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2.7.25 · 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. As always, I'm your host, Ken Dawkins, and
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I will 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 fourth from cbsnews dot Com, and we'll take
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a look at the winners of the Grammy Awards, which
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were held on Sunday evening, at least the Key Awards.
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Beyonce finally won the coveted Album of the Year award
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at the twenty twenty five Grammys. After being shut out
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the last four times she was nominated, Beyonce entered the
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night with the most nominations eleven for her album her
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country album Cowboy Carter, becoming the most nominated artist in
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Grammy history with ninety nine throughout her career. In addition
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to Album of the Year, she also won Best Country
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Album and Best Country Duo Group Performance. The other major
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award winners Record of the Year Not Like Us from
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Kendrick Lamar, Song of the Year, Not Like Us from
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Kendrick Lamar. Best New Artist Chapel Roone, Best Pop Vocal
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Album Shortened Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter, Best Top Pop Duo
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Group Performance Die with a Smile by Lady Gaga and
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Bruno Mars. I'm sure we'll have more on the Grammys
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a little bit later. Meanwhile, we move over to countrynow
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dot com with the first article published on February third,
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Shaboozie hints at possible collaboration with Morgan Wallen Stuff's Come In.
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Could a Shaboozie and Morgan Wallen collaboration be on the horizon?
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The five time Grammy nominee, who took the stage during
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the sixty seventh Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, opened up
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about what's next for him and teased that he might
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have a collaboration with a country superstar in the works.
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While chatting with Billboard backstage, Stuff's Coming man. He teased
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Stuff's Coming when asked about a collab with Wallin. He
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shot me a text the other day, and it's just
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good that he's doing good, taking care of himself, putting
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out some new music that I feel the world is
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excited about and ready for. Shaboozi shared in a preview
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interview with bill Board, Shaboozi called Wallin a legend. He's
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someone that makes great music and music that connects with
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a lot of people. The Virginia Natives said, so a
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country artist or as a country artist, someone who loves
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his space, and I pay respect and Morgan. I met
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Morgan and he was a good homie. There was even
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conversations about him jumping on the record early on, and
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it's cool again. It's cool to just to be able
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to know these people honestly. While Shaboozie didn't have a
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chance to work with Wallan on his twenty twenty four record,
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Where I've Been Isn't Where I'm Going, it sounds like
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there's a chance the artist can team up on his
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next project. I'm so excited about it with my upcoming music,
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he told Billboard, I feel like now I'm coming into
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my own. These awards now it's just an extra treat
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on top of everything I've done so far in my career.
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I can't wait to keep it going. Where I've Been
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Isn't Where I'm Going features his nineteen week Billboard Hot
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one hundred number one smash of bar song Tipsy and
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was released back on May thirty first of last year.
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Shaboozi has been on a whirlwind ride following the success
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of a bar song and is showing no signs of
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slowing down anytime soon. His latest single, good News, continues
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to make waves. The song is another stand at in
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Chaboozie's catalog, blending his signature sound and raw emotion with
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longtime collaborations Nevin Sastrey and Sean Cook. With heartfelt vocals
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reflecting struggle and hope, set against acoustic guitar, fiddle and
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pedal steel, the song delivers a powerful message for anyone
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persevering through hard times. Chaboozi is set to take his
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music overseas with a major European tour featuring stops in Paris, Berlin,
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London and Moore. Next up, Priscilla Block to headline Country
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Now Live fitting Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. Save the Date,
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Priscilla Block will be taking the stage as headliner for
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the upcoming Country Now Live event, a special night that
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brings country music fans together for a good cause. This year,
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the star Stuttered event will once again be dedicated to
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supporting Saint Children's Hospital and they've done that in the past, obviously.
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The event will take place on Tuesday, February eighteenth at
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sixth and Peabody in Nashville. Block's performance comes on the
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heels of her latest EP, PB two, released in twenty
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twenty four, as well as her brand new song He's
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My Man. In addition to Block, the show will also
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feature performances by Lily Rose, Vincent Mason, Adam Deliach, and Demps.
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Fans can expect to hear some of this epic lineup
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of country acts take the stage to deliver stripped down
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acoustic sets featuring a mix of their biggest hits and
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newest releases. Dillyak revealed he's especially looking forward to kickstart
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his year of performing by showcasing new and maybe unreleased
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tunes with his listeners in the U into mid setting.
