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The Carter Twins would like to share some free music with you

Acts come and acts go and sometimes we never even notice when they do either.

Unless they give us free music that is. 

And don't we all just love a little free music? 

The Carter Twins have recorded a special four-song acoustic EP and they're giving it away to their fans for free. 

Never been a fan myself but I have to say that I enjoyed listening to the four songs, so even if you've never been a fan either, you might find yourself humming right along too. 

Get your free music here. 

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Yo...Taylor Swift covers Eminem and Uncle Kracker in Michigan

Every stop on her wildly popular Speak Now Tour, Taylor covers some music from a hometown favorite musician to get the crowd really screaming. 

At her stop in Grand Rapids on July 28th she covered Eminem's Lose Yourself and Smile by Uncle Kracker.  

I love the beginning guitar work on Lose Yourself.  Pretty cool.

These are by far Blake Shelton's cutest fans, now he needs to show them some love!

Linda is on the left, Dorothy on the right

So you say you're a Blake Shelton fan? 

Well I bet you're not as big a Blake Shelton fan as these two sisters. 

The Fargo-Moorhead Forum has this great story about Dorothy Huebner and Linda Lake who are sisters and have one thing in common...they are huge and I mean HUGE Blake Shelton fans. 

The sisters have followed Blake for the past decade.  And when I say follow, I mean they've followed him, like literally all over the country.

The Inforum says the 60+-year-old sisters, who are also roommates, have traveled as far as Amarillo, Texas to see Blake play a Walmart of all places.

That's when you know they've been following him for a long time.  

They've also visited both his hometowns of Ada, Oklahoma (where Blake grew up) and Tishomingo, Oklahoma (where he and Miranda live now) and in 2009 they traveled 1500 miles so they could watch him perform four concerts in five days.  

All together the sisters have watched Blake in concert 33 times and have met him 18 times.  Their living room is lined with pictures of Blake and his family, and the devoted sisters make sure and send their favorite country singer a Christmas card each and every year. 

“My sister and I, there’s not a day we don’t talk about Blake,” Linda says. “He’s been part of our lives since 2001. We’ve laughed, cried, screamed, lost control watching awards shows.”

Now that's dedication.

Unfortunately, times change and this Thursday when Blake plays the WE Fest near Detroit Lake, Minnesota, only one of the ladies will be heading off to see him.  

Why the sudden change you ask?  Well only one sister was able to get a meet & greet pass this year and she felt it was time she shared her love of Blake with her 15-year-old granddaughter, Hailey.  That means that Dorothy will be sitting the concert out this year.  

Linda says her family considers Blake one of their own and says with a laugh when talking about Hailey's reaction, “She says, ‘My grandma loves Blake Shelton more because there’s more pictures of him than anyone else (in the family).’” 

Wow.  With fans as devoted as this, you know Blake's got to remember them.  Hey Blakey Boy, how about sending a special meet & greet pass to one-half of your biggest pair of fans out there!  Come on, just do it!

Guess the Gams - bikini-clad derriere edition

Well someone's out having fun. 

And with High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale to boot.  Guess you just never know who's gonna be buddies in the teeny tiny world of celebrity BFF's. 

So have you given up yet on who the bikini posterior belongs to?  

Okay, just pretend it was a tough one and check out more pictures here. 

GAC gets ready to take the stars back to their McDonald's and grass mowing days

This could definitely be interesting.  

Recently Aaron Tippin was at the Cumberland Regional Airport to shoot an episode of a new GAC reality series called "Day Jobs" which will begin airing this fall.  The show will take various country stars back to the jobs they had before they hit it big.

"Would you like fries or salad with that, Ma'am?"

"It's really a celebration of the folks who do those jobs every day," said the show's executive producer Sarah Brock, who was at the airport with a small crew while filming Tippin's episode.

