Kacey Musgraves made waves last week when she rode into her show on a pair of “Disco Balls”…a.k.a. big glittery truck nuts.
One fan said in the comments, “I can’t get behind the large testicles I’m sorry.” But Kacey wasn’t having it, so she replied back with, “well, maybe you can get in front of them.”
The fan took it in stride and commented back saying, “yes ma’am,” so it seems like everything is fine. Kacey is well-known for her playful, tongue-in-cheek humor, so riding in on a pair of giant disco balls seems par for the course.
Fans are wondering if Chris Young was performing drunk last week at the “Concert in the Corn” in Mason, Wisconsin.
Because a TikTok of his performance is going viral, and not for the right reasons. He seems a bit inebriated.
Of course some fans were defending him because he was messing with his in-ear monitors, so they suggested it was a technical issue. Which is a thing that happens often.
@tabbers02 said, “doesn’t sound that bad to me.” And they may have been drunk themselves. I can’t confirm that though.
Dolly Parton’s Estate is bringing “DollyFest: The Celebration of a Lifetime” to Nashville and London next year. It’ll be a music festival held on two consecutive weekends.
Dolly originally planned “DollyFest” as part of her 80th birthday celebration last year. She was set to host and perform, but had to take a step back due to health challenges.
Her longtime manager Danny Nozell said a venue was booked and an announcement was ready to go. He said, “what Dolly started, we will ensure is brought to life…
As far as a traditional memorial goes, that is not something Dolly wanted. This is something that is authentic to her, and something that artists and fans around the world can participate in, while also giving everyone time to grieve, and plan.”
Details haven’t been shared yet, like dates, ticket information, even the lineup. And that will come in due time.
In other Dolly news, the Tennessee Volunteers will honor her all football season long with a special orange butterfly sticker on their helmets.
Her song, “Choosin’ Texas”, is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a 20th week now. It’s officially the longest-leading non-holiday song in history. It’s second to only Mariah Carey’s“All I Want for Christmas Is You”, which leads with 22 weeks.
So, it just has stay on top of that chart for at least three more weeks to beat the song that’s been ruining Christmas since 1994. In “Choosin’ Texas” I trust.
Also on the Hot 100, Dolly Parton’s“Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You”entered the Top 40 for the first time. This brings Dolly to 10 career Top 40 Hot 100 hits.
They’re full lineup is coming soon…but they really don’t need anymore help in selling tickets with headliners like this.
“Boots In The Park” returns to Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque from May 14th-16th, 2027, headlined by King George Strait in his only festival performance of the year. Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Zach Top and Jon Pardi will grace the Boots in the Park’s festival stage.
Tickets pre-sales will happen Thursday, September 10th, at 10AM MT. General ticket sales begin Friday, September 11th, at 10AM MT.
And for everything you need to know about “Boots In The Park” 2027, please visit bootsinthepark.com.
If you were a fan of country music in the 2010’s…I’m pretty damn sure you heard of The Band Perry.
They came right out of the gate throwing major hits around, the siblings trio scored not one…but five Top 20 singles from their self-titled debut album from 2010. It included their “You Lie” along with their signature song, “If I Die Young”, which has since become one of the few country songs in history to be certified Diamond by the RIAA.
They followed their debut album up with their successful sophomore album in 2012 with, “Pioneer”, which contained another string of hits, including two #1s, “Better Dig Two” and “DONE”. It also two Top 10s on that sophomore album of theirs called “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” and “Chainsaw”. And I remember playing the hell out heir music on country radio as a music director at the time. We couldn’t get away from their music.
After that nice run, everything seemingly fell off the rails for the siblings trio as they were well on their way to superstardom throughout the rest of the 2010s.
Things literally got weird. They made some odd stylistic/image changes, ventured into pop and EDM and eventual a hiatus happened. Then of course during the hiatus, we saw the front woman, Kimberly Perry, try her hand at a solo career in 2023. And that didn’t really work out at all. Even though it contained a reimagining of their bands hit, “If I Die Young, Pt. 2”.
The Band Perry “returned” in 2025 with a brand new lineup within the group upon signing with Big Machine Label Group (BMLG). Now instead of the lineup consisting of siblings, Kimberly, Reid and Neil, now it’s simply Kimberly and her husband, Johnny Castello. It was announced upon that triumph return that Castello would be directly replacing Neil as a backing vocalist, while Reid departed the band in pursuit of artist management.
The Band Perry has released a string of new songs throughout 2026, including “PSYCHOLOGICAL”,“Buzzards” ,“Kill It” and an updated duet version of “You Lie” featuring Kaitlin Butts. Additionally, they were featured on the secondary stage at Nissan Stadium during the 2026 CMA Fest, where Kimberly and Johnny performed “If I Die Young” together. And looked like Johnny didn’t know some of the words to their songs.
There was a lot of drama behind the scenes though during all of it. Kimberly has also been doing a lot press touring since the return, to obviously reintroduce the band. The most notable interviews were with the Rolling Stoneand BobbyBones’ podcasts over the past year. It was during these interviews that she claimed that both of her brothers were completely on board with the current state of the band.
She even told Rolling Stone that both of them gave her their blessing to continue The Band Perry without them…
“Yeah, absolutely. I think they are very interested in The Band Perry getting landed as well. We are so proud of the past that we shared, and I think it’s just been about where does it go in the future. This was really my family band in the living room before anything else…
It’s just so cool to feel that love and support and to know that, ‘Hey guys, I’ve got this. Everything that we built was so magical and so beautiful. And I’m gonna go land this with the same integrity that we started it with.’ And of course, there’s always an open seat for a brother if they ever want to tour.”
According to Neil, that story wasn’t actually the real truth. As in it was kind of bs. Neil took to his Instagram to tell his side of the story.
His post including a scene from the television show “Succession” talking about the uncomfortable family feud and two contradictory answers from Kimberly on the podcasts, he would tell his side of the story in the caption. And he said a lot.
Stella Lefty is making herself known in the music world.
She recently made the news by copying Noah Kahan with her catchy ass song and people obviously kept calling her out on it. So, she had to give him songwriting credit on “Boston”…because of its similarity to his song “Stick Season”. Well, she did it again.
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.”
