Country Star Birthdays & Taylor Swift Pop-Up Video

Happy Birthday to Brad Paisley and Charlie Daniels. Both celebrated birthday's on Friday. Brad turned 38 and Charlie blew out 75 candles. 

Faith Hill will perform on the 45th Annual CMA Awards November 9th on ABC. What song will she sing? We didn't know until pop group One Republic spilled the beans on their Twitter page.  Faith will cover the group's song "Come Home."

Carrie Underwood tops the list of Hottest Celebrity Blondes for 2011 according to NYBlondes.com. Taylor Swift's made the list number-15 ranking and Faith Hill landed at number-21.

For those familiar with VH-1's Pop-up Video, the next time you watch look for Taylor Swift. Taylor's "Our Song" got the pop-up video treatment. If you don't want to wait to see it, click here.

More news on Taylor, she voices the part of Audrey in the animated movie The Lorax, which will be in theaters on March 2nd. The cast also includes Zac Efron, Danny DeVito, Ed Helms and Betty White.


The set list for the new Country Dance Two video game has been released, and among its boot-scootin' hits are Blake Shelton's "Honey Bee," Dierks Bentley's "Sideways," Josh Thompson's "Won't Be Lonely Long" Luke Bryan's "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)" and Keith Urban's "Better Life." The game will be in stores November 1st.

And finally,

Their back together and set to tour and release a new album. Lonestar will celebrate their 20th anniversary with the return of lead singer Richie McDonald and with a new album and world tour in 2012. He says, "We've all tried other avenues, and the fact remains that some things were just meant to be." The band's Keech Rainwater adds, "I think fans ultimately wondered if this was ever going to happen again, and it always seemed like the original Lonestar as a whole was better than the sum of its parts." There's no word on a release date for the album, but we know for sure that the tour will hit England, Ireland, Switzerland and Germany early next year.

And that is the Nashville Minute.

Keep it Real & Keep it Country!

George McFly 
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Rascal Flatts LIVE Album & Billboard's "Country" Woman of The Year

It's been a while since we've heard from Neal McCoy but soon you'll get to purchase two new albums. He is set to release one in the fall--Music of Your Life, is a collection of his biggest hits and American standards and one in the winter--Twelve, produced by his friends Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton.

Rascal Flatts will release their first live album on November 8th. The album, The Best of Rascal Flatts Live, will feature 10 songs recorded in various venues throughout their tour.

Craig Morgan will release a five-song EP, This Ole Boy, digitally on November 1st with the full album coming out early next year.

Taylor Swift has been named Billboard's Woman of the Year and will pick up the honor at the Billboard Women in Music conference in New York on December 2nd. The magazine says the event "celebrates the most powerful and talented women in the music business," and Taylor has been selected not only for her recording and touring success, but also for her songwriting and philanthropic efforts.

With just a few months left in 2011, never too early to start making plans for 2012 and that's exactly what Taylor Swift is doing. In addition to working on a new album and tour, she tells MTV that she has "some surprise projects that may or may not happen and possibly some acting." Taylor's Speak Now tour continues through the first of the year, and her new perfume, Wonderstruck, is available now. 

And finally,

Social networking site Splashlife has named Chris Young and Hunter Hayes to their list of 30 Under 30 Musicians to Know. Chris tells the website that his proudest moments in his career so far are "my first gold record, my first Grammy nomination and four straight number-ones." Hunter offers this advice to aspiring entertainers: "Be who you are and forget the expectations of anyone else."

And that is the Nashville Minute.

Keep it Real and Keep it Country!

George McFly
94.9 WQMX On-Air Personality
comments: george@wqmx.com