It goes without saying that it “Ain’t A Bad Life” for Thomas Rhett, who is on the verge of scoring his 25th number one song, and just welcomed his fifth child, Brave, earlier this year. The Country star joined Katie Neal to talk about it all this week during the 'Superstar Power Hour.'

“We're tired, but he's actually sleeping,” Rhett says of the newborn, his first son. “He's our best sleeping baby that we have had.”

“I still think just like having a newborn, plus you know, 4 other, kids' schedules with school, and sports, and friends, and birthdays. We're in the weeds as my grandmother would call it.”

“It's a season and I'm really trying to not let it slip me by,” Thomas shares. “I'm not trying to wish it away, so really just trying to, when I'm home just be extremely present. It kind of dawned on me the other day that my oldest child, she's 10, so, I have 8 summers left with her. When you start thinking about it in terms of like, ‘whoa, 8 years,’ it seems like a long time, but It's been 6 years since COVID and it kind of feels like it was yesterday in some capacity, you know, so that's how quick time is moving.”

“I'm really trying to just be as present as I humanly can while I'm home because I know that, you know, this might be the last infant phase that we go through. We're having a good time and we're just tired, but we kind of have learned how to live tired, so.”

Katie was quick to ask, “is this the last infant, or are you guys still undecided?”

“Dude, I mean, in my brain, I'm done, but we've seen how far that my brain has gotten me, you know, over the last decade or so.”

On the music front, Rhett is approaching a monumental milestone, his 25th number one song, “Ain’t A Bad Life” with Jordan Davis. “It doesn't add up in my brain,” TR tells Katie. “There are some days I wake up and I still feel like a new artist, and then there are some days I wake up and I'm like, ‘gosh, I've been doing this for a long time.’ There's really no in-between for me.”

“When I think about 25 number ones, I think if I were to tell my 19-year-old self that I'd be talking to you today, talking about that, I would have called you a complete liar,” he adds. “So I feel grateful. I feel blessed, I don't know. Just feel undeserving for the people that have helped me get here, honestly.”

“Then also just to have that number one, hopefully with Jordan, is really special because he's gotten to become one of my best buddies in this industry and, to have that with him is really cool”

To hear more about family life and what’s next, listen to the full conversation with Thomas Rhett above.

Luke Grimes has played several characters on the screen, but he’s here to be completely himself in his songs. The 'Yellowstone' star just released his authentic and vulnerable sophomore album, 'Red Bird,' and stopped by our Nashville studios to talk with Katie Neal about the making of the project, how he balances being an actor and an artist, and why it was important for him to offer up a snapshot of his own life in his work.

"I think the goal was just to sort of take a snapshot of who I was at that time,” Grimes shares. “This record's very autobiographical. We were trying to be as honest as possible about my experience at that time, at that age, [as a] new father."

Grimes says the collaborative songwriting process in Nashville is a deeply personal and supportive experience, contrasting to other arenas he’s been a part of. "I don't think I can think of a better way to spend a day than getting together with, you know, two other artists and usually very brilliant ones and kind of sitting down immediately, you meet and then you get very honest with each other, and you start talking about what's really going on. It's sort of like a therapy session.”

"It's just a really beautiful thing, and I think very, very different from the town that I had come from, where it's a little bit more competitive,” he adds. “I feel like here it's like if you win we all win.”

Luke manages a packed schedule that includes recently wrapping 'Yellowstone,' starting the show 'Marshals,' and having a baby, noting that music is flexible since he can do it "when I want." He also shared that he only watched the first two episodes of 'Marshals' to grasp the tone, following an acting teacher's advice to avoid being too self-critical. "I had a really good acting teacher that used to say this thing, ‘Leave yourself alone.’ I thought that was really good, and I think the only way that I know how to do that is to just not watch it because if I watch it, inevitably I'm gonna try to change that stuff,” he says. “The process is easier and better for me if I don't watch it."

"I don't think I would have gotten a record deal or been able to do the things that I've been able to do if I wasn't a part of ‘Yellowstone.’ And so I just thank my lucky stars every day."

For more from Luke Grimes, check out the full conversation with Katie Neal above. 'Red Bird' is now available everywhere.

Dan + Shay have kicked off their next project on a very personal note, sharing the single, “Say So,” which also serves as a tribute to their friend, Ben. The duo recently joined Kate Neal for a conversation about new music, their pivot to “real,” mental health, and more.

The duo explain that "Say So" is "maybe the most important song we've ever written" because it was written about their late friend, Ben, who was essential to their start in Nashville, running Warner Chappell Publishing. “He was just really, really an important part of our story," says Dan. “"He believed in us early, and, for those of you guys who don't know, publisher, publishing companies, they represent songwriters, and that's what we moved to town to do, and we were just two songwriters writing songs and he believed in us."

The message on mental health and the importance of knowing you are not alone is part of a larger pivot from the GRAMMY-winning pair, who admit they went from writing "catchy stuff" that "didn't have a lot of meaning" for a few months, feeling like they were "chasing a hit," before moving closer to honesty and authenticity.

“We just kind of had this realization that the only thing that can combat AI and the modernity of what's happening in the world is just like real authentic human emotion, you know, I think people know when it's real."

"It stopped feeling like work and started feeling like, ‘oh, I'm working from a place of overflow because I feel so filled up to be writing these songs, to have these conversations,’” adds Shay. “Because you don't have to fabricate anything you're just reaching for the truth.”

The core message of "Say So" is the importance of asking for help, breaking the “fourth wall” to discuss their own struggles with anxiety and panic attacks, noting that they both found therapy changed their lives. “If it helps one person, if it saves one life, it was absolutely worth it."

Check out the full conversation above for much more from Dan + Shay.