A week from tomorrow is the night the CMA Awards will be handed out in Nashville. The star-studded line-up of performers added a couple more stars this week, as Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson will sing their duet from Jason's "My Kind of Party" album. Martina McBride and Rodney Atkins have been added as presenters. The show will air at 8 Eastern on ABC. Tomorrow night, the special that Robin Roberts has been working on for months will air. "In The Spotlight with Robin Roberts: All Access Nashville" is a warm-up to the CMA Awards show on ABC.
Miranda Lambert is up for 9 CMA awards, more than anyone else, and is likely to be taking home an award or few. That'll be really nice for her, considering that next Wednesday is her 27th birthday!
Oprah Winfrey's network is shaping up to be very country-friendly. First, OWN announced a Shania Twain show, and now they've added a one-hour reality series about the Judds. The show will follow the mother-daughter duo as they prepare for their first tour in a decade. The network will debut on January first, 2011.
Taylor Swift has the number one song in country music with "Mine" and the #1 cd in the country by a long shot this week. Sales numbers are still being tabulated, but it looks like she's sold somewhere near a million copies of "Speak Now" in its first week. With the prevalence of single-song downloads, album sales have dropped off precipitously, so having a platinum first week has been unheard-of for nearly a decade. In more Taylor news, she's in the developmental stages of a new fragrance. Taylor's perfume will be available in the fall of next year.
Kenny Chesney turned up on stage Saturday night in Nashville, surprising the Ryman audience which had come to watch Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Kenny and Grace duetted on the song they cut for "Hemingway's Whiskey," "You and Tequila."
The Houston Rodeo lineup is trickling out. Zac Brown Band, Brad Paisley and Sugarland will all perform during the early March festival. The rest of the lineup will be announced in January.
Jack Ingram's Acoustic Motel finds him in a stairwell singing a Billy Joe Shaver song.
Congratulations to Daryle Singletary and his wife Holly on the birth of their twin sons, Mercer and Jonah.
New music out today includes Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party" and Brad Paisley's double-disc "Hits Alive."
Catch Taylor Swift on Dancing With the Stars tonight.
The tweet of the day is from Miranda Lambert: "In a tree in Kansas. Jacque and I are aiming to kill!!:)"
