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The Alan Jackson Collection is now available at Cracker Barrel, including Alan's new CD (l) and rocking chair. Photo courtesy of Cracker Barrel.

Momma’s Pancake Breakfast? Check. Country Fried Steak? Check. Alan Jackson Rocking Chair? You betcha. 

Yes, now you can whet your appetite for good country cookin’ and good country music at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® with The Alan Jackson Collection, a 40+ piece assortment of lifestyle items created in conjunction with Alan and available only at Cracker Barrel beginning November 2.

The Alan Jackson Collection features menswear and womenswear, food items, collectibles, an Alan Jackson Signature Rocker and other exclusive items, including a CD.  <em>Songs Of Love And Heartache</em> includes two previously unreleased songs, “That’s What I’d Be Like Without You,” and “Nothing Sure Looked Good On You,” as well as 10 other songs, including such Alan classics as “Here in the Real World,” “Livin On Love,” and “Remember When.” Continue Reading

Trace Adkins photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.

Ever since Trace Adkins went all the way to the finals on “The Celebrity Apprentice,” he’s received increasing attention from Hollywood. He appeared in the satiric movie An American Carol, made a guest appearance on a soap opera and recently showed up on the A&E series “Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels.”

Now he’s been cast in another movie. Trace will be featured in Lifted, an independent picture starring 12-year-old Uriah Shelton, who portrays a hopeful singer struggling with uncertainty in his family when his father is deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines. Slated to shoot in Alabama, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie’s cast will also feature former “American Idol” Ruben Studdard. Continue Reading

Megan Munroe photo courtesy of Diamond Music Group. Photo credit: Aaron Gustafson.

By Bob Doerschuk

© 2009 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.

Head in the clouds and dirt in her hair” – that’s how Megan Munroe describes herself as a child growing up in Sultan, Wash. She might have added “with a song in her heart,” as her father’s Country albums provided a soundtrack to her horseback rides with the Cascade Mountains as a backdrop. After adding Tori Amos, Jewel, Pearl Jam and Bonnie Raitt to her potpourri of influences, she headed at 17 to Los Angeles to see whether an acting career felt right.

It didn’t, and despite some professional success she was back in Washington, wiser and committed to music by 20. Continue Reading

Carrie Underwood photo courtesy of Sony/BMG.

When it comes to her personal life, Carrie Underwood is one of the most tight-lipped singers in country music, but a trip to Canada over the weekend has other tongues wagging about a new romance for the “American Idol” graduate.

Carrie was spotted in a luxury box Saturday with the family of Ottawa Senators hockey player Mike Fisher at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. In fact, her picture was beamed onto the venue’s Jumbotron “Hug Cam” when she embraced the people around her. Three days earlier, Carrie and Mike’s sister visited Rinaldo’s, an Ottawa spa, for pedicures. That same night, Carrie reportedly attended a New Year’s Eve party at the home of Mike’s teammate, Jason Spezza. Continue Reading