Music News

• ERNEST co-wrote "Son Of A Sinner" with Jelly Roll - a song that helped JR explode onto the country music scene last year
• With ERNEST opening for Morgan Wallen's "One Night At a Time Tour," fans were already getting a great show - and Saturday night, they got a special treat, as Jelly joined ERNEST during his set for a live joint performance of the hit tune
• The two traded bars, joining forces on the chorus - and of course, the crowd went nuts
• Source: CountryNow

• Morgan Wallen made his return to live performing following a week of vocal rest over the weekend
• Back on stage, Morgan added two new songs to his setlist: "98 Braves" and "Cowgirls" - a collaboration with tour opener ERNEST
• And he didn't waste the opportunity to bring ERNEST on-stage to perform the song live - for the first time - as a duo 
• Source: CountryNow

• We told you last week that Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert seemed to be working on something together - and now we know that it's even better than a simple collab
• The pair revealed on their socials that they have worked up three collabs - all to be heard in upcoming episodes of the CBS series "Fire Country"
• On top of that, Dierks has also recorded a solo song that will appear in the season finale of the show
• Source: TheBoot

• Blake Shelton has come a long way from his hometown of Ada, Oklahoma - all the way to Hollywood and the Walk Of Fame
• Blake will get his star on the Walk May 12 in a ceremony that fans can watch either live or online
• His is the 2,755th star on the Walk - with his coming in the category of Recording for his "outstanding achievements in the music industry."
• Source: CountryNow

• A Reddit user asks, “What is something that everyone loves to s**t on, but actually isn’t that bad?”
• More than 17-hundred responses have come in, with answers ranging from chain bookstores to Taylor Swift.
• Guy Fieri, GMOs and Adam Sandler movies also make the list.
• Source: Reddit

• Miranda Lambert has achieved a new career milestone: best-selling author
• And she doesn't take it lightly; in an Instagram post she was obviously blown away when she was informed her new cookbook had hit #3 on the New York Times Best-Seller list
• Carrie Underwood reached out via Insta, congratulating her fellow country singer on her big achievement - while holding her own copy of the book
• Source: TheBoot

Carly Pearce Crushes National Anthem At Kentucky Derby: Kentucky native Carly Pearce called it a "major bucket list moment" 

• He may be a country boy from North Carolina, but Scotty McCreery has an appreciation for a wide range of music - especially if that music is, in large part, his own
• Scotty was surfing the internet when he came across a Colombian singer named GUSI who had taken a swing at Scotty's song, "Why You Gotta Be Like That" - and he loved it
• Loved it so much that he reached out to the singer and the two worked up a new version of the song - duet style, with Scotty singing in English and GUSI doing his bars in Spanish
• Source: CountryNow

• Jelly Roll has been there/done that when it comes to jail time
• The star owns a food truck - "Rollin'' With Jelly" - that serves food and donuts, and the employees have all served time
• JR says, "Our mission statement was, we only hire second-chance guys. Every other place in the world is like, 'If you got a felony, you can't work here.' We're only hiring felons."
• Source: TheBoot

• Travis Kelce never met a mic he didn't like - and that played out once again at Lainey Wilson's Kansas City concert at the NFL Draft last week
• The Kansas City Chiefs tight end jumped on stage, grabbed the mic, and started up on an acapella version of Josh Turner's hit "Your Man"
• The footballer-turned-hype man finished with "Kansas City I love you!" followed by "how 'bout one more time for Lainey Wilson?!"
• Source: WhiskeyRiff