Brooks & Dunn are working on new music. While their last few albums have been collaborative efforts with country superstars on hits from their catalog, it seems the duo, who have been successful songwriters even before they broke through, are returning to their strengths. On “CBS Mornings,” the duo revealed that they’re currently hashing out what their next album will look and sound like. In the interview, Ronnie Dunn said, “We’re compromising right now, we’re working on a new record. You talk about the ultimate compromise. As songwriters, we’re firing stuff back and forth, you know, we’re criticizing one another’s music, that’s the holy grail, right? I want all my songs on there, he wants all his songs on there. So we have to work that stuff out. And you sweat and bleed every word.” No word on when we’ll hear the results of their songwriting process.

Just eight months after the release of “Middle of Nowhere,” Kacey Musgraves has announced a followup. “Middle of Nowhere Vol. 2: Tex Mex Tapes” is a 16-track project that picks up where Vol. 1 left off, “expanding on themes of solitude, contentment, and finding beauty in the in-between.” Four of the album’s 16 songs are sung entirely in Spanish, including a newly-recorded Spanish version of “Uncertain, TX,” featuring Intocable.”Vol. 2″ will be available everywhere January 15.

 

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While there’s some turmoil in the matter of Dolly Parton‘s estate, what’s largely been forgotten is the will of her husband Carl Dean, who preceded Dolly in death by 17 months. It’s been revealed that Dea Chaffin Cunningham Williams, Dean’s niece, was named petitioner of Dean’s estate earlier this month. Dean’s will named his wife as executor, but she had not completed administering his estate before her own death, according to the documents. Williams was named as backup. Dean’s 2013 will says if Parton did not survive him or declined certain property, that property would be divided between five of Dean’s nieces and nephews and 14 of Parton’s nieces and nephews. The will also directed the remainder of his estate to the Carl Thomas Dean Trust.

Megan Moroney‘s dating life is in the news again, and it’s partly her own fault. Somebody zoomed in on Moroney while she was in the audience at the “Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show,” and the camera caught a glimpse of her phone. Her phone’s wallpaper seemingly shows a picture of the singer with her arms around soccer star Christian Pulisic, who people have been thinking she’s been dating since at least July. No comment from either Moroney or Pulisic about this latest “clue.”