No matter how you measure it, Jordan Davis had a massive 2025. The 'Learn The Hard Way' singer released a new album, welcomed a new baby, and played headline shows around the globe, and now he tells Katie Neal, during the final 'Superstar Power Hour' of the year, it's time for something different for 2026. "I'm actually looking forward to a year that's a little lighter than what we've been doing," he shares, "mainly because I think as busy as I've been with touring and making 'Learn The Hard Way,' I really haven't been able to really sit down and write like I've wanted to." "I've either been coming into town and writing for a couple days or bringing buddies out and writing on the road, so I'm really excited for next year to continue writing and making a new record. I feel like I'm really excited to get back to songwriting, and I'm glad that next year is a little lighter so that I can do that." Back here, we're closing out 2025 and starting 2026 in style by giving one lucky listener the chance to attend a 'Totally Private' show with Jordan Davis in Nashville. We had to ask Jordan, if he had his own 'Totally Private' dream show, who would be on the stage for him? "John Prine would have been the guy that I would have given every cent I had to be in a room to just hear stories and listen to him sing," Davis admits. "If I had to say anybody, it would be John Prine. He was why I fell in love with it, why I started writing songs. That would have been my dream living room show." To hear more from Jordan Davis, check out the full interview above.

There's a lot to celebrate in the world of Lady A, as the group returned this year with another collection of Christmas songs, a holiday tour making its way across the country, and a few more family members to join the crew. As guests on this week's 'Superstar Power Hour,' the trio tells Katie Neal that they are in their "baby boom era," as they have welcomed two new additions to the Lady A family in the past year, and one the previous year. "We're in a baby boom era," shares Dave Haywood. "That's our new mood." Amongst all the life changes, the time felt right for the group to do a new holiday album, their first in 13 years, with the goal of taking it on tour to spread the Christmas cheer. "We really wanted to do a Christmas tour because in our entire career we have never," says Hillary Scott. "We've done a Christmas special. We've done 'CMA Country Christmas.' We've done some performances, but, we've always just talked about at some point we would love to tour for Christmas and so we thought, well, if we're touring we might as well freshen it up with some new music and so we got in the room and wrote two new originals and then, found a few of our favorite classics, and reimagined them." After the holidays there's more Lady A to come, as the group shares there is a lot in the works for the next project. "We have a good hefty Dropbox file going of songs, and we're just excited," reveals Hillary. "We're creatively kind of brainstorming and talking right now, and then at the top of the year that'll be the focus of just digging in and seeing what stories we want to tell and, production. We want to just stretch ourselves more than we ever have. We've lived a lot of life since our last project. So, I think bringing in all that inspiration and, just discovering what we want to say and, and how we want to say it." "I think we're definitely excited to explore to get, you know, maybe a little creatively uncomfortable." "I think we've said a lot with the last few records, like we want to get back down back to the sound of kind of our first couple of records, and I think we've done that," adds Charles Kelley. "Now it's like we wanna get to a sound we've never explored and we don't know what that is. I think our voices are gonna be the thread of it, but I would love a risky, like she said, an uncomfortable feeling of production wise that we're not used to and embrace the imperfections, all those things, and so it's gonna be fun." "This is the longest we've been in between records and I just think we're ready to kind of see if we can turn some heads, you know, in a cool way." To hear much more from Lady A check out the full conversation above.

Last month before the 59th Annual CMA Awards, Riley Green made a bet with Katie Neal on Radio Row. Just hours before Country Music's Biggest Night, the "Worst Way" singer vowed to include "Scissor Wizard," the name of his former Alabama barber, in an acceptance speech if he won. However, if he failed to do so he would wear fake eyelashes during his next interview with Katie. As it turns out Riley Green was one of the night's biggest winners at the CMAs in November, taking home 3 awards and thanking a lot of people. Unfortunately though, the Scissor Wizard did not make the cut. So when Riley joined 'Katie & Company' this week for the 'Superstar Power Hour,' he was ready to take his lashes... eyelashes. "I thought that I would maybe not win, and not have to speak, and then that was how I'd get out of it," Green shares as he flutters his new eyelashes. "But then I did and I didn't say it, so I've got on eyelashes." "I feel pretty," he laughs. "I feel 10 percent prettier than I did when I came in." "Do you reuse these?" Riley asks. "I'm not gonna reuse those," laughs Katie, "you can take those with you." "Weird when somebody comes over to my house, there's eyelashes everywhere," he smiles. "Like, 'what have you been doing?' They're mine. I promise." To hear more from the beautiful and hilarious Riley Green about songwriting, his secret acting role, and his new bourbon business venture, listen to the full interview with Katie Neal above.

