{"id":15129,"date":"2021-06-20T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=15129"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:21:23","slug":"thomas-rhett-dad-rhett-akins-perform-at-opry-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/06\/thomas-rhett-dad-rhett-akins-perform-at-opry-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett &amp; Dad Rhett Akins Perform At Opry Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/86Bwq0ebuxI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thomas Rhett and his hit songwriter dad Rhett Akins teamed up to perform together at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville on Saturday, June 12th for the very first time.<\/p>\n<p>Rhett took the stage first to perform his chart-topping hit \u201cThat Ain\u2019t My Truck\u201d and also entertained the sold-out crowd with the Number One song he wrote for Opry member Blake Shelton, \u201cBoys \u2018Round Here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas followed with several of his own hits including \u201cDie A Happy Man,\u201d his current single \u201cCountry Again,\u201d and \u201cSixteen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As his father was joining him on stage he said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDo y\u2019all understand how freakin\u2019 cool this is right here? We are going to play a song we wrote together. It\u2019s the first single off my latest album.\u201d Rhett said, \u201cThis is unbelievable. You were over there (pointing to side of stage) at two years old watching me play. We\u2019ve written songs in the kitchen since you were eight years old and now we are singing one we wrote together on the Grand Ole Opry that went to #1!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After singing \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Country Song\u201d the crowd cheered with a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas closed his set with \u201cThings Dads Do\u201d as a nod to the upcoming Father\u2019s Day holiday saying,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOf all the songs I\u2019ve written with my dad, this is probably my favourite.&#8221; The song will be released on June 16th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CQC5f6OMcvL\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett and his hit songwriter dad Rhett Akins teamed up to perform together at the Grand Ole Opry for the very first time.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[812,108,62,372,3033,115],"class_list":["post-15129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-fathers-day","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-nashville","tag-rhett-akins","tag-things-dads-do","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 17:52:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/06\/thomas-rhett-dad-rhett-akins-perform-at-opry-together\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}