Salad Tossing During Music's Biggest Night

The Country Radio Seminar's in town, folks are unpacking from The Grammy weekend and Miranda upstages them all.

TMZ posted at 3a Tuesday morning about a disturbance involving Miranda Lambert at a nice Nashville steakhouse Sunday night. Same time in the Central Time Zone as the Grammys were unrolling.

The next day, "eyewitness" video and some restaurant stills that gave the story a day two. People Magazine, every morning show, local TV news, social media ... it was everywhere.

There has always been something about Miranda that gets your attention. I don't need to remind how her Blake relationship was all over the national media from start to finish. She is one of the biggest current female stars in Country music and like the #1 female who just had a baby, social media and magazines like People will run anything they do.

This was not a planned publicity stunt, but it got lots and lots of media. No charges or report filed by the police. Just another story in the legend of Miranda Lambert.

Now sharing the media spotlight this week another rebel. Kasey Musgraves. Winning the overall Best Album Grammy is huge. Some Country radio programmers jumped on the buzz.

Kasey and her people did a picture-perfect job for the last year working the album through the CMA maze with an obvious goal of Grammy. It was a beautiful campaign with a cooperative star. Kasey put her time in on the red carpets and everywhere else. She charmed. Now what?

Let's revisit this in a month or so. Will she get a spot on the ACM stage? Nomination? Win? On Feb. 20th, Reba will announce the ACM nominations on CBS This Morning.

For pop music to be so edgy like St. Vincent's performance late in the Grammy show. Grammy week's headlines, social media buzz mostly spotlighted one-word names.

Dolly, GaGa, Miley, Alicia ...Grammys were all about the women. That was the plan and with Kasey's win, the plan was complete. Pop music seems devoid of men right this second -- if you go with Grammy world. And Country music is the other extreme.

Blake and Garth were the two big names on day one of CRS. The post-Grammy glow on Dan & Shay still obvious. Nice, talented guys!

Cody Johnson is set to blast off, but will he? Can George Strait get back on the radio? It's an excellent song ... George Strait singing about Honky Tonks ... Can the format be that out of whack?

It has to be frustrating to work so hard and spin the tires. Hard work can and does pay off. Dan & Shay are not an overnight success. Kasey Musgraves' recent arc is nothing short of a 'wow moment." So many deserving veteran and baby acts that are excellent. But these are odd times. So much political bad breath everywhere. Country radio would be doing a service to take people away from all that.

CBS Corp. doing employee buy-outs; Cumulus selling some famous NYC stations, Motown ignoring Michael Jackson in its upcoming anniversary special. The entertainment business is a mine field indeed. One minute, you're king and the next you never existed. Only the very lucky and the very strong survive.

Last word ... Congrats to Music Row radio stars Charlie Monk and Kyle Cantrell going into the Country Radio Hall of Fame! And Dolly ... what a great week she just had.