As the EOTY balloons float behind her, it's clear there's a lot of winning in the world of Lainey Wilson. The 'Entertainer of the Year' is coming off an acclaimed night hosting the CMA Awards, celebrating a trio of GRAMMY nominations including two for her song, "Somewhere Over Laredo," and she's planning her wedding to Devlin “Duck” Hodges. Somehow she managed to slow down long enough to check in with Katie Neal to talk about it all. Never one to rest on success, Lainey tells 'Katie & Company' that she's already hard at work writing the next album. "Honestly, before the deluxe was even out, I was already working on the next project. That's kind of how I do it," she shares. "I want to make sure, because this job comes with a lot of different parts of it, I want to make sure that I'm always keeping the writing, the songwriting at the forefront. So no matter what, I put co-writes in there and try to just have time where I just like brainstorm and think of ideas and think about what direction do I want to go next, what have I not said, what part of me am I discovering that I feel comfortable sharing with other people." "I feel like I'm constantly soul searching, and digging things up, and so it's important for me to be writing while I'm doing that soul searching." 2026 is already set to be another massive year for Lainey, with a headlining slot at Stagecoach, the possibility of new music, and a trip down the aisle with Duck. "I sat down this past weekend and we started kind of trying to brainstorm, so we'll see," she says of the preparations for the big day. "I mean, we gotta get on it, but I told him I was like, 'you gotta come home from the woods long enough for us to plan this thing.'" To hear more about Lainey Wilson's holiday plans and her experience hosting the CMA Awards, check out the full conversation above.

Blake Shelton is our plus one this year at Thanksgiving with 'Katie & Company,' as Katie Neal talks with the singer about his "simple man" holiday wishlist, his latest projects like his show with Keith Urban, 'The Road,' and why Thanksgiving is his favorite holiday. "I grew up in a really big family with lots of cousins and aunts and uncles, so Thanksgiving was the one where, because for Christmas a lot of them would go off and do their own Christmases, Thanksgiving was the one holiday that there would be like 100 people there," recalls Blake. "We would all get together and I just, I love food, honestly. I just, I love food." Though he says it sounds "corny," Blake is most thankful for his family this year. "We're all just healthy, knock on wood, and it feels like everybody's in a good spot," Shelton shares. "I'm really thankful for that. The older I get, the more I realize, if you don't have your health you don't have anything, and so far so good for us right now." Blake is lucky to have Gwen Stefani at home, serving up some of the best dressing in Oklahoma, but in true form he also didn't skip a beat when asked who the "worst cook" was in Country music. "I would say Dustin Lynch," Shelton says. "I've spent a lot of time around Dustin. I had him out on tour with me, and he's actually came out to the ranch and hunted with a group of guys one time, and he really doesn't contribute, in any way. He's more, Dustin's a guy that even when he's hunting, he spent 45 minutes in front of the mirror that morning, getting his camo, making sure the patterns are right, that this green shirt isn't more faded than these green pants and he's just, that's Dustin. So I can't imagine him ever cooking. I've never seen him cook, so I'm just gonna go ahead and throw his name out there. Screw him when it comes to cooking." It's going to be a cold cuffing season for Dustin Lynch, but what do you expect when you're hunting buddies with Blake. A self-described simple man, Shelton also shared what was on his holiday wishlist this year. "I love corn. I love to plant corn. I love bags of corn. I love corn chips, corn tortillas, cream corn," says Shelton. "I love corn on the cob, and so just anything corn. People sometimes will throw like a little stuffed animal corn on the cobs on stage. I had a song on one of my records a few years ago called 'Corn,' and I'm obsessed with corn." Ok, so corn. Check. Anything else on the Blake Shelton shopping list? "You know, you can use corn to make vodka," he adds. "If someone out there wanted to buy me something, or I wanted to buy myself something, it would maybe be in the vodka category." "That's pretty much it, corn and vodka." To hear more from Blake Shelton on leaving 'The Voice,' hangover cures, and more check out the full 'Superstar Power Hour' interview above.

