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Blake Shelton: “I Wouldn’t Be Sitting Here With a Career Right Now If It Wasn’t for the Songwriters in Nashville” [Watch Video]

Blake Shelton: “I Wouldn’t Be Sitting Here With a Career Right Now If It Wasn’t for the Songwriters in Nashville” [Watch Video]

Blake Shelton posted an almost-two-minute clip on Facebook yesterday (Aug. 21) in which he thanked Nashville songwriters for their “incredible” contributions to his musical catalogue over the years. “I never really considered myself a great songwriter, and the reason is because there’s so many incredible songwriters in Nashville that I can’t even begin to compare…MORE

5 Questions With “Forever Country” Producer Shane McAnally, Who Reveals What Other Songs Were in Contention for the Mashup

5 Questions With “Forever Country” Producer Shane McAnally, Who Reveals What Other Songs Were in Contention for the Mashup

By now you’ve probably seen and heard that 30 of country music’s biggest stars—both past and present—have come together to record a new song and video, “Forever Country,” for the CMA Awards’ 50-year anniversary. The star-studded mashup features a fresh take on three of country’s most classic songs: John Denver’s “Take Me Home,” Willie Nelson’s…MORE

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FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025

Rick Moranis will return to once again play Dark Helmet in “Spaceballs 2”!!!  Bill Pullman will return as the hero Lone Starr, too. And Mel Brooks will be back as Yogurt . . . and, presumably . . . President Skroob.  (He played both characters in the original.) Ted Danson’s wife Mary Steenburgen will play…

THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025

Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson has died.  His family didn’t announce the exact date or cause of death, but he was diagnosed with dementia and placed in a conservatorship last year.  He was 82. Wilson was plagued by drug addiction and mental illness throughout his life.  By 1964 he had stopped touring with the band.…