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5.9.25 · 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'll be
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reading from various sources found online. As a reminder, RADIOI
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is a reading service intended for people who are blind
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or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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printed material. We'll become of the first article dated May fifth,
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from the boot dot Com Here Come the Jugs, or
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at least a teaser that unearths a never before heard
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song from a new documentary, a new sneak peek into
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Lifetime's upcoming. The Judge documentary focuses on Naomi Judd's passion
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for songwriting and reveals a never released song Naomi and
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Whine owner Judd recorded early on in their careers as
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a duo. The clip starts with Ashley looking through old
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cassette tapes with Larry Strickland, her stepfather and Naomi's widower.
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They pop one tape into a player and smile as
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the late singer's voice again fills the room. Hello Hello,
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Naomi comedically opens the tape. It's October the twenty fourth,
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nineteen eighty two. I'm Naomi judd I'm whine Owner adds
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a quiet voice in the background. The songs that you're
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about to hear were written exclusively and originally by me.
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Naomi continues with accompaniment from acoustic guitar. The mother daughter
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pair then launch into a song that Naomi wrote the
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same year, nineteen eighty two, which they never released. Even
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though it's just a demo, all the elements are there,
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Naomi and why on his signature close vocal harmonies or
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front and center on this tender, lilting country track, which
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centers around the lyric Daddy, are you coming home tonight?
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This was just then, when they were in their very
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early stages, before the record deal or anything. Wow, Strickland comments,
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it's all there, like butter and milk. Ashually adds the power,
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the harmony. Oh my god, why Owner Judge says in
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another clip, listening to this buried recording for the first
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time in what seems like a long time, she still
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remembers the song, though. As the tape plays, whyn Ona,
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who was still in her teens when she and her
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mom sang the recording, easily jumps in to sing along.
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It's about as pure as it ever got. She says
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at the conclusion of the tape, Seriously, that's about as
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pure as it will ever be. Naomi Judd wrote several
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songs for the Juds, including their hit Love Can Build
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a Bridge, which would wind up being their final performance
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together just weeks before in Naomi's death by suicide in
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twenty twenty two. She's better remembered as a vocalist than
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as a songwriter today, but this clip of the documentary
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emphasizes how central songwriting was to Naomi. I think, more
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than anything in this life, Mom wanted to be a
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songwriter and I'm still thinking about it daily and how
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in the world she came up with that stuff she
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came up with Whyona reflects in a new preview, it's
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literally what made me who I am today because I
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discovered my gift big time. So that's where it began.
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Whyoa continues the new documentary about the Judd families, called
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The Judd Family Truth Be Told, and it will air
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this Saturday, May tenth at eight pm on Lifetime. Those
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who don't have cable can stream the channel through services
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including Filo, Sling TV, and Hulu Plus Live TV. Meanwhile,
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The Judge's Best songs are here at the Boot. Top
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ten hits from Minona and Naomi. They have fourteen number
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one songs and dominated Duo and Group of the Year
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awards at both the CMA and ACM Awards. During the
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nineteen eighties. They also recorded several dozen great songs that
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never made radio. Here are the top songs ever, according
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to the Boot. While we're over at the Boot, might
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as well do this Number ten, Girls night Out from
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nineteen eighty five. The Judge had some fun with this song,
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and thirty years later, the number one hit became the
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name of their Las Vegas residency, which kicked off back
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on October seventh, twenty fifteen. Released in nineteen eighty five,
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is the second single from Why Not Me. Girls Night
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Out is the perfect weekend anthem for any group of
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girlfriends ready to get out and paint the town. Number nine,
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said the Boot, Let Me Tell You About Love from
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nineteen eighty nine. It was The Judge's fourteenth and final
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number one on the country charts, released in nineteen eighty
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nine as the second single from the album River of Time,
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and it made another appearance on The Judg's nineteen ninety
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one Greatest Hits volume two collection. Number eight, Love Is
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Alive from nineteen eighty five garnered the Judge a Grammy
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nomination for Best Country Song. Showcases love and its everyday
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appearance is at the breakfast Table and every day of
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the week. Have Mercy comes in at number seven, says
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The Boot, Also from eighty five. The sassy number, written
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by Paul Kennerley, was the Judg's lead single from Rock
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and with the Rhythm. It shot to number one, giving
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the Judge their fifth chart topping tune. Nineteen eighty eight's
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Give a Little Love was number six. The Judge released
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Give a Little Love as the first single from their
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Greatest Hits record in nineteen eighty eight. By this era,
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the Judges were known as one of country's greatest duos,
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and Give a Little Love was just one more reason
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to love them. With the rhythm of the rain, Number
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five from nineteen eighty six became the duo's seventh consecutive
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number one when it dropped in May of eighty six,
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spending twelve weeks on the country charts. It makes a
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rainy and dreary days seem utterly romantic, the Boot says.
