Thursday 9th January 2025
Welcome to The List,
Sara Evans had Martina McBride on her podcast recently and they both lamented at how hard it must be to break into the music industry nowadays. Sara says she feels bad for musicians, who now need, quote, “A million followers before a label will even look at them.” But on the other side of that music acts like Big & Rich release singles on their own without the marketing sometimes OF a major label
—–
Chris Hemsworth named one of his twin sons Tristan because of Brad Pitt’s character in “Legends of the Fall”. He says, quote, “There’s never been a more beautiful man on screen.” There are thousands of fans who would agree with him….
—–
Many of us have been late for things…meetings…lunches, an airline flight.. have you ever been chronically late? Say, as in ‘The Rock’ chronically late. Sources say It supposedly caused a temporary rift with Ryan Reynolds on the set of “Red Notice”, and how it’s added $250 million to the budget of his current film, “Red One”.
—–
Fans blasted Amazon for not livestreaming Morgan Wallen’s set at Stagecoach this past weekend, but it turns out Amazon had nothing to do with it. Morgan’s team said he has a “special project in the works for his fans” so he’s not releasing any livestreams right now.
You can catch The List, weekday afternoons at 4:20 with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1
Welcome to The List,
Here's some new country music you can go see live in 2025: Luke Combs and Megan Moroney will be headlining night one of Boston Calling in May . . . Bailey Zimmerman announced the New to Country Tour . . . and Jason Aldean and Brooks & Dunn will be doing a show at Fenway Park.
-----
Meghan Markle is excited about Prince Harry's new friendship with Jelly Roll. A source says, “She’s now had her eyes opened to what they could be missing out on. There’s a whole lot of money and power and opportunity to do some social climbing in Nashville and in the south, so why not take a swing at it?” I guess if Hollywood was a bust…..
-----
Diddy is allegedly furious because Luigi Mangione is more popular with inmates than he is. Diddy claims to be innocent of trafficking, but feels overshadowed by the alleged CEO killer.. Even in prison, Diddy’s ego is bigger than life. despite sharing the same legal team. They do not spend time together and the two really have zero in common.”…even Mangione is like…”Don’t put me anywhere near Diddy”...
-----
Movies that turn 50 this year include "Jaws", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Tommy", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"…”It’s just a flesh wound” if you know…you know…
You can catch The List, weekday afternoons at 4:20 with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1
Welcome to The List,
Speculation yesterday, confirmation today…. Zendaya and Tom Holland are engaged. Speculation began when Zendaya wore a diamond ring to the Golden Globes. Tom reportedly proposed between Christmas and New Year's.
-----
Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo recently added three miniature cows to their farm. They’re named Crunch, Brownie and S’more. But Jelly was feeling left out because everyone got an animal but him. So, then Bunnie got Jelly his very own DONKEY…named Griz…
-----
Riley Green had to go to the emergency room after impaling his foot on a nail while hunting. Green shared the incident on Instagram. Despite the mishap, he remained in good spirits and even received clearance to return to hunting shortly after being treated.
-----
RadarOnline says Travis Kelce is allegedly planning to live as a stay-at-home husband with Taylor Swift. An insider reveals, “He wants to be somewhere between a house husband, a mentor, and a manager. That's his dream: to get married to Taylor and hang up his boots.
You can catch The List, weekday afternoons at 4:20 with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1