Carly Pearce is gearing up for her fifth studio album, and it sounds like nothing is off limits for the soaring songstress. The "Dream Come True" singer recently joined Katie Neal during the 'Superstar Power Hour' to talk about her vulnerable new track, her family, and why she's making the album she always wanted to make. "I went in to write this particular day, and if I'm honest, I was just feeling really low. This career has had really, really high highs and it's had really, really low lows, and I was feeling a little lost and just kind of having that feeling that anybody who has a dream, their are sacrifices to make the dream come true," Pearce says of writing the new song, "Dream Come True." "I was kind of just in my feelings about that and wrestling with all of those different kind of feelings of, well, 'I have this, but I didn't get this' and 'I thought I'd have this' and 'I don't have this' and do people care? Do I matter? Do I have, you know, a viral moment? Can I compete? Am I too old? Do they care? All these different feelings and I just wanted people to know they're not alone in all of those feelings." The song rings true for Pearce, right down to the last lines about her mother being sick and unable to come to shows like she used to. It's not something Carly has talked much about, but she did give us an update on her mother's health. "So she has Stage 4 COPD, which is a lung issue. that has been really advanced in the last few years and caused me to not be able to see her as much. She's doing really well right now," reveals Carly. "This is obviously a piece of my story that I've kept pretty quiet, but I think it's important." "It's an important piece that I wanted to share just of parents getting older, parents being sick, and my mom completely devoted her life to chasing this dream for me, and it's been hard over the last 5 years for her to not be able to be there with me, and me feeling that guilt of not being able to be with her." "That last line where it says, 'she says I can quit, but all of her prayers would be in vain, she worked her whole life to make this dream come true.' That's really honest, and I'm sure a lot of people feel that way." The first sample of Carly's upcoming album is obviously packed with emotion, and she tells Katie Neal that the rest is no different, revealing and writing in ways she never has before. "I think I've stretched what I write about, and I've stretched kind of just giving more point of view on some different topics that people have never heard me sing about, which I'm excited about," Carly admits. "This is what I wanted to do, and I think that's why I have so much peace about it. But it started because of this song and just having to figure out like, I need to return to the dream." To hear more from Carly Pearce check out the full Superstar Power Hour interview above.

A fake eyelash threatened to ruin Katie Neal's talk with Riley Green, but in the end we learned a lot, and now we have something special to watch for during the 59th Annual CMA Awards. Almost losing an eyelash as the "Worst Way" singer approached, Riley couldn't help but joke with Katie, what it would be like for him to wear some lash enhancements. "What's fun for me to think about if we did an interview and I had fake eyelashes on to see if people would talk about it," laughs Green. "You know why I wouldn't do it? Because what if I looked really pretty and then I had to do it all the time, and that's one more thing I've got to do in my regimen in the morning." Sure, a normal fear that we've all had. But what's so intense about your routine now that there's no room for improvement? "I've washed my face with like bar soap," he admits. "I have no regimen." Any lotion? "Yeah, I got like some men lotion, like face, you know, I don't know, Nivea or something." Perfect, Riley Green is just walking around looking like this with soap and a CVS ExtraCare card. Makes total sense. We do feel for him though, as he says he was recently "tricked" into getting a haircut that wasn't what he had in mind. "It wasn't a planned thing," he admits of his new haircut. "The lady was cutting my hair and she tricked me." "She got after it. She gave me what I would call racing stripes." Green had never met his latest stylist, after sadly having to part ways with his normal barber in Jacksonville, Alabama, the "Scissor Wizard." "I had a barber in Jacksonville, Alabama. It was my dad's cousin," Riley tells Katie. "He was the Scissor Wizard, which is the greatest barbershop name ever. He started painting houses and quit cutting hair, so I just get my hair cut wherever I'm at now." "I would love for you to try and work in Scissor Wizard if you win a CMA award," challenges Katie. "I'd like to thank, all of my team back home, Scissor Wizard, and my mom and dad, and, I can do it," accepts Green. See if the Scissor Wizard works his way into Country Music’s Biggest Night. Get ready for the 59th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson, LIVE Wednesday, November 19 at 8/7c on ABC.