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Number four is why Not Me? From the juds This
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was their second number one Hey. It dominated the charts
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for two weeks and spent a total of fifteen weeks
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on the country charts after its release in September of
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nineteen eighty four. As this first single and title track
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from Why Not Me Number three Mammy He's Crazy. The
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chart topping tune was the judge First ever number one,
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and it was in nineteen eighty four and only the
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second country number one sung by a female duo ever
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Number two Grandpa tell Me About the Good Old Days
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from eighty six. It's the story of a grandchild asking
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her grandfather about the good old days? Is it true
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that couples stayed married, praying was the norm, and fathers
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never left their families? And according to the booth, the
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number uber one song from the Judges, Love Can Build
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a Bridge from nineteen ninety, when at debuted in ninety,
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had struck a chord with country fans. Naomi Judd co
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wrote the song with Paul Overstreet and John Jarvis as
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a sort of goodbye to her family and fans after
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revealing that she'd been diagnosed with hepatitis C and had
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decided to retire to her condition. Next, Keith Urban to
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be fetted with the Triple Crown Award at the twenty
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twenty five ACMs. This week, Keith Urban will receive the
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prestigious Triple Crown Award of the twenty twenty five ACM Awards.
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Several of his fellow country superstars will salute him during
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the show by performing a selection of his greatest hits.
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Chris Stapleton, Megan Maroney, and the Brothers Osbourne are all
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on tap to tribute the star, performing a selection of
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covers from across Urban's twenty five years as one of
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country music's most popular hit makers. Only a few elite
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country superstars are eligible for the Triple Crown Award. In
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order to receive it, artists must have won the New
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Artist of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Entertainer
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of the Year at the ACMs during their careers. With
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his new title, Irvin joins the ranks of artists like
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Miranda Lambert, George Strake, Dolly Parton, and Brooks and Dunn,
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all of whom have celebrated as Triple honorees at shows past.
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But the ACM doesn't award a Triple Crown recipient every year.
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In fact, the last time there was an honoree was
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at the twenty ten Awards show when Carrie Underwood was
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celebrated for her Triple Crown status. Urban's tribute was part
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of the show's Milestone's sixtieth anniversary celebration. Next, Luke Bryan
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throws a hilarious but uncalled for jab at Blake Shelton.
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Luke Brian just threw a jab at Blake Shelton out
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of nowhere, and it was funny. Brian was giving a
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behind the scenes look at the setup of his Country
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Song Came On tour, which begins May twenty ninth in Bethel,
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New York, when he randomly shot shade at Shelton. The two,
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of course are longtime Friendsyan is in an empty arena
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with no one but a few stage workers present when
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he hits record. Hey you also, we're at rehearsal for
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the Country Came On Song tour. We got this building
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just to kind of show everybody what Blake Shelton's ticket
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sales look like. Any jokes, The joke, of course, is
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that the arena is empty at the time. To add
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insult to injury, the one Marguerite included a sound effect
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Cricket's chirping to further drive home the point that Shelton's
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ticket sales are lacking. The few people that were in
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the background as Brian was filming can be heard getting
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a good chuckle out of the whole situation. Shelton's on
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his Friends and Heroes tour, which kicked off in February
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and runs through October, there's no tangible evidence that his
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tour sales are low. This is simply, of course, Brian
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getting a good ribbing on his buddy. The back and
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forth between Brian and Shelton has gone on for quite
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some time now. We jog on down the street to
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Saving Country Music, where the first articles dated May fifth,
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and a little story ten years ago, Chris Stapleton revolutionizes
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country with landmark album. There are just a few landmark
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records that you can point back to in the history
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of country music and legitimately claim they revolutionize the genre
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in fundamental ways. They might not be your favorite records,
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and they might not be the greatest selling records, or
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maybe they are, but there was country music before their release.
