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Jason Aldean tells Entertainment Tonight that he has traded beer bottles for baby bottles on his tour. ”Used to, when you walked on our bus there was liquor bottles. Now, there’s like baby bottles and empty formula cans and toys all on the floor. It’s crazy.”
Carrie Underwood and her husband, Mike Fisher, recently hosted a benefit concert in Franklin, Tennessee for Danita’s Children. The organization provides medical care and food to children in Haiti. rad Paisley performed and helped raise $600,000
Kane Brown tells Songwriters Universe that social media is the reason his career took off. “I was posting videos and commenting back to everybody, and talking to as many people as I could. Everybody who asked to take a picture, I took a picture. I shook everybody’s hand that wanted to shake my hand. Basically, doing the Taylor Swift method. You shake a million hands, you get a million fans. That’s what I kept trying to do, and I guess it’s worked out so far.”
Luke Combs tells the website Celeb Secrets Country that he makes a point to be a good son and call his mother once a week. “It is difficult at times. I try to call mom and dad at least once a week and make sure they’re doing good. I don’t have any brothers or sisters, so I guess that makes it a little bit easier, fewer people to stay in touch with. But it is hard at times to stay in touch with everybody you want to stay in touch with.”
Hollywoodlife.com claims Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani recently had an emotional heart to heart talk. A source tells the website; “Gwen and Blake have recommitted their love for each other which feels amazing for her. Shortly after her birthday, Gwen was feeling emotional and had a long talk with Blake about how happy he makes her and how much she loves him and how much her boys love him too. She made it clear to him that he makes her smile, laugh and really happy every day. It was a sweet, nice conversation that brought tears to Gwen’s eyes and ended with both Blake and Gwen proclaiming their love and devotion to each other as well as making plans for their future together. They talked about the places they still want to go together, holiday plans and all the romantic things they enjoy doing together.”
Chris Young tells Celebrity Cafe that everyone expected him to be a basketball star when he was growing up. “Everybody’s like, ‘You’re tall. You didn’t play basketball?’ They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with the choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay.”
Cole Swindell tells Fox News that he and Luke Bryan were fraternity brothers at Georgia Southern University. “Luke Bryan was already in Nashville when I got to college. He had come back to his old fraternity house, which was my new fraternity house. We met there and just kind of stayed in touch. He’s the one that really turned me on to the songwriting thing. It really made me say, ‘Wow, I need to move to Nashville. I gotta start writing songs!'”