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Katie & Company

Katie & Company

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ACM-nominated Katie Neal is here to get you through the workday and keep you in the know with all things Country music. She's always looking for a good laugh and a great deal. When Katie's not on your radio, she's probably binging her favorite TV shows, attending a wedding or planning a trip somewhere! Katie was recently recognized by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation and won a Gracie Award.© 2025 Audacy, Inc. Music
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  • Jason Aldean | Superstar Power Hour
    May 29 2025

    Jason Aldean is currently rocking stages across the country with his 'Full Throttle Tour,' excited to get back on the road after six months away. He joined Katie Neal this week during the 'Superstar Power Hour' and talked about prepping for tour, and how he's spent his time away from the spotlight.

    Aldean is "ready to get back to work," he tells Katie, but his time away has produced some new music we'll hopefully hear later this year. "Trying to finish up an album while we're off not touring, so kind of wrapping that up," he says. "I got some new music coming this year."

    A new album would be a great accomplishment for anyone, but given the carpool schedule at the Aldean house it's even more amazing. "Right now, you know, kids are all playing sports. Memphis is in baseball, Navy's in softball. Kendall's playing flag football at her school, and so they're just kind of all over the map," he reveals. "We've spent a lot of time going to practices and games and doing all that kind of stuff, and all that's about to wrap up here in the next week or two and get ready for summer."

    "Yeah, essentially a chauffeur and just trying to figure out how to get everybody where they need to be and, not really a lot of time for me to do anything right now except be a driver."

    Jason says he's "excited to get it out there," with the new music, but still figuring out the best way to present the songs due to the rapid consumption of music these days. "You know, you drop an album and then everybody just consumes it for a month or two and then they're like, 'OK, when's the next one coming out?' You're like, 'man, it took me 8 months to make that thing.' So, I think this go around, trying to figure out how we drop a project and maybe kind of stagger it out where we don't give them everything right off the bat, just enough to kind of say, 'here's a little bit' and then 'here's a little bit more' and then, 'here's the rest of it' kind of thing."

    "It's Morgan Wallen's fault," Jason jokes. "Morgan's putting out all these records, 20 songs here, 20 songs there, then dropping like random stuff here and there and it just like seems like the guy's dropping a new record every 4 months or something. The reality is there's a lot of work that goes into that and just writing the songs, and getting to a place to go in and make those records. So to just turn them out like that it's almost impossible. So, just trying to figure out how to extend the life of the album and some of the songs."

    Hear more about the new music, the 'Full Throttle Tour,' and more during the 'Superstar Power Hour' interview with Jason Aldean above.

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    14 mins
  • Tim McGraw | Superstar Power Hour
    May 22 2025

    The love story between Tim McGraw and Faith Hill remains a fairytale, and during his 'Superstar Power Hour' interview with Katie Neal, we learned how it all started.

    "I remember the very first time I saw a picture of Faith. I fell in love instantly," Tim gushes, after looking back at one of Faith's first award acceptance speeches. "I think she was on Billboard magazine or something. I was walking through my management office, and I'd had like one or two singles out off of my first album, I hadn't really done much, and I was in the process of recording my second album. I walked by and saw the photo of her on it and I'm like, 'oh my God.' I need to find that girl."

    The two have now been married for nearly 30 years, sharing 3 kids along the way, and still adding to the family. "We got two new puppies at home, so we're pretty busy right now," adds Tim. "We got Aussie Mountain Doodles. So they're cute as they can be, but they're a handful... She's busy handling them while I'm out doing some work."

    In addition to his family update, McGraw also gave us an update on his health, after undergoing several surgeries over the last few years. "Over the last 2 years I've had 4 major surgeries. So it's been a rough go, but you know, I beat myself up over the years pretty badly."

    "I'm starting to come around. It's just gonna take a little time, but I've done a lot of PT getting to where I can move a little better. There's setbacks, you know, you go a couple of weeks, everything is really good, then you have a couple of weeks everything goes backwards again, and so it's sort of a back and forth thing, but at least I'm up and going and moving."

    "The worst part for me is I'm terrible at sitting still," admits Tim. "I had two back surgeries before the tour last year. And then during the tour, the back started going cattywampus on me and in about 3 weeks in the tour, my knees went out, so I had to do the whole tour with my knee shot, my back shot, so right after I had double knee replacements. So both knees. And that was the worst, having to lay there for 6, 8 weeks and not do much."

    "That was the worst part was mentally. I mean, I was warned about it by my doctors that everybody that gets these things, there's of depression that happens. And for me I was saying, 'I not gonna get depressed, you know, it's football season. I'm gonna have my knees replaced and watch football.' But, you know, 3 weeks into it, I was tired of it."

    Thankfully Tim is in better spirits now, booked and busy with more music to enjoy. There's the MLB Speedway Classic happing in August, his Field of Dreams concert later that month, the Music City Rodeo later this month, and of course his new take on "Paper Umbrellas" with Parker McCollum out now.

    "That song was on my 'Standing Room Only' album, and we were getting ready to pick a new single. I wanted to bring something off of that album, and there were a couple of choices we had, but I always loved that record, one of my favorite records on the album, and I wanted to freshen it up a little bit because it had been out for a while on the album."

    "And was looking around at somebody new to put on the record and Parker was the first guy I thought of because I liked his music and the direction that he goes, and the way his voice sounds, and it seemed like his voice would fit perfectly on this type of song," reveals Tim "He did a great job on it and so we decided that, yeah, this is gonna be the single and so it's off and running."

    Hear much more from Tim McGraw during the full 'Superstar Power Hour' interview above.

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    22 mins
  • Chris Young | Superstar Power Hour
    May 15 2025

    This week on the 'Superstar Power Hour,' Chris Young is in to keep Katie Neal company, talking about the making of his beautiful new ballad, "Til The Last One Dies," his upcoming album, as well as a look back on his career as he approaches his 40th birthday.

    "It's almost done," Young says of his upcoming 10th studio album. "Got a whole bunch of stuff tracked, ready to go."

    The project is preceded by "Til The Last One Dies," a wedding song if ever there was one, and Chris Young knows it. "I personally, I don't want to be reaching, I don't want to be over ambitious, but like 99% of the people that are getting married this year should use it as their first dance song at their wedding," he shares. "I don't want to say 100% because you don't want to be greedy, but I, I just love this love song."

    The song is just one of the tracks that Chris says makes up the "snapshot" of his life for his upcoming LP, a piece of advice that he has carried with him from another artist. "I think something that another artist told me one time, I think is very encapsulating of every single album that you will ever make, if you make one, if you get to make one hundred, It's a snapshot of where you are in time as an artist. What you feel, what resonates with you, what you've written, what you find."

    So what are those things for Chris Young as he enters this next era?

    "I think this is really just about having a whole lot of freedom," he admits. "The ability to, if I wanna do a song where I've just got steel guitar all over it, that's totally fine. If I want to do something where I'm standing in the studio with two of my good friends, stomping with a mic set up next to our feet to get part of a track that we want like a stomp clap thing, and all of us just like laughing, telling jokes and goofing off, that's totally OK."

    "You get to just make art. It's never perfect. It's always abandoned, but you work as hard on it as you possibly can."

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    19 mins

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