Miranda Lambert tweeted yesterday how last year was all about heartache, healing and learning to be honest. She writes it was a time of “finding peace in dark places. Facing fears and feelings. I used melodies to lead me where I’d never been because music is medicine.”

Jake Owen’s new album is out next week and in honor of that, the night of August 3 Jake will have a free concert at New York’s Madison Square Park.

A travel site has step-by-step directions to things important to Garth in and around his hometown of Yukon, OK. On the tour is the water tower with “this is the home of Garth Brooks” written on it. There’s also directions to his former 14,000 sq ft mansion with 9 bathrooms, the club where he worked as a bouncer in college, his old frat house and the hospital where he was born.

As for his marriage, Keith Urban says, “Nichole doesn’t keep things in or bottle them up. She’s a great communicator and cause of her, I’m a better man.”

Finally – tonight Dierks Bentley’s on Access Hollywood.

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