Morgan Wallen is set to donate $1.2 million to Gibbs High School to update their baseball field, which was renamed in his honor last year. He graduated from Gibbs in 2011, and was part of their national championship team in 2010. His donation through his foundation would be used to transform the field into a “versatile, state-of-the-art multi-use athletic field” and to build a softball hitting and pitching facility. The donation is awaiting county approval.
Rumor has it that Nashville will host the Super Bowl in 2030 at Nissan Stadium, which is the home of the Tennessee Titans and is scheduled to open next year. Will 2030 be the year we’ll get a country music Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Parker McCollum has had a #1 song on country radio, played dream venues, and signed a record deal, but those accomplishments haven’t been fulfilling for him. He says, “It didn’t fill my cup quite like I thought it was going to. Because I’ve been fortunate, man, everything I dreamed about I’ve got to do . . . I thought that’s what was gonna make it all okay, and it’s just not the reality of it. “I wrote a song, it’s on that deluxe thing that came out, ‘Big Ole Fancy House’, that’s kind of what it’s about man. You know you get everything you ever wanted.”
British rock legend Dave Mason from Traffic, a one-time member of Fleetwood Mac, and a solo artist, died Sunday at the age of 79. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, celebrated songwriter, musician, singer, and author passed away peacefully at his home in Gardnerville, NV.”
Eminem is celebrating 18 years of sobriety.
Kate Jackson says she helped come up with the name for “Charlie’s Angels”, and never got paid for it.
“Top Gun” is getting a 40th anniversary theatrical re-release next month.
TV Tonight: “Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool” and “Hulk Hogan: Real American”
Machine Gun Kelly is 36.
Amber Heard is 40.
Marshawn Lynch is 40
Sherri Shepherd is 59.
Sheryl Lee is 59. Laura Palmer on “Twin Peaks”.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is 60. “The Walking Dead”.
Byron Allen is 65. Comedian
Ryan Stiles is 67. Lanky 6-foot-6 comic from “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” and “The Drew Carey Show”.
Peter Frampton is 76. ’70s rock legend.
Jack Nicholson is 89.
