Grand Ole Opry

Giving listeners a vulnerable look into her lived experience, the 63-year-old was the first openly gay artist to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.

As the Grand Ole Opry marked 100 years Wednesday night, Reba McEntire said what many people may have been thinking: The party wasn’t the same without Dolly Parton throwing down.

Venues across the city will host special event screenings including Coyote Ugly at the Grand Ole Opry and Muriel's Wedding and The Craft at Cottiers in the west end.

Ahead of the album’s release, he dropped six singles including “Sober” — in which the Grand Ole Opry member speaks about his struggle with sobriety in an industry that he said “glorifies drinking and other kinds of debauchery.”

That would include Linda Martell, the first Black woman to play the Grand Ole Opry, who said she left country in 1974 because she was sidelined in favor of white artists.