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I'm expired, I'm excited. That will probably be my first
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thing back. It's my first kind of show back after
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a long time not playing do leactol country Now. Any
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opportunity like that to tell stories and play songs with
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friends in Nashville always ends up being so fun, and
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it's one of those things. Sometimes I'll go to writer's
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rounds just to listen and get inspired, because you forget
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how fun it is and how inspired you get just
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being around other people like that. But I'm super excited
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to be part of it. Next, Lee Brice unpacks the
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powerful meaning behind Cry and teases his best record yet.
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Lee Brice is sending a powerful message with his new
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single Cry, as he reminds everyone, particularly men, that it's
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not only okay to show your emotions, but it's oftentimes necessary.
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When it comes to break up anthems and love songs.
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Bryce has proved his ability to sing from all different.
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Speaker 2: Perspectives of those relationships.
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Speaker 1: In doing so, he gives listeners an outlet to express
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what they're feeling and help put their thought words. He
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explained to Country Now that while he initially saw many
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of his heartfelt songs like Hard to Love and I
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Don't Dance as being for girls, he quickly discovered that
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many guys have also connected with them. Now with Cry,
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he's leaning into the sentiment that guys also need a
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motive anthems to navigate their tough moments in life, especially breakups.
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That's obviously an important message to be able to show
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you your feelings because if you keep them all held inside,
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you'll never know. Bryce shared, I've always loved both sides
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of the equation hard to love or I don't dance
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or something like that. I've always looked at it like
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this was for the girls, but it's also for the dudes.
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So I'll be singing I don't dance and the girls
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will be going, oh my god, it's my wedding song
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or whatever, and the guy's like, yeah, it's my wedding song.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: They're the ones out there really digging it, he continued,
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And sometimes songs are just like one or the other.
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My biggest things in life in my career have been
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the ones that really walk the line, like they're sensitive
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songs that a guy might not know how to say,
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and I'm hopefully giving him a vehicle for how they
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can say it. And they're like, yes, thank you, that
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was perfect.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: Cry was penned by Ben Hayslip, David Garcia, and Dallas Davidson,
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who also happens to be a close friend of Bryce's.
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The South Carolina native recalls inviting Davidson over to the
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studio to help him decipher which songs to include on
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his next record. Out of the twenty five to thirty
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tunes he had already recorded. The conversation eventually turned into
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Davidson discussing a new song he had written that was
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potentially going to be recorded by the Grammy nominated artist
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Teddy Swims. Bryce instantly fell in love with the track
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and offered up the idea to record it as a
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duet with Swims. Although the collaboration didn't work out due
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to scheduling conflicts, Bryce got to bring the tune to
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life on his own. There was just really something about it.
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I love the simple twists of what it says and cry.
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You're thinking you're going to hear some sad thing and
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it's just not. It's so Dallas. It's so us. Guys
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that aren't afraid to in real thing, aren't afraid to
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show some emotion. We might be tough, old rednecks, but
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we've got hearts. He pointed out. The multi platinum Curb Records,
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a recording artist felt so drawn to the fifties dou
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wop sound that Davidson had created on the demo that
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he decided to keep that same vibe while adding a
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modern twist. This nostalgic spirit of the tune combined with
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the upbeat tempo allows listeners of any generation to feel
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captivated by Bryce's gritty vocals. I wanted to get it
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just right. Sometimes it's hard to walk a line between
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going to do some classic like fifties do up but
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you still got to put your own kind of spin
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on it, and then also just something for the kids
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to listen to where they like it. The groovy retro
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sound is further elevated in the Crime music video directed
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by Chase Lower. The footage finds Bryce taking on the
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responsibility of helping a heartbroken guy Mendy's relationship with the
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girl who still had a tight grip on his heart.
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It was so much fun, Honestly. I usually love to
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get in and either come up with the idea the
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treatment for the video, or lean on Chase or Ryan
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and let them kind of come up with something and
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then I kind of get in it with him and
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we all finish it together and then shoot the video.
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But this time, man Chase came to me with his
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whole idea for this video, and I was like, I
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would have never dreamed of something like that. I mean,
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I just wouldn't. That's just not where my brain goes.
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Bryce said, praising Lower's work. He put his trust in
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the director and it paid off because the video takes
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the story and brings it to life in a way
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that isn't too cheesy or far from being authentic to
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a real life break up experience. It captures the compelling
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nature of the narrative, but in a more lighthearted nature.
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Speaker 2: I went with it.
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Speaker 1: We went and had first of all, at a blast
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and then second of all the video. I just feel
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like it was so cool. I mean, I think you
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like a song when you hear it, but I think
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you like the song even better when you see the video.
