Kacey Musgraves is feeling pretty sweet these days judging from her new Oreo commercial.  The country star sings a version of the Oreo “Wonderfilled” song in the new spot, called “Daydream.”  The lyrics to the song find Kacey wondering if a guy she had a crush on would be with her today if she’d only given him an Oreo.  In the commercial, animated, stick figure Oreo people act out the lyrics to the lighthearted song.

Kacey is on the road with Kenny Chesney‘s No Shoes Nation tour this summer.  They’ll play Target Field in Minneapolis on Friday.

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Luke Bryan can do no wrong with country fans and radio these days. His latest single, “Crash My Party,” has raced up the country radio chart in the past few months, and his concert crowds love the song, too.

Says Luke, “What’s fun is on the road, it’s just started really, really poppin’ live. The crowd’s singing it and going crazy. It’s been amazing.”

“Crash My Party” is the lead single and title cut from Luke’s upcoming album, due out August 13. Though he has a lot of other potential hits on that project, Luke’s pleased with his first single choice.

“You just say your blessings and be thankful that radio responded to it and fans love it that much,” Luke says. “We knew the song was really, really special and good, and it was certainly the right thing to lead with off the new album.”

Luke continues his Dirt Road Diaries tour Thursday in Birmingham, AL.

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Justin Moore isn’t teaming up with any rappers or pop stars on his upcoming album, Off the Beaten Path, but fans can expect some new sounds from him this time around. The deluxe edition of Justin’s new album includes 16 songs, which allowed him to experiment more than ever before.

Justin says, “It’s not gonna sound pop or it’s not gonna be anything that could cross over, but there’s some songs that I cut on this album that I don’t think earlier in my career I would have.”

The modern sound of Justin’s latest #1 hit, “‘Til My Last Day,” opened the door for his musical evolution on Off the Beaten Path. Justin admits he sometimes wondered if he was taking things too far with the new music.

“There’s some stuff on there, even I was going, ‘Uh, really? You think I can do this?'” he says. “With the format the way it is, you have to continue to evolve as an artist.”

Longtime Justin Moore fans shouldn’t worry he’s gone off the deep end, though. Fans of his first two albums will find plenty of straight country music on Off the Beaten Path. If Justin had his way, the music might sound even more hardcore country.

He explains, “I’d love nothing more than to cut an album that sounded like Mark Chesnutt in 1994. I’m not very smart, but I’m smart enough to know that I don’t know if I could get that played on the radio. So, it’s exciting for me to go out and try some different things.”

Justin is climbing the country chart fast with Off the Beaten Path‘s lead single, “Point at You.” The albumalso includes guest appearances from Miranda Lambert and Charlie Daniels. It’s due out September 17.

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The Band Perry is currently on the road opening for Rascal Flatts, but their days as a warm-up act are numbered. The Perry sibling recently attracted 15,000 fans for a headlining show in Maryland.

Reid Perry tells The Tennessean, “Over the last couple of months we’ve seen this huge fervor at The Band Perry shows, more people coming out and more singing and dancing along.”

The Band Perry is grateful to acts like Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley for taking them on the road in the past few years, but the time has come for them to step out on their own.

“We always daydream when we’re out opening on these other tours,” says Kimberly Perry.  “We say we can’t wait until we’re headlining at these amphitheaters.  It’s really exciting to be in the driver’s seat.”

The Band Perry will kick off their North American headlining tour in 2014.

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Willie Nelson fans will want to check out Jack White’s Third Man Records subscription series, The Vault, this month. The 17th installment of the series will include an album of live tracks recorded during Willie’s star-studded 80th birthday concert, which took place on April 18 at Third Man Records in Nashville, TN.

Titled Willie Nelson & Friends Live at Third Man Records, the 12-song set includes performances of Nelson singing a number of his classic hits with White, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Leon Russell, Jamey Johnson, Ashley Monroe and Norah Jones.

Vault subscribers will also receive a six-inch vinyl record featuring Nelson and White performing “Red Headed Stranger” together in Third Man’s Voice-O-Graph Recording Booth. A double-sided poster sporting pictures of Nelson and the Third Man Records logo will also be included in the package, plus other goodies.

Vault package #17 will be available to all subscribing members until July 31.  Here’s the track list for Willie Nelson & Friends Live at Third Man Records:

“Roll Me Up”
“Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” (with Ashley Monroe)
“Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (with Ashley Monroe)
“Funny How Time Slips Away” (with Norah Jones)
“I Gotta Get Drunk” (with Norah Jones)
“Sail Away” (with Neil Young)
“Long May You Run” (with Neil Young)
“Far Away Places” (with Sheryl Crow)
“Whiskey River” (with Neil Young, Ashley Monroe, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Jamey Johnson)
“A Song for You” (with Leon Russell)
“Heartbreak Hotel” (with Leon Russell)
“Red Headed Stranger” (with Jack White)

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Blake Shelton‘s Based on a True Story is the best selling country album released so far this year.  According to Nielsen SoundScan, the project has moved 703,000 copies, to make the fourth best selling album of 2013 across all genres through the weekend ending June 30.

Taylor Swift‘s Red has sold 616,000 copies this year to come in as the #2 country album, and Florida Georgia Line‘s Here’s to the Good Times comes in at #3 with 610,000 copies sold.

As for individual song downloads, Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” is the #1 country song so far this year with more than 3.1 million copies sold.  It’s #7 overall.

