SWIFT BUS CAPTAIN (Items on Taylor Swift, Chely Wright, Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith, Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, Norah Jones, James Otto, Willie)

How big is Taylor Swift? So jumbo that her tour bus includes a treadmill and...a fireplace. That among the four-wheeled revelations on the vehicle detailed in the new (April 14 issue/out today) issue of US Weekly. Here's a look at the cozy coach from yesterday's "Access Hollywood."
Taylor's eponymous debut CD, by the way, is logging week #18 atop Billboard's Country Albums chart and is approaching triple-platinum status, her label sez.
Meanwhile, some dudes will do anything to get a song written about them...and, oh yeah, get a date with Taylor; "You get guys who pass you their number in a meet-and-greet line, but that's harmless and I kind of respect it. I have a lot of guys ask me to prom, which is adorable." she tells the Fresno Bee in a Q&A.
If you're looking for the country songstress who will accept a prom date, you have to go way back in time.

So Large: Carrie Underwood's headlining tour just sprouted new dates...Ditto Toby Keith's trek...Krauss & Plant, too.

Dolly Jonesing: You know who loves Dolly Parton? Norah Jones, that's who. Norah's latest album, someone who counted tells us, is the 800th to top the U.K. chart...Elsewhere in pond-hopping, Dolly wants her "9 to 5" musical to play in London's West End.

Hometown News: James Otto's hometown paper to J.O.: Phone home....Meanwhile, this scribe in Austin, TX tracks Willie Nelson's 4th of July whereabouts through the years.