SUGARLAND DELUXE CD EDITION WILL INCLUDE FIVE PLATINUM TICKETS
UNDATED (AP) - Sugarland is borrowing a page from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in promoting the deluxe fan edition of their new album, "Love on the Inside." They've placed five platinum tickets in with the CDs. Winners get a trip for two to the CMA Awards in Nashville in November, tickets to a Sugarland show in Nashville and a meet and greet. The deluxe fan edition CD hits stores July 22nd. The regular edition CD drops seven days later on the 29th.

MILEY CYRUS SAYS SHE LOOKS UP TO MADONNA

NEW YORK (AP) - Miley Cyrus says like Madonna, she wants to stay around for the long haul. She tells People magazine "Madonna always reinvents herself, and that's what I want to do." She says "Whatever comes my way that sounds good, that's what I want to do. Whether it's designing clothes or photography or whatever." Cyrus also shares her simple beauty regimen with the magazine. She says, "As long as I'm tan and I put on mascara, I'm totally set." And Cyrus who turns 16 in November, is like any typical teenager when it comes to what she wants -- a car. She says "I don't want to name a certain kind. I want my parents to know that I'm happy with anything that they get me."

NEAL MCCOY SAYS HE PREFERS DAYTIME SHOWS SO HE CAN BETTER CONNECT WITH THE FANS
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Neal McCoy says if he ever makes it big he'll do away with nighttime shows. He says "I hate nighttime shows. I love daytime shows" because he can look at the people and connect with them. McCoy says if it were up to him he'd keep the lights on during nighttime shows. He says "no mood setting. No pyro. No screens, just us and them."

NEAL MCCOY OPENS UP HIS REFRIGERATOR

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A recent peek inside the refrigerator on Neal McCoy's tour bus shows he likes variety. He had bread-and-butter pickles, strawberries, cheese and some Frappuccinos. He also had a Tupperware tub of macaroni and cheese from a longtime fan family. McCoy who travels with two buses, says his bus is called the warden bus because there's no alcohol on it. The other bus is the prison bus. He says "they're loaded up over there."

STREET NAMED AFTER VINCE GILL AND AMY GRANT

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) - Vince Gill and Amy Grant are getting their own street in Wichita Falls, Texas. It's called Grant Gill Lane. Habitat for Humanity named the road and the house after the couple, who are big supporters, donating time and money. A few
years back, Gill and Grant donated all the proceeds from a Wichita Falls concert to Habitat for Humanity, which helped build their now namesake home.

SARA EVANS APPEARS ON HGTV DESIGN STAR THIS SUNDAY

UNDATED (AP) - Sara Evans heats up the competition on HGTV Design Star this Sunday. The show is down to six finalists who will compete in a challenge involving Evans as the celebrity client.

THOUSANDS OF GUITARISTS STRUM IN UNISON TO SET NEW WORLD RECORD

CONCORD, Calif. (AP) - Thousands of guitar-players in California appear to have strummed their way into the record books. Led by 1960s folk singer Country Joe McDonald, 2,052 electric and acoustic guitar pickers played Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land," at a park in Concord, California, some 30 miles from San Francisco. McDonald kept the racket going for more than six minutes, as children and adults repeated the song's chorus. Organizers believe the rendition is good enough to beat the Guinness World Record for guitar-ensemble playing. The previous mark was set in Germany in 2007, when 1,802 people played "Smoke on the Water." The record is not official until Guinness verifies it, which could take about a month.

 

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