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1.31.25 · Country Weekly

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to catch up with Country Weekly, where
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we check out news and gossip from the world of
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country music. I'm your host, Ken Dawkins, and i will
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be reading from various sources found online now. As a reminder,
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Radio I is a reading service intended for people who
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are blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult
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to read printed material. We'll begin with a look at
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the twenty twenty five Railbird Festival courtesy of Railbird Fests
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that came out last week, and that of course, is
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the twenty twenty five Railbird Festival, which will be May
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thirty first in June first at the Infield at Red
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Mile in Lexington. On Saturday, the headliner will be Lady Wilson.
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Also you will hear or see if you go, Bailey Zimmerman, Shaboozi,
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Cody Jinks, Sierra Ferrell, Wyatt Flores, Luke Grimes, Lock and Poe,
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Richie Mitch and the Coal Rustin, Kelly, Josh Molloy, Maggie Antone,
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Sierra Hull, Infinity Song, Rattlesnake, Milk Mama Said String Band.
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Then on Sunday, guess what Jelly Roll is the headliner
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featuring Riley Green the Red Clay Strays, Ryan Bingham and
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the Texas Gentleman Trety Oak Festival. That's the Tretyoak Revival.
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I'm sorry, Gavin Adcock, BlackBerry Smoke, The Sacred Souls, Mac
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McNown old, Go Jesse Wells, The Castellos, Christine Kingfish Ingram Chaparral,
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Bendigo Fletcher, Noellen Hoffman and Mojoe Thunder. Now we move
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on over to countrynow dot Com. With the first article
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dated January twenty seventh. Luke Bryan announces thirty plus city
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twenty twenty five Country Song Came On Tour. Luke Bryan
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might be coming to a city near you in twenty
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twenty five. The country music superstar has just unveiled plans
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to embark on a brand new thirty plus city tour
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this summer, dubbed the Country Song Came On Tour. Throughout
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his successful career, of course, Brian has performed over fifteen
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million fans, and he set to build on that already
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impressive number with his next run that kicks off May
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twenty ninth and runs through August thirtieth. He is scheduled
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to make stops in major markets all over the US
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and Canada. With a star studied list of up and
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coming artists as special guests. Joining Brian on the tour,
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produced by Live Nation, will be George Burge, Avery, Anna, Ashland, Kraft,
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may Estes, Cole Goodwin, Braxton, Keith Randall, King, Vincent Mason,
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Drake Milligan, Andre and Nunez and Owing Wrigling on a
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select dates, and d J Rock on all dates. The
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upcoming tour is named after the Georgia Natives recent single,
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Country Song Came On, which impacted country radio on November eleventh,
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and appears on his eighth studio album, Mind of a
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Country Boy. The entire fourteen track project centers around Brian's
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rural roots and his family, and this particular song fits
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perfectly into that theme as it pays tribute to his
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passion for true country music storytelling. Fans will get to
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hear his I had a log of party anthems and
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twangy hits throughout the entire twenty twenty five headlining run.
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Two weeks before the Country Song Came On tour launches,
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Brian will bring his annual Farm tour to the West
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Coast for the first time. He set to play three
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shows in California on May fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth. Tickets
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for the Farm tour on sale now, and tickets for
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the Country Song Came On tour go on sale beginning
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this Friday. And there will be on one showing near us.
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One concert that will be in Cincinnati and that will
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be I Lost It Here Here We Go August first
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at the River Bend Music Center. Next. Lane co shares
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the stories behind their raw and real new album, We're
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Gonna Make It. Lane Coo has returned with their first
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full length project since twenty eighteen's award winning debut album,
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Halleluja Knights, Out now via Riser House Records, is their
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sophomore album, We're Gonna Make It. This fourteen track collection
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marks a powerful comeback for the band, delivering a heartfelt
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dose of When Lanko started building out their newest project,
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they quickly realized that there was a recurring theme of
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reflection and nostalgia las through the songs that touched many
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of their real life events. Lead vocalist Brandon Lancaster shared
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with Country Now that the themes of honesty and resilience
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woven through the album weren't intentionally planned, but came together
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organically once the track or title track was recorded, their
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newest body of work finally felt complete. It was one
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of those things where there was this theme that started unraveling,
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because when you start a record, at least for us,
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you kind of start writing and the songs just start unfolding,
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he shared. And when we started getting towards the end
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of the record, realizing there was kind of this theme
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of real life stuff and stuff that we had been
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through and touching on these things, but there was always
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this thread of hope and this spread of perseverance. And
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then when we recorded We're going to Make It, which
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we'd actually written earlier but we recorded at the end,
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it was like, oh, I think this sums it up.
