{"id":1304714,"date":"2019-03-03T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1803524"},"modified":"2019-03-03T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T22:23:06","slug":"thomas-rhett-fires-up-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/thomas-rhett-fires-up-saturday-night-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett Fires Up Saturday Night Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">37m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/thomas-rhett\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Rhett<\/a>\u2019s performance was proverbial fire during his <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> debut.<\/p>\n<p>Rhett lit up NBC\u2019s historic Studio 8H as the musical guest of the March 2 episode with the television debut of his newest songs, \u201cLook What God Gave Her\u201d and the super-funky \u201cDon\u2019t Threaten Me with a Good Time.\u201d Rhett accompanied his vocal lead with a rhythmic acoustic guitar on \u201cLook What God Gave Her,\u201d a song co-written with his father, Rhett Akins.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LbA63rQ4FK8?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LbA63rQ4FK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Later during the John Mulaney-hosted show, a three-piece horn section backed Rhett\u2019s band on the party anthem \u201cDon\u2019t Threaten Me with a Good Time.\u201d The studio version of the track features Little Big Town, and both songs are the latest releases from Rhett\u2019s upcoming album, <em>Center Point Road<\/em> (out May 31).<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YK5jDV_Tr8M?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YK5jDV_Tr8M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Rhett joins a long line of country artists who have performed on SNL, including Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum, Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Blake Shelton, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"d1404296\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-1128535235-1551651515.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-1128535235-1551651515.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-1128535235-1551651515.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-1128535235-1551651515.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-1128535235-1551651515.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-1128535235-1551651515.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-1128535235-1551651515.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-1128535235-1551651515.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"Saturday Night Live - Season 44\" class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\">Will Heath\/NBC\/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1803524\/thomas-rhett-fires-up-saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 37m ago Thomas Rhett\u2019s performance was proverbial fire during his Saturday Night Live debut. Rhett lit up NBC\u2019s historic Studio 8H as the musical guest of the March 2 episode with the television debut of his newest songs, \u201cLook What God Gave Her\u201d and the super-funky \u201cDon\u2019t Threaten Me with a Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1304714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 19:28:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}