Knoxville Sports Authority officials proposing some design changes for Knoxville’s upcoming multi-use stadium at a meeting Tuesday morning.
Rising materials and labor costs have inspired the stadium changes. Among those are removing a second story of offices and retail space, downsizing the stadium’s club area, and reorganizing some field-level constructs. These changes won’t affect the stadium’s overall look, however, officials said.
This latest design proposal is likely to be the last, officials said and should be finalized around October. Site work is scheduled to begin in August- that will involve things like moving dirt, bringing in heavy equipment and closing roads.
Officials are also still confident the stadium will be complete in late 2024 or early 2025, with the first game hoped for April 2025.
Knoxville Police and Negiotiators along with the Special Operations Squad involved in an hours long standoff with an armed man who barricaded himself in a West Knoxville home.
The man, identified as 40 year-old Dusty Mink reportedly armed with knifes, barricaded himself into a home on Dance Avenue after KPD officers responded to Reagan Avenue, where it was reported that Mink was involved in an altercation with a neighbor.
Mink reportedly ran from officers and climbed onto the roof of a shed while armed with the knives then barricaded himself inside a bedroom in the home.
After several unsuccessful attempts to establish communication with Mink, SOS personnel began deploying gas irritants into the bedroom. Mink exited the home and was taken into custody without further incident after almost six hours.
Mink has 13 outstanding warrants on a variety of previous charges. He will be charged with aggravated assault and evading arrest from the initial incident that prompted police response.
Streaming now on Netflix is a new documentary about the life and career of country music superstar Shania Twain called Not Just A Girl.
Talking about the film about her life Shania says, “Filming a documentary about myself was pretty surreal and even more so during a pandemic! We started this whole thing in 2020 and did a lot of interviews and prep stuff over zoom, while trying to film as much as we could during the moments when the world opened up a little more and people were able to travel. All of that has resulted in Not Just A Girl… I hope you enjoy watching it.”
Along with the Netflix documentary Shania has also released a collection of music that accompanies the film with the compilation album, Not Just A Girl (The Highlights).
The music project features 17-tracks from Shania’s career, plus a brand new song that shares the title of documentary, “Not Just A Girl.”
Not Just a Girl (The Highlights) track list: 1 “Not Just A Girl” 2 “You’re Still The One” 3 “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” 4 “What Made You Say That” (Single Version) 5 “(If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here!” 6 “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” 7 “Any Man Of Mine” 8 “You Win My Love” 9 “Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)” 10 “I’m Holdin’ On To Love (To Save My Life)” 11 “From This Moment On” 12 “Love Gets Me Every Time” 13 “That Don’t Impress Me Much” 14 “Forever And For Always” (Red Version) 15 “Honey, I’m Home” 16 “I’m Gonna Getcha Good!” (Red Version) 17 “Up!” (Green Version) 18 “Life’s About To Get Good”
Shania is set to receive receive the ACM Poet’s Award, which is given to a Country Music songwriter for outstanding and longstanding musical and/or lyrical contributions throughout their career, during the ACM Honors Ceremony taking place August 24th in Nashville.
Shania shares, “Music has been a part of my survival. Music was my escape, it inspired and encouraged me to stay strong and to keep my head up. My biggest achievement is being able to encourage and inspire others with my music.”
Not Just A Girl – the documentary is streaming now on Netflix, and the collection of songs Not Just A Girl (The Highlights) is available whenever you go for your music.
Brett Eldredge’s current single at country radio is the title track from his recently released album, Songs About You.
“Songs About You” is the name of Brett’s album, single…and his tour – which continues this weekend with shows in San Diego, Costa Mesa, and Indio, California.
One of the toughest things of being on tour is managing the food you eat. Brett shares the precautions he’s taken to try and limit the “bad food” while out on tour, “You know there are temptations on the road of pizza showing up and I kind of made a rule that pizza can’t come on the bus cause I don’t want to be tempted by it and stuff like that. I try to keep most of the bus to stocked with only healthy stuff…as much as possible”
If you’re going to any of the shows on Brett’s tour, you can help him pick the songs he’s going to sing!
