Luke Bryan was honored this weekend as the Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) 2021 Artist Humanitarian Award recipient, recognized for his work with philanthropic work with organizations like ACM Lifting Lives, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, St. Jude, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and more.

“So honored to receive the Country Radio Broadcasters 2021 Artist Humanitarian Award at @crsofficial,” Luke shares. “Thank you so much. I’m lucky to be a part of so many great organizations and causes where I can offer a helping hand.”

“Luke is a big star with a bigger heart,” CRS/CRB Board President Kurt Johnson shares. “We’re so proud to honor him with this much-deserved award.”

Tennessee Rep. John Mark Windle recently introduced legislation that would create a fund to pay for the design, construction, establishment and maintenance of a Dolly Parton statue at the Tennessee Capitol. Well, it turns out Dolly doesn’t want on…at least not now.

“I want to thank the Tennessee legislature for their consideration of a bill to erect a statue of me on the Capitol grounds,” she shared on social media. “I am honored and humbled by their intention but I have asked the leaders of the state legislature to remove the bill from any and all consideration.” Dolly explains, “Given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time.”

She hasn’t ruled it down the road though, noting, “I hope, though, that somewhere down the road several years from now or perhaps after I’m gone if you still feel I deserve it, then I’m certain I will stand proud in our great State Capitol as a grateful Tennessean.”

Finally, Dolly says, “In the meantime, I’ll continue to try to do good work to make this great state proud.”

Eric Church is releasing the three-album project, Heart & Soul” this spring, and now he’s giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the records.

For the project, Eric brought his producer, band and songwriters to the mountains of North Carolina for a month-long retreat and turned a restaurant into a studio. In the clip Eric says that he felt that everyone was a bit too comfortable making his record “Desperate Man,” which made it a harder record to make, noting that for “Heart & Soul,” “I wanted to make everybody really uncomfortable.”

The first album in the project, “Heart,” drops April 16th, which will by followed by “&” dropping April 20th, but just for members of Eric’s fan club the Church Choir, and “Soul” on April 23rd. Check out the behind-the-scenes video below.

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Comedy fans who check out Kristen Wiig’s new movie “Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar” will be surprised to see a cameo by Reba McEntire. The singer turns up as Trish, the gal the two title characters seem to be obsessed about. She makes an appearance as a sea spirit who saves Barb and Star from drowning.

“I’m not advertised as being in the movie, it’s been this secret,” Reba tells “USA Today.” “But afterward my friends were texting me saying, ‘I knew you were going to be Trish.’ That was icing on the cake for me.”

Apparently Kristen and her co-star and co-writer Annie Mumolo personally reached out to Reba with a letter begging her to sign on for the role. And once she read the script she was glad to do it. “I just wanted to know where, when, and what am I going to wear?” she says. “I was so ready and excited to do it.”

And it sounds like she loved shooting the movie in Cancun. She notes, “Oh, my gosh, I had these hunky guys around me making sure I was safe. I loved every minute of it.”

Source: USA Today

If you have a hard time relaxing or even sleeping, Keith Urban is now here to help. In case you missed it, Keith has recorded a new song, “I Am Home,” for the app Calm, which aims to reduce stress and help people fall asleep.

“So, I’ve never written a ‘sleep song’ before,” Keith says. “This process was different on every level because I wasn’t trying to come up with a hook/chorus.” He adds, “It felt like an incredible amount of liberation and freedom to just let the things flow and move where they wanted to go.”

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