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Former Yankees ace CC Sabathia seemed to be enjoying his retirement as his former club opened the season on Thursday. On Friday, a slimmed-down Sabathia was spotted hitting the links at New Jersey’s Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club with a group that included p.r. guru Ron Berkowitz and veteran Def Jam and Roc Nation Sports exec …
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In a long-distant era of discord suspiciously similar to our own, Natalie Maines, the singer for the group that was, until last month, known as the Dixie Chicks, lit a forest fire with an offhand insult about George W. Bush in 2003. Since then, she’s owned her political words more deliberately by laying into Donald …
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The artists formerly known as Lady Antebellum tested the court of public opinion this week when, after changing their name to Lady A in a gesture of support to the Black Lives Matter movement, news broke that they were suing a blues singer, Anita White, who has been using the stage name Lady A for years. …
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Goodbye, Dixie. Amid calls for the removal of Confederate symbols and nostalgia prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement, the notoriously liberal country-music trio formerly known as Dixie Chicks have finally decided that “Dixie” had to die. Now simply the Chicks, bandmates Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire, who have sold some 33 million …
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On the heels of a new Dolly Parton book, another classic country star, Willie Nelson, 87, and his sister, Bobbie Nelson, 89, announced that they’ve penned a memoir. The tome, “Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band,” will detail their family bond playing music together, with alternating chapters by each sibling. It’s …
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Country singers Carly Pearce and Michael Ray are divorcing after less than a year of marriage, Page Six can confirm. “This was a hard decision [for Pearce],” People magazine quotes a source as saying of the split. “It wasn’t something she wanted to have to do. This hasn’t been a quarantine realization — it was …
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Live Nation announced a drive-in concert series for July as coronavirus lockdowns have canceled arena shows and music festivals nationwide this summer. The LA-based promoter said Monday it will launch “Live from the Drive-In,” a set of nine shows headlined by country singer Brad Paisley to take place July 10-12 in Nashville, Tenn.; Maryland Heights, …
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Country music singer Morgan Wallen apologized on Sunday following his weekend arrest on public intoxication and disorderly conduct charges. The “Whiskey Glasses” singer, 27, was arrested on Saturday night after he was kicked out of Kid Rock’s Honky Tonk bar in downtown Nashville, according to local media. His bond was $300 for the disorderly conduct …
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Fortunately, you can see his hat from miles away. Country star Dwight Yoakam, 63, married his longtime love Emily Joyce in a private, social-distanced ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif., in March, according to a post on the singer’s Instagram, written by his team. The pair, who started dating in 2010 and have been engaged for …
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Country star Cady Groves was not tested for the coronavirus after her sudden death this weekend — with friends fearing she could be a victim of the pandemic, The Post has learned. The 30-year-old was found dead in bed in Nashville on Saturday by a roommate who had not seen her for a few days, …
Former Yankees ace CC Sabathia seemed to be enjoying his retirement as his former club opened the season on Thursday. On Friday, a slimmed-down Sabathia was spotted hitting the links at New Jersey’s Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club with a group that included p.r. guru Ron Berkowitz and veteran Def Jam and Roc Nation Sports exec …