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In country music after Kentucky's own, Chris Stapleton's Traveler is
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one of those records. Released on May fifth back in
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two thousand fifteen. Traveler wasn't the beginning of the country
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music revolution were currently in the midst of. It was
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simply the culmination of work that had been put in
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by others for many years. But unlike its preditcessors, it
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didn't just burst through to tickle the mainstream. It would
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go on to positively dominate in a manner that is
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still very much reverberating to this day, says Saving Country
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Music here on the tenth anniversary of the album's release.
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Travelers still sits at number thirteen on Billboard's Country Albums Chart,
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meaning it remains one of the most popular titles in
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country music at the moment and has never really exited
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the public consciousness over time. Stapleton's cover of Tennessee Whiskey,
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originally written by Dean Dillon and Linda Hargrove, currently sits
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at number twenty one on the Country streaming charts. That
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Ladies and Gentlemen is long lasting impact. It was Stergel
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Simpson recording as magnum Opus Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
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with his road band and with producer Dave Cobb specifically
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that inspired Stapleton to approach the recording of Traveler, like
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he did also with his road band All Live in
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the room with Dave Cobb behind the console. Stapleton was
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inspired also to approach the album in a new way
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after some major life changes previously, he tried to launch
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a career in the mainstream in a more conventional manner.
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He sang back up on countless records and had written
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songs for numerous performers, including George Strait and Josh Turner,
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and even big pop country stars like Luke Bryan. Arguably
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Stapleton's biggest claim to fame was writing a song for
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A Dell At that point, but his career wasn't really
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going anywhere. He says, I lost my dad in October
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of two thousand thirteen and did a little bit of
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soul searching. My wife was kind enough to buy me
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an old jeep. We flew out to Phoenix and drove
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it all the way back to Nashville through the desert.
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I thought a lot about music and my dad and
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the things that he would have liked that I should
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be doing. Out of that, I actually wrote the song
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Traveler driving down Interstate forty through New Mexico. That became
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the corner stone for the record and wound up being
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the title track. If you regard Chris Stapleton in the
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release of travel Right Now, you might misremember it as
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being a big moment, rocketing Stapleton into superstardom off the
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strength of Tennessee whiskey. But that's not what happened at all,
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says Saving Country Music. Traveler enacted a slow, smoldering burn
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until it erupted. Stapleton was much more well known in
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independent circles at the time than he was in the
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main stream. He was even interviewed here at Saving Country Music.
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He fronted the hard charging bluegrass band The Steel Drivers.
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He toured with the southern rock band The Johnson Brothers.
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Nashville insiders knew of Stapleton through his songwriting credits, but
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that's about as far as it went. Traveler was being
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ignored by mainstream country radio, of course, and sales were
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perhaps spirited for a non radio release, but completely under
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the radar. But people up and down Music Row love Traveler,
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as did Stapleton's fellow performers, and when it came time
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to vote for the twenty fifteen CMA Awards, they all
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punched the tab for Stapleton, resulting in him receiving nominations
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for New Artists of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year,
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an Album of the Year for Traveler. Specifically. Heading into
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the CMA Awards in November, people saving country music thought
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if Stapleton could win the New Artist of the Year,
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it would be a big win for the good guys.
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When he won in all three categories, it was a
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shot heard round the country music world and beyond. Nobody
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expected him to win two of the evening's biggest awards.
