Thursday, September 30, 2010

Saw Andy Giffith

yesterday on a Medicare commercial. So good to see HIM still alive!!  Crystal

Have ya'll heard that new song TAYLOR SWIFT sings with Boys Like Girls??

I have!!  I knew that was HER!!  Just saw that video on COOLTV.  CLCMNC

I'd go see Sectetariat

Since it's a Disney movie, like Pirates of the Carribbean. He won't want to go see it, I'm sure!!  Crystal

Check out DAVID BARNES' 'What We Want We Get'

Featuring "GOD Gave Me You".  Crystal loves Country n Cheesecakes

Monday, September 27, 2010

Saw THE BAND PERRY's

"If I Die Young" today.  Crystal

WHAT ABOUT THIS CHEESECAKE RECIPE??...

TWIX CHEESECAKE

2 8 oz bars of cream cheese
1/2 C. sugar
2 LARGE EGGS
16 FUN--SIZE TWIX BARS
chocolate pie crust



With an electric mixer, beat 2 8-ounce bars cream cheese (at room temperature) with ½ cup sugar and 2 large eggs. Mix in 16 chopped Twix Fun Size Bars (16 grams each; 2 cups total); pour into an 8-inch chocolate cookie pie crust.


Bake at 325ยบ F until set, 40 to 45 minutes; cool. Sprinkle with 6 chopped Twix bars; chill until firm. 
 
SOUNDS GOOD!!:)
THANKS!!
http://crystallovescountry.blogspot.com/ and cheesecake recipes!!:) 

@ THE RYMAN and WAR MEMORIAL AUDITORIUMS

For the flood victims in Nashville, TN--     Tuesday's show features performances by:  TRACE ADKINS, BRAD PAISLEY, and DIERKS BENTLEY

http://crystallovescountry/

Saturday, September 25, 2010

'Don't You Want to Stay'

Check that song//single ((guesting-- KELLY CLARKSON)) out on JASON ALDEAN's new CD-- ((MY KINDA' PARTY)) coming out November 2, 2010.  http://crystallovescountry/ and cheesecakes!! 

THIS WEEK's country music countdown

http://acctop40.com/  GETCHA' COUNTDOWN!!  HEY, AND ALSO I FOUND OUT HE GIVES TOURS @ THE ARRINGTON VINEYARDS!!  AWESOME!!  http://crystallovescountry.blogspot.com 

Friday, September 24, 2010

Just heard JAMEY JOHNSON's new one

I forgot the name, though!!  I know it's off his new CD, that has 30  or some odd songs on it!!  Awesome!!  Crystal Loves Country

LEE ANN RIMES CALLS WENDY WILLIAMS--MEAN!!

For what SHE said about her affair with Eddie Cibrian.  Calls HER affair  'sloppy'!! Will RIMES show up on her show in a bikini??!!...  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......................................  Whatever!!  Anyways, http://crystallovescountry/ 

HANK WILLIAMS Jr. is performing @ Orange Beach

With GRETCHEN WILSON and LEE BRICE on hand too!!  This benefits Gulf Shores

http://crystallovescountry.blogspot.com/ 

Thursday, September 23, 2010

MARTINA McBRIDE n FAITH HILL join forces

to cure cancer for :  Rock The Cradle.  This is a foundation that is trying to find a cure for cancer.  Please help!!:)  Crystal

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

SHANIA TWAIN is writing a autobiography

It will be out in Spring of next year-- 2011.  It is gonna be about her life and breakup of her marriage to Mutt Lange.  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........................  Girl, I wouldn't give him the time of day!!  Forget him!!  Think of Francis or whatever your new man's name is!!  Crystal

Who will have the #1 this week in country??...

TAYLOR SWIFT, GEORGE STRAIT, REBA McENTIRE,ZAC BROWN BAND,PERRY,SUGARLAND,RANDY HOUSER,JOSH THOMPSON,DAVID NAIL,BLAKE SHELTON, MIRANDA LAMBERT,LEE ANN WOMACK,ALAN JACKSON,KEITH URBAN??  http://crstallovescountry/

Get 'You Get What You Give'

by THE ZAC BROWN BAND!!  It's out now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Crystal

Monday, September 20, 2010

SILVER and TRUE

Back to back, I just saw TIM AND FAITH's True and Silver cologne and perfume in the latest GOOD HOUSEKEEPING magazine. 

