If you had a bunch of extra money, what would your first splurge purchase be?  “Taste of Country” put together a great list of ten country stars and the “indulgent” purchases they made.

1.  Chayce Beckham bought a John Deere lawnmower.  He said, “I’ve wanted a ride-on lawn mower since I was a little kid and I was driving back to the house and it was in the back of the truck and I was like, ‘I did it.'”

2.  Dustin Lynch bought an airplane.  He said, “It doesn’t feel real still.  I don’t have any nice cars or anything, but then I remind myself, ‘Dude, you’ve got yourself a sweet little hot rod sitting in the hanger.'”

3.  Jackson Dean bought a camera.  He said, “I bought a little Fuji Film X-S10 and took it out to Stagecoach with me.  It has 16 different settings of different film emulators and oh my God, it was awesome.”

4.  Parker McCollum said he, quote, “hasn’t bought any ‘I made it’ purchases yet, [but] I always wanted a Corvette Z06 manual since I was a little bitty kid, so I bought one of those.”

5.  Lainey Wilson bought a bunch of land.  She said, “I did buy me some land on the outskirts of Nashville and I’m planning on doing some stuff to it.  Maybe building a barn, maybe buying a few horses . . . getting back to the things that made me, ME growing up.”

6.  And Luke Combs likes to spend money on watches, but doesn’t overdo it.  He said, “For the most part, I’m pretty reined in, ya know?  I’ll go on an Amazon shopping spree every once in a while, get a bunch of canned Gatorade, or something like that.”

If anyone remotely knows what Taylor Swift‘s life is like right now, it’s Shania Twain. When Taylor was still in grade school, Shania was the queen of country pop, with diamond selling albums and numerous #1 hits to her credit. In a far-ranging interview with “Haute Living,” Shania talked about her life at the top of the country heap, and parallels she sees between her reign in the 1990s and early 2000s and what Taylor is going through now.

First, though, she expressed admiration for the young singer. “That girl is working her butt off. She is living an exhausting existence, but she’d dedicated and committed to herself, to her art, and her work,” she said of Swift. But seeing parallels between Taylor’s career and her own, Shania added, “It isn’t even about ambition, though I’m sure that most people would call her ambitious. She’s an extremely hard worker, and I’m sure she’s got giant goals. But it’s not all about ambition: it’s about passion and committing yourself to your passion,” traits that Shania says got her to her own career peak. She commented on how working with passion “reaps rewards” for artists. “So, I would say that I’m most proud of my perseverance, and that I didn’t waste my talents,” she added.

Source: People

At this point in his career, there are very few achievements left to accomplish for George Strait, but he’s closing in on another this year. With just one Texas show on his tour schedule for 2024, demand for that show is so great that King George is all but assured to set a new personal record. Strait is on track to best his own all-time indoor attendance record of 104,793 set in 2014 at his final Cowboy Rides Away finale at AT&T Stadium. Announced March 19, his show at Kyle Field June 15 has already moved over 100-thousand tickets, so a new record is all but inevitable at this point.

A 2019 video just emerged of Morgan Wallen challenging a guy to a headbutting contest while in a bar called, “Loser’s.”  And this might give us a glimpse of what it’s like to be around Morgan when he’s drunk.

The video is short but it shows a sleeveless Morgan pushing his head hard into another guy’s before it gets broken up by the bouncer.  The caption reads, “A throwback to 2019 when Morgan Wallen was challenging my friends to head-butting contests on the patio at Loser’s.”

In other news, a lot of tourists keep going to the rooftop at Chief’s and asking to see the infamous chair.  There’s not much to see up there, but there is one thing of note.  All of the tables have four chairs, except one table . . . which only has three.

And finally, another legal expert chimed in to say he doesn’t expect Morgan to get the full brunt of the law, but also doesn’t expect him to get off scot-free either.

The attorney said, “It’s very serious because the officers could have been severely hurt . . . I don’t see him going to jail for two years, but I don’t see him getting a completely probated sentence either.

“They may want to have some degree of incarceration . . . this is a really serious thing.  It’s the RISK that’s punishable, not what actually happened.”