music seriously. 'Tyler is six years older than me, and that was the first song I ever wrote where he was like, 'Hey, okay.'' McCollum says. He nods to songwriting luminaries Guy Clark and John Prine on 'Solid Country Gold,' and welcomes fellow Texas native and country artist Cody Johnson to sing on a remake of Danny O'Keefe's 1960s hit 'Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues.' 'I've always wanted to cut it. I've listened to it for 15 years, and I've always thought of Cody when I heard that song,' McCollum says. 'I just always thought he was so, so crazy talented and such a good singer, and just so passionate about his business and how it goes about his life, and I just admire that so much. He comes in and just kills it.' It was also a full-circle moment for the two Texas natives; Johnson is from Sebastopol, nearly an hour north of McCollum's hometown of Conroe. 'The first time I had ever heard of Cody Johnson and [Johnson's band] Rockin' CJB, my older cousin Austin had gotten in a very, very bad car wreck when he was in college. He's still alive, but later on that year we did a huge benefit for him. Cody Johnson played that benefit show. Somebody in town knew him from singing in a country band and I remember being like, 'Hell yeah. He's really good.' He could've only been around 20 years old then. A few years go by, he's on Texas radio and selling out the bars. I eventually opened for him a couple of times when I started on the scene several years later. He's always been really good to me.' Like Johnson, McCollum embodies that stubborn Texas mindset of approaching one's life and career on one's own terms, so finding the gumption to do the unexpected is nothing new. When he was first in Nashville and being courted by labels, McCollum was already taking a long-term perspective, in part, thanks to advice from early supporter Rogers. 'We had an offer from every major label in town. I was selling a bunch of tickets and had on my own tour bus and it was going really well,' he recalls. 'I had told Universal Records Nashville [now MCA] I wanted to sign with them. Another of the big-time labels, I won't say which one, the guy that owns it called me and said, 'I'll wire you a million dollars right now to not sign with Universal.' I was like 26, maybe 27. I remember I called my dad and I called Randy Rogers. Randy was like, 'Look, you don't want them to be able to buy you right away. If you want to sign there, do your thing, and run your business how you want to run your business. But you're an artist, and think of it from that perspective too.' 'I didn't want anybody to think they could buy me in that town,' he remembers concluding. 'I thought that was a terrible way to step foot into Nashville and start working up there. And one of the greatest decisions I ever made was [to] turn that money down and sign with Universal Records.' His new album comes as his label has undergone major changes this year, including the label's rebranding from UMG Nashville to MCA, as well as a leadership change, with Mike Harris being named CEO of the label. 'I've known Mike for years now, since I signed my deal [in 2019],' McCollum said. 'He loves music and I think he really wants to see good music win. I told [the label] when I signed my deal, 'Look, I don't want some big advance. I want to write the songs I want to write. I don't want ever want anyone telling me what to do, creatively.' And they never have at any point in time, whatsoever.' Since signing, McCollum has earned a trio of Billboard Country Airplay chart-toppers with 'To Be Loved by You,' 'Pretty Heart' and 'Burn It Down.' He also issued the major-label albums Gold Chain Cowboy and Never Enough. In 2021, he won the Academy of Country Award for new male artist of the year. Last year, his moody single 'Burn It Down' earned nominations for the ACM's single of the year and the Country Music Association's song of the year (McCollum co-wrote it with 'The Love Junkies,' Liz Rose, Lori McKenna and Hillary Lindsey). He's been opening shows for George Strait and Chris Stapleton, and earlier this year, played his third consecutive sold-out show at one of the Lone Star State's most prestigious events, RodeoHouston. But even as McCollum has earned the attention of Nashville's industry as well as music legends such as Strait, his family's feedback still reigns supreme. 'We send each other stuff all the time,' he says of his creative relationship with his brother Tyler. 'Every record I make, I'm like, 'Is my big brother going to like this?' We still write together every now and then. He's come out on the road with me a couple of times.' Still, he draws a line between family and business. 'I've always been very scared of our relationship becoming transactional. Brothers in the music business, there's just very few of them who still like each other several years in. We've talked about him being on the road with me full time and playing. I'm like, 'I don't want you to be my employee, dude. You're my brother.'' The past year has brought changes on the home front, too. In August, McCollum and Hallie Ray welcomed their first child, a son named Major. 'I didn't know this side of me existed. It's just the greatest thing ever,' McCollum says of being a father. 