EASTON CORBIN's comin' 2 town

Nov. 3, 2010 -- To WORKPLAY!!  Check it out!!  Crystal

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Who's y'all's fave in country music??...

REBA,  DIERKS, GEORGE, ALAN, RASCAL FLATS, LUKE BRYAN, ZAC BROWN BAND, LEE ANN, LADY ANTEBELLUM,

TELL ME , WHO??...

CRYSTAL

COUNTRY MUSIC COUNTDOWN THIS WEEK

1 BILLY CURRINGTON 'PRETTY GOOD @ DRINKING BEER




2 LADY A 'OUR LIND OF LOVE'



3 LEE BRICE 'LOVE LIKE CRAZY'
 
http://crystallovescountry

Friday, September 17, 2010

A CHEESECAKE RECIPE

Cinnamon Cheesecake Recipe Crust:


1/4 cup softened butter

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 egg at room temperature

1/2 cup milk

1 tbsp vanilla

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 9 inch spring form pan with non-stick spray. Cream sugar, butter, and egg together. Add the milk and vanilla and set aside.

Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Combine the sifted and creamed ingredients together. Once batter is mixed, it should be nice and thick. Press half of the mix in the bottom of the prepared pan.
CHECK OUT THIS CHEESCAKE RECIPE!! 
CLCMNC




Cream Cheese Filling:

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla

1 tablespoon flour

3 eggs at room temperature

With electric mixer on medium speed, mix the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and flour together until well blended. Add the eggs, one at a time blending well after each addition. Spread the mixture over the batter in the pan. Take remaining base batter and drop by spoonfuls over cream cheese mixture.

Cinnamon Filling:

1 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup butter, melted

3 tablespoons cinnamon

Combine the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon and drop by spoonfuls over the base batter and cream cheese batters. Take and knife and swirl all of them together.

Bake in 350 degree oven for about 45 minutes. Cake will be puffy and lightly browned. Remove cake from the edges of the pan with a sharp knife. Do not remove the rim. Chill to room temperature and then refrigerate for at least 4 hours

Icing:

2 tablespoons cream cheese, softened

1 cup powdered sugar

2 tablespoons butter, softened

1 tablespoon lemon juice

2 teaspoons vanilla

milk to thin icing if needed

Blend cream cheese and butter together. Stir in lemon juice and vanilla. Add the powdered sugar. If icing is too thick, thin with milk. Remove rim of the pan after it is chilled and spread the icing over the top before serving.

Go n get RANDY HOUSER's new album, Tuesday, September 21,2010

Guitar Song.  I believe that's its name??...  Plus, watch him on GMA and Jimmy Kimmel Live.  Crystal loves Country

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Brown Trucker Band

      Y'all know UNCKLE KRACKER used to be part of KID ROCK's band??...  clcmnc

Ms. DOLLY PARTON was on The Nate Berkus Show the other day

But I missed it. Didn't see HER!!  Awh, man!!  C

1st TIM McGraw heads for Austrailia, then Oprah follows

--HE says.

HE is married to singer Faith Hill and with three youngsters. 



The Grammy winner has brought the family - his wife and daughters Gracie, Maggie and Audrey - Down Under for his first Australian tour.



He laughs off suggestions a family album is on the cards.


HE says his girls are musical though. 


He says, they take after their mom.  Talent--Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................ 



"If they want to do it (get into music) you hope they're good. It's a tough business, even if you're good."



For now though, McGraw says his girls are just happy seeing the sights and wildlife of Oz.



"We went to Australia Zoo today, had a fantastic time. They got to play with koalas and kangaroos."



Asked if his good mates "our" Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman warned him about Australia's drop bear population McGraw laughs.



"No they didn't ... We'll watch out for those," he said.



"They did tell us to take a boat around the (harbour) in Sydney."



Australians are some of the best people around, McGraw says before claiming credit for Oprah Winfrey's upcoming visit.



"She heard Tim McGraw's here, so she said: 'Well, I better go'," he says in his southern drawl.



