Between dates on her already-epic 'Cloud 9 Tour,' Megan Moroney and her dog Boots join Katie Neal in the studio to talk about the making of her latest trek, the importance of her fans, and how she navigates life with a puppy on the road.

Moroney’s tour began in May, featuring hallmarks of Megan and her 'Cloud 9' album, a detailed stage design, and a floating window moment across the arena that initially had the singer in a panic.

“I will say I had 2 weeks to rehearse up in Pennsylvania, and fortunately my video guy Jeff has it all on video so one day I'll get to show everybody,” she shares. “The 1st 5 times I went up there I was terrified, like they were having to give me towels because my hands were so clammy and sweaty and I kind of felt like I was gonna pass out up there, and I was like kind of having mini panic attacks.”

“I think it's because all the lights were on so I could see the two little strings I'm hanging from, I could see that I could touch the rafter, I could see that I could fall to my death if something went wrong,” she adds. “Once we started doing the show full out and the lights were off I was like, ‘oh this isn't bad.’ And honestly, I was kind of just like, I'm gonna have to find a way to get over this fear because this window's already been paid for and it was expensive, so we're using the window.”

“Obviously the more I did it, it's fun now. It's one of my favorite parts of the show.”

On tour Megan keeps her routine, eating at the same time, doing her Pilates workout on YouTube, knocking out the schedule to keep things rolling.

“Every 15 minutes I have something to do,” Moroney admits. “Like my day is planned out that way.”

Through it all, she knows that it’s the fans that have pushed her career to this level, looking back on the past few years as she has shot to superstardom. “I released ‘Tennessee Orange’ in 2022 and it hasn't even been four years since I released [it]. It'll be four years this football season.”

“I always just give credit to my fans because they've done this for me, they show up, they're the ones that have encouraged me to continue to be honest in my songwriting and they support me when I do things. I know that there's a lot of people that don't get it still, but… the people that do get it, that's what it's for.”

For more from Megan Moroney and her dog, Boots, check out the full interview above.

Heading into the 4th of July, Katie Neal got to sit down with one of our favorite fireworks, HARDY, who has carved out his own lane in Country music and songwriting since first exploding onto the scene.

The GRAMMY-nominated singer is set to embark on a trip to Japan with his wife, his longest time away from his 15-month-old daughter, Rosie. While with Katie, he can’t stop gushing about how smart and sweet his little girl is, surprising himself with the way she has changed him.

When asked what surprised him about fatherhood, HARDY says, “I guess in a way this might sound weird, but how gentle and delicate I want to be with her.”

“Not that I ever imagined it any other way, but like, there's just something about a little girl,” he adds. “I'm looking at these guitars, all my guitars are banged up, all of my stuff is, I'm just rough on my stuff, and it's something about her that it's just, it's just completely different. I've never been that kind of person to be very gentle or to take things slowly or to be patient with things, and it's just, it's like second nature for me for sure.”

The conversation shifts to a mysterious, under-wraps film project involving actor Glen Powell, that HARDY is a part of, filming some scenes recently at CMA Fest. “I got to sit in the room and like he, I don't think this is giving too much away. He's already been talking about it, but like he's immersed himself into the culture. It reminds me of what Post Malone did where he like, he didn't just come here and write with all the big people. He like wanted to write with the songwriters and learn all that, and Glenn really like came to town and kind of, more or less, I guess like method acting, he wants to learn about the town to play the better character.” HARDY would be down to do more acting, but he needs to play himself. “Certain people just play themselves,” he notes, citing actors like Vince Vaughn. “I feel like that's the only way I can do it because I've thought about like, how hard it would be for Johnny Depp to become a completely different person and how good like Jared Leto, some of these people are just great at becoming a different person. There's no way I could do that I don't think.”

The real passion for HARDY still lies in songwriting, sharing that he’s having a real “songwriter moment,” including his work on the all-star single, “McArthur,” featuring Tim McGraw, Eric Church, and Morgan Wallen.

"It's two different channels of fulfillment too,” he says. “I started a publishing company with some members of my family... we're signing people and then like people that have never had hits and they're like writing hits and we're writing hits together and it's really cool, it's really special."

To hear more about a few of those hits and family life with HARDY, check out the full 'Superstar Power Hour' interview above.

Fresh from his 'Album of the Year' win at the ACM Awards this year, Parker McCollum is back with Katie Neal, talking about the big night, his child on the way, and the story behind his latest hit, “Killin’ Me.”

“I really, really, really didn't expect it,” Parker says of his win at the ACMs, with his self-titled LP taking home the prize for 'Album of the Year.’ “They say your name and it's on live TV and you're like, ‘oh damn, what do I do now?’”

