UPCOMING TOUR DATES

Country newcomer Kelleigh Bannen's song, "Happy Birthday," is incredibly relatable, and the accompanying music video is the same. She says in a press release, “There’s something about birthdays that are so nostalgic… even if it’s just in an ‘I wonder how they’re doing’ kind of way. The details of this song are really personal, and I think that is why this song has connected with so many people. It’s just a really truthful song.”

On the night of the CMT Artists of the Year festivities, while many of her country music friends were sitting in sparkly gowns with glasses of champagne in their hands, Kelleigh Bannen was sitting in a 12-passenger van towing a U-Haul trailer, on the way home from a show in Kentucky.

Glamorous, right?

Karen Fairchild naming names at the 2018 CMT Artists of the Year ceremony wasn't just a moment, it was themoment. The Little Big Town singer used her time for an acceptance speech to spotlight new female artists in country music.

It borrows the title of a celebratory song sung around the world on a daily basis, but Kelleigh Bannen’s “Happy Birthday,” as depicted in the Nashville native’s melancholic new video, isn’t aiming to get the party started.

Kelleigh Bannen has a hard time letting love go in her CMT Next Women of Country performance of "Happy Birthday.

The 3rd season of This Nashville Life is out now! This season we’ll uncover just how serendipitous, arduous, and downright accidental the life of a song really is.