Jim Ed Brown Loses His Battle With Lung Cancer
Grand Ole Opry member Jim Ed Brown died Thursday (June 11) at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tenn., after battling lung cancer. He was 81 years old.
Brown began canceling shows last fall before announcing that he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He returned to the stage in January after his cancer went into remission and the singer was pronounced cancer free in April. Sadly, the singer’s cancer returned at the beginning of June. According to a press release, Brown “died at peace with himself and with his place in country music.”
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Carrie Underwood Tried Not to Write A Song About Her Son . . . And Then She Did
CARRIE UNDERWOOD has been working hard on her next album . . . and even harder trying not to write songs about her son. She failed on the son part. She says, quote, “I tried to stay away from it.
“I didn’t want to force anything or have anything be cheesy or weird, like ‘Oh, she had a baby, so she’s singing about her baby.’ It just kind of happened one day.”
But even though the song is about one of the most important people in her life, that doesn’t guarantee we’ll ever hear it . . . although the odds are high.
She adds, quote, “I’ll cut out anything from the album. I have no loyalties to any song, even if it’s one I wrote. But I think this one will make it on there.” No word when the album will be out.
LITTLE BIG TOWN is coming back to host the “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock”. It’ll be their third time. Performances are being recorded this weekend in Nashville at the CMA Music Festival. The show airs August 4th on ABC.
CHRIS YOUNG says anyone who thinks females aren’t as important as males in country radio is stupid.
The ZAC BROWN BAND has an interesting preshow ritual. First they gather on the bus and play for an hour . . . and then they head backstage, put their hands together and say, “Ooh girl.” (???)
GARY ALLAN released the video to his song “Hangover Tonight“.
EASTON CORBIN got a chance to meet Triple Crown winner American Pharoah.
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE does a prayer, some backstage hijinks, and a lot of sweaty performing in their“Anything Goes“ video.
The name of LUKE BRYAN’s fan club is “The Nut House” . . . because they’re nutty and because his dad’s a peanut farmer.