Luke Bryan‘s first Gold single saw him collaborating with one of country music’s most successful groups. The singer-songwriter collaborated with the members of Lady A on “Do I,” which scored him his first Gold single on Jan. 15, 2010.
Who Wrote Luke Bryan’s “Do I”?
Bryan co-wrote “Do I” with Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley of Lady A, and Hillary Scott sang background vocals on the track. The chorus describes a man who is questioning whether the foundation of his relationship is still intact.
Do I turn you on at all when I kiss you baby / Does the sight of me wanting you drive you crazy / Do I have your love, am I still enough / Tell me don’t I, or tell me do I, baby / Give you everything that you ever wanted / Would you rather just turn away and leave me lonely / Do I just need to give up and get on with my life / Baby, do I?
How Did Luke Bryan’s “Do I” Do in the Country Charts?
Released as the lead single from Bryan’s sophomore album, Doin’ My Thing, in May of 2009, “Do I” gave Bryan his biggest hit to that point in his career, reaching No. 2 on both Billboard‘s Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts.
According to RolandNote.com, it was certified as his first Gold single on Jan. 15, 2010.
What Was Luke Bryan’ First No. 1 Hit?
His next single, “Rain Is a Good Thing,” became his first No. 1 hit, and Bryan has gone on to become one of country music’s most consistent hitmakers in the decade-plus since then.
“Do I” is just one of Bryan’s biggest hits. Scroll through the pictures below to see his 50 best songs.
The 50 All-Time Best Luke Bryan Songs, Ranked
Luke Bryan’s massive catalog of songs perfectly walk the line between heartfelt and fun. Here are our 50 favorite hits and deep cuts.
Gallery Credit: Carena Liptak
34 Pictures of Luke Bryan Young
Luke Bryan has been a force in country music pretty much since he arrived in Nashville in 2005. “All My Friends Say” started the fire for him as a solo artist — and the rest is history. Let’s take a walk through time with 34 pictures of Luke Bryan young.
Letitia James accused Robert Kramer of selling his shares in Emergent before disclosing contamination issues in its production of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The World Baseball Classic is set for this coming spring and the event has been growing in popularity among fans and players alike. The USA roster this time around is as loaded as it has ever been.
The roster isn’t yet complete, but there’s a loaded lineup in the process of being built. Both Cal Raleigh and Will Smith are lined up as the catching duo. Bryce Harper, Brice Turang, Gunnar Henderson and Bobby Witt Jr. were already rostered before a good third baseman came aboard, but then Alex Bregman joined the fray. Kyle Schwarber is on board for the DH spot and Byron Buxton recently joined an outfield that already included Aaron Judge, Corbin Carroll and Pete Crow-Armstrong.
Using only the players on board so far, here’s what a Team USA lineup might look like:
1. Bobby Witt Jr., SS 2. Aaron Judge, RF 3. Cal Raleigh, C 4. Kyle Schwarber, DH 5. Bryce Harper, 1B 6. Gunnar Henderson, 2B 7. Alex Bregman, 3B 8. Corbin Carroll, LF 9. Pete Crow-Armstrong, CF
Now, there’s a lot to sort out here and so many different routes that could be taken. I like stacking the power toward the top of the order and then having the base-stealers all at the bottom, so every time through the order after the first, you’re looking at Carroll and PCA as table-setter types for the thunder. Buxton could also start in center and we could throw him ahead of Carroll in the lineup. The bench then would have two amazing players with speed and defense in PCA and Turang for the late innings.
I moved Henderson to second base to maximize how ridiculous that lineup could look, but surely Turang will get plenty of starts at second and Henderson could split time at short with Witt. In fact, since Henderson swings lefty and Witt is right-handed, they could platoon.
