When It Rains … It’s Awful!

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Three titans of music gave their fans this week a year’s worth of emotions.

Another week of Dolly Parton proving she may be the greatest of all time.

She just released the track list for her “Rockstar album” looks like everyone she asked said yes! Who could get that done in six or so months? Only one person, Dolly Parton!

The great Dolly is a master of PR and marketing, and able to dissolve into the musical lane with any and everyone. I didn’t see Mick Jagger’s name on “Rockstar”… Maybe next time, Mick!

Dolly hosted with Garth Brooks at the ACM Awards streaming on Amazon Prime Video Thursday (5/11). Any guesses what the real audience numbers were for that? Not clicks, etc., real eyeballs watching the show!

Perhaps after the show streams on Prime, it could be aired the next day or weekend on network television. We are not in a streaming TV-only world yet.

Morgan Wallen’s Instagram this week may have been the saddest post I’ve ever seen a star do, telling the fans that he has re-injured his vocal cords and is going on six weeks of vocal rest. Millions of dollars’ worth of shows to be moved, and some festivals that they promised a future date for a year away.

The Vanderbilt Voice Clinic treating Wallen is great, and hopefully he will follow their directions 100%. He’s not the first to have to cancel due to voice problems. There have been too many to name.

To shut up the trolls online saying he’s in rehab, pictures will perhaps be needed showing Wallen typing messages on the screen or something. No one seemed more disappointed than Morgan.

Garth dealt with Nashville rain once, but last weekend seemed more epic. Anxiety over the approaching storms on Sunday afternoon, the hours of wait, then the famous rain show of Taylor Swift.

The weatherman blew this forecast all weekend … Friday and Saturday were great, Sunday was a disaster.

The sheltering in the concourses went from fun to miserable pretty fast. It was a no-win situation for Taylor’s people. The storm went from hail and rain to rain and rain. Did it ever stop raining? But she got on stage and never stopped singing from 10:13 p.m. until after 1 a.m., with wet, exhausted fans and Taylor still perky at midnight.

For many of the Sunday night fans, it was like losing all your money on the first day of a Vegas vacation. That was just the way it was.

The show is one of the greatest musical stadium spectacles ever attempted. It’s theater and music. It’s a musical. No one has done anything like this on this scale, right?

Love to see the books on what this show cost to put Swift’s “Eras Tour” on the road, and at what point does go into profit? The bigger question is that it’s a three-hour show. One of the great sayings of show business: leave the audience wanting more. Even for the biggest Beatle fans, “Get Back” was a bit long.

Taylor left nothing. She put it all out on the table. She even acted like rain is a good thing. She should get an Oscar! And there were supermodels, actors and rockers, a plenty on Friday and Saturday.

Sunday was not allowed to be a wash out. Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

Three unique entertainers: Dolly, Morgan and Taylor. Come on Morgan and Morgan’s team! Send that boy some sunshine and silence!