Blake Shelton is fully aware that the other judges on The Voice are gunning for him. He has been the winning coach two seasons in a row now. The Voice returns Monday with two new judges replacing Christina Aguilera and Celo Green. "I feel like I've got a target on my back no matter what I do," Blake says. "The dynamic of the show is different. I didn't realize until Cee Lo and Christina took some time off, that the show is really centered around the four of us."  Blake says the two new judges Usher & Shakira have stepped up the game, "They were very serious, they were determined to win this thing."

Garth Brooks and George Strait will perform together at the ACM Awards next month (April 7 on CBS.) This will be the first time Garth & George have ever performed together. It will be a tribute to Dick Clark, who founded the ACM Awards. The ACM Artist Of The Decade Award will be renamed after Dick Clark. Garth & George are the two most recent winners of the award.

Word is out that Garth Brooks has hired a fiddle player for his return to the touring world in 2014. Garth has stated he will go back on tour when his girls are out of the house on their own. We hear from an insider that they are tuning up a fiddle for a member of Garth’s band. The future Garth fiddle player is currently on tour with another well known artist but is prepping his gear for the future Garth concert tour. Garth has made no official announcement.

Lady Antebellum and Stevie Nicks are hitting the stage for an episode of CMT Crossroads. Hillary Scott says it was Stevie Nick’s idea to pair up. "We had a conference call with her, and I was floating afterwards. I mean, this woman is amazing. She was so kind, so excited, and the way that this all came about is going to be in the show, because it’s a really cool story that we’re gonna sit down and let her tell how it all came about." Hillary says. "Because it wasn’t her management calling our management or CMT trying to call each of us, because they had the idea. This was her idea, and the way it came about was very organic and beautiful and I’m gonna let her tell that story, so you’ll have to watch it to hear the story, but it was her idea."

Dustin Lynch is into college basketball and he has filled out his bracket. He tells us he doesn't have any scientific method for picking winners. "No, you know I’ve always heard that most uneducated girls [concerning the basketball picks] that pick cool mascots or like look at the colors of the team, usually do better than us guys that think we know something about the game so," Dustin states with a laugh. "No, I usually try to go down through there and I’m like, ‘OK that’s probably going to be an upset,’ but once I get my upsets figured out than it’s a little bit easier to go through there."