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My brother, my brother.

You are my brother, you are my family And it seems like only yesterday, we were running wild and free Down the corner buying candy, or messin’ ’round in the neighborhood Hanging out with you night and day, it was good, so good

Lately I’ve heard you’ve got the weight of the world on your shoulder Times have been rough, I can’t turn the other way

My brother, my brother, whatcha gonna do? My brother, my brother, here to help you Tell me your sorrows, tell me your fears My brother, my brother, I’ll always be here

I know that we are different, and we’ve gone our separate way But we’ve got to learn to accept each other, for who we are today I know it won’t be easy, but we both have got to try To hold onto each other, until the day we die

Nobody knows you quite the way that I do And if you’re in trouble, come to me, come to me

Whatcha gonna do? I’m here to help you Tell me

We got the same blood running through our veins, my brother Father is the Heaven, mother is the grave We gotta look out for each other, my brother Yeah, that’s what we gotta do

Tell me My brother, my brother, whatcha gonna do? My brother, my brother, here to help you Tell me your sorrows, tell me your fears My brother, my brother, I’ll always be here

Don’t Take Away My Heaven

Oh, baby, I found heaven when I found you And this heaven is somethin’ I don’t wanna lose I only know that if you ever said goodbye, I couldn’t stand the pain These eyes would cry, cry, cry like the rain

And the sun would have nowhere to shine And the stars would all fall from the sky Baby, please Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

‘Cause this world would stop turnin’, I know And I’d lose my whole world if you go Baby, don’t Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

Oh, baby, I saw forever when I saw you And if you left me, I can’t imagine what I’d do Now that I’ve gone and built my world around your love, I couldn’t let you go Don’t ever say goodbye, no, don’t, don’t, don’t ever go

‘Cause the sun would have nowhere to shine And the stars would all fall from the sky Baby, please Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

‘Cause this world would stop turnin’, I know (Yes, I know) And I’d lose my whole world if you go (If you go) Baby, please Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

‘Cause you might as well take my life from me What good would a life without you be anyway (Anyway) If you go away

Well, the sun would have nowhere to shine And the stars would all fall from the sky (From the sky) Baby, please Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

‘Cause this world would stop turnin’, I know (Yes, I know) And I’d lose my whole world if you go (If you go) Baby, don’t, no Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

Don’t take away my heaven, don’t take away your love Don’t take away my world ’cause baby, I need your touch Baby, don’t Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

Please don’t take away my heaven Please Baby, don’t, oh, no Don’t take away my heaven, oh…

Don’t take away my heaven, don’t take away your love Don’t take away my world ’cause baby, I need your touch Baby, don’t, oh Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

I Owe You One

There’s a chill in the evening air Carries me back to some place where I thought I’d lost my way forever Every dream and every plan Every last chance slipped through my hand And you smiled at me and it was over Holding you tonight Hold on tight I try to say it right And I guess sometimes the words don’t come And I wish I told you how you changed my life And saved me with your love I hope when all is said and done You know I owe you one Walk me down those streets again Stop me right at the moment when You stood there talking to a stranger Tell me how you looked at me And knew the very best that I could be How did you see this happy ending

Standing by your side I’m still surprised I try to say it right But I guess sometimes the words don’t come And I wish I’d told you how you changed my life And saved me with your love I hope when all is said and done You know I owe you one One for life and one for love And all you’ve given me For the dreams you made me dream again And all that we can be Holding you tonight, holding you tonight Hold on tight I try to say it right I guess sometimes the words don’t come And I wish I’d told you how you changed my life And saved me with your love I hope when all is said and done You know I owe you one

Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight

Just a minute ‘fore you leave girl Just a minute ‘fore you touch the door What is it that you’re trying to achieve girl Do you think we can talk about it some more You know the streets are filled with vipers Who’ve lost all ray of hope You know it ain’t even safe no more In the palace of the pope

Don’t fall apart on me tonight I just don’t think that I could handle it Don’t fall apart on me tonight Yesterday is just a memory Tomorrow’s never what it’s suppose to be And I need you

Come over here from over there girl Sit down here you can have my chair I can’t see you going anywhere girl The only place open is a thousand miles away And I can’t take you there

Oh, I wish I’d a been a doctor Maybe I’d a saved some lives that’ve been lost Maybe I’d a done some good in this world Instead of burning every bridge I crossed

(Don’t fall apart on me tonight) Don’t fall apart on me tonight

Don’t fall apart on me tonight

Betcha by Golly, Wow

There’s a spark of magic in your eyes Candyland appears each time you smile Never thought that fairy tales come true But they come true, when I’m near you

You’re a genie in disguise Full of wonder and surprise, and

Betcha by golly, wow You’re the one that I’ve been waiting for, forever And ever will my love for you keep growing strong Keep growing strong

If I could, I’d catch a falling star To shine on you So I’ll know where you are All the rainbows in your favorite shades To show I love you, thinking of you

Write your name across the sky Anything you ask, I’ll try

‘Cause betcha by golly, wow You’re the one that I’ve been waiting for, forever And ever will my love for you, keep growing strong Keep growing strong

Betcha by golly, wow You’re the one that I’ve been waiting for, forever And ever will my love for you, keep growing strong Keep growing strong

Song of Bernadette

There was a child named Bernadette I heard the story, long ago She saw the queen of heaven once And kept the vision in her soul

No one believed what she had seen No one believed what she heard But there were sorrows to be healed And mercy, mercy in this world

So many hearts I find Broken like yours and mine Torn by what we’ve done and can’t undo I just want to hold you Won’t you let me hold you? Like Bernadette would do

We’ve been around we fall, we fly We mostly fall, we mostly run And every no and then, we try To mend the damage that we’ve done

Tonight, tonight I cannot rest I’ve got this joy inside breast To think that I did not forget That child, that song of Bernadette

So many hearts I find Broken like yours and mine Torn by what we’ve done and can’t undo I just want to hold you Come on let me hold you? Like Bernadette would do

I just want to hold you Won’t you let me hold you? Like Bernadette would do

You Never Can Tell

It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well You could see that pierre did truly love the mademoiselle And now the young monsieur and madame have rung the chapel bell, “c’est la vie”, say the old folks, it go to show you never can tell

They furnished off an apartment with a two room roebuck sale The coolerator was crammed with tv dinners and ginger ale, But when pierre found work, the little money comin’ worked out well “c’est la vie”, say the old folks, it go to show you never can tell

They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast Seven hundred little records, all rock, and rhythm and jazz But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell “c’est la vie”, say the old folks, it go to show you never can tell

They bought a souped-up jitney, was a cherry red ’53, Drove down to new orleans to celebrate the anniversary It was there where pierre was married to the lovely mademoiselle “c’est la vie”, say the old folks, it go to show you never can tell

They had a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well You could see that pierre did truly love the mademoiselle And now the young monsieur and madame have rung the chapel bell, “c’est la vie”, say the old folks, it go to show you never can tell “c’est la vie”, say the old folks, it go to show you never can tell “c’est la vie”, say the old folks, it go to show you never can tell

I’ll never hear the bells if you leave me I’ll never hear the bells I’ll never hear the bells if you leave me I’ll never hear the bells

Do you hear what I hear Your lips are kissing mine Can you hear the bells darling Can you hear them when I’m kissing you

What do I have to do to make you feel the tingling too

Can you hear the bells darling Can you hear them when I’m kissing you

Oh yeah Oh, I hear the bells, ringing in my ear Tell me do you love me, do you love me, do you love me, do you love me like I love you

Oh, it’s one thing that I want you to remember If you ever leave me I believe I’ll go insane And I’ll never hear the bells again No, I’ll never hear the bells again No, I’ll never hear the bells again

These Foolish Things

A cigarette that bears a lipsticks traces An airline ticket to romantic places And still my heart has wings These foolish things remind me of you

A tinkling piano in the next apartment Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant A fairground painted swing These foolish things remind me of you

You came, you saw, you conquered me When you did that to me, I knew somehow this had to be The winds of march that make my heart a dancer A telephone that rings, but who’s to answer How the ghost of you clings These foolish things remind me of you

How strange, how sweet, to find you still These things are dear to me, they seem to bring you near to me The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations, Silk stockings thrown aside, dance invitations Oh, how the ghost of you clings These foolish things remind me of you

The Roadie Song

You know night after night these guys are setting up, hooking up, Climbing past the sky. they don’t really get no praise, So I wrote this song in honor of them, ’cause without them there’d be no show.

So get a roadie song, after all he ain’t no bum Give a roadie a hand, he’s really part of the band

Get a roadie, get a roadie, get a roadie song Them speakers weigh a ton His work is never done So get a roadie, get a roadie, get a roadie song

Got a mighty long ways to travel He’s gotta cover many miles of gravel He’s gotta long long ways to go And if he don’t make it, there ain’t gonna be no show

So give the roadie, give the roadie, give the roadie song He climbed to kingdom come He’s up to see the sun Get a roadie, get a roadie, get a roadie song

He’s got a mighty long ways to travel He’s gotta cover many miles of gravel He’s gotta long long ways to go And if he don’t make it, there ain’t gonna be no show

Get a roadie, get a roadie, get a roadie song, after all he ain’t no bum And get a roadie a hand, he’s really part of the band Give the roadie, give the roadie, give the roadie, give the roadie, give the roadie song Get a roadie, get a roadie, get a roadie, get a roadie, get a roadie song Give the roadie, give the roadie, give the roadie, give the roadie, give a roadie song Give the roadie, give the roadie, give the roadie, give the roadie, give a roadie song

Ain’t No Way

Ain’t no way for me to love you if you won’t let me It ain’t no way for me to give you all you need If you won’t let me give all of me

I know that a mans duty is to have and love a woman And that’s the way it was planned Oh but how can I, how can I, how can I give you all the things I can If you’re tying both of my hands

It ain’t no way, it ain’t no way, just ain’t no way, ain’t no way baby

It ain’t no way for me to love you if you won’t let me

Stop trying to be someone you’re not The hard cold truth is, woman, you paid too much for what you got And if you need me, baby, say, say you do, Baby, I, baby, baby, don’t you know that I need you

It ain’t no way I tell you that it ain’t no way, it ain’t no way, it ain’t no way baby, baby, baby, baby Just ain’t no way, sure ain’t no way It ain’t no way for me to love you if you won’t let me

Step right up come on in If you’d like to take the grand tour Of the lonely house that once was Home sweet home

I have nothing here to sell you Just some things that I will tell you Some things I know will chill you To the bone

Over there sits the chair Where she’d bring the paper to me Sit down on my knee and whisper Oh, I love you

But now she’s gone forever And this old house it will never Be the same without the love That we once knew

Straight ahead that’s the bed Where we’d lie in love together And Lord knows we had A good thing going here

See her picture on the table Don’t it look like she’d be able Just to touch me and say Good mornin’ dear

There’s her rings all her things And her clothes are in the closet Where she left them when She tore my world apart

As you leave you’ll see the nursery Oh, she left me without mercy Takin’ nothin’ but our baby And my heart

Step right up come on in Come on in

The Lord’s Prayer

Our father Which art in heaven. Hollowed would be thy name Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread

And forgive our debts As we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, And the power, and the glory. Forever and ever. amen.

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The Meaning Behind “The Grand Tour” by George Jones Hit a Bit Too Close to Home

by Jim Beviglia January 23, 2024, 6:47 am

Country music has always been associated with songs of sadness. It makes sense then that George Jones was such a legend of the genre,. Nobody has ever been able to transmit sadness across the airwaves quite like he did.

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Getting deep inside the tragedies and misfortunes of his songs might have been a little easier for Jones than most. He was often living through some circumstance in his own turbulent life that related almost directly to the lyrics. Case in point: “ The Grand Tour ,” a masterpiece of melancholy that features Jones hitting every nuance and twist in a brilliantly crafted piece of material. Let’s look back at how this country classic came to be and learn the meaning behind “The Grand Tour” by George Jones.

Getting Grand Again

George Jones dominated the ’60s in terms of the country music charts. But by the time the decade turned over, he was scuffling a bit to find the touch. While many blamed the never-ending drama in his personal life for the dip, Jones himself felt that his work wasn’t getting properly handled by his producers and record executives, which is why he decamped for Epic Records.

Jones thought that Epic’s Billy Sherrill was just the guy to transform his work, but their first few records together didn’t do much. To make matters worse, Jones’ wife at the time, Tammy Wynette, was pretty much the queen of the genre. In an interview with Billboard in 2006, Jones spoke about how it took Sherrill a while to understand just how to approach Jones’ vocal stylings.

“He just came up with that sound like he got with Tammy [Wynette], [sings] ‘Ba bum ba bum ba bum,’ build-ups, and it was a little more updated, I guess,” Jones remembered. “He tried to do that with me, but I finally had a talk with him. I said, ‘Billy, I’m country, I’m traditional, I know you’re wanting to cross over with me like you have with Tammy, Charlie Rich and those people, but I’m hardcore and I can’t help it. That’s what I feel, and I can’t do a good job for the label, you or anybody else if I don’t feel it myself.’ I had no problem after that, we’d go in and he got me a good sound. I used my fiddle and steel and good country pickers, and I guess I really just lucked up a little bit on finding the songs.”

Stranger Than Fiction

One of those songs that Jones found was a beauty written by Norro Wilson, George Richey, and Carmol Taylor. And, as was so often the case with Jones, he found himself singing about a subject that hit very closet to home. “The Grand Tour” is a song about a breakup, and, about the time he recorded it with Sherrill, his own marriage to Wynette was crumbling. Bizarrely enough, co-writer Richey would later marry Wynette in a twist that not even Jones’ most devastating songs of woe could have imagined.

If Sherrill had struggled initially producing Jones, he certainly got it just right with “The Grand Tour.” It’s clever how each section begins with Jones singing a cappella, only to be answered by a piano that almost seems to be mocking him before the whole band kicks into gear. Pete Drake provides inimitable support on steel guitar. As for Jones, listen to how he sounds genial at the beginning of each verse as he talks to the stranger, before his emotions get the better of him as he talks about his wife’s departure.

What Is “The Grand Tour” About?

“The Grand Tour” is structured as if the narrator were a real estate agent conducting an open house for potential buyers. But it quickly turns into something different when he explains that, Some things I know will chill you to the bone are waiting inside. From there, he goes through the inventory: a chair, a bed, a photo of the pair, and finally, her rings, all her things/And her clothes are in the closet .

To each of these is attached a bittersweet memory of happier times. When he shows the stranger the picture of her, he can’t help but ruminate on what might have been: Don’t it look like she’d be able/Just to touch me and say, ‘Good morning, dear.’ But since she’s gone forever , that’s an impossibility.

[RELATED: Behind the Song: George Jones, “He Stopped Loving Her Today”]

Alternative Take

It should be noted that some fans of the song believe that “The Grand Tour” doesn’t depict a divorce, but instead a scenario where the wife has died along with their child in some accident. That’s a bit of a gruesome take on it in our opinion, but the important thing is the emotion conveyed by Jones as he brings it all home: As you leave you’ll see the nursery/Oh, she left me without mercy .

“The Grand Tour” proved a massive comeback hit for Jones upon its release in 1974, and helped point the way to another monumental collaboration with Sherrill in “ He Stopped Living Her Today .” You don’t need to have lived through that kind of sadness to relate to the song, because George Jones’ performance made sure we could wallow in it with him for the course of those gloriously sorrowful three minutes.

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The Grand Tour Rockets The Hothouse Flowers Up The iTunes Charts

It looks like the massive success of The Grand Tour isn’t only working out well for Amazon and the boys. With such a big show and so many people involved, the success is sure to have long reaching effects on everyone involved.

One such case is that of The Hothouse Flowers. If you don’t recall, they are the band that was hand picked to play the introduction music for the grand premiere episode of The Grand Tour with their version of ” I Can See Clearly Now”

The Hothouse Flowers originally released the title track for Episode 1 of The Grand Tour sixteen years ago, but the shows huge success has resulted in the song shooting to the top of the iTunes music charts.

Can't quite believe it! But looks like @hothouseflowers have gone to number 1 in the U.K. @iTunes Rock Charts! Hurray! pic.twitter.com/K9c1t6gzfD — Fiachna Ó Braonáin (@fobraonain) November 22, 2016

The song was the perfect addition to the show. It really set the tone for the Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond, and James May reuniting to bring us the much-anticipated show we had been missing for over a year.

8 Breitling jets, the #BurningVan festival, and a flotilla of over 40 cars. Stream episode 1 of #TheGrandTour on Amazon Prime Video now. pic.twitter.com/rf1D6Bjij8 — The Grand Tour (@thegrandtour) November 19, 2016

It probably didn’t hurt that in addition to the band there was a horde of amazing vehicles, fighter jets, and a massive crowd, but nonetheless, the musical choice was an excellent one. We would love to see more intros and music like this in future episodes of The Grand Tour, so let’s keep our fingers crossed!

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Madonna is still riding high off the success of her global The Celebration Tour, which will conclude next month. As she prepares to wind down from the road, one of the pop superstar’s biggest and most important singles is surging in popularity once more.

Usually when a decades-old cut returns to prominence in any way, it’s thanks to one special event, a milestone, or a unique pop culture moment. Madonna has both working in her favor this week.

“Like a Prayer” is currently bounding up the U.S. iTunes chart. At present, the tune reappears at No. 60 on the ranking of the bestselling individual songs in America. It just returned to the tally, and it seems like it will continue to climb in the coming hours and maybe even days.

Fans of Madonna–both casual and die-hard–may be returning to the tune after hearing it in a new movie trailer. “Like a Prayer” soundtracks the new teaser for the forthcoming film Deadpool & Wolverine . The action-packed flick is one of the most highly-anticipated of the year, and its trailer became a trending topic from the moment it arrived.

Being featured in a major movie trailer might be enough to push “Like a Prayer” up the iTunes chart–but it’s not the only thing going on with the tune. Superfans of Madonna may also be honoring the smash as it celebrates a special anniversary.

It was 35 years ago–almost to the day–that “Like a Prayer” reached No. 1 on the Hot 100. The same week, the album that shares a title with its massive single also landed atop the Billboard 200. Not many people may be aware of the importance of this week, but those who adore Madonna may very well be purchasing the cut–perhaps again–to celebrate its initial crowning.

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Tennis’ Grand Slams premium tour plan: More money, equal pay, fewer tournaments

After months of playing shots off the back foot, the four Grand Slam tournaments have gone on the offensive in the battle for the future of tennis . 

In meetings with representatives of the men’s ATP and women’s WTA tours last week in London, and with players and agents this week in Madrid, leaders of the Grand Slams have presented their strongest plan yet to reform the current structure of professional tennis . It consists of a premium tour anchored in the four Grand Slams and more top-level combined events, featuring the best players from the ATP and WTA circuits.

According to a person briefed on the proposal from the Grand Slams and the ensuing meetings, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect relationships, the details include the following:

• Doubling the prize money for the top 300 men.
• ⁠Almost quadrupling the prize money for the top 300 women.
• Using a portion of their own media rights to finance these changes.
• Equal pay , from inception, for men and women at all the events on the premium tour, instead of making women wait until 2027 to receive the same pay as men at some of the biggest tournaments.
• A schedule that includes the four Grand Slams, plus 10 other mixed top-level tournaments, with locations and dates to be determined, and a team event.
• The tour would end in time to allow for an off-season of six to eight weeks.

The plan would capitalize on the lucrative media rights of the Australian, French and U.S. Opens, alongside Wimbledon, and those of the other top Masters tournaments, to create a premium tour — various versions of which have been at the core of their previous proposals, but with little meat on the bones beyond that. ESPN’s 11-year-deal for the U.S. Open is worth almost $800 million (£647.7m), and it is estimated that media rights account for over half of the annual revenue for the All England Tennis Club, which stages Wimbledon, year in, year out.

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The Slams say the plans will vastly increase pay for men and women more quickly than the ATP and WTA can achieve, focus the season around 15 events in a premium tour and extend an off-season that has shrunk to just a few weeks for the top players.

Leaders of the Grand Slams and the tours were not immediately available for comment. 

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Leaders of the ATP and the WTA, who have long viewed the collective plan from Wimbledon and the U.S., French and Australian Opens as a threat to their relevance and perhaps their existence, are not enthusiastic about this latest idea, according to the person briefed on the plan and the meetings.

Discussions between the tours and the Grand Slams have become less fraught in recent weeks, according to reporting from the BBC . While one official recently described “productive discussions” among the parties of late, this latest move could jeopardize any hint of detente that may have started to develop in the past few months.

It shows that even as the tours moved to firm up their control of the sport, the Grand Slams continued to work toward wresting it from them, something they have been pushing for since last summer.

The leaders of the two tours have long sought guarantees that they will have significant roles in governing the sport, and this iteration of a premium tour would relegate most of their tournaments to a lesser status which top players would have much less incentive to participate in. 

Now, the tours’ lack of enthusiasm might be moot, because by bringing the players into the discussion for the first time, the Grand Slams are playing a significant card.

It is their strongest move yet to curry favor with the people who have proven time and again to hold the most power in tennis — the stars of the sport, who attract the fans to buy tickets and to watch the matches at home.

They are now promising to give those players many of the things they have been seeking for years, including accelerating the closing of the gap in prize money that endures at several mixed 1000-level events and, overall, including greater financial rewards for a less demanding schedule than the current 11-month slog that incentivizes players to risk their health and wellbeing by playing in as many tournaments as possible.

The Grand Slams’ leaders have pushed for months to use existing 250 and 500-level tournaments to create a qualifying tour for players outside roughly the top 100. Top players could potentially participate in those events but not earn rankings points from them.

Most importantly, to help finance this premium tour, the Grand Slams have committed for the first time to include a portion of their media and sponsorship rights, which are the most expensive in the sport and that they have long kept largely for themselves.

For months, the Grand Slams had held back on such a commitment as they negotiated among themselves about how much of their resources they wanted to invest in an effort that would make them major financial partners in the future of the professional level of tennis, rather than independent entities that hold annual competitions — even if they are the sport’s biggest annual competitions of all.

However, during the past year, the tours have made a series of moves that the Grand Slams have viewed as a threat to their primacy, including potentially disrupting a schedule that climaxes four times a year with the Grand Slams.

Leaders of the organizations that control the Grand Slams have decided that the only way to ensure that they maintain their strength is through further investment in the overall management of the sport.

In meetings, and in a presentation at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, in March, top tennis leaders were still waiting for a premium tour plan that the Grand Slams had purportedly been fleshing out for months — to the extent that the proposed presentation had slipped from last November, at the ATP Finals in the Italian city of Turin. Four months later, no framework for the integration of media rights and other commercial partnerships was in place.

Now, another month on, the Slams have made their move.

The latest move comes after Andrea Gaudenzi, the leader of the ATP, pushed for the tours to invest in a plan that would bring in roughly $1billion of investment in tennis from Saudi Arabia . Most of that money would come from the sale of a new tournament, a 10th Masters 1000 event. 

A bid process for the event is ongoing, also involving Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, fellow Gulf state Qatar’s capital Doha and Australia, with most people involved in the process expecting the Saudis to prevail, adding the tournament to its three-year deals for the season-ending WTA Tour Finals in Riyadh, in November, and for the Next Gen Finals the following month.

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While a portion of the infusion of cash from Saudi Arabia would eventually filter down to the players, it comes with costs to the schedule that players already say is far too long, including adding another top-level, mandatory tournament, possibly at the very start of the calendar after the already-shrunken off-season. It’s also not yet clear what opportunities for additional growth would be available after the money from the additional tournament is spent.

The Grand Slams are operating on the principle that, in contrast, a premium tour that can pool its media rights and sell them as a singular, elite, exclusive package to sponsors and media companies — in the fashion of Formula 1 — could bring to the market the kind of focused tennis product that the fractured sport has been trying in vain to come up with for decades. 

The battle moves on.

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2024 PGA Championship odds: Scottie Scheffler favorite to continue grand slam pursuit, Rory McIlroy near top

Valhalla is set to host this year's pga championship, and the odds board has adjusted since the masters.

With the PGA Tour's season rolling onward to its second major championship with the 2024 Masters now in the book, the 2024 PGA Championship is just around the corner. Valhalla will serve as host for the first time since 2014 and fourth time in its history as the best golfers in the world convene to begin action on May 16.

You might not believe this, but Scottie Scheffler is the favorite. Scheffler has won four of his last five tournaments -- including the Masters by four shots -- and has lost to just one other golfer since March 1. He has made $16.3 million in that span, third-most in a single season despite the 2024 campaign not having reached its halfway point.

Scheffler is now a stunning 7/2 favorite to win the PGA, which would put him halfway to the 2024 grand slam, a feat nobody has ever accomplished in a single season. In fact, odds for Scheffler to pull it off are now an eye-popping 40-1.

The closest anyone has come to a grand slam in recent years came was 2015 when Jordan Spieth won the first two majors, finished one shot out of a playoff in the third and then finished second in the fourth. It would not be surprising if Scheffler put together a similar major championship season.

2024 PGA Championship odds

• Scottie Scheffler: 7/2
• Rory McIlroy: 9-1
• Jon Rahm: 10-1
• Brooks Koepka: 16-1
• Viktor Hovland: 18-1
• Ludvig Åberg: 18-1

McIlroy won the PGA last time it was at Valhalla, but that was 10 years ago when he won two consecutive majors to collect Nos. 3 and 4 at the age of 25. A lot has happened since then, but McIlroy is still a tremendous player. And while he has not had the season he expected or that his last two seasons portended, he's still a threat here (though 9-1 is short). Koepka is the defending champion as he and Hovland engaged in a great battle last year at Oak Hill. Neither is playing as well this time around. Åberg is probably a better bet at 18-1 than either of those two.

• Xander Schauffele: 20-1
• Patrick Cantlay: 20-1
• Collin Morikawa: 22-1
• Wyndham Clark: 25-1
• Jordan Spieth: 25-1
• Bryson DeChambeau: 25-1
• Will Zalatoris: 25-1
• Joaquin Niemann: 28-1

The interesting players here are Clark and DeChambeau at 25-1. The latter will be in the field following his best Masters appearance to date; he's seemingly in terrific form. The former is the reigning U.S. Open champion coming off an awesome PGA Tour year behind Scheffler. He is also probably better suited to being a bit of a bomb-and-gouge guy, which is typically how PGAs have been set up in recent years (as opposed to the Masters and Open Championship).

• Max Homa: 30-1
• Justin Thomas: 30-1
• Cameron Smith: 30-1
• Tony Finau: 35-1
• Hideki Matsuyama: 35-1
• Dustin Johnson: 35-1
• Rickie Fowler: 40-1
• Matt Fitzpatrick: 40-1
• Cameron Young: 40-1
• Tommy Fleetwood: 45-1
• Adam Scott: 80-1
• Tiger Woods: 100-1
• Sergio Garcia: 150-1
• Phil Mickelson: 150-1

Young intrigues me. An excellent major player, who should be able to decimate this golf course. He was good at the Masters and had a T3 at the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills. I would not love him at 20-1 ... but at 40-1? Absolutely. 

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After Grand Ole Opry debut, Carin León is headed to one of Nashville's biggest stages

S inger-songwriter Carin León is headed back to Nashville on his "Boca Chueca 2024 Tour." He will perform at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Sunday, Oct. 13.

The "Boca Chueca Tour" will span cities across North America and Europe, hitting New York City, Chicago, Toronto and Los Angeles. His European tour leg will head to Madrid, London, Amsterdam and Paris.

The Mexican-born musician is known for his regional Mexican music hits, like songs "Primera City," "Que Vuelvas" and "Según Quién," with Maluma.

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The tour announcement follows León's performance at Coachella.

“Embarking on this tour is an exhilarating opportunity to share my new music with fans throughout North America and Europe alike. Taking my songs and the vibrant essence of 'Música Mexicana' to a global stage is truly an honor,” said León in a press release.

On Thursday night, León will perform the first single from his upcoming album, “Cuando La Vida es un Trago,” live at the Latin American Music Awards in Las Vegas.

Carin León headed back to Music City after Grand Ole Opry debut

In February, the singer made his Grand Ole Opry debut to the delight of screaming fans and support from his musician friends Leon Bridges and Kane Brown.

"I'm humbly honored to [gain the approval] of Nashville's country community. I want to be a representative of its culture and music," León told The Tennessean.

"Everyone wants to embrace the cowboy spirit because [it arrives] from an undeniably good feeling [inspired] by hard work," he said.

More: Carin León saddles up his country cowboy dream at Grand Ole Opry debut

How do I buy tickets to Carin León's tour?

Presale begins on Tuesday, April 30 at 10 a.m CST. Fans can register at carinleonlive.com .

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 3 at  10 a.m. CST.

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