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VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 14 • FEBRUARY 22, 2018
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Littleton woman and musician-husband co-star on CMT’s ‘Music City’ It is always nice to get back to reality after several months on a “reality” television show. “We definitely had trepidation, especially since we have a 2-year-old son,” said Rachyl Degman, who grew up in Littleton before finding herself in Nashville as a “character” on the “docuseries” Music City, which debuts Thursday, March 1, on CMT. “We just prayed about it and talked about it and talked to different mentors and people that we respect,” Degman said of the couple’s eventual decision to join Music City’s real-life cast. “My husband and I have been through a lot in our marriage. We sort of felt like we have dealt with a lot of harder things than being on a reality show.” The eight-episode unscripted Music City follows several aspiring nonfiction country musicians as they work and play their way through the dog-eat-dog Nashville jungle. In Degman’s case, her husband Kerry is the musician venturing to make the lights of Music Row. A subplot sees Degman care for her child as she pursues her own
ambitions as a would-be lawyer. “It kind of shows how difficult and exciting it can be to be a musician who is on the road so much, so I’m kind of here on the home front, taking care of my son and going to law school eventually. I also have to work as a nanny and that sort of thing,” said Degman, a 30-year-old Chatfield High School graduate. Music City was helmed by Adam DiVello, the creator of MTV’s popular Laguna Beach, The Hills and The City. Degman said the show turned out to be more interesting than she would have expected, saying as an extrovert she had no problem living her life on television, “Adam just wanted to set up the cameras and see what happened,” Degman explained. “We had to check with them on everything: ‘Do you want to come film me do this, or should I do his alone?’ There were a couple of things I said on camera that I had forgotten I said—and when we watched it, I was like, ‘Oops, I didn’t know I said that.’” The Degmans are the only married couple on the series, so much of the other extra-musical drama centers on dating in the Nashville singles scene. “One of my friends goes on a blind date and they Continued on page 22
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My husband and I have been through a lot in our marriage. We sort of felt like we have dealt with a lot of harder things than being on a reality show. -Rachyl Degman, co-star on CMT’s Music City
Rachyl Degman, formerly of Littleton, plays real-life law studenthousewife to her country-musician husband Kerry, pg. 22, on the “docuseries” Music City, premiering next week on CMT. Photo by John Shearer/Courtesy of CMT