Dolly Parton has officially been laid to rest with a private funeral with immediate family on Friday. Her niece Lainey Partonconfirmed the news with a tribute of photos with her “Aunt Granny”.
She said, “this is a really hard post for me to make. I wanted to wait until after my granny was laid to rest yesterday before I tried to put any of this into words…
Because she couldn’t have kids of her own, she always made us feel like we were hers. She loved us that way, and I’ll forever be grateful for that.”
Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum also shared her official obituary.
In other Dolly news, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport announced Friday that they intend to rename the airport in her honor. As it should be.
The Grand Ole Opry paid tribute to Dolly on Saturday with the entire night in her honor. There were performances from Carly Pearce, Jelly Roll, Dolly’s niece Jada Star, Channing Wilson and more were all there to celebrate her life.
Kacey Musgraves performed in Boston on Friday (8/28/26) and after she sang “Golden Hour”, a small fire started on a scaffolding above the stage from the pyrotechnics.
She joked saying, “I have way too much hairspray to be standing under that shit.”
If you haven’t heard of Cledus T. Judd before, he’s been called the “Weird Al” Yankovic of country music. And he released a parody of Ella Langley’s“Be Her” called “Meet Her”.
Cledus was proud of this parody too. He said, “Dearest Ella. My friend Shania Twain changed my life in 1997 when my video ‘If Shania Was Mine’ was one of the most successful videos in CMT history.
Now 29 years later and over 40 music videos later I’m asking ya to help change my life again so I can catch up on my child support and pay off my vet bill from 2003…love you and hope to ‘Meet You’ someday soon.”
Now it appears Ella’s label are being haters. In a new video posted to social media, Cledus revealed that he received a demand from Sony Music telling him to take down the song.
“I’ve been doing these parodies and trying to make a living and a career out of doing them for the past 30 years, and it’s been an absolute wonderful journey doing them.
I don’t know how many I’ve done. Everybody from Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, Joe Diffie, Wynonna, Trace, Rascal Flatss, Toby. I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
And never in my 30 years, I don’t think I’ve ever had somebody not comment or say, ‘Great job,’ or ‘That sucks,’ or whatever the case may be.
But I got a letter this week … from Sony Music New York that said, ‘Hey, take the Ella tribute video down off your social medias, off the platforms everywhere. Get it down.’”
Cledus said the request caught him by surprise, but says that while he’s disappointed, he’s still a fan of Ella and all that she’s accomplished…
“Am I disappointed? Ridiculously, professionally and personally disappointed, because I’ve never done a song where I’ve beat up on the artist or took advantage of a bad situation, you know? I mean, it ain’t like I’m ever gonna do a parody of ‘Go Rest High on That Mountain.’But this one kind of shocked me. I know she never commented, and we got a little text from her attorney yesterday that just said she wasn’t interested in participating.”
He also noted the irony that the request came from Sony – a label to which he used to be signed. And he said, “I used to be an artist on Sony. I got records at Sony. I was a writer for Sony ATV and Nashville. Half my music catalog’s there, and they still said take it down.”
He said that he intends to honor the request and will be removing the song saying, “I guess everybody ain’t got a sense of humor like a lot of ’em do.”
It was a normal Friday night on August 28, 2026 at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati when the fall happened.
Tim McGrawfell onstage when his boot got caught in the flooring. He wasn’t embarrassed, because he’s damn professional y’all. He shared the moment on Instagram and said, “Cincinnati, you started our weekend off on the right foot even if I couldn’t stay on mine.”
Falls are going to happen onstage if you’re a performing artist. It’s the getting back up that really matters. The microphone stayed firmly planted in Tim’s hand the entire time, and he quickly popped back up with a smile. I don’t even think Luke Bryan can do that. And he falls onstage a lot.
Jelly Roll caused quite the shitshow this week while serving as guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
After previously remaining pretty non-political and even he said one point that he didn’t identify with one part or the other because he lost his right to vote as a convicted felon. He decided to take the opportunity this week to throw several shots at President Donald Trump during his monologues. I’m sure Jimmy Kimmel was proud.
He joked about Trump’s physical fitness, the weekend IndyCar race in Washington, D.C., and compared his own recent 300-pound weight loss to losing “an entire Donald Trump”. That of course didn’t set well with Trump supporters at all, which I remember seeing Jelly in a video at laughing and joking around Trump like he really supported him.
Now after facing intense backlash from MAGA fans online, the country artist doubled down on his remarks during Tuesday’s broadcast, questioning why any U.S. president shouldn’t be able to handle a few lighthearted jokes.
He acknowledged that “some folks online were upset” that he didn’t “treat the president with reverence and dignity” during his opening monologue on Monday. To which he responded, “I want to remind y’all that I go by the name Jelly Roll. I don’t even treat myself with reverence and dignity.”
He also said as a President “they should also be able to handle gas prices, health care, and the occasional international conflict, but beggars can’t be choosers.” But God forbid you made jokes about Joe Biden and his illiterate ass, because that was labeled as hate speech.
Jelly continued saying, “for those who threatened to stop listening to my music based on my comments last night, I just want to say with conviction: Go right ahead, because I’m gonna keep speaking my truth or my name isn’t Post Malone.”