Speaking of which, Pete Alonso, among others, has expressed interest in playing and could platoon with Harper at first base. And it should be noted that PCA is left-handed while Buxton is a righty, so, again, there could be a platoon in the outfield as well. Keep in mind that it’s unlikely USA would want to catch Raleigh every game. He’s a switch-hitter while Smith hits right-handed, so they could, again, platoon. It’s funny to think about platooning all these All-Stars, but with this group it’s reasonable and a good illustration of how loaded this squad is. There’s defensive versatility in the outfield and infield as well, too.
Whatever route is taken here and whoever else joins the team, USA manager Mark DeRosa has an embarrassment of riches.
William DuVall has cast serious doubt on the future of Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, following the death of former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds.
Speaking to The Logan Show, the Alice in Chains vocalist and guitarist opened up about the emotional impact of Hinds‘ passing and what it means for the supergroup’s future. DuVall made it clear that, for him, the project was inseparable from Hinds‘ presence.
“Without Brent, I can’t see it personally,” DuVall said as transcribed by Metal Injection. “That was a huge thing. I never would have closed the door on that idea as long as all three of us were alive. But with Brent gone, it’s really hard for me to imagine.”
Giraffe Tongue Orchestra formed as a high-profile rock supergroup featuring DuVall, Ben Weinman (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Thomas Pridgen (ex-The Mars Volta), Pete Griffin (Dethklok, Zappa Plays Zappa), and Hinds. The band released their lone album, Broken Lines, in 2016, earning acclaim for its adventurous blend of hard rock, metal, and experimental elements.
While DuVall acknowledged that the band’s music could potentially live on in some form, he expressed hesitation about continuing under the same name. “The songs on that record live on,” he said. “I’m just glad the record exists and the songs exist, and I could see the songs being performed in different capacities. I don’t know about Giraffe Tongue Orchestra. I don’t know about performing under that moniker.”
DuVall also reflected on the band’s unrealized potential, particularly their limited live activity. “I wish we could have played more shows. I wish we could have properly toured that record, but that’s water under the bridge now,” he said, adding that Hinds‘ death was “a real stab” that made imagining a continuation especially difficult.
Hinds‘ passing has left a deep mark on the Atlanta music community. DuVall described participating in a memorial gathering dubbed the “March of Hinds” in Little Five Points, a neighborhood closely associated with the late guitarist.
“We kind of just walked from one bar to the other, because that’s what he did,” DuVall recalled, referencing stops like El Myr and The Star Bar, longtime local haunts for Hinds and his circle. “It’s tough, because that whole thing really knocked the wind out of me.”
Brent Hinds died at the age of 51 in August 2025, after being killed in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta. According to reports, Hinds was riding a Harley Davidson when a BMW SUV failed to yield while making a turn at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Boulevard. His death was confirmed by the Fulton County medical examiner’s office.
While DuVall stopped short of definitively closing the door, his comments make clear that any future incarnation of Giraffe Tongue Orchestra would face immense emotional and artistic challenges without Hinds. For now, DuVall says he’s grateful that Broken Lines exists at all — a singular document of a collaboration that, in his words, could only have happened once.
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The rosters are finally set, and the rink in Milan Cortina looks like it will — technically speaking — be ready to host the tournament. The first Olympic Games with NHL players since Sochi in 2014 have nearly arrived, and there will be a lot of star power on hand.
To help sort out the best players taking the ice in Italy at various facets of the game — as we did before last year’s 4 Nations Face-Off — we’re once again turning to the NHL’s EDGE tracking data and other advanced metrics. Specifically, we wanted to highlight the Olympic-bound NHL players who have been the best over the past season-and-a-half in four different measurable categories: Skating speed, shot power, offensive creation (between shooting and passing) and goaltending (turning away both the harder and the easier shots).
The Olympic tournament will bring together a deeper field of teams than the 4 Nations event did — 12 squads instead of four — which means even more contrasts in playing styles and skill levels. And while the biggest names will inevitably draw the spotlight (and mostly dominate the data), we’ll also be highlighting less-heralded players in each category whose contributions are easy to miss until you know where to look.
Here are the NHL’s Olympic players who stand out most in the metrics that define modern hockey dominance heading into Milano Cortina:
Note: All stats and rankings are as of Jan. 9, 2026.
