ACM-nominated trio Runaway June today released the beguiling and melodic love song “To Be Yours,” available now across all digital and streaming partners. The song is slated to be Runaway June’s next single at U.S. Country Radio with an impact date of April 14.

“To Be Yours” arrives just as singer Stevie Woodward announced her engagement to boyfriend Jordan Howell.

“To Be Yours” was penned by Runaway June band members Jennifer Wayne, Natalie Stovall and Woodward alongside Aaron Eshuis (one of MusicRow’s “Top 100 Songwriters of 2024”) and the track’s six-time GRAMMY-winning producer, Ron Fair. Woodward’s tender lead vocal floats above lush harmonies, gentle acoustic guitars, and a tender instrumental hook from Stovall’s fiddle, as she tells her now-fiancé that all they really need in life is each other:

You and I could sail in a boat on the Atlantic

Climb Mount Everest, or skydive in Paris

Leave the world behind, build a house on a deserted shore

But I would be happy just to be yours

“At the time that we wrote ‘To Be Yours,’ I was talking to my boyfriend about, do we want kids one day or do we not?” recalls Woodward. “And I was thinking, ‘If we weren’t lucky enough to have a family, I would be happy just to be yours.’”

“When Stevie brought in that idea and that melody, we were so over the moon about it,” says Stovall. “It was such a fun writing experience.”

“‘To Be Yours’ is just a beautiful love song and one of our favorite songs that we’ve written together,” adds Wayne. “Natalie and I felt like it was a gift from God, except that it was a gift from Stevie!”

Runaway June will debuted “To Be Yours” on the Grand Ole Opry stage Wednesday, Feb. 12, when the trio joined Lauren Alaina, LoCash, Opry member Mark Wills and more for the Mossy Oak Presents Conservation Aid, a live concert benefit for The NWTF Foundation, supporting the future of our wild places and wildlife.

ABOUT RUNAWAY JUNE

Strong-minded, soft-hearted, and wildly free-spirited, each member of Runaway June possesses the kind of powerhouse talent and radiant charisma that fully commands the spotlight. But when the three musicians sing together, their crystalline harmonies create an impact well beyond the sum of its parts and instantly stir up a whole world of feeling: sweet relief from heartache, escape from the everyday chaos, an unabashed freedom to shake off your inhibitions.

Gifted, celebrated creators from the writing room to the studio and concert stage, Runaway June is comprised of founding member Jennifer Wayne (vocals, rhythm guitar), Natalie Stovall (vocals, fiddle, mandolin) and Stevie Woodward (lead vocals and guitar, harmonica).

With Runaway June’s career triumphs including earning nominations from the Academy of Country Music Awards and the CMT Music Awards, bringing their electrifying live set to spots on tour with country icons like Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan, and scoring a major radio hit with their GOLD-certified breakthrough single “Buy My Own Drinks,” the Nashville-based trio are now set to deliver a new chapter, and their effervescent sound shines like never before.

“To Be Yours” is the latest release from the “next hot trend in country music” (Billboard). Produced by six-time GRAMMY winner Ron Fair (Christina Aguilera, Vanessa Carlton), the beguilingly melodic love song finds Runaway June’s lush three-part vocal harmonies floating above gentle acoustic guitars and a tender fiddle to declare that all a couple really needs in life is each other.

George Strait continues to prove why he’s been dubbed the King of Country, setting a record for the largest single ticketed concert in U.S. History and a new record for Texas A&M Kyle Field for a single event with 110,905 fans in attendance for George Strait: The King at Kyle Field. The record-breaking performance was one of only 10 live shows from Strait last year including a supersized stop at Allegiant Stadium for his 37th Strait to Vegas show.

The country music icon along with eleven-time GRAMMY winner Chris Stapleton will continue the excitement with five shows in 2025. Joining Strait and Stapleton for this run of one-off stadium dates will be special guest Parker McCollum for the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Foxborough dates with Little Big Town joining for the only west coast show at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.

“I keep trying to slow down a bit but you keep calling me back. Please don’t ever stop. I still love it just as much as I always have,” shares Strait. “Thank you for an amazing year last year and I can’t wait to see you for a few more again this year. Chris will be back and glad to have Little Big Town with us in LA. For the other cities, we’ve added Parker M. to the show which will be outstanding. Can’t wait to see you!!”

