Lady Antebellum has wrapped up their work with Tim McGraw on the Southern Voice tour on Saturday, and are in London now, getting ready for a show on Wednesday. Hillary Scott says, "I wish we were able to stay a little longer and travel around, but this will at least be a great introduction for us to the new fans and friends we are making over there." The show is at Shepherd's Bush Empire and is sold out.
Billy Currington is getting ready to join the Carrie Underwood tour, and has wrapped up recording on his new album, "Enjoy Yourself." Right now, release is scheduled for September 21st.
Carrie Underwood has confessed that the next single from "Play On" will be "Mama's Song." It's a song she co-wrote, and she says that with her recent wedding, it means more to her than ever. The song describes a warm relationship between a woman and her mother.
Last night, Taylor Swift won 4 Teen Choice awards, though she wasn't there to accept them. She won for favorite female country artist, country song for "15," country album for "Fearless" and breakout movie actress for her role in "Valentine's Day."
Toby Keith is on the cover of the September issue of People Magazine's special country edition, on newsstands now. He talks about his life as a country star, but also as a Dad and coach.
In case you missed it, here's Kenny Chesney's interview with Parade Magazine. It was in yesterday's paper, and Kenny was the cover boy.
Josh Thompson's on tour with Brad Paisley, but he's checking out the local cuisine at each stop. What's his favorite? Sushi? Steak? Nope - fried anything. “They got all kinds of interesting things now that I’ve never even heard of, like fried Coca-Cola, deep-fried Butterfingers, deep-fried butter! I don’t know how that could be good, but I want to try it and, you know, form my own opinion. Deep-fried Twinkies. I don’t even like Twinkies, but you add the deep-fried component, and it’s like, well, I’m gonna have to take a bite, see what it’s about.”
A bit of calendar fun...it happened this morning and will happen again at 5:06 this afternoon - it will be 5:06:07 8/9/10
Luke Bryan is on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight.
The runner-up tweet of the day is from Miranda Lambert: "Can u imagine if @DierksBentley And @Blakeshelton had a baby together? It would have the most amazing white kid Fro ever!!! And the biggest collection of plaid flannel shirts!"
The tweet of the day is from Blake Shelton, replying to a question about whether his "All About Tonight" 6-pak will be released tomorrow in Canada, too: "May take it awhile to get across the border... Even my music has been arrested.."
