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2.13.26 · Country Weekly

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Speaker 1: How about that We're back again yep to catch up
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with Country Weekly, where we dive into news and gossip
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from the world of country music. I'm your host, Ken Dawkins,
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and I'll be reading from various sources found online. As
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a reminder, RADIOI is a reading service intended for people
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who are blind or have other disabilities that make it
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difficult to read printed material. We'll begin with the first article,
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dated February ninth, from countrynow dot Com. Ella Langley makes
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chart history as Choosing Texas tops Billboard Hot one hundred.
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Ella Langley is celebrating another career defining moment this week.
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It was announced that her buzzed about hit Choosing Texas,
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has officially climbed to number one on the Billboard Hot
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one hundred, and this marks the first time she's ever
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claimed that top spot. With the achievement, Langley makes history
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as the first female artist to simultaneously lead the Hot
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one hundred, Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts. According
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to Billboard, only three other songs have previously accomplished the
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same feat Shaboozie's a Bar song, Tipsy Post malones I
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had some help featuring Morgan Wallen and Wallin's own Last Night. Additionally,
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the song has surpassed three hundred and ten million streams worldwide,
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earning RIAA Platinum certification and reaching number one on the
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US Spotify chart, Apple Music's US Songs Chart, and became
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the fourth country song by a female lead to top
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the Billboard Streaming Songs chart list in its thirteen year history.
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Her latest milestone arrived just days after Langley rallied fans
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for one final push to help her achieve the historic goal.
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Taking to social media, she emphasized how close the song
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was to reaching the top spot and explained to listeners
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that their help could make all the difference. You all
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put me in a position to do something only a
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few females in country music have ever done. She wrote.
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At the time, I'm being told we're neck and neck
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and getting the number one, and if we have one
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last push on iTunes, we might make country music history.
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Choosing Texas was co written and produced by Langley with
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Miranda Lambert, alongside producer Ben West and co writers Luke
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Dick and joy Beth Taylor. Lambert can also be heard
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singing background vocals on track Throughout the catchy tune The
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Alabama Native delivers a bittersweet tale of heartbreak, singing from
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the perspective of someone realizing the man she loves was
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never really hers as his heart is firmly rooted in
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Texas with someone else. She's from Texas. I can tell
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by the way he's two stepping around the room, and
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judging by the smile, it's written on his face. There's
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nothing I can do. It doesn't take a crystal ball
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to see a cowboy always finds a way to leave
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drinkin jack all by myself. He's choosing Texas, I can tell,
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she sings on the full chorus. The song serves as
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the lead single off Langley's forthcoming sophomore album, Dandelion, which
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is set to release on apri Looking Ahead, Ella Langley
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is gearing up to hit the road for the Dandelion Tour,
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which kicks off May seventh and Toledo and include stops
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in Saint Louis, Oklahoma City, Austin, and Moore before wrapping
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up in Fort Worth, Texas on August fifteenth. Joining Ella
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on the tour support cross selected dates by Cameron Marlowe,
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Dylan Marlowe, Caitlin Buttz, Gabriella Rose, and Lacy k Booth.
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Also on the schedule for the year are supporting dates
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for Eric Church's Free the Machine Tour, Morgan Wallen Still
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the Problem Tour, and several other festival appearances. Meanwhile, as
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we jump over to countrycentral dot Com, Langley announces her
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new song be Her. Ella Langley has announced the release
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of a new song titled be Her, set to arrive
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this weekend. She previewed the track with a brief teaser
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clip on social media, offering fans an early look at
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a verse. In the snippet, Langley sketches a portrait of
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a self assured woman, opening with the line she drinks
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wine by the glass, not by the bottle. She ain't
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stuck on the past, ain't worried about tomorrow. The teaser
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continues with character driven imagery, describing someone who's a lover,
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a mother, a sister, and a wife who don't need
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validation or much of anything. B Her arrives as Langley
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continues the rollout of her forthcoming sophomore album, as we mentioned, Dandelion,
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that's executive produced by Langley alongside Miranda Lambert and Ben West.
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Langley has described the new record as her most personal
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and fully realized body of work to date. Next, Luke
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Combs announces new song b by You. Luke Combs has
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announced the release of a new single, b by You,
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set to arrive this weekend as part of the album
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due out March twentieth. The Way I Am Combe shared
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the clip with fans on social media, reviving excitement around
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a song that many first heard in snippet form last year. Early.