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At that moment, most country music fans didn't even know
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who Chris Stapleton was, but they were about to find out.
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Along with the big, unexpected wins, Chris Stapleton also performed
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Tennessee Whiskey on the CMA Awards stage with Justin Timberlake
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and the rest is history, and that remains one of
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my favorite TV live performances. It arrested the entire American consciousness,
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and ten years later, Tennessee Whiskey remains one of the
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most popular songs in all of music. A forty plus
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year old country song originally recorded by George Jones and
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David allan Coe. What was the Magic sauce that put
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Chris Stapleton's Tennessee Whiskey and Traveler on top. Well, remember
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this was that the height of bro country and country
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music was at a crossroads. Would it be Florida Georgia
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line representing the future of country music, or would it
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be the emerging Kentucky and Appalachi resurgence spirited forward by
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the likes of Sturgill Simpson and others and brought to
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the mainstream by Stapleton. CMA voters made their choice, and
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time has proven they made the right one. Of course,
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there's plenty that is polarizing about the album, and Stapleton,
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for that matter, said saving country music. Is it really
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legitimately country or more soulful Americana? Why did he spell
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Traveler with two l's instead of one? As we see
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all the time time and independent underground country music. As
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soon as Traveler became popular, it also became extremely polarizing.
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It was the pop country world co opting the Kentucky resurgence.
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Some surmised Chris Stapleton might have lost his street cred,
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but he also created a strong counterbalance to bro country.
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He created a conduit for popular country fans to eventually
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discover artists like Sturgil Simpson and later Tyler Childers and
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other Kentucky insurgents. Stapleton would go on to book artists
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like Brent Cobb and Marty Stewart as openers on his
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massive arena shows, and Chris Stapleton and the success of
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Traveler was a catalyst for so many positive developments in
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country music. It's hard to enumerate them all. But unlike
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some other historical retrospectives, you really don't need to sell
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the public on the significance of Traveler. They're still feeling it.
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It's still at the forefront of the American consciousness, even
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here a decade after its release. Next, Cody Jinks announce
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his new album, in My Blood. The modern King of
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Outlaw Country isn't one for lounging around for a few
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years between albums. After releasing a new studio album and
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a Lefty Frizelle tribute in twenty twenty four, Cody Jinks
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will be releasing his latest album, called in My Blood
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on July twenty fifth. Once again, the album was recorded
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the Sonic Ranch in Torneilo, Texas. Just like most of
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all Cody's music since his Landmark twenty fifteen release The
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Adobe Sessions. You're on a Journey with Me. My life
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is My Records. Cody Jinks says nothing's changed. The album
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was me, my band, producers and engineers. That's as real
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as it gets. That's an authentic as I can make it.
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His band is the Tone Deaf Hippies, consisting of Joshua
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Thompson on bass, Drew Harrical Keys, Austin hot Rod Trip
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Pedal steel, Chris Clarity guitar, and Jake Lintner on guitar,
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with Matt Nolan and Lenny Castro also appearing on the
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new album. It was produced by Joshua Thompson and Charles Godfrey.
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Cody Jinks considers the new album the beginning of a
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part two to his career, especially in his writing, with
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his last album twenty four Is Changed the Game being
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the close of part one where Jinks addressed his recent
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sobriety and the way he helped revolutionize country music as
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an independent artist. Cody wrote many of the songs of
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the album, but like he normally does, he also collaborated
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with a host of co writers, including Ward Davis, Tennessee,
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Jet Ray, Willie Hubbard, Channing, Wilson, Kendall, Marvel, BlackBerry Smokes,
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Charlie Starr, who Jinks co wrote the title track with
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the debut single from the album called Found, will be
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released or has been released actually on May second, but
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members of Cody's fan club will be able to hear
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it early before that time. I guess they did. Okay.
