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Urban, Nelson top new releases

Friday, April 27, 2018 – Keith Urban and Willie Nelson lead the releases out today.

Urban drops "Graffiti U," the follow-up to his 2016 release "Ripcord." He already had released "Female" and "Coming Home." The disc features more than 30 songwriting, producer and featured guest performance credits, including Greg Wells, Dann Huff, Mike Elizondo, Ed Sheeran, Ross Copperman, JHart, Julia Michaels, Nicolle Galyon, J.R. Rotem, Shane McAnally and Shy Carter.

Nelson is the "Last Man Standing" with his latest disc. Nelson's release contains 11 original songs and was produced by Buddy Cannon. This is the follow up to last year's "God's Problem Child." Most of the songs on "Last Man Standing" were pebed shortly after last year's release came out. The songs were recorded one time with no demos. The disc contains 11 songs.

Morgan Wallen, who is on the charts with "Up Down," featuring Florida Georgia Line, is out with his debut, " If I Know Me," on Big Loud Records. He wrote 6 songs of the 14 songs on the disc produced by Joey Moi. The project embodies Wallen's whiskey-soaked vocals and Southern rock edge. Wallen attended the same high school as Kenny Chesney in eastern Tennessee.

Sideline makes its debut, "Front and Center," on Mountain Home and fourth overall. The bluegrass band was founded by Steve Dilling (banjo), Skip Cherryholmes (guitar) and Jason Moore (bass). The side project changed focused as the core members were joined by Bailey Coe (guitar) and Troy Boone (mandolin). Newcomer Daniel Greeson replaced longtime band member Nathan Aldridge on fiddle in 2018.

Youthful bluegrass band ClayBank is out with "No Escape." The first single is "Queen of Carolina." Half of the North Carolina band is under 20;.


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