Life Note: Oak Ridge Boys tenor singer Joe Bonsall has bowed out of the group's American Made: Farewell Tour and retired from the road after 50 years with the band due to a worsening neuromuscular disorder he's been battling for more than four years. He says, "I am now at a point where walking is impossible, so I have basically retired from the road. It has just gotten too difficult ... The Oak Ridge Boys will finish the Farewell Tour without me, but rest assured, I am good with all of it." The band introduced new tenor Ben James at a Dec. 30 concert in Mississippi. James previously toured with bluegrass artists Doyle Lawson and Dailey & Vincent.