Is It Thursday Already?

It looks like the next CD from Zac Brown Band should be out in the fall. This will be the first album all six members will have played on. They’re planning to make this album even bigger than The Foundation and have brought guest performers Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson on board for the project. They haven’t decided on a name just yet but if it was up to Zac, he would name it You Get What You Give, which just so happens to be one of his tattoos.

So where’s Jimmy? Not quite at the halfway point on his Meet Me Halfway Walk Across America, Jimmy Wayne invented a game to occupy his time. After Jimmy was reunited with Lieutenant Jason Garkey, whom he walked with in January, the two came up with a friendly competition – collecting coins they find on the road. Jimmy says, "I had been collecting them before he came out, but it really got competitive when he came out because he's a military guy! When he would find a quarter, it would wear me out. Of course, I'd find a nickel, and he'd laugh.” Jimmy is still on the road to Phoenix.

During a party to celebrate four weeks at number one, Josh Turner’s publishing company Colbat Music, treated Josh and the co-writers of “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” with gift certificates for ballroom dance lessons. He should have just done Dancing With The Stars.

And finally, word is out that Taylor Swift stumbled across a website of three Auburn University guys who are making a grassroots effort to get one of her famous hugs. The guys came up with a random idea to film a documentary and series of webisodes of their mission to get a hug from Taylor. Being the video taker that she is, Taylor responded back, challenging the guys to do good deeds in order to score a hug. It will only be a matter of time until their next mission is revealed. Check out the madness at AHugFromTaylorSwift.com.