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Just kind of quirky and fun, he admitted. In the
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opening scene, Bryce sits with a heartbroken man who after
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experiencing a tough break up, and lists the country start
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who expresses emotions through song. From there, Bryce follows the
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girl around performing his new single at her work, at
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her home, anywhere she was, just trying to get her
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to listen. Finally, the message of the song sings in,
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leading her to give her heartbroken ex a call. I've
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been crying in my beer, crying in my bed, crying
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on the pillow where you used to lay your head.
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I'm gonna cry myself to sleep tonight? Who says a
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man don't cry? Bryce delivers on the impactful chorus. Even
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though Teddy Swims did not end up on the initial
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recording of cry Lee, Bryce hinted that both artists are
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still open to a future collaborative version. If this duet
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comes to fruition, it will mark one of the several
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that could appear on Bryce's forthcoming album. What she explained
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has been two years in the making. My goal is
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every time is to hopefully top what I did the
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last time. I'm always wanting to improve and get better
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at writing, and better at making records and better just
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all of it. And that's what I was really a
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little unsure about it. I was like, God, how am
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I going to beat this last record? And then even
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just song quality just kept coming together. Now I'm sitting
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here honestly today and this week I'll be hopefully turning
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in everything and putting masters on. So I'm finally done
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with it, basically, and I am just over the moon
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about it. Much like his past projects, fans can expect
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to see a variety of different musical influences in a
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broad range of sounds from rocking, country, anthems to deep ballads, Plus,
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he teased an extremely special collaboration with the beloved country
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band Diamond Rio. I grew up hearing Diamond Rio, so
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we have them on it. It's a really special song
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to me in the first place, and so it just
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needed something specific and something special on it, and we
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were struggling to try and find this sort of well,
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we couldn't really put our finger on what it was.
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We said, you know what it needs like that old
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Diamond real guitar sound, just the guitar sound. And his
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name is Jimmy Olander, who played all that guitar on
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all those records. And we called and he said, yeah,
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glad to And I was like, dude, why don't we
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just ask the whole band. I'm like humongous fan of
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all of them. So we got Diamond Rio the whole
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deal on the song, and it's really special. It's called
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hart Pine The Ballad of Mister Bill. I feel like
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it's the best record I've ever made for sure. Lee
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Brice is fresh off the launch of his highly anticipated
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intimate acoustic tour dubbed the You, Me and My Guitar Tour.
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The trek kicked off January thirtieth in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, and
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will find the country star bringing the stories behind his
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songs to life on stages throughout March, including a must
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see performance at Nashville's iconic Rieman Auditorium on February eighteenth. Next,
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Kelsey Ballerini and Noah Kahan poke fun at their award
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show losing streak. Kelsey Ballerini and Noah Kahan joke about
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their streak of consecutive losses ahead of the twenty twenty
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five Grammy Awards. In the past year, the pair artists
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of artists have received three nominations at various award shows
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for their soulful collaboration Cowboys Cry two, including Music Event
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of the Year at twenty twenty four CMA Awards, Crossover
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Song of Last Year at the People's Choice Awards, and
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Best Country Duo Group Performance at the Grammys. Unfortunately, they
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have yet to take home a win, and that didn't change.
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While walking the red carpet at the Crypto dot Com
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Arena on Sunday, Ballerinian Kahan learned that they had lost
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their chance to take home yet another trophy. When Beyonce
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and Miley Cyrus were named winners of Best Country Duo
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Group Performance for two Most Wanted. Despite adding a third
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loss under their belf the artists were able to make
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light of the situation. Fans saw the Patterns singer take
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to her Instagram stories to ask Kahan, Noah, what does
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it feel like to lose three awards for the same song?
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You actually weirdly start to kind of like it, he replied,
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So I'm going to losing high right now? Who see
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what the Grammys? Belleri added with a laugh. Cowboys Cry
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two was up against two Most Wanted, as well as
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Break Mine from Brothers Osbourne, Bigger Houses, Dan and Shay,
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and I had some help post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen Ballerini.
