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Gloriana will be featured on the May 21 episode of ABC’s The Bachelorette. They will perform a surprise concert in Charlotte, North Carolina during a unique one-on-one date with the newest Bachelorette, Emily Maynard. Emily is the first single mom to star on the series and captured America’s heart on the 15^th season of The Bachelor.

“I’m a huge fan of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette,” Rachel Reinert said. “I watched Emily when she was a contestant on The Bachelor and I was an instant fan of hers, so hearing that she is a fan of our band was a wonderful surprise! I’m excited to watch the new season, and I’m even more excited that we got to be a part of it.”

Fans can catch the trio’s episode on May 21 at 8/7 CT on ABC. Their latest single, “(Kissed You) Good Night,” is in the Top 20 on the Billboard Country Charts and is the fastest rising single of their career. Their new album, A Thousand Miles, is expected later this year.

Gloriana isn’t the only country act getting in on The Bachelorette fun this season. Luke Bryan and Dolly Parton will also make appearances on the show.

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The recent use of the
so-called Tupac Hologram to seemingly bring him back to life has stirred up much discussion. Seeing the late artist “performing”
again onstage at the Coachella festival in California has caused much speculation on the increasing practice of bringing back
dead superstars to record duets or to perform again. There has been talk that the resurrected Tupac Shakur might even go on
tour again, through the wonders of new technology.

The Tupac illusion, however, was not a true hologram. It was a 2-D
illusion, a holographic projection, rather than a true free-floating hologram. The much-talked-about upcoming London appearance
onstage by Queen’s late lead singer Freddie Mercury in the long-running musical We Will Rock You will use what Queen
guitarist Brian May calls an “optical illusion.” So there still isn’t a true 3-D musical hologram.

You could always
do what the group Journey did in replacing a departed (but very much alive and well) lead singer with a sound-alike. At least
it appears that the band haven’t attempted to have any plastic work done on replacement singer Arnel Pineda to make him resemble
Steve Perry.

Or you could emulate the great Keith Richards, whom many have accused of being one of the walking dead
for years. It appears he will outlive everyone.

The Elvis in Concert
tour has been packing in huge crowds, especially in Europe. Mainly because Elvis never performed outside the United States
(except for five Canadian dates in 1957). Why? His manager Tom Parker was an illegal alien and was afraid of leaving the U.S.
and perhaps not being readmitted to this country. The current “concert” consists of stage footage of Elvis performing, with
all the backing musicians and singers stripped from the footage. Instead, Elvis on-screen is now accompanied in the theater
by an orchestra and by such Presley band members as James Burton and Ronnie
Tutt. It is said to be a very tasteful and fitting musical tribute.

But is it necessary? Where do the profits go? Does
Elvis ever rest well? Did he sign a living will, insofar as to the disposition of his video likenesses and performances and
use of his vocals?

The large Elvis song catalog has lent itself to many half-dead, half-living duets. He did an entire
Christmas album with living country artists such as Carrie Underwood
and Martina McBride. Elvis’ sturdy bones have turned him into the dependable
pack mule of the dead. Besides a number of country Christmas duets and other projects, Elvis was joined by his daughter Lisa
Marie for “In the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry Daddy.”

Country music has been fond of putting current artists together with
now-dead singers but mostly only in audio recordings. Of course, these days ,you generally get a better class of music from
the dead than from the living.

The 1989 video duet of Hank Williams
Sr. with Hank Jr. on “There’s a Tear in My Beer” was a landmark
for the genre. Unfortunately for Hank fans, he left very little else in the way of performance footage. The Hank Jr. thing
was, of course, patched together long after Hank’s death. He performed a duet with Anita Carter in 1952 on “I Can’t Help It
(If I’m Still in Love With You)” on Kate Smith’s TV show, and that video clip is still available.

One bizarre country
extreme was a duet with two dead country stars singing together: Patsy Cline
doing “I Fall to Pieces” with Jim Reeves, for a 1982 tribute album honoring
both artists who had been killed years before in plane crashes.