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Even in its early preview, b by You stood out
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as a trademark. Luke Comb's track built on sincerity in
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Southern im imagery a La Jean Boots, Sweet Home Holler
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and the like, with lines about waking up next to
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someone and finding beauty in the unfiltered moments. B by
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U follows the same spirit of his simple love songs
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like Better Together and Beautiful Crazy. B by You Marx
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Coomb's first release since the single Sleepless in a Hotel Room,
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and sets the tone for what's shaping up to be
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the biggest album of the spring in country music. This summer,
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Luke will hit the road on his My Kind Of
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Saturday Night tour, spanning stadiums the world over, with support
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from Dirk Spentley, Thy Myers, The script and many others next.
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Sierra Ferrell shares Heavy Pedal Tour dates. Sierra Ferrell has
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announced her Heavy Pedal Tour, a sweeping run of North
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American and international dates set to kick off this spring.
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The folk rooted singer songwriter revealed the tour via social media,
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teasing that something sweet is in the air she prepares
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to bring her latest era on the road. The Heavy
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Pedal two will see Ferrell performing across the US, Canada,
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and Europe, with stops in major markets as well as
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festival appearances, then select support slots along the way. Tickets
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for the tour went on sale this week. In addition
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to the live dates, Ferrell is partnering with the social
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impact organization plus one to give back throughout the run.
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One dollar from every ticket soul will be donated to charity.
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For the North American leg, proceeds will benefit the National
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Immigration Law Center, supporting its work advancing and defending the
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rights and opportunities of low income immigrants in their families.
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The Heavy Pedal Tour follows a breakout stretch for Farrell,
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whose blend of American folk, country, and vintage jazz influences
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paired with her distinctive vocals and whimsical attitude has made
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her a true anomaly in country music. The upcoming dates
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continue her steady climb from cult favorite to international headliner,
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bringing her kaleidoscopic live show to an even wider audience
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in twenty twenty six. Unfortunately, close as she gets to
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our neck of the woods would be in Columbus, Ohio,
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June twelfth and thirteenth. Next, Megan Morony announces new single
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Cloud Nine. Megan Maroney announced on social media the last
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week that her new single, Cloud nine, the title track
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of her forthcoming third studio album of the same name,
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will be released or was released this week. In the post,
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Maroni wrote, this one's for the lover Girls. The full
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album is slated for release on February twentieth, and it
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will feature fifteen tracks, including previously released singles such as
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Gold Certified six months later and Beautiful Things. It will
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also see Marony join voices with Casey Musgraves and Ed Sheeran. Marony,
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who rose to prominence with the breakout smash Tennessee Orange,
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has become one of country music's fastest rising stars in
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recent years, earning multi platinum certifications and regular airplay. In
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support of the new album, Maroni will embark on the
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eponymous Cloud nine Tour, which begins May twenty ninth in Columbus.
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The tour includes multiple arena dates across North America, with
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additional stops announced in Europe and the United Kingdom later
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in the year. Now we jump on a water slide
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down to saving country music with the first article coming
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to his on February tenth, Vince Gill reveals new tour
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dates for twenty twenty six. Country Music Hall of Famer,
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renowned guitar player, part time member of the Eagles, and
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all around country music good guy, Vince Gill is continuing
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his celebration of fifty years in music by extending his
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twenty twenty six tour. Gill had previously announced a slew
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of dates for the summer, including a six day residency
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at the Rieman Auditorium. Now he's added more dates throughout
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the South, Midwest and New York. Joining Vince Gill on
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the road will be Moose Brown on keyboards, Edi dunlap
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on steel guitar, Jed Hughes guitar and vocals, John Jarvis keyboards,
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John Meeter guitar and vocals, Wendy Moten vocals, Jimmy Glahs bass,
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Billy Thomas drums, Jeff White guitar and vocals, and Charlie
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Worsham on guitar, along with numerous live appearances. Vince Gill
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has been releasing a new EP per month after signing
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a lifetime record deal with his label That's MCA Nashville.
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He released Brown's Diner Bar on January ninth, a third
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installment of the EP series. The idea is he'll release
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an EP for a month for the next twelve. Each
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EP features six new songs and revisits an old Gill classic.