McGraw, 43, has sold more than 40 million albums, and dominated the charts with 31 number one hits, since the release of his debut album in 1993.



He says Aussie fans can expect pure country on his Southern Voices tour.



"We just like to have fun," he says.



"We don't have a lot of bells and whistles, we don't go out there with things exploding and on fire, it's all about the music ... We'll bring the house down."



Four years ago, McGraw, a Democrat supporter, floated the idea of entering US politics with the encouragement of former president Bill Clinton.



If he does transition from entertainer to politician, McGraw will join the likes of Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, President Ronald Wilson Reagan and Clint Eastwood who had a stint as Mayor of Carmel in 1986.



"I grew up in Louisiana, so politics is a state sport for us," he says.



McGraw says he might have to knock on Australia's Midnight Oil rocker-turned-pollie Peter Garrett's door to get some advice.



"I may have to do that ... But, I've probably got too many skeletons in my closest to be a politician," he says.



"It's a long way down the road, the kids would have to be grown up ... It's not something I want to go out and seek.



"But, at some point in my life, if I feel I have something to offer then I will.



"It would have to be a situation where I saw something and could make a difference."



The Southern Voices tour continues with another show in Brisbane before heading to Melbourne, Sydney and Townsville.

http://crystallovescountry

TIM AND FAITH have Their OWN Bindi

Their middle child, TIM says likes to venture out with animals!!  HE's fixing to tour in Austrailia.  Be careful, Maggie Elizabeth McGraw!! 

Crystal

'Pretty Good @ Drinking Beer'

Well, actually BILY CURRINGTON says HE'd rather drink tea something with coconut, he makes.  Cool!!  Crystal

BRETT JAMES gets songwriter of the year in country

Music, that is!!  Hey, he used to be a singer, I have his 1st album!!  clcmnc

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

WYNONA was a therapist kinda on OPRAH today

SHE was on there with her mother, Naomi Judd discussing their comeback, NAOMI's illness, sister((Ashely)), their farm and WYNONA's ex,children and HER((30 LBS.)) weight loss.  WY was acting as kinda like a therapist too.  CRYSTAL

Heard WYNONA's lost weight

Congrats, girl!!  :)  Crystal loves Country n cheesecakes!! 

THE JUDDS -- today on Oprah

     C it, don't miss it!!  clcmnc

BLACKBERRY CHEESECAKE

Ingredients


Crust

1 box Vanilla Wafers

½ cups Pecans

1 stick 1/2 Cup Butter, Melted

1-½ teaspoon Vanilla

Filling

3 packages 8 Ounce Cream Cheese

1-½ cup Sugar

4 whole Eggs

½ cups Sour Cream

Topping

2 cups Blackberries

½ cups Sugar

2 Tablespoons Water

Preparation Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.



Place vanilla wafers and pecans into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until mixture becomes crumbs. Add melted butter and vanilla and pulse again until combined. Pour into a 10-inch springform pan and press crumbs into the bottom of the pan. (If they come up the sides, that’s okay!)



For the filling, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add sour cream and mix again. Pour mixture into crust, smooth the top, and bake for 1 hour, 10 minutes. Turn off oven and open door and allow to sit in the oven with the door opened for 15 minutes. Remove and allow to cool.



For the topping, add blackberries, sugar, and water to a saucepan or skillet. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat and cook for 4 to 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and allow to cool slightly.



Pour blackberries over the cheesecake and place pan into the fridge to cool and set for at least 2 hours—several hours is better.



When ready to serve, remove rim around pan and slice into 16 pieces with a long serrated knife.

GONNA MAKE THIS ONE ONCE OUR BLACKBERRIES FINISH GROWING!!  crystal lovescountry music and cheesecake recipes!! 

Have y'all heard SHERYL CROWE and MIRANDA LAMBERT version of

'Coal Miner's Daughter'??...  I'm fixin' to!!  Crystal loves Country

Y'all going to see...

 GEORGE STRAIT AND REBA McENTIRE, plus LEE ANN WOMACK??

