Jake Owen‘s life has changed a lot this year, from marrying the love of his life, Lacey Buchanan, to the happy couple setting up their home together and preparing for the arrival of their first child. And with Jake’s red-hot career and a super-busy tour schedule that’s included a summer on the road with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw‘s ‘Brothers of the Sun’ Tour and getting ready to headline his own CMT tour later this year, Jake says he’s been a little stressed that he hasn’t had much time to be hands-on in getting things situated at the newlywed homestead — but all the same, he says, he couldn’t be happier. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Word hit this week that Jake will headline CMT’s 11th annual tour, officially titled CMT on Tour Jake Owen: The Summer Never Ends 2012. Joined by special guests Love and Theft and Florida Georgia Line, the tour kicks off in New York City on October 10th, with dates continuing through December 15th. Check out JakeOwen.net for a show near you!
• Jake is treating fans to some new music with all the feel of summer with his four-song Endless Summer EP, set for release on September 25th! You can pre-order your copy right now, here, on Amazon.
• Jake’s currently all over the radio with his latest hit, “The One That Got Away,” the follow-up to back-to-back number-one singles from Jake’s album, Barefoot Blue Jean Night.
• Happy birthday, Jake! He’ll be celebrating his big day next Tuesday, August 28th!

  Jake Owen likes to be a hands-on kind of guy. (:45)
“I’m a hands-on guy. Like, I want — and maybe that’s a bad thing, I don’t know — but I always want to, like…I want to set my living room up the way I want to set my living room up. Like, I want to hang my TV on the wall, you know, ’cause I know how I want it, and I know where I want it. So, it’s been kind of a stressful thing, like, tryin’ to make myself happy by doin’ everything I need to do, but at the same time, too, make everyone else happy by fulfilling the obligations that I have to, you know, to play shows, and you know, and then make my wife happy, who wants things done her certain way. It’s a big…it’s an adjustment, but I am very happy, and I’m probably the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. Just, I’m comfortable. I feel complete. That’s the best way to put it is I feel like I don’t have anything that’s missing in my life. I’m very content with where I am.”