Craig Morgan Six-Song EP Out October 20

Craig Morgan recruits Trace Adkins, Luke Combs, Gary LeVox, Jelly Roll, Blake Shelton and Lainey Wilson for new project, Enlisted.

On the heels of being sworn into the U.S. Army Reserve live on the Grand Ole Opry stage this summer, country music hit-maker, author and Army veteran Craig Morgan is announcing a forthcoming brand-new EP, Enlisted, set to release October 20 on Broken Bow Records. Morgan recruited several of his famous friends — Trace Adkins, Luke Combs, Gary LeVox, Jelly Roll, Blake Shelton, and Lainey Wilson — for the six-song project, which features new versions of some of Morgan’s biggest hits, as well as two brand-new songs.

“Making this record has been so much fun because I got to get in the studio with some of my friends and also re-create some of my catalog in a way that feels like brand-new music,” shares Morgan.

Craig Morgan – Enlisted – official track listing:

1. “Raise The Bar” featuring Luke Combs

2. “Almost Home” featuring Jelly Roll

3. “Redneck Yacht Club” featuring Blake Shelton

4. “That’s What I Love About Sunday” featuring Gary LeVox

5. “International Harvester” featuring Lainey Wilson

6. “That Ain’t Gonna Be Me” featuring Trace Adkins

Produced by Craig Morgan and Phil O’Donnell

Last week, Morgan kicked off his popular “God, Family, Country Tour 2023,” in partnership with Operation Finally Home. Morgan and special guests The Reeves Brothers will play thirteen theater and auditorium dates through the end of October. Tickets and VIP experience packages are on-sale now at CraigMorgan.com.

Lady A on CBS's Today Show

Make sure you tune in tomorrow, Tuesday to see Lady A perform their new single, "Love You Back" on the TODAY show.

Lady A's Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood ©Curtis Hilbun/AFF-USA.com

Lady A find themselves longing for a love just out of reach during "Love You Back," their new song.

The mid-tempo country track is next up from a new project, release date TBD.

"Love You Back" features familiar Lady A harmonies, but recalls their early hits as Charles Kelley sings lead for verse No. 1 and Hillary Scott comes in for the second. Dave Haywood's mandolin leads an organic arrangement that swells through the final chorus.

"A memory can't tell you how to make you feel / In the moonlight glow of a shotgun seat / A memory can't pick out a diamond ring / And say I do under an old oak tree," the group sing.

James McNair, Lindsay Rhimes and Emily Weisband wrote "Love You Back," and Dann Huff returns to produce, as he's done on each of Lady A's last two albums.

Lady A are currently on the Request Line Tour.

• 09-29 Durant, OK Choctaw Grand Theater

• 10-19 Wallingford, CT Toyota Oakdale Theatre

• 10-20 Boston, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway

• 10-21 Philadelphia, PA The Met

• 10-26 New York, NY Beacon Theatre

• 10-27 Syracuse, NY Landmark Theatre

• 10-28 Washington DC The Anthem

• 12-11 Nashville, TN OPRY Country Christmas

Ashley McBryde Talks Advice and Touring

McBryde is gearing up for The Devil I Know Tour, which she’ll kick off in Mobile, Alabama, in October.

“We've headlined before, but the difference is now we have things we couldn't have before. We have a keys player, Wesley, and it makes such a huge difference. Our lighting director, Courtney, is just magical. And when you can supplement what everyone's hearing with what they're seeing, this will be the first time we've ever had stage production,” McBryde said.

“There won't be a video wall and there won't be CO2 cannons or anything,” she quipped, “but this is going to be the biggest thing we've done so far.”

Ashley McBride ©Tammie Arroyo/AFF-USA.com

Ashley McBryde never will run out of good advice.

The Grammy award-winning country singer, 40, spoke to PEOPLE about the wisdom she’s both learned and shared with others over the years before taking the stage for the All for the Hall guitar pull benefitting the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

“I could be funny and say the best advice I've ever given was never run out of baby wipes, and it is really true. When you live on the road with a bunch of men? Festival season? There should be a candle that is just that [baby wipes] scent,” she said with a laugh.

Tour hygiene aside, McBryde believes the most sage piece of wisdom she’s ever shared was with country star Lainey Wilson, when the two were on tour together.

“I think the best advice I probably ever gave was to Lainey back in the day when she was out opening for us. And I said, 'I'll do everything I can. I don't know what all I can do for you, but I'll do everything I can if you promise me that you'll turn around and do it for somebody else,'” McBryde recalled, before adding with a smile, “And she has.

The best piece of real-world advice McBryde was ever given, however, came from a stranger back when she was in school. The advice had such a profound impact on her that she wove it onto the lyrics for her latest single “Light On in the Kitchen.”

“One time I was backing up a van in college at the fine arts department, and this is where 'never back up farther than you have to' comes into play," she explained. "And I said, ‘Do you think I've backed up far enough?’”

She continues: “And I hear 'Never back up farther than you have to.' And this individual raises his eyebrows and looks at me, and I have revisited that phrase over and over, whether it's picking up a phone when an ex calls or seeing that you're sliding back into your old ways when you've tried to break a bad habit. Never go backwards farther than you have to.”

McBryde’s latest album, The Devil I Know, out now, is filled with songs that speak of truth and lived experiences (take “Learned to Lie” and “Single at the Same Time”) which can be a bit of a double-edged sword.

“It can be a little bit costly that your dirty laundry is someone else's entertainment,” she said. “But the upside to that is if I've lived those things, I'm not the only one who has that exact situation going on. I love ‘Single at the Same Time.’ And it just feels like a big oof when you sing it.”