Month: May 2024

Darius Rucker always knew he’d get candid in his memoir one day. So when the time came to write Life’s Too Short, he did exactly that.

“I always said that if I ever wrote the book, I was going to be [as] honest as I could be. And, you know, there’s some stuff that’s over the top. But, I just wanted to tell the story, and I wanted people to understand the hard stuff and the good stuff. All the stuff made me who I am today,” Darius shares in a press interview.

While Darius waited until his three children were grown up to release a memoir, his honesty left him wondering if it was too honest for the family. 

“I was talking to them, I was like, ‘One of the things that I’m worried about is like, I was so honest about it,” Darius recalls, to which his son, Jack, responded, “Dad, who’s going to be surprised? Rock stars party. That’s not breaking news to anybody.” Darius agreed.

When asked what his late mom, Carolyn – who graces the cover of his latest album, Carolyn’s Boy – would have objected to in his book, Darius admits with a laugh, “A lot of it. Most of it.”

“The talk about the party and stuff – she wouldn’t have wanted that in there. The stuff with my brother – she wouldn’t have wanted that in there. She would have questioned that,” he says. “But I was going to be honest and vulnerable writing this, so I put it all in there.”

Life’s Too Short is available now wherever you get books.

Darius’ new single is the Jennifer Nettles-assisted “Never Been Over,” which is making its way up the country charts.

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Dylan Scott has shared that he’s releasing a new song, “Owe You One,” on June 21. You can hear a preview of it now on social platform X and presave it to enjoy the full track as soon as it drops.

“Good Time” singer Niko Moon has teased a summery unreleased tune, “These Are the Days.” Check out a snippet of it now on Niko’s X.

Ashley McBryde is introducing you to the fictional characters in the artwork of The Devil I Know via her Meet The Family collection. “It's time to spill the tea. I can't wait to tell you more about each version of myself and what makes me..me. The Meet The Family collection is out everywhere, and you'll be hearing from each of these ladies over the next several weeks. Who are you most excited to meet?” Ashley shares on X.

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Dolly Parton fans: you’re in for a treat with all things Dolly at this year’s CMA Fest.

The “9 to 5” star will kick things off June 6 with a special, in-person conversation with ET‘s Rachel Smith onstage at Fan Fair X in Nashville.

Unable to be in the audience? Fret not. The interview will livestream on TalkShopLive, the CMA Connect app, across the CMA Fest website, CMA Facebook page, and Dolly’s website and Facebook page.

But wait, that’s not all.

An exclusive Dolly! All Access pop-up experience will be held at Fan Fair X June 6-9, and it’s going to be stacked with everything Dolly. Among the items and merch you can expect are a limited-edition vinyl of Rockstar, Dolly’s books including Songteller: My Life In Lyrics and Behind The Seams: My Life In Rhinestones, Dolly Parton Funko Pop! Rocks collectibles and classic Dolly merchandise. 

Additionally, Dolly’s sister Rachel Parton George, who co-authored the upcoming cookbook Good Lookin' Cookin’ with Dolly, will join the book’s editor Maurice Miner to host daily cooking demonstrations of recipes from the sisters’ collection. Fans will also get to meet Rachel after the demonstrations.

For more information and to get tickets to CMA Fest, visit cmafest.com.

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Shania Twain is opening up about how she found forgiveness for her ex-husband, Robert “Mutt” Lange.

Twain and Lange were married in 1993 and remained together until they split in 2008 following Lange’s affair with Twain’s close friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud. Twain has been married to her former friend’s then-husband, Frédéric Thiébaud, since 2011.

In a new interview on the May 29 episode of the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast, Twain shared how she came to a place of not having any hate for Lange.

“We’re talking about letting go and how difficult it can be to let go,” she said. “Forgiveness is in the family of letting go. But forgiveness, more specifically for me anyway, is not really … it’s not about forgetting necessarily.”

“It’s about understanding the other person, and that might mean that they’re, you know, wrong. Maybe you believe forever that whatever they did was wrong …,” she trailed off.

Twain then described how she found forgiveness for her late stepfather, Jerry Twain, whom she has accused of abusing her as a child, saying she has “totally” forgiven him.

Twain’s stepfather and her mother, Sharon, both died in a car accident in 1987.

“I understand that he wasn’t well, that you don’t act certain ways, you know, unless there’s something wrong with you, there’s something wrong with your stability,” she explained.

Shifting back to Lange’s infidelity, the singer said, “Do I hate my ex-husband for making a mistake? No. It’s his mistake. Not my mistake.”

“[I’m] so sad for him that he made such a great mistake that he has to live with,” she continued. “That’s not my weight.”

Twain and Lange are parents to their 22-year-old son, Eja.

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Like any good country song, Lainey Wilson is wearing her heart on her sleeve.

The Baskin, Louisiana, native’s meteoric rise to fame is the subject of a new ABC News Studios special, Lainey Wilson: Bell Bottom Country, streaming now on Hulu.

Lainey, along with her family, sat down with Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts for the special to discuss the ups and downs she’s experienced as one of the brightest stars in country music in recent years.

During their chat, Roberts and Lainey discuss – among other things – Lainey’s body image journey.

Though Lainey calls herself “a tough woman” who can “pull myself up by the bootstraps,” she admits sometimes it’s not easy.

“I have my days, just like everybody else, where you got to do whatever you can to crawl out of those dark holes,” she said.

One of those tough days came in November 2022 when Lainey noticed “a few videos of my butt that had gone viral” on TikTok.

“I was like, ‘Golly, it’s still there.’ It wasn’t just like a small little viral moment,” she recalled. “It was a big – no pun intended – moment.”

Reflecting on how she brushed it off and found gratitude in people discovering her music, no matter the means, Lainey told Robin, “First of all, I’m like, ‘How’d y’all just notice that I got a big ol’ butt? It’s been back there the whole time.'”

The singer said she reflected on how women like Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire would handle the situation.

“They’d laugh about it and they’d move on with it. That’s just part of it,” she noted. “And, of course, don’t go down the rabbit hole of looking at comments … I’ve learned my lesson with that.”

You can read the full story now on Good Morning America‘s website. 

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