Blake Shelton defends Beyonce, Miranda Lambert adds to her furry family, Joe Don Rooney from Rascal Flatts heads to Paris, and two country stars recover from surgery, here's your Nashville Minute.

Blake Shelton is sticking up for Beyoncé and her new country inspired song, "Daddy Lessons." The song has drawn criticism lately from some in the country music community, but Blake is part of the Bey Hive and says, "I can't believe people that don't contribute to music criticize music; it just blows my mind and Beyoncé ­­ tell them to kiss that a**, is what I would do." Bey's country track appears on her new album titled Lemonade.

Miranda Lambert welcomed some new members to her furry family. She posed with Thelma and Louise on Instagram and said, "I adopted these two beauties from Texas to keep watch over the mini horses! Thanks to the @muttnationfoundation team they are safe and sound at their new forever home!!! I'm in love."

Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney and his wife, Tiffany, recently celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary by renewing their vows in Paris. The couple's vow renewal was a complete surprise to Tiffany and Joe Don
planned every detail to a T. In a post on Instagram, Tiffany revealed that Rooney had the chapel at the American Church in Paris decorated and even had a special bouquet of roses made for her.

Two artists are recovering after having surgery, Maren Morris had surgery on Monday to remove her tonsils, Morris said the surgery was needed as she would get strep throat like clockwork every six weeks. Gary Allan is also recovering following surgery on his arm. No word on why Allan had the surgery but he said he's on the mend and would get back out on the road soon.

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