Lee Ann Womack

The “King of Country Music” George Strait has added award-wining and platinum-selling country artist Lee Ann Womack to his previously announced arena tour with Oklahoma superstar Reba McEntire. The tour kicks off in early 2010 and continues through late spring.

“’Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind’? ‘Whoever’s In New England’? ‘The Fireman’? ‘Little Rock’? ‘Wrapped’? ‘The Last To Know’? We’re talking classic country from the source,” says Womack in a news release. “I can’t imagine a better tour to be on than George Strait and Reba McEntire –…

Oklahoma country star Blake Shelton teams up with Trace Adkins to charm the patrons of a fancy New York restaurant in the video to their playful duet “Hillbilly Bone.” Gotta love these guys; they’re having so much fun.

-BAM

George Strait

Reba McEntire

“King of Country” George Strait is taking along Oklahoma country music star Reba McEntire on his 2010 tour, with a stop planned in February at Tulsa’s BOK Center.

The tour will kick off Jan. 22 in Baltimore, according to a news release from Strait’s publicist. The pair will Feb. 20 at the BOK Center; the sale date or ticket prices for the Oklahoma show have not yet been announced.

The country superstars performed together for the first time in many years for a sold-out crowd June 6 at the Cowboy’s Stadium inaugural event in…

A version of this story also appears in Monday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.

Miranda’s life spins, evolves
Singer has mellowed but still finds time for “Revolution”

Oklahoman Miranda Lambert has again set the country music world spinning with her new album, fittingly titled “Revolution.”

Not only did her third record debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Albums chart, “Revolution” has earned rave reviews from critics for rotating rabble-rousing revenge fantasies with tender love songs. For Lambert, 25, the album’s name represents her own evolution as a person as much as a rebellion against…

Brad Paisley (Associated Press photo)

Brad Paisley is being pictured on two magazine covers in two weeks.

The country star  is featured in the “Country Stars & Their Families” issue of People Country, on newsstands today through Nov. 9. The feature is titled “What My Father Taught Me” and lists several things that Brad has learned from his father, Doug: Be dedicated, drive them anywhere (and don’t charge for gas!), do your best … and then do better, be of service and it comes back to family.

Along with five pages of text and…

Martina McBride

Trace Adkins (Associated Press photo)

Country music superstars Martina McBride and Trace Adkins are bringing their joint Shine All Night Long Tour to Oklahoma City.

The tour will stop Dec. 5 at the Ford Center. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

Ticket prices are set at $59.75, $49.75 and $34.75. They will be available at the Ford Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets including Homeland, Suncoast, and FYE stores, by phone at (800) 745-3000 or online at www.okfordcenter.com.

The Shine All Night Tour, also sponsored in part by Great American Country (GAC) network,…

Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton (Associated Press photo)

Oklahoma country music star Miranda Lambert appears on the cover of the Oct. 5 issue of Country Weekly magazine, on sale now.

Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo, released her third album, “Revolution,” today.

In the Country Weekly cover story, titled “Why I Wanted to Quit,” she talks about a decision she’s glad she didn’t make—dropping out of high school to pursue music.

“I don’t know if I would’ve dropped out. But my parents didn’t want me to . . . which is another reason I might have,” she…

Oklahoma country star recently performed some of his biggest hits and talked about his parents, moving back to Oklahoma, his first public performance and his bulldozer exploits as part of CMT’s Studio 330 Sessions series.

Shelton was born and raised in Ada and now lives about 40 miles from his hometown in Tishomingo. His girlfriend and fellow country star Miranda Lambert lives on a neighboring spread in Tishomingo.

Here are some Blake Shelton clips from the Studio 330 Sessions; more are available at CMT.com:

Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton (Associated Press photos)

Oklahoma country stars Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are featured on the cover of the Aug. 17 issue of Country Weekly magazine, out now.

The sweethearts and Tishomingo residents are part of the magazine’s special section “He Said, She Said: Why Do Male and Female Stars Answer the Same Questions Differently?”

For the section, the mag posed the same question to a male and female country star. For Shelton and Lambert the question is “How do you feel about the possibility of marriage?”

Oklahomans Toby Keith…

Mike Eli of the Eli Young Band performs. (Associated Press photo)

A version of this story appears in Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.

Edgy red dirt sound of blazing guitars replaces traditional Nashville vibe at Pryor event

PRYOR – For the seventh year, fevered country fans will flock four miles north of Pryor to hear their favorite bands and singers.

But the 2009 Country Fever Festival, starting Thursday on the Catch the Fever festival grounds, isn’t piping in star power from the traditional Nashville mainstream.

Instead, festival organizers are planning a rowdy and raucous…