Reba McEntire’s father has defied the odds and awoken from a coma after suffering a stroke.
The country star was forced to skip the announcement of her induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in March after her dad Clark fell ill – and she rushed to be at his bedside in Oklahoma.

She was told by doctors to prepare for the worst.

But now McEntire has told Cmt.com that her father has come out of his coma and is now recovering at a rehabilitation centre.

She says, “I’m not kidding, we had planned the funeral three times. We’ve selected songs, we’ve picked out where he’s going to be buried, and now he’s just done a complete turnaround.”

McEntire now hopes her dad will be well enough to join her in Nashville,Tennessee when she is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year.

She adds, “I’ll be telling him, ‘Get your butt out of this rehab centre, come on now let’s go to Nashville.’”

Source: Contact Music

Reba McEntire‘s 21-year-old son Shelby Blackstock drove the No. 51 at Daytona International Speedway on his debut as a professional race car driver this past January. The country superstar said then of her son, “We’re very proud and very thankful to God for keeping him safe. I’m very happy that he’s racing because that’s his passion,” and now she’s sharing his story.

Blackstock dropped out of the University of Arizona his freshman year to race professionally, a career that really started after a meal with a good friend of his parents. Reba tells The Boot, “We were going to put him into the ITT Technical school and let him work on cars and be a mechanic, and then on his last day of school, a good friend of ours, Pat Manley, said, ‘I’ve got a friend [Jim Click]. I want you to go to brunch with me.’”

That brunch date turned out to be an invitation to New York to work on Click’s pit crew. Last weekend, he was at the helm of a Click race car at a Grand Am race. Reba exclaims, “He went from 18 to third before he handed it over to Michael McGovern, who was the second and more professional driver of the team. Who would have thought it? If it wasn’t for Pat Manley and Jim Click, Shelby probably would never have realized his dream.”

Reba and her husband Narvel Blackstock go to every race they can. “That first time when that green flag drops, my stomach goes right to my throat, and then it goes back down and then I’m OK, but, boy, that roar is tremendous,” Reba admits.

Reba says that ever since he was little, all her son Shelby would ever talk about was cars. When the country star realized her boy was not happy at college, she asked him what would truly make him happy, and he replied, ‘Racing, mom, I want to race cars.’”

Racing is really the same family type of experience as her past profession in the rodeo, and as Reba says, “It’s all like a family. I feel so grateful that he is so blessed to be in such a wonderful family again, but now in the racing business. So I couldn’t be happier for him.”

Blackstock knows what it means to have his family give him the thumbs up: “Me, personally, I don’t think I’m fully as ready as I need to be because I’m still learning the track and still learning the car. Little by little, I want to make this into a career. [My parents are] supportive, and they understand this is what I want to do.” If he’s as good as a driver as his mother is as a singer, he cannot be anything but a winner!

Source: Taste of Country

If you have noticed, I’ve added photos from the ACM Presents Girls Night Out: Superstar Women Of Country where Reba was honored for having the most female vocalist wins in their history…7 times. I’ve also added a photoshoot from the event as well.

Gallery Links:
• Public Appearances : Public Appearances from 2011 : ACM Presents Girls Night Out: Superstar Women of Country
• Photoshoots: Session: Session #022

Sorry it’s taken me so long to add these, I’ve been working quite a bit lately. But here is the photos and screen captures of Reba and Blake hosting the show. They did an awesome job! Quite entertaining.

Gallery Links:
• Public Appearances : Public Appearances from 2011 : 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards – Rehearsals
• Public Appearances : Public Appearances from 2011 : 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards – Red Carpet
• Public Appearances : Public Appearances from 2011 : 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards – Backstage and Audience
• Public Appearances : Public Appearances from 2011 : 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards – Show
• Screen Captures : Award Shows : Award Shows from 2011 : The 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards

Reba made a special appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981. She sang “Only You”. Screen Captures are in the gallery, clips will be coming soon.

Gallery Link:
• Screen Captures : TV Appearances : TV Appearances from 1981 : The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

I mention on twitter that the gallery needed re-organizing, well I decided to move the pictures to a new gallery and reorganized how some of the pictures was added. You can find the new gallery here. I’m still moving pictures there but this is where I will be adding any new pictures from now on. I will keep the old gallery up until I get all the pictures move…so no downtime! I’ve added a new gallery layout to the new one, I hope you like it. Thanks for visiting!

Gallery Link:
• Public Appearances : Events From 2011 : Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night XVII
• Public Appearances : Events From 2011 : Points Of Light Institute Tribute To Former President George H.W. Bush