Steven Curtis ChapmanDeeper Roots: Where The Bluegrass Grows (SCSEE Music) After many well-deserved years as CCM music’s poster child, Steven Curtis Chapman returned to his Paducah, Kentucky origins with the acoustic-flavored Deep Roots. Now, six years later, Chapman is back at it again, revisiting revamped classics and favorite hymns alongside family and friends like bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs and Rascal Flatts’ Gary LeVox on Deeper Roots: Where The Bluegrass Grows. Opening track “Where The Bluegrass Grows” is a hit right off, featuring guest vocals from Skaggs and showcasing Chapman’s effortless ease with which he segues into the bluegrass genre, picking and grinning with the best of them. “Till The Blue,”…

Todd DulaneyTo Africa With Love (eOne Nashville) Inspired and encouraged by a life-changing trip to Ghana, gospel artist Todd Dulaney returns with a musical letter of love and worship in To Africa With Love. Playing out like a greatest hits collection of Dulaney’s most powerful songs alongside a few new tracks, this live album is buoyed by an intensity of energy from Dulaney and underscored by an exuberant audience. Dulaney’s compositions weave themselves together almost seamlessly, reminiscent of a great jazz record as the driving opener “Dance In The Rain” gives way to the earnest power of “Your Great Name.” Dulaney commands the stage with poise and praise through it…

On the heels of releasing her latest single, “Defender” to radio, the second radio single from her latest album, Own It (Curb Word Entertainment), GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Francesca Battistelli is ready to take her headlining “The Own It Tour” on the road. The 18-city tour kicks off tonight in Washington, D.C. and will wrap in Tucson, Arizona April 14. Each tour stop is sure to be an evening to remember, as Battistelli will share songs from her new album along with some of her biggest hits and fan favorites. The tour also features special guests Stars Go Dim and Elle Limebear. Tour dates are listed below, and for more information…

Today the announcement was made that LifeWay Christian Resources, the largest Christian retail chain in America, will be closing their entire line of 170 stores in favor of shifting its inventory completely online. Back in January, the chain announced their plan to begin reducing locations this year because of declining sales. While no official closing date has been announced yet, the decision has now been made that it is not viable to keep any of the remaining stores open beyond 2019. On the strategy of directing their upcoming focus toward online sales at LifeWay.com, acting president and CEO Brad Waggoner shares “Our retail strategy for the future will be a…

Jekalyn Carr’s hit single, “It’s Yours,” has spent an ASTONISHING 7 WEEKS at NUMBER 1 on both the Billboard Gospel Airplay chart and MEDIABASE Gospel chart! Clearly, this song has impacted listeners with it’s encouraging message! The song is the second number one single from Jekalyn’s One Nation Under God project, that was released in February 2018 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart. The song “You Will Win” spent 5 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Gospel Airplay chart and Carr garnered a GMA Dove Award for Traditional Album of the Year for One Nation Under God. She is nominated for five Stellar…

Chart-topping rock band STRYPER will return to the road in May for the 2019 HISTORY Tour Greatest Hits & Covers that influenced our generation. The all-new HISTORY Tour comes on the heels of the band’s yearlong God Damn Evil World Tour, which concluded in Japan in February. “The music of our generation was and is timeless,” says STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet. “It was all about the song and musicians who inspired you to want to play. We grew up on bands like Van Halen, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Journey and BOSTON. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the music of these legendary bands. We thought it…

Following their first-ever JUNO Award nomination, sisters Lauren Budnick and Brooke DeLeary of the faith-forward pop duo LOVECOLLIDE were honored by The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) last night with the 2019 Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year of the Year JUNO Award for Tired Of Basic. Their acclaimed, third full-length album, Tired Of Basic, released April 13, 2018 on ABS Entertainment, LLC with global distribution through The Fuel Music. The JUNO Awards ceremony for Canada’s biggest night in music was held yesterday in London, ON, was hosted by Sarah McLachlan, and broadcast live across the country on CBC, CBC Radio One, CBC Music and more. Video…