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Nashville notes: Tanya Tucker’s documentary trailer, Willie Nelson’s live album + more

You can now watch the trailer for The Return of Tanya Tucker, Featuring Brandi Carlile. The documentary film follows the creation of Tanya Tucker’s 2019 While I’m Living album, which Brandi Carlile produced. Legacy Recordings has announced plans to put out a live album of Willie Nelson’s 1984 performance at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, …

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Maddie & Tae explain how they plan to “level up” in second half of Through the Madness album

Danielle Del Valle/Getty Images Maddie & Tae’s Through the Madness will finally be complete by the end of this month, as the second half of the project arrives — following the late-January release of Vol. 1 — on September 23. In between release dates, the duo have lived a little more “madness,” as bandmate Taylor …

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Luke Combs will be ESPN’s College GameDay guest picker: “I wouldn’t miss it for the world”

ABC/Connie Chornuk In between a hectic touring schedule, Luke Combs is making a stop in his home state to be the guest picker for ESPN’s College GameDay this weekend. The star announced the news on social media, and he made it pretty clear what one of his picks is going to be: his alma mater, …

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Little Big Town explains the years-long process that led them to finally cut “Rich Man” for ‘Mr. Sun’

Capitol Records Nashville Little Big Town’s 10th studio album, Mr. Sun, arrives on Friday, and the track contains a song that’s more than a decade old and that the band has actually tried to record at least once before. That’s “Rich Man,” a solo write by bandmate Jimi Westbrook that represents the first time LBT has …

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Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid Festival airing on Circle Network, with performances by Chris Stapleton + more

Brandon Bell/Getty Images The 2022 Farm Aid Festival will once again broadcast live on the Circle Network. Featuring sets from Chris Stapleton, Willie Nelson & Family, Dave Matthews and Sheryl Crow, the event will air from Raleigh, North Carolina. Hosted by Runaway June bandmate Natalie Stovall, the annual music, food and farm festival will air …

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Walker Hayes says “Y’all Life” tells it like it is about life in the South

ABC Growing up in Alabama, Walker Hayes has plenty of first-hand experience when it comes to life in the South, and he says his new song, “Y’all Life,” perfectly sums it all up. “Where I grew up — the song just says it like it is,” the singer tells ABC Audio. “From Alabama, it’s all football …

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Nashville notes: John Michael Montgomery healing up after crash + more

Singer John Michael Montgomery is on the road to recovery after sustaining injuries in a bus crash last week, according to an update from his son and fellow country artist Walker Montgomery. The younger Montgomery wrote that his dad was “doing well” and that the family was “lucky” in an update on Twitter. Country-themed Fox …

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Garth Brooks shed his “soccer dad” bod ahead of Croke Park shows: “I lost 50 lbs”

Terry Wyatt/Getty Images Garth Brooks is in the midst of a string of sold-out stadium shows at Dublin’s Croke Park to end his Stadium Tour, and as he takes the stage, he’s back in fighting shape. “I’m the same weight I was when I played here in ‘97, that’s what I want,” Garth told media …

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Maren Morris is taking “I Can’t Love You Anymore” on a Humble Quest to country radio

Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Maren Morris is keeping the music coming with a fresh single off her Humble Quest album. For her next radio single, she’s selected “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” which is the third track on the project. “Next single let’s goooooooooooo,” Maren wrote on Twitter this week along with the single art for …

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Breland’s Thomas Rhett collab got a very important seal of approval — from TR’s kids

Catherine Powell/Getty Images for BRELAND Breland and Thomas Rhett join forces on the boppy, gospel-inspired duet “Praise the Lord,” a song that is one of several mega-watt duets on Breland’s just-released Cross Country album. The duet sounds effortless, but Breland tells Billboard that getting Thomas on the song was actually a fairly involved process: It …

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