Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Today's Country Tidbits

Yikes…the stadium where the Super Bowl will be held on Sunday had a mishap yesterday. Workers were setting up a halftime-show rehearsal and part of the stage collapsed. 4 people are hospitalized, and are expected to recover. Hope whatever Carrie Underwood will be standing on to sing the National Anthem is nice and steady!

Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning and Tim McGraw's movie, "The Blind Side," is nominated for Best Picture, and Sandra Bullock is nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Jason Aldean is #1 again this week with "The Truth." He knew he wanted to record the song the first time he heard it, and was delighted when it was chosen to be released as a single.

And how does Billy Currington go from recording a love song like "Don't" to one like "People Are Crazy?" He says he and the musicians have to "get their head in a different space." He loves being in the studio making the magic happen for the record, and then taking that magic out on the road.

Martina McBride and her girls were in Virginia when snow hit Nashville, but it was still on the ground when they got home Monday. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Martina's newest "daughter" Daisy and "son" Zack.




















Is Dierks Bentley the Susan Lucci of country music? This is the 7th time he's been nominated for a Grammy, and he hasn't won yet.

The Grammy after-parties go on all night, and tales of the goings-on are beginning to trickle out. Jamie Foxx, rapper, producer and big fan of country music, hosted a party, and when Miranda Lambert walked in, he grabbed the mic and started rapping some of the lines in "White Liar," much to Miranda's delight. He also told her he'd love to get together to write songs...wonder what those might sound like?

After the Grammys, there's a media room where all the winners go to pose with their awards. During Taylor Swift's photo shoot, one of the awards fell and broke. Don't worry...they have lots of them, and she looked beautiful for her close-up.

And catch Taylor Swift's Grammy-cam footage on the Ellen Degeneres show today.