Eric Church and Wife Katherine Expecting First Baby!

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This time around, he's happy about those two little pink lines.

Eric Church and wife of three years, Katherine, are expecting their first child this fall. "Katherine and I are very excited and are looking forward to becoming parents," reports the dad-to-be. "This year has gotten off to an amazing start for us, and this news has made it so much better than we could have ever anticipated."

Of course, Eric's huge hit, 'Two Pink Lines,' is the real-life story of waiting in angst for the results of a pregnancy test several years ago. "I have this song about pregnancy. It's a personal song for me, because two pink lines happened to me when I was unmarried and a teenager," Eric confessed at the CMA Songwriters series last year. "When I first played this for my mom, I was expecting her to be really bothered by it. She goes, 'I love that song. Why are you singing about two pinklions?' I said, 'Mom, I happen to love lions; I'm a big cat fan.' It took her a long time to figure it out."

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Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan + More to Play USO/ACM Concert

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Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Little Big Town,Montgomery Gentry, Craig Morgan, Brett Eldredge and Sunny Sweeney will perform a free, private USO show for Nellis Air Force Base troops and their families. Hosted by the Academy of Country Music and the USO for the second consecutive year, the concert takes place April 2 as part of 'The Week Vegas Goes Country.'

Blake Shelton has additional plans while at Nellis Air Force Base. Blake will host the first-ever NRA Country/ACM Celebrity Shoot. The event is a 13-station, 50-target sporting clays competition for 20-26 teams of five shooters with a celebrity captain. Prizes will go to the top three teams.

"We get to do something we love to do, with our fans, and help raise awareness for a worthy cause while having a great time," Blake says.

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Brad Paisley Says Working With Alabama Was 'Mind-Blowing'

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Brad Paisley's latest single, 'This Is Country Music' is still sitting pretty in the top five on the charts, but the superstar already has his mind on his follow-up single, 'Old Alabama,' which is just starting to hit the airwaves.

"My next single has something that's really cool, I think, that we came up with when we were writing this new album," he tells Buffalo, N.Y. radio station WYRK. "We were writing a song that mentions a few things and realized that the perfect bridge for the song is the bridge from 'Mountain Music.' And so I contacted [Alabamamember] Randy Owen and asked if he wanted to write it with us, and then got those guys back together. Instead of sampling a piece of 'Mountain Music,' I had those guys come in the studio and record it. It was one of the most mind-blowing experiences of my life."

The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year admits he was more than a little starstruck when he hung out in the studio with the legendary band. "That's the biggest group in the history of country music!" he gushes.

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