NEW YORK NY (September 15, 2014) – Prior to embarking on The Pain Killer Tour in support of their new album, GRAMMY award-winning country group Little Big Town—Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Phillip Sweet and Kimberly Schlapman—will be celebrating with a pre-tour concert at NYC’s Best Buy Theater when Pain Killer releases on Tuesday, October 21st.  Pain Killer is Little Big Town’s sixth studio release and features the current hit single, “Day Drinking.”

The pre-tour concert on October 21st will be Little Big Town’s last show before The Pain Killer Tour launches on November 8 at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, OH.  For more information on Little Big Town and The Pain Killer Tour please visit www.littlebigtown.com.

Tickets for Little Big Town’s Pain Killer album release concert go on sale Friday, September 19th at 12pm ET and will be available at www.AXS.com, 888-9-AXS-TIX (888-929-7849), and at the Best Buy Theater box office (no service charge) located at 1515 Broadway at W. 44^th Street, 212-930-1950.  

George Strait hits stores with The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium Tuesday (September 16th). The show, which also featured special guests Eric Church, Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, Jason Aldean, Ray Benson, Kenny Chesney, Sheryl Crow, Faith Hill, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride and Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson, was performed in front of nearly 105,000 folks.

Eric Church not only performed in Dallas for the final show, but he opened up for King George a few times during the tour, and the Country Music Hall of Famer was very impressed with how he held the crowd in his hands. “Eric Church is just a great artist. He’s a great songwriter. He’s a really great performer and great songwriter. He’s got the total package,” says George. “When we did our shows together during the tour he came out and well he said I’m just going to do – I’m not going to bring my band. I’m just going to do a set just me and my guitar. And I’m going well alright. If that what he wants to do that’s fine. That’s going to be a little difficult I think to pull off because you’ve got 20,000 people there and you’re doing an hour or whatever it was he was going to do just him and his guitar. And not too many people could pull that off but he did. He pulled it off and the crowd loved it.”

However, all doesn’t seem bright and rosy between the two. The Country Music Hall of Famer is taking issue with how Eric and his wife, Catherine, bonded with his dog Jammer, and he’s not giving up the details.

“I really got to know him when we worked together and we spent some time together on the bus after those two nights. We had some drinks together, and his wife and he got involved with my dog and that’s another story,” he laughs. “We won’t go into that, but my dog is safe now. I have him home, and he’s doing alright, but he’s had to see some people, but anyway. (laughs)”

The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium features such hits as “Check Yes or No,” “The Love Bug,” “Cowboys Like Us,” “Marina Del Ray,” “Here for a Good Time,” “Murder on Music Row,” “The Chair,” “Give It All We Got Tonight” and “Ocean Front Property.”

George Strait (Eric Church) OC: …good one. 1:36
“Well, Eric Church is just a great artist. He’s a great songwriter. He’s a really great performer and great songwriter. He’s got the total package. When we did our shows together during the tour he came out and well he said I’m just going to do – I’m not going to bring my band. I’m just going to do a set just me and my guitar. And I’m going well alright. If that what he wants to do that’s fine. That’s going to be a little difficult I think to pull off because you’ve got 20,000 people there and you’re doing an hour or whatever it was he was going to do just him and his guitar. And not too many people could pull that off but he did. He pulled it off and the crowd loved it. And so I didn’t know Eric very well until, I don’t know, maybe – I had heard his music for sure but I really got to know him when we worked together and we spent some time together on the bus after those two nights. We had some drinks together, and his wife and he got involved with my dog and that’s another story. (laughs) We won’t go into that, but my dog is safe now. I have him home, and he’s doing alright, but he’s had to see some people, but anyway. (laughs) So anyway, again, he’s a great artist and when he agreed to do the Dallas show, so just check that off, another good one.”

Keith Urban has been added the list of performers for this year’s CMA Awards. He’s joined by Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, along with Luke Bryan, who was previously announced as a performer on the show.

Keith is up for four trophies, including Album of the Year for Fuse and Entertainer of the Year. 

The 48th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 5th on ABC.

Lady Antebellum have released the lyric video for “I Did With You,” the song they wrote and recorded for the soundtrack to the Nicholas Sparks‘ film, The Best of Me. The movie hits theaters nationwide October 17th, while the soundtrack, which also features songs by David Nail, Eric Paslay, Kip Moore, Kacey Musgraves, Hunter Hayes, Thompson Square and Colbie Caillat, among others, is released October 7th.

Lady A’s forthcoming album, 747, is due out September 30th. It features their recent two-week No. 1 single, “Bartender.”

George Strait will release The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium Tuesday (September 16th). The concert, which also featured special guests Eric Church, Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, Jason Aldean, Ray Benson, Kenny Chesney, Sheryl Crow, Faith Hill, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride and Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson, was performed in front of nearly 105,000 folks. The 20-track collection features such hits as “Check Yes or No,” “The Love Bug,” “Cowboys Like Us,” “Marina Del Ray,” “Here for a Good Time,” “Murder on Music Row,” “The Chair,” “Give It All We Got Tonight” and “Ocean Front Property.”