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Ballerini has been nominated for five Grammys throughout her career,
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while the Sticks Season singer has received two nods, Neither
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has taken home a Gramophone yet. The pair's collaboration appears
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on Ballerini's twenty twenty four album Patterns. Upon its release,
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the powerful tune instantly became a fan favorite and saw
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the duet partners showcasing it live on stage at several
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major award shows. Reflecting on her younger self, Ballerini admitted
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to Serious Exam that she would have deeply been disappointed
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by the loss, as certain things used to make her
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cry myself to sleep. However, she has since gained a
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new perspective. It allows her to feel more confident in
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herself and care less about the opinions of others. I
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don't win things, she said. I mean that sounds really
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I don't. I'm cool with it now. I've changed my
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relationship with all of it where I'm like, okay, Well,
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people identify country music in different ways. Now, Ballerini chooses
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to place more value on writing her truth. She also
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added that there's so much else that's going on inward
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that allows the trophies given out, and sometimes it's the
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opportunities and experiences that feel like the true wins. And
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for me, if you get nominated, that means that sometimes,
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if you're lucky, you get three and a half minutes
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to sing on a show like the CMAS or the
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ACMs or the CMTS, you know, and that's an award,
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she explained.
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Speaker 2: That's an award.
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Speaker 1: Now that she's rewired her brain, Ballerini reveals she's happy
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just to be present and celebrate her friends and fellow artists.
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I'm good with it, she concluded. The East Tennessee natives
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stunned on the red carpet in a dazzling black dress
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just days after delivering a milestone performance at Nashville's Bridge
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Stone Arena on Friday, January thirty first. The show took
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place as part of her twenty twenty five headlining tour
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that will continue to welcome fans to arenas across the
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US through April. Now we move over to saving country
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music with the first article dated February fourth, Iconic Willing
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Nelson Muriel demolished in Austin. The iconic Willing Nelson muriell
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in downtown Austin, Texas, located at four O seven East
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seventh Street, was destroyed on Monday morning, as the one
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hundred year old building it was on the side of
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underwent demolition to erect a high rise property. The demolition
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came as a surprise to the mural artist Wiley Ross,
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who happened to be at the property for a meeting
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with the building's owners in hopes of recreating the mural
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in the future. The mural was originally commissioned as a
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sixty by twenty foot monument to Willie as the backdrop
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of Heart of Texas Rockfest that was part of south
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By Southwest in March of twenty sixteen. Though the mura
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wasn't historic, it was definitely iconic, making for the most
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visible piece of public music art in the live music
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capital of the world and a destination for many tourists
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and Willie Nelson fans. After its original unveiling, the MURA
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was updated to include another Austin music icon, Janis Joplin.
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Most recently, the building housed the bar mug It was
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a bar called Mugshots, but was abandoned when a fire
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in February of last year resulted in structural damage to
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the building. The fire was believed to have been caused
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by homeless in the area. Instead of renovating the property,
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the owners, Jaffa Parks LLC, decided to demolish it and
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use the third acre footprint to build a high rise
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hotel and or residential building. Austin's Historic Landmark Commission did
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a value both the building and the mural for preservation,
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but ultimately allowed demolition plans to move forward. The meeting
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on Monday was between Wiley Ross, the building's owners, Jaffa Parks,
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as well as nearby business owners whose building is owned
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by Jaffa and who is exploring recreating the mural on
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the side of their property. They had no idea the
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backdrop for the meeting would be the destruction of the
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original mural, But the good news is there might be
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possibilities for the mural to be recreated. The adjacent building
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at four five Seventh Street, which currently houses the Whiskey
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Bar seven Grand, says they are interested in recreating the
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mural on the side of their property. This is also
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the possibility the timing could work out and the mural
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could be recreated during South By Southwest in mid March,
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just like it was originally back in twenty sixteen. But
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even if the mural makes it onto the adjacent building,
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there are no guarantees that building or mur would be
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preserved forever either with the current growth in Austin. That's
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why there is also an effort underway to preserve the
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mural digitally. No murals often come and go in urban areas.
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The Willie Nelson murell was unique and had become what
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felt like an indelible part of Austin's live music culture.
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If people want to donate or help with the recreation
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of the mural, that can reach out and visit wili
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ross dot com. Next, Sierra Ferrell wins big at the
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Grammy Awards. From a homeless and train hopping busker to
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one of the fastest rising stars and independent roots music
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to a now four time Grammy winning artists, the hopeful
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and inspiring story of singer and songwriter Sierra Ferrell only
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continues to get sweeter. On Sunday, during the Grammys premier
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ceremony that precedes the Big telecast on CBS, Sierra Ferrell
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nearly swept the American Roots categories, where she was nominated
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four times. Farrell won all four categories, walking away with
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trophies for Best American Album, Best Roots Song with co
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writer Melody Walker, Best Americana Performance, Best American Roots Performance
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for Lighthouse. These wins will not just make Sierra Farrell
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one of the biggest winners in country and roots music,
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it will make her one of the biggest Grammy getters
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in twenty twenty five, if not the biggest. Before the
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night was over, Sierra showed up in a white dress
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with a skepter where she had her speech stashed for
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her first win. Wow, Wow, thank you so much, Sierra said,
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accepting the first award Best Americana Performance. I want to
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say thank you to my mom for one. I love
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my mother, and to my little dog Baker, and to
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my production crew at his Spear and Gary Posa and
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my gals out on the road with me.