Let him know what song you want to hear live by just clicking HERE.
Share which show you’re coming to, and submit your song request.
A lot of fans will be wanting to hear this one from Brett Eldredge – it’s the title track to his latest album, and his current single at country radio – “Songs About You.”
On July 26th 2005 Jason Aldean released his self-titled debut album – and the rest is country music history.
The album features 11-tracks – including the three radio singles, “Hicktown,” “Amarillo Sky,” and “Why” – the first of his 25 number-1 songs on the Billboard country chart.
Jason says “17 years ago today I released my first album. I had no clue how much my life would forever change after that. I can never thank y’all enough for the life you have given to me and my family. I am forever grateful!”
Aldean latest project is his 10th album – which was actually a double album called Macon Georgia.
Georgia includes Jason’s current single at country radio, “That’s What Tequila Does.”
First album, latest album, and everything in between is what fans are getting treated to on Jason’s Rock N’ Roll Cowboy tour.
This weekend the tour stops in Charlotte, Virginia Beach, and York, PA.
Fans will be looking to hear this classic Jason Aldean hit live and in person – “Amarillo Sky.”
Alan Jackson took to social media to announce that he’s going to be a grandfather!
The country legend posted “Our baby is having a baby. Denise and I can’t wait to meet our first grandson in December!”
Jackson’s middle daughter Ali is the expecting mom, as she and husband Sam await the arrival of their first child later this year.
When his grandson arrives we know that Alan will be toasting the event with his recently announced signature whiskey Silverbelly – which takes its name from Jackson’s signature cowboy hat – though many may think it’s white, the color is technically “silverbelly.”
AJ is also still out on the road playing dates on his Last Call: One More For The Road tour
Stops on the tour this week include St. Paul and Grand Forks.
Fans will be sending messages of congratulations to Grandpa Jackson as he’s singing the song he wrote as a tribute to his own father, “Drive (For Daddy Gene).”
Dan + Shay’s single at country radio right now is “You” – the latest release from their 2021 album, “Good Things.”
Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney have spent their summer out on the road with Kenny Chesney’s Here And Now 2022 tour playing stadium’s all over the country.
While Dan + Shay have been on the road touring for a decade now, Shay admits that they have learned a thing or two from their time with Kenny. “I think the biggest thing that I’ve kind of been watching and we’ve probably learned from him is just how to really treat your crew. He does it at such an amazing level it’s just unbelievable…he takes everybody at the very end of the tour…I think they fly to the Caribbean and go on a vacation for like 2 weeks immediately after the last show. He just takes really good care of them”
Shay adds, “I think just watching him we’ve definitely learned a lot from that but even on stage he’s such a great performer. Just watching him…how he interacts with the crowd and really reaches to the very back, top you know person at the very end of the stadium and it’s just an incredible thing to watch and we’ve definitely learned a lot from him.”
Dan + Shay are in Denver this weekend with Kenny, Old Dominion and Carly Pearce as the Here And Now 2022 tour stops at Empower Field at Mile High on Saturday.
Check out the lyric video for Dan + Shay’s single “You” right here…
When it comes to making the video for the track, The Voice alum says, “This video shoot was probably the most fun we’ve had on set!”
Casi also made the video a family affair, “I think my favorite part of the video is that my mom, dad, husband, brother, nieces, nephew, and one of my best friends are in the video! It made it so fun to have them there with me especially since I needed kids to yell at on the rink!”
But making the video for “Everything’s Fine” wasn’t all fine, “The scariest scene to shoot, however, was the vacuum biting the dust! We only had one chance to have the powder explode in my face, so everything had to be perfect on the first try.”
And it was, but Joy adds, “I think I still have baby powder in my eyeballs, but it was so worth it!”
Check out the behind the scenes fun on the video shoot for “Everything’s Fine” here…
Now that you’ve seen how it was made, watch the official music video for Casi Joy’s “Everything’s Fine” here.
