{"id":1305971,"date":"2019-03-18T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804052"},"modified":"2019-03-18T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T21:50:09","slug":"five-at-five-george-strait-breaks-his-houston-rodeo-record-eric-churchs-live-dale-earnhardt-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/five-at-five-george-strait-breaks-his-houston-rodeo-record-eric-churchs-live-dale-earnhardt-salute\/","title":{"rendered":"Five at Five: George Strait Breaks His Houston Rodeo Record + Eric Church\u2019s Live Dale Earnhardt Salute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:667149?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">2m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Give us a minute, and we\u2019ll give you five things to know in country music. It\u2019s your new favorite fix for all the latest news headlines in one place. Here\u2019s what you need to know for Monday (March 18):<\/p>\n<ul class=\"listicle-container\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">George Strait Bests Himself at Houston Rodeo<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Strait\u2019s NRG Stadium concert at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo on Sunday (March 17) made history by attracting 80,108 fans. The total bests his previous Houston Rodeo attendance record set in 2013 with 80,020 concertgoers. Sunday night\u2019s hit-heavy set included a performance of his latest single, \u201cEvery Little Honky Tonk Bar,\u201d and a live collaboration with his grandson, Harvey, on \u201cGod and Country Music.\u201d Both are from <em>Honky Tonk Time Machine<\/em>, which lands March 29.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">The Alleged Con Man Behind Rascal Flatts Restaurants<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Remember Rascal Flatts\u2019 post disassociating ties with the development of a restaurant chain bearing its name? New investigative journalism by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/in-depth\/news\/local\/arizona-investigations\/2019\/03\/13\/mafia-frank-capri-behind-rascal-flatts-toby-keith-restaurant-failures\/2337607002\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arizona Republic<\/em><\/a> has uncovered that Frank Capri, an alleged con man with possible mafia ties, is the reason behind the restaurant chain\u2019s demise. Capri also worked on Toby Keith\u2019s I Love This Bar restaurants. According to the paper, the reporting was part of a three-year investigation of restaurant development projects gone awry from California to Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">Eric Church\u2019s Live Dale Earnhardt Salute<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Over the weekend, Church scored big with fans in his home state when his Double Down Tour staged two nights at North Carolina\u2019s Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was there for one of the shows and appreciated Church\u2019s live dedication of \u201cTalladega\u201d to his late father, racecar-driving legend, Dale Earnhardt. The Double Down Tour hits Chicago and Milwaukee next.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">NFL Draft Adds Free Tim McGraw Concert<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Selection activities at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitmusiccity.com\/nfldraft\/nfl-draft-mcgraw-winans\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2019 NFL Draft<\/a> on April 26 in downtown Nashville will wrap with a free McGraw concert at the Draft Main Stage. Grammy-winning Gospel artist Cece Winans will sing the National Anthem. Free activities for the NFL Draft will run April 25-27 on Lower Broadway and the area outside Nissan Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">Dylan Scott and Wife Blair Expecting Baby No. 2<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p>Congratulations to expectant parents, Scott and his wife Blair, who is pregnant with the couple\u2019s second child. They welcomed their first child, a son they named Beckett Scott Robinson, on Dec. 12, 2017. The couple, who have known one another since seventh grade, celebrate their third wedding anniversary in May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1804052\/five-at-five-george-strait-breaks-his-houston-rodeo-record-eric-churchs-live-dale-earnhardt-salute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 2m ago Give us a minute, and we\u2019ll give you five things to know in country music. It\u2019s your new favorite fix for all the latest news headlines in one place. Here\u2019s what you need to know for Monday (March 18): George Strait Bests Himself at Houston Rodeo Strait\u2019s NRG Stadium concert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1305971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 22:58:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}