JOE NICHOLS TALKS ABOUT NEW MUSIC, ADDICTION AND HEALING IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW ON “CMT INSIDER” PREMIERING SATURDAY, JANUARY 26
01/23/08
NASHVILLE – January 23, 2008 – Joe Nichols speaks to CMT in an exclusive interview about his new album and the personal trials that inspired it when CMT INSIDER premieres the first of a two-part interview on Saturday, January 26 at 1:00-1:30 p.m., ET/PT. In his first television interview following a brief stay in rehab, Nichols speaks candidly with CMT about how addiction affected his life.
“I couldn’t think of anything to write, I couldn’t play anything… but this song kept repeating over and over in my mind. It’s the only song I could get through,” says Nichols of the Merle Haggard song “If I Could Only Fly,” which he recorded as a duet with Lee Ann Womack on his current album Real Things.
CMT’s weekly series CMT INSIDER, hosted by Katie Cook, gives viewers their fix of country music news plus hot topics from the entertainment world including the lifestyles of celebrities, legends and breaking country music events.
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