{"id":22824,"date":"2026-04-09T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22824"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:25:04","slug":"country-star-hospitalized-with-broken-neck-after-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22824","title":{"rendered":"Country Star Hospitalized With Broken Neck After Fall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"389\">Ray Stevens, 87, is recovering at home after a fall on March 29 in Nashville left him with a broken neck. The Grammy-winning country star is wearing a neck brace for four weeks but remains mobile and in good spirits. His upcoming album <em data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"333\">Favorites Old &amp; New<\/em> is still set to release on April 10 via Curb Records.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"583\">This follows a recent health scare last summer, when Stevens underwent minimally invasive heart surgery after a mild heart attack, canceling shows at the CabaRay Showroom while he recovered.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"897\">Born Harold Ray Ragsdale on January 24, 1939, Stevens rose to fame with hits like \u201cThe Streak,\u201d \u201cGitarzan,\u201d and Grammy-winning \u201cEverything Is Beautiful,\u201d blending humor with heartfelt music. Over his decades-long career, he\u2019s earned multiple Grammys and acclaim as a singer, songwriter, producer, and arranger.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K16fG1sDagU?si=FmW1r5cKwxogztmL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Stevens, 87, is recovering at home after a fall on March 29 in Nashville left him with a broken neck. The Grammy-winning country star is wearing a neck brace for four weeks but remains mobile and in good spirits. His upcoming album Favorites Old &amp; New is still set to release on April 10&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=22824\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Country Star Hospitalized With Broken Neck After Fall!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22826,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22824\/revisions\/22826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}