Jim Casey talks to Natalie Stovall about: attending the Dwight Yoakam concert at the Ryman being raised in Columbia, Tenn. (45 miles south of Nashville) Columbia’s claim to fame, Mule Day getting her first violin as a 3-year-old entering fiddle competitions as an 8-year-old singing for the first time at Opryland Themepark moving to Boston…
Jim Casey talks with Montgomery Gentry’s Eddie Montgomery about: the death of his longtime friend and duo partner Troy Gentry the little things that remind him of Troy the good times he and Troy shared during their early days onstage the first time he met Troy putting the Montgomery Gentry duo together MG’s new album,…
Jim Casey talks with Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of Sugarland about: working on individual projects during their five-year hiatus from Sugarland their surprise reunion at the CMA Awards in November the changing sonic nature of country music over the last five years writing and recording their new single, “Still the Same” working on their…
Jim Casey talks with Wade Bowen about: his 2002 debut album, Try Not to Listen his musical upbringing as a kid in Waco, Texas getting serious about music as an 18-year-old discovering his soulful voice starting his first band, West 84, while at Texas Tech earning a Public Relations degree from Texas Tech working at…
Jim Casey talks with Danielle Bradbery about: winning The Voice in 2013 as a 16-year-old releasing her self-titled debut album five months after winning The Voice moving to Nashville in 2015 learning the songwriting craft creating her new album, I Don’t Believe We’ve Met, which drops on Dec. 1 coming up with the title for…
Jim Casey talks with Justin Moore about: having his first son, Thomas South Moore, in June why Thomas prefers mom over dad right now how Thomas’ three older sisters like the new addition to the family scoring his seventh No. 1 single, “Somebody Else Will,” in August releasing the title track from his 2016 album,…
Jim Casey talks with Cole Swindell about: his current streak of seven consecutive No. 1 singles releasing his new single, “Stay Downtown” dropping his new EP, Down Home Sessions IV, on Nov. 24, which features acoustic versions of songs he wrote for other artists picking the five songs for the new EP the concept behind…
Jim Casey talks with Keith Urban about: “Blue Ain’t Your Color” winning the CMA Award for Single of the Year debuting his new single, “Female,” at the CMA Awards hearing “Female” for the first time on Oct. 11, one day after it was written by Ross Copperman, Shane McAnally and Nicolle Galyon recording “Female” on…
Jim Casey talks with Lee Brice about: early mornings with his three kids, Takoda, Ryker and Trulee his five-month-old daughter, Trulee releasing his self-titled studio album on Nov. 3 why he decided to self-title the album (the Metallica effect) building the album on an organic level via the instrumentation putting every bit of “Lee Brice”…
Jim Casey talks with Blake Shelton about: the excitement of releasing his 11th studio album, Texoma Shore having a career that spans 17 years recording the new album in his studio on the shore of Lake Texoma on the Texas/Oklahoma border his earliest memory of Lake Texoma, which involves his mother screaming the catalyst for…
