Taste of Country Music Festival

I had trouble sleeping last night because I was so excited about today's announcement of the acts joining Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley and Brantley Gilbert at the 2014 Taste of Country Music Festival. If you thought the 2013 TOC Fest was amazing, wait until you see who's been added so far to the 2014 TOC Fest!

Musicians come together Sunday night to honor the best in all genres of music.  The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will be handed out at 8pm.  The 3-hour show promises to have more live performers than past shows, a formula that has worked well for CMA and ACM Awards...

Three-time Grammy nominee Hunter Hayes performed his latest single 'Somebody's Heartbreak' on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno' on Thursday (Feb. 7) looking as poised, polished and cute as ever.

The Celebrity Apprentice All-Stars is coming to WBGH-TV, NBC 5 on Sunday March at 9pm. Recently the All-Stars were meeting with the press to talk about the show.  Usually you get very generic, almost boring answers.  Thanks to Trace Adkins, we got blunt, honest answers to questions about the show and it's contestants...

Hunter Hayes, the award winning 'Wanted' singer, made one of his first televised appearances with country legend Hank Williams, Jr. when he was just 4 years old.

There's a genuine honky tonk feel to Blackberry Smoke's new single 'Pretty Little Lie.' The song is short on polish and long on lugubrious love. While honest and heartfelt, it's a story that's difficult to embrace.

Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry make being Country stars look easy. But it hasn't been; at least for the the last few years. In 2010, Eddie discovered early, thank goodness, that he had prostate cancer. Right on the heels of his diagnosis came the divorce papers from his longtime wife, Tracey...

When I mention the name Blackberry Smoke some of you cheer and some of you think I may have a strange addiction to burning fruit. They are a southern rock band that is lighting up stages across the country. Playing up to 250 dates each year, the guys are on the road more often than not...

It doesn't get hotter than Lady Antebellum.  Since bursting on to the music scene  in 2007, the trio of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelly and Dave Haywood have won 8 Grammy awards and a bunch of CMA and ACM awards.  Not to mention, selling 6 million albums...

Lady Antebellum were guests on the daytime gab fest 'The Talk' on Wednesday (Feb. 6), where they touched on a whole host of topics ranging from singer Hillary Scott's pregnancy to how her bandmates will be spoiling her baby (when it arrives), plus a little Grammys chatter and to how the trio a bit of a musical left turn with their infectious new single 'Downtown.'

Since Hunter Hayes' self-titled debut album has been so successful, his group of devoted followers (the Hayniacs) have been dying to hear some new tunes. Rest assured, the singer promises that there will be another album, but he's going to take time to make it completely genuine.

'The Voice' just got even more country. With Blake Shelton serving as the winning coach for two years in a row and inviting Sheryl Crow to be his team's mentor for Season 4, his bromantic partner, fellow coach Adam Levine, is sticking it to him and goin' country, too! Levine has chosen pregnant Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott to serve as his team's advisor.

Tickets are now on sale for the inaugural Taste of Country Music Festival, a three-day camping and country music party at Hunter Mountain in New York. Lady Antebellum, Willie Nelson, Trace Adkins, Billy Currington, Hunter Hayes and many more will be looking for you June 13-15.

Normally you would have to travel down to Texas or Tennessee to see a festival lineup like the one coming to Hunter Mountain in June.