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Whether it's Low Class Lovers or Honey, I lost my
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job today, or any of these songs, it's the ultimate
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idea that with that person hand in hand next to you,
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that you're going to make it through this valley. While
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they didn't have a clear idea of the direction of
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the album taking it at the beginning, they made it
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a point right from the start to pour complete honesty
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into their songwriting in hopes of connecting with their fans
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in a deeper way. I like to say that even
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though you do meet greets, do meet and greets, you
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get to meet fans every now and then, the biggest
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way they get to know you is through your music.
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And so it really is a thing where it's like, hey,
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we're putting out this record and it's been a long
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time since people have heard from us. We need to
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let them know what we've been up to, and so
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it kind of became this autobiographical thing that became important
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to us. Among the fourteen tracks are previously released singles
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and fan favorites like Low Class Lovers Sound of a
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Saturday Night. In their latest single, we Grew Up Together
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featuring Grammy nominated Christian artist Corey Asbury, Penned by Brandon Lancaster,
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Chandler Baldwin, Trip Howell, and Jared Hampton along with Corey Asbury,
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we Grew Up Together adds an extra dose of sincerity
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to the collection, since the group combining their experiences with
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parenthood and celebrating the growth that comes along with that journey.
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We kind of started talking about life, and Corey started
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talking about how he had a kid and I had
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a kid, and we just started talking about families. Then
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he mentioned that his kid was like sixteen. Now we're
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the same age. I was like, oh, whoa, you started
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way younger, and he did start young. He was like, man, yeah,
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we kind of grew up together. And when he said that,
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I instantly resonated with it, because although I was older
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than him when I had my first kid, we had
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the exact same experience, this kind of experience of hey,
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it's time to figure life out. Lancaster explained, you think
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you're a grown up and then you have kids, and
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it's kind of a different kind of a grown up.
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These powerful lyrics dive headfirst into the idea that a
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parent is leaning up or learning right alongside their kids
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and trying to grasp the understanding that even though they
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were responsible for raising that child, they're not perfect. Lancaster
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eded that while writing we grew Up Together, it felt
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as if they were simultaneously penning a letter to their kids.
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God forbid if if anything happens, it's like, here's this
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letter of hey, I wasn't perfect. And even people that
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don't have kids, I think it's also important that we
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look at their parents and think, wow, this was grand
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wise people when they're younger, and then you grew up
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and realize they were just people. It's a really special song,
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and that's been a fun one to see people resonate
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with and share their stories of either their parents or
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their own experiences in parenthood. The same sentiment comes alive
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in the accompanying music video, featuring real life footage of
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the chart topping band with their children, including many of
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those milestone moments of growing up. Fans can expect to
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see a mix of these heartfelt moments, as well as
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plenty of rocking anthems throughout Lane Cos. We're going to
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make it tour twenty twenty five. The trek begins February seventh,
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that's twenty seventh in Minneapolis, and it's currently set to
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run through March, with additional dates to be announced soon.
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We were in the studio pretty much all of last year,
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so this is the first time that we're actually getting
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on a bus and going and doing a tour in
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support of this album. So we're really ready to get
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out there and we're excited, said Lancaster. The tracklist for
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Lane Co's new album Beer with Younger Me Memories, we
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Didn't Know Where I Belong, You'll Always be Me sound
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of Saturday Night, Come Over, honestly, I lost my job today.
