Happy Birthday to Mr. John Conlee today! He is 69! He had six #1 hits over his career . . . “Lady Lay Down”, “Backside of Thirty”,“Common Man”, “I’m Only In It for Love”, “In My Eyes” and “Got My Heart Set On You”. These days he runs a farm outside of Nashville.
Jake Owen Talked About His Divorce in the Middle of a Concert
JAKE OWEN stopped in the middle of a song in Minnesota on Saturday, to talk about his divorce.
He said, quote, “A lot of people maybe shy away from it, but I think I’m going to do some weird stuff. My wife and I are getting a divorce, and this is probably the hardest [thing] I’ve ever done in my life.
“To walk on stage every night, and try to pretend like everything’s awesome when it really ain’t always awesome . . . But thanks to people like you for singing along. You have no idea how much you guys lift me up every single night.
And I love my wife more than anything in the world. And I love my little baby girl, Pearl, more than anything in the world. If it wasn’t for both of them, I wouldn’t even be here right now to be a happy man.”
Since he was covering “The Dance” by Garth Brooks, he also said, “That’s a dance that I’m glad I got to dance, and I’m glad you guys got to sing it with me tonight.”
(Be very careful with the video. Jake swears, and there’s profanity in the background. He starts talking at :47. Gotta love the fan who yammers “Why can’t these people keep it together?”)
Watch Luke Bryan Do Karaoke With Jason Derulo . . . Sort of
Ever heard of a karaoke app called ‘Sing’? Actually it’s ‘Sing!’ with an exclamation point after it. It’s been around for a while. Basically you team up with someone to cover a song. You don’t have to be in the same room or anything . . . the app hooks you up.
So LUKE BRYAN got with JASON DERULO to do Jason’s“Want to Want Me”. And the results are pretty awesome. You can check them out on Instagram . . . Luke has a MEAN falsetto.
Scotty McCreery Says “Southern Belle” is ‘As Far Left’ as He’ll Go
SCOTTY MCCREERY’S new single “Southern Belle” has lines like: “She’s Dukes of Hazzard in her daddy’s car. Amazing Grace in a Mason jar.” But don’t worry . . . he hasn’t gone all crazy-sexy-cool on you. (???) He plans to keep his clean, traditional image intact.
Quote, “This is probably about as far left as we’ll go. When my producer heard it, he said, ‘I think we can Scottify this.’ There was one ‘hell’ that we changed.
“I’m an old soul. What makes me different is that I’m normal when so many things are crazy out there. I’m just an average Joe that loves to play country music and play baseball. I try to translate that through my music.”
Wait, what? LEANN RIMES takes 40 vitamins a DAY. And she told “US Weekly” that she loves wearing bikinis now because she wasn’t always confident . . . she had psoriasis as a kid, and was super self-conscious about her skin for years. But now she has the right meds. (Full Story)
JANA KRAMER is pregnant. She’s been married for two months to Mike Caussin, a free agent who was last with the Washington Redskins. (Full Story)
According to ERIC CHURCH, Al Green didn’t get ‘cute’ when he sang about getting-it-on. And neither did Conway Twitty. So ,why should he? When you want to sing about sex, that’s what you should sing about.