It’s obvious music is a huge part of Martina McBride‘s life, but sometimes the power of music just overwhelms her. That’s what happened Monday morning after Martina dropped her youngest daughter Emma off at school.  The Van Halen hit “Right Now” was on the radio, and Martina writes on her blog, “Instantly I was transported back to high school.  Just like that.  I WAS driving my hand-me-down ’75 Dodge Dart on my way to school on a cold crisp Kansas morning.  It was such a powerful, all-consuming feeling.”

Martina felt transported back in time at that moment saying, “It wasn’t so much about a particular memory as it was about a memory of how it FELT.  Transported is definitely the right word.  I was THERE.”

She adds that moments like that one remind her how powerful music can be.

“I just wanted to say to anyone who enjoys my music or makes it a part of their life…thank you,” Martina says at the close of her blog post.  “Thank you for the privilege of allowing me to be part of your life.  Part of your memories.”

Martina is making new memories on her The Joy of Christmas tour playing Green Bay and Milwaukee this weekend.

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In an interview with ABC’s Nightline that aired Monday night, Dolly Parton dished about her love life, including those rumors that she is secretly gay, and losing a drag queen look-alike contest.

Regarding rumors about her love life, Parton said, “I’ve…been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with,” she said. “Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have. But you know people always saying that.”

Parton has also been accused of being secretly gay and romantically involved with one of her oldest childhood friends, Judy Ogle. She denied the rumors and said she even bonded with Oprah Winfrey over the false tabloid claims. Parton has been married to her husband, Carl Dean, for 46 years.

“Like Gayle [King], [Oprah’s] friend, Judy, my friend, they just think that you just can’t be that close to somebody,” Parton said. “Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade…We still just have a great friendship and relationship and I love her as much as I love anybody in the whole world, but we’re not romantically involved.”

As a campy, vampy icon, Parton said she once entered a drag queen look-alike contest — and lost. The other contestants didn’t know they were going up against the real Dolly.

“They had a bunch of Chers and Dollys that year, so I just over-exaggerated — made my beauty mark bigger, the eyes bigger, the hair bigger, everything,” she said, laughing. “All these beautiful drag queens had worked for weeks and months getting their clothes. So I just got in the line and I just walked across, and they just thought I was some little short gay guy…and I got the least applause.”

Parton also said during the interview she doesn’t have any regrets about not having children.

“God didn’t let me have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine,” she said. “I can keep my nieces and nephews and then when I’m sick of them, I can say, ‘Hey, come get these kids, they’re driving me crazy.’ I’m a Great Aunt Granny, is what they call me.”

Parton was promoting her new motivational memoir, Dream More, in stores today.

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Garth Brooks‘ run of shows at the Wynn Las Vegas may be over, but he plans to return to the resort’s Encore Theatre for a live TV event soon. According to the Las Vegas Sun, Wynn honcho Steve Wynn is in talks with Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese to helm Garth’s TV production.

Garth remains a little tentative when speaking about the live broadcast, saying, “It would be amazing if it works out with Scorsese. I’m not confirming or denying that.”

Garth will now begin planning a return to the road, and Steve Wynn hints that will kick off in August 2014. Wynn says that trek will take six months to put together, and Garth just wants to spend time at home with his youngest daughter before she heads off to college in 2014.

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