“I kinda threw the playbook away again,” he said of the album. “I’m working with a different producer, different engineer. Just different songs, man, and it feels really fresh.”

Ross Copperman, who co-wrote Dierks’ 2012 hit “Tip It On Back,” was enlisted this time as producer. Dierks also brought back executive producer Arturo Buenahora Jr., who worked on his first two albums. Additionally, some of the music on Riser was cut outside of a traditional recording studio.

“It was important to get out of the studio and sing in different places,” Dierks said in a press statement about the album, “and to do it with other people in the room. That way, you have an audience and you get a sense of what’s working, what’s not working, when it’s feeling good, not feeling good. It brings a little more emotion and energy out of your voice.”

Riser also takes at least some of its inspiration from Dierks’ father, who passed away last year.

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Brad will be making a guest appearance as himself, performing with show characters Rayna (Connie Britton) and Deacon (Charles Esten) in Nashville’s opening-season finale airing Wednesday at 10 PM ET, on ABC.

Brad Paisley will appear on an upcoming TV special called Brad Paisley Spins the Wheelhouse: Live in Vegas, which premieres on May 29 at 10:00 PM ET on Great American Country. The 90-minute special will feature Brad playing his new music and chart topping hits at a concert that was filmed at The Orleans in Las Vegas earlier this year. During the concert, Brad performs with Dierks Bentley and Carrie Underwood with John Fogerty also making a special appearance. The special will also give fans a look at the staging for Paisley’s “Beat This Summer Tour” that is currently making its way across the country. For Brad, there’s no better time to tour than the summer months. He shares, “At 40 years old I still live for that period of time from the end of April to the beginning of October when touring is at its height and the lawn is full of drunk people. Country music is better outside in the summertime.”

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Pickler and partner Derek Hough’s dazzling Argentine Tango earned a perfect 30 from the judges on Monday night, but a 28 after her Flamenco left the ‘Someone Somewhere Tonight’ singer in a tie for third.

But as I have said from the beginning, Kellie is one of the MOST genuine, sweet and really charming people you could ever meet. Her charm combined with her amazing natural dancing talent, and dancer’s body makes her a front-runner in this season’s competition for sure!

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“I hear that it’s the best time of your life,” he says. “So I’m getting prepared for my 50s.”

And based on Tim’s accomplishments of late, he has no reason to be anxious about that half-century mark. He’s in arguably the best physical shape of his life; he’s got three wonderful daughters with wife Faith Hill; and he’s just put out a strong new album, Two Lanes of Freedom, for a brand-new label.

It’s his 12th studio album in a recording career that has stayed strong and grown stronger since his debut 20 years ago.

Does he feel that Two Lanes is actually his best album to date? “I think so,” he says, adding, “I think I always feel that way. I look at every album as a progression from the last album.”

On top of everything else — including a headlining summer tour that kicked off earlier this month – he’s the subject of a television special airing this Sunday on CBS. Titled Tim McGraw’s Superstar Summer Night, it’s a two-hour concert extravaganza featuring Tim performing alongside such guests as John Fogerty,  Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, The Band Perry, Jason Aldean, his wife Faith, and ACM Entertainer of the Year winner Luke Bryan.

The show features a series of collaborations, too, including Florida Georgia Line with Nelly, and McGraw performing with Pitbull and Ne-Yo.

“I love singing with Ne-Yo,” McGraw tells Gayle King. “He’s made me a better singer.”

His collaboration on the song “Highway Don’t Care” with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban was something different, too.

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“I’m super-respectful of his pedigree,” Nettles says of Rubin, who has worked with such artists as Johnny Cash, The Band Perry, Neil Diamond, the Dixie Chicks, the Beastie Boys, Slayer and Tom Petty. “I still get nervous around him, in a kind of a music-crush way.”

I am absolutely thrilled and wholly proud to be working with Rick Rubin on my new solo album! budurl.com/mq8g

— Jennifer Nettles (@JenniferNettles) May 17, 2013

The album, Nettles’ first without her Sugarland partner Kristian Bush, has no official release date yet, or even a title, but according to Rolling Stone it is due sometime this fall.

“This album is different than what I’ve done before,” Nettles told Rolling Stone. “What I do with Sugarland, primarily it’s stuff that starts with me and Kristian [Bush, Sugarland co-founder] writing together. It’s fun to play with that masculine energy, but for this I wanted to do something really personal – more intimate and emotional.”

While she is writing songs on her own this time (as well as working with the likes of Butch Walker and Sara Bareilles), she also says that the new music “won’t be a shock or surprise to a Sugarland fan.” At the same time, though, “hopefully it will bring in new listeners, too.”

The recordings so far have taken place not in Nashville but at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, California, with such rock-oriented musicians as Ian McLagan, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, bassist Jason Lader, Matt Sweeney, and guitarist Smokey Hormel.

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