Kenny Wayne Shepherd has been making music since he was 13 years old, but he waited until the ripe old age of 18 to release his debut album, 'Ledbetter Heights.' This week the blues guitarist looked back on his debut album 30 years later, talked about his upcoming Rock covers LP, and his desire for a Country cover of "Blue on Black" with Rob Stone of the Rob + Holly Show.

"It's a monumental record. I mean, this is ground zero. This is the beginning for us," Shepherd says of 'Ledbetter Heights,' which was released in 1995. "This is the introduction of, you know, me and my music and my band to the world. And it's like the foundation, it's like we met our fan base and started building our fan base on this record. And now here we are 30 years later."

Kenny tells us he's currently working on a Rock covers album, and took some time to talk about the covers of "Blue on Black" that exist in that genre and his hopes for a Country version to eventually emerge.

"'Blue on Black' for me, we released it in 1997 and it was a massive hit for us and it set a record at the time for the most consecutive weeks at number one on the Rock charts in the history of the Rock charts," remembers Shepherd. "Then 20 years later, Five Finger Death Punch, which is a heavy, heavy Rock band, they contacted me and said, you know, 'we're gonna record this for a new album, and then we want to do another version of it and have you play on it.' And I'm like, 'OK, great.' And then they had Brantley [Gilbert] come in, and then he became part of it. And then we had Brian May from Queen playing guitar on it. So it was like all these different worlds coming together."

"20 years later, it was like exactly 20 years later, they put it out and it shot up to number one all over again on the Rock charts."

"I would love nothing more than for some Country artist to come and cover that song, I think, because it's a hit song no matter what, no matter what format it is, and I think that the right artist covering that song can have a#1 hit within Country radio too, and I hope that happens."

To hear much more from Kenny Wayne Shepherd, check out the full interview above.

Priscilla Block has learned a lot since her debut took Nashville by storm. Now the 30-year-old singer is back with her sophomore album, 'Things You Didn't See,' letting listeners in with a vulnerable, open new effort.

Talking with Rob + Holly during the 'Friday Night Takeover,' Block took us inside the making of 'Things You Didn't See,' talking about her journey from moving to Nashville at 17 to finding success, and unpacking the meaning and stories behind songs like "Couldn't Care Less."

"When I wrote 'Couldn't Care Less,' it really kind of just felt like therapy that I didn't even know I needed," Priscilla reveals. "My album was actually done last year, like it was gonna be a full different project and I was listening through to the songs and I just didn't know what was missing, but I knew something was. I realized it was my life, like it was what I was experiencing just as a human, and I wrote that song. I put pause on the record that I had and I was just like, 'I think I need to keep writing.'"

"I just felt like it was my letter to people that maybe assume that just because I'm a big personality or I'm confident or whatever that I'm like bulletproof, and the song is being vulnerable and being like, 'I actually care a lot' and I wanted to say that on this record."

"I knew it was my time to show kind of a different side and I just feel like it's my letter to anyone that maybe hasn't gotten it. It's interesting the response that I've had to it because so many people are like, 'dude, like this is my life.' I feel like people don't realize that you're human, like you're a real person. Do you know what I mean? They see the person I guess on social media."

"Obviously there's always the trolls online," Block adds. "I find new things out about myself every day, but some days those comments hurt a little bit more than they would have the day before. I think that that's the human thing in it. It's like, I might be confident, but if I see something negative, some days it really, it hurts a lot more than it maybe would have."

To hear more from Priscilla Block, check out the full conversation with Rob + Holly above.

During a talk with Rob + Holly for the 'Friday Night Takeover,' HARDY spoke proudly about his new album, 'COUNTRY! COUNTRY!,' but even prouder about his wife Caleigh and their baby, Rosie.

"I've always known she was tough, but it's different now," HARDY says of his wife after she delivered their baby girl in March. "I just have a different respect for her. Obviously, immediately watching my wife give birth was insane, but the big thing now is now that I'm going back on the road because I have to, it's my job, and she stays at home. I know how the nights can be and I know that they're hard and she doesn't really get a break. We don't do the nanny thing or anything like that."

"it's just us and the help that we have from our family that lives in Nashville, but she's doing it all on her own while I'm gone, and that's the respect I have for her now. That's why when I come home, I'm gonna help as much as I can because she's grinding while I'm gone for sure."

It's been tough to bring Rosie on the road for the new parents, as she has trouble staying asleep on the bus. As for the family not having a nanny, it comes down to wanting to raise their daughter themselves, together. It's a sentiment supported by fellow Country dad Luke Combs.

"There's no judgment toward anybody that has any help, but Luke Combs told me one time, it was just me and him, we were sitting out by a fire somewhere random, and he was like, 'man, we don't do it.' He's like, 'I go home and we're putting the kids to bed and we're giving them baths. That's just the way that we want to do it.'"

"Caleigh and I are just gonna try it because that's how we were raised and we want to raise our kids in a very nuclear mom and dad family, and we're just gonna try as hard as we can to not have any sort of paid help."

"Even though it's not gonna be normal, that'll come with its own set of challenges when it's like we wanna go to the county fair and walk around or we wanna go out to eat or whatever, and our kid having to deal with maybe that, but hopefully I'll be washed up by the time she's a teenager," he jokes.

To hear more from HARDY about dad life, his new album, meeting Metallica frontman James Hetfield and more, check out the full conversation above.

Chris Janson recently unveiled his latest album, 'Wild Horses,' and this week he joined Rob + Holly to talk about the making of his new LP, and share the remarkable story that led him to sell away all his objects of vanity.

