Image Courtesy Stoney Creek RecordsThompson Square, Joe Nichols, Parmalee and Trace Adkins are among the stars hitting the high seas for the Country Cruising voyage this fall. The cruise sets sail from Miami, Florida October 23 with stops in the Bahamas, Key West and the Grand Cayman Islands through October 30.

Craig Morgan, Neal McCoy and newcomers Charlie Worsham and Lindsay Ell are also performing on the cruise. For more information, go to CountryCruising.com.

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Image Courtesy Capitol NashvilleLittle Big Town will cut the ribbon on the opening day of Fan Fair X at the 2015 CMA Music Festival, coming up June 11 through 14 at the Music City Center in Nashville. After the opening, LBT will be featured as the Fan Fair X Artist of the Day and answer fan questions at the CMA Close Up Stage that morning. Hunter Hayes will take fan questions as the Artist of the Day on Friday, with Chris Young following on Saturday and Darius Rucker closing things out on Sunday.

Fan Fair X will also feature performances from Dustin Lynch, Sara Evans, Kristian Bush and Nashville star Charles Esten. Parmalee, Thompson Square and Canaan Smith are among the stars signing autographs in the CMA Booth throughout the festival, too.

Tickets for Fan Fair X are available now at CMTFest.com.

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Image Courtesy Big Machine RecordsIt looks like Tim McGraw is headed to the small screen in a big way. According to Deadline, Tim is set to star in the new TNT drama series Robbers, based on the 2000 book of the same name by Christopher Cook. Tim would play a drifter named Ray Bob on a crime spree across Texas. There's no word yet on when Robbers will premiere.

The TV series would be a first for Tim, but he's appeared in many movies, including the George Clooney film Tomorrowland, opening May 22.

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Image Courtesy Country LivingMiranda Lambert serves as the first-ever guest editor of Country Living magazine for the June issue, out May 19. In the cover story, Miranda also reveals she and hubby Blake Shelton are currently building a new house with their 15 rescued animals in mind.

Miranda says with a laugh, "I’ve been saving inspiration [for the house] on Pinterest. A friend of mine recently said, ‘I can see your Pinterest boards, and all you have on there are dog rooms.’"

Blake and Miranda also plan to spend a lot time in their garden this summer.  "This year, we’re planting tomatoes and strawberries to make jam, "Miranda says. "I have a little downtime this summer, so I’m looking forward to this task.”

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Image Courtesy Danny Clinch/Varvatos/Southern Ground/BMLGZac Brown Band's new album, Jekyll + Hyde, is the group's third consecutive studio project to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. According to Billboard and Nielsen Music, Jekyll + Hyde moved 228,000 equivalent albums in its first week. That tally takes into account actual album sales along with statistics from streaming services.

Jekyll + Hyde also tops Billboard's Country Albums chart, with Tyler Farr's new release, Suffer in Peace, following at #2 with 42,000 units sold and streamed. Suffer in Peace also comes in at #4 on the overall Billboard 200, which is Tyler's highest position on that chart to date.

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Comstock/ThinkstockTim McGraw and Kenny Chesney toured stadiums together in 2012. What was the name of that trek? ANSWER: Brothers of the Sun Tour.

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Image Courtesy CMAThe 14th season of American Idol is coming to a close soon, so it's a great time to ask judge Keith Urban some questions about this year's finalists. Keith is hosting a Facebook chat about Idol on Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. ET just hours before the show airs at 8 p.m. ET on FOX.

American Idol's 14th season wraps up with a two-part finale airing Tuesday, May 12 and Wednesday, May 13.

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Burke/Triolo Productions/ThinkstockWillie Nelson appears on ABC's The View and NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers Wednesday promoting his just-released memoir, It's a Long Story.

Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley shared a photo on Twitter Tuesday from the beach in Florida showing off his reading material -- a special issue of Life magazine profiling his "favorite band of all time," Fleetwood Mac.

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Image Courtesy Varvatos/Southern Ground/BMLGZac Brown Band's new album, Jekyll + Hyde, is shaping up to be one of the biggest country albums of 2015, so the group members can rest assured they didn't waste any time writing and recording the eclectic project. Most of the project was written on the road late at night following the band's 2014 concert dates. They narrowed the batch of tunes down to the 16 songs that made the final cut, but the guys didn't head straight to the recording studio at that point.

Lead singer Zac Brown says, "We spent a full week down at the beach arranging the record with all the guys getting all the harmony right, getting everything ready."

After all that work, Zac Brown Band still took four months in the recording studio creating Jekyll + Hyde.

"We’ve never spent that much time working on the album, and I think that you can tell on this one," Zac says. "There’s that much detail in every single one of these songs, so you really have to listen to it a bunch of times to really kind of catch all the different nuances of what’s happening."

He goes on to describe Jekyll + Hyde as the "most extravagant painting that we’ve ever done as a band."

Zac Brown Band is on the road touring in support of Jekyll + Hyde all summer long. Go to ZacBrownBand.com for dates.

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Image Courtesy Big Machine RecordsTim McGraw's three daughters with Faith Hill are all teenagers now, so he doesn't have to help them get their presents ready for Mother's Day anymore.

Tim tells ABC Radio, "They always pretty much are pretty good at taking care of that."

Still, Tim likes to show his appreciation for Faith on Mother's Day, too. He adds, "You know, I try to find something that's interesting for my wife. Of course, breakfast in bed's always pretty good."

As for their daughters, Tim and Faith's oldest, Gracie, just turned 18 and will graduate high school later this month. Their middle child, Maggie, will be a high school senior next year, and Tim is philosophical about watching his daughters start dating and developing lives of their own.

"At first, you start off, you say, 'I'm gonna have a shotgun across my lap and I'm gonna sit in the front door,'" Tim says of watching his daughters enter the dating scene. "But as they get older, you sort of grow along with that. You just want them to be happy and you want them to go out and experience life in the best ways. You feel like you do your best to raise them with good values and to respect themselves and respect other people."

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