Lady Antebellum‘s been having an amazing time visiting radio stations and sharing their new music with all of the listeners. Check out an acoustic version of their single, “Compass,” from the band’s Golden Deluxe.

Keith Urban is poised to hit the top of the country charts with his latest hit, “We Were Us,” a duet with Miranda Lambert. The two approached the song in a very laid-back manner, and actually made the engineers a bit nervous when they finished. “At the end, I wanted us to just vamp a little bit on the outro, just ad lib things and be in the moment. I said ‘Is it cool if we just both stand at the same mic and sing?’ And she was like, ‘Yea.’ So, we put the head phones on and stood at one mic and just sang, and that’s what’s on the record,” says Keith. “The engineers afterwards were complaining that they couldn’t change our voice levels [laughs], but I went, ‘It is what it is, whatever levels they are is what it is.’”

Keith is currently on his Light the Fuse 2013 Tour, which makes stops in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio this weekend.

Keith Urban (We Were Us-Miranda) 2 OC: …what it is. :40
“Miranda was so loose in the studio in doing the song together, at the end I wanted us to just vamp a little bit on the outro, just ad lib things and be in the moment. I said ‘Is it cool if we just both stand at the same mic and sing?’ And she was like, ‘Yea.’ So, we put the head phones on and stood at one mic and just sang, and that’s what’s on the record. I love the fact that, that’s the kind of record she makes, don’t overthink it, just get out there and sing. The engineers afterwards were complaining that they couldn’t change our voice levels [laughs], but I went, ‘It is what it is, whatever levels they are is what it is.’”

Nashville, TN (November 22, 2013) – EMI Records Nashville’s Eric Paslay (pass-lay) will release his self-titled debut album on February 4.  The album features Eric’s Top 15 hit single “Friday Night” which he co-wrote with Rose Falcon and Rob Crosby.  “Friday Night” has been featured in weekly ESPN College Football Friday Primetime Broadcasts this fall. 

The Texas native has influenced the sound of country music over the last few years with co-penned No. 1 singles including “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” (Eli Young Band), “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” (Jake Owen), “Angel Eyes” (Love & Theft), as well as, other album cuts including the title track of Lady Antebellum’s album Golden which he co-wrote with the band.

Eric worked with multiple producers (Marshall Altman and Daniel Hill/Billy Lynn for Cal IV Productions) on his debut album which features 11 tracks that he wrote or co-wrote. Little Big Town provides vocals on “Country Side of Heaven” and Eric wrote “Less Than Whole” with Big Kenny of Big & Rich. 

Over the last year, Eric has been nominated for multiple awards for his songwriting including GRAMMY Best Country Song, ACM Song of the Year and CMA Song of the Year.  ABC Nightline correspondent Juju Chang recently shadowed Eric for a day in the life segment that aired in September and focused on what it takes for an artist to become the next breakout country star. 

Through the end of this year, Eric will be on the road with the Eli Young Band. 

Eric Paslay Track Listing:

1.   “Keep On Fallin’” (Written by Eric Paslay, Matt Nolan and Skip Black)

Lady Antebellum have been added to the list of presenters for the 2013 American Music Awards, which will broadcast live from L.A.’s NOKIA Theatre Sunday (November 24th) at 8pm ET on ABC. The trio will also perform during CBS’ coverage of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Keith Urban garnered several nominations for the 2014 Country Music Awards of Australia, including Male Artist, Single for “Little Big of Everything” and Album for Fuse. The 2014 CMAAs will take place January 25th in Tamworth. In the meantime, Keith is featured on the cover of the new issue of People Country, on newsstands now.

Dierks Bentley will perform during the Discover Orange Bowl Half-time Show in Miami January 3rd. The game and half-time show will be broadcast live on ESPN.

Luke Bryan will perform during the GAC-TV special, Alabama & Friends, November 27th. The hour-long show was filmed at Nashville’s Ryman auditorium and will also feature Jason Aldean, Eli Young Band, Florida Georgia Line and Trisha Yearwood. The special will air at 9pm ET on GAC, and will repeat November 28th at 6am ET and December 3rd at 10pm ET.

