Sheryl Crow, Lance Armstrong Engaged

The seven-time Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong confirmed his engagement to Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow on Monday. The cyclist proposed to Crow on Wednesday, August 31st, in Sun Valley, Idaho. The couple have been dating since they met at a charity event in October 2003.

Crow will release her fifth studio album, Wildflower, on September 27th, and has revealed that the album's title track was inspired by Armstrong and his three children (with ex-wife Kristin). "It's kind of a reminder, particularly when you look at his young children, how they gravitate to goodness and to light," says Crow. "The idea of the song is that no matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."

Though no definitive plans have been set, Armstrong's spokesman says a spring wedding is likely. This will be the first marriage for the forty-three-year-old rock star and the second for the cyclist.

In the meantime Crow will hit the road in support of the release, playing a string of dates beginning October 16th in Seattle.

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Song Stories

“(We're Not) The Jet Set”

George Jones and Tammy Wynette | 1973

George Jones and Tammy Wynette were still married when they recorded the tongue-in-cheek "(We're Not) The Jet Set." The lyrics, written by Nashville songwriter Bobby Braddock, who also penned Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today," make fun of the good life by declaring, "We're not the Jet Set/We're the old Chevrolet set." Braddock recalled that while writing the song, he needed the name of a city that evened out the rhyme he had with "Riviera" and "Missourah." “I got out a Rand McNally atlas," he said. "In the first part are the maps. The last part is an alphabetical listing of cities. I wanted a rustic, small-time sound. I went to the listing for Missouri. And I found 'Festus.' I loved the sound of it."

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