Of his stop at New Jersey’s Metlife Stadium last year The Associated Press opined, “Strait turned a space of tens of thousands across many demographics into something resembling the intimacy of those honky tonks he’s always singing about.” Bringing “a big band and a lot of heart” for what AP describes as the “closest a person can get to levitation…singing along to ‘Amarillo by Morning’ in a stadium of tens of thousands.”

While Pollstar opines, “Strait remains the most worthy inheritor of Merle Haggard or Willie Nelson’s mantle of country icon through the meaningful fluidity with which he moves through country’s various sub-strains with the same ease and enjoyment that marked both men’s Country Music Hall of Fame careers.”

Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. local time via GeorgeStrait.com. American Express is providing Card Members access to Amex Presale Tickets™, available for purchase starting Thursday, February 20, before the general public on-sale, while supplies last. Terms apply.

George Strait w/ Chris Stapleton & special guest Parker McCollum:
May 10, 2025 Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field
May 31, 2025 Pittsburgh, PA Acrisure Stadium
June 14, 2025 Buffalo, NY Highmark Stadium
June 21, 2025 Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium

George Strait w/ Chris Stapleton & special guest Little Big Town:
July 19, 2025 Inglewood, CA SoFi Stadium

It’s been 15 years since The New York Times praised Strait as “a country superstar in complete command of his gift,” and with the arrival of his 31st studio album for MCA last year, Cowboys And Dreamers, that statement rings just as true. Filled with classic country honky-tonkers about drinkin’ and not thinkin’ as well as sad songs and ballads about loss and cheatin’, listen to the album Cowboys & Indians Magazine notes is “​​a cornucopia of trad-country-arrangement beauty,”.

The follow-up to Honky Tonk Time Machine, Strait’s 27th No. 1 Billboard Country album, Cowboys And Dreamers was named “album of the week” by Associated Press, and features 13 new songs, including “Three Drinks Behind,” “MIA Down in MIA,” “The Little Things,” “Honky Tonk Hall Of Fame” featuring Chris Stapleton and Strait’s rendition of Waylon Jennings’ “Waymore’s Blues” which all have made appearances in his live set.

Crafting relatable lyrics comes naturally to Liz Kennedy, who has announced her latest release, “Coyote,” After experiencing a whirlwind of personal changes, the San Francisco-based singer-songwriter has come to see songwriting not as a choice but as something she must do. She recognizes that music is what sustains her and provides a way forward. A decade of critical success as a recording artist has allowed her to grow more confident in her ever-evolving persona—quirky, humorous, and deeply insightful—dedicated to truth and always striving to find something original to say. The single is the third from her upcoming album.

In support of the new music, Liz will release an official video produced by Eric Peltier to accompany her new song, which will be available on her official artist YouTube Channel on February 14.

Adding her thoughts to the song’s meaning, Liz shared, “It was the beginning of the Covid shutdown. The city was quiet. San Francisco. And at the top of my hill, Telegraph, I saw a coyote walking calmly across the intersection for the first time in 30 years. My boyfriend asked me to move to the country with him a few days later. I lived in Sonoma County for 7 months. The pandemic was a different reality for each different person. Being older, I was scared … but safe. Covid changed almost everything. Everything after that is, to me, the afterlife I refer to in the song. “Right here, in this afterlife…” It still feels like an afterlife. The “world spinning crazy.” But living in the country for the first time since childhood brought me hope. I hoped that if I made it through, I’d return and “try to set things right”. Or at least, bake a blackberry pie.”

“Kennedy’s writing makes excellent use of long-standing formulas and consistently finds ways to pour old wine into new bottles. It further aids her efforts that she’s a unique singer with supreme interpretative powers whose performances take already fine lyrics and transform them into mini-epics of the heart.”-Gashouse Radio.

Produced by Joel Jaffe and Liz Kennedy and engineered and mixed by J. Jaffe, “Coyote” was recorded at Studio on the Hill with Liz Kennedy (vocals/acoustic guitar), Jeff Campitelli (hand-drums/bodhran/djembe), Marc Levine (bass), J Jaffe (BGV/acoustic guitar), Hardy Hemphill (BGV/harmonica/keyboard), Eamonn Flynn (keyboard) and Pete Contino (accordion).