Crystal

Monday, September 13, 2010

Heard about TAYLOR and Kanye

What did y'all think??...  I don't have cable, so I didn't see-- just read about it on the Internet.  C

Sunday, September 12, 2010

This week's country music song that is #1

BLAKE SHELTON's 'All About Tonight'Crystal

MIRANDA LAMBERT says her 3 years singing in bars

felt like they were HER college years.  SHE learned that way.  Neat:)  c

Did y'all see TAYLOR SWIFT kick of the 2010 football season

with THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND??...  SUGARLAND said on TODAY that THEY were gonna be there too, I believe??!!...  I missed it!! 

Crystal Loves Country

Friday on TODAY, SUGARLAND

sang their 'Stuck Like Glue' and 'All I want to Do'.  Love THEM, just not HER new haircut!!  He asked them about the football game.  Crystal

CARRIE UNDERWOOD sang on SNL last night

     Missed HER, but saw PEYTON MANNINGHE had his family there w/ himclcnmc

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

CARRIE UNDERWOOD FISHER as Bethany Hamilton

SHE is going to play HER in the new up and coming movie, Soul Surfer

Crystal

RAISIN CHEESECAKE

How to make it


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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix the crumbs with the melted butter, sugar and then mix in the nutmeg.

Grease the bottom and partly up the sides of a 9 inch springform pan.

Make sure the crumbs are smoothly spread across the bottom of the pan and then press them partly up the sides of the springform pan.

Bake the crust for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.

Cool before filling.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Mix the raisins with the 1/4 cup flour so that fruits are loose and separated

You want the raisins to be loosely coated with the flour..

Put aside any loose flour that falls off the raisins.

In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add the yolks, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each one.

Add the remaining flour and the lemon juice, lemon rind, vanilla and the sour cream.

Beat until the mixture is smooth.

Stir in the raisins.

Beat the egg whites with the salt until they form stiff peaks.

Fold the whites into the cream cheese mixture.

Pour the mixture into the prepared crust and bake for 50 minutes.

Turn the oven off and leave the cake inside to cool for an additional 40 minutes.

Remove the cake from the oven and cool to room temperature.

Dust with confectioners' sugar.

Chill for about an hour and then serve.

http://crystallovescountrymusic.blogspot.com/ and cheesecake recipes!! 

Like RODNEY ADKINS, I've had manure rubbed on on my face

Like HE in his latest video, "Farmer's Daughter".  An old classmate friend's brother wrote my name on my face @ a party @ their Grandfather's place w// it!!
http://crystallovescountry/ 

MERLE HAGGARD may be getting a Kennedy Center Honor

I read.  clcmnc

I hear u oughta' hear the couple in LITTLE BIG TOWN sing together

That's what the blonde member says.  Crystal loves Country

Monday, September 6, 2010

THIS WEEK's COUNTRY COUNTDOWN #1

http://acctop40.com/Article.asp?id=613460

CRYSTAL

Read on the computer Billy Gilman was on the Jerry Lewis --

Telethon this year.  clcmnc

Go to www.billydean.com for HIS latest

Stuff!!  Visit his place, ride horses n such!!  :)  Crystal

TRACE ADKINS had doctors reattach his pinkie finger after an oil rig accident

a certain way so HE could play the guitar better!!  Can y'all believe that??!!...  Interesting.  Crystal

FAITH HILL's got another album coming out this year

This time SHE's using Brendan O'Brien, who's known for producing projects for Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, and Rage Against the Machine, is working with FAITH and producing HER next album, set for release in 2010.

http://crystallovescountry.blogspot.com 

Thursday, September 2, 2010

The CMA special last night

TIM McGRAW could've performed a new song!!  Heard enough of "Southern Voice".    I liked CARRIE UNDERWOOD's "Undo It".  Honeybun liked KEITH URBAN  and the Wonder Years song.  Could've done w/o TAYLOR SWIFT.  Loved DARIUS RUCKERLADY ANTEBELLUM was good.  JOSH THOMPSON was good.  REBA was good-singing some new and old.  MARTINA was awesome!!  KELLIE PICKLER was good hosting and singing.  Of course JOSH TURNER was good.  Loved the UNCLE KRACKER and KID ROCK performance.  Jist not KID's 'JESUS' song.  Tell me who I am missing.  It was a pretty good show.  TIM didn't mention FAITH!!  Wow!!  Crystal