Gabby Barrett and her husband, Cade Foehner, are expecting their second child, a boy, later this year. On Thursday, she took to Instagram to ask fans to submit suggestions for possible baby boy names. In a recent interview, Gabby said that she is feeling pretty tired and is still experiencing some nausea, but she's good for the most part. The couple's 1-year-old daughter, Baylah May, is excited about becoming a big sister. "She's very sweet about her babies and baby dolls already. She puts them to sleep all the time, she'll hold them like she's putting them to sleep. It's the sweetest thing," Gabby shares. "Give them their pacifier, and she does give my belly kisses and stuff. I don't think she understands there's a baby in the belly, but she's very sweet about it." This summer Gabby will join Jason Aldean for the first half of The Rock N' Roll Cowboy Tour. At the end of August Travis Tritt, Tracy Lawrence and Chase Rice will appear on select dates.
Jason Aldean's "Trouble With A Heartbreak" has just become his 27th number one song. It sits at number one on both the Mediabase/Country Aircheck Singles chart and Billboard's Country Airplay chart. The track appears on his double album, Macon, Georgia. Jason will be hitting the road soon on his Rock N' Roll Cowboy Tour.
Niko Moon has new music coming in June. His five-track EP Coastin' will be available on June 10th. Niko co-wrote and co-produced all five songs on the forthcoming project.
Jimmie Allen's song with Jennifer Lopez is not the only collaboration on his new album Tulip Drive. There is another cross-genre collaboration called "Pesos," which features rappers CeeLo Green and T-Pain. His duet with Jennifer Lopez, "On My Way," is being released on Friday. The new album, which has 17 tracks, will be available on June 24th.
John Driskell Hopkins (Hop) from the Zac Brown Band has been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He revealed the news to their fans in a video message on Friday. John has hope for the future, saying, "Because my symptoms have been slow-progressing from the start, we believe they will continue to be slow progressing going forward. God willing, I plan to be rocking with these amazing people for many years to come." John has created a foundation called Hop On A Cure to fund research for ALS.
Brett Kissel has joined forces with 98 Degrees for his new song "Ain't The Same." He said that when he wrote the song with Karen Kosowski and Tim Nichols, he didn't picture it as a collaboration. "As we really leaned into a lot of the harmonies that I was doing to myself to make a quality demo, we all looked at each other and said, there's a really good chance here that this song could be a really great collab," says Brett during a recent interview. His manager, Jim Cressman, was able to bring Brett and 98 Degrees together for the collaboration. He has known Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees for a while. He heard that the band was looking to do a country record, so he sent them "Ain't The Same." Plans for a country album fell apart, but they still wanted to record the song with Brett. He's currently working on his next album, which he says is "the most extravagant and extraordinary album" of his entire life.
One person was hospitalized in Batesville, Miss., on Saturday night after gunfire erupted during Jameson Rodgers' set at their annual Spring Fest concert. Jameson, who is from Batesville, shared his thoughts with his fans Sunday on Facebook, saying that he is still processing what happened and "wanna say prayers for everybody that was involved in...whatever happened last night." The investigation is ongoing. Police aren't offering any further details at this time, but they did have a message for Jameson, saying, "The incident that happened had nothing to do with all of the family, friends and fans that came to support your homecoming."