This past year has certainly been anything but normal, and for musicians it meant most were stuck at home and unable to tour, and for some, release records. This big change may make it difficult for next year’s award shows, especially when it comes to Entertainer of the Year, and that’s something Luke Combs has thought about.

Luke suspects that while Song of the Year and Single of the Year will be “pretty normal” at award shows, other categories, including Entertainer won’t be that easy. “I think you just take the current criteria and you just kind of morph it and tweak it a little bit,” he shares. “I view Entertainer as whose done the most for the genre in the last year, and I think you can still take that same criteria and apply it to 2020.”

Luke thinks they’ll have to look at things like livestreams, and more. He notes, “it’s the same kind of thing, just without the massive touring piece that is normally so associated with that particular award.”

Taylor Swift may be a huge star, but the fact that she has turned away from her country roots has not gone unnoticed in Nashville. In fact, Taylor was just replaced in the iconic mural at Legends Corner on Lower Broadway in Nashville.

The mural features 14 musical icons, like Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and more, but now Taylor has been painted over, replaced by artist Tim Davis with Brad Paisley.

Davis says two more stars are expected to join the mural, although didn’t say who. Interestingly, Taylor was one of only four female artists in the painting, the others being Dolly, Loretta Lynn, and Reba Macintyre.

As you can imagine, Taylor’s fans were not at all happy with her being replaced. “Nashville really just PAINTED OVER @taylorswift13 in the legends corner mural on Broadway,” one person noted “she is a country music legend and so what if she moved over to different genres?? Confused why they didn’t just make the mural bigger.”

But not everyone thinks the change was a bad one. “Amongst country music fans Brad is way more deserving, plus the only people complaining aren’t very big country fans,” another commenter shared. “Vocally she’s great but musically Brad blows her out of the park in the simple fact that he can play every instrument in his band.”

Carrie Underwood already got her Christmas gift from hubby Mike Fisher, and let’s just say it would have been a little big to put under the Christmas tree.

“He got me cows, which is what I wanted,” Carrie tells “ET Canada.” “They’re my favorite animal. I love them, they make me so happy.” And it sounds like these animals are basically Carrie’s new pets. She notes, “I don’t want them for any purpose, just to love them.”

But it sounds like Mike may not be getting a gift he loves as much as Carrie loves her cows. “I’m actually not a good gift-giver…,” she says. “I will tell my husband like, ‘Don’t get me anything,’ because that means I have to get him something,” adding, “I’m so awful!”

The members of Little Big Town all have holiday traditions that mean a great deal to them. For Kimberly Schlapman, when she was a kid it was all about gathering together with family to open presents even though everyone already knew what they were getting.

“We’d sit down and Mama hands out everybody a gift, and we act like we don’t what it is, but we do ’cause it’s always Christmas pajamas,” she says. “So, everybody opens their Christmas pajamas and goes and puts ’em on, and we come back to the living room and we sit around Daddy and he reads The Christmas Story. And we tuck ourselves in until Santa comes.”

Karen Fairchild’s holiday traditions are a little sweeter since hers revolved around making candy. Karen shares, “We did everything from potato candy to chocolate-dipped peanut butter and fudge. My mom’s fudge recipe is amazing.”

GRAMMY-winning singer K.T. Oslin passed away yesterday at the age of 78. According to “Music Row,” K.T., born Kay Toinette Oslin, had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and last week she tested positive for COVID-19, although there’s no word on whether it contributed to her death.

K.T. is best known for her hit “80’s Ladies” as well as number one hits “Do Ya,” “I’ll Always Come Back,” and “Hold Me,” which won her two GRAMMY Awards. Her other hits include “Hey Bobby” and “This Woman” and “Come Next Monday,” and she had another number one as the guest vocalist on Alabama’s 1988 hit “Face to Face.” Several of her albums were best-sellers, including “80’s Ladies” and “This Woman,” which went GOLD in 1988 and eventually became Platinum sellers and “Love In a Small Town,” which went gold in 1991.

K.T. was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. She also won four Academy of Country Music Awards, and was inducted into the Texas Songwriters Hall of Fame.