Jerry Holthouse

Music editor for Nashville.com. Jerry Holthouse is a content writer, songwriter and a graphic designer. He owns and runs Holthouse Creative, a full service creative agency. He is an avid outdoorsman and a lover of everything music. You can contact him at JerryHolthouse@Nashville.com

RECORDS Nashville Signs George Birge

RECORDS Nashville label has announced the signing of singer, songwriter and TikTok sensation George Birge to the roster. “George represents everything that makes us excited about being in Nashville and working in country music,” comments Weiss, Partner and Co-Founder of Records. “He’s a total star — a great singer and …

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Fellow Artists Mourn The Loss Of B.J. Thomas

With his smooth, rich voice and unerring song sense, B.J. Thomas’s expansive career crossed multiple genres, including country, pop, and gospel, earning him CMA, Dove, and Grammy awards and nominations since his emergence in the 1960s. Thomas’ career was anchored by numerous enduring hits, among them his million-selling cover of …

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Luke Combs Scores 11th Consecutive #1 Single

Luke Combs’ Platinum-certified single, “Forever After All,” is #1 this week on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. This is Combs’ eleventh-consecutive #1 single, a first on the chart, as well as his sixth-consecutive #1 from his new deluxe album, What You See Ain’t Always What You Get—tying the record for …

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William Lee Golden Releases His Autobiography

William Lee Golden, member of the GRAMMY Award-winning and Country Music Hall of Fame group, The Oak Ridge Boys, tells all with the release of his new autobiography titled ‘Behind the Beard,’ written with Scot England. The brutally honest memoir takes readers on a journey from William Lee’s humble Alabama …

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Shannon McNally’s “The Waylon Sessions” Drops Tomorrow

With her new album, The Waylon Sessions, Shannon McNally set out to revisit the songs and spirit of Waylon Jennings, a legend with whom she’s always had an ongoing fascination, but her collection of tunes ended up being not so much a tribute as it is a recontextualization; a nuanced, …

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Lee Greenwood Signature Bourbon In Stores On Memorial Day

Lee Greenwood, known for his beloved anthem “God Bless The USA,” is rolling into the Memorial Day holiday ready to help raise awareness and money for various veteran organizations. The Lee Greenwood Signature Bourbon will be arriving in stores across the United States starting this Memorial Day 2021 weekend. In …

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Americana Music Association Announces 2021 Nominees

Americana Honors & Awards Performers Announced

This afternoon, the Americana Music Association announced the nominees for its 20th annual Americana Honors & Awards during a socially-distanced ceremony at Nashville’s National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM). This year’s nominations were revealed by GRAMMY® Award-winner Keb’ Mo’ and Ketch Secor, frontman and fiddler of the Americana Award …

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LISTEN: David Ferguson’s ”Nashville No More”

David Ferguson’s name comes up quite frequently when one starts to dig into who’s behind Nashville’s most revered recordings of the last 40 years. A Grammy Award-winning recording engineer, studio owner, video game soundtrack composer, and collaborator with the likes of Johnny Cash, John Prine, and Sturgill Simpson , there’s …

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Breland Set For First Headlining Tour

BRELAND

BRELAND will hit the road this fall for his first-ever headline run, the CROSS COUNTRY TOUR. Kicking off September 5 with his high-profile appearance at Bonnaroo Music Festival, BRELAND will perform coast-to-coast in major markets including Chicago, New York, Nashville and Los Angeles. “I’m headlining my first ever tour!!!,” BRELAND …

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