Brad Paisley Loves Last Minute Holiday Shopping … “I’m pretty last-minute. Most guys are, I think, are like me. You just don’t invest enough, you don’t think ahead and plan it. I really do end up somewhere like the mall or something on the 24th. It’s a shame. It’s really a waste of what should be a fun day, ’cause you know, here I am scrambling around going, ‘Oh, I think they’ll like that.’ They may have never heard of it, and I don’t know what it is necessarily, but let’s buy it! And I could give it to somebody. (laughs) You end up buying all these things, and it’s just a waste.”

Carrie Underwood And Her Family Used To Sing Christmas Carols At Nursing Homes … “We would walk up and down the halls and sing Christmas carols. I mean, we sang, ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,’ we sang ‘Silent Night,’ we sang, just all those songs that everybody knows, and it was just a really cool thing that we did. I really wish we still did it. We quit when my grandma got sick, but it was just one of those things that, you know, a lot of people that…it’s really easy to forget about people during that time of year, ’cause there’s so much going on, and it was a really cool thing that we did. We’d go to the nursing home and bring a little Christmas cheer with us.”

Chase Rice Loves Watching Christmas Movies … “I’m a big fan of Elf. I know it’s not a classic yet, it’s not old enough I guess to be a classic, but one that I grew up on was Home Alone. Huge Home Alone fan, but I’m also a big Will Ferrell guy, so when he came out with Elf I thought that was hilarious.”

Chris Young Talks About His Holiday Music Influences … “The first Alan Jackson Christmas record. That record and The Beach Boys‘ Christmas Album — if I hear that, that means Christmas, as far as music goes. That was the two CDs or two tapes that were like, ‘Oh, it’s Christmastime,’ ’cause that’s what my mom would play in the car, everywhere. I know both of those CDs front to back. (laughs) And I know that sounds odd ’cause most people…I don’t think I’ve ever given an interview before where I’m like, you know, they go, ‘Who are one of your influences?’ and I go, ‘The Beach Boys!’ But those two records absolutely are…those come on, and it’s Christmastime.”

Darius Rucker On His Favorite Christmas Movie … “That’s such a hard question, favorite Christmas movie, because there are so many great movies that I can think of just off the top of my head that are great Christmas movies. But it would be a tie between ‘Miracle on 34th Street,’ which is still just great acting, great movie. I just love it. I love watching it. I watch it probably four times every Christmas and cry at the end every time. And I love ‘Elf.’ I just think ‘Elf ‘is one of the absolute great stories and just funniest movies I’ve ever seen and it just happens to be a Christmas movie. It’s one of my favorite movies”

Eric Church On His Favorite Part Of Christmas Day … “It’s breakfast for me. My grandmother, when she was alive, would always come over, and every year she would bring this Christmas story, and some of them were gut-wrenching. I’m not going to lie to you. They were just heart-tugging stories about people who had about a Christmas miracle, who had something happen to them; something magical for Christmas that had turned life around, whether it was a homeless person, or just anything. And she would always look all year long and find this story, and then we would have breakfast and she would read it, and it was just our family and we’ve carried that on. My mom does that now, and she’s kind of taken it and she finds the story, and that’s something I’m going to do with my family. And Katherine and I have talked about it. It’ll be her turn to find that and we have a big Christmas breakfast and we sit around and we share that”

Jerrod Niemann Says ”Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Is His Favorite Holiday TV Special … “Well, my favorite Christmas special is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, because I still haven’t figured out how they make those little creatures move, and I don’t know…I have always, like, it’s very comforting, the Christmas songs and the Christmas specials is their…just, they bring out the happiness in everybody.”

Josh Turner On His Favorite Christmas Food … “My favorite food to eat at Christmas time is probably the fried turkey that my daddy makes every year. He started that several years back, and it became a hit with our family, and so he ended up doing it. He’s been doing it every year since, so that’s always been my favorite food”

Kix Brooks Recalls His Daughter Being Born On Christmas Eve; He Drove 130 MPH To The Hospital … “My daughter, Molly, was born on Christmas Eve, which was just truly amazing. We were gettin’ ready to go to Louisiana, and the baby was due about three weeks later. She called me up and said, ‘I’m in labor!’ I said, ‘Well, what are you gonna do?’ She said, ‘Well, I’m gonna go home and get my suitcase packed and stuff like that.’ I go, ‘Awesome!’ You know? Because I was downtown, and the one thing I cared most about was drivin’ to the hospital. I mean, I’d waited my whole life to go as fast as I wanted, and if the cop pulls me over, I can go, ‘We’re havin’ a baby!!!!’ You know? That’s…(laughs)…so I did not want to miss that. So I flew home, you know, and, of course, she had, you know, another 10 hours, but I still drove, you know, 130 the whole way.”