“So many people are a part of my journey, I would need so much time to really thank everybody that I truly and sincerely want to give credit to for putting me in a position to do something like that, but it's, I don't know, it's such a blur when they call your name.”

After the big win, McCollum says he took his luck to the tables in Las Vegas with Tucker Wetmore. “Me and Tucker went to the blackjack table,” he shares. “We were balling. Laney Wilson was back there, and Zach Top was too. They weren't at our table. They ended up coming over once we were in it, and we were like, ‘Hey, this is going really well. Y'all can't sit down.’”

“Every time Laney would walk over and check on us, we would win. So like we had this Laney effect and like every time she would come over, and eventually she just came and hung out and I mean, I think I walked away with like 13,000. I sat down with 1000. Just asked Tucker, like it was the most unorthodox way of making money in that game, not playing by the rules, just winging it. The place is going crazy, but we had a good time.”

The winning streak continues for McCollum, who is once again climbing the charts with his song, “Killin’ Me.”

“A lot of people describe that song as like a sexy love song, but I had never really written anything from that perspective or in that vein, so it was kind of new territory for me in the songwriting aspect,” Parker reveals. “It was a little dark and it was emotional, and it was all hot and bothered is what the melody kind of made me think of, so it's just 3 grown men in the room writing this song.”

“I was like, let's all just close our eyes and picture our wives and let's stop looking at each other,” he laughs. “That's just how I've always written songs, just messing around on guitar, just kind of, you know, just making stuff up.”

For more on the upcoming addition to his family, and the stories behind some of his songs, listen to the full conversation with Parker McCollum above.

Cole Swindell is forever changed, thanks to his newest title, Dad. The singer stopped by for a talk with Katie Neal about his new single, “Girl Dad,” and what the first Father’s Day in his new role means to him.

Swindell shares that having a child fundamentally changed his perspective, teaching him that the common cliches about how fast time moves are actually true. "There's no measure of time like a child, like watching how fast it goes by watching them grow and I don't know. It just sounds like a bunch of cliche stuff that is the truth now."

As his daughter nears one, Cole has unveiled an emotional new track, "Girl Dad," explaining that the song serves as an update to his life since the release of his hit, "You Should Be Here."

"It's just an update of life over the past 3 or 4 years to my dad,” he explains.

Swindell wanted to revisit the site of his father’s grave - the location where the video for "You Should Be Here" was filmed - to update his father on his life. He emphasizes that despite the specific title, the song is ultimately about hope and finding light at the end of the tunnel, even after profound loss.

“It may be titled ‘Girl Dad,’ but it's really for anybody going through any life moment or anything. Those moments where you wish you could just call that one person or a couple people, and tell them. So I hope that people know that this is a special song to me, but it's really just the power of music and also hope.”

“Sometimes that's all we need is to know that whatever that feeling is, there's somebody out there that's been through it,” Cole adds.

To hear more from Cole on the search for his late father’s old Bronco, and the stories behind a few of his biggest hits, listen to the full conversation above.

Keith Urban has gotten so good at what he does, that he accidentally cooked up the perfect summer soundtrack for you and your friends.

The GRAMMY-winning singer just released his Yacht Rock album, 'flow state,' setting the season off with an easy-going batch of beach-ready anthems, along with help from John Mayer, Little Big Town, and Michael McDonald. He joins Katie Neal this week during the 'Superstar Power Hour' to discuss how it all came together.

After purchasing a studio in Nashville in 2024 and getting it operational by 2025, Keith simply wanted to record something fun to break in the new space. “We put a band together and I said to Dan Huff, ‘let's just do a couple of Yacht Rock songs just to break in the studio,’ like there was no intention of releasing them at all,” Keith shares. “It was just fun.”

It was something that everybody in the band knew, we all know these songs, let's just have fun, let's not be getting too serious about everything,” he adds. “I would go away and tour and I'd come back and if I had time we would just put the band back together and maybe do one or two more songs and then I thought, well maybe I could release a little EP while I'm in between albums, you know, my original albums.”

“It really did take on a life of its own.”

The album features three collaborations from Little Big Town, John Mayer, and the one and only, Michael McDonald. “I'd actually recorded the album, we sequenced it, we mixed it, mastered it, turned it into the record label, it was done,” explains Urban. “My new manager said to me, ‘it'd be really great if we could get one of the Yacht Rock dudes to collab on something,’ and I said, ‘like who?’”

