It's always nice when a pair of young country-singers get married.
On May 14, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert exchanged vows on the Don Strange Ranch in Texas in front of over 500 guests.
No word yet on what their wedding song was.
In the flurry of media coverage surrounding the pair's marriage, here are the highlights:
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With the weather warming up, it's time to revisit "Toes" by the Zac Brown Band.
If you're looking for a country song for the summer, it's hard to go wrong with it.
And while "Toes" is a great piece of South of the Border escapism, it's about more than simply going to the beach, drinking beer, and doing tequila shots.
There's a threefold message: (1) Home is where the heart is; (2) Happiness is where you find it; and (3) "The senoritas don't care-o when there's no dinero."
Words to live by.
This question will be answered, at least to some people's satisfaction, at the 2011 CMT Music Awards.
The list of performers includes Jason Aldean (who leads the pack at four nominations), as well as usual suspects Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts, and Sugarland
They're coming your way June 8th.
Until then, fans can cast their vote for CMT Video of the Year and check out the complete list of of nominations.
Merle Haggard has written a lot of great songs on the subject of mama. Every self-respecting country musician has.
The hell-raising "Mama Tried" might be more the popular selection, but it's "Mama's Hungry Eyes" that will leave you in tears.
Released in 1969, the song paints in vivid details a mother's sacrifices for her family in a California labor camp.
It was personal story for Haggard.
In his memoir Sing Me Back Home, Haggard describes traveling to the central valley shortly after his father died.
"As we stepped down off the train, I looked down by the tracks and saw row after row of one room, canvas-covered cabins, all just alike. It was not till years later ... I realized how much that scene impressed me. That's where the first line of 'Mama's Hungry Eyes' came from."
A juvenile delinquent and prisoner at the age of 20, the singer often felt guilty about what he put his mother through.
Haggard channeled these painful emotions and fleeting childhood images into a country classic.
Mother's Day is this Sunday, people.
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