Dierks Bentley is preparing to open his bar, Whiskey Row, in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona on Thursday (Fourth of July). The bar features a 400 square foot stage that hangs from the ceiling directly above the bar, as well as iPhone and USB charging stations and a massive 24-foot TV located on the back wall. One of Dierks’ favorite features is every booth will have three different beer taps and a liquor tap. “It’s gonna have some cool features going on,” says Dierks. “My favorite is the table taps where you can have the waitress or waiter swipe your credit card on your table, and there’s three taps of beer at your table, so you can sit at your own table, pour your own drinks and watch your money go down on this little thing.”

“Bars are something I know really well,” he adds. “I spend a lot of time in them, feel really comfortable there, so it’s about time I had my own, I think.”

According to the bar’s official website, DierksWhiskeyRow.com, the venue will serve a familiar American Gastropub Fare cuisine with a modern twist. All menu items will be made from scratch in house, using organic meats and locally farmed produce. Specialty dishes to include a fried pickle burger with cajun beer battered pickles, house made red onion jam topped with a blue cheese smothered bun.

Jon Pardi will perform during Whiskey Row’s grand opening on the Fourth of July.

Dierks is making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “Bourbon in Kentucky,” the first release from his forthcoming album, Riser, due this fall.

Dierks Bentley (Whiskey Row) OC: …I think. :27
“It’s cool. It’s called Whiskey Row, and it’s a young country kind of vibe bar, but it’s gonna have some cool features going on. My favorite is the table taps where you can have the waitress or waiter swipe your credit card on your table, and there’s three taps of beer at your table, so you can sit at your own table, pour your own drinks and watch your money go down on this little thing…bars are something I know really well. I spend a lot of time in them, feel really comfortable there, so it’s about time I had my own, I think.”

Since Luke Bryan and his crew took the week off to have a little vacation time, they left us with a few outtakes to carry us over into the next week. Here’s the latest episode of LBTV.

You will see Dierks Bentley in a muvh different light once the video for his latest single, “Bourbon in Kentucky” is released. He says it’s “definitely the most unique, craziest video” he’s ever done, which could be attributed to the choice of video directors – Ryan Pallotta, who has been at the helm of clips by Robin Thicke, Faith Evans, Demi Lovato and Ne-Yo, among others. “There’s falling, there’s flying, I’m suspended by cables that really hurt,” says Dierks. While he didn’t get injured in the making of the clip, he probably had to throw out a pair of shoes that caught on fire during one scene. It didn’t phase him in the least, since his hobbies often include flying planes, playing hockey and riding motorcycles.

Dierks, with his smoldering good looks and logging time on several of Country Music’s Sexiest Men lists, said don’t expect him to look pretty in the video. “It’s not gonna be a real cheery video, I don’t think [LAUGHS]. But I don’t really want a cheery video at this point…There was no pretty close up shots of me singing the song, because it’s hard to sing the song and look pretty.”

“Bourbon in Kentucky” is the first single from his forthcoming album, Riser, due this fall. The video should hit the airwaves in the coming weeks.

Billy Currington gives fans a behind-the-scenes look in the studio while recording his current hit single, “Hey Girl.” Check out the video below.

With some time off and some beautiful weather, Lady Antebellum‘s Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood go golfing. Check out their prowess on the greens in the latest episode of Webisode Wednesday.

By the way, Lady A’s “Goodbye Town” is making its way up the country charts.

NASHVILLE,TN—Platinum-selling singer/songwriter Scotty McCreery took a break from his first headlining tour to perform at the Sweet 16 birthday party for Sadie Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame.

After the party, Sadie tweeted, “This boy made my birthday the best day of my life! So thankful that he came down for my party!”

Before the party in West Monroe, La., Scotty also got stuck in the mud in a truck with John Luke Robertson, Sadie’s brother, and enjoyed the legendary home cooking of Kay Robertson.

