[Updated]: Artist Updates (4/21/14)

Dave Haywood and Kelli Cashiola Haywood

Lady Antebellum‘s Dave Haywood and wife Kelli are expecting their first child in September 2014. The couple announced the news via twitter.

“So excited for a new Baby A on the way in Sept,” they wrote. “And it’s a boy!!!” The couple recently celebrated their second wedding anniversary.

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Motely Crue’s Vince Neil connected backstage with ACM Entertainer of the Year George Strait at the recent ACM Awards. This summer, Big Machine will release a Motley Crue tribute album featuring many of today’s biggest Country artists.

Pictured (L-R): George Strait, Vince Neil, Big Machine Label Group President/CEO Scott Borchetta and SVP of Creative Sandi Spika Borchetta

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Mallary Hope and Ryan Dokke

Kristian Bush is working on a solo album. He posted the news on his website recently, explaining, “From 300 songs, I have chosen 15; the next step is to get that down to 12. The songs need mixing and mastering…[I will also pick] a single, and take new photos, and design the album art…and introduce the music to my friends at radio, and play more live shows.” Bush has been working with Streamsound Records.

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Sony Music Nashville’s Ryan Dokke wed singer-songwriter Mallary Hope on Sunday, April 13, surrounded by parents and grandparents. They were married at Hickory Hills Baptist Church in Mt. Juliet, Tenn. Dokke is part of the Arista promo team.

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Nashville musician Buzz Cason has released new album Troubadour Heart (Plowboy Records) and is touring in support of the project, with several local shows on the line up, including a show Friday, April 25 at The Palace Theatre in Gallatin, Tenn. It is his 12th album to date, and his fifth Americana/Roots album. He is best known for writing “Everlasting Love.”

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Katie Armiger, Jamie Lynn Spears and Jordan Anderson (pictured below L-R) performed Wednesday night (April 16) at My Country 102.3 FM’s Girls with Guitars concert at the Marion Theatre in Ocala, Fla.