Stagecoach 2025: Go behind-the-scenes with Carly Pearce, Bunnie Xo, Dasha, and more

The dust is finally starting to settle from a fun-filled weekend in the desert for Stagecoach 2025, and we're looking back on some of our favorite moments from behind-the-scenes, backstage with a few of our favorite artists.

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Our Stagecoach experts, John & Tammy of KSON and Kelli & Anthony of KFRG were on hand, holding it down in the Audacy airstream trailer, and we've got the videos to prove it. Check out our talks with Carly Pearce, Brothers Osborne, Bunnie Xo, Ashley McBryde, Brandon Lake, and Dasha below, and stay tuned to KSON and KFRG all week for more from this weekend's festival.

Carly Pearce is back as Stagecoach and celebrating in style, making sure her mom is set with the livestream, and joining John & Tammy to talk about her birthday, calling out bad behavior, and more.

Brothers Osborne joined us backstage to talk about pre-show rituals, imagine who would make the best 3rd Osborne Brother, and tell us how that Kate Hudson surprise appearance came to be.

We love the love story between Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo, and couldn't wait to talk with her about their relationship, dealing with online haters, and if there's anything too private to share from the notoriously open couple. "I think our IVF journey we've kept pretty private," Bunnie told Kelli and Anthony at Stagecoach. "That's one thing that we're holding close to our chest, but other than that I think we just feel like we came up with you guys, and like letting everybody know everything in our lives. It's like, 'Why would we shut you out now?"

Is there a difference between Stagecoach and the Grand Ole Opry, or is it just another stage to slay for Ashley McBryde? We asked her backstage, plus got details on her honorary doctorate, and her sobriety journey. "If you go into it thinking I need to be 1,049 days sober, you're shooting yourself in the foot," Ashley shares. "But if you have a habit of drinking and over-drinking and abusing that particular substance, and you think you don't wanna do that today, then just don't do it today. And I know that we're like 'one day at a time' and it just gets said, and it gets kind of, I don't know, hallmarked and kind of silly and cheesy, but it's really true. Because I'm 1,049 days in and I still have to get up every day and decide, and at no point is there a finish line that you get to run through and break the paper. You just do the work, and it's a lot of heavy lifting, and it's absolutely worth it."

Brandon Lake sat in with us in the Audacy airstream, and talked about how his music and faith are intertwined as a Christian artist. "I think I'm just a man of worship. I think that I can worship the Lord and it's a lifestyle and so, I feel like my calling is to make music that's gonna give people faith and give them strength to keep going and also remind them, how God made them that they're incredibly special, that he's obsessed with them and has a plan for their life," Lake explained. "I still have a blast writing other kinds of songs that aren't so on-the-nose Christian songs, but I do feel like that's something that I'll never stop doing, is writing songs that have the foundation being faith."

Dasha was back with us this year at Stagecoach, but what a difference a year makes, with whirlwind success finding the viral hitmaker and turning her from social breakthrough artist to Country star. "I've had these dreams since I was a kid and I was kind of delusionally confident of like, 'it's gonna happen someday, like it has to happen.' But the way in which it happened has never ceased to blow my mind," Dasha revealed. "I feel like the viralness of the song really lit a fire underneath everyone's butts and just made it this huge thing so fast, and I understand that usually when someone has their first hit it doesn't happen like that, you know, it's a way slower burn. But yeah, I'm so glad I have the way it is because I'm ready, we're ready to rumble."