“The first time I met Sadie and John Luke was at the Opry in Nashville,” says Scotty, referring to his recent performance at the Grand Ole Opry during CMA Music Fest. “I saw her tweet that said she was in Nashville, so I said, ‘Hey, you want to come to the Opry?’ I’ve watched the show since season one and we had exchanged tweets before.”

They talked about her upcoming birthday during their Opry visit, and a few phone calls later, he was confirmed to perform at the “Redneck Red Carpet” party held under a tent at a vineyard on June 17. “I thought it was going to be a surprise at first, but then I figured out that she knew, so Sadie and I talked about what kind of songs she wanted me to sing,” he says.

“Then I texted her before the party and asked if she had any song requests and she said as long as I played ‘See You Tonight’ that she would be happy because that is one of her favorites right now, which is really cool. We kept it country. Willie and John Luke came onstage and we sang ‘Man of Constant Sorrow.’ We had a good ol’ time!”

The day before the party, Scotty and four friends rode in John Luke’s Jeep, which got stuck in the mud. “He said that he had taken it mudding plenty of times and had never got it stuck before,” Scotty says. “After that, we did more mudding with four-wheelers. That is when we got really muddy. I drove a big old tractor out there and we had a lot of fun on the land. It was just us and the mud, pretty much.”

Scotty and his band and friends met many of the Robertsons for dinner that night at the home of Kay and Phil Robertson.  “That fried shrimp was about as good of a fried shrimp as I have ever had, and her banana pudding was incredible too.”

“I was blown away by their hospitality,” he says. “(Sadie’s parents) Korie and Willie said, ‘Y’all stay at our house,’ so we stayed with them for the night. They are just great folks.

“I like the fact that they are who they say they are; they are who they look they are on the TV show. They are good, normal folks who like to have fun. It’s really cool for me being so young and being in the public eye to have friends like John Luke and Sadie who are in the same boat. I am in an adult business and always around adults, so it’s nice to have friends who are in the spotlight and around my same age.”

Scotty is currently recording his second studio album, which is set for release later this year. The project’s debut single, “See You Tonight,” is currently climbing the country charts.

His debut album, Clear As Day, was certified platinum in only three months, making him the best-selling country solo artist of 2011. He became the youngest man in history to have his first album debut at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 albums chart. The album’s first two singles were certified gold.  He released a Christmas album last year that was certified gold, and he won best new artist awards at the Academy of Country Music Awards and the CMT Awards. He was named top new artist by Billboard.

The party is featured in the new issue of Us magazine, on newsstands now.

Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776, declaring independence from Great Britain. The holiday is commonly associated with fireworks displays, parades, barbecues and concerts. Some of your favorite country stars take time to remember their Fourth of July traditions, memories and what the holiday really means to them.

Billy Currington (4^th of July) OC: …of my life. :16
“My best memories would be hanging out with my mom, brother and sister on the beach on Tybee Island right off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. We’d go there every year, and we’d light our own fireworks and watch the ones that they had for us. They were the best times, some of the best times of my life.”

Darius Rucker (fireworks) OC: …off once. :15
“Oh, I love fireworks. We had the bottle rocket fights and all that good stuff. I was the typical little crazy kid, you know. In South Carolina, it was always legal, so we shot fireworks when it was legal. We did all that sort of stuff. I almost blew my hand off once.”

David Nail (4th of July) OC: …up front. :4
“In Kennett, Missuri where I grew up the Fourth of July, it was a race to get your car parked so we could watch the fireworks at the airport. They did them off the golf course. I wasn’t fortunate enough to be a country club kid to watch it from that side of town. You’d be riding through town at 8:00, 9:00 in the morning, you’d see lawn chairs alongside of the road, people getting their spots so you could see them. Even though the town was so small you could sit in your front yard and watch them. That wasn’t good enough. Everybody wanted to see them up close. I can remember doing that as a kid, and as we got older, it became a little easier to get our spot. As a kid, you wanted to get there as quick as possible and be up front, just so you could say you were up front.”