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The newly released dates include Cincinnati, the only one near
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US at the Taff Theater on July seventeenth. Next, forty
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nine Winchester reveals new Dave cob produced album Change of Plans.
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We don't seem to be able to agree on much
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these days here in the good old US, but anyone
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who's heard forty nine Winchester tends to agree. These Virginia
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Boys are one of the best things going on in music,
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taking country and Appalachian influences and then bolstering then with
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the frontman Isaac Gibson's incredible soulful voice. That's why there
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is a tinge of anticipation in the air as they've
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just released a new song and announced that a new
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album is on the way. It's hard to believe this
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will be number six for the six piece band when
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Change of Plans is released on May fifteenth, but this
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one might be the most important release of their entire career.
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Partnering with new label MCA while also still working with
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their previous independent label, New West, Change of Plans will
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officially be the band's major label debut. It was also
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executive produced by Dave Cobb, who oversaw recording sessions at
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his studio in Savannah. It was an incredible honor to
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work with for the first time the great Dave Cobb
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and his crew to capture these sounds and stories while
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touring the world these past few years. The band says
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special thanks also to legend Nick Farrell for bringing all
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the elements of this journey together into one epic landscape
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of art and package. After the release of Change of Plans,
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the band will then be exclusively signed to MCA along
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with Isaac Gibson. Forty nine Winchester features Bus Shelton on
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lead guitar, Chase Chaffin on bass, Noah Patrick on pedal steel,
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Tim Hall on keys, and drummer Justin Leffiane. Ahead of
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the new album forty nine, Winchester has released the song
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Pardon Me. Any ambiguity left from the lyrics and what
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the song might be about is cleared up by the video. Really,
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it doesn't matter what Isaac Gibson sings. He has a
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way of getting you to buy into all of it.
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The new ten song album will also include the band's
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cover of Black Sabbaths Changes. The song started out to
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simply be a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, but has taken
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on a life of its own from the treatment of
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Virginia Boys put on it. You can see the full
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track list online. The album will be available in seven
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different color variants on vinyl as well as CD and cassette.
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Physical copies are now available for pre order. The track
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list the Window, Bluebird Changes, all Around Me, Slowly, all
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over Again Again, Oh Savannah, Bringing Home the Bacon, Pardon Me,
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and Heavy Chevy. Interestingly, Saving Country Music has a list
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out this week the top Country music National anthem performances
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of all time. It's one of the most difficult and
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scrutinized performances any singer can commit to, but if you
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turn in a memorable rendition, it could be a defining
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moment in your career. And that's the way that comes
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with performing the National Anthem. And though some of the
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most more memorable ones over the years have come from
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singers like Whitney Houston, when were some of the landmark
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performances of the Star Spangled Banner from country artists. So
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they go through the years and take a look. Number ten,
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according to Saving Country Music is Mickey Geiten super Bowl
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twenty twenty two and National Memorial Day Concert twenty twenty one.
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Mickey Geiten is one of country music's pre eminent Star
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Spangled Banner performers and has done the honors on many
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occasions throughout her career. For this is not just because
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she's so good at it. She was actually inspired to
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become a country singer after seeing a ten year old
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LeAnn Rimes before the National or before the National Anthem
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when Geydon was roughly the same age. Number nine Carrie
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Underwood Nashville Predators Playoff Game twenty seventeen. As you can imagine,
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Carrie Underwood is quite a few landmark renditions of the
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national Anthem under her belt as one of the best
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modern country singers, including the twenty ten Super Bowl, but
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searching through the archives of her performances, the one that
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stands out the most for saving country music was before
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Game three between the Nashville Predators and the Chicago Blackhawks
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as part of the twenty seventeen National Hockey League Playoffs,
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Number eight Martina McBride AFC Championship Game two thousand and nine.
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Martina McBride is considered one of the greatest singers in
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modern country history, and she showed off y in two
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thousand and nine before the tilt between the Ravens and
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the Steelers to decide who would go to the nine
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Super Bowl. Not only was McBride flawless and showed off
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her Howitzer voice, she had to fight the weather conditions
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to do so. It was twenty one degrees with a
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stiff wind, but McBride owned the performance. Saving Country Music
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says the number seven performance in country music of the
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National Anthem. Ruby Jane Mississippi State basketball Game twenty ten.
