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I love you Trisha Yearwood, but this was perhaps not the best light

Trisha Yearwood is a beautiful woman, but harsh lighting is not her friend. Here she is chatting with Blair Garner and looking very well illuminated. 

Love you Trisha. :0)

Wow, Toby is totally talking about me

I'm sitting here on my bed in the dark with the TV on with my laptop sitting on my lap and I just happen to be in my pajamas...a T-shirt and underwear.  I'm telling you this because it makes this quote Toby gave to CNN all the more profound.  I actually sort of snorted when I read it. 

CNN: Do you think controversy has been a good thing for your career? Do you think you've courted controversy sometimes?

Toby Keith:I've learned to embrace the booger-eatin' nerds that sit around in their underwear and type blogs. I've embraced that. So I use them to my advantage. They're going to do it whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy.

At least I'm not a booger eater anyway.

Two country giants getting ready to head out on tour

 

  

 
Wow, now here's a powerhouse duo if I ever heard of one. 

It's been announced that George Strait and Reba McEntire will be teaming up to tour in 2010. 

“I can’t wait to get back out there and perform some of my new favorites from Twang along with hits the fans already love,” says Strait. “And with my friend Reba, we will make it a really spectacular night.”  Spectacular night may be an understatement if you ask me.  The last concert the two country greats teamed up together for was when they opened the brand new Dallas Cowboys' new stadium in Arlington, Texas earlier this year and that one sold out in about an hour so I have a feeling this is going to be one hot ticket next year. Check out the upcoming dates below.

Date City Venue       22-Jan Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner 23-Jan Greensboro, NC Coliseum 29-Jan Knoxville, TN Thompson Boling 30-Jan Charlottesville, VA JPJ Arena 5-Feb Phoenix, AZ US Airways 6-Feb Las Vegas, NV MGM 18-Feb St Louis, MO Scottrade Center 19-Feb Wichita, KS Intrust Bank Arena 20-Feb Tulsa, OK BOK Arena 25-Feb Atlanta, GA Philips Arena 26-Feb Orlando, FL Amway Arena 4-Mar Memphis, TN FedEx Forum 5-Mar New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena 6-Mar Little Rock, AR Verizon 26-Mar Portland, OR The Rose Garden 27-Mar Tacoma, WA Tacomadome 8-Apr Omaha, NE Qwest Center 9-Apr Kansas City, MO Sprint Center 10-Apr Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena

Blake and Trace take a page out of one of my favorite movies for their new video

Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins give us a funny video for their new song, Hillbilly Bone. 

 

Not sure about you, but I spent the second half of the video waiting for Blake to put the wine bottle on his tongue like Woody Harrelson famously did for "The Cowboy Way."  Unfortunately he refrained from any tongue-bottle exercises.

 

Blake Shelton   More CMT Music   More CMT Music Videos

 

Did he or didn't he?

Oh those country stars, they're just like us.  Heck, they even soometimes fart.  So did Brad or didn't he?  Take a listen to Brad's interview  with The Frogmen in the Morning and let me know what you think.

Squeaky chair or squeaky something else?  You be the judge.

And make sure you check out the rest of last week's Frogmen in the Morning interview here.  He talks teleporters, Star Trek, who has the final say about Halloween costumes, and a missing line in Welcome to the Future.

Cleaning out my email

Lots of emails filling up my inbox, here's just a few....

• The Zac Brown Band has an announcement.... Labor Day Weekend 2010, we invite you, our most passionate and dedicated fans, to experience the first ever Sailing Southern Ground Cruise (www.sailingsouthernground.com). We are bringing together you, and 2,000 other friends, who all value family, food, and authentic music above all else. We will fill the Carnival Inspiration September 2-6 with unique musical performances, spur-of-the-moment collaborations, a ZBB twist on cuisine, amazing new friendships, and incredible stories. We want to bring you a vacation that you’ll talk about for a lifetime. With us as your hosts, some amazing artist friends joining us, and fans like you coming from all over the globe, it’s gonna be one hell of a good time! Prices start at $699. Read more of ZBB's announcement here.

• Keith Urban gave a free concert in Cool Springs, TN and CoolSprings.com was nice enough to post videos of every song Keith sang including I’m In, Only You Can Love Me This Way, Kiss a Girl, Walkin’ The Country, and I Want To Cry Tonight. Check out all the videos here.

• Martina McBride makes her second appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in barely a week as she follows her performance this past Monday on Oprah’s State Fair of Texas episode with a return visit on November 3rd.  Last Monday's show actually taped two weeks prior but the amazing part was that Martina got the call on a Friday and by Monday morning was on the Texas stage singing.  This time, the Oprahsegment takes Martina to her home state of Kansas with only a couple days notice.  The theme of the November 3rd show is celebrities’ “first jobs,” and who better to be one of the featured guests than Martina who served up ice cream and burgers at her hometown DQ.  Oprah’s crew took Martina back to revisit the Hutchinson, Kansas, Dairy Queen which is still owned by the same couple who employed Martina after high school.
• Broadway talks to Jimmy Wayne about Carrie Underwoods total lack of Tweeting http://broadway.b93.com/pages/behind-the-barn.html?feed=346283&article=6249122
• Good Morning America's Robin Roberts puts country music in the spotlight. Reader Vanessa says "Interviews with Carrie, Tim, Reba, Rosanne Cash, Wynonna and others...I love when Tim takes Robin on a tour of his farm! :)"  Check it all out here.
• Carrie Underwood thanks her man in the liner notes of her upcoming CD Play On. " Thank you #12 You are the most amazing addition to my life! You are such a wonderful person and have had such an amazing hand in the building of this album and in the growth of me as a person. I love you so much! You make my life better in every way! I thank god for you every day...... xoxo, Carrie"
• Buy One Get One -- With the purchase of any CMA Awards (11/11) ticket you'll get a FREE ticket to the CMA Songwriters Series Concert (11/10) in Nashville. Limited Time Offer. Buy your tickets now. Use code: SONGS. 

• The Grand Ole Opry's getting into the webisode business.  Check out their new Opry Debut debut webisode with Steel Magnolia.

• Brad Paisley will be making an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman on Tuesday, Nov. 3.  Paisley will be performing “American Saturday Night.” Brad will also be on Good Morning America on Tuesday, Nov. 10. 

• Somebody please save Fuzzy and lock this girl up http://www.mileysavefuzzy.com.

   

• Madison Square Garden has an awesome set of Brad Paisley photos from his recent Garden performance for your viewing pleasure.  Check them all out here. There's a Dierks Bentley gallery too.  

• Toby Keith coaches 7th grade football in his spare time.  Wait, Toby Keith has spare time?  I'm  impressed. http://www.normantranscript.com/localnews/local_story_299011529