Little Big Town’s next album is called, ‘Wanderlust’ and the eight tunes were produced by pop star Pharrell. Karen says their friendship with him started out as a writing session a few months ago and he’s also a huge fan of country music.

Blake Shelton tried sushi for the first time last night with Jimmy Fallon. They started with Saki which Blake said tasted like Easter egg coloring. He said the salmon roll looked like a human tongue and had the texture of play dough but he actually liked it.

Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are back as hosts of the CMA Awards and it airs Nov 2.

Jon Pardi likes to include a fiddle on his songs as often as he can saying, “if someone says you can’t have a fiddle on county radio, it’s what I grew up with. I’m just helping country sound a little more country.”

Finally – Miranda Lambert says she sleeps great on her tour bus because it’s dark and the hum of the engine quickly puts her out.

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