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Steven Gaydos Executive VP of ContentNearly 50 years after his passing, 2022 Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Lefty Frizzell remains one of the indisputable pillars of country music. His influence on another country music giant, the late Merle Haggard, is both profound and clear to anyone with ears. Haggard’s vocal style developed in the 1950s when Frizzell’s impact was at its peak.

The sex assault trial of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard is set to begin in May after it was postponed multiple times due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming Fox country music drama “Monarch” has cast its final two series regulars.Martha Higareda and Emma Milani have both joined the series alongside previously announced cast members Beth Ditto, Trace Adkins, Susan Sarandon, Anna Friel, Joshua Sasse, Meagan Holder, and Inigo Pascual.The series follows America’s “first family” of country music, including mother Dottie Cantrell Roman (Sarandon), father Albie Roman (Adkins) and daughters Gigi Taylor-Roman (Ditto) and

Martha Higareda (Into The Dark: Culture Shock, Altered Carbon) and Emma Milani (Solve) have joined the lead cast of Fox’s upcoming musical drama Monarch. They will appear alongside Susan Sarandon, Albie Roman, Anna Friel, Trace Adkins and Beth Ditto.

FX comedy “Breeders,” which will return next year for a third season, created “Back to Life” and co-writes each episode with Laura Solon (they met when Haggard starred in the BBC Three sketch-comedy series “Man Stroke Woman”). She said the original idea for the series was generated by a combination of factors.“It’s quite a big mixture,” she said.

If you thought you were a Harry Potter fan you might want to think again, because it seems One Direction star Liam Payne is about to steal your thunder.The 27 year is clearly a huge fan of the wizarding world as it seems the singer has turned his back garden into a mini-Hogwarts. Yes, you heard right, the word on the street is that Liam has built a massive replica of Hagrid’s hut in his back garden and it sounds pretty cool.

© Bang Showbiz Liam Payne The One Direction star is a self-confessed fan of the magical movie franchise - which is based on the series of books by J.K. Rowling - and has even gone as far as to have a special hut built in the back garden of his sprawling home, which has been decorated to look exactly like the hut Hagrid lives in in the movies.

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Morgan Freeman just got even cooler.