The late Reeves also did three duets with the living
Deborah Allen. And Cline’s voice was patched into the album Duets,
pairing her with such artists as Willie Nelson, John
Berry, Mila Mason and Bob Carlisle. She also recorded several video duets on the TV show Ozark Jubilee, but the
clips are not readily available. Her duet partners included Red Foley, Ferlin Husky and Cowboy Copas.
The late Keith Whitley recorded “Till a Tear Becomes a Rose/Lady’s Choice”
with his widow Lorrie Morgan. And the late Roger
Miller recorded “Old Toy Trains” with his son Dean. The older Miller had written the song as a Christmas gift for the
then-infant Dean.

The dead Tupac recorded in an unlikely pairing with the Notorious B.I.G.

The late John Lennon
rejoined the Beatles briefly for “Free as a Bird/Christmas Time (Is Here Again),” as well as for the single “Real Love.” Nat
King Cole recorded a duet with his daughter Natalie on the song “Unforgettable.” Death didn’t keep the late Jim Morrison from
recording an album of poems and spoken word snippets with his group the Doors.

The dead Frank Sinatra sang with Tony
Bennett, Luther Vandross, Carly Simon, Celine, Barbra Streisand and a host of other pop singers. And there have been many
other such examples.

There has also been some dark speculation about actually cloning a superstar or two, through use
of their DNA. I suspect that the music industry would stop at nothing to get the big money-makers back on the road.

Thinking
about this subject reminded me of a short story, “The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs. Published in 1902, “The Monkey’s Paw”
has had a fairly long life.

Not to give the story away, the plot is a simple one. An elderly couple and their son come
into possession of a monkey’s paw, which will grant them three wishes. What those wishes are, and how they come to be granted,
make this a deadly effective horror story. Just imagine the agony of a dead soul slowly and painfully burrowing up out of
the coffin and then beginning the agonizing crawl for miles to get to … ? The theme of the story, not surprisingly, is about
bringing the dead back to life. And about the unknown consequences of that.

The story has been anthologized dozens
of times, made into plays and movies and parodied on The Simpsons. It also was an inspiration for Stephen King’s Pet
Sematary.

Elvis and Hank, and all the other late artists, now pretty much fit the classic definition of the zombie:
a dead person brought sufficiently back to life to be a passive slave worker for its master.

In zombie state, dead
artists are the perfect workers. They demand nothing, they have no expenses, they expect no payment and they deliver exactly
the same performance onstage every night. And, importantly, they cause no trouble for their masters. Elvis can’t shoot the
TVs in his hotel rooms anymore. Hank doesn’t OD anymore.

Personally, I think it’s creepy and unseemly to try to haul
dead people out on the road or to “record” duets with the living, to line the pockets of who knows who. Call it a tribute
all you want. I still think it’s exploitation of the dead — who, after all, have no defenders. Let them rest. I have always
felt Elvis had a pretty bad time of it in his unhappy life. Allow him to rest quietly in peace there in the serenity of the
Meditation Garden at Graceland.

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Singer-songwriter Donna Summer, best known for ’70s hits such as “Last
Dance,” “Hot Stuff” and “I Feel Love,” died Thursday (May 17) in Florida at age 63 following a battle with cancer.

Although
regarded as the Queen of Disco, she and husband Bruce Sudano also wrote “Starting Over Again,” a divorce ballad recorded by
Dolly Parton that reached No. 1 on Billboard‘s country songs chart
in 1980. Reba McEntire’s version of the song peaked at No. 19 on the
country chart in 1996.

Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines in Boston, Summer joined the cast of German production of the musical
Hair in 1967 at age 18. Working with producers-songwriters Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, she recorded her debut
album in Munich in 1974 and scored an international hit the following year with the disco anthem, “Love to Love You Baby.”