On Jelly’s last night of hosting for Jimmy, he confirmed that he was, in fact, the one behind the jabs at the president. He said…
“A lot of people seem to think these Jimmy Kimmel writers have secretly been pulling the strings and forcing this good old country boy to poke fun at our commander-in-chief. But let’s be real about this, y’all. Do you think I would take orders from some sweaty little dork named Josh?
No, I was just telling it like it is. And for some reason, that seemed to freak a lot of people out. I guess now that I’ve lost all this weight, folks can finally see I have balls.”
Jelly Roll went on to speak about how he felt he “fumbled” his answer at the Grammy Awards when asked to give his thoughts on what was going on in the country right now.
“For the last six months, I’ve watched people decide who I am, what I am, what I believe, what I support, and what I don’t support. And I felt that even more this week, just because I told a couple of jokes.And that night at the Grammys, I had an opportunity to speak up for people who were scared, hurting, and felt like nobody was speaking for them. I had a microphone and I didn’t use it the right way.”
Jelly said that he plans to be more open about political topics going forward, especially now that his right to vote has been restored thanks to the pardon from Tennessee governor Bill Lee.
“So, I’m going to try to do the right thing right now because human dignity isn’t Republican nor Democrat. Compassion isn’t leftwing and mercy isn’t right-wing. Pain and healing knows no partisanship. Hurting hearts are more important than poll numbers. And there are no boundaries or borders for broken families.”
He also defended shaking hands with President Trump back in 2024, saying that his late father was a veteran who would have been disappointed if he didn’t shake the hand of any US president, and vowing to be more compassionate going forward.
“Tomorrow, I’m going to try a little harder than I did today to love my neighbor, cause sometimes they’re not all the way lovable. And I hope y’all will do the same thing.”
Jelly even cried like a bitch on national television just like Jimmy does when he says dumb shit and gets a lot of backlash. Again…I bet Jimmy was proud of his friend, Jelly in being just like Jimmy.
Now I do agree with Jelly Roll in the fact that “human dignity isn’t Republican nor Democrat”, because it’s not. Politics is trashy and full of hypocrites. And it always will be. Mainly because people are far from being perfect. I’m also proud to live a country where we can tell jokes and have freedom of speech. That’s I will always say and believe the Democrats are the real retards in this country…and I see you Jelly.
I don’t really care for this man much, but his music is pretty good…and I am a fan how winston’s and whiskey smell too.
Zach Bryantreated the crowd in Arlington, Texas on Saturday to a new song. It’s called “Robot Killed the Working Man”, and it’s about the rise of A.I. and technology killing the working class.
It’s unclear if it’ll be on Zach’s upcoming EP, “Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs”. He hasn’t announced a release date for it, yet neither.
Fans believe they have cracked the code in figuring out who is featured on Luke Bryan’s upcoming album, “Signs”.
It’s Luke Combs. The song is “Finders Keepers” and Combs’ name briefly appeared online on the Genius track list. Fans also found pre-order listings for the album showing Track 1 as “Finders Keepers featuring Luke Combs”. Neither of the Lukes have confirmed it though.
Luke Bryan teased an announcement with a video that cut off before revealing the name. He tried blaming the video being cut off due to being “out in the country” and having bad service. He captioned the first video saying, “this feature has been a long time coming and I can’t wait for y’all to hear it.”
Megan Moroney officially wrapped the U.S. leg of her 2026 “Cloud 9” tour with the longest concert she’s ever performed all while doing a make-up concert.
She unfortunately had to abruptly end her Denver concert after just three songs last month due to an illness and she rescheduled the show to be the final stop of the tour. She returned to Denver, Colorado as promised to perform the concert on Thursday, August 27, 2026.
Megan informed the crowd that she was going to make it up to them for the inconvenience and she absolutely did.
She said, “oftentimes, we’re able to forgive other people, but not ourselves. I’m very grateful that all of you showed up again and like I said, I’m really sorry about last time, but tonight is not only going to be the longest show of the Cloud 9 tour, this is the longest show that my band and I have ever played in my whole career.”
Megan wound up adding 8 additional songs to the setlist for the makeup show. But…technically, there were 9 extra songs if you don’t count the “surprise song” slot she had. It was around three hours of Megan Moroney.
It pains me to say this, but there are people still out there living life who obviously have horrible taste in music. I mean why in the hell was this man’s show not sold out?
Zach Top wasn’t able to sell out his recent show in Long Island. Whats’s wrong with you Long Island? Of course he embraced the open seats by inviting those sitting far up in the theater to move closer.
He said, “as much as it pains me to say, we didn’t quite fill this place up…feel free to ease your way on down, get a little closer…I can’t see all the way up there, we’ll just pretend it ain’t there.”
It’s almost like playing in Long Island is a foreign country who’s never heard of real country artists before.
At least Hillbilly Live (mainly me) ain’t the only ones to make mistakes…and this is how you take accountability.
CNN mistakenly aired a photo of a Dolly Parton impersonator from Las Vegas instead of the real Dolly during “Laura Coates Live” on Tuesday night. The network said, “we regret the error and apologize to the Parton family.”
The impersonator also said, “I started getting all these texts in from friends saying that I was on CNN, and I couldn’t believe it.
I was already heartbroken at losing Dolly because of how much she has given to me as a woman and an artist. But then to see these images of me on screen was just weird.”