Metrics of choice: Top speed and speed bursts (with extra weight to higher MPH) per game at even strength.
Last year at the 4 Nations Face-Off, McDavid merely ranked as co-fastest alongside Jack Hughes of Team USA. But while Hughes is back in the lineup for the Americans, his speed metrics are a bit down (from a max MPH of 23.3 to 22.5, with fewer super-fast bursts) this season, while McDavid has only increased his speed.
He’s joined in the top tier of the burners by Canada’s Nathan MacKinnon and Brayden Point, Martin Necas of Czechia, Jack Eichel of the U.S., Finland’s Roope Hintz and Germany’s Tim Stutzle. Necas in particular has a highest gear that has rivaled McDavid’s in the past, and all of these skaters can blow past defenders with just a few strides.
Watch out for: As we’ve noted before when discussing these speed stats, defensemen get fewer opportunities to show off their wheels than forwards, with some exceptions (cough, Cale Makar). So charts like the one above end up with a few outliers of high top-speeds and comparatively less “burst.”
So relish the chances you get to see Quinn Hughes and Jaccob Slavin reach that 24-plus mph level. And here’s one more blueliner whose speed we may not talk about quite enough: Team USA’s Jake Sanderson, who had a higher max mph than Hughes and more high-speed bursts per 60 than any other defenseman on an Olympic roster.
Metrics of choice: Hardest shot speed and high-speed shots (with extra weight to higher mph) per game at even strength.
Last year’s 4 Nations hardest-shot king, Victor Hedman of Sweden, has company at the Olympics. That’s because Thompson was selected to the American squad this time around, giving Team USA the biggest blaster in the game at its disposal. At 6-foot-6, Thompson gets all of his frame into a shot that topped out at an even 106 mph last season, and although he hasn’t gone over 98 mph this season, he is still the only player at Milan Cortina who can contend with Hedman’s rate of super-hard shots.
While those two are in a league of their own, the next tier is led by Sweden’s Gustav Forsling in terms of peak power, and Swiss D-man Roman Josi in pure output of shots per game that strike fear into opposing goalies’ hearts.
Watch out for: Thompson is a remarkable outlier against this trend, but EDGE shot-speed stats have the opposite tendency of skating speed: They favor defensemen, who fire off more perimeter slappers than other shot types — which not only boosts their average shot speed but also tends them to produce more hard shots per game than forwards.
So when a winger like Sweden’s Adrian Kempe can put up more than 1.5 shots in the 80-90 mph range per game this season, he’s definitely one to monitor.
It’s hard to believe anybody can register more production than MacKinnon or McDavid, who give Team Canada an offensive tandem the likes of which may not have been seen since Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux at the 1987 Canada Cup.
But in terms of creating goals for himself and others on a per-minute basis, it’s Czechia’s star, David Pastrnak, who has dominated more than either Canadian icon. His playmaking is unparalleled among Olympians, with a league-best rate of 1.33 primary assists per 60 minutes over the past season and a half, while he also holds his own in the goals (actual or expected) department with MacKinnon and McDavid — even if he’s a notch below pure goal scorers like Thompson and Auston Matthews there.
Of course, the competition is still fierce on the righ- hand side of that chart. In addition to Canada’s lead duo, we also see Necas, Germany’s Leon Draisaitl, Canada’s seemingly ageless Sidney Crosby, Team USA’s Matthew Tkachuk and another Canadian one-two punch — Brandon Hagel as a scorer and Mitch Marner as a setup man — sitting near the top spot.
Watch out for: Amid all of that blinding star power, it might be easy to lose track of the youngest-ever Canadian NHL player to make the Olympic team — if it weren’t for the fact that Macklin Celebrini demands attention whenever he steps on the ice.
Celebrini’s development this season has been nothing short of startling, and his performance is both dragging San Jose toward a playoff bid and earning him surprising MVP buzz in what would be history’s third-youngest Hart Trophy season if it happens. As part of that, he has rates of goals and assists created that sit squarely in the same mix as those other names above, a ridiculous fact for a 19-year-old.