“I
can’t believe we’ve lost another wonderful singer,” Parton said in a written statement. “Donna, like Whitney [Houston], had
one of the greatest voices ever. I loved her records. She was the disco queen and will remain so. I knew her and found her
to be one of the most likable and fun people ever. She will be missed and remembered.”

Summer and Sudano moved to
the Nashville area in 1995.

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The
trio played a private show at the KFC Yum! Center for the juniors and seniors of Henryville High School, then opened the arena
for a public concert. Louisville is located approximately 22 miles south of Henryville, a community of about 1,900 people.

“This
event started as an idea we had in the studio last year to crash someone’s prom,” Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott said. “We
had no idea at the time it would fill such a need. We are amazed by the support we’ve gotten from our fans, sponsors and the
press. This is one of the proudest moments in our career.”

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Edens Edge photo courtesy of Big Machine Records.

Edens Edge spends a lot of time traveling around the country, but band member Dean Berner says one of the things on his personal bucket list is to travel even more. “I want to see a lot more of the world,” he said. “Music is amazing, because already we’ve gotten to see so much of our country here.”

Dean enjoys going to different cities and seeing how each place has its own unique flavor. While he loves traveling around the United States, he hopes to do some international traveling as well. He also wants to go skydiving, which is news to his band mates. “I never knew that about you Dean,” Hannah Blaylock said. “Learn something new every day.”

Edens Edge will spend plenty of time traveling this summer when they join Rascal Flatts on their Changed Tour, which kicks off June 15. They will release their self-titled debut album containing their debut hit, “Amen” and their current single, “Too Good to Be True,” on June 12.

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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and
out of the spotlight.)

Carrie Underwood loves Keith
Urban‘s music. And, really, who doesn’t? But still, it’s pretty cool to hear an artist of her caliber talk about Urban
the way she does in an interview
with an Australian website. “He’s obviously insanely talented,” she says. No argument here. And then she says, “He’s such
a cornerstone of country music, and you all should be very proud to claim him as your own.” She also said that while she is
Australia in June, she’s going to try to see the zoo in Sydney. Meanwhile, Underwood’s legs are beating actress Emma Robert’s
legs by 83 percent in VH1.com’s
celebrity short-shorts edition. In jean shorts and gold sandals, she makes traveling through the Toronto airport look
so good.

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Who is this Ed Sheeran, anyway? Allow me to dig a little deeper into this man Taylor
Swift has been writing songs with. Here’s what I know: He’s 21. He learned guitar when he was young(er). He is a songwriter
and a singer. He has millions of Twitter followers. And he’s into cats, per his
Tumblr. Basically, Ed Sheeran is the Boy Taylor Swift. (Except he’s British, so make that the British Boy Taylor Swift.)
And the only reason I know they’ve been writing together is that they simultaneously tweeted about their session. “In and
out burger, defacing guitars and writing music with @taylorswift13 ,” wrote Sheeran.
And that same day — Tuesday (May 15) — Swift corroborated his story by tweeting,
“Eating cheeseburgers, scribbling on guitars, writing songs with @edsheeran. ” The two music phenoms seem to have so much
in common, I’m sure their songs practically wrote themselves. Unless that was what they were writing on their guitars. In
which case they probably ran out of room after the second verse.

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Pullin was wanted in Montgomery County on several felony sex offender warrants. He had jumped bond in Montgomery County and was believed to be hiding in Huntsville. Officers found Pullin, who was unarmed, hiding in the attic of the local residence when they apprehended him. Once cornered, he did not resist arrest. No one else was in the house during the standoff.

Harvey’s suit claimed the City was negligent in removing stop signs on the street. Harvey said she was not aware of the change at the time.

City attorneys argued that the charges be dismissed based on sovereign immunity, which means cities cannot be sued for their legislative decisions. Judge Keeling agreed and dismissed the suit.

Ms. Harvey spent 8 days in Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston suffering from multiple injuries, which included two fractures to her pelvis, a fractured vertebrae, 3 rib fractures, and a bruised lung.