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Speaker 2: That keep the wheels rolling.
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Speaker 1: I obviously wasn't expecting this, and I want to thank
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everyone in the category because everyone's so beautiful in their
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own way and they have their own essence. Best American
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Roots Performance was handed out later in the presentation with
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the Country Awards. When returning to the stage for her
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fourth acceptance speech, Farrell said, I got so caught up
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earlier from the anxiety of winning something that I had
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forgot to thank the most important thing, which is God.
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The power of prayer is so powerful, so don't forget
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to say your prayers. The writing was on the wall
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that Sierra Ferrell could have a big Grammy Week at
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the end of twenty four, when her most recent album,
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Trail of Flowers, ended up at the top of many
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twenty twenty four end of year lists, including Becoming Saving
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Country Music's twenty twenty four album of the Year. Farrell
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was also selected to perform at Music Cares Person of
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the Year Galla the night before the Grammys, honoring The
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Grateful Dead. Sierra dressed like the Dead's skull and Roses
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character with a crown of roses in her hair and
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appropriately performed the deads It must have been the Roses
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with Lucas Nelson. For some music artists, a Grammy award
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is icing on the cake. For a performer like Si
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Sierra Ferrell, it's not just validating, it can be career changing.
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Already selling out theaters across the US and set to
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open stadium shows for post Malone in twenty twenty five,
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the Winds could significantly bolster Sierra even more, finally putting
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a woman on par with other top independent performers such
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as Tyler Childers, Stergel Simpson, and Bi Strings. Although to
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some all music awards are silly, for others they seem
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especially sweet from the hard work and perseverance that led
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up to them. That certainly feels like the case for
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Sierra Ferrell. Here's some additional winners from the Grammy Awards
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that I missed earlier. Best Bluegrass Album, Billy Strings for
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Live Volume, one country song the architect Shane McAnally, Casey
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Musgraves and Josh Osborne songwriters Casey Musgraves saying that the
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best country duo and group performance we mentioned this earlier
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to most wanted Beyonce featuring Miley Cyrus. And let's see,
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there's one other one I missed here that oh here
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it is country solo performance of course, Chris Stapleton for
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It Takes a Woman.
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Speaker 2: Next.
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Speaker 1: Joe Eli health concerns revealed ahead of new album. Country
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rock and roots music legend Joe Eli announced a new
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album recently called Love and Freedom that's due out on
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February seventh. Co produced by fellow Texas panhand legend Lloyd Mains,
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who also performs on six of the new album's tracks,
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Love and Freedom is being released by Rackham Record via
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Thirty Tigers. To me, Love and Freedom is a reminder
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of the times we're living in right now, and I
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hope it resonates with whoever takes time to listen. Joe
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Eli is quoted as saying about the new album, it
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was a bit strange that the album was announced on
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January twenty fourth for a February seventh release date. Usually
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six weeks to two months come between an announcement and
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a release. Eli has also been out of the public
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eye for an extended period. Then Thursday evening, now that's
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the thirtieth of January, Joe Eli's wife and manager, Sharon Eli,
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took to social media to explain what was happening. Joe
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had been suffering from some serious health issues lately. Joe
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and his wife Sharon, currently live in Taos, New Mexico,
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but traveled to Austin to see a neurologist about his condition.
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They're also planning to travel to Arizona next week for
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a second opinion as he continues to be treated by
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his regular doctor in New Mexico. Along with the upcoming
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album released, Joe Eli has been announced as one of
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the honorees for the twenty twenty five American Music Honors,
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administered by Bruce Springsteen's Archives and Center for American Music.
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Since Joe Eli's music straddles rock and country, his legacy
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has never been properly commemorated in either genre, despite the
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significant influence as music has had on fellow performers. Springsteen
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called Eli and told him his sixty years of contributions
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to American music were worth recognizing. Meanwhile, the track list
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on Joe Eli's Love and Freedom a new album is
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Shake Him Up, Addio's Sweet Dreams, Magdalene Deporte, Waiting Around
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to Die, Sergeant Playlock Today It did, Band of Angels
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for the sake of the song, Here's to the Brave,
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What kind of War No One Wins?
