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Rascal Flatts will be performing on "The Today Show" on Friday and NBC wants to know if you have any questions. Heck, if you're in the area you could even head over and see the boys in person.
The popular country group Rascal Flatts will soon hit our TODAY Show summer concert stage. If you have a question for the group, let us know! Don't forget Rascal Flatts is performing live on the Plaza on July 10, 2009, so come down to see them! Viewing is on a first-come, first-served basis outside TODAY's window-on-the-world studio, located at 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Fans should arrive by 6 a.m. for best viewing!
If you can't make it to the performance, then just head over here to submit your question.
Dierks did a good deed over the holiday weekend and played on the 4th of July for soldiers and their families at Ft. Hood Texas. Then like a good country singer in 2009, he took to his Twitter to give us a picture and a Tweet.
leaving fort hood gym...ran into military police dog "rocky"! he could swallow my dog george in one bite!
And no, I'm not even going to discuss that ill-placed wrinkle in Dierks' shorts, it would just not be ladylike.
(Note: I appologize to Dierks for all the wicked thoughts that have went through my head while writing this post)
I love when stars add tour dates to their schedule. It especially makes me happy when they add dates in my area. Luke Bryan has added three new tour dates to his schedule. Check 'em out and see if any are near you.
The People's Court in Des Moines, IA, July 24, 2009
Knitting Factory Concert House in Boise, ID, August 16, 2009
The House Sports Bar and Grill in Laurel, DE. August 28, 2009
You can check out Luke's whole tour schedule here. Now I just need to send out some good vibes so that Mr. Bryan's peeps know he's going to be me near me, I'll be doing good. ;0)
Sigh. Please don't shoot the messenger, I just post 'em as I find 'em.
Danny Gokey, the bespectacled third place finisher on last season's "American Idol" is apparently considering country as his musical outlet.
After listening to him butcher Jesus Take The Wheel on the show I'm more than a little blah about the prospect.
American Idol contestant Danny Gokey was in Nashville last week meeting with country music record labels, including the same label that's home to Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler. Danny admits he doesn't really think of himself as a country artist, but he says he wouldn't mind recording country music because, "I love the message." He also thinks that artists like Carrie, Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts have, "brought a new taste to country, which I'd be more more interested in."
Hey, whatever pays the bills I guess.
Here's the studio recording of JTTW Danny did. Strangely I couldn't find a video of Danny singing it on the show - of course I didn't spend that much time looking so that may have something to do with it.
When The Bellamy Brothers were looking for some talent for their new video for Guilty of the Crime, they looked to Hollywood to fill the spot.
They came up with Kevin Bacon and Shannen Doherty.
"We spent the day in prison, and it was pretty wild," David Bellamy tells The Boot of shooting the video in Memphis' Shelby County Correctional Center. "'Hustle & Flow' was filmed there. They actually shot part of 'Walk The Line' there, too."
Kevin Bacon and his brother are part of The Bacon Brothers band so they're not so surprising, but bad-girl Shannen Doherty? That's a bit more surprising.
"We needed a naughty girl for the cell [scenes]," says David. "It was a great role for her to play. She was perfect. And she's from Memphis oddly enough, which is something we didn't know."
Check out the finished video below and read the rest of The Boot's interview here.
Don't you hate it when you've been singing along to a song for ages and THEN find out what the actual words are? Well Martina joined The Dorsey Gang at 96.3 last week for an interview and to set the record straight to exactly what she's singing in This One's For The Girls. Check out the humorous video along with some pictures and other video here.
Who knew a pantry and eBay was all you needed to make great music?
Rodney tells the Leader Post, "I do all my vocals at home. It started out of fear, maybe. After we did the first album on Curb, Honesty, we made several changes . . . I didn’t know what type of budget I was going to get to work on the next album. I got on eBay and got a $200 microphone and an Mbox and a refurbished laptop. I set it all up in the pantry. That was my room, my wife let me use it. I got some packing foam out of the barn and put it up on the walls and started doing some vocals on some demos. The head of A&R at Curb at that time said, ‘Man, what did you do with these vocals? These are the best vocals I’ve ever heard come out of you.’ I told him I did them at home and he told me to keep doing it. So I built a vocal booth to isolate the sound a little bit more. That’s how I do my vocals. It’s great because you can wake up and if you feel like singing, you go sing. If you don’t, you don’t have to.”
Awww Kellie Pickler, she's always good for a story to make us laugh. She talked recently with my friend Jeff from the Ploughboy Mansion and of course the interview had a great Kellie story included.
Okay, Jeff doesn't know he's my friend, but I get quite a few stories from him so that makes him my buddy whether he knows it or not.
Anyway, Kellie tells the story of how she thought the President of the US was ruining her chances of anyone knowing her second album was coming out.
LP: You’ve released two albums and both have hit No. 1. That must be a great feeling.
KP: “I’m definitely not complaining about that. It’s amazing. Long story short — when my second album came out, I was in New York City getting ready to do The Today Show. It was my record launch, the big day, and I wake up that morning really early. I’m laying in bed and I turn on the TV and I’m like, ‘Holy cow!’ The same day that my album is coming out is the same day that the stock market dropped to the lowest level in history. So the President was on every channel. It seemed like all the TV and media I was doing to promote my record coming out, the President kept interrrupting me on TV. (laughs) I was like, ‘Just give me one minute to finish singing my song and then you can come on and talk about the bad news.’ I thought nobody would know my record was coming out because the President was interrupting me. I didn’t think anyone was going to buy it. With the economy being what it is, I didn’t expect anyone to take their hard-earned money and got out a CD when people are losing their houses. When I got the news that the album debuted at No. 1 on the charts, I was completely floored because I didn’t think anybody knew it was coming out. It was an awkward and weird situation.”
OMG you guys! I have totally got a brilliant idea. Battle of the beers. And battle of the beer promoters. Yeah baby.
I was going to tell you all about Kid Rock's new brew, American Badass Beer (or ABB for those who wish to not order a beer with ass in the name), which started being brewed and kegged on Saturday, July4th, and how the brewery got tax cuts that allowed them to use $7 million to create this beer and how it's going to create 349 jobs statewide in Michigan. Yeah, that's what I was going to talk about until I read this little blurb from an interview Kid Rock did.
"People that like premium beers and Guinness is their of choice, they will not like this. I want this to be like the beer I drink (see right). You grab it, you share it with your friends, it's refreshing, it's cold, it gives you a good buzz. Done."
Kid Rock also said print ads for the beer take shots at Budweiser and Corona, but not Coors, one of his former endorsers.
"No, not Coors," Kid Rock told the Detroit News. "Coors was very good to me."
Take shots at Corona? As in Kenny Chesney's Corona? You see where I'm going? I'm now ready to see a battle of the beers, Kenny versus Kid Rock, Corona versus Badass Beer. I see beaches, Cancun, bikinis and tanned muscular men, loads of free beer (for the taste-off of course), and one large stage for Kenny and Kid to perform on.
Wow, got lost in the moment there. Anyway, Kid Rock's ABB is expected to make its debut at his concerts at Comerica Park in Detroit, July 17-18.
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