Brad Paisley is playing his first stadium show tomorrow night at Gillette Stadium near Boston. When the show went on sale in January, 50,000 tickets sold out in less than six hours. More tickets have been made available and you can get them while they last at Brad's website.
Put on your golf togs and get set to go to Vegas to see Lady Antebellum perform on "Justin Timberlake and Friends - A Special evening Benefiting Shriners Hospitals for Children." The concert is on October 23rd at the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, and concert passes get you in to the final round of the PGA Tour tournament held in conjunction with the show. A pre-sale for American Express card-holders is going on now, and tickets for everyone else go on sale tomorrow morning.
He's had two 6-paks and now Blake Shelton is ready for...a 15-pak? Yep, in November, Blake will release a Greatest Hits album with 15 tracks, including everything from "The Baby" to "Hillbilly Bone." This first greatest hits package will cover his first 11 years of country music hits.
Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" has it's own pre-order site, chock-full of all sorts of Taylor fun, like a Twitter stream, videos and a way to get a wake-up call from Taylor herself. Ok, so it's a recording...it'll still be Talor Swift's voice calling you!
Kenny Chesney's "Hemingway's Whiskey" deluxe edition is truly deluxe. First of all, it's a cd/dvd set which includes bonus tracks and an extra half hour of video, including Kenny discussing the stories behind each of the songs, in-studio video of the recording of "You and Tequila" with Grace Potter. The cd streets September 28th, and I'll let you know when they're ready for you to pre-order.
In other Kenny news, it looks like his long-time girlfriend, Amy Colley, might be his ex. Kenny Chesney was spotted in Cancun vacationing with ESPN college football reporter Jenn Brown, and apparently the two looked pretty cozy.
Tickets are on sale today for the Hank Williams Jr., Gretchen Wilson and Lee Brice concert in Gulf Shores, Alabama. It's designed to help promote tourism in an area largely unaffected by the oil spill, but hugely affected by a drop in summer vacationers. Tickets are $25 for the Saturday, September 25th show at The Wharf's Amphitheater.
Jake Owen has done something to his right arm. He posted a photo of what looked like his arm, broken just below the elbow, saying he was headed to the ER. But representatives from his label just say it's swollen due to too much wake-boarding. But he's on prescription pain killers, meaning that "just swollen" is probably not quite the whole truth. Nonetheless, he's giving a show tonight in South Dakota - should be interesting to see if he's in a cast or can play guitar.
Trisha Yearwood has been invited to be part of the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival on October 9th. She'll be cooking up something wonderful from her latest cookbook. Wanna go? You can get tickets, and the proceeds benefit the Food Bank of New York City and Share Our Strength.
Wanna see a concert this weekend but don't want to go out in the heat and thunderstorms? Cozy up to your computer tomorrow night and catch Lee Brice's hometown concert, live from Charleston, SC, at 9pm eastern time.
This morning, Keith Urban hit the Today show and Trace Adkins appeared on Fox & Friends. Tomorrow night at 7 eastern, Darius Rucker performs on Jimmie Jam on the Speed Channel. And on Monday, Blake Shelton co-hosts the Today Show with Hoda Kotb.
The tweet of the day is from James Otto: "Think about this, we drug test our athletes but not the people who run our country. How messed up is that?"
