Brad PaisleyandKimberly Williams-Paisleyare having “a lot of fun” together as they prepare to openThe Store, a charity grocery store in Nashvillewhere all of the food is free. “It’s great doing something where we can both lead and work toward a cause we care about,” Paisley tells PEOPLE of working with his wife. “This is not a trivial thing; it’s something that’s very important to us and the community.” The Store, which broke ground on Wednesday with Paisley wielding a backhoe, is modeled after Unity Shoppe grocery store in Santa Barbara, California, where the couple tooktheir sons— Huck, 12, and Jasper, 9 — oneThanksgiving....

Each wedding anniversary,Brad Paisleyand Kimberly Williams-Paisley have a tradition: the country star and his actress wife sit down together with a special journal and write down their favorite memories from the past year. “Our greatest hits,” Kimberly, 49, tells PEOPLE in one of this week’s cover stories. “We record the meaningful moments, the best laughs. That’s a big part of our relationship—focusing on the laughter and keeping a sense of play....

At Thanksgiving time eight years ago, whenBrad Paisley and Kimberly Williams-Paisleywere staying with their sons Huck, now 14, and Jasper, now 11, at their second home in California, the couple was facing a problem familiar to many parents: “Basically our children were acting spoiled,” says Brad, 48. “They needed to realize that there were people in need and they needed to see hunger.” Recalling her own childhood, whenher mother, a fundraiser for non-profits, would bring her along to volunteer at food pantries, Kimberly called a friend for a recommendation on where they could take their children to teach them that lesson....

Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Brad Paisley.Photo: Kimberly Paisley/Instagram Brad PaisleyandKimberly Williams-Paisleyare celebrating 18 years of blissful marriage. The country star and his actress wife, who tied the knot in 2003 and share sons Huck, 14, and Jasper, 11, marked their wedding anniversary on Monday with Instagram tributes to one another. Paisley, 48, went for humor with his post, sharing a photo of his wife, 49, crying, which he captioned, “Happy anniversary @kimberlywilliamspaisley !...

Nice jacket! Just moments after Keith Urban’s emotional speech after winning the award for Entertainer of the Year, the camera panned to Paisley and Underwood signing off for the night, revealing the “Bucked Off” crooner’s cheeky look. ABC Check out PEOPLE’sfull CMA Awards coverageto get the latest news on country music’s biggest night. Paisley sported a custom blazer jacket screen printed in multiple headshots of Underwood from various red carpet events over the years, which the Female Vocalist of the Year award winner admired as the pair ended the show....

When quarantineshut down his tourlast year, Paisley was suddenly more available for at-home crises big and small, so when Paisley, 48, noticed his 11-year-old son Jasper’s pufferfish doing poorly, Paisley jumped into action. “My son had four pufferfish and was down to two — and this one was losing weight,” he explains in the cover story of the latest issue of PEOPLE on newsstands Friday. Puffers' teeth can sometimes grow so long they can’t eat, and this one was in dire need of a tooth trim....

Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty, GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via GettyUkraine’s president,Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has made a new appearance in a country song!A phone conversation between the politician, 45, and superstarBrad Paisleyis featured at the end of the country singer’s latest single, “Same Here,” which marks one year sinceRussia invaded Ukraine.“On this one year anniversary of the invasion, I’m reminded of the ways we are all so similar,” Paisley, 50,wrote on Instagram.The song itself is an acoustic-led ballad about traffic, watching sunsets, the joy of weddings and a love of sports — basically feelings shared among those in different parts of the world....

Photo: Andrew Chin/Getty Images Brad Paisleyis giving back to a fellow Tennessean following theexplosionthat rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas. Musician Buck McCoy was in his apartment on the city’s 2nd Avenue when the blast, later identified as anintentional suicide bombing, went off. McCoy was able to escape, but all of his belongings, including his clothes, musical instruments, car and more, were destroyed, according to a GoFundMe set up in his name....

Carrie Underwoodis now healed after aterrifying fall outside her Nashville homea year ago — and poking fun at her tumble. While co-hosting the CMA Awards on Wednesday with Brad Paisley, the “Cry Pretty” singer — who isexpecting her second childwith husbandMike Fisherand picked up the award for female vocalist of the year — changed into a (very chic!) dress made out of bubble wrap. Already a mom to 3½-year-old sonIsaiah Michael, Underwood announced during the show she and Fisher are expecting another boy....

Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Brad Paisley.Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Brad Paisleyis a man of many talents, but painting nails may not be one of them! On Saturday, the country superstar’s wifeKimberly Williams-Paisleyshared an Instagram Reel of her husband giving her anEaster-themed manicure to hilarious results. The Reel showed Brad painting orange and yellow designs on the actress' nails, which appeared to have a blush base on them. He alternated patterns between nails, making some dotted and others, striped....

“It was interesting, because he told me that he was going to propose, and he had got this song ready,” Paisley, 46, tells PEOPLE of Lane’s song“Big, Big Plans,” which Lane sang — “Right now we’re back in her hometown/ and I’m down on one knee” — into reality as he popped the question. “He’d written this thing and planned a whole thing. I had some friends on the [tour] bus, and they were all like, ‘That sounds pretty awesome,’ and I’m like, ‘Don’t do that,’ ” Paisley recalls, adding, “I’m glad he didn’t listen to me because it worked out great....

Brad Paisleyhas bestowed his Golden Buzzer toAmerica’s Got Talentsinger Sophie Pecora!The country star, 46, selected the 15-year-old to advance to the live shows after she performed her emotional, original song for judges Simon Cowell, Julianne Hough, Howie Mandel and Gabrielle Union.“It was the combination of her talent, and where she was in the show, and the idea that what she has is a talent,” Paisley tells PEOPLE of Pecora, who first broke hearts with her original composition “7th Grade” about overcoming bullying in school....

“I felt like it was a really bad idea to leave my family,” he recalled this week to an audience of broadcasters at the annual Country Radio Seminar. “It felt like the beginning of what it was — a war. I came home, and I walked through the door, and I broke down sobbing.” His wife,Kimberly Williams-Paisley,and theirtwo sons, Huck, 13, and Jasper, 11,rushed to him, Paisley recalled. “And they said, ‘What’s wrong, Daddy?...