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\n\tThe stars were out in East Nashville on Thursday, September 25, as Rolling Stone and Dickel Whisky teamed up to host another round of the \u201cRolling Stone\u2019s Writers\u2019 Room.\u201d Joseph Hudak, RS Senior Music Editor and host of the Nashville Now<\/em> podcast, took the stage to welcome Dickel\u2019s Class of 25: future country music superstars Kaitlin Butts, Tyler Halverson, and Braxton Keith.<\/p>\n \n\tThroughout the night, there were interviews with each singer-songwriter between performances of some of their greatest and newest songs.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Christensen<\/p>\n \n\tButts kicked off her performances by sharing the inspiration behind her cheeky song \u201cCome Rest Your Head (On My Pillow)\u201d and had the crowd in hysterics with a story about asking country music legend Vince Gill to sing backup on the track, an ode to well-endowed ladies. In the second round of the evening, Butts gave a showstopping performance of a new song, \u201cNever Really Mine,\u201d and later brought the house down with her viral hit \u201cYou Ain\u2019t Gotta Die (To Be Dead To Me).\u201d After asking the room, \u201cGeorge Dickel and Rolling Stone, can I spill the tea real quick?\u201d Butts told the audience that the track\u2019s TikTok fame was born out of a moment of female empowerment. \u201cMy friend, [country singer] Avery Anna, she loves the song, so she started posting it on her TikTok and the song just sort of took off from there,\u201d she told the crowd. \u201cIt felt good to sing that song and have so many girls cheer it on.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Christensen<\/p>\n \n\tHalverson opened his first round of music with \u201cMac Miller,\u201d a song that references the late rapper. When asked how a hip-hop artist could inspire a country song, Halverson recounted: \u201cI was working on a ranch out in Wyoming and we were laying a bunch of salt blocks for these heifers. You look around and [see] the Big Horn Mountains all snowcapped and my buddy\u2019s just bumping Mac Miller. Mac and Drake. Nothing country at all. But we were doing some country shit.\u201d Later in the night, the South Dakota native performed his next single \u201cMore Hearts Than Horses\u201d and \u201cBeer Garden Baby,\u201d a fan favorite that Halverson recently rereleased as a duet with charttopper Parker McCollum.<\/p>\n \t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Christensen<\/p>\n \n\tNeotraditionalist Braxton Keith opened his set with his single \u201cBaby You Do.\u201d When asked how Keith feels about his music being labeled \u201coutlaw country,\u201d the Texas native said, \u201cI\u2019m a big outlaw fan. It\u2019s kind of just staying true to yourself and sometimes that\u2019s making music that is not the norm and people label you a little bit differently.\u201d Later, Keith played \u201cA Little Bit Closer\u201d and \u201cCozy,\u201d a storyteller\u2019s take on a true story about his years of performing at birthday parties. He shared that he played the same female fan\u2019s party every year and while each time she had a different boyfriend, she always called on Keith to return.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Christensen<\/p>\n \n\tThe evening was a stunning tribute to Dickel\u2019s Class of \u201925 with performances from the fresh faces that are paving the way for the genre\u2019s future. The celebration of new artists and time-honored musical traditions blended storytelling and song, much like Dickel Whisky\u2019s beautiful blend of modern tradition. Based just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, in breathtaking Cascade Hollow, the iconic distillery has been revitalized by General Manager and Distiller Nicole Austin, who has introduced new products and techniques to the 150-year-old brand.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Christensen<\/p>\n \n\tAnd to underscore the blending of classic flavors and innovative techniques, bartenders were mixing up three specialty Dickel Whisky cocktails. The Dickel Old Fashioned (Dickel Bourbon, simple syrup and dashes of aromatic bitters); the Dickel Rye Highball (Dickel Rye and soda water); and the Dickel Bourbon Gold Rush (Dickel Bourbon, fresh lemon juice and honey syrup).<\/p>\n \n\tAs the night closed out, Hudak led the three troubadours and the entire crowd in a toast, raising a glass to Dickel Whisky and the genre\u2019s future. \u201cWe have had such a great night with these three artists,\u201d he said. \u201cCountry music is in good freaking hands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The stars were out in East Nashville on Thursday, September 25, as Rolling Stone and Dickel Whisky teamed up to host another round of the \u201cRolling Stone\u2019s Writers\u2019 Room.\u201d Joseph Hudak, RS Senior Music Editor and host of the Nashville Now podcast, took the stage to welcome Dickel\u2019s Class of 25: future country music superstars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[16955,16953,16954,16952,16956,1034,4358,7122,5114],"class_list":{"0":"post-28535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-braxton","9":"tag-butts","10":"tag-halverson","11":"tag-kaitlin","12":"tag-keith","13":"tag-rock","14":"tag-room","15":"tag-tyler","16":"tag-writers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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