The Robertson Family, who just released their Christmas album Duck the Halls, will now have a children’s book on store shelves early next year. Everything’s Better with a Beard is a picture book by Si, Willie, Phil, Jase, Jep and Alan Robertson, the stars of A&E’s hit show Duck Dynasty. Everything’s Better with a Beard will feature the bearded Robertson men explaining that whether it’s a dog or a truck, a tree or a duck, everything’s better with a beard. In other news, the Ducks’ Christmas special will air on A&E on December 11th.

Shania Twain has been voted Country’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2013 by Country Weekly readers…for a second year in a row. She’s featured in the November 25^th issue, which is on newsstands now.

Luke Bryan and his crew get a little crazy during the latest episode of LBTV with outtakes from this year’s CMA Awards.

Shania Twain has been voted Country’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2013 by Country Weekly readers…for a second year in a row. She’s featured in the November 25th issue, which is on newsstands now.

In the meantime, Shania will continue her show in the Colosseum at Caesars Palace November 30th, and she’ll also serve as the grand marshal of the ninth-anniversary 5K Great Santa Run for Opportunity Village December 7th, when she’ll welcome more than 10-thousand Santa look-a-likes under the screens of Fremont Street Experience.

Nashville – (November 18, 2013) – When tickets for Luke Bryan’s concert at New York City’s Madison Square Garden sold-out in five minutes,  Luke decided to add a second show due to fan demand in the market. The second concert, to be held on September 12, 2014, went on sale this past Saturday morning and it too sold-out within minutes. Luke’s 2014 tour, “That’s My Kind of Night Tour,” will launch on January 16 in Columbus, Ohio and will feature Lee Brice and Cole Swindell on the first leg.

“I can’t thank my fans enough for being so eager to see us play in New York City,” said Luke.  “They have made my first time playing Madison Square Garden a two-time experience.  I’m trying to let it all sink in but I cannot wait to get there and share my live show with them!”

Luke wrapped his sold-out 2013 tour, the “Dirt Road Diaries Tour,” in late October but fans can see him perform on ABC’s American Music Awards on November 24, on the Tonight Show on November 26, The Ellen Show on November 27 as well as the CMA Country Christmas special on December 2.  On December 3, Luke will be honored on the fourth annual CMT Artists of the Year special.

Luke’s career now boasts over four million in album sales with eight #1 singles.  His recent album, Crash My Party, sold 527,783 units in its first week of release in mid-August, making it the largest sales debut for a Country male artist since 2004.  It also topped both the Billboard 200 and Country sales charts and is the fourth highest album to debut across all genres this year.  Additionally, Luke is one of only two country artists that have sold more than a half-million copies of an album in a single week since 2008. This is Bryan’s second consecutive Top 200 #1 album.  Crash My Party has now sold over one million copies and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. 

For additional information on the tour and ticket on sale dates please go to www.lukebryan.com or www.livenation.com. Citi is the official credit card of the “That’s My Kind of Night Tour.”  Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets through Citi’s Private Pass Program.  For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. 

Luke Bryan (getting loose at concerts) OC: …good time. :22
“I used to go to concerts and watch people just lose themselves for a little way, and that’s what you want them to do. It’s fun looking out there seeing your unassuming characters all of a sudden just kind of letting it all hang out and having a big ole time, and that’s what I want to do with my music.  I want to let people just have a good time and not really care who’s looking, you know. It’s all about them having a good time.”

The Thanksgiving holiday tradition traces its origins to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth, in the state that’s now known as Massachusetts. The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. While initially, the Plymouth colony did not have enough food to feed half of the 102 colonists, the Wampanoag Native Americans helped the Pilgrims by providing seeds and teaching them to fish. The practice of holding an annual harvest festival like this did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s. People now celebrate the holiday by giving thanks for their blessings over the past year, as well as feasting on turkey and other festive goodies.

