Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani announced a wonderful addition to their family. Their cat just gave birth to kittens...six of them!!! Pictures are up on Instagram, and they are absolutely adorable! Gwen is joking that their dog is not happy at all about how outnumbered she is by felines in the house now.

Looking at the pictures, most are tabby with at least one orange kitty and a jet black kitty as well. Baby animals are so cute to watch! If only I could go bring one home to be a brother or sister for Buttercup...Oh well, I will just look at pictures and be very jealous from a distance.

JUST A WEEK AWAY!!!!   The Think Pink Party Presented by Klaben Auto Stores at Knight Stage at the Akron Civic on April 26th.

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Hailey performed on the Kelly Clarkson Show Tuesday.  Check out her song 'Plain Jane" which you can hear live next Wednesday!

Chase Rice has sent a new single to country radio. "Bad Day To Be A Cold Beer" can be found on his new album I Hate Cowboys & All Dogs Go To Hell. Chase says about his new single, "“Bad Day To Be a Cold Beer," pretty simple. Pretty simple title, but Justin Thomas, the golfer walked up to me at the Troubadour in Nashville, and we were golfing one day, and he said "boys, it’s a bad day to be a cold beer." And that’s it, I just wrote it down I was like "damn I’m writing that." So, we ended up having an awesome day that day. A bunch of country music singers were around, a bunch of golfers, Spieth showed up. We just had an awesome day. I think at one point we had like 30 guys on a tee box. Every tight end in the NFL was there for something they had going in Nashville. So, that was the worst day to possibly ever be a cold beer, cause I think we drank every one in Tennessee that day." 

Darius Rucker has scheduled his 14th Darius & Friends benefit concert for St Jude Children's Research Hospital. The event will be held at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on June 5th, at the very start of this year's CMA Fest.

The guests at this year's event have yet to be announced, but tickets are already on sale! If you want to go, act fast! Over the last 13 years he has held this show, it has raised over $3 million for St Jude's Hospital. Way to go Darius!!!

I went to Mr. Bulky's for the first time in forever yesterday and boy howdy, was it a treat! Pun intended. It's so fun being surrounded by pounds and pounds of candy, and picking out a few things for yourself! There's also some cool vintage candy, tons of local goods, and rare sodas! Cheerwine is my drink of choice so I always get a bottle wherever I find it. The smells that come from the spices they have are intoxicating, and they have a lot of hard to find ingredients you don't need to get a lot of! Or you can get a lot of! No judgment!

I made a gummy mix and got some dark chocolate covered pretzels. I also got some Laffy Taffy, Airheads Extremes, and the previously mentioned Cheerwine. So yummy!

I know you are so excited for the workday to end.   Thank you for letting me keep you company...
As you hop in the car and put 94.9 WQMX on we appreciate it!  

Enjoy the ride home with all your country in the Drive @ 5...  Floor it over to National Design Mart the Superstore on Rt. 18 between 71 &77 in Medina, Showroom on Rt. 3 in Wooster.

Don't forget, May 6th is National Design Mart's 25th Anniversary Sale... in both Medina and Wooster.

By the way, the final weekday of the month in the 5'o clock hour we will play 'Floor-To-Ceiliing'.  'Floor-To-Ceiling is where one lucky listener will guess the exact price of a product at National Design Mart for a $250 Gift Card obviously with some help...

Kip Moore's next radio single is "Damn Love", the title track to his upcoming fifth studio album which is set for release on April 28th. The song was written by Jason Gantt, Jaren Johnston and James McNair, and the only track on the album Kip didn’t write.

He says the song is about all the different feelings about love. “’Damn Love’ is a song about the reasons why you hate love, why you love love and why you’re confused by it,” says Kip in a pres release. “It’s everything encompassing that word and all the complexities that lie within it.”

Thinkin' Problem - David Ball - 1994

I can clearly remember the first time I heard this song.  I was doing mornings at WPCV in Lakeland, Florida and the Music Director, Dave said to me and my co-host John, "You gotta hear this!"  It started, and 10 seconds in I was hooked.  I get it, this is not everyone's cup of tea. This is big-time traditional country by a regular guy who was about 40 at the time trying to get a foothold in country's most gigantic decade.  But David Ball knows how to sing a country song.  If real country is your thing, then this is a dream for you as this is a traditionalists work or art.  The hook is so distinct, and so catchy, it stood out on the radio like any good song does. This was a big hit, going to #2 on the charts, #1 in Canada, sold over a million, and got a Grammy nomination as well. His chart run was not very long, but this album is magnificent, I feel it's one of the best of the 90's.  I love a good honky-tonk bar song once in a while and this is one of the best ones ever.  Take a listen, "You gotta hear this..."

Last Week #36

My Full Profile On David Ball

The Guardians/Tigers game in Detroit on Monday was rained/snowed out. The two teams will try a double header on Tuesday starting at 1:10. This can be a relatively usual occurence this time of year as the seasons are still in transition. Let's just hope that this doesn't end up being like last season!

The Guardians had to cancel 8 games in just Apil and May! Mostly fo rain, but at least one due to sickness. It just seemed like every other game was getting cancelled last year! It really almost became comical how often it was happening. Fingers crossed we don't see the same thing this year and we will actually see some baseball out on the field.

Luke Combs had asked fans to help him decide his next single, it was up to "Love You Anyway" and "5 Leaf Clover", and the fans have spoken. His next single will be the former of the two choices.

He announced the winning song at his show in Nashville over the weekend telling the crowd, "So, about a week and a half ago, I guess. I announced that I was going to let you guys decide what my next single was going to be at country radio. And we had a vote. You could vote on Love You Anyway or 5 Leaf Clover. Which one you wanted me to put out to the radio and it was real close. I think it was 51%-49% So it was neck in neck. But the song we’re about to play you right now is the winner. I got my friend Wes from Flatland Calvary on the fiddle playing for us. So yeah, this is my next single at country radio it’s called Love You Anyway."

Luke said about his next radio single, "Love You Anyway is a song that I wrote on my porch with Dan Isbell, Ray Fulcher and I had been on stage Valentine’s Day of 2020 right before COVID happened. And my wife was sick and was on the bus. She was out with us, but she was on the bus, I believe, and I didn’t know at the time if she was in there or not. And so as I was introing another song, I said, you know, I don’t I don’t know if you’re in here, but I love you anyways. And my buddy Dan had wrote that down and we ended up writing it a few months later."