Tim McGraw is turning 55 on Sunday and while some may use the occasion to look back at their life, that’s not something Tim cares to do.

“You know, oddly enough, I’m not one of these people that look back very often,” he shares. “I’m always looking forward tryin’ to figure out how to improve myself and get better.”

And don’t expect Tim to mark the occasion with a big party. “I’m not a big birthday celebrator. In fact, our whole family, we’re not big birthday celebrators,” he says. “I mean, we have parties and stuff like that every now and then for big ones, but we’re not big birthday celebrators, and I don’t have anything planned.”

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Last month Eric Church canceled a concert in San Antonio, Texas so he and his family could watch his beloved North Carolina Tar Heels take on Duke in the NCAA Final Four game. Eric got a lot of backlash for the self-admitted “selfish” decision, but he doesn’t regret it.

In a new interview with the “Rob + Holly podcast,” Eric opened up about the decision for the very first time.

“The big thing was the Duke game, for me — I hate to say this, I did care,” he shared. “To me, the championship was against Duke, because of the rivalry, because they’ve never met in the tournament, and it’s Coach K’s final game.” Eric added, “All those things were a perfect storm that I never would have conceptualized would have happened … It was just one of those really unique, once-in-a-lifetime things.”

Eric notes, “It was just something that I had to be there. …There was no way that I wasn’t being there. I’m very glad we went.”

• As for the backlash he received, Eric says that while he knew his San Antonio fans would be “disappointed,” he always confident his real fans would understand. “We’ve been through a lot together … 17 years now and I trusted they would understand,” he shared. “That’s the reason I just came clean and told the truth,” noting, “I could have said COVID, I could have said throwing up, laryngitis. There’s a 100 things, but I decided just to say, ‘This is what I’m doing.’ I knew they would get that.”

• Eric announced he’ll be making it up to fans in San Antonio with a “free” show in September.

The Grand Ole Opry is celebrating the 90s with a brand new exhibit, “Opry Loves The 90s,” opening May 16^th.

The exhibit, which runs until the end of the year, will feature artifacts and memorabilia connected to Opry members like Clint Black, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Travis Tritt and more.

It will feature interactive experiences for visitors, who’ll get to have photo opportunities,  answer 90s country music trivia using a digital gaming console, and more.

To celebrate the new exhibit the Opry will host ‘90s Country Plaza Parties that are free and open to the public. They will take place each Friday and Saturday through Labor Day, and then again on Fridays and Saturdays in October.

Reba McEntire is putting out another book. The singer announced she’ll be releasing a new lifestyle book, featuring full-color photos, life lessons, recipes, personal stories from her career and more.

“I’m so excited to partner with the Harper Celebrate team to create my first lifestyle book where I will share stories, behind the scenes photos, some of my favorite recipes and life lessons I’ve learned over the years,” Reba shared. “I know my fans are going to love it!”

So far the book does not have a title or release date, but it’s expected to come out sometime in the fall of 2023. This will be Reba’s third book. She co-wrote a memoir, “Reba: My Story,” with Tom Carter, in 1994, and her second biography, “Comfort From a Country Quilt,” came out in 1999.

Source: People

Dolly Parton has received a lot of advice over the course of her career, but not all of it’s been good. In case you missed it, the singer opened up about the worst advice she ever got, during an appearance on “WorkLife with Adam Grant” podcast.

“The main advice that people wanted to give me was to change my look – to go simpler with my hair and the way that I dress,” Dolly shared. “Not to look so cheap, nobody was ever going to take me seriously, they would say.”  She noted, “People wanted me to change, they thought I looked cheap. But I patterned my look after the town tramp.”

As for why, Dolly shared, “Everybody said, ‘She’s trash.’ And in my little girl mind, I thought, ‘Well, that’s what I’m going to be when I grow up.’ It was really like a look I was after,” noting, “I wasn’t a natural beauty. So, I just like to look the way I look.” She added, “I’m so outgoing inside in my personality, that I need the way I look to match all of that.”

Source: People