1. If you’re stumped for Christmas gift ideas, TheBoot.com has 15 of them. You might take a shine to Luke Combs’ Bootleggers Shot Glass . . . a CMA Ugly Christmas Sweatshirt . . . or, for those into hemp, Willie Nelson’s Willie’s Remedy Holiday Gift Bundle.
2. LITTLE BIG TOWN got some star power for their “Sugar Coat“ video. KATE BOSWORTH plays a ’60s housewife who picks up one cue after another that her husband is cheating. She eventually starts tossing his stuff out. “Sugar Coat” is on Little Big Town’s “Nightfall” album, which is out January 17th.
3. In an interview with “People“, DOLLY PARTON says she felt “God calling to her” to record spiritual music. And that call is making a difference. Her collaboration with King & Country on “God Only Knows” is up for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. She adds, quote “I’ve always felt like my music was more my ministry than a job.”