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Now that's honey, I lost my job today, along being honest,
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Low class Lovers, Last Call Leaving looks good on you,
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Million Dollar Memory, We Grew Up Together featuring Corey Asbury,
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We're Gonna Make It, and Nothing That You Could Do.
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Next up. Five fun facts about Kane Brown's new album,
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The High Road. Kane Brown has presented fans with his
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most personal and unapologic project to date, The High Road.
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This eighteen track project, developed over the course of two
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years amid a chaotic touring schedule and responsibilities as a
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dad of three, is finally out now via Sony Music.
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Nashville fans may think they've gotten to No Brown through
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his music, but this album peels back the curtain even further,
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offering a raw and reflective glimpse into his past, present,
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and hope for the future. Each of these meticulously crafted
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song showcase a new side of Brown's artistry as he
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digs into valuable life lessons and powerful emotions, several of
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which include star studied collaborations. The album finds Brown teaming
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up with Brad Paisley on Things We Quit, reuniting with
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Khalid for Rescue, and tapping jelly Roll for Haunted. Plus,
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he also got back into the studio with his wife
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Caitlin on two tracks, including d us Apart and previously
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released Body Talk. In anticipation of the project coming to
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life on Caine Brown's upcoming The High Road tour in March,
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The Country Now has compiled five fun facts about his
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newest project to help showcase just how much work and
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thought went into the collection. Brown and first of all,
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Caitlyn Brown wasn't originally on Body Talk. Brown and his
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wife caused a frenzy among fans when they delivered their
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first ever collaboration, thank God, back in twenty twenty two.
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The single went on to become number one on country
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radio and remains a staple in the Singer Songwriters live shows.
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After seeing that that song earned such high praise, the
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husband and wi decided to come together on two more
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songs for the album. However, according to Brown, she was
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only supposed to be featured on due us Apart and
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not Body Talk. Body Talk was originally supposed to have
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another artist on it, and then she heard it and
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was like, what this is such my vibe, she shared,
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so of course she can be on it. Caane Brown
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thought Jelly Roll hated him. Now they have a duet.
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Over the years, Kane Brown and Jelly Roll have used
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their musical talent to bring awareness to the importance of
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mental health, each drawing from their own fair share of
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personal struggles and internal battles. We hear about these moments
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of intense turmoil and their powerful new duet Haunted, and
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it's clear the pair of country stars are strong supporters
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for each other. But it turns out they didn't hit
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it off right away. In fact, Brown revealed the taste
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of country that he was told it saved me. Singer
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hated him at first. I heard of him before he
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had ever gotten in the country industry because I was
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hanging out with some other guys that were in the
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world that Jelly was in. We had the same kind
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of background, said Brown, before adding up our buddy Taylor Phillips.
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He told Jelly so Jelly will tell you this, he
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hated me. The fiddle in the band's singer attests that
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it must have been his quiet nature in his early
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career that led Jelly Roll to feel this way. In
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an effort to shut down any confusion, Brown reached out
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to the fellow artist Taylor ended up telling me the story,
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so I ended up reaching out to Jelly. I was like, hey, buddy,
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this industry's crazy. If you ever need to sit down
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and talk to me or play cod I play a
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lot of Call of Duty, you can come and talk
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to me about it. Brown said. The pair did, in fact,
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ending up getting together to play a video game and
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quickly formed a friendship that now finds them messaging all
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the time and even random facetimes at three am. Fan
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encouragement led Brad Paisley to be featured on Things We Quit.
