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Kelsea Ballerini Wins First Ever Award

Posted on: December 15th, 2015 by brent

Kelsea Ballerini accepted the Rising Star Award at Billboard’s Women In Music 2015 and it’s her first award ever!

“I learned by watching strong, empowering, bold women how to become one,” she said in her acceptance speech. “I’m a fan of everyone in this room.”

my first ever award. "rising star" from @billboard Women In Music Event today. Wow. So honored.

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Kelsea, who picked up a couple of CMA nominations in November, also just signed on to open shows for Billy Currington’s spring tour.

Randy Houser Engaged!

Posted on: May 4th, 2015 by brent

Randy Houser is engaged! People reports he got engaged to 21-year-old Tatiana Starzynski, whom he met earlier this year through her sister, who is married to Randy’s friend, Dallas Davidson.

Randy and his first wife filed for divorce last year after three years of marriage. They kept their relationship under the radar so his three-year-old son, West, could get to know her in private.

“It’s obvious to anyone that knows Randy that he’s just radiating happiness in this relationship, and that’s all his friends and family ever wanted for him,” an unnamed friend told the magazine.

No word yet on when Houser and Starzynski will marry, but his rep confirms wedding plans are already underway.

Kenny Chesney CMT Documentary “Flora-Bama” Video

Posted on: November 13th, 2014 by brent

If you missed the Kenny Chesney show at the Flora-Bama on August 16, the CMT special is at 9p on Friday, November 14.

The Flora-Bama-Jama was a free concert  sponsored by Kenny’s Blue Chair Bay Rum.


Here are some great pictures from the event:

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Brad Paisley Expands Role With Pixar

Posted on: June 16th, 2014 by brent

Brad Paisley wrote a new song in honor of his father, Doug, who was a fireman, for the new Disney movie “Planes: Fire & Rescue”, which is a follow-up to 2013’s “Planes.”

The song is called “All In,” and highlights the bravery and sacrifice made by firefighters. Besdies the song, Brad has a voice role in the movie. He tells USA Today, “My earliest memories are on these fire trucks. There are more photographs of me from age 5 to 10 on these fire engines than there are photographs of me on birthdays.”

Brad even thought that he might be a firefighter one day, like his dad, “But I took the music path and got really busy. It just wasn’t in the cards for me. The best hopes are my kids, probably.”

Among the song’s lyrics: “Without hesitation in the face of fear and doubt/There’s smoke and flames and everybody needs out/They’re all in.”

Brad sings another song in the movie, which is due out July 18 and will play the role of a heartbroken pickup truck named “Bubba” who has one line in the movie. This isn’t their first time Brad’s teamed up with the Pixar team, singing songs for “Cars” and “Cars 2”.

FGL Launching Clothing Line

Posted on: June 2nd, 2014 by brent

Florida Georgia Line has been using the hashtag #cantaffordnotto on some recent tweets and Instagram posts, and it turns out it’s part of them expanding their footprint with a clothing line called ‘Can’t Afford Not To.’

Tyler says, “We’re going to start a website. We’re going to start a clothing line, ‘Can’t Afford Not To.’ It’s just become a cool thing, one of those sayings that keeps coming up. So we’ll see what happens with it.”

Tyler explains say the phrase is one “we’ve all said…B-K and myself and kind of our whole camp and crew…It just became a popular saying among our friends.” He says it’s their version of the “Keep Calm” trend.

They haven’t given a launch date for the line.

Jimmy Fallon Tries On Dolly Parton’s Wig

Posted on: May 14th, 2014 by brent

Dolly Parton was on The Tonight Show last night and got Jimmy Fallon to try on one of her wigs…

Luke Bryan’s Wife, “I kissed him first!”

Posted on: April 14th, 2014 by brent

It seems like every woman wouldn’t mind to share a kiss with Luke Bryan. Well, the lady that gets to kiss him regularly, his wife Caroline, says it’s something you would probably have to do yourself, like she did.

“He was always a gentleman,” she tells People Country she says of their time dating at Georgia Southern. “We hung out as friends and he never made a move on me. I kissed him first! He was always scared of making a girl feel uncomfortable, he wouldn’t cross a line.”

When they met, Luke was a senior and Caroline was a freshman. She is also glad the world is now getting a chance to know Luke like she and their kids do. “In college, we used to go dancing in a club til 4 a.m. and he’s just as silly at home as he is on stage. He walks around dancing all day, just being goofy.”

25 Things About Dierks Bentley

Posted on: March 11th, 2014 by brent

Dierks Bentley recently shared 25 things fans might not know about him with Us Weekly, including the fact that he has chronic insomnia, he has a boat that Kenny Chesney gave him as an end-of-tour gift in 2006 but it only has 13.5 hours on it because he says, “Kids!” and he’s learning to play fiddle through his daughter Jordan’s fiddle lessons.  He says he can play “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” on fiddle.

Check out all 25 things here.

Brad Paisley Gets ‘Distinguished West Virginian Award’

Posted on: March 4th, 2014 by brent

Brad Paisley wrapped up the last dates on his “Beat This Winter Tour” over the weekend with shows in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Dayton, Ohio and his home state of West Virginia, in Charleston.

At the final stop he was presented with the Distinguished West Virginian Award, which honors those who have contributed significantly to West Virginia or those who have brought positive attention to the state. The award is the highest honor that can be awarded by the Governor and it distinguishes those who excel in their field and have achieved national recognition.

Up next for Bard, it’s off to Europe for the C2C festival in Dublin, Ireland on March 15 and London on March 16 before traveling to Norway and Sweden for shows.

Source: CMT

Being ‘Touchy’ A Touchy Subject With Justin Moore

Posted on: February 26th, 2014 by brent

Even though Justin Moore denies being a germaphobe, you get the impression that he is, kind of. For example, when he goes to Vegas for the ACM Awards in April, he says he won’t be wading into the hotel pool.

“My wife is excited about pool time. I’m not. I don’t do public pools,” he says. “I’m not really a germaphobe, but public pools to me are disgusting. I mean, you’re talking about urine that ain’t yours, you’re talking about every germ imaginable. It’s just gross to me. My wife can do it. It creeps me out.”

Among the other things that bother the ACM New Artist Finalist are what other people may have left behind in the water. “Band-Aids. You know, you’re swimming around, there’s somebody’s Band-Aid that fell off. I mean, they had it maybe around their ingrown toenail or something,” he says. “I can’t do it.”

“I won’t drink out of water fountains either.” Also on his “no” list, touching anything in the bathroom, which he admits can be a challenge at times because of his height. “In the bathroom, like the urinal, I kick the flusher, the handle. I don’t touch it with my hands, yeah, unless it’s real tall and then obviously I can’t reach it. My legs are not the longest in the world, but [I] do the elbow thing.”

Justin wants you to cast you (clean) vote for him for ACM New Artist of the Year at VoteACM.com starting March 24th . The Academy of Country Music Awards will be handed out April 6th on CBS.

Source: Country Vibe