Metrics of choice: Goals Saved Above Average (GSAA) per 60 minutes at 5-on-5 for high-danger and all other chances.
The final example of our slight changing-of-the-guard since last year’s 4 Nations tournament is between the pipes, where reigning league MVP Connor Hellebuyck of Team USA has been surpassed in the goals-saved department — on both high-danger and regular chances — by young Swedish netminder Wallstedt, who wasn’t even on his country’s roster this time a year ago.
It’s been Wallstedt who leads all NHL goaltenders in goals above replacement this season, minding the net for Minnesota, and his puck-stopping on high-danger shots in particular is well beyond that of any other backstop at the Olympics. Hellebuyck’s multiyear numbers are still among the best, of course, sitting next to Canada’s Darcy Kuemper and Logan Thompson and Swede Filip Gustavsson in the tier below Wallstedt.
Watch out for: In addition to that group above, there is only one other goalie in the Olympic field who has been above-average on both high-danger and regular shots against over the past season and change: Flyers netminder Dan Vladar, representing Czechia at Milano Cortina. Vladar is not the clear-cut starter for the Czechs, as Lukas Dostal and Karel Vejmelka both offer starting experience as well, but his could be an intriguing name to watch if he does get the opportunity in Italy.
A day of fun turned tragic for two 14-year-old Florida boys when a sand tunnel they dug collapsed and buried them alive, according to reports from WFTS.Citrus County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports about two teens who went missing near Sportsman Park in Inverness, north of Tampa, on Sunday. The two teens were identified as George Watts and Derrick Hubbard. Deputies found both boys inside a hole they had dug after a sand tunnel collapsed on them. The boys were taken to a hospital where Hubbard was pronounced dead. Watts had a pulse and later died on Tuesday morning, according to WTVT.Zachariah Roberson, a neighbor of the boys, described them as joyful and energetic. “They were just being kids. They were just playing in sand. We always encourage our kids to get off the tablets, electronics, to go play outside, and that’s exactly what they were doing,” Roberson said.On Wednesday morning, the Watts family decided to donate George’s organs.”Just knowing that they’re going to save other kids with their donations, and that they will live on somehow, that’s a blessing,” Roberson said.The teens attended Inverness Middle School, and the superintendent of Citrus Schools shared a message online:”The tragic events involving two of your students have deeply impacted all of us,” the superintendent said.The school district is expected to provide on-campus support teams throughout the week to help students cope with the loss.Experts advise against digging holes deeper than waist height and suggest filling in large holes before leaving the beach to prevent future accidents.
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. —
A day of fun turned tragic for two 14-year-old Florida boys when a sand tunnel they dug collapsed and buried them alive, according to reports from WFTS.
Citrus County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports about two teens who went missing near Sportsman Park in Inverness, north of Tampa, on Sunday.
The two teens were identified as George Watts and Derrick Hubbard.
Deputies found both boys inside a hole they had dug after a sand tunnel collapsed on them. The boys were taken to a hospital where Hubbard was pronounced dead. Watts had a pulse and later died on Tuesday morning, according to WTVT.
Zachariah Roberson, a neighbor of the boys, described them as joyful and energetic.
“They were just being kids. They were just playing in sand. We always encourage our kids to get off the tablets, electronics, to go play outside, and that’s exactly what they were doing,” Roberson said.
On Wednesday morning, the Watts family decided to donate George’s organs.
“Just knowing that they’re going to save other kids with their donations, and that they will live on somehow, that’s a blessing,” Roberson said.
The teens attended Inverness Middle School, and the superintendent of Citrus Schools shared a message online:
“The tragic events involving two of your students have deeply impacted all of us,” the superintendent said.
The school district is expected to provide on-campus support teams throughout the week to help students cope with the loss.
Experts advise against digging holes deeper than waist height and suggest filling in large holes before leaving the beach to prevent future accidents.
