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About Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena is a freelance writer for both Country Music News and Country Music On Tour. Want to collab on some content? Email me. Want my rates for commercial promo work? Get them right here.

Rascal Flatts: There’s Nothing Like This tour

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Rascal Flatts: There’s Nothing Like This tour kicks off this Friday! Rascal Flatts has announced that they will kick off a new tour this Friday, June 25 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The first leg of the “JC Penney Presents Rascal Flatts Nothing Like This Tour.” will continue with 28 shows through September 19 at Boston’s Comcast Center. Kellie Pickler and Chris Young will open. “We hope to take our fans on a chronological musical journey of the last yen years of music and aim to squeeze in the most music we’ve ever done in a live show,” says bassist and background vocalist Jay DeMarcus. 2010 Rascal Flatts Tour Dates: 6-25 Raleigh NC Time Warner Cable Pavilion 6-26 Charlotte NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 6-27 Atlanta GA Lakewood Amphitheatre 7-16 Stateline NV Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena 7-17 Stateline NV Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena 7-22 Wichita KS In Trust Arena 7-23 Tulsa OK BOK Center 7-24 Frisco TX Pizza Hut Park 7-29 *Fairlea, WV Greenbrier Classic (w/Reba McEntire) 7-30 Virginia Beach Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 7-31 Hartford CT Comcast Theater 8-6 Cincinnati OH Riverbend Music Center 8-7 Indianapolis IN Indiana State Fair Grandstand 8-8 Columbus OH Columbus Crew Stadium 8-12 Hershey PA Hershey Park Arena 8-13 Scranton PA Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain 8-14 Washington DC Jiffy Lube Live 8-27 St Louis MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 8-28 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amptheatre 8-29 Louisville KY Kentucky State Fair- Freedom Hall 9-2 Bethel NY Bethel Woods 9-3 Darien Lake NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center 9-4 Syracuse NY New York State Fair Grandstand 9-5 Toronto Ontario Molson Amphitheatre 9-16 Cleveland OH Blossom Music Center 9-17 Pittsburgh PA First Niagara Pavilion 9-18 Philadelphia PA Susquehanna Bank Center 9-19 Boston MA Comcast CenterCountry Music Photo Gallery

Brad Paisley Underwater

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Tonight, at 10pm ET GAC will air Brad Paisley’s Underwater special that documented the struggle to recover in time for an upcoming tour. This special will follow Brad through the damage caused by last months flood in Nashville. It is exactly one month after Brad launched his H2O World Tour in Virginia Beach. It follows Brad through the tragedy of finding his guitars and much of his tour equipment drowned in four feet of water, and through his crew’s amazing rebuild as all of Brad’s staging was replaced in little more than two weeks. “What’s crazy about the tour is that we literally had to do things that we’d never had to do before,” Brad explains. “We usually take three weeks to rehearse something, and the first week is kind of gettin’ everything in line. Second week, you start runnin’ stuff. Third week, you’re goin’, ‘OK, we need this better, we need this better.’” Set your DVR fans or tune in live tonight at 10pm ET on GAC! GAC will also run the special four times throughout the day on Tuesday.Country Music Photo Gallery

The Charlie Daniels Band will Release Pair of Digital Singles

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On July 4th, The Charlie Daniels Band, through Blue Hat Records/E1 Entertainment will release a pair of digital singles. The two tracks are featured on The Charlie Daniels Band’s upcoming August 10th release, a patriotic compilation titled Land That I Love. Both songs, Iraq Blues and (What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks 2010 are newly recorded studio versions, and the 2010 update of (What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks 2010 also includes a brand new verse. The singles will be available at all major online retailers. Daniels had this to say about the new upcoming release,”I wrote Iraq Blues on three separate trips to entertain the troops over there in Iraq. It’s about the troops and for the troops. (What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks 2010 is an updated version of a song I recorded several years ago. The new lyrics reflect life in America in the 21st century.” For more information and updated tour dates, visit www.CharlieDaniels.com. Country Music Photo Gallery

Blake Shelton has a 6-pack

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Yes, you heard it right all you Blake Shelton fans, he is releasing an additional 6-pack. Blake Shelton delivered the news at the 2010 CMT Music Awards that his next 6-pack will be released on August 10th. This new 6-pack will feature his current single “All About Tonight” as well as a song co-written by fiance Miranda Lambert and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum entitled “Suffocating”. Blake says this of the new but really not so new concept of EP’s, “It does make me feel more creative. It’s ongoing recording, which is a lot of fun for me. I feel like I’m making a mini Greatest Hits every time I put out one of these, ’cause I feel strongly about each and every one of those songs. It’s more of a dynamite in a small package kind of thing.”Country Music Photo Gallery

Lynyrd Skynyrd To Get A Country Tribute

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The Country Music Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Sweet Home Alabama,” is set to come out July 20th only at Wal-Mart. Among those artists who have recorded tracks for “Sweet Home Alabama ” are  Eric Church, Randy Houser, Uncle Kracker, Shooter Jennings, Jamey Johnson, Randy Montana, Eli Young Band, and Ashley Ray. This eight-track collection mixes a variety of Skynyrd classics such as “Simple Man” by Houser, “Gimme Three Steps” by the Eli Young Band, “Call Me the Breeze” by Shooter Jennings, “Tuesday’s Gone” by Randy Montana and “Sweet Home Alabama” by Joyce protege Ashley Ray — with more obscure cuts such as “The Ballad of Curtis Loew” (Church), “Four Walls of Raiford” (Johnson) and “All I Can Do Is Write About It” by Uncle Kracker. “It’s all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us,” Skynyrd frontman Johnny Van Zant tells Billboard.com. “It gives me great pleasure, because they’re doing older stuff…my brother (Ronnie Van Zant) wrote while he was still alive. People still love that stuff. They did what he did. He was a poet for the common people, and it’s always great when other people are interested enough to re-do the songs.” Currently, Skynyrd is on a summer tour that lasts until September 3rd, mostly with Bret Michaels and .38 Special. The group releases “Live From Freedom Hall,” recorded at a 2007 concert in Louisville, Ky., on June 22, and Van Zant says Skynyrd is hoping for a quick follow-up to last year’s studio set, “God & Guns.”Country Music Photo Gallery