Cup of Country- September 22, 2014

Now that HILLARY SCOTT is a mom, she can’t just toss back a stiff one before performing. She says, quote, “Before, the pre-show ritual was a cocktail. Now I’m changing a diaper and then walking on stage. Or giving her a bath or putting her to bed, and then getting on stage.”

In other LADY ANTEBELLUM news: They released the video to “I Did With You”, which is on the soundtrack to the movie “The Best of Me”. The soundtrack is out October 7th, and the movie hits theaters 10 days later, on October 17th.

Musicians are always talking about how grueling the road is . . . but the other side of that is that they get to SEE the world. When MIRANDA LAMBERT performed in Hawaii on Saturday, she’d finally notched all 50 U.S. states. She said, quote, “That’s my last state. Hawaii . . . it’s my 50th state to play. I think I finished off the 49th in Rhode Island a couple years ago.”

GARTH BROOKS announced that his new album will be out November 11th. Unfortunately we don’t know the title, because according to RollingStone.com, it’s a “well-kept secret.”

RANDY TRAVIS is slowly making progress in his recovery from last year’s stroke. Although he’s still learning to enunciate words and is doing daily therapy . . . he IS walking with a cane. There’s video of him making an appearance at a charity function last week in Texas.