Russell Dickerson grew up in Union City, Tennessee, and these days he’s a familiar voice on country radio. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the songs might. He has five No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, including “Yours,” “Blue Tacoma,” “Every Little Thing,” “Love You Like I Used To” and “Happen to Me.”
At home, it’s a family story. Russell married his wife, Kailey, on May 5, 2013, and together they’ve built a house full of boys.
Their first son, Remington, who everybody calls Remy, was born in September 2020 and is 6 now. Their second, Radford, or Rad, arrived on Oct. 1, 2023, and just turned 3.
Then this past summer, the family shared some happy news. In late July, they posted a beach video announcing that baby No. 3 was on the way.
So the big question in the Dickerson house was the obvious one. Another boy? Or something brand new?
They found out last week, and they did it in style. In a reveal they posted to Instagram on Wednesday, Nov. 4, Russell and Kailey walked into a room with their eyes closed. When they opened them, everything was pink. Pink balloons. Baby girl clothes. A whole room telling them their third child is a daughter.
Russell said the surprise hit them both at once. “We’ve never both been surprised at the same time.”
Kailey’s reaction was even better. She’d spent six years raising two little boys, and now she was staring at a sea of pink. Her very first words were a question.
“What do we do with one of those?”
It’s the most honest thing a boy mom could say, and it’s exactly what a lot of parents and grandparents have thought at one time or another. She also predicted that “our little homies are gonna be so obsessed!”
Russell tried to keep everyone calm. “I’m shooketh… everybody be cool… everything’s fine.”
Then he offered the most reassuring line of the day. “People have been raising girls for millennia.”
The song that started his run of hits is a good place to get to know the man behind those lines. “Yours” was his debut single back in 2017, and it became his first No. 1.
Russell Dickerson’s official video for “Yours”
And the news doesn’t stop with the pink room. Russell says he’s about to do something he’s never done.
“I’ve never taken a break in 12 years,” he told Taste of Country. “But now, having this baby, we’re going to take some time off.” He told Country Now the break will last “until maybe around May. We’re gonna shut it down.” Before that, he wants to have “a record done before the end of the year, so we can have family time.”
Big brother Rad is already in training. “Rad has a doll where he can pretend he’s holding the baby,” Russell told Country Now.
And three kids might not be the end of it. “Four seems feasible, and if we had a whoopsie daisy five…I’ve never met anyone who says they wish they had less kids,” Russell said. He’s even picturing the years ahead: “I see us all gathered around the kitchen table when they have spouses.”
For now, there’s one little girl on the way and two big brothers getting ready to meet her.