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Things We Quit as a pretty stacked lineup of songwriting
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credits by Hardy Morgan, Wallen, Jesse Fraser, Josh Osborne, and
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Brad Paisley. To Brown's surprise, none of these artists songwriters
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decided to cut it for their own catalog, so he
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was quick to snatch it up. After recording it and
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posting a few teasers to ends, his fans pointed out
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that they may need some added vocals, and they had
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one artist in mine, Brad Paisley. I recorded this like
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a year ago and put it on my Instagram and
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all the comments where it sounds like a Brad Paisley song,
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Brown said while speaking with host Cody Allen on Sirius
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XM's The Highway to kick off the new six fifteen
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studio Sessions presented by Wayfair. This ended up being a
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full circle moment for Brown, who recalls seeing Paisley in
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his first ever concert. I didn't even call him. I
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told Dan Hoff, my producer. I said, see if you
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can get Brad on it. And I was on the
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golf course and he said, we got Brad on it
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and he played the solo on it as well. Full
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circle moment because Brad was a big inspiration for me
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coming up. Randy Travis and Carrie Underwood inspired the track
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do Us Apart, Kane Brown's second collaboration with Caitlin Brown
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on the album Do Us Apart, is another heartfelt showcase
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of their love. What makes it even more special is
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the fact that it was inspired by Brown's love for
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traditional country music storytelling, particularly in his go to karaoke
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song if I Told You So, by Carrie Underwood and
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Randy Travis Do Us Apart? We always take Carrie Underwood
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and Randy Travis version if I Told You So so.
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We were trying to write a song close to that,
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he shared on Robin Holly's Friday Night Takeover. We wrote
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it and she loved it and jumped on it. Brown's
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Stay is a reimagination of Sugarland's two thousand song of
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the same name. Throughout the high Road, Brown pays homage
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to members of his family in various ways. He celebrates
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his undying love for his wife on Dewis's Apart, illustrates
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special moments as a dad on Backstreet Driver, remembers his
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that's Backseat Driver, He remembers his grandfather's resilience on When
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You Forget, and even reimagines his mom's favorite song with Stay.
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During a recent interview, he recalled his mom's passion for
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the tune recorded by Sugarland in two thousand and seven,
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and then explained how he discovered his own desire to
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introduce the original tune to a new generation of music lovers.
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That was my mom's favorite song back in the day,
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tells Billboard. What's funny is the two writers I wrote
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with had not heard the Sugarland version before I got
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this feeling like I'll be showing another new generation this
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song and their parents will be like, oh, he took
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it from this song and hopefully they will go back
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and discover the original stay, which I think is really cool.
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Kane Brown's The High Road is out now moving along.
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Parmally falls for a Cowgirl in new single. Parmelee previews
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their just announced album Fell in Love with a Cowgirl,
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with a new high energy single titled Cowgirl. Benned by
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the four piece group alongside David Fanning, James Daniel Lewis,
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Peter Daniel Newman, Robbie j and Thomas Frank Ridley Hoarsely,
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the fresh release presents listeners with a spirited country love
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song that doubles as a feel good party anthem. Traditional
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country storytelling is at the core of this track, but
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Parmally gives it a modern twist as they illustrate the
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moment a guy falls head over heels for someone unexpected.
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Their rebellious spirit comes alive right beginning in the very
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first verse, when we see the love struck man start
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to fall for her cowgirl ways while watching the woman
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sip on bud light listen to Morgan Wallen's Last Night
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and two Step across the Dive Bars dance floor. It's
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clear that her southern charmers made a lasting impression on
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his life. I fell in love with a cowgirl. I'm
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following her curves like a back road, the way she
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fit in them. Levi's makes a man want to go home.
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I only came for a minute. Now she makes me
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want to live it. Yeah, her southern charm ain't no joke.
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Thank God for the Cowgirl. I fell in love with
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a cowgirl and I ain't coming home. Palmley sings as
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the chorus, gives listeners a heavy dose of their swagger
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filled vocals. While reflecting on the story behind the song,
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the group's leader Matt Thomas shares, it's about falling in
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love with that cowgirl or just somebody different that has
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you going out and trying new things, and you're lover
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loving every bit of it. Cowgirl is the first track
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to be unveiled from the band's forthcoming album, Fell in
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Love with a Cowgirl, dropping on April fourth, The seven
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song collection will serve as part of the two hour
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album set that aims to elevate Parmelly's distinctive storytelling and
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infectious anthems that often find them putting a fresh perspective
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on love and the many adventures life brings fans can
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pre order and pre save and pre add the album online.
