NEW YORK (AP) — Brantley Gilbert has proposed to Jana Kramer and she said yes. People magazine reports Gilbert popped the question on Sunday, his 28th birthday, by renting out Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium Theater for the day.

The couple have been dating for about a year. Kramer says Gilbert asked her mother for permission to propose, which meant a lot to her. They say in a statement, “We are so excited to share this special time with our loved ones and cannot wait to start the rest of our lives together.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – It will be a little bit country and a little bit rock n’ roll when Stevie Nicks and Lady Antebellum team up for a new episode of CMT Crossroads.

The show pairs country artists with their favorite rock performers for a live collaborative show. The members of Lady A will meet Nicks for the very first time when they walk onto the Crossroads stage in Los Angeles to swap stories and share songs.

The episode is scheduled to air later this year.

UNDATED (AP) — Country singer Mindy McCready’s boyfriend and father of their 9-month-old son committed suicide. McCready’s rep, Kat Atwood, confirmed to People magazine that David Wilson died Sunday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

He was 34 years old. Atwood says “they’re working on funeral arrangements and figuring out where to go from here.” McCready released a statement on Monday mourning Wilson and called him her “soulmate.”

Atwood says McCready, who’s faced many personal struggles, is “surrounded by people who love her and are there for her.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The Academy of Country Music has announced nominees for new female vocalist, new male vocalist and new vocal duo or group of the year and now it needs fans to help decide the winner.

Jana Kramer, Kacey Musgraves and Sunny Sweeney are up for new female vocalist. Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert and Hunter Hayes will compete for new male artist and Florida Georgia Line, Love and Theft and Thompson Square are nominated in the duo/group category.

The winners will be up for new artist of the year during the Academy awards show in April. Fans can vote at music network Great American Country’s website starting January 21.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Clint Black is putting together his first all-new studio album in seven years. Black tells Billboard he’s wrapping up an album and is in talks with a record company, but he may leak some songs so fans can hear them first. Black has not released an album since “Drinkin’ Songs and Other Logic” in 2005. In the meantime, he’s been working on a Broadway-style show for arenas called “Aussie Adventure,” set on an Australian ranch in 1901 that involves horses and country dancing.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Love that song from the show “Nashville”?

You might be in luck. Big Machine Records is releasing a soundtrack for the show on December 11th.

It will feature 11 tracks sung by different cast members, including the steamy “No One Will Ever Love You” that Connie Britton and Charles Esten’s characters sang together at the Bluebird and an acoustic version of “Telescope” that sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella sang at their school talent show.

The soundtrack includes a potential plot spoiler. There’s a duet between Britton and Hayden Panettiere called “Wrong Song.” ”Nashville” airs Wednesdays.