Carrie Underwood is well known for her strict diet.  But, she has other ways to stay slim.  The country starlet tells People magazine that her hair might help the rest of her look small:

“I just feel like…maybe it makes the rest of me look smaller.  I’m not sure of my reasoning, but that’s the number-one thing I do, when someone fixes my hair, I put my fingers in it and make it look bigger.”

Carrie talks about southern women's love of big hair.  She even cites the popular phrase, "The higher the hair, the closer to God."

Jason Aldean talked to CMT on Monday about the recent incident involving his behavior with Brittany Kerr at a Los Angeles night club.  Photos of the two together led Aldean to apologize via Facebook for his actions.  Speaking to CMT's Katie Cook Aldean said, "Me and my family are ok."  He also talked about how to handle the situation:

"You can handle it two ways.  You can go hide and run from it or you can get up and face it and deal with it…and that’s what we tried to do.”

Reaction to this story has been mixed, but we should get a good indication of how country fans feel about Jason Aldean when his new album Night Train goes on sale next week.

Taylor Swift will release Red, her fourth studio album, on October 22.  But, at a show in England, she went ahead and debuted the title track live.  Red is one of the songs Taylor previewed on Good Morning America and is available on iTunes, already.  But, nobody had ever heard the live version of the song.

On Monday, Swift preiviewed I Knew You Were Trouble on Good Morning America.

Kellie Pickler has a new record home.  The North Carolina native signed with Black River Entertainment, a label home to country singers like Craig Morgan and Sarah Darling.

Pickler left Sony Music earlier in the year and believes that Black River has "similar values" to herself.  She says:

"From our initial meeting, it was clear to me how much the entire team respects the artists' musical vision, and I'm really looking forward to getting back into the studio to record and release new music to country radio."

Kellie made headlines last month after shaving her head in support of a friend who was diagnosed with cancer.  Earlier in the year, she also appeared at our Kat Jam with Morgan who is now her new label-mate.

Eric Church has slowly risen through the ranks of country music and has become a major star headlining major arenas.  He will perform at Time Warner Cable Arena on November 28.

Church has opened for some of the best in country, but credits rocker Bob Seger with some of his most important lessons.  The biggest lesson of them all?  It is all about the music.  Eric Church tells The Detroit News:

"Bob came out there with sound and lights, that's it; and when he walked out there the place went crazy,...It was about the music, it was about the energy in the room. Those were the loudest shows I played that year, and I played with everybody...Bob built it the right way, a lot of touring, over a long period of time."