MULVANE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Star casino south of Wichita is postponing Sunday’s performance by country singer Tim McGraw to avoid conflicting with a weekend concert for tornado relief in Oklahoma.

McGraw was to have been the inaugural performer in the casino’s new arena. Kansas Star said Tuesday the show has been rescheduled to Oct. 12.

On Saturday, a large cast of country stars including Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson and Ronnie Dunn will perform in Norman, Okla., to raise money for tornado recovery.

Tickets for McGraw’s postponed show in Kansas will be honored at the October concert. Kansas Star also says it will donate $5 from each ticket sold for either date to Oklahoma’s relief efforts.

 

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Dierks Bentley has spent countless hours in bars, so he figured he might as well open one of his own.  Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row opens on the 4th of July in Scottsdale, AZ near Dierks’ hometown of Phoenix.  The drink menu boasts 40 kinds of whiskey, and Dierks is especially excited about the beer taps available at every table.

“You can just have the waitress or waiter swipe your credit card on your table and there’s three taps of beer at your table,” Dierks explains. “Then there’s one of just Fireball.  So, you can sit at your own table, pour your own drinks and watch your money go down on this little thing that shows — a hundred dollars, fifty, watch it go down.”

Dierks describes the overall vibe of Whiskey Row as “young country,” and live music will play a big role in creating that vibe.  Dierks has even lined up one of country’s hottest new acts to kick things off for the grand opening.

Says Dierks, “Jon Pardi‘s opening it up on July 4th.  I couldn’t be there.  But it’s gonna be fun.”

You can take a look at the menu and talent lineup of Dierks’ new bar at DierksWhiskeyRow.com.

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Brantley Gilbert gets a lot of love and support from his mother, but he mostly takes after his father in the personality department.

“He’s a lot like me,” Brantley says of his dad. “He’s unpredictable and crazy as all get-out.”

His dad is also really funny, and Brantley keeps people laughing a lot too. He says, “I like to think I’m humorous.”

Like his mother, Brantley’s fiancée, Jana Kramer, serves as a grounding force in his life. They’ll tie the knot soon.

Brantley is on the road with Tim McGraw‘s Two Lanes of Freedom tour this summer. Go to BrantleyGilbert.com for tour dates.

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Eric Church has written every song he’s ever recorded except for his most recent single, “Like Jesus Does.” The lyrics to that song could have been lifted straight from Eric’s life story, though.

He tells the Green Bay Press Gazette, “When I heard ‘Like Jesus Does,’ I felt every line in that song. I’ve lived every line in that song.”

Whether Eric wrote a song or not, he’s got to be able to connect with it so he can really deliver it to his fans.  Eric says of “Like Jesus Does,” “I know when I sing it out there now, I didn’t write those words, but I know that if people are out there like me, they’re going to feel what I felt when I heard it.”

Eric is writing new songs for his next studio album this summer while playing a handful of shows with Kenny Chesney. Go to EricChurch.com for tour dates.

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Justin Moore was in Erlanger, KY Thursday to let Gunnery Sergeant Samuel Deeds know he won the naming rights to the upcoming Brickyard Sprint Cup Series race to be held July 28 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 

The honor recognizes Deeds’ bravery in saving other soldiers’ lives by absorbing the blast from an IED himself.  After enduring more than 30 surgeries due to injures from the blast, Deeds went on to save three more people caught in a rip tide off the coast of North Carolina.  His wife nominated him for the honor.  The recognition is part of Crown Royal’s Your Hero’s Name Here program. 

Justin Moore performed the new song “Heroes” at the ceremony in Deeds’ Kentucky hometown.  Justin was inspired to write it after taking part in the Your Hero’s Name Here program last summer.

He says, “That experience and the brave men and women I met along the way served as inspiration for this new song.  The opportunity to debut ‘Heroes’ in front of a true hero like Samuel, his friends, family and community, is incredibly special to me.”

Fans 21 and over get a free download of “Heroes” at CrownHeroesSong.com from now until the Samuel Deeds 400 on July 28.  For every download redeemed, Crown Royal will donate a dollar to the Armed Forces Foundation.

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Dierks Bentley and his wife Cassidy are having a baby boy this fall, and Luke Bryan was the first person outside the family to know the baby’s sex. 

Dierks and Cass had just found out they were expecting a boy when Luke called them up to congratulate them on their impending arrival.  When Dierks told Luke a boy was joining their two older daughters, Luke, who has two sons, told him, “Man! Let me tell you, get ready to start living!'”

Dierk says with a laugh, “I guess he assume girls, you know, you’re not living until you have a boy or something, but he just went on talking about it.  ‘Man, you’re going to have someone to go fishing with.'”

Luke has also given Dierks some advice on naming the baby boy.

“Whatever I name my kid has to sound like someone that you could get totally hammered with,” Dierks explains. “That’s the filter that all the names have to flow through, like, ‘Man, I went out last night and got hammered with Bo Bryan.’  Something like that.”

Dierks may just name his firstborn son after Luke.  He says, “I’ve been hammered with Luke many times.”

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Thompson Square‘s Keifer Thompson is back behind the mic after being sidelined by a hemorrhage and polyp on his vocal cords for the past few weeks.  Keifer tweeted Wednesday, “Going to rehearsal to test out the ol pipes today #pumped.”

While Keifer has gotten advice about and support for his vocal problems from Keith Urban and Luke Bryan, one country star is kind of sad to hear that Keifer is talking again.

Kip Moore tweeted Thompson Square, “was kinda hoping u would stay on voice rest…I could talk endless trash to u last time [without] a peep!”

Thompson Square is expected to be back on the road performing shows again.  You can keep up with their tour dates at ThompsonSquare.com.

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Luke Bryan‘s new album will be titled Crash My Party, after the project’s lead single. That song title may sound like a party anthem, but “Crash My Party” is actually a sweet love song. Luke tells fans to expect more twists like that on the full-length album, due out August 13.

Says Luke, “I think in the same way fans will definitely hear some surprises on my new album.  It still reflects my sound but you will get to hear a little bit deeper, different side to me musically as well.”

Crash My Party is the follow-up to Luke’s double platinum album, tailgates & tanlines.

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