Russia says geopolitical tension in the Arctic is of “the gravest concern,” as European NATO members ramp up for war games in the region and Moscow seeks to highlight the disagreement between the Trump administration and its closest allies over Greenland.
“NATO has embarked on a course of accelerated militarization of the North, increasing its military presence there under the fictitious pretext of a growing threat from Moscow and Beijing,” Russia’s embassy in Belgium said in a statement late Wednesday.
The statement went on to say that Russia advocates for peace, cooperation and dialogue in the region, but that, “NATO members show no disposition to resolve issues in a constructive manner.”
“The militaristic spirit within the alliance is only growing stronger, and given the disagreements that have emerged within the bloc over the Greenland issue, its ability to reach agreements is becoming increasingly unpredictable, including on Arctic matters,” the Russian embassy said. “We consider the alliance’s line of escalating confrontation in the Arctic to be counterproductive and extremely dangerous.”
The statement came as top Trump administration officials met in Washington with Danish and Greenlandic officials to discuss Mr. Trump’s repeated vows to make the vast, largely frozen island part of the United States. The White House says the U.S. needs control of the resource-rich island, long a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, for security reasons, claiming that Russia and China will otherwise take it over.
America’s European allies, and Greenland’s own government, have vehemently rejected the notion of the U.S. taking control of the island, by any means, and argued that U.S. ownership is unnecessary for security reasons, as Greenland is already NATO territory.
After the meeting, Denmark’s foreign minister said his country and the U.S. still had “fundamental” differences over Greenland’s future, but would continue to talk.
EU leaders, meanwhile, have also sought to acknowledge Mr. Trump’s concerns about rising security threats around Greenland.
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“Geopolitical tensions have spread to the Arctic,” Denmark’s defense ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. “The Government of Greenland, and the Danish Ministry of Defence have therefore decided to continue the Danish Armed Forces’ increased exercise activity in Greenland, in close cooperation with NATO allies.”
“The purpose is to train the ability to operate under the unique Arctic conditions and to strengthen the alliance’s footprint in the Arctic, benefiting both European and transatlantic security,” the ministry said.
“Don’t listen to Russian propaganda,” Lars-Christian Brask, vice-chair of the Danish Parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee, told CBS News on Thursday, calling the meeting in Washington between U.S., European and Greenlandic officials positive despite the lack of a resolution to the matter.
“I think it’s positive that the clear disagreement that is there between Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. will be taken into a platform, a high level working group,” Brask said, calling it “a good way of continuing finding out what we can do to solve this situation.”
“It’s all about talking. It’s about communicating. It’s trying to solve an issue that wasn’t solvable in an hour’s meeting yesterday,” Brask said.
Mr. Trump has disparaged efforts by Denmark to increase security for Greenland, saying Wednesday in a post on social media: “Two dogsleds won’t do it! Only the USA can!!!”
Denmark says it’s invested almost $14 billion in Arctic security, and ahead of the military drills in the region, its European partners also signaled their investment in the island’s defense.
Military personnel are seen outside the Danish Armed Forces Arctic Command base in Nuuk, Greenland, Jan. 15, 2026.
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A small number of European troops were arriving in Greenland Thursday to participate in the upcoming exercise. Germany said it was sending 13 troops to Greenland’s capital Nuuk. The Netherlands said it would be working with NATO to conduct joint reconnaissance ahead of the military exercise, and sending one officer from its navy, and Finland said it would be sending two liaison officers.
A small group of French troops had arrived in Greenland as well, French President Emmanuel Macron said.
Addressing military personnel in Istres, France, on Thursday, Macron said, “history forgives neither lack of preparation nor weakness.”
“Europeans have a particular responsibility, as this territory [Greenland] belongs to the European Union … An initial military team is already on the ground and will be reinforced in the coming days with land, air, and sea assets,” Macron said.
Macron said France must play the role of “being available in the face of the threat, to know how to adapt itself, and to be on the side of a sovereign country to protect its territory.”