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The track list will be better than the Bottle Lost Highway,
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the others in My Blood, Something Wicked this way comes,
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See the Man, when you Can't Remember, Lonely Man, Monster Found,
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and When Time Didn't Fly. Now we head out to
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countrynow dot com. With the first article dated May second,
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Jake Worthington explains how a traffic stops spark the inspiration
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for it Ain't the Whiskey. After much demand, Jake Worthington
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has officially dropped his brand new track it Ain't the Whiskey.
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Written alongside Will Banister, Jeff Hyde, and Roger Springer, this
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high energy and infectious tune finds the big loud Texas
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artist and country traditionalist sharing his sense of humor while
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recalling an after dark encounter with a cop. Confident that
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Worthington's character has been swerving on the road from heavy drinking.
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The police officer in the song orders the singer to
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exit his vehicle so he can further investigate the situation.
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During the ordeal, Worthington insists he's impaired driving isn't from
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being under the influence. Rather, it's due to being love
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struck over the woman in a passenger seat of his truck.
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It ain't the whiskey that gets me looking like I'm
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out of my mind. When she kissed me hit harder
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than some hillbilly shine. If you're thinking I've been drinking,
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there's a little bitty reason I've been speaking, just a
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little tongue tied. It ain't the whiskey, It's the woman
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by my side. Worthington sings lightheartedly, putting his timeless Southern
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drawl on full display between the tongue in cheek lyrics
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and melody that includes various instruments ranging from a sawing
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fiddle and retro electric guitars to pedal steel and barroom piano.
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It Ain't the Whiskey falls in the vein of neo
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traditionalist artists and nineties throwbacks. He channels tunes like John
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Anderson's keep your Hands to Yourself Alan Jackson's Summertime Blues,
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Randy Travis, If I Didn't Have You, and Hank Williams
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Junior's All My Rowdy Friends. Interestingly, Worthington pulled inspiration for
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ain Ain't the Whiskey from a real life experience. He
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and his wife, Sophie had the research department. As they say,
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sometimes it's be that way, says the Laporte, Texas native,
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sharing hilarious moment when he and his wife had a
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memorable run in with the law. A funny thing was
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around the time I wrote this, my wife came to
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me to go play a show in Texas and we
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got pulled over speeding somewhere. Anyhow, long story short, that
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was the first year of being married to Sophia. We
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found ourselves in the back of a cop car. Worthington
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told Country Now at Live and the Vard Ghost Country.
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It just created all kinds of fiasco for us. But
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months later Jeff Roger and Will had called me up
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and we talked about it. They had a pretty great
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idea and I lived it a little bit. So that's
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about it. It's just a fun, loving song. Before releasing it,
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Ain't the Whiskey, Worthington drew support for the song from
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his fan base, testing the response with teases across his
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social media platform. He garnered over twenty five million pre
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release listens through viral clips that he teased on social media.
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With the increasing fan demand for the track, Worthington knew
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it was time to finally drop it. Taking the excitement
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even further, Worthington has treated listeners to the official music
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video for the track, directed by Jay Curtis Miller. The
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cinematic clip guest stars Worthington's wife, who mostly stays calm
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for her role before flashing her vibrant smile at the
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police officer. Worthington's acting throughout the clip brings the story
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to life even further with his over the top facial expressions.
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He mouths out the words to this song. We had
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a lot of fun shooting the music video and I'm
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glad they are connecting with it. Worthington said, I feel
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like any minute now it's going to go all the
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way or something. But I just think it's a really
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cool song. Thank you for all listening to it. It
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Ain't the Whiskey is Worthington's latest track following recent collaborations
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with legendary Hall of Famer Marty Stewart on the I'm
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the One and superstar Miranda Lambert on Hello Shitty Day Music. Aside,
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Worthington has been keeping busy on the road and in
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his new role as father to daughter Whitney. That's Whitley
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Ann Worthington. He and his wife welcomed Whitley into the
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world on October twenty fourth of nineteen, No, that would
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be October twenty fourth of twenty twenty four. Of being
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a new father, he shared, it's the best. I mean,
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just like anybody who brings a child into the world,
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a lot of things become your reality and hit you
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in the face right there. The biggest thing I take
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away from it is I got to be who she
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finds in this life, and that's a big old responsibility.
