Country Music Is Love

Tomorrow, Tomorrow....

2008-09-28T10:14:00.001-04:00

Don't forget to come back TOMORROW to see the NEW CMIL! We also have something else up our sleeve that you DO NOT want to miss!!!!

Brother Trouble Interview Part III

2008-09-28T06:00:00.004-04:00

Here's the 3rd and final installment of our time with Brother Trouble, Kenny Chesney's Next Big Star competition winners. This time the guys give us a tour of their bus! Check it out!!

If you missed Part I or II of the interview, watch them here!
Part I:

Part II:

New Music Coming to Radio

2008-09-28T06:00:00.003-04:00

There's a lot of new music coming our way!
According to Country Aircheck, these were the top downloaded songs to radio for last week! Exciting! We love to hear new music!

Gary Allan~ "She's So California"

Dierks Bentley~ "Feel That Fire"

Sara Evans~ "Low"

Jack Ingram~ "That's a Man"

Alan Jackson~ "Country Boy"

The Lost Trailers~ "How Bout You Don't"

Jamie O'Neal~ "Like A Woman"

Jessica Simpson~ "Remember That"

Jimmy Wayne~ "I Will"

Big Kenny on Tour

2008-09-28T06:00:00.002-04:00

Did y'all know that Big Kenny of Big & Rich is on tour? We didn't! He'll be doing a show in Boston in November as part of his "Happy People" tour in which he's singing fan favorites from Big & Rich as well as music from his upcoming solo project. This is the only date that we could find so far, but we'll keep you posted if he releases more!

If you're in the Boston area and want to go to this show, click here to purchase tickets.

Jessica Simpson to Appear on DWTS

2008-09-28T06:00:00.001-04:00

When you tune in to Dancing with the Stars to cheer on Julianne Hough on Tuesday, September 30th, you'll get the bonus of country newcomer Jessica Simpson! Jess will be the musical guest on the show that night and will perform her first country single, "Come On Over." The show will air at 9:00pm ET on your local ABC affiliate.

Be A GAC Superfan

2008-09-28T06:00:00.000-04:00

Click here to become a GAC Superfan...it's pretty cool! By signing up for a free account, you'll be able to earn points just by watching GAC, playing trivia games, taking surveys, and playing a fun slot machine...you can then turn in your points for great prizes like a $50 gas card, an iPod, a digital camera, and plenty of GAC merchandise. Check it out!

Sugarland Cancels More Shows...

2008-09-27T13:39:00.005-04:00

Sugarland has cancelled a few more shows on their "Love on the Inside" tour due to illness. Tonight's show at The Big E in Springfield, MA as well as tomorrow's Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion Gilford, NH show are both cancelled. We have confirmed this with both venues. The Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion told us that the show would be rescheduled. We'll keep you updated.

Kid Rock Co-Hosting Country Countdown USA

2008-09-27T09:30:00.001-04:00

Tune in to the Country Countdown USA w/ Lon Helton this week where he'll be joined by co-host Kid Rock. Kid Rock's single "All Summer Long" is currently in the top 5 on the charts and still climbing. He'll talk about his friendship with many country stars including Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Gretchen Wilson, George Strait, and John Rich, and he'll also chat with Lon about his wedding at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge to Pamela Anderson.

You can hear audio clips of the show here.

Keep tuning in to the show - Kellie Pickler will co-host next weekend followed by Kenny Chesney the weekend after that!

2008-09-27T09:15:00.001-04:00

Here's Jessica Simpson performing on Thursday night in Canada. We still think she looks great...perhaps a little too much "out there," but hey, we bet it gave her male fans a thrill!

Taylor Swift in New York

2008-09-27T09:15:00.000-04:00

Taylor Swift never seems to slow down! Here she is in New York yesterday to help launch the new MySpace Music. She looks adorable and classy, as always!

