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Lady A Is Full of Hope Heading Into 2022

This year, Lady A got to hit the road and play for fans after a year and a half away from the road due to the pandemic. Both Charles Kelley…

Lady A Is Full of Hope Heading into 2022
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This year, Lady A got to hit the road and play for fans after a year and a half away from the road due to the pandemic. Both Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood shared with us their appreciation for getting back to business and their hopeful outlook for 2022.

Charles said, “I’m very hopeful. I mean, I think this was definitely a tough thing we all had to get through. But people are resilient, and hopefully, we’ve learned something from it, and maybe we can all try to go through with a little bit more empathy over the next little chapter of our lives."

Dave added, “And it gave me all the hope in the world for next year, how healing music is. I think it just gave me so much inspiration as we talk about 2022. I think seeing people have fun again, smile, laugh, cry, all of it during our shows this summer and fall was really life-giving and gave us a lot of hope for 2022.”

Kelley has been in the Christmas spirit and recently posted a video clip of the trio's "Wonderful Christmas Time." He wrote, "2 more weeks until Christmas 🎄🎅."

See that post HERE.

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.