NASHVILLE (AP) — Zac Brown Band are excited about returning to the Grammys. The first time they went was in 2010 and they won best new artist. Now they’re up for the country album Grammy.

Zac Brown says other awards have a lot of politics, but he feels the Grammys is “legitimately chosen by your peers as an artist.” Brown’s band will also play the Daytona 500 on February 24.

He says he has not yet made a set list for that show but he’s planning something “up tempo” and “rockin'” to “get everybody pumped up for the race.”

SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — Randy Travis is expected to enter a guilty plea in the drunk driving case in which authorities say he was naked and combative at the scene. Details of the plea agreement will be released following Travis’ court appearance Thursday in Sherman, Texas.

Travis faces a misdemeanor charge that is punishable by up to two years in jail and a $4,000 fine. Authorities have said a Trans Am registered to Travis veered off a roadway and struck several barricades in a construction zone on August 7.

Investigators say Travis’ blood-alcohol level was nearly twice the legal limit. His lawyers have said Travis has stopped drinking.

ATHENS, Tex. (AP) — Tony Douglas, most famous for the 1963 country hit “His ‘N Hers,” has died. The Athens Review reports Douglas died Tuesday in Athens, Texas, at the age of 83.

Douglas also had hits with “Thank You For Touching My Life” and “My Last Day” in 1973. He released his final album “Saved The Best For Last,” in 2010.

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — It’s a cruise that’s a country music fan’s dream. The Country Music Cruise will feature concerts by Vince Gill, Kenny Rogers, Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers, Patty Loveless, Jo Dee Messina, Ronnie Milsap and Restless Heart.

Those are just the headliners. Other performers include Andy Griggs, Wade Hayes, Ty Herndon, Jamie O’Neal, The Warren Brothers and Bryan White, with Chuck Mead from BR549 playing poolside daily.

The cruise runs from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Grand Turk, San Juan, Philipsburg and Half Moon Cay next January 19 through 26. Details are at www.CountryMusicCruise.com.

NASHVILLE (AP) — This year is a special one for Lee Greenwood. He’s marking the 30th anniversary of “God Bless The U.S.A.” Greenwood wrote the song in 1983 in response to Russian authorities mistaking a Korean jet on its way from New York to Seoul for a spy plane and shooting it down with 269 passengers on board.

Since then, it’s become an anthem during the Gulf War, after 9/11, during the Iraq War and after Hurricane Katrina. Greenwood says the song came so easily, it nearly wrote itself.

NASHVILLE (AP) — Chely Wright is expecting identical twins. Wright and her wife, Lauren Blitzer-Wright, announced the news on the Howard Bragman YouTube show “Gwissues.” Wright is due in July. Wright says she’s been suffering morning sickness, only in her case, it’s in the evening.