Backstage at the 59th Annual CMA Awards, Katie Neal caught up with Old Dominion who have a big night planned to celebrate 10 years of their debut album, 'Meat and Candy.' "We're celebrating 10 years of 'Meat and Candy,'" says Brad Tursi. "So we're gonna play, you know, as many hits as we can cram into whatever it is, 4 and a half minutes." Besides the medley, the group is also hoping to break their own record for consecutive wins as 'Vocal Group of the Year.' "The best kind of record to break, really," laughs Brad. Country Music’s Biggest Night is back! Get ready for the 59th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson, LIVE Wednesday, November 19 at 8/7c on ABC.

One of the toughest categories for Country Music's Biggest Night is for 'New Artist of the Year' at the 59th Annual CMA Awards. Before the call was made, nominee Tucker Wetmore told Katie Neal backstage how impressive this year's category was. "It's all over the place too," says Tucker of this year's batch of nominees. "It's all Country, but it's different kinds and different aspects of Country, and it's just, it's so amazing to be a part of it. There's so much talent and whoever wins it is more than deserving." With a big performance set for the show and his song, "3,2,1," now entering the top 10, everything is coming together for the Washington native. "I feel like everything correct is happening," he smiles. "Everything good that could happen is happening, and I'm just sitting back and just enjoying it all." Country Music’s Biggest Night is back! Get ready for the 59th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson, LIVE Wednesday, November 19 at 8/7c on ABC.

We've learned quickly that Zach Top and ERNEST are both unquestionably talented, and unrelentingly hilarious. Somehow that collided backstage with Katie Neal at the 59th Annual CMA Awards, and result is something you simply must listen to. From trading impressions to revisiting ERNEST's epic fall to the mouth-to-mic injuries of Zach Top, strap in for a wild ride with two Country music's most hysterical singers. Country Music’s Biggest Night is back! Get ready for the 59th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson, LIVE Wednesday, November 19 at 8/7c on ABC.

Luke Combs' wish has finally come true. Becoming the highest-selling Country artist of all time? Sure. But also being surprised by his upcoming third baby. Backstage at the 59th Annual CMA Awards, Combs tells Katie Neal that he wanted to be surprised about having a boy or a girl at birth for all of his children, but it wasn't until baby number 3 that Nicole finally relented. "I wanted to do a surprise for all of them, and my wife was like, 'absolutely not, I need to know,'" says Luke. "But on the third one she was like, 'yeah, whatever.' I'm excited about the surprise." With two boys at home, anticipation is building for the family. "Tex is 3, he's like almost 3.5, so he's potty trained and he understands the deal, and Beau just kind of follows him around. It's like, 'mama baby, mama baby,' and he just points, you know. I don't know that he really understands, but he can kind of copy whatever." There is also that little matter of being the highest-selling Country artist of all time, which for Luke was a surprise in itself. "Kind of unexpected for sure, and I was just like, 'man, really?' I'm like, 'that's kind of wild'" he admits. "I feel like I haven't been doing this that long, you know, like, but then I have kind of at the same time, I don't know, I'm 35, I'm not like super old yet." Country Music’s Biggest Night is back! Get ready for the 59th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson, LIVE Wednesday, November 19 at 8/7c on ABC.

