Randy Travis and his wife Mary visited “Today” to talk about his new memoir, “Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith and Braving the Storms of Life,” which comes out today, and Mary opened up about just how big a fighter her husband is.

Randy suffered a stroke six years ago, and doctors only gave him a one-percent chance to live, but Mary, his then-fiancée, says Randy gave her a sign that told her not to take him off life support.

“Even in his state, his semi-coma state, he squeezed my hand,” she shared. “And he laid there, and I just I saw this tear just fell. And it was, you know, one, two at a time. And I just went back to the doctors and I said, ‘We’re fighting this.”’

The book is very honest about Randy’s struggles throughout his life, including alcohol abuse and more. “He’s always owned up to his shortcomings and failures, but he has always risen above them, too,” Mary says. “And he wants the reader to understand that there is mountains and valleys in life.”

Vince Gill is releasing a new album this summer. The singer is set to drop “Okie” on August 23rd, his first record since 2016’s “Down To My Last Bad Habit.”

“I thought this was going to be a songwriter record, not a concept album,” Vince says. “It wound up being more information than I’d envisioned.” He adds, “A friend sent me an email saying, ‘You could have only written this record after living a 60-year-plus life.’ He said, ‘There’s no struggle in these songs, just truth and your experience.”

Vince also released the first single from the record, the track “A Letter To My Mama.”

Luke Combs and girlfriend Nicole Hocking got engaged back in November, but so far they haven’t had time to make any plans for the big day.

“We’re just crazy busy. Especially this year,” Luke tells “People.” “We just haven’t had any time to sit back and be home for more than three or four days. And it’s just a really overwhelming process, doing what we do.”

Luke adds that he and Nicole are a little concerned about being “scrutinized,” since he’s such a public figure, but he’s still excited to start the planning.

“It’s an interesting process, but we’re looking forward to getting into it,” he shares. “We’ve got some time off later this year, for about six weeks, so I’m sure we’ll get into it then and get some things done.”

Alabama has added more shows to its current 50th Anniversary Tour. The latest additions include nearly 30 shows, hitting such cities as Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bangor, Maine, Tallahassee, Florida, and Ottawa.

The shows feature a variety of special guests on select dates, including Charlie Daniels Band, Marshall Tucker Band, John Anderson, Restless Heart, Exile, John Michael Montgomery, Scotty McCreery and Canadian artist Charlie Major.

“We are very fortunate to have made many friends over the last 50 years,” Teddy Gentry shares. “On this tour, we decided to ask some of them to come along and play with us. We have the best of the best. It’s a lot of fun to hang out and watch our special guests every night.”

Alabama’s 50th Anniversary tour hits Greenville, South Carolina tonight, and is now set to run through November 23rd in Salisbury, Maryland.

On Friday, May 31st, the group performs at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids.

THOMAS RHETT flew four military moms to Florida to help him put together care packages for active-duty service members.

They sat down for brunch and shared stories about what it’s like to be a mother of someone in the military.

Then he played audio messages from their kids where they wished them Happy Mother’s Day . . . and, you guessed it, they came walking out to surprise their moms.

There were tears and hugs and the soldiers pinned special “Mothers of the Military” medallions on them. Thomas shared the video on Instagram.

This is part of the Crown Royal Purple Bag Project. You can nominate your “Mother of the Military” or any “Deserving Mom” by hitting up CrownRoyal.com.