Thanks to our friends at River Action for talking with us about this weekend's 'Taming of the Slough'! Sounds like a lot of fun!

And it rocks! Check it out here:

It finally happened....BARBIE AND KEN GOT MARRIED! Check these photos out.

I caught up with Shannon Alderman from the Illinois DOT today---he's got some reminder for those of us on the highway this Labor Day weekend. Thanks, Shannon!

Jim

It was a time before cell phones, the internet...heck, running water in parts of the country! And if you're like me you grew up on the Andy Griffith Show--he was just the wisest Dad, wasn't he?  Here's one of my favorite episodes--remember the escaped convict who was headed towards Mayberry?

Welcome to Kenny Chesney’s fishbowl. The superstar is letting fans peak behind the curtain on his latest album, which is his most mature and revealing project to date. He’s marking yesterday’s release of Welcome To The Fishbowl with a huge live-streaming beach concert tonight (6/20), and Saturday (6/23) he’s bringing the party to Nashville’s LP Field with pal Tim McGraw.

Tonight’s event pairs Chesney with renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme who will direct the 75-minute online concert as part of the American Express Unstaged series. Demme, the man behind the lens of Academy Award winning movies Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, will shoot the largest concert ever held on the shores of Wildwood, NJ, a vacation destination with a classic boardwalk, roller coasters and ferris wheel. Watching in person will be 20,000-plus fans, mostly American Express Cardmembers, who received free tickets.

The show will be livestreamed at 8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT HERE.

Sugarland's leading lady is expecting a baby! Jennifer Nettles is pregnant with her first child, the singer's rep reveals to People magazine.

The country superstar, who's now acting as a celebrity mentor on the ABC show "Duets," is due in November. The baby will come just as Jen celebrates her first wedding anniversary with husband Justin Miller. The two tied the knot over Thanksgiving weekend last year at an intimate ceremony in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains.

"They are thrilled beyond belief," Sugarland's manager, Gail Gellman, tells People of the parents-to-be.

While baby Miller is the first for the newlyweds, he or she will be the third to join the Sugarland family. Guitarist Kristian Bush has a son and daughter, Tucker and Camille, with wife Jill.

The tractor display each year at the Mississippi Valley Fair is impressive---but today I saw something even more incredible: the Eastern Iowa Tractorcade--put on by our sister station WMT (600 AM) features more than 500! You can find the Tractorcade route HERE. Here are a few photos that I took this morning:

Gotta like this guy's name! Actually, the Jim O'Hara who's running for Governor of Montana is doing something pretty amazing to get votes...check out this video...