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The track listening for fell in Love with the Cowgirl
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feels like Home Day one, God Knew Better, Cowgirl Enough, Beautiful,
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miss Me when You're Drinking, and it's produced by Dave Fanning.
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The release of their new single follows the news of
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the North Carolina Natives most recent milestone back in December,
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as the group scored their fifth number one single, Gonna
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Love You, which they performed on Good Morning America and
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The Kelly Clarkson Show in celebration. Fans also got to
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hear the tender ballad when Parmeley performed at the Concert
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for Carolina benefit, which raised more than twenty five million
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dollars for Hurricane Helen relief efforts. We wander on over
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now to people dot com Country with a single story,
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this one about Dolly Parton. Dated January twenty eighth. Dolly
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Parton's musical about her life will premiere in Nashville before
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coming to Broadway in twenty twenty six. Dolly an original musical,
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is gearing up for a Nashville debut. The upcoming stage
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production based on the life of country music legend and
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philanthropist Dolly Parton is set to kick off a four
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week limited engagement in the Tennessee capital city before a
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planned twenty twenty six move to Broadway in the Big Apple.
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Belmont University's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts will be
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home to the show beginning July eighteenth, as it plays
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its first preview performance. August eighth marks Dolly's official opening,
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with additional shows running through August seventeenth. According to an
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official release, Dolly Parton's career is nothing short of extraordinary,
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reads the release, adding, in part with over three thousand
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songs written and twenty five number one hits, Dolly has
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firmly cemented her place in music history. But how did
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this backwoods barbie rise to become a living legend. During
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a press conference announcing the show's Nashville debut Tuesday, January
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twenty eighth, Parton, who's now seventy, said on stage at
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the Fisher Center that she always wanted to do my
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life story as a musical per variety. I wanted to
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see it done while I'm still around, to be able
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to oversee it and make sure that it's done properly
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in a way that I would want to see it,
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rather than wait till I'm gone and let somebody else
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decide how they think it should be done, she added.
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Parton also told the audience that the show will include
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lots of songs that you know, but also a whole
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lot of original songs, including a lot of country instruments
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like mandolin and fiddle. I think they'll appreciate me taking
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Nashville to New York with all those country sounds, she added,
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according to Variety, and when I had a chance to
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do something bigger and broader, where I thought, oh, I'm
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going to get to have an orchestra. That's going to
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be great if I can have strings on this, and
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that it was exciting and fun for me to write
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the new stuff. A Broadway production telling her life story
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has been Parton's dream, she previously told people back in
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January of life last year. Right now working on my
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life story as a musical, and so going on Broadway
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and opening my show on Broadway, that's been a biggie
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in my mind for many, many years, she said at
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the time. That'd be the one thing I want to
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take and make certain I get done while I'm still kicking,
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while I'm around, to stay involved in it. Casting has
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yet to be announced, with Variety reporting that three actors
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will play parton one for each stage of her life
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portrayed in the show. I wish I had three of
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me a lot of times the way I work, she
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joked at a press conference on Tuesday. Tickets for Dolly
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in Original Musical are now on sale at Dollymusical dot com.
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Now we join the news and comments from Saving Country
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Music with the first article data January twenty eighth, Charlie
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Crockett reveals new major label album, Lonesome Drifter. All that
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hard work over the last many years is paying off
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in spades for old Charlie Crockett just announced officially. Crockett
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has signed a major label deal with Island Records and
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we'll be releasing his debut major album call Lonesome Drifter
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on March fourteenth. The twelve track album, recorded at Sunset
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Sound Studio in Los Angeles, was produced by Shooter Jennings.
