{"id":1317103,"date":"2019-12-04T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815025"},"modified":"2019-12-04T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:00:11","slug":"a-decade-of-lessons-what-i-learned-from-country-stars-in-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/a-decade-of-lessons-what-i-learned-from-country-stars-in-ten-years\/","title":{"rendered":"A DECADE OF LESSONS: What I Learned from Country Stars in Ten Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span>
\n42m ago<\/span>
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It has been a decade, y\u2019all. <\/p>\n

For the past ten years, I\u2019ve been making a living out of loving country music. Which means I\u2019ve spent those ten years (and then some) learning life lessons from the people who make it. And what a schooling it has been. I\u2019d always thought country artists were full of a special kind of wisdom, but now I know it for a fact. <\/p>\n

Whether they meant to or not, country stars taught me things I took to heart. <\/p>\n

This is by no means an exhaustive list of what I\u2019ve picked up backstage, on tour buses, in green rooms, or on the phone. It\u2019s more like an abridged version of the highlights, from Tim McGraw in 2009 and from Luke Bryan in 2019, and just about everyone else in between. <\/p>\n

2009 <\/em><\/p>\n

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