If you're in the Atlanta area or can be by 7pm tonight, you can play along with a Sugarland Scavenger Hunt. Hit their FaceBook page & join it to get the announcement at 7pm, then be the first to find one of the three Incredible Machine Tour Costume packages that'll be stashed somewhere around town. One package has a pair of tickets to their sold-out show Thursday in Alpharetta, GA. Good luck!
Zac Brown Band finished up in the studio yesterday, laying down tracks for their upcoming cd, "You Get What You Give," due out September 21st. Zac tweeted that he's "uber-psyched" with the project.
The video for Miranda Lambert's "Only Prettier" is out, starring Miranda, Kellie Pickler, Lady A's Hillary Scott and Laura Bell Bundy as powder-puff girls and greasers. Look carefully at the guys - there are some surprise guests, too.
Nominations were announced yesterday for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, and country music's only representative is Taylor Swift. She's nominated for Best Female Video for "Fifteen." Crossing fingers that Kanye West isn't allowed in the building again this year.
Taylor Swift will perform her new song, "Mine," on the "CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock" tv special on September first. The top-secret performance was taped in Nashville during the CMA Music Festival in June. Tim McGraw hosts the show, which includes performances from Brad Paisley, Reba, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and most of country music's biggest stars.
Carrie Underwood shares some of her healthy eating tips with WebMD, including the fact that she doesn't usually eat the catered band food at her concerts. Her rule? If she doesn't know what's in it, she doesn't eat it. She goes to the grocery store and shops for her own food, and she enjoys the shopping trips. According to Carrie, "I would hate to see the day when someone else had to buy my groceries for me!”
Jimmy Wayne thought all the hoopa was over with in Arizona when he finished his walk across America. Not so - he returned to Nashville yesterday to a hero's welcome. After seven months of walking across America, he was met by kids from Nashville's Monroe Harding Children's Home, the staff at his record label, Valory Music, and dozens of fans. When asked what was the first thing he was going to do when he got home, he had a one-word reply: laundry.
Brad Paisley will release a greatest-hits project on November 2nd called "Hits Alive." The double-disc's track list hasn't been released yet.
Craig Morgan is on Hannity tonight on the Fox News channel.
Our tweet of the day is from Chris Young, apparently responding to the rumor that Brett Favre is again retiring: "My only comment about all this is Brett Favre is my favorite quarterback of all time. That is all."
