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I'm thinking of doing a website revamp, anyone got any ideas?

I'm kinda bored with the look and feel of NashvilleGab and am thinking of getting my hands dirty and revamping things this weekend.  Only problem is I'm so not creative with how and where things should be placed, themes, etc.  Anyone out there a creative website whiz?  Want to do a redesign for free advertising?  I currently use Typepad but am considering switching over to Wordpress just because of the great things I've heard.  Anyone got any great ideas? Things you'd like to see on NashvilleGab that aren't currently here.  Things that the site has that it doesn't really need? Sites out there that you like the look and feel of that I can use to get the creative juices flowing.  I'm open to all ideas.

Free music to honor the CMA nominees

Seems everybody and their brother is excited for the CMAs tonight.  Well Amazon.com is getting in on all the excitement and are offering a free song download from your favorite CMA Awards nominee. So whether you're on team Taylor, Zac Brown, Carrie, Kenny or whoever, they've got you covered.

Don't know what song you'd like for free?  Well check out this list of songs you can choose from.  There are literally hundreds if not more.  And find out how to get your free song by visiting Amazon.com here. But hurry, the offer's only good thru November 22. 

{tip via @capitalnash}

Gretchen Wilson looks like a fun interview

How many of you wish you could be interviewed by a radio station while a little tipsy? 

Looks like Gretchen Wilson can now mark that off her bucket list. 

Fun stuff.  You can check out some more of the Frogmen's CMA Nashville videos here.

Kristian Bush's Elmotastic career high

We all have those things that let us know we're on the right track in life and if we're lucky we'll have some big moment in our lives that will let us know we are at the top of our game and at the height of our career. Sugarland's Kristian Bush has had that career moment already and it involved a furry red monster.

“The moment I felt we’d made it was when we got to walk in to the set of ‘Sesame Street’ and sing with the Muppets,” he told Knoxville magazine (via GACTV). “You have to pinch yourself when you’re singing next to Oscar’s trashcan. It’s a beautiful thing, talking to a puppet. You can’t help yourself.”

Check out the video below just in case you're not 3 and happened to miss last year's Sesame Street episode. So cute.

Brad Paisley's wears Justin Timberlake's jeans and other things you may not know

Brad Paisley, Brad Paisley, Brad Paisley.  The man is everywhere lately.  Including CNN.  The news channel did an interview with tonight's CMA co-host and he let us in on a couple of things you may not know about him.  For example...

But perhaps the most telling sign his popularity has transcended genre is that Justin Timberlake sends him samples from his William Rast designer jeans line.

"He actually called me to thank me for wearing them the other day, which was crazy," says the 36-year-old musician.

Yep, Brad's bringing Sexy Back. 

See, I'm cool, I know a Justin Timberlake song. 

Brad goes on to tell who he really, really wants to collaborate with (even if he has to annoy him to get the job done)

CNN: Who haven't you collaborated with that you'd like to?

Paisley: It's Eric Clapton. I've never even met him. If I say it enough, maybe he'll go, "All right, fine, shut up! I'll do it!"

It's a really short interview but worth the read.  Check it out here.

Kenny Chesney hitting the big screen in a big way

Kenny Chesney may not be doing a big tour in 2010, but that doesn't mean you have to lose out on your Chesney fix. 

As I told you back in July or so, Kenny Chesney had been taping various concerts to use the footage in some sort of 3-D show.  Well I think most people figured we'd just get a DVD with some funky glasses that we could watch in the comfort of our own home. Well good news, you wont have to wear those funky glasses all alone because Kenny's heading to the big screen.

USA Today is reporting that Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D, which was taped by more than 20 cameras in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco and Foxborough, Mass., will hit at least 750 screens in April of 2010.

"I've been trying for years to have the audience closer to me and to have me be closer to them," Chesney says. "With this production, they can't get any closer."

The film will also feature Kenny off the stage where he took cameras along with him on various adventures, including before his June concert in Pittsburgh when he took cameras with him to a houseboat on the Ohio River. "We did a 35-minute show with all the tailgaters, right on the water. Unless you're down there, nobody gets to see that."

The BMIs go Hollywood

Wow, someone's looking all polished and purty.  Oh, and Nicole looks nice too with her new short do. 

Keith and Nicole along with Kris Kristofferson and Taylor Swift (who won her second BMI song-of-the-year award for Love Story) Miranda Lambert, Jake Owen, Hillary Scott, and even Danny Gokey attended Tuesday's 57th Annual BMI Country Awards in Nashville.  You can read about all the award winners on BMI's website.  You can also check out a bunch more pictures on AP's website here.

 

Oh yeah, just another angle to show that Taylor really is THAT tall.