“I could just feel the energy and the support and the love from the fans. It was just unbelievable,” says the Country Music Hall of Famer. “There’s just no way to totally describe the feeling that you have when you walk out there in front of a crowd that big.”

The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium Track Listing: 

1. Check Yes Or No 
2. The Love Bug (with Vince Gill) 
3. Fool Hearted Memory (with Jason Aldean) 
4. Arkansas Dave (with Bubba Strait) 
5. Cowboys Like Us (with Eric Church) 
6. That’s What Breaking Hearts Do 
7. Marina Del Rey 
8. Here For A Good Time (with Sheryl Crow) 
9. I Can Still Make Cheyenne 
10. Jackson (with Martina McBride) 
11. A Showman’s Life (with Faith Hill) 
12. Murder On Music Row (with Alan Jackson) 
13. The Chair 
14. Give It All We Got Tonight 
15. Run (with Miranda Lambert) 
16. I’ll Always Remember You 
17. Ocean Front Property (with Kenny Chesney) 
18. Troubadour 
19. All My Ex’s Live In Texas (with Jason Aldean, Ray Benson, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, 
Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride) 
20. The Cowboy Rides Away

George Strait (Dallas show) 1 OC: …it that way. 1:07
“You don’t know how these things are going to turn out. You put tickets on sale and you hope for the best and you see what happens. Man, when I got that call how many tickets we sold the first day I’m going like, ‘Wow, this is so cool. What great fans I have.’ And it was a heck of a night. And I said it on stage, I’ve been thinking about this show ever since we announced the Cowboy Rides Away Tour, and I really had for two years. It was just it was always on my mind it was going to end right there. And so the closer it got the more nervous I got about it and the more things we had to do to prepare for it, getting all these great artists to participate and song lists and rehearsals and figuring out how we were going to do it, the structure of the show. We went through so many different scenarios of how it could be. Finally just go like, ‘Well, we can just do it like we’ve been doing it on tour. They just come up and do their songs and we’ll work it that way.’”

George Strait (Dallas show) 3 OC: …at this place. 1:23
“When I’m standing in the wings there and Ray Benson is reading this big introduction, I’m nervous as a cat because when the show started it was light in there. It was broad daylight and you could see everybody. (laughs) And when you walk out in front of 104,000 people, that’s scary. (laughs) But I mean once I got on stage all that went away, and I could just feel the energy and the support and the love from the fans. It was just unbelievable. And there’s just no way to totally describe the feeling that you have when you walk out there in front of a crowd that big. Not many people get to experience it. (laughs) I’m very lucky that I did, and it was so much fun, and then at the end it was sad. I almost lost it a couple of times but I didn’t want to do that and I managed not too, but it still was very sad to know that – and I did this a lot, during the two years I would walk out there and as I left the stage I’m going I may never be back here doing this again ever at this place.”

Puyallup, WA – Sept. 12, 2014 –The Keith Urban concert at the Washington State Fair has been moved to next year, on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015. The concert was postponed due to a death in the family.  

Ticket holders for the 2014 Keith Urban concert have two options with the tickets they presently hold for the show. They are:

1. Hold onto your 2014 tickets, as they will be the tickets you use for the Sept. 19, 2015 concert date. The concert ticket will also act as your Fair gate ticket and concert ticket. If you keep your ticket to use in 2015, you are guaranteed the same seat you selected for this year’s postponed concert.
2. To return the ticket for a refund, go to your point of purchase. When purchased through the Fair, you will receive a full refund. This transaction must be completed by emailing boxoffice@thefair.com by Friday, October 31, 2014. Or visit the Fair box office at 9^th Avenue SW and Meridian Street in person between now and the end of the 2014 Fair.

 Ticket holders may still use the Fair gate admission portion of their concert ticket to attend the 2014 Fair, which runs through Sept. 21.

The Washington State Fair is one of the biggest fairs in the world, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest. It started in 1900 in Puyallup, and welcomes over one million guests to the single largest attended event in the state. Star-studded entertainment, the PRCA Rodeo, rides, exhibits, food, flowers and animals are mainstays of the 17-day event in September. For more info about the Sept. 5-21, 2014 Washington State Fair, visit www.thefair.com

In the latest edition of LBTV, cameras go with Luke Bryan to this week’s Fashion Rocks concert and TV special. He was was one of the special performers at the event, along with Duran Duran, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Hudson, Usher, Kiss and many more. Luke performed “I See You,” which is featured on his double platinum album, Crash My Party.

Luke Bryan performs his latest hit, “Roller Coaster,” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night (September 10th).

Luke is up for three CMA Awards, including Entertainer of the Year.