We may only be in September, but Nashville is already making New Year’s plans. The lineup for “New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash” has just been announced, featuring Brooks & Dunn, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town and Zac Brown Band.

The annual concert, that takes place throughout Music City, will air December 31^st, live on CBS starting at 8 pm, and will also stream live on Paramount +.

Last year’s bash lasted five hours and included almost 50 performers, with the main stage located at Nashville’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. It concludes with the drop of Nashville’s Music Note at midnight CT.

Source: Billboard

Tim McGraw didn’t always want to be a country singer. In fact, the singer says that at one point he was sure he was going to be a lawyer and it was all thanks to Al Pacino.

“I wanted to be a lawyer, as long as I could remember,” he says. “In fact, I think I was 11, 12, 13 years old and I saw And Justice for All with Al Pacino. And from that point on I always wanted to be a defense attorney.”

Tim actually went to school to be a lawyer, but notes, “I picked up a guitar and started playing music, so that all went out the window.”

Source: Tim McGraw

Dolly Parton is bringing another holiday movie to NBC this season, and she’s landed a star-studded cast for it. In addition to Dolly, the film, “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas,” will star Tom Everett Scott, Ana Gasteyer and Angel Parker, with big names like Willie Nelson, Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Allen, Jimmy Fallon and Zach Williams also set to appear.

The movie, described as a “modern-day movie musical,” follows the making of a TV special. An apparent twist on “A Christmas Carol,” the film will have Dolly “taking a private journey into her past, guided by the mysterious appearances of her personal Three Wise Mountain Men.” It inspires Dolly to show “the world that the real magic of Christmas lies in the hearts of the children we all once were, the realization that Christmas is about the people we share it with, and how her faith remains the common thread between Christmases past, present, and future.”

So far a premiere date for the film has not been revealed.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

The official report on Naomi Judd’s cause of death has been released. The autopsy report, released Friday, confirms what the family has hinted at: she committed suicide. The docs show the Judd’s matriarch shot herself. It happened a day before the group’s induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

In a statement to the Associated Press, the family shared “We have always shared openly both the joys of being family as well as its sorrows, too. One part of our story is that our matriarch was dogged by an unfair foe. She was treated for PTSD and bipolar disorder, to which millions of Americans can relate.”

The report also found medication in Naomi’s system consistent with PTSD and bipolar treatment.

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org.

Source: People

Kenny Chesney wraps his “Here And Now” tour at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts tonight and tomorrow, but first he’s given fans a new song. The singer just dropped the new track “Beer With Friends,” featuring his tour mates Old Dominion.

“Before the Here and Now Tour is over, we wanted to give everyone something to remember it by,” Kenny shares. “’Beer with My Friends’ featuring Old Dominion is a song that we can all sing wherever we are… and know there’s nothing like these moments we’ve shared.”

He adds, “All you gotta do is put it on, turn it up and we’ll all be right back there. Let’s kick it all off at Gillette Stadium this weekend.”