How do big stars help each other deal with challenges of life on the road?

Why, through Twitter, of course.

Yesterday (July 25), Martina McBride bemoaned: “My cell phone won’t change timezones so I’m pretty much constantly confused as to what time it is on this tour! Need a watch bad!”

Martina’s hero rides to the rescue!

“@martinamcbride I’ve had the same problem! I have to put the real time in ( ), that way it can ‘t confuse me!!! That’s not hard to do )” Reba McEntire responded.

Says Martina: “@reba I will have to figure out how to do that! Can’t wait to hear youre [sic] new stuff!!!!”

Reba: “@martinamcbride thanks a bunch!!!”

Who needs a phone anyway?

Source: Country Weekly

If you are heading to the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.V., for the PGA event this week (July 26-Aug. 1), and you are a country fan, this is pretty much going to be the best week of your life. To kick off this inaugural golf tournament, native son Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts and Reba McEntire will be performing for attendees and participants at the new outdoor amphitheatre at the State Fair of West Virginia. (I think by “attendees,” they mean that you have to go to the tournament and you can’t just go to the concert. That said, you could go feign an interest in golf for a couple hours then head over to the show. Right?) The concert schedule has changed a little since it was first announced, so now Reba takes the stage on Wednesday (July 28), Rascal Flatts on Thursday (July 29) and the biggie is the double-headliner show on Saturday (July 31) with Paisley and Underwood. You get access to the concerts with your all-access weekly badge for just $147. The concerts are general admission, but still. That’s comes out to only about $37 a headliner, plus a bunch of golf, if you’re into that kind of thing.

Source: CMT.com

Just another day in the life — at home, in Nashville, Tennessee — for Reba McEntire. It’s the morning after the CMT Music Awards, and she’s already fielded several calls and e-mails from fans and friends about her hilarious onstage “face-off” during last night’s show with her sometime impersonator, Saturday Night Live regular Kenan Thompson. (Reba: “You can’t be Reba! You’re too dark!” Kenan: “Um, pardon?” Reba: “I’m ginger with highlights! And you’re a solid auburn!”) Awaiting her attention in the afternoon: a conference with representatives from the Dillard’s department store chain regarding the December line of her Reba brand of fashions.

Sometime today she’ll have to look over the song list for tomorrow night’s appearance as a headliner at the sold-out CMA Music Festival extravaganza at Nashville’s LP Field. There’ll have to be some quality time, of course, with her husband and business partner, Narvel Blackstock. And she simply must find 30 or so minutes for her daily regimen of Pilates, walking, and lifting weights in her home gym, part of her highly disciplined diet and exercise program to remain fab and fit at 55.

Right now, however, Reba is devoting her full attention to visiting with a Cowboys & Indians interviewer. A proud daughter and granddaughter of champion rodeo steer ropers, the Oklahoma-born superstar has ridden tall on Broadway, where she reigned as queen of the Great White Way during her 2001 run as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, and prime time television, where she enjoyed a six-season run as a wisecracking, hard-loving single mom in Reba, a popular sitcom still attracting viewers in internationally syndicated reruns. But as Reba will readily remind anyone who wants to talk shop, country music remains her prime concern and chief focus, so it’s only fitting that most of the conversation is devoted to her recent triumphs — Keep on Loving You, her most recent studio album, is among the top sellers of her nearly 30-year recording career — and enduring popularity as the uncontested Queen of Country.

Cowboys & Indians: So, Reba, did you have any fashion tips for Kenan Thompson last night?
Reba McEntire: Yeah — not to wear those pink boots with a green dress. That was too funny.

C&I: Do you remember your reaction when you first saw Kenan’s version of you on Saturday Night Live?
McEntire: Well, I have to admit: At first, I didn’t understand what was going on. I didn’t know whether to be flattered, or to be embarrassed, or insulted. And then I saw that the joke was on his character thinking that he really was Reba McEntire, and [he was] having a little mental problem. So it was really a funny thing. It did get a little risqué, which I didn’t appreciate. And a lot of fans didn’t, either. But it was all in good humor.

C&I: Billboard magazine recently ranked you as the third best-selling country artist of the last 25 years, right after George Strait and Garth Brooks. But Keep on Loving You actually was your first solo studio album in six years. You’ve been concentrating on other projects, like the Reba sitcom. Did you feel just a little bit nervous about returning to the recording studio after so long?
McEntire: No, not all. Because I’d been recording a lot of albums — the duet CD and the greatest hits CD, we did some new recording on that. So it wasn’t like I’d been totally away from the music. It was just that I had a contract to fulfill, and I had so many albums to do. But when I left MCA Universal, I went over to Valory [Music Co.], where there was a new regime, and that’s when I recorded Keep on Loving You.

C&I: The album has been one of your biggest hits, and “Consider Me Gone,” the second single from it, spent more time at No. 1 than any other single you’ve released. You can’t call this a comeback because you’ve never been away. So what’s the key to your resurgence?
McEntire: I think it’s because of [Valory Music Co./Big Machine Records president] Scott Borchetta. Scott and I had worked together at MCA Universal for many years and had lots of success. And then he went out on his own and formed Valory and Big Machine Music. So when my contract was up with MCA Universal, I went over to Scott and Valory. And the excitement of working with Scott, with his creativity and his team, is why this resurgence of my career happened. And also the wonderful songs. I have had bigger albums that have sold more and stayed at No. 1 longer. But I’ve never before had a single that stayed at No. 1 for four weeks.

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Reba is recording her next album which should be out later this year hopefully. But the first single is called “Turn On The Radio”. It’s a summery catchy tune. I really love the song but I love anything Reba does! You can view the song in complete at kfrog.radio.com.

I just added candids of Reba leaving her hotel to attend the A Capitol Fourth event.

Gallery Link:
• Candids : Candids From 2010 : July 4, 2010: Leaving the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington DC

I’m sorry for the lack of updates…I’m quite busy at work but once this week and the next is over…I will be back posting updates full time.

Gallery Links:
• Public Appearances : Events From 2010 : Norwegian Epic Cruise Ship Christening
• Public Appearances : Events From 2010 : 30th Annual PBS “A Capitol Fourth” Concert Rehearsals

I’ve added five new photoshoots and pictures from the CMT Unplugged Session. I’m gonna be working on her movies tonight and tomorrow plus I have a few new scans to add to the gallery. Stay tune.

Gallery Links:
• Photoshoots : 2000′s : Photoshoot #029
• Photoshoots : 2000′s : Photoshoot #030
• Concerts : Concerts From 2010 : CMT Unplugged
• Photoshoots : 2000′s : Photoshoot #031
• Photoshoots : 2000′s > Photoshoot #032
• Photoshoots : 2010′s : Photoshoot #001

Reba was featured in this week’s Country Weekly talking about including her family in her latest video “I Keep On Loving You”.

Gallery Links:
• Magazines & Scans : Magazines Scans From 2010 : Country Weekly – June 21, 2010