That Nashville Sound Saturday Newsbytes: Will Hoge, FGL, Lindi Ortega, David Nail, Randy Houser & More

There's lots of new country music news that came out yesterday and we'll try and spill the beans and give you links to everything you should be in on the know for.

- Randy Houser has a brand new single out as of yesterday titled "What Whiskey Does" and you can hear it here.

- After parting ways with his major label, David Nail is back independently as David Nail and the Well Ravens and has an outstanding new track called "Heavy."

- Kenny Chesney has a new music video for "Trip Around the Sun."

- Shot at Battle Tapes Recording in Nashville, "You Ain't Foolin Me" is a new live music video done for Lindi Ortega's brand new album Liberty.

- Florida Georgia Line have a new music video for "Simple."

- Last Monday, the Song Suffragettes did a group cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" featuring Michelle Pereira, Emma White, Candi Carpenter, Tiera and Caroline Watkins.

- Corey Smith made a new sentimental music video for his new song "Halfway Home." 

- Jerry Wiggins, the second drummer in the famed Buck Owens band, the Buckaroos, has died. Check out KF Raizor's obituary here.

- That Nashville Sound favorite Will Hoge will have a new album out on October 5 titled My American Dream.
 

That Nashville Sound Saturday Newsbytes: Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, LeAnn Rimes, Kacey Musgraves & More

This morning's column has several new music videos and a couple of exciting project updates for potential release later in the year. (Click on the blue link to watch the performances or get additional information on the news tease.)

- Lee Brice has a new music video for his song, "Boy".

- Keith Urban performed the new track "Never Comin' Down" off last week's album release live on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

- LeAnn Rimes "reimagined" her hit "One Way Ticket" and filmed the live performance video from one of her concerts. It's a great reminder of the pipes that young lady has.

- Kacey Musgraves released her new music video for the song, "Butterflies".

- Lindi Ortega released her new music video for the song, "Liberty".

- Luke Combs released his new music video for the song, "Beautiful Crazy".

- John Mellencamp recently released a live DVD of a concert featuring he and Carlene Carter and unveiled a music video of him performing "Pink Houses" from the project.  

That Nashville Sound Thursday Newsbytes: Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, Lennon Stella & More

The labels are just now coming out of their normal Thanksgiving to New Years hibernation and the proverbial Hot Stove of country music is heating up with news about new projects and artist signings.

- Lennon Stella (of Lennon and Maisy and CMT's Nashville television show) has a signed a record deal with RECORDS’ newly-established joint venture with Columbia Records and plans a solo album out later in the year.

- Dierks Bentley released a new music video for his song, "Woman, Amen." 

- Liberty will be Lindi Ortega's highly anticipated new album following the critical acclaim of her previous release Faded Gloryville and Til the Goin' Gets Gone. Due out on March 30, 2018, Liberty was recorded in East Nashville, TN, the album is produced by Skylar Wilson (Justin Townes Earle, Rayland Baxter) with Steelism as the backing band and Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie McCoy on harmonica and vibraphone.

- John Oates (of Hall of Oates) released the rootsy song "Miss the Mississippi and You."

- Keith Urban's yet-to-be-given-a-release-date next album will be called Graffiti U.

- Old Crow Medicine Show have had Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton) produce their next album called Volunteer and out on April 20.

- Caitlyn Smith unveiled her new music video for her powerhouse vocal song "Tacoma."

New Music Video From Lindi Ortega - "Waiting 'Round To Die"

New Live Music City Roots Performance Video From Lindi Ortega- "Run Amuck"

New Music Video From Lindi Ortega- "Someday Soon"

New Music Video From Lindi Ortega- "Ashes"

New Live Performance Music Video by Lindi Ortega- "To Love Somebody" (Bee Gees Cover)

Lindi Ortega Readies Faded Gloryville for August Release

Artist: Lindi Ortega
Title: Faded Gloryville
Label: Last Gang Records
Release date: 8/7/15

 "Faded Gloryville isn't just about music," Lindi Ortega says about her new album coming out August 7, 2015. "It's about anything that brings you down, whether it's dreams not coming true or relationships not working out, and its message is this: you can go to place where you're feeling really down about things, but it's what you do afterwards — do you decide to reside there forever, or do you leave and make the situation better — that matters. You have to travel through Faded Gloryville to get to Paradise."

"It's about how much faith you need to put into whatever you're doing, and how hard it is to keep that faith," Ortega says of her follow-up to her award-winning 2013 album Tin Star. "Everyone starts off in this business with huge dreams. Years later, after being signed to a major label, then getting dropped, then getting signed to an indie label, I realized that the dreams I had at the beginning were a bit naive. Metaphorically, Faded Gloryville is a state of mind where you've gone from being so excited about something to so tired, and you realize it's not quite what you thought it was gonna be. You realize just how much you have to sacrifice to make those dreams work, and you need to reassess what you're doing. Do you stop there, or do you move on?"
Faded Gloryville track listing:

1. "Ashes"
2. "Faded Gloryville"
3. "Tell It Like It Is"
4. "Someday Soon"
5. "To Love Somebody"
6. "When You Ain’t Home"
7. "Run-down Neighborhood"
8. "I Ain’t The Girl"
9. "Run Amuck"
10. "Half Moon"

New Live Performance Music Video From Lindi Ortega and Dean Brody- "Let It Snow"

New Music Video From Lindi Ortega- "Lived and Died Alone"

Hear It Here- Lindi Ortega- "People Are Strange" (The Doors Cover)

New Music Video From Lindi Ortega- "I Want You"

Director: Brendan McCarney
Cameras: Mike Gillespie, Nick Tiringer, Brendan McCarney
Editor: Mike Gillespie
Produced by Last Frame Pictures (www.lastframepictures.com)

TNS Video History- Lindi Ortega- "All I Want For Christmas Is A Cowboy"

On this Christmas Eve, we bring you Lindi Ortega singing what many of our single girl readers are thinking I'm sure. Be sure to leave out some cookies and milk for Santa this evening.

New Music Video From Lindi Ortega- "Tin Star"

Lindi Ortega coos and cuddles around this terrific song about trying to make a career in music in Nashville. You'll see this on our year-end list soon.

New Live Music Video From Lindi Ortega- "Tin Star"

New Music Video From Dean Brody (Featuring Lindi Ortega)- "Bounty"