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Unless you were personally there, or unless you're reading this now,
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it's unlikely you've ever heard of this particular performance of
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the anthem. After all, it happened before a regular season
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college basketball game, and Ruby Jane isn't exactly a household name.
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Number six The Dixie Chicks the super Bowl two thousand
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and three. Though most renditions of the Star Spangled Banner
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are also our solo performances, the Dixie Chicks Natalie, Emily
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and Marty brought there three part harmonies to the Super
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Bowl in two thousand and three and knocked it out
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of the park and has since become one of the
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most beloved performances of the song to fans in country
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music and beyond. Saving Country music says, super Bowl two
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thousand featuring faith Hill is number five. Faith Hill took
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the field at the millennial rendition of the Super Bowl
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and walked into the history books for delivering one of
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the most lauded performances of the national anthem and American
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music history. Accompanied by a troop of traditional bagpipes and
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field drums, faith Hill separated her rendition from so many
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others with her superlative mastery of the highest notes, not
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shying away from the top range, but reaching and achieving it.
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Number four Leanne Rhymes the nineteen ninety seven All Star
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Game and other MLB NFL performances. Many performers can sing
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the national anthem and sing it well. Some seem to
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have been born to sing it and do it so
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well it goes on to define their career. LeAnn Rhymes
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is one of those singers. Originally from the Dallas area,
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Rhymes grew up singing the Star Spangled banner at Dallas
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Cowboys and Texas Rangers baseball games, starting when she was
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only nine years old. In fact, it was one performance
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when Rhymes was ten that inspired fellow Dallas area native
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Mickey Geyton, as we mentioned, to become a singer herself.
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Number three NFC Championship Game twenty twenty six. Z Actop. Sure,
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some will claim recency bias crept into this decision, but
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it's not just Zactop's national anthem rendition as a country
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artist that made it so memorable. It's that he made
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the national anthem into a country song like nobody else before.
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Saving country music, says Reba McIntyre. Has the number two
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rendition the NFR and Oklahoma City way back in nineteen
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seventy four. There are national anthem renditions that are memorable,
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inspiring and downright astounding as performances. And then there are
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ones that are so good they become historically significant and
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go on to reshape the popular music world. And the
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best one, and I've got a lot of relatives who
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agree with this. Chris Stapleton's twenty twenty three Sousper Bowl
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rendition is number one. Playing a black telecaster with the
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ant behind him and flanked by monitor speakers and without
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his signature feather crown hat, Chris Stapleton belt it out
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an effortless and stirring rendition of national anthem, making some
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grown ass men in shoulder pads on the sidelines openly weep.
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Eagles coach Nick Serianni had Niagara falls rolling down his
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cheeks in an almost inexplicable deluge of tears. Moving on,
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we go back to February fourth for something from Parade Magazine.
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Toby Keith to receive major honor in home state alongside
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Kenny Rodgers and Ed Harris. Toby Keith's strong influence continues
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to be felt around the country long after his untimely death.
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The late country music icon has received numerous posthumous honors
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and is now set to receive another, this time in
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his home state of Oklahoma. Keith, along with his fellow
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late Country Music Hall of Famer Kenny Rodgers and acclaimed
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actor Ed Harris, is among the twenty twenty six inductees
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at the sixty fifth Annual Western Heritage Awards, hosted by
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the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The upcoming ceremony,
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set to take place this spring in Oklahoma City, will
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include a presentation of Special honors where the Red Solo
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Cup Singer Songwriter will be given the Special Director's Award.
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Crystal Keith, the legendary country artist's daughter, spoke on family's behalf,
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sharing gratitude following the announcement. This honor reflects the life
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my dad lived and the values he stood for, she
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said in a statement. According to Wide Open Country, were
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grateful to the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for
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recognizing his place in history and how his career served
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and celebrated the heritage of the country in Western way
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of life. Museum President and CEO Pat Fitzgerald echo that sentiment,
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praising the inductees and enduring impact. We are thrilled to
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announce the exceptional inductees and award winners for this year's
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Western Heritage Awards. Fitzgerald said each has helped carry forward
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the stories, values, and traditions of the American West and
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meaningful and enduring ways. Their work, whether on screen, in song,
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in leadership, or through lifelong service, ensures that the spirit
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of the West continues to inspire future generations. Keith Rogers
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and Harris induction finds them joining a celebrated list of
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both country and music and film icons. Those who have
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been inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museums
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Hall of Fame in years past include George Strait, Bob Wills,
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Vince Gill, Reba McIntyre, Brooks and Dunn, as well as
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Burt Reynolds, Sam Elliott, and Kurt Russell. The native of Clinton, Oklahoma.
