A FEW MOMENTS WITH EMERSON DRIVE (Items on Emerson Drive, Carrie Underwood, Jo Dee Messina, Jamey Johnson, Darius Rucker)

The lads from Emerson Drive are marking the miles on tour. In fact their bus tour clicked pass the one million mile mark in November, leading to a new set a wheels for 'Drive drives.
Pounding that much pavement brought ED the "Campus Activities Magazine" Reader’s Choice Awards “Best Major Performance” honors last year. Now they're nominated again (sharing the category with the likes of Third Eye Blind and Frank Caliendo...how often does that company meet?).
You can vote for 'em here.
Speaking of traveling, lead Driver Brad Mates and his mate had a scary plane incident last week, but everything turned out okay.

Grammy Idol: Carrie Underwood and fellow "American Idol" alum Jennifer Hudson have been added to the performance slate at this year's Grammy Awards February 8.

Congrats: ...to Jo Dee Messina and her hubby, whose new arrival, son Noah Roger, came Monday.

Opposites Attract: Jamey Johnson is a walking dichotomy, sez the Evansville Courier Press.

Q&A: ...with Darius Rucker, from The Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech.