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WILLIAM SHATNER He had no clue when he first warpfactored into our living rooms almost 50 years ago as Capt. James T. Kirk on Star Trek that it would be the defining role of his career. Now Shatner, 84, is reaching out to a new generation as the narrator of the Sprout network (formerly PBS Kids) stopmotion children’s series Clangers, premiering June 20.

What’s the appeal for you of a children’s show like Clangers? “I have three girls who have children. So I have experience with a lot of kids—and know how to tell a story in a way so that they won’t be looking around to see what else there is to do. That’s what we do on Clangers.” What entertainment resonated with you at a young age? “My earliest memory of something on screen was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Disney film. I remember the movie was over and my dad was taking me out, and I was holding on to an armrest. I wanted to see it again.” Is it true you lived in your truck after wrapping the Star Trek series in 1969? “Yeah. They didn’t pay very well, and I got a divorce at that same time and I

Email your es qu tions for Walter Scott to personality@parade.com had three children, so it was a little rocky.” What’s the best takeaway from the success of Star Trek? “It gave me the opportunity to raise funds for people. One of the ways I’ve done that for the last 30 years is to put on a horse show, the priceline.com Hollywood Charity Horse Show sponsored by Wells Fargo.” What else do you have in the works? “So many things. I helped design the big, three-wheel Rivet motorcycle at rivetmotors.com. Also, if you go to shatnersmanowar.com, you’ll see a whole new graphic novel based on my sci-fi novel, Man O’ War.”

Q: I’m excited about the new season of Orange Is the New Black. Can you tell me what else Laverne Cox has done? —Gabrielle B., Austin, Texas A: Cox, who will return as Sophia Burset when season three of Orange premieres June 12 on Netflix, made TV history when she became the first African-American transgender woman to appear on a reality television program, VH1’s I Wanna Work for Diddy, in 2008. She went on to host her own series, VH1’s TRANSForm Me, and received a Daytime Emmy in 2015 for the MTV special Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word. She had guest-starring roles on The Mindy Project, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU and Bored to Death.

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It’s Tony Trivia Time The 69th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth, honors the best of Broadway live tonight on CBS at 8 p.m. ET. Here are five fun facts about the awards show. 1. Bradley Cooper is pumped about his first Tony nomination—for The Elephant Man—and is flying back from London, where he’s performing the play, to be there. 2. Other first-time nominees this year include Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss and movie actress Carey Mulligan (Far From the Madding Crowd) for their roles in The Heidi Chronicles and Skylight. 3. Youngest winner: Frankie Michaels, 11, for his role in Mame (1966). 4. Mel Brooks’ The Producers (2001) is the most-winning show, triumphing in 12 categories including Best Musical. 5. Hugh Jackman has hosted the Tony Awards four times, as has Neil Patrick Harris. But the hostess with the mostess is Angela Lansbury, who has taken the reins five times.

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Comedy writer, director and producer Judd Apatow (Bridesmaids, Knocked Up) compiles three decades of his candid conversations with funny people (including Steve Martin, Chris Rock, Louis C.K. and Sarah Silverman) into Sick in the Head (June 16, Random House). “Maybe this book could inspire some kid who is sitting in his room looking at weird Funny or Die web videos, the way I used to sit in front of the TV and tape SNL with an audio recorder,” Apatow says.

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Yes, some sport cowboy boots, but fans of country music today make up a surprisingly diverse crowd who—young or old, hipster or hippie, local or global—are drawn to the genre’s stories and authenticity. By Peter Cooper • Cover & feature photography by Ronald C. Modra

here was a time, in the early 20th century, when country music was a regional curiosity, the province of “hillbilly” fiddlers, an aural postcard from the American south. It was a sound that filled taverns. Today, country music is a global phenomenon, a whirl of influences and experiences. It is a sound that fills stadiums—from Nashville’s LP Field to Boston’s Fenway Park, London’s O2 Arena to the Tokyo Dome. It is both America’s most popular music genre (according to trade publication Billboard magazine) and a huge export and attraction. Today, it seems, we are all a little bit country. This week, 80,000 people will crowd Nashville’s streets, clubs, hotels and football stadium for four days and nights to celebrate country music at the annual Country Music Association (CMA) Music Festival. Fans from around the world will come to see more than 450 acts including singer-songwriter Dierks Bentley, acrobatic vocal group Little Big Town, upcoming Country Music Hall of Fame inductees The Oak Ridge Boys and guitarslinger Brad Paisley (the Rolling Stones’ opening act for

their June 17 Nashville show). At first glance, it may be difficult to connect the fiddles and banjos played by country musicians in the 1920s to the diverse acts at country concerts like CMA Fest and those across “These fans, when the world (see “Country Goes they buy an album or Global,” page 8), or to today’s country radio jumbles of rocka ticket, it’s not just about the music. ready guitars and hip-hop flourishes. They’re making an investment in But country is a big-tent genre and the you as a person.” tent gets bigger every year. At its heart, the music is defined not by instrumentation or song —Dierks Bentley form, but by passion and connection. “Every song has a story in country music,” says Gilles Belanger, 57, a former construction worker from Mattawa, Ontario, who recently made a bucket list trip to the Grand Ole Opry show in Nashville with his daughter, Tammy. “The music means something.” That connection to authentic feelings and relatable experiences creates loyal fans who, year after year, travel many miles and wait in long lines simply to say “hi” to their favorite performers. At its core, country music

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Dierks Bentley, who has a show in Nashville this week, raves about the fans. “We do a fan club party at CMA Fest that takes six, sometimes seven hours,” he says. “We play, then sign autographs and take pictures with every person. And the core fans, I’ve seen them over and over, for 10 years. When they buy an album or a ticket, it’s not just about the music. They’re making an investment in you as a person.” The first time a fan made such an investment in Bentley was 17 years ago, at Station Inn, a charmingly inelegant Nashville club Bentley discovered as a Vanderbilt University student. Back then, he would watch bluegrass bands, and sometimes sit in. Ann Soyars, a retired Bell South worker who manned the Station Inn door until she died in 2014, took notice of Bentley. “Ann was my first fan,” he says. “Back before I had a record deal, she made two T-shirts that said, ‘Dierks Bentley, Future CMA Award Winner.’ She sent one to my mom, and kept the other. That was the power of one person.” The biggest-selling country artist of all time, Garth Brooks, felt that power multiplied in 1996. He famously posed for photos and signed autographs at CMA Music Festival’s predecessor, Fan Fair, for 23 consecutive hours. New-centurycountry-star-turned-pop-queen Taylor Swift signed for eight straight hours in 2008, then, in 2014, mailed personalized holiday gifts to fans she’d found and researched on social media. “As far back as I can remember, it’s been that way,” says Country Music Hall of Famer Bill Anderson, who wrote his first No. 1 hit song, “City Lights,” in 1958 and JUNE 7, 2015 | 7

COUNTRY GOES GLOBAL Country to Country (C2C) In 2015, Luke Bryan and Lady Antebellum headlined Europe’s biggest country music festival, which took place at London’s O2 arena, Dublin’s 3Arena, Stockholm’s Ericsson Globe and Oslo’s Spektrum Arena.

CMA Music Festival What began as Fan Fair in 1972—an event created to foster faceto-face interaction between country stars and fans—has evolved into a sprawling buffet of live music, topped by four sold-out stadium shows featuring contemporary country favorites.

San Pedro Country Music Festival Since 2003, fans have flocked to Argentina to see artists from Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Peru and the United States.

Tamworth Country Music Festival This Aussie-accented version of the CMA Music Fest features loads of live entertainment in clubs, concert halls and the open air.

Country Gold International Festival Bandleader Good Time Charlie Nagatani kicked off this annual festival in Kumamoto, Japan in 1989.

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has remained an in-demand songwriter and performer. “My signature will never be worth a dime: I’ve signed it so many times it’ll never be a collector’s item.” Such interactions are special, but by no means unprecedented in country music. When country music stars die—as was the case with the 2013 passing of two of country’s elite, George Jones and Ray Price—the Internet swells with tales of personal meetings accompanied by amateur photographs. And some fans say country music changed their lives. Denise Gilson, an analyst for the New York Stock Exchange Governance Services Group, was living in Brazil, Ind., dealing with anxiety issues that left her unwilling to go more than a few miles beyond her home—until October of 2004 when she saw a video of Keith Urban singing “Days Go By” and heard its lyrics: “Days go by/ I can feel ‘em flying like a hand out the window in the wind/ The cars go by, yeah, it’s all we’ve been given/ So you better start livin’ right now.” “I decided I needed to change my life,” says Gilson, who mustered the courage to travel to Nashville and attend three Urban concerts. “I was scared of having panic attacks, but I went anyway. I met people who were fans, and we connected. Now, every year at CMA Music continued on page 9 Festival, we reunite.”

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FROM BANJOS TO BIG TIME How country music took off Early 1920s Musicians in the Appalachian Mountains had been playing “country” for decades. It gained more exposure as radio shows—including the Grand Ole Opry out of Nashville in 1925— began broadcasting. 1927 The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers are “discovered” and recorded in a Bristol, Tenn. studio. 1930s Gene Autry and other singing movie cowboys put the western in “country western” music. 1945 Earl Scruggs joins Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys on stage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Bluegrass gets a wider audience. 1954 Elvis Presley spawns a rock ‘n’ roll sound that first threatens and later informs country music. 1966 Charley Pride, the first African-American country music superstar, hits the charts. 1969-1971 Buck Owens and Roy Clark host country music/comedy show Hee-Haw, a nationwide TV hit. 1973 Outlaw movement (Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and crew) hits its stride. 1986 A Tennessee theme park gets a new name after Dolly Parton (the most honored country music artist of all time) takes part

ownership. Dollywood gives some 3 million visitors a year a slice of country life and lots of country music. 1989 Enter Garth Brooks, the No. 1-selling solo artist (in any genre) of all time. 2000 Bestselling O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack spurs a roots-music revival. 2004 Rocker Jack White produces country queen Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose, sparking a longtime cross-generational collaboration. 2006 Taylor Swift’s teenage heartstring-pulling songs launch her on a path to become the genre’s top star. 2011-2012 Country hits national TV again: NBC launches the music competition The Voice, putting country star Blake Shelton and his contestants (some of whom win the competition) into the limelight. And ABC premieres Nashville, a series that follows fictional country musicians in Music City. 2013 Kenny Chesney (who is hitting the road with Jason Aldean this year) packs stadiums, topping ticket sales of superstars from Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake to Madonna and U2.

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“I used to listen to the Opry on the radio when I was growing up,” says Winnsboro, La., native Emma Jones Blackshire, age 58, one of 13 siblings, ages 53 to 79, who traveled to Nashville in May for a reunion that included a trip to the Opry, which turns 75 this year. “I love country music because it’s real,” says the U.S. Army JROTC instructor.

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Benninghoff and her friends go to country music concerts in packs, she says, all dressed in their cowboy boots, jean jackets and sundresses. It’s a look that has country roots but, like the music, has become mainstream.

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Charlie Worsham, 29, caught the country music bug when his father, a banker, took him to hear Keith Urban at a Mississippi music festival at age 14. “Dad and I were two of 30 people there to hear him,” Worsham says. “He blew our minds, and 28 other people’s minds. He played the last song, unplugged his guitar and walked towards his bus. On the way, he stopped and shook my hand and said, ‘Hey.’ I became a fan for life. I bought his record, and every one after that.” Now Worsham, a recording artist for Warner Bros., will perform at the CMA Music Festival. He has his own fans, and he’s as appreciative of them as they are of him. “There’s a quiet diligence to country fandom,” he says. “These are people who buy every copy of your record at Walmart and give them to their friends. It’s like spreading the gospel. These are people who wait out by the bus until two in the morning just to hand off baked goods that they spent all day making. And the expectation they have of you is, ‘Hey, keep making music.’ It’s a beautiful thing.” Peter Cooper is a Museum Editor at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. 12 | JUNE 7, 2015

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ike many of us, country music star Trisha Yearwood loves comfort food. Her new book, Trisha’s Table: My Feel-Good Favorites for a Balanced Life (Clarkson Potter), is inspired by her journey to eat healthfully without sacrificing the flavors she and her family—including husband Garth Brooks—love. “I’ve adopted an 80/20 rule: 80 percent of the time, I make good choices; 20 percent of the time, I let myself splurge a little,” says the star of the Food Network’s Trisha’s Southern Kitchen. These classic Southern nibbles are a delicious example of the balance Yearwood seeks. A lighter version of the fried pickles she enjoys at one of her favorite barbecue joints, Trail’s End in Owasso, Okla., this oven-baked rendition is a treat she can make — and serve—often.

Trisha’s Tip Baking the pickles on a preheated rack helps ensure crisp results. “You can broil these directly on a baking sheet,” she says, “but they won’t crisp up quite as much.”

UNFRIED PICKLES » Cooking spray » 1 (16-oz) jar dill pickle slices » 2 large eggs » ½ cup all-purpose flour 1. Spray a rack with cooking spray; place on baking sheet. Put sheet with rack in center of oven; preheat oven to broil. Drain pickles. 2. Whisk eggs, flour, Worcestershire, garlic powder, chili powder, hot sauce, salt and pepper in a medium bowl.

» 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce » 1 tsp garlic powder » 1 tsp chili powder » 1 tsp hot sauce (like Tabasco) 3. Combine bread crumbs and cheese in a large bowl. 4. Remove heated rack/baking sheet from oven. One at a time, dip pickles in egg mixture to coat, allowing excess to drip off. Dip in bread crumb mixture, pressing to help crumbs adhere. Lay pickles

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» Salt and black pepper, to taste » 1 cup panko bread crumbs » ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese » Ranch dressing (optional) in an even layer onto prepared rack. Return to oven and broil 3-4 minutes on each side. Serve with ranch dressing, if desired. Serves 10 to 12. FRIED PICKLES: ALISON ASHTON; YEARWOOD: NEILSON BARNARD/GETTY IMAGES FOR FOOD NETWORK SOBE WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL

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