Is Rascal Flatts here?
Jody Harrell, who drives a bus for the Rascal Flatts country music tour, is seen Tuesday helping run a promotional raffle in front of Allegany Beverage Redemption Center in Allegany. The promotion is being held to help publicize subscriptions to Olean Community Theatre.

In Pictures: Rascal Flatts in Tinley Park, IL
Award-winning country outfit Rascal Flatts [ tickets ] is making the rounds ahead of "Nothing Like This," the band's first album for Big Machine Records -- home of the genre's brightest young star, Taylor Swift [ tickets ]. Rascal Flatts had a great run with their old label, the now-shuttered Lyric Street Records, with 27 singles cracking Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and 10 No. 1 hits ...

Rascal Flatts celebrates itself
The "American Idol" tour may have arrived at the United Center on Saturday, but no one told Rascal Flatts, whose 90-minute performance the same night at a packed First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre could've passed as a special episode of the long-running television series. Replete with vanilla music, flashy visuals, crass promotion, myriad cover tunes and scripted banter, the only thing missing was ...

Why do the CMAs keep snubbing Underwood for Entertainer of the Year?
The 2010 CMA Awards nominations came out yesterday, and despite nine well-deserved nominations for Miranda Lambert, including Entertainer of the Year, most of the chatter was about the blondes missing from that category. Although they both had typically strong years, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood will be sitting out the race for the top prize at country's big fall awards show -- and it's not ...

Allentown Fair goes gaga for Lady Antebellum
"Ain't worried about tomorrow when you're busy living in a perfect day," Lady Antebellum sang on Thursday night at the Great Allentown Fair, and the band members should know. In only a few short years the trio has risen from relative obscurity to superstardom, spending 2010 hoisting Grammy awards, a Teen Choice surfboard and reveling in five Country Music Association (CMA) nominations, including ...