Feel Good Friday Fun

Here’s what you’ve been waiting for! WIN ZAC BROWN BAND TICKETS from The Country Station! Check out the Contest Page back on the main website and submit your best fried chicken recipe! Winners will get a pair of tickets to the concert on Thursday, March 4th at the Pan Am Center. A grand prize winner will be chosen from among all regular ticket winners to receive additional tickets and a chance to attend a Meet & Eat with Zac Brown Band. So get to cookin’ and good luck!

With the weather warming up in some parts of the country, spring is on the way and summer will be here before we know it. In country music circles, summertime means great concerts and festivals, and there’s none bigger than the CMA Music Fest. This year’s headline lineup includes Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and the Zac Brown Band. The festival takes place June 10th through the 13th in downtown Nashville. Tickets are now available.

News From Around The Country
After two albums, Jason Michael Carroll and Arista Nashville have parted ways. Jason will continue to tour and record and will be shopping for a new record deal. …. Jimmy Buffet will be expanding his Margaritaville Café to Tennessee for the first time, opening later this year in the music district on lower Broadway in Nashville. …. Keith Urban and wife Nicole Kidman will be donating $50,000 each year for five years to a fund a school in Port-au-Prince Haiti. ….. Taylor Swift just finished her tour in Japan. Her Fearless album was certified Gold in Japan yesterday morning. Furthermore, “Love Story" can be found at #8 as the only country song among the Top 25 Most Downloaded iTunes Songs of All Time. …. Jake Owen recently posted a picture of himself on Twitter with a cut between his eyes. Apparently, he and his twin brother were hunting when a rifle recoiled, smacking the scope into his face.

And finally, if you missed Brad Paisley on Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier this week, here’s a great story that Brad told about the best prank he’s pulled to date. He was opening for Lonestar at the time and during his set, they thought they would pull a prank on him by putting minnows in his drinking water. He took several sips before realizing what they had done. His revenged involved closing out his set with their biggest hit “Amazed.” Brad said that at first, Lonestar thought he would only sing a verse or two and the prank would be over. Instead, Brad made the song last five minutes and even had the audience stand up and sing a chorus or two. By the time he was done with them, the audience was tired of hearing Lonestar’s biggest hit.