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#CarlDean #CountryMusic #DollyParton #Marriage Beloved Country Music legend Dolly Parton has been married for over 50 years, and as she explains, it all started out with a very simple dinner. What's the secret to a 50-plus year marriage? Ask Dolly Parton. And you might be surprised: It's not about grand romantic gestures. "I've been married for 53 years come next May, and my husband and I have a great relationship," the 72-year-old country music legend told People magazine recently. "We've been together most of our lives." After Parton met Carl Thomas Dean at a Wishy Washy laundromat, the pair went on their first date. But he did not escort her to a big fancy restaurant. "He pulled up to the drive-in window and got our food at McDonald's," said Parton. "We know a few little places we can go without being bothered. He only likes to go places where he can be comfortable!" The pair married in 1966 and have remai...

#62ndAnnualGrammyAwards, #Grammys, #TanyaTucker, #CountryMusic,  It was a great night for her, but Tanya Tucker doesn't think the  Grammy Awards  showed country music the respect it deserves. The 61-year-old singer-songwriter said she was 'ticked' at how the award ceremony relegated all of its country awards to the pre-broadcast ceremony, according to  The New York Post . Despite being shuffled off the broadcast, she emerged triumphant with her first two Grammy wins in a nearly 50-year career. The singer sounded dispirited about having her genre barred from the televised production. 'We deserve to be on national television just like everybody else,' she said.  'Not because of me — it's just not right, and we need to change that. I love to sing all kinds of music but country music will always be my first love. That will always be my real b**** with the Grammys.' The otherwise triumphant night included a win for Best Country Al...

#DollyParton #IWillAlwaysLoveYou #PorterWagoner #CountryMusic Of all the legendary  songs Dolly Parton has written  in her illustrious career,  "I Will Always Love You"  remains one the most iconic. Dolly's version hit No. 1 on the charts twice in her career (when she first released the song in 1974, and again when she re-recorded it for her 1982 movie  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ). And of course, the ballad became popular once again when Whitney Houston recorded a version for the movie  The Bodyguard  in 1992. Perhaps the reason that "I Will Always Love You" has struck a chord with so many listeners through the years is that it has such strikingly simple, yet heartbreaking, lyrics. It's the straight-forward passion behind the words that make the song so timeless: If I should stay I would only be in your way And so I'll go, but I know I'll think of you each step of the way And I will always love you I will always love you And...

#LilNasXs #OldTownRoad #CountryMusic #BillboardCharts #Rapper Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X is the country-trap star who never was. His viral hit, “Old Town Road,” was removed last week from  Billboard ’s Hot Country Songs chart, after just one week there. But it remains on the Hot 100 chart and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. First came ire from Nashville types—“‘Old Town Road’ is no more country than the Beastie Boys’ ‘High Plains Drifter,’” wrote  Saving Country Music  on March 23—before  Billboard  put its boot down. “Upon further review, it was determined that ‘Old Town Road’ by Lil Nas X does not currently merit inclusion on Billboard’s country charts,”  Billboard  said in a statement to  Rolling Stone . “When determining genres, a few factors are examined, but first and foremost is musical composition. While ‘Old Town Road’ incorporates references to country and cowboy imagery, it does not embrace enough elements of today’s country m...

#LilNasXs #OldTownRoad  #CountryMusic #BillboardHot100 Do Billboard's country music charts have a race problem? That's what some people are alleging after the Billboard charts disqualified  Lil Nas X's song "Old Town Road" from the country charts for "not embracing enough elements of today’s country music." And in 2019, when the industry is supposed to be rewarding forward-thinking artists pushing their genres forward, the charts body's choice to police an arbitrary definition of country music at the expense of the rising artist is woefully misguided. The song, which rose to No. 32 on this week's Billboard Hot 100, is twangier than anything you’ll hear on rap radio, mixing banjos and trap beats as Lil Nas X raps about horses and cowboys before name-dropping Gucci and Porsches. Considering how Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s country-EDM hybrid “Meant to Be” ruled the country charts last year, “Old Town Road” seemed like another pote...