GAC: Into the Circle

2008-09-27T06:00:00.008-04:00

Tune into GAC throughout the weekend to see Travis Tritt and James Otto on GAC's Into the Circle. The show takes you behind the scenes with up and coming artists and some of country music's hottest stars! Tune in tonight at 10pm (EST)! If you miss the first airing you can also catch Into the Circle at these times.

More Kellie Pickler!

2008-09-27T06:00:00.007-04:00

(Kellie helps celebrate Lance Smith's birthday this week on CMT's Top 20 Countdown)

With her upcoming album to be released on September 30th, you're going to be seeing a lot of Kellie Pickler in the next few weeks!

You can catch Kellie on this week's Top 20 Countdown on both GAC and CMT. You can also tune into NBC's The Today Show on Tuesday (9/30) and Wednesday (10/1) to see of Miss Pickler. Plus, Kellie will appear on Live With Regis and Kelly on Wednesday as well to do a sit down interview as well as perform her current hit, "Don't You Know You're Beautiful." After that, she'll head to Iowa where she'll join up with Sugarland on their fall "Love On The Inside" tour.

She told GAC, "I’m so thrilled to be on the Sugarland Tour. Not only are they incredible musicians and performers, but they are sweet, lovely people."

What a busy girl!!!

You can also catch Kellie on the cover of First Magazine where she dishes her three secrets to happiness and the philosophies by which she lives her life. We've got a sneak peek of the magazine for you!

Dierks Bentley & Wife Anticipating First Child

2008-09-27T06:00:00.005-04:00

Dierks Bentley is going to become a first time father any day now. He and his wife Cassidy are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their first born child! Dierks told GAC Nights: Live From Nashville what the couple is doing to prepare for the baby.

"Some friends of mine threw a baby — I wouldn’t use the word ‘shower,’ ‘cause dudes don’t go to showers — but like a baby celebration-party kind of thing," he told the national radio show GAC. "But it was really cool. We weren’t really gonna ask for gifts or anything because we’ve been really blessed and can get our own stuff. But it was great, ‘cause people brought stuff, [brought] things that you wouldn’t even know you needed. My stage manager brought a big box full of random stuff I would never even think of, you know, like some device that pulls...snot out of the baby’s nose. We don’t know what we’re getting into is basically what I’m trying to say. We don’t actually have a crib yet. But we have this little thing called a Moses basket, which is pretty cool, which is gonna serve as the crib until it gets here."

We'll be sure to bring you the news of the baby Bentley's arrival as soon as we get it!!

Keith Urban on the Grand Ole Opry

2008-09-27T06:00:00.001-04:00

Keith Urban fans will want to tune into Opry Live tonight on their local GAC station. Keith will perform on the Grand Ole Opry to help celebrate Marty Stuart's 50th birthday! GAC will air the show live at 9:00pm ET and will then re-play the show throughout the weekend...you can check the air times here.

Monday, Monday...

2008-09-26T21:31:00.003-04:00

Monday is going to be a big day over here at CountryMusicIsLove...hmm, what could it be? Do we have a surprise in store for you? Do we possibly have TWO B-I-G surprises in store for you? You'll find out on Monday!

Luke Bryan's Must See LBTV!

2008-09-26T16:43:00.002-04:00

Check out Luke Bryan's latest webisode...also known as "must see LBTV." This week Luke takes you behind the scenes and on stage at the Capitol Pub Crawl (or is it Crub Pawl, Luke?!;)) Have we mentioned this man in hysterical?!

Carrie Underwood ~ #1 Video

2008-09-26T12:00:00.002-04:00

Carrie Underwood's video for "Just A Dream" reached #1 on both the CMT and GAC video countdown's this week! The song is currently in the top 10 on the Billboard charts and still climbing. Congrats to Team Carrie for putting out such a touching video...it obviously touches the fans! Here's the video in case you haven't seen it...