Dierks (people are America) OC: …all about. :17
“The definition of America to me, you know, getting a chance to travel across the country on a tour bus, stepping upon stages whether it be county fairs, state fairs, arenas, rock bars, the Opry stage, anywhere across the country and looking out at that crowd and seeing people. The people, to me, are what America’s all about.”

Dierks Bentley (4^th of July-patriotic) OC: …all the time. :17
“I’m extremely patriotic. I love this country, and I love the history of this country. I read books on this country. I spend my time on the road traveling physically throughout the country. The soldiers and their families are constantly on my mind. We work closely with the Wounded Warriors Project. We think about this stuff all the time.”

Drake White (4^th of July) OC: …favorite, favorite holidays. :37
“If you go from my hometown to Nashville, you go past Monteagle Mountain,a nd there are some of the biggest fireworks stands, I’m gonna say, in the nation. So, every time I go by there, I walk in and just try not to spend over $200 on fireworks, ‘cause you never know when a good firework is gonna be needed. [chuckles] So, if there’s weddings, I’m gonna sneak around and throw a fireworks show, just because I love fireworks. So, Fourth of July for us, if it wasn’t spent on the lake or spent on the river, we went down to the beach and there were always fireworks involved. It’s one of my favorite, favorite holidays.”

Eric Church (4th of July) OC: …freedoms. 1:17
“The Fourth of July for me, growing up we would always go to the lake, we didn’t live on the lake but we would all go to the lake. Had a buddy who had a pontoon and we would always get on the pontoon and you go out and you’d tie all the pontoons together and just have a big time. This was before, I was younger then, the adults were having more fun than we were, you know it was just to go swim in the water and shoot off fireworks. Basically, water tailgating is what it was. And then as we got older, same thing…we would just, us younger kids had our own boat and we had as much fun as the adults.”

Josh Turner (fireworks) OC: …of money. [laughs] :20
“Yeah, we had fireworks around, especially my Daddy’s family. All the individual families had a lot of competition with each other and tried to outdo each other to try to see who had the biggest and baddest fireworks and all that. [laughs] My daddy, I think, was the smartest one. He just went out and bought maybe $25 worth of fireworks and let everybody else put on the big show, so he saved a lot of money.” [laughs]

Keith Urban (coming to America 1^st time) OC: …as I could. :39
“1989 was the first year I came to the States, and it had always been my goal, but I had no plan on how to get here. It was just a case of keep playing, keep getting better at what you do, and then hopefully, somehow, some way I’ll end up over here. The guy who was managing me at the time, we just planned a trip over here – it was actually for the New Music Seminar in New York. And we came over for that, and then we did a trip down to Nashville, and I shopping my little demo around. I think I humored everybody more than anything else [laughs] with my tragic, ill-fitting demo for the time. So, I left there, but I was just so committed to coming back as quick as I could.”

LBT (military) OC: (Karen) …whenever we can. (Kimberly: “Yeah.”) :
“It’s such a huge sacrifice what these men and women do for us, and not only the ones that are serving, but the families that are left here at home. Kimberly and I met a young girl that, she’s 21 years old and she has a third baby and her husband has served multiple times overseas. She’s raising these children at home, and doing a great job and the best she can, and he’s serving his country. And he’s making a monstrous sacrifice, but so is she and so are those children, and we just can’t take it for granted. I mean, it’s just a huge commitment that they make, and what an honor. We love to be able to sing for them and entertain them and to say thank you whenever we can.” (Kimberly: “Yeah.”)

Luke Bryan (4th of July memories) OC: …we used to. :21
“Some of my favorite Fourth of July memories were spent on Lake Blackshear down in Georgia with my family. I was always kind of in charge of driving home from Tennessee and picking up all the fireworks and my nieces and nephews always got excited when I rolled in because they knew I had all the fireworks. But, it was always a great memory, and I miss not getting to do that as much as we used to.”

Luke Bryan (American) OC: …we want. :17
“I think the definition of an American is somebody who stands up during the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ and stands up when ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is being sung and just appreciates what all the fallen heroes and soldiers have done to keep us living in a country that’s free where we have the right to do anything we want.”

