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Disney is celebrating America’s 250th birthday with a star-studded concert special out of Nashville. And it’s called “Disney Celebrates America: Nashville’s Star-Spangled Bash”.

The lineup includes Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire, Brothers Osborne, Clint Black, Lauren Daigle, and Little Big Town. There’s also non-country artists like Nick Jonas, Sublime, Ne-Yo, Boyz II Men, and The All-American Rejects. I mean it’s not the real Sublime…and I don’t know which one of their songs is really suitable for children…but it should be a fine family friendly show.

Ryan Seacrest has been tapped to host. The special will also include one of the largest fireworks and drone shows in the U.S. and will be set to a live performance by the Nashville Symphony.   

It airs live on the Fourth of July at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on ABC, Disney+, the ESPN app, Freeform, FX, Hulu and NatGeo.

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To be fair. This man’s expertise is in football. Not music…but I’m to say I know who Jimmy Buffett is. And God rest his soul.

Travis Kelce shared an embarrassing story about how he once mistook the Jimmy Buffett for business mogul Warren Buffett at a music festival. He said he had too much to drink, and was told that “Buffett” wanted to meet him.

Travis said, “he tells me a story from high school (about) how he picked up the guitar for the first time. I said, ‘No way, Warren Buffett played the guitar?’ And his face went from smiling from ear to ear to not smiling at all.  

“And then he got tapped on the shoulder because he had to sing ‘Margaritaville’.”

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There have only been 32 country songs in Billboard history that have been able to hit #1 on the all-genre Hot 100 chart. Now quite a bit of these songs fall into the “pretend country music category” for me…but that just me.

The first to ever do it was Johnny Horton’s “The Battle of New Orleans” in 1959. Which is a damn fine country song too. I know this cause my mom introduced me to that class song as a kid.

Here are the 20 most recent:

1. “I Knew It, I Knew You”, Taylor Swift 

2. “Choosin’ Texas”, Ella Langley 

3. “What I Want”, Morgan Wallen featuring Tate McRae

4. “Love Somebody”, Morgan Wallen

5. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”, Shaboozey

6. “I Had Some Help”, Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen

7. “Texas Hold ‘Em”, Beyoncé (this song needs to quit showing up on country music lists of any kind…because it ain’t country)

8. “I Remember Everything”, Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves

9. “Rich Men North of Richmond”, Oliver Anthony

10. “Try That in a Small Town”, Jason Aldean

11. “Last Night”, Morgan Wallen

12. “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)”, Taylor Swift

13. “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, Taylor Swift

14. “Amazed”, Lonestar 

15. “Islands in the Stream”, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton

16. “I Love a Rainy Night”, Eddie Rabbitt

17. “9 to 5”, Dolly Parton

18. “Lady”, Kenny Rogers

19. “Southern Nights”, Glen Campbell

20. “Convoy”, C.W. McCall

Brett Eldredge is officially a married man now y’all.

He shared the news with two photos of his mysterious bride, along with a snippet of an unreleased song.

He said, “Over the last several years, life and my perception of it have changed dramatically. I met an amazing woman who truly loves me for me, way beyond the fella with a microphone.

Someone who’s just as goofy as I am. Someone who loves weird barefoot dance-offs in the living room, looking up at the night sky and wondering what lies beyond what we cannot see. Someone I can have rolling belly laughs with, cry with, and go through life’s tilt-a-whirl of emotions with. Someone who inspires me with her big, beautiful heart.

Along the way, we got married.”

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We finally have some new music coming from our boy, Braxton Hamblen.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say this again. If you’re a fan of real cowboy shit and country music that tells that a story, you need to get know this man and his music.

Braxton’s released his debut album is called “Broken Boys Dream” back in January of 2024. So, it’s definitely well past the time for some new music…but perfection takes a little time.

Come July 3, 2026…Braxton’s new song, “Work In Progress”, will be available wherever you stream your country music.

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This is perfect timing for America’s 250th birthday.

The Charlie Daniels Band recorded a patriotic song called “My Home” back in 2014 for a Macy’s Fourth of July TV special. But it was never released. Well, with America’s 250th birthday coming up, Charlie’s son made sure it got its release date.

Upcoming Charlie Daniels projects includes his hologram headlining a show on the Fourth of July in Kentucky, and the “Best of the Charlie Daniels Band Volunteer Jam” compilation album is dropping in August.

It’s time to plan your first…or next trip to Cancun, Mexico.

Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa festival will go down for a 12th year in Cancun, Mexico in January of 2027. He’ll be joined by Thomas Rhett, Hardy, Brothers Osborne, Brett Young, and Gavin Adcock.

It takes place over four days from January13th to 16th.  Attendees will stay at an all-inclusive resort with live performances, activities with artists, pool parties, and late-night shows. And I promise there will be plenty of tequila for consumption.

For details on Crash My Playa 2027, please visit crashmyplaya.com.

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Rather you like this or not…it was American AF.

Pat McAfee asked Zac when he was on his show, “Let’s talk about this weekend. UFC Freedom 250 event. When you get asked about that, what are your initial thoughts and obviously, if it’s at the White House, there’s gonna be some sort of political potential conversation surrounding it. What are you hoping of the event, and what are you most excited about to get out there? ”

Zac said it best too as he said, “I’m there for the troops, man. I’m there to honor America. This is patriotism, not politics for me. F*ck all the division. I don’t believe in that. I love this country, I love all the people that have sacrificed so I can live my American dream and that everyone who lives here gets the chance to do that if they work hard, make the right decisions.”

Celebrating our country when asked to do so should have nothing to do with politics. And Zac touched on that as well saying, “It doesn’t have a place in politics for me. There are gonna be 8,000 active duty service members that are gonna be there, I’m a massive UFC fan…it’s my favorite sport. I’m honored that Dana [White, UFC CEO] has given me the opportunity to do this.”

Zac also said that they would be singing the national anthem with the Marine Band, which he said is “an honor.” It filled my patriotic heart and it was bad ass to say the least.

I’ve always been a sucker for a good old fashioned duet and we have one here.

Brad Paisley and Miranda Lambert released a duet called “Someone Else’s Arms”. It’s part of Brad’s ongoing project, “Tacklebox”. Now instead of dropping a traditional album all at once, he’s putting out unreleased tracks from the vault that are either from his ’90s catalog, or were written more recently and were inspired by that sound.

Either way…Brad is putting out some fine country music y’all.

This is sad news.

Jelly Roll filed for divorce from Bunnie Xo back on May 18th after almost 10 years of marriage. A source says it’s a mutual decision between the two of them and a private family matter. They got married in August of 2016. 

Their relationship had its share of ups and downs, including Jelly’s infidelity and a brief separation. As of last night, neither of them have made a statement.

Jelly Roll is currently on his Little Ass Shed Tour and with Post Malone.

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