The sixth studio album from Janson showcases the singer like never before, exploring deeper and stepping out of the shadow of criticism and control to give fans his most authentic self. "We made this album, and for the first time in my whole career I didn't have anybody tell me what I could write, what I could sing, how I could sing it, how I could record it, what I could do," Janson says. "For the first time ever, I never had that and it's the most freeing feeling ever, man."

Janson says he named the album 'Wild Horses' because he's always been one, and now he can finally roam the world like one. "Like the song says, 'wild horses were never meant to be tamed and wild horses will drive you half insane.' I know I've driven people half insane before, but they've driven me half insane and I'm just a free spirited guy," he admits. "I'm a real artist and I've always blazed my own trail but I used to have to be quiet about it. I don't to be quiet about it anymore."

During the wide-ranging talk with Rob + Holly, Chris talked more about the album, his hobbies, and shared an unbelievable story about how meeting a homeless friend of the family led him to sell away items he'd collected, like Johnny Paycheck's car and an array of expensive watches.

"I've never felt the hand of God like I felt that, physically and theoretically slapped me in the chest and I sat up in the bed," says Chris. "I had this really strong premonition over me and it said 'you gotta get rid of the vanity in your life.' So, the next morning after Thanksgiving, I sold the Johnny Paycheck car. I sold the Minnie Pearl car. I went into my gun room and I got all of the expensive watches that I've been collecting and coveting and 'don't scratch it, don't look at it, if you touch it, if I wear it, it devalues all the things,' and I sold them all the day after Thanksgiving, sold them all."

"I sold everything that I was collecting vanity wise," Chris says, finally sharing the unreal exclamation at the end of the story. "I got my life right. I got my heart and my body right. The guy I sold the cars to calls me on a random Tuesday and goes, 'Hey man, you know what? I just got this strong feeling that I need to give these cars back to you, so I'm sending them your way. I'm giving them to you.'"

To hear more from Chris Janson, check out the full conversation above.

Shaboozey recently joined Rob + Holly for the 'Friday Night Takeover,' diving into some "Good News" with the duo, unpacking his sense of style, and giving us a look into the making of his massive hit, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)."

"I can write a whole song in my head. Not a whole song, but I'll have the idea, which is to me the most important part," Shaboozey shares. "For like two weeks prior to that I was already kind of walking around thinking about, 'man, I wanna take a 2000 song and turn it into a Country song.' I was playing around with just different ideas, maybe 'In The Club' 50 Cent, who knows, I don't know I had a like a Petey Pablo song in my head. I had so many different songs in my head, like maybe there was a T-Pain song in there, 'Buy U a Drank,' maybe, right?"

While making tweaks to his album, Shaboozey brought up his idea and began listening to tracks from the era in the studio. "I don't know how 'Tipsy' got brought up and we were like, 'Oh. This is the song. We gotta do this song.'"

After firing off phrases around his producer's bedroom, the song came together in just an hour. "We recorded it and it was supposed to be a demo, but it was just like the magic of it. We just did it."

To hear more from Shaboozey about his career, vintage clothing finds, and more, listen to the full conversation with Rob + Holly above.

During a visit with Rob + Holly, Zach Top talked touring and remembering lyrics, those never-going-away rumors that Alan Jackson is his father, and his 2024 hit, "Sounds Like the Radio."

"It's just a goofy fun song that, you know, makes you want to tap your foot, and two-step a little bit or something," Top admits. "You need those. You need the deep stories, the songs that mean something and all that, but that one's just a fun goofy one."

"It's loosely autobiographically based or something, I guess, just in the fact that I grew up on Country music," he laughs. "I don't know. I wasn't born in '94, I was born in '97."

Top's date of birth is clear, but his lineage is a little more up-for-debate, as the internet continues to speculate that Alan Jackson is his father. "It's more than a rumor. Hell, I've been trying to figure out what the answer is," he jokes. "My parents won't answer me straight. Nobody will."

"I think the only way I'm gonna get you a straight answer is in Fort Worth when I finally meet him, when we do that first show here in a few weeks, I'm just gonna go up and say, 'Hi Daddy, I missed you.' And we'll see how he reacts and I'll know whether it's true or not."

To hear more from Zach Top check out the full conversation with Rob + Holly above.

Old Dominion has returned in full force with their new album, 'Barbara,' a 13 song collection that blends the band's signature style with something fresh, and the most personal songs of the band's award-winning career.

The group joined Rob + Holly this week during the 'Friday Night Takeover' to talk about the making of the new album, the story behind the project's title, and dive deeper about some of their biggest hits and misses throughout their tenure as one of the top groups in Country music.

"That songwriting process is, it's an interesting challenge, and it's mystifying to us still," Matthew Ramsey says of crafting so many hits along the way. "We're enamored by it. So it is a challenge, every single time, well, most of the time it's a challenge. Sometimes they come out of nowhere, and they just fall out, and you don't really know how you did it. Those are typically the biggest songs."

Hear more of the hilarious conversation about 'Barbara,' Yacht Rock, and more by checking out the full interview above.

Checking in from a rainy day on the video shoot for “Bottle Rockets,” Scotty McCreery and Hootie & The Blowfish reached out to Rob + Holly to talk about the making of the song, the history of the band, and more.

Earlier this year the Carolina connection was made between McCreery and Hootie, as the singer invited the band in to incorporate "Hold My Hand" into his latest single, "Bottle Rockets." Between takes and storms at The Windjammer in Charleston, SC the GRAMMY-winning group and the 'American Idol' alum gave us some insight into the collab and the history of Hootie.

Listen to the full conversation with Rob + Holly above.