Luke Bryan to Host Chairty Event

2008-09-26T12:00:00.001-04:00

Luke Bryan will host a songwriter's night for charity in his home state of Georgia on October 5th. The event will benefit the YMCA of Albany, GA and will be held in honor of his late brother, Chris Bryan, as well as his late sister, Kelly Bryan Cheshire. Chris passed away as the result of a car accident and Kelly passed away last year from an undetected heart defect.

Various songwriters will be in attendance, including Dallas Davidson ("Put A Girl In It" and "Honky Tonk Ba-Donk-A-Donk,") Jim McCormick ("We Rode In Trucks" and "Louisiana,") Jason Matthews ("Must Be Doin' Something Right" and "Break Down Here,") Jeff Stevens ("Carried Away" and "Back When,") and Phillip White ("I'm Movin' On" and "I'm A Survivor.")

VIP tickets for the show cost $50 and reserved tickets cost $30. For more information on purchasing tickets, call 1-800-227-7989.

Julianne Hough - A Fellow Blogger!

2008-09-26T12:00:00.000-04:00

Julianne Hough is taking to the internet to share her experience this season on Dancing with the Stars. After each show airs, Julianne will post on a blog letting fans know how the show went and her thoughts on the other contestants.

In her first post on the blog, Julianne admitted being a little bit nervous since her boyfriend, country heartthrob Chuck Wicks, was in the audience and would be watching her dance for the first time! No worries though, Julianne later said that Chuck thought she did great!!

Feel free to leave Julianne comments on her blog...she's looking for fan interaction, so she may even respond to one of your comments!

More Kenny Chesney!

2008-09-26T06:00:00.013-04:00

Well, we thought with Kenny Chesney having just ended his summer tour, he'd start to slip out of the spotlight a little bit...but lucky for his fans, he's still around!! Here's a few things that have been on Kenny's mind now that touring isn't...

Charity ~ Earlier this year Kenny became a board member for the Plan!t Now organization and in light of all of the recent hurricanes, Kenny's trying to help put the organization in the spotlight. Plan!t Now "provides people, communities, and companies in high-rish regions the information they need to protect their families, homes, businesses, resources, and documents from the effects of any disaster through public service announcements, information offerings via many forms, and also by providing direct relief through grants and scholarships to hurricane-affected persons." Speaking of the orginization and of the recent hurricanes, Kenny says "Knowledge is your best defense, and putting that knowledge into action can make all the difference. A lot of this stuff is pretty basic, yet when a hurricane hits, there's not a lot of time to get ready. So that's the point of Plan!t Now: being ready, not needing to get ready. The last few weeks of the tour, we had so many people out with us who had homes or family in the eye of these different storms, and it becomes really personal. It really brings the reality of it into focus, and knowing that if you're ready, rather than thinking it can't happen to me, there's a big difference in how you fare." Kenny is urging people to visit Plan!t Now's website for all hurricane related information.
New music ~ By now you've heard that Kenny will release his new album, "Lucky Old Sun" on October 14th, but what you might now know is that Kenny has some special duet partners included in this project. Mac MacAnally, who wrote the Chesney concert favorite "Back Where I Come From," joins Kenny on another song he penned, "Down That Road." Kenny says "This is one of those songs I've loved forever -- and that really says everything about what we fall in love with, what we value...the things that matter, especially when building a future. Mac told me he wrote it one Christmas morning, waiting for his kids to wake up and open their presents and you can tell that's the kind of heart he writes with." We think it's pretty cool that Kenny is bringing Mac in to sing on the album with him...Kenny's been fortunate enough to duet with country greats like George Jones, Reba McEntire and George Strait, and it's nice to see him pay it forward and bring Mac in on this one! You can listen to a preview of this song here. Other duet partners on this album include Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews.
His life ~ Kenny reflects back on 2008's Poets & Pirate's tour as the most fun he's had on the road in the last couple of years. Everyone gets into a personal funk from time to time, and even with all of his fame and fortune, the past couple of years Kenny had found himself in one of those funks. Kenny told GAC Nights: Live From Nashville "We're taught as kids, the more you achieve the more money you get and the more success you have, that's supposed to equal happiness, and it's not that way. I mean, if you're not in the right place in your heart or your head, it don't matter how much money you've got, you're miserable." Lucky for Kenny, and for his fans, time spent working with Willie Nelson this past winter helped snap Kenny out of that low time. Willie can be found dueting with Kenny on the title track to the upcoming album "Lucky Old Sun."
His current radio hit ~ "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven" is a song that Kenny thinks his fans can relate to since he relates so well to it in his own life. Says Chesney, "When I heard that song, I realized there was a lot for me to live for, and I was just wantin' to try to get as much of it as I could, you know? I got a great life, you know, and I've got a unique one. It's a double-edge sword sometimes, but you know, when I heard 'everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to go no,' I mean, it was just a phrase that I felt like that was very common among the people that came to see our show every summer. And the whole groove of it was, you know, like several songs on this record. I felt like it really defined what we do live."