Thanksgiving Day is November 28th, and most people will be enjoying time with their friends and families, including some of your favorite country stars, such as Alan Jackson, Billy Currington, Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, Easton Corbin, Eric Church, Eric Paslay, George Strait, Keith Urban, Kip Moore, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town and more. They share their thoughts, memories and favorite Thanksgiving dishes.

AJ (Thanksgiving) OC: …enjoy it. :19
“My favorite Thanksgiving dish would be the homemade dressin’ that we, cornbread-based kind of dressin’ that we always have with turkey. That recipe is a kind of a combination of my mama, and Denise has taken it and perfected it over the years, so that me and my children really enjoy it.”

Darius Rucker (Thanksgiving) OC: …still alive. :17
“Oh, the main thing I’m thankful for is my family, there’s no doubt about that. Thanksgiving is about family for us. If we’re in Jersey, getting together with family. If we’re in Charleston, getting together with family and just cooking and eating. Sitting around and talking and remembering and being thankful for where we are, you know. We’re all still alive.”

Dierks Bentley (Thanksgiving must-have) OC: …for Thanksgiving. :41
“You gotta have a big turkey. Thanksgiving is not possible without a turkey. My dad’s always been the one to cook and carve it, but in years here recently, I’ve been taking over those duties. Big responsibility. We cook it traditionally, but when we’re in, a couple of Thanksgivings ago, we were here in Nashville, we did the whole fry the turkey up, and it was great. It just tasted so good; all those juices get locked in there, and I love that too. You really can’t, to me, cook a turkey wrong. I’m gonna eat it any way, and I have over the years. Trust me, I’ve played a lot of county and state fairs, where I’ve seen gigantic turkey legs, you know, I’ve had the flat meat. I’ve done turkey every way you could do it. I’m pretty good any way you want to cook it up, but you’ve got to have a turkey for Thanksgiving.”

Easton (Thanksgiving) OC: …my grandma’s. :33
“Having family and being able to spend that quality time with them and obviously, the opportunity to do what I do. But absolutely during that time, being able to spend that time with family and your loved ones. We used to always go to my grandma’s, that’s Christmas and Thanksgiving. We’d go there for the big meal. I don’t get to go back much. A lot of times I’ll stay up [in Nashville] for Thanksgiving, and then go down during Christmas, but we’d always go to my grandma’s.”

Eric Church (Thanksgiving) OC: …want to do it. :37
“A couple of things. I’m thankful for my family, my son, my wife and great health. And I’m thankful for from a career standpoint, I’m very thankful for the success we’ve had lately. I’m thankful for what the fans have done. I’m thankful that we’re starting to have some hit songs on the radio, I mean there’s a lot of stuff to be thankful for in that regard. And I’m thankful that I was given the opportunity to do it my own because I’m just not a guy, you know if we were having this success and I wasn’t able to do it my own, it wouldn’t be the same for me. I’m not one of those people that could keep doing that. Some people can, I can’t. I’d bail. So, I’m thankful that I’m going to get to keep doing this and do it the way that I want to do it.”

Eric Paslay (Turkey) OC: …really does. :09
“My favorite Thanksgiving food, I think, is the tryptophan turkey, ‘cause it really puts me to sleep. No [yawn], it really does.”

Eric Paslay (Thanksgiving) OC: …too much. :05
“My best Thanksgiving memory, I think, is just hanging out with family, watching football and eating too much!”

Josh Turner (holidays) OC: …the peace and quiet. :38
“I love being outside in nature and the outdoors, and the holidays is a great time for me to go and partake in that part of my life. A lot of times, Thanksgiving and Christmas, it’s a little cold to go fishing, but when it comes to Thanksgiving and Christmas, it’s a great time to go hunting, especially in South Carolina, that’s when the temperatures are starting to drop and the conditions are getting right, and especially in November, kind of the tail end of the rut, as far as deer season. So, it’s a good time to get in the deer stand whether you kill anything or not, it’s just a great time to just get away from everything and get away from the noise and the lights and the diesel fumes [laughs] and just relax and just enjoy the peace and quiet.”

