Taste of Country

It's summer, and that means bathing suit season, whether you like it or not. Thankfully, a few of country music's most prominent ladies -- Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Sara Evans -- have offered up some healthy recipes that might help you keep your body toned without losing the flavor of guilt-friendly foods.

In her new single 'Wait,' Amber Hayes is acting on impulse and giving good feelings a second chance. She starts chatting to a random stranger in line somewhere and they hit it off, but when it's time to part ways, she decides not to let their relationship fizzle as quickly as it started.

Busy couple Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman were spotted at the Sydney, Australia airport on July 6 with their little girls, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, in tow.

Uh-oh. The wheels of Texas justice keep turning, regardless of the lawbreaker! Apparently, Willie Nelson's recent plea deal in his pot case, stemming from a fall 2010 arrest due to his possession of weed, has been rejected by a Texas judge. The plea deal was worked out with prosecutors and stated that Nelson would plead guilty to the marijuana charges and pay a $500 fine.

Carrie Underwood is undeniably one of country music's sexiest female singers. In the August 2011 issue of Glamour, Underwood sits down with the magazine to talk abouut some of her favorite beauty must-haves, as well as gives readers a glimpse into some of her fashion and beauty secrets.

As a country music star, and now a television celebrity, Blake Shelton is riding pretty high on his career path. But the 'God Gave Me You' singer can't stress enough how important it is that he and his new wife, Miranda Lambert, make time for each other.

Dwight Yoakam has returned to his musical home in Nashville at Warner Music Group to record new music. The multi-platinum selling singer, songwriter, actor and director first signed with the label group's Reprise Records, where he released his debut album, 'Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.,' in 1986. He has since recorded 27 albums under both Reprise Records and Warner Bros. Records imprints. Yoakam

With the release of her new album, 'Better Day,' Dolly Parton had one thing on her mind. "Everybody's so down in the dumps, and all this doomsday attitude with the economy so bad and all the wars and the bad weather," she tells Taste of Country. "People really need to be uplifted a little bit right now." And so, Parton went ahead and did what she does best to try to do her part

Scotty McCreery is busy with the American Idols Live tour, but that won't derail him from working on his debut album in between each show. McCreery, who won Season 10 this May and will be closing out the show each night, is going to make pit stops at the closest recording studio in each city that the tour hits, pulling double duty.

Lauren Alaina is looking as beautiful as ever, something the teen and 'American Idol' runner-up addresses in a new video interview with Yahoo, which took place at the rehearsals for the just-started American Idols Live tour. Alaina admits she has been working out and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and that it's not the pace or the stress of the show that caused her to drop some pounds.