Thomas Rhett Celebrates Latest Chart Topper In The Best Way

Thomas Rhett found the perfect way to celebrate his 22nd number-one song, "Mamaw's House," a duet with Morgan Wallen about the guys' grandmas. Thomas jumped into a pool in Florida alongside his Mamaw. He posted the fun moment on his Instagram.

Rhett tells his Mamaw in the sweet video clip, "You've got to look in the camera and say 'Mamaw's House' is number one." The two then jump into the pool's deep end, and the water goes over both of their heads.

Thomas captioned the video clip, "Celebrating "Mamaw's House," going #1 with my Mamaw… thank you, thank you, thank you to country radio, @morganwallen, & my whole team. Love y'all."

Rhett said in a statement, "Both of our Mamaws were such a big part of shaping us into the men we are today, so I loved being able to pay tribute to them in this way. God Bless all the Mamaws out there for making us all better people, and thank y'all for loving on them with us!"

Thomas and Morgan Wallen released the song, which they wrote together called "Mamaw's House" In October. The song was written for the special grandmothers in their lives.

When it was first released, Rhett posted a video clip of him and Morgan talking about the song on Instagram. Rhett said, "We really just wrote this song about small town piece of paradise. I could remember growing up and going to my mamie's and my Mamaw's house, who both lived in South Georgia at the time. I feel like so many life lessons were learned at their house."

He added, "I feel like you learn hard work. I feel like you learn manners. I feel like you learn respect. This song brings up how our mamaws used to act when we were little kids."

Wallen said of writing the song, "I was saying how thankful I am for the way that I was raised and brought up, and a lot of that came from my Mamaw's house. Everything kind of revolved around her while she was still here. She was always the first person to ask you if you're hungry and that kind of thing. You know, she loved taking care of people. So that mixture of toughness and love was just something super special, and I've never met another lady like that before."

Rhett closed the video slip, saying, "We've been looking for any excuse to put this song out because we both love it, and we both want our mamaws to hear it, so yeah, this is an ode to all the grandmas out there."

This week, we are celebrating drummers with the marking of National Hug A Drummer Day. To celebrate, we dug up some country music stars of today who play the drums and do it quite well.

National Hug A Drummer Day is marked each year to honor the drummer who often takes a backseat in bands and helps the star of the show shine.

Let's look at some country music stars that, once in a while, head back to play the drums.

During Thomas' high-energy show, he steps back to play a drum solo. Before Rhett learned to play the guitar and started writing some of country music's best songs, he studied drums in college in Nashville, where he started a band with his college buddies, the High Heeled Flip Flops, which he describes as "punk rock." Thomas said that his music education began with drums, which is why he's such a big supporter of the CMA Foundation, which helps schools and music education all over the country.

Chris sits at the drums most nights in his live show, taking over for his band drummer, and his skills are pretty impressive. Not only does Janson dabble on the drums with a solo each night in concert, but he also plays a mean harmonica strapped on his neck as he also plays guitar. In June, Chris released his first album project for BMLG called The Outlaw Side Of Me. The Grand Ole Opry member had two previous albums released on other Nashville labels.

In her 2022/2023 "Demin and Rhinetones" tour, Carrie showed off her impressive drumming skills during the section of her show that pays homage to the rock and roll greats like Gun N' Roses. When she played the show in Lexington in October of last year (2022), after the show, she told me backstage that her drumming was "off" that night, although it seemed perfect to me. It made me realize that she was striving for perfection, even in a drum solo she learned for the show.

Keith adds drumming to his many skills. In his 2023 Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood, he shows off some serious drum moves. Urban is, of course, best known as a guitar player and even created his own banjo/guitar hybrid that he calls a "Ganjo.' He is one of Nashville's most gifted musicians and has worked on many country albums in the studio before he released his solo Nashville debut in 1999. While he isn't known as a drummer, with his drumming skills, we do believe he should get a hug on this special day.

Luke is a transplant from the world of acting and plays Kayce Dutton in the popular show Yellowstone, which stars Kevin Costner and, in part of Season Five, featured Lainey Wilson in her first acting role as a country singer named Abby. In interviewing Grimes last month, we learned that before acting and before his country music dreams started, he was a drummer in a church band as a kid, and his father was the pastor. Drums also influenced who he listened to. He told us, "I have a pretty eclectic range of influences because I started as a drummer, and some bands that have the best drummers don't have the best songwriters."

While Luke does not yet play a drum solo in his live performances, he did his first live show in April of 2023.