"We're trying to stay out of the way of the job. Sometimes when you see reality show shooting, it looks like a swarm of folks. We're really trying to let the artists do the job and work side-by-side with the coworker who does this job for a living every day. So far it's been a great experience. All the artists have been having a really good time, all the places we've shot have been really receptive and we felt good when we left, so it's been great."

Aaron Tippin was probably a little different than the average country star in that his day job before hitting it big was nearly as cool as being a big time star....he was an airplane pilot (in fact, he still has his pilot's license).  His "Day Jobs" episode will take fans behind the scenes of what it's like to be a pilot. 

Kinda better than waiting tables or answering phones like most stars end up doing waiting for their big break.

"Day Jobs" will premiere Wednesday, Sept. 14, on GAC. 

{Photo and info source: Herald Citizen}

 

May still be having feed problems, I don't know

Okay, I don't know if this is working or not.  I'm going to let this post stew overnight and see if it shows up in my feed reader tomorrow. If it doesn't than I'm not sure what to do but I'll worry about it then.  

For now, I'm going to bed. 

Night all.  

BTW, if you made it to this post because it showed up in your feed reader (google, yahoo, or any others), please let me know, it'll help me a bunch to know things are working properly.  

 

Okay, I think the feed is really fixed this time

Sheesh, what a pain.  I had no clue in the least what I was doing, but I think I may have finally gotten the feed reader issues fixed.   

Personally I think it was the whining and threats to my computer and a couple of head-banging-against-desk maneuvers that finally did the trick.  

Anyway, if you've been subscribed in the past to my feed you may (I'm not 100% sure) have to either update your link in your feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/nashvillegab or just unsubscribe and resubscribe or just click the button up at the top there that says subscribe or the little orange picture in this post and resubscribe.  If any of that made any sense then I congratulate you on understanding gibberish. 

Hopefully this will fix any problems anyone's been having.  

Again, sorry guys, I really had no idea there was an issue.  

Feed is now officially fixed!

Wow, I'm so sorry everyone who reads this site through their feed reader.  I had no idea my feed wasn't working.  Back in June I had changed things so that my pictures would save to NashvilleGab rather than to the old Celebucrap blog name, which was the name of the blog I originally had a 100 years ago before NashvilleGab ever existed.  Anyway, long story short, doing that somehow screwed my feed all up and so none of my stories were showing up in feed readers (or at least Google feed readers). 

Gotta love technology. 

Update:  Maybe it's not, it worked for a minute but it doesn't look like it is now.  Sheesh.  Working on it.

Is anyone else having trouble viewing the Gab on a feed reader?

For some reason the site isn't showing up in Google feed reader and I'm not sure why.  Is anyone else having trouble viewing current posts in their feed readers?

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill reportedly nearly finished building their island getaway home

Oh hey, looky here, the Tim and Faith island-owning story is back.  

This was one of my first big stories not too long after I first started this blog back in 2008. I found a happy little piece that I had dug up in some obscure place about Tim and Faith Hill owning an island. A few hours later and bam, the story was everywhere, and I mean ever-eee-where with no mention of where the story had originally come from. 

That was my first foray into the odd and often frustrating world of no-one-friggin'-gives-credit-where-credit-is-due world of blogging.  

Sigh. 

Well history does what history does and an old story is suddenly new again.  This time though, there appears to be a house added into the mix.  Yep, Tim and Faith have apparently been quietly building their paradise home away from home.

According to reports, the power duo are close to finishing their 15,000 (yikes!) square foot home on their own private island in the Bahamas.  

Country music stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are in the final stages of construction on their 15,000-square-foot, four-bedroom on their 17-acre island, Goat Cay.

The plantation-style home main house will have a lookout tower and will be flanked by three smaller homes for a manager and staff, sources familiar with the construction told the Journal.

From what I can dig up, it appears the couple bought the island back around 2006, so I'm not sure what's taken so long to build the home, but I'm sure it'll be worth it once it's finished.  Check out some pictures of the surrounding islands here, but be warned, you may find yourself turning a bit green with envy.