Baby boy for Maren Morris
Dixie Chicks album postponed
The long-awaited ‘comeback’ album from the Dixie Chicks has been
postponed to an “unannounced future date.” Titled Gaslighter, the album
was to be their first new studio release since 2006’s Taking The Long Way.
Whilst the Covid-19 situation is likely to be the main cause for the delay, the
album was also fulfilling the group’s contractual obligation with Sony, and
we’re not suggesting that this was the case here, but sometimes, if a single
doesn’t perform to a record label’s liking the label will delay or shelve an
album release altogether. Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer
had originally intended to record an album of covers just to get out of their
contract but Maines was motivated to write original songs following her
divorce from actor Adrian Pasdar, with the single and title track Gaslighter
directed right at her ex.
Congratulations to My Church singer Maren Morris and
husband Ryan Hurd on the birth of a baby boy. Taking to
social media to announce the birth Morris posted “Hayes
Andrew Hurd. 3/23/20. Love of our lives.” The 29-year-old
Highwomen member went on to say, “The irony is just too
rich that after a year of living in the ‘GIRL’ headspace, the
universe would give us a baby boy to even things out.”
Morris and Hurd married in 2018 and earlier in March,
while nine months pregnant, Morris performed at the Houston
Rodeo.
The MASKED SINGER
Blake Shelton - Some Mullet
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For Blake Shelton, one of the ways to get through lockdown
has been to live up to the promise he made to grow back the
mullet he sported back in the Austin and Some Beach, early
years of his career. Sharing pics with his locks being attended
to by girlfriend Gwen Stefani, the Voice coach looked as if
he might have some way to go to return to the full glory of the
iconic 90s hairstyle so popular in Nashville.
illie Nelson has signed bandana-design face masks to be auctioned
to help raise funds for more face masks to be made in the wake of
the coronavirus pandemic.
Made by Tanya Boike, a friend of Willie’s granddaughter and a nurse,
Monica Cabazos, to help their community, they had already sold more
than 500 masks. However, when Boike offered masks to Willie, and his
wife Annie D’Angelo, via granddaughter Noelle Ward, Willie suggested he
sign them and auction them to raise money towards making more. Ward
said that the help from her grandfather was just “who he is,” and with
prices for the masks around $1700 each at the time of writing on auction
site charityauctionstoday.com it should fund many more.
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