Keith already had a song in mind for McDonald, and got a session together to record with him in record time. “I'd met Michael, he'd recorded his vocal, we'd recorded the song top to bottom, we mixed it, we mastered it, we re-sequenced the record, we resurfaced it, we put it back on the label,” says Keith. “That's probably the shining example of how the album has consistently had a life of its own.”

For more from Keith Urban on the meaning of 'flow state,' and the debate surrounding the sound of Country music, check out the full conversation above.

Inside the chaos of CMA Fest in Nashville, Chris Young and Katie Neal slowed down long enough to catch up, talking about his new sports bar, the deluxe of his latest album, 'I Didn’t Come Here To Leave,' and how the title track came to be.

The party atmosphere of Chris Young’s “I Didn’t Come Here To Leave” was actually penned at 9AM according to the singer, but it was inspired by one last beer the night before.

“This song sounds like we wrote it at 9PM, we wrote it at 9 in the morning,” shares Young. “Dallas Davidson and I were hanging out. We hadn't run into each other in a long time.”

“I was just waiting for traffic to die down. He goes, ‘do you wanna have one more beer?’ And I was like, ‘oh, sure, if you do.’ And he goes, ‘I didn't come here to leave.’ And I was like, ‘please tell me you haven't already written that as a song,’ and he's like, ‘No, man, I haven't.’”

Chris pushed to write the song in the morning, but Davidson already had a writing session scheduled for 11AM. “I was like, ‘will you do 9AM? I bet we can knock this out.’ I was like, ‘I bet we can do this in 2 hours.’ And we ended up writing the song in under an hour.”

“It was just one of those serendipitous [things], like if I hadn't been hanging out with him… if all those things don't fall into place, that song never gets written or it gets written by somebody else somewhere on down the road.”

To hear more about the deluxe edition of I Didn’t Come Here To Leave, and Young’s new sports bar in Nashville, listen to the full conversation above.

Zach Top has been busy, as the chart-topping, Audacy LAUNCH artist has oscillated between shows around the world and the pursuit of a better golf game back at home. The “I Never Lie” singer joins Katie Neal this week for the 'Superstar Power Hour,' opening up about life off-stage and sharing the stories behind a few of his biggest hits.

When he is not on the road, Zach enjoys golfing and tinkering in his garage he tells Katie, and he stays committed to lowering his golf handicap. “I sit in the backyard and I got a net I hit balls into.” shares Top, “and I got a little portable simulator set up and then I take videos of my swing, and then look at my swing and say that looks bad, and then I try to do something different and it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't.”

“I did not understand for the longest time why golf was like… why people were so obsessed with it, but then, when you start playing, like there's so many things that have to go right all at the same time and it's ridiculous.”

When he’s not at home trying to get better, he’s on the road working towards that lower handicap, already reformed after a few years of touring.

“I used to look at guys with their gym trailers and, you know, Riley [Green]'s got a big old gym set up out there, and I'm sitting over there drinking beer at 10 in the morning and laughing at him for working out,” he says. “Now that's me too.”

“I thought I had 10 or 15 years of good hard living in me, and I'm three years into full-time being on the road and I'm already slowing down.”

“We do a little working out in the morning, a lot of times go play golf,” he adds. “That's a fun little way to get away from the venue for a little while too. It sounds like it'd be glamorous and fun, but yeah, you're just sitting in another parking lot every day. They usually have it set up really nice, it's comfortable and we're on our buses and stuff like that, so there's nothing to complain about, but it is nice to get out of the parking lot and away from the venue, go see some green grass.”

For more behind-the-scenes stories of life on the road, and the origin of some of his songs, check out the full conversation above.

You can’t open the internet in 2026 without another big Riley Green announcement. In a few short months since his last visit with Katie Neal, the Country star has started an acting career, received an honorary doctorate from Jacksonville State University, and announced that he’s a coach on the upcoming 30th season of 'The Voice.'

The “Change My Mind” singer joined us earlier this month at the ACM Awards, detailing his latest string of success, and offering some insight into his strategy for 'The Voice.'

“I bet I'll enjoy working with the artists a lot,” Riley reveals. “I've never done anything like that and I don't feel like I'm overly musically talented, like I feel like these people are a lot better players and singers and know more about music than me, so my advice will probably be more in the, ‘here's some things that I did… don't do this.’”

“You gotta try to win. I mean, I'm very competitive,” he adds. “I think it'd be fun to see what I'm drawn to musically because I grew up in the burnt CD era when it was like a Tim McGraw song and Tupac was the next one on there, we listened to everything growing up.”

Green with join Adam Levine, Kelly Clarkson, and Queen Latifah on The Voice when it premieres on NBC in September.

For more from Riley on acting, music, and his honorary degree, check out the full conversation above.