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During his nearly 25-year career, we've watched Steven Curtis Chapman grow from a baby-faced, be-mulleted Kentucky boy to the winner of more than 50 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, including seven wins for Artist of the Year. Through it all, he's always been honest and open as he chronicled his own journey through song, resulting in music so universal it easily became the soundtrack for our lives, too. His new album, re:creation, finds Chapman revisiting some of his classic tunes, giving them a creative overhaul and a more organic, stripped-down sound. Time and experience have given these old lyrics new meaning, as well. In addition to nine revamped fan favorites, the record also delivers four brand-new tracks and a classic cover — and Rhapsody has it all for you to experience now, a week before the album is available anywhere else.

Hear our exclusive leak of Steven Curtis Chapman's re:creation.

Also, read more about it in our recent interview with Chapman.

Luke Bryan makes you want to own a truck, and that's the highest praise you can give a country artist in 2011. He's mentioned his preferred mode of transportation in nearly every song he's released (key track on his 2007 debut, I'll Stay Me: "We Rode in Trucks"), a trend that continues on his third album, the appropriately named Tailgates and Tanlines. Scantily clad ladies dance upon a truck (or a tractor, whichever they prefer) on the smash hit "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)"; later, he uses one to flee civilization and trawl for catfish down in the swampy, deserted "Muckalee Creek." Practically every other song finds him attempting to bed some foxy Southern lass in the sort of bed you can't buy at IKEA. The dude is a one-man auto-industry bailout.

He's also bright, cheerful, affable and not at all unsavory in, say, the Toby Keith vein. (See Keith's recent "Get Out of My Car" for a taste of his rapport with the ladies.) Tanlines is tremendously appealing pop-country with surprising muscle, not to mention a tricky combination of sexy and wholesome, adult and almost childlike. "Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn," Bryan drawls to the shaking country girls. Lines in other, equally triumphant choruses include "Girl you make my speakers go 'boom boom'" and "I got a catfish line goin' 'bump bump.'" He reminisces: "In that moonlight/ I saw her tanlines." He woos: "You're lookin' so damn hot." He mourns: on the solemn post-mortem love song "I Knew You That Way," he claims to know his lover "Like teardrops know the words to 'Amazing Grace.'"