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Of course, Keith passed away on February fifth, twenty twenty four,
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following a lengthy and heroic battle with stomach cancer. He
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was sixty two. His latest honor follows a series of
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posthumous awards and accolades, including twenty twenty four's Country Music
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Hall of Fame induction. In addition to their inductions, Keith
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Rogers and Harris will each receive a Wrangler Award, a
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bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback created by late
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Oklahoma artist Harold T. Holden. The sixty fifth Annual Western
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Heritage Awards will be held April eleventh at the National
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Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Now we
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grab a shoehorn and move into the boot dot com
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with the first article published February eleventh, how a compliment
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and tough love from Cody Johnson's dad changed his life.
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Cody Johnson just revealed a very personal story from when
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he was fourteen years old when his dad complimented him
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and whooped his butt all in the same moment, a
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moment to change the trajectory of his life and musical career.
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Johnson was a guest on the Bobbycast podcast where he
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spoke about the evening that he snuck out of his
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parents' house to play at a bar when he was
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under age. The Dirt Cheap singer said that that night
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I snuck out of my parents' house to go play a bar.
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I think I was like fourteen. I snuck out and
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hopped into the truck with a buddy that was sixteen,
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and we went down to the bar. The teenager was
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out among the drinking population when he wasn't even old
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enough to drive or vote. But he didn't go to
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that honky tonk with one hundred people in it to
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attempt to drink under age. He went to show off
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his guitar and singing skills, He continued. The band let
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me jump up and play with them, and they said,
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we're going to take a break. Why don't you play well.
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Johnson got about three songs into his set when he
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looked into the crowd and saw his dad standing there watching,
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angry that he snuck out of the house to go
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to a bar. You want to talk about an oh
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shoot moment, that's one of them, he said. But it
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was what his dad did next that changed everything for Johnson.
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Johnson said, I got what pretty good for that. My
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dad said, you know, you play in these bars, it's
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going to lead to a life of destruction and you're
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going to wind up becoming a drug addict and an alcoholic.
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But here's where Johnson's dad changed everything. He could have
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just whooped him and told him never to do that again,
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but his dad knew he had witnessed something that the
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masses would one day want to hear. Johnson said, after
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his butt whooping, his dad looked at him in the
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eye and said, you actually sounded really good. Just so
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you know. That confidence from his father at such a
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young age showed Johnson that his dad could see past
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the fact that what he did was wrong, and he
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recognized his son's talent that the whole world would soon
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love him for So then the boot lists the top
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twenty Cody Johnson songs that they believe. Number twenty would
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be got to Be Me, number nineteen, You All People,
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Number eighteen, I Know My Way Back, number seventeen, Nobody
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to Blame. Let's build a fire at sixteen, Dance her
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Home at fifteen, number fourteen, Cowboy Like Me By Your
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Grace Number thirteen, Cody Johnson's song Fence Post number twelve,
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Texas Kind of Way, number eleven, number ten eight, Nothing
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to It, number nine, Me and My Kind, Diamond in
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My Pocket number eight, Wild as You, number seven, number
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six would be nothing on You, number one five With You,
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I Am the fourth Cody Johnson song Dear Rodeo number four,
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on My Way to You, number three, number two Human
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in the top Cody Johnson song according to the Boot
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Till You Can't Next. Pete Finney, steel guitarist for Patty Loveless,
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Reba McIntyre, and Moore, passes away at seventy. Pete Finnie,
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a prominent steel guitarist and fixture of Nashall's country music community,
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died on Saturday at seventy years old. The Country Music
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Hall of Fame shared news of his death in a
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social media post, describing Finny as a widely admired musician
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who exemplified how top instrumentalists can adapt to a range
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of styles and settings, whether it's in a recording studio,
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a concert stage, or the corner of a small nightclub.