Backstage at the 59th Annual CMA Awards, Ella Langley was dressed like a winner. Just the latest in the string of epic fits from the singer, Katie Neal raved over everything Ella has brought to the stage and beyond. "I was thinking about you the other day because I was watching a video of these girls who were going to a show and they were getting their Ella Langley outfits ready," shares Katie. "It's gotta be wild for you being on stage, seeing people singing lyrics that you wrote, but then also like dressing in like an Ella Langley aesthetic." "Yeah, it is kind of weird, but it's also, I heard early on in my career, you can tell a legendary act by their shadow, by their silhouette," explains Ella. "Me and my stylist, Stef Colvin, have really worked hard on creating a brand and creating something. I think it's so fun when you see Taylor Swift fans, like they get all dressed up in the thing and they have a whole time, and that's what's so fun at the concerts and so it's just fun when I see those girls that they've spent half the day getting ready with their friends and pick out outfits. It's a blast." Country Music’s Biggest Night is back! Get ready for the 59th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson, LIVE Wednesday, November 19 at 8/7c on ABC.

Last month Dan + Shay made it official, releasing their cover of Taylor Swift's "Back To December" after video of the duo performing the song in soundcheck went viral. Now, backstage at the 59th Annual CMA Awards, they are taking requests for what's next. Katie Neal was quick to suggest something from 'Wicked,' which launched Dan into full fandom immediately. "I watched the movie. I'm so cheap, I rented it for like 19.99 when it came out. I watched it at least 8 times in the 48 hour window." Shay meanwhile has yet to experience the wonder of 'Wicked,' but he has an excuse, maybe. "I got 4 kids. I was too busy watching 'Zootopia 2.'" "I just had to keep getting the reps in because I was like, I spent money on this, I'm gonna watch," adds Dan. "It was amazing though." Country Music’s Biggest Night is back! Get ready for the 59th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson, LIVE Wednesday, November 19 at 8/7c on ABC.

Chris Young is feeling complete on his new album, 'I Didn't Come Here To Leave,' featuring honesty, ambition, and 14 tracks of meaningful music for him and his family. "I think this record, everybody always says, 'oh, this is the favorite record I've made.' because they're trying to push it," Chris tells Katie Neal during the 'Superstar Power Hour.' "But for me, with this record specifically, I really do think we made something that, as a whole project, is really, really special." "There are meaningful songs on here. There's meaningful songs to me. There's meaningful songs about my family members that are on here. It's very open, very straightforward, very honest as a project. A lot of people say, 'art's never finished, it's abandoned.' I feel like this project was completed." "It feels amazing that it's done, but also that people are going to get to hear these songs," he adds. "Honestly, I wasn't going to do anything at the beginning of this year... but I just dove headfirst into this project, and I'm really proud of what we created." While in our Nashville studio, Chris also looked back on his career, having just celebrated 19 years since his debut album. "What do you think that Chris in 2006 would be most proud of Chris, in 2026?" asks Katie. "Well, in 2006, I'm pretty sure I over drafted on Taco Bell twice," he says. "Just to have money in the bank. That would be a big part of it, but more specifically, just that I know there's songs that people have used in their weddings." "'Til The Last One Dies,' being the new single, I already know people that have used that song," he reveals. "That's such a cool thing to me because that's a life moment, and someone is going to remember that for the rest of their lives together." To hear more from Chris Young on his career journey and his new album, 'I Didn't Come Here To Leave,' check out the full conversation above.

