Country Music News 6 8 [AUDIO]

Forbes Magazine has published this years highest paid celebrities.

Anybody from Country music on that top 100.  You bet.

Earning 45.5 million in the last 12 months, at #62, Luke Bryan.
Forbes notes that Bryan would have earned even more money had he not been forced to postpone his Proud To Be Right Here Tour.  HE averages more than $1 million in every city on tour.   That’s a pretty good’s night work.  He also pulls down $12 million a year for his judging gig on American Idol.

At #70 on the list, Blake Shelton, earning an estimated $43.5 million over the last year. According to Forbes, Shelton had been earning slightly less than $1 million per night on tour prior to the pandemic, and he's had several hit singles in the last year, including his No. 1 hit duet with his girlfriend Gwen Stefani, "Nobody But You." He adds $13 million for his work as a coach on The Voice.

Carrie Underwood’s husband Mike Fisher turned the big 4-0 on Friday. She teased him about being 40, but reminded him it won’t be funny in 3 years when she turns 40.  She made him his favorite breakfast. Crock pot french toast. With a side of berries.  Hungry?
Willie Nelson has released a gorgeous new ballad called "Our Song" from his upcoming album, First Rose of Spring. Willie’s 70^th Studio album to be released July 3^rd.

The ballad was written by Chris Stapleton.

"In this time that I’ve been given / To fill my life with living / Yes, regrets, I've got a few / But, honey, none of them is you / And I need you / Like a singer needs a song."