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Jake Owen may be friends with a few NASCAR drivers, but he won’t be getting behind the wheel of any race cars any time soon.

Jake posted a picture of himself on Twitter wearing a neck brace in a hospital emergency room Sunday night after getting in a go kart accident. He was trying to beat his race car driver pals Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer on the go kart track at the time of the wreck.

He says, “I’ll stick to singing country songs.”

Jake should be back on his feet in time for his Thursday night concert in Ft. Loramie, OH.

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Craig Morgan will perform a free concert Thursday, July 11 at the 19th Jack Daniel’s/USO Toast to the Troops Care Package Stuffing Party in Jacksonville, FL. The event is set for that day at the Jacksonville Landing, where a team of military spouses, USO volunteers and Jack Daniel’s employees will prepare care packages to send to U.S. military personnel serving overseas. A toast card with a personal message to the troops will be included with each package.

Craig served in the Army for 10 years and has since taken part in every Toast to the Troops event since 2005. He says, “Our nation’s service members and their families sacrifice so much for us on a daily basis and I hope everyone will come out and join us for what promises to be a great day to honor and support these heroes.”

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About 60,000 fans packed the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman Saturday for Toby Keith‘s Oklahoma Twister Relief Concert. The star-studded event is part of the ongoing effort to help those affected by the deadly tornadoes that ripped through the state in May.

According to The Tulsa World newspaper, Toby closed out the night performing his hits “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” “How Do You Like Me Now?,” and “Red Solo Cup,” which he changed to “Red Sooner Cup” in honor of the Oklahoma Sooners. Toby also made a special appearance during Willie Nelson‘s set to perform their duet “Beer for My Horses” as well as Willie’s classic 1978 duet with Waylon Jennings, “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.”

Garth Brooks was on hand to give his first performance in his home state of Oklahoma since 1997. Garth’s set kicked off with “Rodeo” and continued with “Papa Loved Mama,” “Callin’ Baton Rouge” and a duet with wife Trisha Yearwood on “In Another’s Eyes.” After Trisha sang a few solo numbers, Garth closed his set out with “The Dance.” He introduced that number by saying, “I gotta say God bless Toby Keith for putting all this together. Okies unite! … Today is a great day to start the healing process. I want to dedicate this song to everyone.”

Garth dashed in and out of Norman for the performance. He was also busy in Las Vegas this weekend shooting a DVD of his one-man show at Wynn Las Vegas.

Carrie Underwood delivered a performance via satellite from Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House. Her set list included “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “Before He Cheats” and her latest hit, “See You Again.” Ronnie Dunn sang Brooks & Dunn hits “My Maria” and “Ain’t Nothin’ About You” as well as his new solo track, “Kiss You There.”

Mel Tillis, John Anderson and Sammy Hagar also performed at Saturday’s benefit concert, the proceeds from which will go to the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund.  You can donate $10 by texting REBUILD to 52000.

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The Band Perry‘s grandmother, Betty Lou, may be a little too old to vote for the Teen Choice Awards, but she’s doing her part to help her grandkids take the Choice Country Group and Choice Break-Up Song categories at the show.

The Band Perry has launched a new series of YouTube clips showing Betty Lou landing in jail for spray painting “Vote 4 The Band Perry” on a wall before using an old school rotary phone to try and cast her Teen Choice Awards vote.  In another clip, Betty Lou finally gets the hang of voting online using multiple computers and tablets.

Fan voting is now underway at TeenChoiceAwards.com. The show airs live on FOX August 11 at 8 p.m. ET.

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The tornado that devastated Toby Keith‘s childhood hometown of Moore, OK struck nearly two months ago, but many of the residents in the area will be working to put their lives back together for years to come. That’s why Toby is putting on his Oklahoma Twister Relief Concert this Saturday in Norman, OK.  Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Ronnie Dunn and Willie Nelson are on the bill, and Carrie Underwood is set to make a special appearance from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville too.

Toby says, “It’s great of these people to donate their time free of charge to make sure that we can do some long term financial help for these people.”

Toby’s concert is the second major country music event designed to raise money for the Oklahoma tornado victims. Blake Shelton hosted an NBC TV special from Oklahoma City just days after the disaster featuring performances from Reba, Rascal Flatts, Luke Bryan and many more. That event pumped some much-needed cash into the affected areas quickly, but Toby was too busy helping people like his sister at the time. She was one of the many people who lost their homes in the tornado.

“I just couldn’t do it five or six days after because it was just too soon for me to be downtown playing music,” he says.  “I had, you know, stuff to deal with here.”

Now that some time has passed, Toby is glad to continue raising money for those trying to put their lives together.

Toby explains, “You just want to keep it aware long enough that we get enough financial support in here for the long term that will help the people that don’t have the resources to rebuild properly and get their life back underway.”

Even if you can’t make it to the sold out concert, there are other ways to help. Proceeds from the concert will go to the United way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund, and anyone can donate $10 by texting REBUILD to 52000.

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Brad Paisley will be featured on E! News‘s Inside Track Summer Concert Series Friday night at 7:00 ET. Brad welcomed the show’s cameras backstage at his recent show in Tampa and showed them his impressive guitar collection and other high tech bells and whistles on his Beat This Summer tour.

Brad has Chris Young, Lee Brice and The Henningsens on the road with him this summer. They’ll play Darien Lake, NY on July 12.

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