Well it sounds like Kenny is still pretty busy even though he's not touring. Hopefully once his album drops next month, he'll be able to take some time to rest and relax!

Chart Update

2008-09-26T06:00:00.008-04:00

It's time for your weekly Billboard country singles chart update!

- Darius Rucker glides into the No. 1 spot after 23 weeks on the chart! What an accomplishment with his very first country single...we think Darius is here to stay and that he's going to do well in the country format!

- Knocking hard at the door to that No. 1 spot is Kenny Chesney who takes over the No. 2 spot this week with his current hit, "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven." The song has only been on the charts for 8 weeks and is the lead single from Kenny's forthcoming album, "Lucky Old Sun."

- Toby Keith breaks into the top 5 at No. 5 this week with his hit, "She Never Cried In Front Of Me." This song is still climbing after 13 weeks on the charts.

- Three rising country stars hold steady this week at the same spot they were last week. Luke Bryan stays at No. 12 with "Country Man," Chuck Wicks stays at No. 14 with "All I Ever Wanted," and Jason Aldean holds place at No. 15 with "Relentless."

- Taylor Swift makes a big jump this week from No. 25 to No. 18 with "Love Story," the first single off her upcoming album, "Fearless." This is only the song's second week on the charts and it's moving fast!

- Our favorite new band, the Zac Brown Band, are still climbing with their single, "Chicken Fried." They land at No. 22 this week.

- Sugarland rounds out the top 25 landing at No. 25 with their new single "Already Gone." Their last release, "All I Want To Do" is still on the charts at No. 24 after climbing all the way to No. 1 for the duo!

Lady Antebellum on Craig Ferguson TONIGHT!

2008-09-26T06:00:00.002-04:00

Tune into the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight to catch Lady Antebellum perform their new hit single, "Lookin' For A Good Time"...check your local CBS listings.

Gary Allan Loses Father

2008-09-26T06:00:00.001-04:00

Our sympathies go out to Gary Allan's entire family as they deal with the loss of Gary's father, Harley Herzberg who passed away on Wednesday. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Harley Herzberg Memorial Fund, c/ Gifts Processing, VU Station B # 357727, Nashville, TN 37235. You can also click here to make a donation.

Sugarland Cancels Show

2008-09-25T23:00:00.000-04:00

If you're supposed to see Sugarland soon, you may be out of luck. The duo has canceled their show tomorrow night in Pennsylvania due to an illness. Since the show was to be held at a fair, there is no opportunity to reschedule. There's no official word yet on whether or not other shows are being affected, but we hear they've canceled / re-scheduled their upcoming shows through next week. We'll keep you posted as soon as we hear more official news.

Don't Forget

2008-09-25T21:02:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone! Don't forget to tune in online tomorrow morning to Froggy 99.9 at 8:40 am (EST) to hear our radio spot.

You can hear us every Friday morning on the Mike, April, & Randy show!