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These guys right above here are Brian and Tyler…You know em as Florida Georgia Line. You just may win a cop of their new cd ‘Dig Your Roots!’ Find out all about as we are giving away copies at country1043.com

Wendy Boomer chats with us from New York City today on location with Brian Tyler , the tour managers and more! Lucky gal!!!!!

Here are some of the country stories we chatted about on the morning show! Enjoy the great weather ya’ll!

Contact Music claims Sam Hunt has reconciled with his ex-girlfriend Hannah Lee Fowler. She was the inspiration for much of his Montevallo CD.

Sounds Like Nashville claims Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley and Little Big Town honored David Bowie at the ACM Honors show last night by covering his song ”Heroes”

Wonderwall claims Garth Brooks recently saw a video of Ashton Kutcher singing ”Friends in Low Places” with Thomas Rhett. The site quotes Garth as saying: “Ashton, I don’t know what to say, brother, the guys in baseball always told me don’t quit your day job, but I don’t want to say that.”

Florida Georgia Line star Tyler Hubbard says it’s hard for him and Brian Kelley not to write songs about their wives. “I think any relationship affects your songwriting. I think anything we go through in life affects our songwriting. So, obviously, meeting our wives and getting married has been a huge step in our life and a huge blessing on a lot of levels: personally, emotionally, spiritually, our work. From all aspects and all angles, it’s just been so much better having them as a teammate and having them be a part of this ride with us.”

He adds: “It almost makes it hard to not want to write every song about them. It’s like, ‘Can we write a song from a different perspective today? Because we’ve been writing about our wives for the last week, and I’m sure everybody is getting sick of it, including our wives, probably. But it is fun, and our wives, we have to thank them for a lot of inspiration, a lot of creative freedom. It’s amazing how we really do feel like it was just ordained by God, meant to be, and we’re better all together than apart. It’s really special.”

Trace Adkins and a Knoxville, Tennessee concert venue plan to donate $10,000 to the family of fallen Maryville, Tennessee police officer Kenny Moats. He was shot and killed during a domestic disturbance call last Thursday. Trace will play in Knoxville on Friday.

Martina McBride tells People magazine that she is addicted to her smartphone. “It’s really shocking to me, over the past few years, and I’m including me, I’m right there with everybody else, we’ve become addicted to this phone. There’s no downtime,” she continues. “I do wish there was a way we could all get away from that. It’s just got to be a conscious decision that people are going to have to make because it’s an addiction plain and simple.”

Martina adds that she and her family try to take technology breaks by doing other things. “In my family we’ve been just consciously getting away from it more and more and just listening to more music. We sit around and listen to vinyl together. We talk around the dinner table. We’re just doing more things as a family, connecting, and trying to not let all of that negative stuff get into you, because it does.”