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I'm proud to have it, and my wife's amazing with
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her and she just brought so much joy. Worthington is
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currently on the road as a special guest for Zach
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Top's Cold Beer and Country Music Tour. After that, he
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will join John Parties's Honky Tonk Hollywood Tour next. Fans
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call zak Top the man's saving country music after Tonight's
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show debut. Fresh off his win for ACM New Male
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Artist of the Year, Zak Top made his way to
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the Big Apple to make his debut on The Tonight
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Show starring Jimmy Fallon. The country star delivered a performance
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of his fast rising hit I Never Lie, captivating fans
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with his brand of traditional country alongside his touring band.
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His performance drew praise from fans who flocked to The
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Tonight Show's YouTube to leave comments in support of the
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country singer. One years of road, he's the new hope
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for true country music, while another teamed Top the top
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Man's saving country music. It's no surprise to see comments
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like this. Top has been praised for keeping real country
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music alive ever since he first stepped into the spotlight.
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I Never Lie is featured on the Washington Natives debut album,
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Cold Beer and Country Music. While the song quickly became
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a fan favorite during his live shows, Top admits he
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was a bit surprised by how strongly it resonated with audience.
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I Never Lie. It's kind of been the thing off
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the record that really's poked its head up. It's funny,
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he previously shared with Nick Major on the Spout podcast.
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That's either favorite or second favorite song on the record
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from me, But I wasn't expecting that to be the
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one that would kind of take off and be the hit,
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so to speak. Top Co wrote with the song with
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Carson Chamberlain and Tim Nichols. Their sharp, witty songwriting tells
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the story of a man who pretends to be unfazed
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by our recent breakup and his ex's new relationship. I
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sleep like a baby, I never show up late for work.
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I don't drink whiskey. I don't know how it feels
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to hurt. Oh, and I ain't been lonely since you
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said goodbye. I wish I could say I miss you,
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but you know I never lie, He sings from the chorus.
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It's as country as anything on the album. In a ballad,
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top pointed out so the fact that when we hit
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those first to little mimised guitar riffs, people just lose
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it and other stuff Brooks had done recently surprised Top
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of his first ever ACM award, delivering a special video
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message to the singer prior to his sold out show
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in Wilmington, North Carolina, last week of the honor top shared.
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I couldn't be more honored, and I can't say big
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enough thank you to my fans for loving music and
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loving what we do on the road and listening to
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the songs every day. It means the world to me.
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I've got what I've always wanted, just to play and
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sing for a living, and I get to do that now.
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And it's cool to be able to get a little
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trophy every now and then to let us know we're
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doing good. So thank you so much. This is beautiful.
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Now we're onto holler dot country dot com, where they
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don't date their articles, but this is a news story
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from the last couple of days. Let's call it May fourth.
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Parker McCollum teases new single Big Sky, sets release date
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for Wednesday, ahead of the release of his fifth studio album.
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Parker McCollum has been faithfully teasing what's to come from
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his first self titled collection. The latest taste arrives in
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the form of Big Sky, a stark new single seemingly
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about an existence spent with the head in clouds. For
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the last week, the artist was in sharing short snippets
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from the Tom pettyesque tune, one driven by a carefree
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beat and weightless lyrics. Can't remember all the places I've been.
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The star cruns against the jaunty groove. I just wander
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through the wild looking for a new friend. I just
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wander through the while looking for a new friend. I
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fly and I never land. It's a big Sky. I'm
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a lonely man. If you're looking for me, just know
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that I'm free and there ain't no telling where I
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might be. With the latest teaser, McCollum revealed that Big
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Sky will drop this Wednesday, or did drop this Wednesday,
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the seventh. The new single joins the previously released What
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Kind Of Man and Hope that I'm Enough, all set
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to appear on Parker McCollum's new album, called Parker mccollumn
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on June twenty seventh. The new album will apparently signal
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a return to the star's roots as he revisits the
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sound or sound and style of his twenty fifteen debut album,
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The Limestone Kid. I was twenty two years old and
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I wrote that record in my apartment in Austin, he
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recently shared with fans during a live performance. I've put
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out three studio albums since the record, and everybody always
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says man love the Limestone Kid. So this album that's
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coming out this summer, it's not the Limestone Kid, but
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it's probably as close as I'm ever going to get.