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Over the course of his career, Finney played for country
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luminaries like Patty Lovelace, Reba McIntyre, Vince Gill, The Judds,
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and The Chicks. He was also a diverse performer who
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worked with acts outside the genre, such as Beck and
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Schimikia Copeland. A Merrill native who began his country career
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in music in Austin, Texas in the late seventies, Pete
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Finney moved to Nashville in the following decade began touring
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and performing with a wide array of artists. Per the
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Hall of Fame's remembrance, he was touring with Reba McIntyre
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at the time of his tragic nineteen ninety one plane
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crash to claim the lives of eight of her band members.
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Finny survived because he flew on a second plane along
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with some other members of the band and crew. He
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also spent twenty years touring with Patty Lovelace and performed
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with a wide array of other Nashville mainstays, including Jim
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Lauderdale and Alison Moore. Moore remembered Finny in a social
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media post after his death, writing he was kind, smart,
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and incredibly talented. Nashville won't be the same without him.
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Locals could often find Finny performing with Chris Scruggs at
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the new now defunct West Nashville hub The Stone Fox.
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That rotating cast of country traditionalists dubbed Chris Scruggs and
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the Stone Fox five, continued to hold Sunday night performances
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after The Stone Fox closed at Skinny Dennis Nashville. The
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Country Music Hall of Fame also notes that Finny co
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curated its Dylan Cash and the Nashville Cats, a New
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Music City exhibit, which opened in twenty fifteen. Finny co
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wrote an exhibit book that won the Chet Flippo Award
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for her excellence in Country music journalism. The museum states
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that the idea for the exhibit stemmed from Finny's research
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on out of genre artists who came to Nashville to
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record and work with its studio musicians back in the
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nineteen sixties and seventies. No information about Phinney's cause of
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death or funeral information is immediately available. Next, Blake Shelton
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calls out a fan for wearing a Luke Bryan shirt
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at his Vegas show. The last thing you want to
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do at a Blake Shelton concert is where somebody else's merchandise,
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especially if that merch belongs to lu During a recent
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show at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Shelton noticed that
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someone sitting in the front row is wearing an interesting
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piece of clothing. You come to my show wearing Luke
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Bryan's stuff, he says directly to the woman as she films.
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What's the matter with you? Shelton didn't miss his chance
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to take a jab at his pal. The guy's an idiot,
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he adds. He then tells his team to hurry up
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and get this woman some merchant send him the bill.
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But he wasn't done jeering the hip shaking country singer.
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You've obviously been to one of his shows, right, he
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begins before delivering a singer. You ever notice that he
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always does they all sing along. It's because he's too
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drunk to remember the words to his own songs. He jokes,
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drunk and Hi, put that on YouTube. Put that on
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your Instagram. The relationship between Shelton and Brian may seem
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hostile on the surface, but deep down, they really love
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one another. They're like brothers. Both singers take shots at
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one another as often as they can. One day it's
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arguing about who's got the better tractor, and the next
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it's calling each other names in public birthday messages on
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social media. At the end of the day, they do
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support one another. Brian says it was Shelton who encouraged
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him to be a judge on American Idol. Shelton enjoyed
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a long successful run as coach on The Voice and
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knew Brian would benefit from the experience. Shelton will be
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back in Las Vegas in May for more shows at
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Caesar's Palace. If you plan on attending, make sure you've
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got the right shirt on. And finally, Kelsey Hart is
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one of country music's most relatable rising stars. Kelsey Hart
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is a big year ahead of him in twenty six
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after several career breakthroughs in recent years. His relatable songs
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and versioning success made him an easy choice for Taste
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of Country's Risers twenty twenty six. Heart is a Kentucky
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native who's been writing songs for artists for several years.
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He signed a deal with Curb Records in twenty twenty
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three and released his first solo single, Life with You,
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in November of that year. The song gave him a
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top twenty five debut hit, and it served as the
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title song of his debut album, which dropped in May
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of twenty twenty four. Life with You has been his
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biggest hit so far, and it's a perfect example of
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the sort of relatable everyman quality that makes his song
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so special. He just released a new song titled Anything
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Like You, which was inspired by him becoming a first
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time father. Hart has written songs for other artists including
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Jake Owen, Dylan Scott, and trace Atkins as an artist.
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He made his Grand Old Opry debut in June of
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twenty four, and Life with You landed him a gold single,
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as well as reaching number one on Serious XM's The
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Highway Hot thirty weekend countdown. This concludes the reading of
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Country Weekly for this week. If you have any comments
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and on behalf of everyone here at RADIOI. This is
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Ken Dawkins wishing you a great day.