The List for Friday, October 8th 2021

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Maren Morris says her inspiration to become a Country music singer started at home with her parents young listening to  Trisha Yearwood, Joe Diffie and Kenny Chesney. But, as she got older, “I became obsessed with Shania when she came out, and the Dixie Chicks and all those gals. They were incredibly inspiring to me and a young girl. So, that’s kinda were I started. It was just a lot of women influences.”

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Walker Hayes says he loves when people dance to his song ”Fancy Like”. ” I walk into a coffee shop and they’re doing the dance and they don’t even know it’s me. It’s pretty cool, artists and singers put products in songs all the time, we brought the Oreo shake back and that’s going to be cool.

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Country Now says Reba McEntire will not return as host of the CMA Awards. The show takes place on Wednesday, November 10th on ABC

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Orlando’s Shaka Donuts is celebrating Halloween with clowngram deliveries. An employee will dress as Pennywise from the IT movies before delivering a dozen donuts for $55. The company will not deliver to schools or banks. Pennywise will also take floating red balloons to each delivery location…yeah, that should work out…

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Hekili Holland is the “The Cheer Dad”  and his cheer routing has gone viral GMA reporting that his daughter is on the cheer squad and the moment was just to much to sit down for.  The video has been watched by almost three million people so far. You can check it out NOW at kixweb.com under the list. (click here)

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Pop singer Adele is on fire on the cover of this months Vogue Magazine. Adele’s getting ready to release new music for the first time since 2015 and is gracing the covers of not one, but TWO issues of Vogue. Marking her first interviews in five years, the 33-year-old “Someone Like You” singer fronts the November editions of both British and American Vogue.  You can read the article (HERE) on our website at kixweb.com

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