A year in the making, today brings the launch of Randy Travis’ brand new single, “Horses In Heaven” amidst a heavy week for many. The song, penned by Jon Randall and Matt Nolen, had quite the journey to Country Music Hall of Famer, Travis. It’s a perfect fit for the artist who has been horseback since he, quite literally, was a baby. Harold Traywick, Randy’s late father, was a renowned horse trainer in North Carolina and ensured that his children inherited his skills. Listen to the song here: ffm.to/horsesinheaven.OPR

Randy Travis addressed the heaviness of the moment in a statement on his social media, yesterday; “This has been an incredibly hard 24 hours. Last night, many souls were lost in the horrific plane crash in Washington, D.C. and this morning, we lost a dear member of our country music and Warner Music family, publishing giant Ben Vaughn. My prayers are with all of the people affected by these losses, including members of our team. Tomorrow’s song release, “Horses In Heaven” feels like a timely reminder of God’s love and mercy and I hope it brings some comfort to those of us hurting through these tragedies. We have decided to continue with this release and promotion of it, but felt remiss to not share what’s on my heart right now… God Bless Ben, the victims of last night’s crash and all who are feeling the heaviness of this moment.”

There are horses in Heaven,
So I bet that God’s a cowboy
Headin’ off into the sunset in a big white Stetson hat
Every time you hear the thunder, it’s just a posse full of angels
Ridin’ those horses up in Heaven, golden saddles on their backs.

Randy Travis is currently on the More Life Tour with special guest vocalist James Dupré along with his longtime touring band.

More Life Tour 2025 Dates:
Feb. 8 – Scottsdale, Ariz. – Virginia Piper Theatre
Feb. 10 – San Luis Obispo, Calif. – CAL Poly State PAC
Feb. 11 – Bakersfield, Calif. – Fox Theatre
Feb. 12– Santa Barbara, Calif. – Lobero Theatre
Feb. 14 – Monterey, Calif. – Golden State Theatre
Feb. 15 – Visalia, Calif. – Visalia Fox Theatre
Feb. 16 – Sacramento, Calif. – Crest Theatre
Feb. 23 – Mason City, Iowa – North Iowa Community College
March 20 – Cedartown, Ga. – Cedartown PAC
March 21 – Princeton, W.Va. – Chuck Mathena Center
March 22 – Ashland, Ky. – Paramount Theatre
April 10 – Joliet, Ill. – Rialto Square
April 11 – Effingham, Ill. – Effingham Performance Center
April 12 – Renfro Valley, Ky. – Renfro Valley Entertainment Center
April 25 – New Philadelphia, Ohio – Kent State PAC
April 26 – Clarksburg, W.Va. – Robinson Grand PAC
May 9 – The Woodlands, Texas – The High Horse
May 10 – Arlington, Texas – Arlington Music Hall
May 11 – Branson, Mo. – Clay Cooper Theater

About Randy Travis
With lifetime sales exceeding 23 million, Randy Travis is one of the most successful multi-genre artists of all time and a 2016 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1986. His accolades include seven Grammy Awards, 11 Academy of Country Music Awards, 10 American Music Awards, two People’s Choice Awards, seven Music City News Awards, eight Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association and five Country Music Association Awards. Three of his performances earned CMA Song of the Year honors: “On the Other Hand” (1986), “Forever and Ever, Amen” (1987), and “Three Wooden Crosses” (2002). To date, he has 23 No. 1 singles, 31 Top 10 hits, and more than 40 appearances in feature films and television shows. His discography includes four Gold albums, four Platinum albums, one Double Platinum album, one Triple Platinum album, and one Quintuple Platinum album. In 1992, Travis was recognized by the USO for his support and dedication to US Troops, including five USO tours, and was named the recipient of the Bob Hope Entertainment Award. In 2004, Travis was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is celebrated on Nashville’s Music City Walk of Fame. Since his near-fatal stroke in 2013, Travis, with the support of his wife Mary and rigorous physical therapy, has made significant strides in his recovery, including improvements in speaking, walking and singing. In 2019, he released his critically acclaimed memoir Forever and Ever, Amen, co-authored with Ken Abraham. In 2021, CMT named Travis the CMT Artist of a Lifetime. In 2022, he released his award-winning documentary More Life garnering six Telly Awards. In May 2024, With the assistance of AI, Travis and Warner Music Nashville released “Where That Came From,” marking his first new recording in over a decade, showcasing his signature vocals. The single debuted at No. 45 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, receiving an enthusiastic reception from both fans and country radio and has led to Travis and his wife advocating for creators’ rights in Washington D.C and beyond.