Country Music Star Sturgill Simpson Has Coronavirus, Shares Story Of TERRIBLE Experience With Doctors Who Refused To Test Him!

Two Toronto-area country music festivals are the latest victims of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just a few weeks after streams of country music hit a record high week, the genre has blasted to yet another new record. In the week ending April 23, on-demand audio streams of country songs tota

Two Toronto-area country music festivals are the latest victims of the COVID-19 pandemic.

They were associated early in their career with Johnny Cash — and decades later, loosely, with Quentin Tarantino, after he repopularized "Flowers on the Wall" by including it in "Pulp Fiction."

Country music streaming hit a historic new high in the U.S., with a record 1.244 billion on-demand audio streams of songs in the genre in the week ending April 9, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. That blows past the previous single-week high-water mark, set just earlier this year, when 1.201 billion audio clicks occurred in the week ending March 5.Further, overall country song streams (combining on-demand audio and video streams) jumped to 1.389 billion in the week ending April 9.

Country singer Sturgill Simpson revealed that he tested positive for COVID-19 and criticized doctors and the government’s response after he struggled to get tested for a month. The 41-year-old country singer recently returned from a European tour that took place in January and February.The remainder of his tour was called off March 12 due to the pandemic.

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Sturgill Simspon has tested positive for COVID-19, as the singer revealed via a post to his Instagram account earlier today. Simpson said he first sought medical attention on March 13, when he began to experience “chest pains, fever, and pre-stroke blood pressure levels,” but was unable to be tested for coronavirus until April 6. He says he received the results from the Nashville CDC on April 10.

The musician says he attempted to receive testing for symptoms a month ago

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Jennifer Stone is headed to the frontlines of the coronavirus fight as a registered nurse.

Joan Sebastian would have turned 69 Wednesday (April 8). The Mexican singer and writer of achingly beautiful songs -- who landed 42 Hot Latin Songs hits -- died July 12, 2015, at his ranch in Juliantla, Mexico, after a 13-year battle with bone cancer.

He was hospitalised last month

There's nothing like the healing power of music. Country music's biggest stars are joining the masses in practicing social distancing and staying at home in response to the Coronavirus.

Country music stars will come together on Sunday with acoustic performances recorded from their homes for a televised special that will replace the annual Academy of Country Music Awards, which were canceled due to the global coronavirus outbreak.

Caroline Lunny has coronavirus.

Nearly two weeks after revealing he tested positive for Covid-19, “The Bachelor” star Colton Underwood is well on the road to recovery.