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Little Big Town: Do They Prefer Wine, Beer Or Whiskey?

Little Big Town’s latest song, “Wine, Beer, Whiskey,” has been a perfect song, given the trauma that the world has gone through over the past year The group co-wrote the song…

Little Big Town Share Their Preferred 'Wine, Beer, Whiskey'
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Little Big Town’s latest song, “Wine, Beer, Whiskey,” has been a perfect song, given the trauma that the world has gone through over the past year The group co-wrote the song together, and they told us what their go-to drinks are. Jimi Westbrook says, “I definitely go for whiskey, that’s my go-to. I like it on a big cube. (laughs) What I really love is E.H. Taylor. It’s so good. It’s like caramel in a glass.”

Jimi's wife and bandmate, Karen Fairchild, enjoys a good red wine, and it could have the band’s name on the label, she says, “We had a Syrah that we did a couple of years ago, and it still just drinks fantastic. And then I’ve been drinking Frank Family Vineyards. Their Cab is wonderful.”

For Kimberly Schlapman, she enjoys a lighter, sweeter drink. She offers, “I hate to toot our own horn, but (laughs) my favorite wine, I like wine, and we have a canned wine, Day Drinking, and the peach is my favorite. It’s so yummy.”

And for Phillip Sweet, he will usually choose between two different liquors. He says, “I usually go to a cold shot of Crown Royal from the freezer. I like tequila, and if it’s tequila, I like Casamigos Reposado, and I like it neat; no ice, nothing, and you can mix in a little pineapple juice for fun.”

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.