Inside the Hard Rock Artist Lounge at our 'Stars and Strings' show in Hollywood, FL, Dierks Bentley gave us a look inside his wife's New York City marathon experience, and told Katie Neal about his new appreciation for Sabrina Carpenter. In the lead up to his performance at 'Stars and Strings,' Dierks has been traveling the country playing the role of support for his family. First up was the New York City marathon, where his wife Cassidy ran. "I'm like in straight up husband support mode," Bentley says of his time trekking the marathon route. "It's hard, as anybody's ever watched a marathon, there's like a whole separate marathon you're doing as just a fan. You're trying to see them in certain spots and you got this tracker and you're trying to see where they're coming. The tracker isn't totally accurate to their bib, and so you're like, 'OK, she's gotta be close now,' you know you get the camera out because you wanna videotape her for the kids and you're freaking out because there's so many people and so, it's a lot of work." "Then I run across town with the backpack to Central Park. I think I should have gotten the medal honestly," he jokes. "Even though she ran a 753 pace for 26 miles. I think I should have some sort of trophy." Dierks' support was a little easier later in the week, as he took on the role of Uber driver for his daughter attending the Sabrina Carpenter show in Nashville. "I was pulled off the side, the flashers going, waiting," he explained. "I will say to Sabrina though, her concert gets out at 10:45. It's pretty sweet. They know who their audience is. A lot of young girls got school the next day. Shout out to Sabrina, she knows how to pack a 3 hour show into an hour and a half. I like her for that reason alone. She's great. I'm a big fan." To hear about Dierks upcoming opening spot for Luke Combs and more, check out the full interview above.

Inside the Hard Rock Artist Lounge at our 'Stars and Strings' show in Hollywood, FL, we had the chance to catch up with Audacy 'LAUNCH' artist Hudson Westbrook, who since getting a spotlight on Audacy Country stations nationwide, has seen firsthand the impact of radio at shows. "It's cool to see them show up at the shows because of radio," Hudson reveals to Katie Neal. "We've had so many people come and they're like, 'hey all I heard was 'House Again' on the radio but I wanna hear all your other music,' and they show up to the show, buy merch, come to VIP. So for radio for me that's been the coolest part, and then also reaching a whole different crowd. I feel like it takes it to a whole, another level. I think that's the difference between arenas and bars, is radio." That song and Hudson's debut album has taken him to new heights, including opening up some of the biggest shows of the year with Morgan Wallen. "I mean, that's as big as it gets," he shares. "I was talking to my mom about it and my girlfriend and they were like, 'dude, it doesn't get much bigger than that,' opening for Morgan. Until you try to be Morgan." To hear more from Hudson Westbrook in the Hard Rock Artist Lounge, check out the full interview above.

With his new single, "Killed The Man," out in the world, Lee Brice is once again in new music mode, and he's more honest with it now than ever before. The singer stopped by our Nashville studio to talk with Katie Neal about his latest batch of songs, parenting, hunting, and much more during the 'Superstar Power Hour.' "We've been making this record for 2 years," Brice reveals. "So it's a snapshot of my life and where I am as a man and a daddy. It used to just be where I am as an artist, right? Before I had a wife and before I had kids and before I then moved to the next stage. But every record has moved forward and that's all this is, is another snapshot of where I'm at." "There's some stuff on there that's like really honest," he adds. "I'm just getting more and more honest the older I get. I'm ready to just say what I wanna say and not think about, 'well, what if everyone doesn't like this,' you can't please everybody. I just wanna be honest and honor myself and honor my family." Life is busy on the road to new music, but always busier at home with 3 children for Brice. "Every time I'm home, I take them to school and I pick them up because when I'm gone, Sarah's having to do all that," Lee shares. "So when if I'm home, I don't care what I'm doing, how late I'm doing it in the studio or whatever, I'm taking them to school in the mornings, you know, and I'm most of the time picking them up." To hear what the family has been up to and what's next for Lee Brice on the road, check out the full interview with Katie Neal above.