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Speaker 2: And Surrender to the West.
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Speaker 1: Next, Alison Kraus and Union Station announced first album in
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fourteen years. Near the end of twenty twenty four, legendary
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bluegrass collective Alison Krause and Union Station announced their reunification
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for the first time in a decade, with some seventy
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five plus shows to transpire over the coming year. Now
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we get him from confirmation of a new album on
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the way called Arcadia. It will be released on March
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twenty eighth by Down the Road Records, owned in part
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by Ken Irwin, who Kraus signed with as a fourteen
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year old bluegrass prodigy. Joining Kraus in Union Station will
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be Jerry Douglas on dobro lap steel vocals, Ron Block
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banjo guitar and vocals, and Barry Bales bassin vocals, along
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with newest member Russell Moore from the Bluegrass band. Third
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time out as the band's frontman, More won six IBMA.
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Speaker 2: Awards as Male Vocalist of the Year.
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Speaker 1: He helps replace Don Taminsky, who has focused more on
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a solo career these days, but does appear in the
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songwriting credits for the new record. Alison Kraus herself contributes
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the song Richmond on the James to the new album,
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co written with G. T. Burgess, but mostly she assembles
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songs written by others for the first album with Union
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Station in fourteen years. This includes covering J. D. McPherson's
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North Side Gal, a song perhaps Kraus was exposed to
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when mc pherson was playing guitar behind Kraus and Robert Plant.
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Alison Krause says about the songs on the album, the
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stories of the past or told in music, if that
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whole idea of in the good old days when times
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were bad. There's so much bravery and valor and loyalty
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in dreaming of family and themes of human existence that
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we're told in a certain way. When our grandparents were alive,
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someone asked me, how do you sing these tragic tunes?
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Speaker 2: I have to. It's a calling.
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Speaker 1: I feel privileged to be a messenger of somebody else's
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story and I want to hear what happened a head
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of the new album, The opening track looks like the
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End of the Road has been released, with the distinct
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tones of the Jerry Douglas dobro complimenting the tomb. Collectively,
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the current members of Alison Krause and Union Station have
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seventy Grammy nominations between them.
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Speaker 2: Both.
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Speaker 1: There upcoming tour starting in April, as well as Arcadia
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will be highly anticipated in the Americana, Bluegrass world and beyond.
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And finally, we move over to the book boo dot
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com with the first article dated February fourth. Six country
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stars who skipped the twenty twenty five Grammy Awards. Beyonce,
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who won many awards, Lady Wilson, Shaboozie, and Casey Musgraves,
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who won an award, represented country music at the twenty
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twenty five Grammy Awards on Sunday. The sixth nominated artists
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beyond that we have a list here did not attend.
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It's a list that includes one winner and another of
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country's most perennial nominees. Morgan Wallen had two nominations. He
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missed the Grammys for a second straight year. This is
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becoming a trend for the Smile singer. He also skipped
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the twenty twenty four CMA Awards, where he won Entertainer
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of the Year. Chris Stapleton, who won an award, had
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two nominations. This is the second straight year, though, that
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Chris has skipped the Grammys. After three state years, three
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straight years in attendance. Since breaking out, he's attended most
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years and done quite well. He's got eleven Lifetime Grammys.
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The brothers Osbourne who had one nomination, they have been
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nominated for a Grammy every year since twenty sixteen. It's
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a streak with no equivalent in country music. Often they
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attend the LA Awards show, but this year TJ and
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John Osborne set it out. Jelly Roll had two nominations,
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but he did not attend the Grammy Awards, which was
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a bit of a surprise because because he was in
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LA a few days earlier and his stylists told Yahoo
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all about the look she'd designed for So far, the
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I Am Not Okay singer hasn't commented on the show.
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Lou Colmbs had one nomination, but he was not there either.
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He has scored a Grammy nomination every year since twenty nineteen,
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with one exception, and that was in twenty one. His
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twenty twenty five nomination was in a lesser known category,
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Best Song Written for Visual Media, Ain't Low Love in
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Oklahoma from the Twisters soundtrack. He was nominated, but he's
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in the middle of an Australian tour and Dan and
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Shay they had one nomination. They won the Best Country
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Duo Group Performance for three state years, but have been
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shut out since their twenty twenty two wins. This year,
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they were nominated for Bigger Houses, but neither singer showed.
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Shay Mooney's wife recently had a baby, which may have
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played a role in their decision to stay home well.
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This concludes the reading of Country Weekly for this week.
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