{"id":9814,"date":"2019-09-11T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2019-09-11T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:04:57","slug":"9814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/09\/9814\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Stars Honour Earl Thomas Conley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pccPNms4Lpo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, John Anderson, Joe Diffie, Wade Hayes, and Neal McCoy were among the artists who gathered at a theatre inside Nashville&#8217;s Country Music Hall of Fame &amp; Museum on Tuesday, September 10th to pay tribute to the late Earl Thomas Conley.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton jumped at the chance to participate in Conley&#8217;s tribute celebration of life.<\/p>\n<p>He told reporters he broke down minutes after Conley&#8217;s wife, Carole, broke the news to him of his hero&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget &#8212; I was on my four-wheeler, and I just started crying, and I got on the phone with Gwen, and I said, &#8216;Man, I think I&#8217;m crying, I think I&#8217;m sad because I&#8217;m afraid nobody&#8217;s going to remember Earl.&#8217; This business can be pretty cold. That was my fear, and then with Earl not wanting a funeral it was like, man, you know, we&#8217;re not going to be able to do what we&#8217;re doing here today and so finally a few months later Carole texted me and said, &#8216;Hey, we&#8217;re looking at doing a memorial tribute thing for Earl,&#8217; and instantly I said, &#8216;Put me down for &#8220;What I&#8217;d Say.&#8221;&#8216;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2PxNjMBph0\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Conley died on April 10th at the age of 77 from complications of dementia.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here is the Earl Thomas Conley tribute lineup:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blake Shelton &#8211; &#8220;What I&#8217;d Say&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke Bryan &#8211; &#8220;Once In A Blue Moon&#8221;<br \/>\nDale Ann Bradley &#8211; &#8220;We Believe In Happy Endings&#8221;<br \/>\nWalt Aldridge &amp; Michael Pyle &#8211; &#8220;With You&#8221;<br \/>\nNeal McCoy &#8211; &#8220;Holding Here And Loving You&#8221;<br \/>\nJason Aldean &#8211; &#8220;Nobody Falls Like A Fool&#8221;<br \/>\nWade Hayes &amp; Joe Diffie &#8211; &#8220;Brotherly Love&#8221;<br \/>\nJohn Anderson &#8211; &#8220;Smokey Mountain Memories&#8221;<br \/>\nErinn Scates (Conley&#8217;s daughter) &#8211; &#8220;Too Far From The Heart of It All&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of country stars gathered at a theatre inside Nashville&#8217;s Country Music Hall of Fame &amp; Museum to pay tribute to the late Earl Thomas Conley.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,813,109,1247,330,29,1249,1248],"class_list":["post-9814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-earl-thomas-conley","tag-jason-aldean","tag-joe-diffie","tag-john-anderson","tag-luke-bryan","tag-neal-mccoy","tag-wade-hayes"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 18:08:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/09\/9814\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9817,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions\/9817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}