Keith (Thanksgiving) OC: …for me. :21
“Thankful that, well, my marriage is just, it’s life-giving, not just life-changing, it’s been life-giving for me. And from there, we created life, and that’s just beautiful, absolutely beautiful. And the effect that all of that has had in my work, has given life to it too, given it a sense of purpose and really deepened the experience for me.”

Kip Moore (Thanksgiving) OC: …with them. :11
“I go home for Thanksgiving. I love going home to see all them. I have five brothers and sisters and it’s a blast to go home and just catch up on their lives. I get so wrapped up in all this that I lose touch sometimes and it’s cool to hear everything going on with them.

Lady A (Charles-Thanksgiving traditions) OC: …with my brothers. :17
“Thanksgiving is a really big holiday for my family. We always have about 60 of our closet family and friends up in the North Georgia mountains for kind of a yearly, big Thanksgiving extravaganza. We have about everything under the sun to eat, and I usually have an eating contest with my brothers.”

Lady A (Charles-Thanksgiving eating contest) OC: …five pounds! :25
“One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest where we ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out and all three of us equally gained five pounds. I wish we had a more accurate scale to decide the winner, but we all tied. Five pounds!”

Lady Antebellum (Dave-Thankful) OC: …with ‘em. :13
“I think all of us are definitely most thankful for our families. They have been a huge support of our career ever since we started, and Thanksgiving is a great time to be with them. We travel so much, and we always try to make sure we take off the Thanksgiving holiday so we can be home with them.”

Lady A (Hillary-Thanksgiving food) OC: …ever tasted. :12
“So, my favorite Thanksgiving food would have to be my grandmother’s sweet potato casserole. There’s just something she puts in it — probably all the love – that makes it better than anything I’ve ever tasted.”

LBT (Thanksgiving) OC: …forward to it. 1:07
KAREN: “We love Thanksgiving, because it’s time to be with family. We’ve been on the road so much, which we love, but it’s good to be home. It’s good to be with family and reconnect and eat. Like, we’re going to gorge. [Jimi laughs].” JIMI: “I can’t wait!” KAREN: “The whole thing. I want the turkey, the dressing, the sweet potato casserole.” JIMI: “Ham. Oh ham. I love ham.” KIMBERLY: “And the desserts. Red velvet cake and pecan pie.” PHILIP: “My sister makes a thing called Cherry Delight, and it’s just amazing, with a graham cracker crust. It’s a pie. It’s kind of like Cool Whip Cream.” JIMI: “Yes!” KAREN: “Anything with Cool Whip. Bring it!” KIMBERLY: “Carrot cake.” JIMI: “And sweet potato casserole with pecans on top.” KIMBERLY: “Oh yes, the crunchy pecans and brown sugar on top. My tummy’s growling.” PHILLIP: “And some melted marshmallows on top.” KAREN: “Yeah, and we’re gonna listen to our kids make these long, long lists of things they think they’re gonna get at Christmas.” KIMBERLY: “Yeah, I want that. I want that. I want that.” [laughs] KAREN: “We’re already experiencing it, which is just cracking me up. Every commercial that comes on, [Elijah wants] every toy. So, it’s gonna be great. I’m really looking forward to it.”

Brothers Osborne (misfits Thanksgiving) OC: …going home. :45
John: “What we’ve done the past several years is because it’s so hard to go home, we would have what we call the Misfit Thanksgiving Dinner and all the people in Nashville that aren’t able to go home to their families, we would invite them to our house and have a big potluck style Thanksgiving dinner. We’ll take a couple of tables and put them together, throw like some sheets on it  to make it look nice. It’s a very redneck display of tableware because all the plates don’t match and the forks and knives don’t match, but we don’t care. People will birng wine, and at the end of the day, we’ll have probably 12-15 people all sitting at dinner together that weren’t able to go home to their families, and just enjoy it with friends. It’s been really fun. [It’s] definitely a lot less stress than going home.”