'He crawls faster than any baby I've ever seen in my life. He doesn't really want to walk yet; he just knows he can haul ass when he crawls.' Still, fans shouldn't expect a wave of baby-themed songs anytime soon. 'I've never just sat down and [intentionally] wrote a song about something. It could absolutely happen. Is it going to be the stereotypical 'That's my boy' kind of thing? Probably not. Like Kenny Chesney's 'There Goes My Life,' that is a baller song. And it's got the dad line in it, and they hit so well on that song. If I were to ever pop [a song out], and it was of that stature of a song, yes, I would cut it.' But as with all of his music, there's one rule it has to follow: 'It's got to be real and honest and right.' Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
01-07-2025
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Gavin Adcock Blasts Beyoncé's ‘Cowboy Carter' During Concert Rant: ‘That Sh– Ain't Country Music'
Gavin Adcock's album My Own Worst Enemy is in the top five on Apple Music's country albums chart, but he's not too happy that Beyoncé's 2024 album Cowboy Carter is currently above his own ranking. In a video of footage from one of Adcock's recent concerts, the singer/songwriter gave some harsh, unfiltered opinions about the fact that Cowboy Carter sits at No. 3 on Apple Music's country albums chart, while his own project follows closely at No. 4. (Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem reigns at No. 1, while Parker McCollum's self-titled project is at No. 2.) More from Billboard Beyoncé Jokes She Was 'Sittin' Sidewayz' When Flying Car Malfunctioned During Cowboy Carter Tour Stop Lorde Reveals Which 'Virgin' Song 'Kicked My A-' to Write & Seemingly Teases Deluxe Tracks Ja Rule Roasts Longtime Enemy 50 Cent Over Concert Video: 'Ain't Nobody Coming to See You' In the clip, Adcock is discussing the albums that are ahead of his on the chart. 'One of them's Beyoncé — you can tell her we're coming for her f—in' a–,' Adcock said, eliciting roaring cheers from his audience. 'That sh– ain't country music and it ain't ever been country music, and it ain't gonna be country music,' he continued, raising his bottle of alcohol in the air and pointing to the crowd. From there, Adcock said, 'We're about to play y'all some Southern f—in' rock,' telling his band, 'Y'all hit that sh–, boys,' before launching into the next song in his set. On June 30, Adcock posted a video on his Instagram page, adding context to his comments, but also doubling down on his sentiments. 'I'm gonna go ahead and clear this up,' he said in the video. 'When I was a little kid, my mama was blasting some Beyoncé in the car. I've heard a ton of Beyonce songs and I actually remember her Super Bowl halftime show being pretty kick-a– back in the day. But I really don't believe that her album should be labeled as country music. It doesn't sound country, it doesn't feel country, and I just don't think that people that have dedicated their whole lives to this genre and this lifestyle should have to compete or watch that album just stay at the top, just because she's Beyoncé.' Billboard has reached out to Beyoncé's rep for comment. Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter has garnered both praise and criticism since it arrived last year, but also earned several impressive feats. The project won album of the year and best country album at the 2025 Grammy Awards, while the album's 'II Most Wanted' with Miley Cyrus earned best country duo/group performance. The album also topped the all-genre Billboard 200 for two weeks, marking Beyoncé's eighth album to top that chart. Cowboy Carter also stayed at the pinnacle of the Top Country Albums chart for four weeks. The album's 'Texas Hold 'Em' spent 10 weeks atop the Hot Country Songs chart, though the song didn't fare as well on the radio-based Country Airplay chart, reaching No. 33. One of Bey's admirers includes country icon Dolly Parton, whose hit 'Jolene' was covered on the album. 'I'm a big fan of Beyonce and very excited that she's done a country album,' Parton wrote on social media after 'Texas Hold 'Em's' country chart feat. 'So congratulations on your Billboard Hot Country number one single.' Cowboy Carter featured an array of artists, including Black country music trailblazer Linda Martell, stars including Parton, Willie Nelson, Cyrus and Post Malone, and rising Black country artists including Brittney Spencer, 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' hitmaker Shaboozey, Willie Jones, Reyna Roberts, Tiera Kennedy and Tanner Adell. Meanwhile, Adcock has earned an RIAA-certified platinum single with his track 'A Cigarette,' as well as RIAA-certified gold singles with 'Four Leaf Clover,' 'Run Your Mouth' and 'Deep End.' His album My Own Worst Enemy will release in August, bolstered by already-released songs such as 'Last One to Know,' 'Never Call Again' and 'Morning Bail.' Adcock was arrested on May 21 in Wilson County, Tennessee, and charged with reckless driving, speeding, open container, driver's license and registration violations. On July 11 and 12, he'll open two shows on Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
