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Prayers up for Mrs. Dolly. Over the last year or so now, Dolly Parton has been dealing with some health issues. At the end of 2025, she had to cancel plans for a Las Vegas residency due to those health issues, which were reported to be complications from kidney stones. It became an even bigger story when her sister asking for “prayers,” leading many to think the health issues were more serious than Dolly was letting on, and this video Dolly shared makes me wonder if that was maybe the case. Dolly has said before she has issues with kidney stones, and her procedure was likely related to that, but in addition, she lost her husband of nearly 60 years at the beginning of 2025, so surely that has been weighing on her, and the woman deserves a break… I don’t think she has stopped working since she first set foot in Nashville at 18 years old. She did make an appearance at her new travel stop opening in June, but will also be absent from two forthcoming shows, the ACM Honors where she’s receiving the ACM Poet’s Award as well as the 2026 Americana Honors & Awards, where she’s receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. And today, it was announced that Dolly will miss the  unveiling event for Dollywood’s newest ride, NightFlight Expedition, which she was previously scheduled to attend, according to WATE. She will still take part in the grand opening festivities via a video message, which she will also do for the aforementioned two award shows. The “highly-anticipated NightFlight Expedition is a first-of-its-kind indoor adventure rollercoaster and white water hybrid ride that will take park guests on a five-and-a-half minute journey to discover a ‘secret lake’ that gives the Wildwood Tree in Wildwood Grove its glowing leaves.” The ride will open to the general public on August 19th, and: “At its highest elevation, guests will be taken up nearly three stories and reach speeds of up to 29 miles per hour while traveling through the weather-independent 44,000-square-foot facility. The ride includes four sections with NightFlight Expedition taking guests soaring over the Great Smoky Mountains, whitewater rafting through 500,000 gallons of surging water, climbing a mountain ridge, and navigating a mysterious shimmering lake by boat.” Oh, and it’s also Dollywood’s most expensive ride to date, costing a cool $50 million… so yeah, it sounds pretty incredible. It’s a ride Dolly announced herself a while back so it’s unfortunate that she won’t get to be there to take part in all of this in person, but of course, her health comes first. Hopefully she’s continuing to take care of herself and recover. Dolly’s forthcoming Broadway musical is set to debut in early 2027, and I’m sure she has plans to be in attendance for at least opening night, so it’s important that she take it easy so she can be back and better than ever whenever she’s ready. View this post on Instagram The post Dolly Parton To Miss Another Public Event Amid Ongoing Health Issues first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

I’m not sure there are many artists that would willingly turn down performing at the AFC Championship halftime show… but Kip Moore did it. Kip has built an entire career on being authentically himself and apologizing to no one for it. While it can be a polarizing character trait, a true “love it or hate it” situation, he really doesn’t give a s***. And that’s exactly what resonates with his uber-dedicated fan base. It’s a quality that certainly comes through in his music, and while, for the life of me, I can’t figure out why he has never been a massive mainstream success in the states, he is a huge deal overseas in places like South Africa and Australia, which is pretty dang cool. They’ve got taste, that’s for sure. And Kip has told many stories about things he’s turned down over the years due to the fact that it didn’t feel authentic to him. The infamous Pop-Tarts commercial story is a perfect example, declining to be on The B achelor is another, and during appearance on The Stephan Hogan Podcast, he told a story I’ve never heard before. He turned down another well-paying gig, one that’s not quite as embarrassing as Pop Tarts or dating reality TV…. playing the AFC Championship Halftime Show over ten years ago now. It was 2016 or so, when his career was really hot thanks to the success of Wild Ones and his debut record Up All Night, but it got to be too much when he was working seven days a week, not getting any sleep, and Kip admits he was in a “very dark place” as a result. So he decided to take some time for himself, and he told his manager not to book him for two months every winter: “2014, 15-ish, I was in the darkest mental state I’d ever been in. And it’s hard to explain to someone… you know, people just go, ‘Oh, you get to play music every night. There’s just, it’s so much more than that. Number one, the bus is nice, but it’s still a moving trailer going down the road. And I’ve always been a light sleeper, so I’m lucky, I’m getting 4 to 5 hours. And back then I was going through this extreme insomnia, where 48 would go go by, I wouldn’t even close my eyes. Like, literally wouldn’t close my eyes. It was like I couldn’t settle down. It was seven days a week, never sleeping and I truly felt like I was on the verge of like a psychiatric… I just suppressed all of it, you know, I wouldn’t talk to anybody about it. Come like 2016, I just called manager, I said, ‘Man, this is enough of this. I’m not doing this anymore, like, I’m having some really, really dark thoughts.’ And I just said, ‘You know, I love to surf. I wanna get good at it, and I’m gonna start bouncing every winter. So don’t book me.’ And he’s like, ‘Man, that’s awesome. We’ll talk about it.’ And I said, ‘We’re talking about it now. If you book a show, I won’t be there.’ And I’ll never forget, and I’ve told the store before maybe once or twice, but it’s true.” To this day, Kip spends most of his winter surfing in Hawaii, Costa Rica, California, and other popular surf spots. Of course, not long after that, Kip got a call while on vacation in Costa Rica, and it was his manager telling him they had a six-figure deal on the table for him to headline the AFC championship halftime show. But Kip realized in that moment that there would always be some sort of “carrot” dangling in front of him, and if he let money be his god, he would never be fulfilled: “I remember being in a café, the first time that I was taking time off in Costa Rica since everything is taken off in 2011 or 12. I remember sitting in this café, and I’d been there for two or three days. And I’d already surfed that morning, it was around 10 o’clock and I was having coffee and I got a call. It was my manager saying, ‘I know you said that you’re not coming home for two month, but we’ve got an offer to do the halftime show for the AFC championship.’ And I had that moment, because he also told me what the pay was, and it was the biggest payday that I’ve ever seen. It was a big six figure payday, and I had that moment of, what are you gonna do, Kip? Like, the carrot, it’s gonna always be in front of you. Are you gonna let money be your god, kind of thing. I had already made my mind up… I felt like something like this was gonna happen. And I spent maybe three seconds pondering, and I said ‘Yeah, the problem is, I’m having coffee right now.’ And you can feel the pause… ‘What do you mean? I said, ‘I’m having coffee, so I won’t be there.’ Hangs up. Two days later, same thing, I get a call, ‘They upped it 50.’ I said, ‘Yeah, that’s nice, but the problem is, is I’m in that same coffee shop having coffee again.’ And he hung up, and that was it.” It was a “pivotal moment” in his career, and he’s run it the same way ever since: “We were super close, we were good buddies, and he finally understood once we kinda had a talk about it after. I said, ‘Man, there’s always gonna be something, you know. If I don’t take this time for myself, I’m no good for nobody. Mainly myself. So that was that was a pivotal moment where I made my mind up of, I’m not gonna keep chasing the dragon.” Not only would it be hard to turn down that kind of money, but to turn down that kind of exposure for such a massive game, aside from the Super Bowl, the AFC and NFC championship games are the biggest NFL games of the year, and get insane ratings, so I have no doubt it would’ve been good for his career even without the massive payday factored in (which surely made it that much harder to turn down). But he stuck to his guns, so to speak, and it sounds like he’s never regretted it for a second… which only goes to show that he made the right decisions. I don’t think it’s one any other artist, or person for that matter, would make, but it speaks to his character and why he’s one of the most authentic mainstream country artists doing it right now. Check out the full podcast here: Kip Moore Tour Dates August 20 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center * August 21 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed * August 22 – Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill * September 10 – Charleston, SC – Firefly Distillery * September 11 – Charlotte, NC – Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre * September 12 – Richmond, VA – Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront * October 17 – Pretoria, ZA – SuperSport Park Stadium October 23 – Cape Town, ZA – GrandWest Arena October 24 – Cape Town, ZA – GrandWest Arena October 30 – Melbourne, AU – The Forum October 31 – Melbourne, AU – The Forum November 6 – Brisbane, AU – The Fortitude Music Hall November 7 – Brisbane, AU – The Fortitude Music Hall November 13 – Sydney, AU – The Enmore Theatre November 14 – Sydney, AU – The Enmore Theatre November 21 – Christchurch, NZ – Christchurch Town Hall November 22 – Auckland, NZ – Auckland Town Hall ^ – with Cody Johnson * – Billy Currington & Kip Moore: Live In Concert ** with Jackson Dean # – FestivalThe post “Are You Gonna Let Money Be Your God?”: Kip Moore Explains Why He Turned Down A Six-Figure Payday To Headline The AFC Championship Halftime Show first appeared on Whiskey Riff.