Around the Web: Carrie Underwood Moves Up on AskMen.com List
Carrie Underwood once again makes the AskMen.com's Top 99 Women list. She moved up to No. 23 this year, beating out stunners Eva Longoria and Angelina Jolie.
Even though he admits he's the dark horse in the Grammy race, Vince Gill is thrilled that his boxed set These Days is up for album of the year.
As if she wasn't busy enough with her Super Bowl coverage, Kellie Pickler spent Saturday (Feb. 2) at the wedding of American Idol alum Katherine McPhee.
A critic across the pond fails to see what all the Rascal Flatts fuss is about, calling their sound lyrically and musically predictable.
The Tennessean's Peter Cooper has a frank Q&A with hitmaker Brett James, about his struggles to become an artist amidst his success as a songwriter.





Rhonda Vincent Notches Another Entertainer of the Year Win at Bluegrass Awards — The 9513 says:
[...] Rascal Flatts failed to make an impression on David Hewitt during their Europe tour. As with the case of Nickelback just a few years ago, it’s almost certain that Europe will fail to see the attraction of Rascal Flatts. Despite hailing from Nashville and being dumped firmly in the ‘country’ music category, aside from a few contrived violin or mandolin parts, their music is solidly middle-of-the-road soft rock. To make matters worse, it’s lyrically as well as musically predictable, ticking all the appropriate boxes of fast cars, girls and chasing dreams. [...]