Luke is also nominated for Male Vocalist, Album (What You See Is What You Get), Single ("Beer Never Broke My Heart"), and Song of the Year ("Even Though I'm Leaving," "I Hope You're Happy Now") at the CMA Awards, which will air live from Nashville on ABC on Nov. 11th.

Roy Gregory talks with Marisa Del Carpio from Baby Back Blues in Plainfield. Baby Back Blues will be offering their Anniversary Special on November 7th and 8th Celebrating 22 Years in business, buy 1 Pulled Pork Sandwich, get 1 free.

Growing up as the son of Rhett Akins, who had a successful country music artist career in the 90’s, Thomas Rhett spent a lot of time around other country stars as a kid. One of his most memorable Halloweens, for example, happened at Reba McEntire's home where the icon actually put him in "time out." Thomas explains:

Justin Moore has made no secret of his hatred for Halloween, dating back to his childhood

Roy Gregory talks with Tom Grotovsky at the Great American Bagel location @ 1101 Essington Road in Joliet

WCCQ's Roy Gregory talks with Steve Brandy from the Will County Health Department ahead of this weekend's Halloween Festivities

WCCQ's Roy Gregory spotlights Savino's on Route 59 in Plainfield

Lady A is ushering in the holiday season with the release of the deluxe edition of their 2012 Christmas project, On This Winter's Night, this Friday (Oct. 30th). The deluxe edition includes 16 songs, the original 12 tracks along with four new ones. Charles tells us the covers on the deluxe edition met their requirement of being a little different.

The new video for Miranda Lambert's latest single, "Settling Down," follows the singer and her husband, Brendan McLoughlin, at home in Tennessee. Miranda’s horse, Gibson, as well as one of her many rescue dogs, Delta Dawn, also have cameos.

Researchers out of the University of Glasgow in Scotland, along with folks at the Scottish SPCA, did a study to find out which type of music dogs like best.