Sometimes the best songs come from absolutely nowhere, which is exactly what happened the day Lee Brice's new single, "Parking Lot Party," was born. Rhett Akins, his singer-songwriter star son Thomas Rhett and BMI's 2012 Songwriter of the Year Luke Laird all got together to hash out another hit not that long ago, but things just weren't clicking the way they'd hope. Roughstock had Akins tell us the whole story!

"That song was not even supposed to be written," Akins tells Roughstock. "I was writing with Luke Laird and Thomas Rhett. Lee wasn’t even scheduled to write with us. It was just one of those miracle days where Thomas Rhett just wasn’t feeling anything we were writing. We started two or three songs, and Thomas Rhett was like, ‘Naw, I don’t like that’ or ‘I don’t feel like writing that.’ His head just wasn’t into it that day. He said, ‘Why don’t we go get something to eat, and maybe when we come back, we can find something.’

Zippo Encore will hit the road with breakout country artist Lee Brice from May 4 through August 24, 2013 when Lee joins Brad Paisley as special guest on the Beat This Summer Tour presented by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store®.

This marks Zippo Encore’s first partnership in the country music market, as part of their efforts to continue to engage all genres of music fans.

Lee proclaims, “I'm ready to get the "Beat This Summer" tour started and welcome Zippo Lighters out on the road! The Zippo Encore program is a great way to bring some extra time to meet those fans. I had a lot of fun designing my custom lighter and can't wait to see them flickering in the crowd every night.”

Taste of Country - Megan Pacella

Anyone who has been through a breakup knows that it takes a village to recover from a broken heart. That’s why Tyler Farr called on his country music buddies Colt Ford and Lee Brice and ‘Duck Dynasty’s’ Willie Robertson to join him for his music video for ‘Redneck Crazy.’ Moral of the story: Don’t mess with country boys.

‘Redneck Crazy’ is a song about heartbreak — so you wouldn’t expect the video to be worthy of a few chuckles. But when you put together three fun-loving country music singers and one heir of the ‘Duck Dynasty’ family, that’s exactly what you get.

When the slow, sad song starts out the video cuts to a shot of Farr looking heartbroken. He’s playing with a silver ring crafted from two hearts, while his buddies try to comfort him. But the ‘Hot Mess’ hitmaker doesn’t stay down and out for long.

To read full article and watch the video click here

By Grady Smith - EW.com

Country music fans that tune in to A&E’s cable smash Duck Dynasty have every reason to be happy, happy, happy lately.

Willie, Si, and the rest of the crew have made a point of inserting themselves into the country music scene. Not only did the boys show up in the clip for Darius Rucker’s hit single “Wagon Wheel” last month, but Willie gets rough and muddy with singers Lee Brice and Colt Ford in the music video for Tyler Farr‘s new single “Redneck Crazy,” which EW can exclusively preview below. Click here to watch the preview.