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Shooter and I barely talked about it, Charlie says about
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the recording process, I just brought all of my guys
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out and the album made itself. It was live without
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a lot of overdubs. There were no inhibitions, I wasn't
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being judge and I didn't feel self conscious. Shooter knew
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how to cut loose and let this thing unfold. Crockett
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will release the title track and video on Friday. Explaining
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about the track, I started writing the song back when
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I was still playing in subways in New York. It's
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how I learned to play electric guitar with an amp
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on my shoulder. While I was waiting for the next train,
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I wrote songs. A few years later, I was in
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California working on the Ganja farms, and I came up
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with the Lonesome Drifter section. Hopefully, Island Records handed Crockett
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a big suitcase full of cash, and you know he
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wouldn't take it if they didn't let him keep all
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of his creative control. Wyatt Flories is also signed to
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Island Records, and it appears it's worked out for him
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so far. Things are starting to really fall into place
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for Crockett. After many years of paying dues, you finally
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are seeing his name drift higher and higher on festival
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posters and see the venues he's playing continue to increase
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in capacity. This includes headlining Rodeo Houston on March seventeenth,
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and on Sunday, February second, Crockett will be competing for
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Best Americana Album at the twenty twenty five Grammy Awards,
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underscoring just how hard working Charlie Crockett is. He recorded
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Lonesome Drifter in March of twenty four, before his album
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Ten Dollars Cowboy came out in April and its companion album,
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Visions of Dallas came out in July. Don't be surprised
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if Crockett has more music up his sleeve for twenty
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twenty five as well. Peeping at the track list for
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Lonesome Drifter, it looks like we'll hear Crockett's version of
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Amarillo by Morning made popular by George Strait, as well
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as a new version of his signature songs Jamestown Ferry
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originally recorded by Tanya Tucker. That track list is Lonesome Drifter, Game,
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I Can't Win, Jamestown Fairy, Easy Money under Neon Lights,
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This Crazy Life, The Death of Bill Bailey, Never Know More,
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Life of a Country Singer, One Trick, Pony, night Rider,
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and Amarillo by Morning. Next, Sierra Ferrell announces twenty twenty
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five Shoot for the Moon tour. The world is waking
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up to just what a wonder it has in the
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midst of with songwriter and performer Sierra Ferrell. From busking
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on street corners for Ragged Dollars to now being recognized
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with some of the top awards in the industry, Sierra
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is being showered with deserved recognition for her efforts and
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in a way that is fortifying her assent. Along with
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winning the twenty twenty four Saving Country Music Album of
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the Year for Trail of Flowers, Sierra Ferrell is also
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the Americana Music Association's Artist of the Year and is
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up for four Grammy Awards in twenty twenty five. Sierra
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Ferrell is about to have a big twenty five, so
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it might be just one of your last opportunities to
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see her in small venues. She just announced a slew
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of new headliners dates under the appropriate titles Shoot for
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the Moon and they go along with her appearances opening
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for Post Malone and big festival placements such as Stagecoach
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in April, Delfest and Railbird Here in Lexington Festival in May,
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and Harley Davidson's Homecoming Fest in July. Pre sale ticket
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start on Tuesday January twenty eighth, and again that date
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that she's at the Railbroad Festival will be May thirty
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first in Lexington. Next country artist in Martina McBride's father,
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Darryl Schiff, has passed away. It was a local country
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music legend and went on to be nationally recognized and
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also happened to be the father and mentor of country
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superstar Martina McBride. Darryl Schiff of The Shifters and the
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small town of Sharon, Kansas has died at the age
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of eighty six. Darryl Schiff was a dairy farmer and
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cabinet shop owner in Sharon, Kansas, just north of Oklahoma,
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and moonlighted as a country and country rock musician. Schiff
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exposed his children, Martin, Steve, Martina and Jeanut to country
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mussey as they were growing up, with Martina especially taking
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interest in the music, coming home from school every day
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and singing along to albums from artists like Reba McIntyre,
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Connie Smith and Patsy Kline for hours. By the time
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Martina was eight years old, she was already singing in
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her father's band, the Shifters, with her brother Marty also performing.