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You got to listen top to bottom. I really hope
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that you guys love it. Next, Morgan Wallen plans to
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release Superman this Friday. Big news from Morgan Wallen, fans
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will have one less new song to find time to
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listen to when the thirty seven track I'm the Problem
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comes out on May sixteenth. The Last Night singer shared
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on Instagram on Monday that the highly anticipated Superman will
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be released a week before the studio album this weekend.
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It's special to me for obvious reasons, he wrote on
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the post. I want to have its own moment and
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hopefully that's what this will accomplish. The Rainning CMA Entertainer
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of the Year previously shared a preview of the song
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he wrote as a tribute to his four year old
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son Indigo Wilder, to whom he shares with ex fiancee
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K T. Smith. I've been trying for a long time
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to write a song I love to my son, Walin
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shared in an Instagram post. None of them ever feel
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good enough because of how perfect I want something like
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this to be. And I'm not saying this is perfect,
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but I'm very proud of it. The lyrics to Superman
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directly reference Wallin's troubled past with lines about his rast
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drunken behavior and previous relationships as he expresses hope that
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when Indigo Wilder grows up, he won't think less of
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him as a father. One day, he's going to see
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my mugshot from a night when I got a little
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too drunk. Hear a song about a girl that I
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lost from the times when I just wouldn't grow up,
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he sings, And when you ain't a kid no more,
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I hope you don't think less of me. I try
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to hide my fallen soul, but you're going to see.
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In the chorus, Wallin introduces the Superman analogy, likening his
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shortcomings to the way the Man of Steel is also
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weakened by exposure to green kryptonite, a fictional mineral from
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the planet Krypton that's radioactives as Superman and other Kryptonians
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now and then that bottles my kryptonite brings a Man
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of Steel down to his knees. Don't always know my
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wrong from right. Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy. No,
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I don't always save the day, but you know, for you,
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I'll always try. I'll do the best I can. A
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superman is still just a man sometimes, oh sometimes. Morgan
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Wallace's previously spoken about his son when he joined THEO
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Vaughn on this past weekend's podcast. I think it just
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gets better and better the older he gets, while and shared.
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I mean, it's always been cool, but you know, he's
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just four years old. He'll be five this year. Just
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the personality that keeps coming out in the relationships that
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you build. You know, he's got a little sas on him.
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He's got a little attitude, which I like. I like
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that spunk. He told Vaughn. Like, yesterday, my dad was
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trying to get him to eat. It's kind of a
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task to get him to sit still long enough to eat.
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And my dad was like, hey, man, if you don't eat,
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I'm gonna put you in the bedroom and you're gonna
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go to sleep. I don't know exactly what my dad
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said to him, but Indigo looked at my dad and
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he said, I don't want you to stay here anymore.
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It's just hilarious. Just anything to keep him rocking. But
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he's a sweetheart. He's almost too sweet. He's too nice
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to everyone, like people he doesn't know. It's like, hey man,
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we don't like everybody. Man, we don't know these people.
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So I'm trying to teach him a little bit of that.
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Sounds like both of the little boys are doing some
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growing up at the same time. Wallin co wrote twenty
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two of the thirty seven tracks appearing on his fourth
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studio record, which includes collaborations with Tate McCrae, Eric Church, Hardy,
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and Earnest. This concludes the reading of Country Weekly for
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this week. Folks. If you have any comments or suggestions
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about our program, kindly call us at eight five nine
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much for joining me and on behalf of everyone here
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at RADIOI. This is Ken Dawkins, wishing you a great day.