MORE GOOD STUFF…with Alan, Martina, Carrie, and more!
- Carrie Underwood has announced the title for her upcoming third album…look for Carrie’s Play On when it releases on November 3rd!
- Martina McBride is featured on the “Last Word” page in the September 7th issue of OK! Magazine, and one of the questions OK! asked Martina was about the last time she “slept in.” She said, “A week ago, and I loved it,” as she shared, “One of my favorite feelings in the whole world is to wake up — and then go back to sleep.” Of course, as Martina told us recently, sleep is one of the ways she’s been known to find great songs! Check out her comments from the archives, right here: http://prep.hearsomethingcountry.com/?s=sleeper+hits. Martina is gracing the airwaves right now with her gorgeous “I Just Call You Mine,” which joins her smash “Ride” as another terrific song from her chart-topping album, Shine.
- Catch all the fun as Alan Jackson takes center stage for the Labor Day weekend special, AquaPalooza on Lake Martin, a 90-minute concert event filmed at Lake Martin, Alabama, in front of 35,000 fans…and 4,000 boats! Tune-in for the premiere on Friday, September 4th, at 8pm, ET, on CMT.
- And speaking of Alan Jackson…Alan is climbing the charts with his single, “I Still Like Bologna,” the latest favorite from his 17-song Good Time album that’s already given us the beautiful “Sissy’s Song” and three straight number-one hits with “Country Boy,” “Small Town Southern Man,” and “Good Time.”
- And still speaking of Alan Jackson…and Jason Michael Carroll, both have new videos that you can own, beginning next Tuesday, with the digital video release of Alan’s “I Still Like Bologna” and Jason Michael’s “Hurry Home,” the beautiful new hit from his current album, Growing Up Is Getting Old.
- American Idol finalist Danny Gokey was a big hit on Idol this season, and he’s just announced that he’s signed a record deal, and he’ll be making a country album, due to release next year. Danny credits his time on Idol with helping him focus as an artist. “I didn’t realize the Idol experience would give me a musical direction, but it did. There were country songs that I performed on the show, and it was the message and the feeling in those kinds of songs that helped me realize that country is where I belong,” he says. “I grew up in a family where I was exposed to music from artists like Alan Jackson and Wynonna and Brooks & Dunn, and when Randy Travis was on the show and asked me if I’d ever considered country music, it was one more sign of where I knew I needed to be.”