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Martina would continue to perform in her father's band, including
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playing keys and other roles, up until she married engineer
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John McBride in nineteen eighty eight and moved to Nashville
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the following year. In total, the Shifters performed nearly every
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Saturday night for some seventeen years at local functions, VFW
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Hall's and other locales. After Martina left for Nashville, Daryl
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Schiff continued to play music around Sharon, Kansas. As Martina
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McBride began to find fame, first as more non neo
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traditional as country performer before going into a more country
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pop direction, her father began to find his own level
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of national fame too. Darryl Shift would go on to
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perform on the Grand Old Operating numerous times and recorded
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two albums in Nashville, including twenty twenty one's Satisfied, which
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was produced by Martina and included performances by McBride and
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her brother Marty, reprising family harmonies in some of the
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songs they grew up singing together, like Heartaches by the
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Number and Satisfied Mind. Martina McBride started her singing career
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in a family band, and in many respects she carries
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that legacy forward Today. McBride's brothers, Martin and Steve regularly
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play with Martina in her touring concert band Dall Shiff's
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family band legacy and mentorship would reach all the way
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to the top of mainstream country, but it all started
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in a small Kansas town and a family band singing
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for the love of the music. Now with tiptoe over
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to the boot dot com with the first article dated
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January twenty sixth, Parker McCollum ends a show halfway through.
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Parker McCollum is just a couple of stops into his
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twenty twenty five What Kind of Man tour, but their
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singer hit a roadblock during his State College, Pennsylvania show
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on Saturday night. McCollum kicked off his show as planned,
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but as he started making his way through the set list,
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it became clearer and clear that he wasn't feeling his best.
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Fans in the crowd documented the performance on social media,
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including several moments where it seems like McCollum is feeling
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ill and struggling to power through the songs. Eventually, McCollum
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decided he was too sick to keep going, and he
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addressed the crowd with a profuse apology. I'm going to
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call the show. I'll give each and every single one
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of you all your money back, the singer said from
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the stage. It's from the deepest part of my heart
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that I apologize for having to do this. He continued,
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I've never done this in all the years I've been
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singing country music. I hope you guys will forgive us.
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In addition to promising to refund fans' money, mccoum also
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vowed to put a new date on his calendar for
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his state college fans. He reiterated that sentiment is an
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apology posted to social media after he got off the stage.
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I was getting pretty sick before the show and tried
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to make it through, McCollum explained, Sadly, I couldn't make
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it happen. Definitely not how we wanted the show to
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go on, but we are going to make it up
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to you very soon. Though some fans were disappointed that
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McCollum's show didn't go on as plan, most seemed supportive
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of his decision to reschedule. He said he was throwing
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up fifteen minutes before the show, but wanted to give
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us what he could wrote a TikTok user who posted
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video from the concert. He made it about halfway through
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the set list and honestly sounded so good until the
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last two songs he sang, It's okay, Parker, we still
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love you. The next scheduled stop on McCollum's tour will
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take place on January thirtieth in Kingston, Rhode Island. Next.
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Tim McGraw the parts upcoming Netflix series due to surgery.
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Tim McGraw has exited his upcoming Netflix series due to
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an upcoming surgery. According to a new report, Deadline reports
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that the country singer and actor is stepped away from
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his role in an as yet untitled show set in
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the rodeo world because he is slated to undergo back
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surgery that will require significant recovery time. Citing a source
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close to McGraw, Deadline states the McGraw also had orthopedic
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surgery on both knees and August of last year, after
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suffering an injury that forced him to cancel the remaining
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portion of his twenty twenty four tour. Mcrow's Netflix show
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is announced in May of twenty twenty four. It is
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set to follow a champion bull rider who faces a
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life or death cross roads when confronted by the arrival
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of a feruless young writer whose existence challenges his ways
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and unearthed secrets that force him to reckon with his past.
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He was set to have both star and executive produced
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the show under the banner of his down Home Entertainment Company,
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which launched the spring of twenty twenty three in partnership
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with sky Dance Television. While this concludes the reading of
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Country Weekly for this week, if you have any comments
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or suggestions about our program, kindly call us at eight
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five nine four two two sixty three ninety. Thank you
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for joining me and on behalf of everyone here at RADIOI.
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This is Ken Dawkins, wishing you a great day.