11 June 2020

The hotly anticipated new album from Margo Price, ‘That’s How Rumors Get Started’, finally has a new release date of July 10. To celebrate, Price has unveiled the video for Letting Me Down, which you can see below. [wpdevart_youtube]X6kQSInjvvI[/wpdevart_youtube] The record, which has been produced by Sturgill Simpson with Price and David Ferguson co-producing and can be pre-ordered here, was initially due for release on May 8, but as a result of the pandemic, it was temporarily postponed without a date. Now though, we have a fresh date and in a statement that Price gave, she spoke about how sad she is and has been given recent events in the world and hopes that her new record can provide some form of peace to people. “Take me back to the day I started trying to paint my masterpiece so I could warn myself of what was ahead,” Price said. “Time has rearranged, it has slowed down, it has manipulated things like it always does…the words to some of these songs have changed meaning, they now carry heavier weight. “I’ve seen the streets set ablaze, the sky set on fire. I’ve been manic, heartbroken for the world, heartbroken for the country, heartbroken from being heartbroken again and again. “This album is a postcard of a landscape of a moment in time. It’s not political but maybe it will provide an escape or relief to someone who needs it. Sending love to everyone out there and hope I see you down the highway.” The tracklisting for ‘That’s How Rumors Get Started’ by Margo Price is: 1. That’s How Rumors Get Started 2. Letting Me Down 3. Twinkle Twinkle 4. Stone Me 5. Hey Child 6. Heartless Mind 7. What Happened to Our Love? 8. Gone to Stay 9. Prisoner of the Highway 10. I’d Die For You

Brad Paisley said thank you to two New York residents combatting racism in his own way, by sending them crates of beer and hopping on a Zoom call with them. Benjamin Smith and Marcus Ellis from New York are long time friends in Rochester, New York and wanted to open up a dialogue channel on racism following the tragic death of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, sparking worldwide protests and riots. They put signs outside the house of Smith, a former Marine, that read ‘Black or white, relax and have a beer’ and a picture of the two outside the house with the signs quickly went viral on the internet. They asked people to join in and a vast majority of their neighbourhood turned up to get involved, before literally thousands of people clocked onto it on social media – including Paisley. As such, the Grand Ole Opry member and three time Grammy winner arranged a Zoom call with the pair and as way of gratitude for what they were doing in their community and sent them hundreds of dollars worth of beer for them to get through while they were on the call with him. In fact, Paisley sent them so many crates of Budweiser and Bud Light that he wiped out the contents of that particular brand at a nearby New York store for the pair and when speaking to them, he thanked them for their efforts and stated that he is always trying to do more to help the black community. “I’m so inspired by you and we thought we should deliver more beer than you could possibly drink,” Paisley told them, as per CBS. “I’m trying to hear out my friends in the black community, that’s what you guys are doing together. It’s the same thing. “I’m all ears, always have been. I’ve had big ears my whole life!” Brad Paisley has been very busy in lockdown aside from surprising people in this way, with the artist hosting a number of stream gigs for his supporters to enjoy from the safety of their own home.