Country Music Blog: Carrie Underwood

Thanks to Garth Brooks, the Second Harvest Food Bank is now 20,000 cans richer. He had a tractor trailer deliver the good stuff to Knoxville, Tenn.
The Los Angeles Times thinks the 5 percent of people who chose George Jones over Carrie Underwood at Stagecoach got a taste of nuance and lyrics the newbies can't match.

Did Trisha Yearwood cheat in high school? You bet, but only on her yearbook entry.

Naomi Watts tell People she knows Mrs. Keith Urban will be a great mum.

Get a front row "seat" to Lady Antebellum's concert on DeepRockDrive.com. It's on May 16 at 9 p.m. ET and is free for the streaming.

Like a lot of people, I couldn't get a good seat at Stagecoach festival this year because I didn't buy a VIP seat. (In fact, I didn't realize there would be VIP seats.) So I spent most of the weekend milling around behind the throng of lawn chairs and blankets and wrote about the festival mostly from what I saw on the big screens. That's OK, too. At least I didn't have to walk as far to the barbecue contest. And I could easily hear music from the Eagles, John Fogerty, the Judds, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood and more.

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Another day, another celebrity book. But this one's for a good cause. Brad Paisley's wife Kimberly is trying to get kids to eat their veggies with Henry and the Hidden Veggie Garden.

It's true. Mindy McCready did have a sexual relationship with Roger Clemens, despite their 13-year age difference.

A Seventeen magazine cover and a triple platinum album both in one day? It sounds too good to be true, so it must be happening in the life of Taylor Swift.

Even dentists think that Carrie Underwood is all that. Her smile, anyway. They've named hers the Smile of the Year.

If you'll be near Los Angeles on May 15, you might want to throw your name in the hat to see Dierks Bentley on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Cold beer, pulled pork and Keith Urban? Is there anyone alive who won't enter this contest to win a private BBQ with him?

It seems there was some heavy alcohol consumption at Arizona's Country Thunder festival.

Cheatin' and eatin?. Those are just a couple of the topics Carrie Underwood's covering in this month's InStyle magazine.

Planned obsolescence, anyone? That seems to be Apple's only hope for reviving sales of its iPod line. Make the old ones seem old, so sales of the new ones go up.

Julianne Hough vs. Vanessa Hudgins in Us magazine's race for the Who Wore it Best title. You can vote for yourself, but we're on Hough's side.

Architectural pieces, fixtures and building materials from Randy Travis' former home at Dogwood Farm near Nashville are being auctioned off this weekend.

Blogger's note: To celebrate Take Our Daughters to Work Day, I've let my oldest daughter write my blog today to show her what life is like in this grueling career I've chosen. And while she's literally rolling her eyes as I type this (as if to say "OMG, Mom, you are so totally lame"), she knows that what I get to do every day is pretty cool.

By Maddy Bonaguro

I like all types of music. Well, most types anyway, but I'm going to tell you why I like country. To make it in country, you have to bring something new. Like how Taylor Swift writes her own songs about things like the boys that she knows. I like the new kind of country. I'm not exactly into bluegrass, and my friends and I don't really ever dance around to Johnny Cash. But I do like Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, and lots of other people. They mix pop, rock and country.

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Will she blame this on the Cuervo? Carrie Underwood is up to no good in Las Vegas, playing a bad girl for her video for new single "Last Name."

For a few more months, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman can still travel alone (without diaper bags and strollers). So off they went to French Polynesia for a second honeymoon.

After that, it was back to Nashville for the CMT Awards and a Predators game.

It's unclear whether Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were actually the "two international superstars in the country music business" who were scheduled to perform, but an Aug. 23 was cancelled in Hamilton, Ontario, because the venue just didn't have the cash to bring everything up to meet safety codes.

British actor Ewan McGregor suffered miserably when his neighbor at a NYC hotel played melancholy country music loud enough to force him into a pair of earplugs..

I didn't see any of Keith Urban's co-headlining dates with Carrie Underwood, but it appears after reading numerous reviews, they missed an opportunity to slip the same title into their set lists. Urban released "I Told You So" a year ago (April 17), and I remember at the time thinking when I first saw the title that maybe he was covering Randy Travis.

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Yes, even high-class movie stars get sick sometimes. Especially the preggers ones, like Nicole Kidman, who admits to severe morning sickness.

Could that be why Carrie Underwood hasn't seen much of Nicole Kidman while out on tour with Keith Urban?

Everything about Jeff Bates gets a stellar review, except for the little soul patch on his chin.

Drinks, dinner and a handful of Nashville's finest songwriters. That's what you get for helping raise funds for the Belle Meade Plantation at the charity event on April 30.

Looks like soon-to-be country star Darius Rucker is also quite the golfer, winning the top honors at a Myrtle Beach pro-am tournament with Annika Sorenstam.

Those 99 cent downloads from iTunes may soon cost a little more, if the government finds a way to make it all a little more taxing.

In the end, it's all about who wore what. For some Web sites, anyway. Miley Cyrus, Carrie Underwood and Faith Hill and others get critiqued for their attire at the 2008 CMT Music Awards. But Hill's rep says a flowing tunic topic doesn't mean the singer is pregnant.

In more post-show news, Jason Aldean gushed over Snoop Dogg, remarking that when he calls you a pimp it's the ultimate compliment. Seriously?

And Taylor Swift gives her play-by-play commentary of the entire night, up until the part where she is FREAKING OUT.

Determined not to be pigeon-holed as just a singer/songwriter/actor, Tim McGraw has written a children's book due out this fall. And his latest greatest hits package is due out later this month.

Yes, Kenny Chesney is known for his stadium shows. But what if you could see him in a small room with only a few hundred people? If you live in Chicago and listen to radio station WUSN you can.

And Billy Ray Cyrus tells OK magazine he's trying to be Miley's BFF. Get in line, dad.

At a recent Baltimore concert, Keith Urban bragged about becoming a dad and Carrie Underwood said her dog Ace is the love of her life.

Miley Cyrus has reportedly earned over $18 million, making her rich enough to be able to afford her own concert tickets.

He's in the music business. He's a songwriter. And he's dating Kellie Pickler. But that's all we know so far, from her little leak on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

You don't need a "Star" or an "Idol" to make it in the music biz. A new book from Anastasia Brown, Make Me a Star, is a seriously helpful guide on how to succeed as a singer, songwriter or musician.

No, really? USA Weekend reports that Taylor Swift is indeed the hottest country act around.