Scotty McCreery (Fourth of July 2013) OC: …great time. :29
“You know, every July 3rd or July 4th, I’ve always been back home in North Carolina and just kind of always gone to the lake about two minutes from my house, and there are fireworks and the symphony. But this July 4^th is gonna be a little more special to me, because I get to [perform] on A Capitol Fourth in Washington, D.C. As a country music singer and as an American, and that’s gonna be huge to me to be in our nation’s capital and performing for the folks out there and just being where it’s all happening. It means a lot to me to be invited to go play that, and I’m gonna take it all in and have a great time.”

AUDIO: Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott talks about her favorite Fourth of July memories.

Lady A (4th of July-Hillary) OC: …on my hand. :29
“For many, many years in a row, we would be up at the lake for Fourth of July, and having those memories of being on the boat and going tubing and skiing and enjoying being out in the summertime, great weather on the water. But, then for me, Fourth of July was when [husband] Chris [Tyrell] proposed. So, I got proposed to on July 2nd up at the lake, the same lake I grew up going to, and so that’s probably the biggest highlight of Fourth of July to me – getting a rock on my hand.”

Nashville – (June 26, 2013) Luke Bryan has announced the title of his highly anticipated forthcoming album, Crash My Party, which will be in stores on August 13.  Bryan revealed the title and cover of the album to his fans yesterday on his official website by challenging them to “uncover” tiles that were hiding the album cover image by tweeting the hashtag #CrashMyParty. Over 4,000 tweets were sent within 30 minutes, making #CrashMyParty trend nationwide.  Crash My Party, named after the project’s lead single, is produced by Jeff Stevens, who has produced all of Luke’s previous records.

“Idecided Crash My Party was perfect for this album because like the song, the album goes beyond the literal meaning of the title,” says Bryan. “The song isn’t what you think it is, it is unexpected, and I think in the same way fans will definitely hear some surprises on my new album.  It still reflects my sound but you will get to hear a little bit deeper, different side to me musically as well.”

Crash My Party is the follow-up to Luke’s most successful album to date tailgates & tanlines, which has now been certified Double Platinum.  tailgates & tanlines contains three back-to-back Platinum singles, was the 8^th best-selling album of 2012 and has sold 7.2 million tracks.  Crash My Party also releases on the heels of Luke’s most successful spring break series album, Spring Break…Here To Party, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart and is certified Gold.

Luke’s recent Academy of Country Music Award wins for Entertainer of the Year and Vocal Event (“Only Way I Know”) with Eric Church and Jason Aldean, along with his first-time ACM hosting duty with Blake Shelton, are just a few of the career highlights Luke has enjoyed lately. Additional accolades include multi-Platinum albums sales, back-to-back #1 singles and his first #1 album debut.  His spring break shows in Panama City Beach, Florida this past March brought in 120,000 fans during the two-day concert event and his performance at the Houston Rodeo was the second largest attendance in the rodeo’s history with 75,000 fans.

Luke has placed a total of six career singles at #1 and was named the #1 Artist of 2012 and #1 Male Artist of 2012 by Country Aircheck.  Billboard named tailgates & tanlines the #2 Country Album and the #3 Country Artist Album of 2012 and claimed Luke as the #3 Top Country Artist of the Year.  Also in 2012, Luke took home 11 music awards, including a record nine wins at the American Country Awards as well as his first American Music Award.

For more information, visit www.lukebryan.com.

Luke Bryan (Crash My Party album) OC: …on there. :38
“The album, it has your party songs, it has your songs that are about life that about rural life. It’s got some love songs that I’ve never done this type of love song on it that I’m really, really excited about. I mean, we’ve got songs for the guys, songs for the girls, songs you can go ride dirt roads in, songs you can cry to. I think I’ve got a song on there that could really, really change some people’s lives and really help them heal through a tough time. So, I’ve never been more excited than an upcoming album, and I think this one has something for everybody on there.”