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Nicole’s Nashville News- August 11

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Nicole’s Nashville News- August 11

The Grand Ole Opry is continuing to hold it’s Saturday night during the pandemic. This weeks broadcast will mark the Opry’s 4,937 broadcast and will feature Luke Bryan and Darius Rucker.

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Old Dominion‘s Matthew Ramsey says the Meow Mix album was just a bunch of grown men making a joke. The guys went into the studio and replaced the lyrics to the songs on their self titled album with meows. They said their is no mystery, no temporary insanity, it’s just a joke. Matthew says if he happens to forget the actual lyrics when performing live, he can now replace them with meows.

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A group of up and coming country artists will be joining Willie Nelson for a special rendition of On The Road Again. All of the artists joining the country legend are nominated in the New Female and New Male artist at the 2020 ACM Awards. The song will be available on August 13 and proceeds will go to ACM Lifting Lives Covid 19 Response Fund.

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