Over 30 years since his debut album, and Kenny Chesney is bigger than ever. Just days after his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the singer is gearing up for another round of his history-making residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas, and next week he'll release his memoir, 'Heart Life Music.' To celebrate it all and to look back on his astounding career, Kenny recently joined Katie Neal inside our Nashville studio for the 'Superstar Power Hour.' "I have to tell you, walking into that rotunda, and they say your name over the speakers, 'Country Music Hall of Famer Kenny Chesney,' and every living member is in there, you get to a place where it hits you in that moment," Kenny reveals about his induction. "The gravity of that moment is truly unbelievable." "I sat beside my mother and father, which was a gift, to be at this place in my life and career and get inducted into the Hall of Fame and still have both them with us, and I sat right beside them and the whole ceremony, my mother was squeezing my hand really hard. I said, 'Mom, you're got to let go a little bit,' he laughs. "It was emotional. It really was. It was to have all my friends there and the people that have been on this journey with me and a lot of people, you know, there's been a lot of ups and downs over the years, and to be standing there in that spot, it was just so insane." The journey that Chesney embarked on decades ago brought him to this moment, and he explores it all in his new book, 'Heart Life Music.' "This book is a roadmap of a dream," Kenny shares. "You can either take this roadmap or not, but this roadmap is full of friends, it's full of really hard work. It's not viral, it's by word of mouth. Everything's so viral today that this map doesn't really exist much anymore but, it can work." "I just learned, writing this book that I've been very blessed. I have so much gratitude, but even as a kid, I was just always very curious and always wanted to push this dream to see where it would take me even early on, and not even knowing, not even understanding what the dream was." For a deep dive into the new book from Kenny Chesney and more, check out the full conversation above. 'Heart Life Music' is available everywhere on November 4.

Live music creates life-changing moments, and for many that sing on stage and make memories for fans, they too have their own story to tell about the shows that made a mark and helped get them to their own turn in the spotlight. The same is true for Jordan Davis, who tells Katie Neal this week during the 'Superstar Power Hour' about a few of the concerts that inspired him to do what he does. "I go back to Eric Church at the Varsity in 2007 in Baton Rouge. I think it was that was one that, I just remember falling in love with music again, like seeing it performed live," Davis reveals. "He wasn't the Eric Church he is now, but the show was the exact same like back then, he was doing the exact same thing that he's doing now. It's just we've caught up." "Another one is John Prine and Amos Lee, in New Orleans," he adds. "I went with my dad. It was the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans, and it was just me and him, and it was just Amos with a guitar and then John had like a little stripped-down kind of four piece band. I remember just being moved by storytelling that night and it felt like the the world stopped for 2 hours." Before finding his calling in the world of Country, Jordan Davis was an environmental science major, and if the hits never hit, he says he'd probably would be working on an oil rig. "I'll be like a health and safety officer on like an oil rig like, out in the middle of the ocean," he says, though he can't imagine ever doing that now. "No, not at all." "I always say this, like if this bellies up, I don't know what I would do. I'll probably just sit paralyzed at the house like, 'I gotta go play shows,' right? Like I don't know. I can't see myself doing anything else but playing music and writing songs, which is also crazy the fact that that's my job." To hear more from Jordan Davis on family life, his new album, and the speed of the industry, check out the full conversation above.

Scotty McCreery sits atop the Country charts this week with his Hootie & The Blowfish collaboration, "Bottle Rockets," and during a talk with Katie Neal the singer shared how it all came together. Plus, Scotty details his fantasy football league with Darius Rucker and reveals what's at stake each season, all during this week's 'Superstar Power Hour.' "Frank and Darius, they worked together a long time and they're from South Carolina, and they invited me into their fantasy football league a few years ago," shares Scotty about his first foray into friendship with Darius Rucker. "We're all good golfing buddies, football buddies, and so I hit him up and said, 'man, I don't know if you're going to like this at all, but, we we were thinking of y'all when we wrote this and want to get your thoughts.' And he just wrote back, 'oh my God, dude, I love this. This is an absolute smash.'" Rucker sent it along to the rest of Hootie & The Blowfish, who also loved it, and it "just all kind of snowballed from there." The number one is song is amazing and all, but tell us more about this fantasy football league. "I don't talk a lot of smack about him because he's traditionally not a really good fantasy player, but he did just beat me this week. So I can't talk too much smack," admits McCreery about his league and his team, the Raleigh Rascals. "I've been second place now three years." "If you lose, like if you come in last place, we all go on a trip and do like a nice dinner for the draft, and the whole bill is on the loser, like last place," he adds. "So that's alcohol and that's the meals, and it's at least 15 to 20 people that'll show up. So it's nobody wants to be last." To hear Scotty share the other Country star that competes in the league, the latest on dad life, and more listen to the full conversation above.