It was Friday the 13th, and there were about 13,000 tickets sold for a Lady Antebellum concert at the Illinois State Fair. Call it bad luck or just bad timing, but the show had to be cancelled due to a severe lightning storm. You know that wouldn't have happened to Taylor Swift, whose lucky number is 13!
It was Friday the 13th, and Dierks Bentley and his guitarist, Bryan Layson, wanted to see a Billy Idol concert. One problem - the show was sold out. First, Dierks approached crew members near Billy Idol's bus, asking them if they liked country music. "Nope" was the reply. He eventually convinced a security guard to let him and Bryan into the show. Afterwards, he tweeted, "Makes me appreciate all our fans go through to come to our shows." Um, no, Dierks, they usually plunk down some cash, too!
It was in Mississippi on Friday the 13th that Sugarland and Little Big Town hit the stage for another collaboration - this time, it's "Walking in Memphis."
Mike Fisher and Carrie Underwood, whose last name is now legally Fisher, are building a home just outside of Ottowa so they have a place of their own to live in during hockey season. Apparently Mike's great at interior design and the house should be ready for them to move into some time next month.
Blake Shelton's new 6-pak, "All About Tonight," includes the song "Draggin' the River." When Miranda Lambert heard it, just as with "The House That Built Me," she asked Blake to let her record it. His reply? “I go, ‘What are you doing to me? No you’re not going to record that song. Are you kidding?’” About an hour later, she suggested that maybe they could do it as a duet. “Inside of that light bulb or that bubble in my head said, ‘Miranda Lambert Female Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year, millions of fans.’ So I agreed to the duet in hopes that everybody who buys her millions of albums will buy my album.” Good plan, Blake!
The deluxe edition of Toby Keith's upcoming cd, "Bullets in the Gun," will include covers of some of his favorite country songs recorded when he played the Fillmore "Incognito Bandito" show in New York in June. Only a few hundred fans saw that show live, but the show was recorded for this project. Songs include Johnny Paycheck's "11 Months And 29 Days," Waylon Jennings' "I've Been A Long Time Leaving (But I'll Be A Long Time Gone)," Roger Miller's "Chug-A-Lug" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown." The cd drops October 5th.
New music out today from Trace Adkins. "Cowboy's Back in Town" is his debut album on Toby Keith's Show Dog-Universal record label. Also new today, Australian sister trio The McClymonts "Chaos and Bright Lights" and iCarly actress Jeanette McCurdy's "Not That Far Away" ep.
What do country stars have for lunch? Well, yesterday Jake Owen ordered a 2-pound hamburger at Big Judd's in Boise, Idaho. Via Twitter, he promised to work it off wakeboarding in the afternoon.
Check out Taylor Swift in the new People Magazine, talking about musical instruments, favorite sports and seaweed, among other things.
The tweet of the day is from David Nail: "So the wife is watching Bachelorpad, however I can't force my self to watch such, therefore its me and Twitterland!" He spent the next couple of hours answering questions from followers and fans last night.
