Tim & The Glory Boys won Album of the Year at the 2023 CCMA Awards for their self-titled and debut album Tim & The Glory Boys.

The process of putting the album together started back in 2020 during the pandemic. They started releasing a few singles one by one and by the time they released the full album Tim & The Glory Boys already had four songs make the Top 10 Canadian Country Music Charts.

“It’s been a three and a half year journey of having the songs, recording them, and having them be available in its entirety to the public,” said Tim Neufeld.

Tim & The Glory Boys released a deluxe version of their debut album, which included some acoustic tracks. One of the songs they released an acoustic version of was a song they did with The Roadhammers, “Roll This Stone”.

To get into the holiday spirit, Tim & The Glory Boys recently released a cover of Mariah Carey’s iconic track “All I Want For Christmas.”

“I love Mariah and I love a good challenge and we are pleased with how it turned out,” said Tim.

Tim & The Glory Boys recently went on tour throughout Canada with the support of local Manitoba artist Quinton Blair.

“It was wonderful to tour again and Quinton was our favourite and we’re glad we could take him on the road wth us,” said Tim.

Make sure to listen to Tim & The Glory Boys debut album and their new Christmas cover!

At 17-years old Emily Reid was exposed to the songwriting community when she moved to Nashville. Shortly after, she moved to Toronto and immersed herself in the Canadian country music scene and her music career took off from there.

Emily recently released a new single “First Impressions,” which is a self-written and self-produced song. The song came from her experience in the music industry so far being a label and feeling pressured and misrepresented.

“It was my fault being a young women, very impressionable and feeling like I was showing up at events not being 100% myself,” she said.

During COVID, Emily sat down and the song poured out of her in 30 minutes. She made a demo and realized this song is really true to her and decided to produce the song herself as well.

“Part of the story is handing your power over to other people and I thought it would be really meaningful to produce it myself and not hand over the keys to someone else. If I am going to make a second first impression i want it to be 100% me, my story, and sound,” she said.

“First Impressions” is the first song Emily released that she wrote 100% by herself since 2015 and is her first self-produced song ever. Following “First Impressions” Emily self-produced her entire upcoming EP and has worked on production for other artists as well.

“It feels like an underrepresented space for women and is a space I want to confidently step into and there was no better way to do it for myself first,” she said.

Standout lyrics from “First Impressions” are:
“And my skirts got shorter and my lashes longer
And my waist got thinner and my defenses stronger
And the hardest part of the lesson
Is you can’t make a second first impression
And it wasn’t even me who was making”

Emily Reid’s upcoming EP coming out September 8th is composed of four songs all 100% written and produced by her. It is a dear diary story with different experiences that are intimate and vulnerable with a look into her heart during the last few years of her twenties. There are themes of love, being misrepresented, and misunderstood and getting her feet back on the ground and standing in her own truth.

Her next single from her upcoming EP “Kyle’s Wife” came out August 18. This song is about being introduced at a party as someone’s spouse instead of your own name. The songs shares the important message that when you are married you are not someones property and you keep your own identity.

Although Emily has written many incredible songs for herself, she also shares her songwriting talents with other artists including the song “Boys” recorded by Dean Brody and Mickey Guyton.

Emily originally recorded the song for herself but realized it would be such a powerful message to come from a man. Dean Brody loved it and got Mickey Guyton on it, which was her first number one.

Lyrics from “Boys”:
“Cause they don’t know the difference
Between real love and one night
A good girl and a good time
Between all the way and just taking it slow
Between one more shot on a Friday
And one knee down, baby one day
Between holding her and never letting go
That’s the difference between a man and boys”

“Dean singing it melts and breaks my heart because it’s a stronger message coming from a man because they’ve experienced these things and I was unbelievably grateful for the opportunity,” she said.

Emily is releasing music with such empowering and powerful messaging for everyone to relate or learn from. Make sure to listen to “First Impressions,” “Kyle’s Wife,” and her upcoming EP out September 8!

Canadian country music artist Alee is a CCMA Rising Star Nominee, whose debut full length album “Bad Habit” received over 3.5 million streams on Spotify, and had a #1 single “Moonshine” on Canadian country radio.

Alee recently released her new collaboration with Troy Cartwright “Aint For The Beer,” which is the first song she wrote in 2023. The song is about meeting new people that interest you in the oddest of places… like a Monday night in a bar.

Alee has been friends with Troy for awhile now. In 2020 she got a call to collaborate on one of his songs. The collab was exciting to her because their voices meshed so well together and knew she wanted him on one of her songs.

Once she started writing “Ain’t For The Beer” she decided to write the second verse specifically for Troy and hope he would agree to record it.

From day one Alee has always been immersed in country music and writing her own songs. “I think its easier to cut a song you’ve written because you know its coming from the heart.” she said.

Earlier this year, Alee released another single “Better With You,” which is a song she wanted to have a fun and lighthearted tone.

“I am a big fan of a good heartbreak song and I love being able to feel something and when it comes to heartbreak everyone can relate in some way whether it be from a relationship or not,” she explained.

On this album she is working with music producer, Eric Arjes, who encouraged her to write step out of the heartbreak songwriting and write happy songs that match her personality.

“I was so happy to have someone help guide me on this album and it has been very fun to push myself and do something different.”

After looking at photos of her friends and family the song idea came to her that it doesn’t matter where you are or how you feel you always feel better around the people you love and that is what “Better With You” is all about.

A song of hers that has always stuck out as a favourite is “Moonshine” which was released in 2015. That was a song she wrote for her grandpa who is the reason she got into country music because he would always pull out his guitar and play country classics.

“Moonshine was a song to honour him and the person and storyteller he was and I still think of him every time I play it,” she said.

make sure to check out Alee’s music on all streaming platforms and her new collab with Troy Cartwright “Ain’t For The Beer!”

In just one month, Emma Peterson achieved an incredible milestone with over 50,000 streams and 10,000 music video views for her latest single “Got It Back”!

“Got It Back” was pitched to Emma by her producer David Thomson, who wrote the song along with very talented songwriters in Nashville. As a songwriter, Emma gets nervous recording songs she didn’t write because authenticity is a crucial part of writing and recording music for her and she ended up sitting on the song for about a year. It is important for Emma to feel like she can connect to a song and make sure it aligns with her values before recording it.

“Got It Back” is about finding your confidence and getting independence back after a relationship where you lost pieces of yourself.

“It is a very empowering song, which is what made me want to record it in the end,” she said.

Emma recently released the music video for “Got It Back,” which received over 10,000 views in one month! The video follows the theme of finding your independence and gaining confidence with your friends around you.

The release of “Got It Back” starts a new chapter for Emma and acts as a bridge to the next era of her music career. Although she is unsure what this new era looks like, she is recording lot’s of new music and is excited for what’s to come!

Over the years of releasing music, Emma feels she has developed as a songwriter, person, and women while figuring out what direction she wants her music to head into. She is influenced by all genres of music, which you can hear in pieces of her music. Although “Got It Back” does have a country pop sound to it, you can still hear the classic country sounds going back to her roots.

Emma is excited when she get’s the opportunity to person “Got It Back” live because she is so confident and proud of the song.

She just wrapped up her first ever arena performance for the World Police Fire and Ice Games and Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, MB and is excited for more upcoming performances.

Make sure to stream “Got It Back” — a new summer hit you won’t be able to get out of your head!

Photo Creds: Dwayne Larson Photography