Talk to some singers about touring, and you'll hear litany of complaints about long hours, living out of a suitcase and other irksome things about life on the road.
Reba McEntire doesn't see it that way, though.
"I don't think it's bad at all. I love my job. I love to travel. I'm a gypsy at heart," the singer-actress says.
The gypsy in McEntire will be satisfied this summer, when she joins Brad Paisley and Terri Clark on a 35-city tour dubbed "Two Hats and a Redhead" (you figure out which is which).
She also plans to promote a clothing line in partnership with the department store Dillard's. Oh, and did we mention the construction work on her home-away-from-Nashville in Los Angeles?
"I guess my boat's pretty well loaded right now," she says in her Oklahoma drawl.
Her self-titled television show on the WB is on hiatus until shooting for a fifth season begins in August. So she's on the road until then - figuratively speaking. Unlike many of her counterparts, McEntire won't be on a bus. She's been leasing a plane since she became pregnant with her son Shelby, now 15.
"The roads were too rough," she said.
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