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"I&amp;#x27;ve had a blast filling you guys in on all the HGTV and country music stars I had the chance to hang out and mingle with while I was a guest at HGTV&amp;#x27;s Lodge at the CMA Country Music Festival. From the Property Brothers to Kellie Pickler, it was pretty surreal. But one of my favorite chats was with the country music duo Thompson Square. Let&amp;#x27;s talk about humble. They had just played a show on Nashville&amp;#x27;s famed Broadway strip--where they used to bar tend and work at a Kinkos before they &amp;quot;made it&amp;quot;--and could not be more proud and just in awe of how their success has come full circle. &amp;quot;I think [playing on Broadway] is the &amp;#x27;icing on the cake&amp;#x27; . . .&amp;quot; says Keifer Thompson. &amp;quot;With the cherry on top,&amp;quot; says Shawna Thompson. As a married couple of 13 years, they&amp;#x27;re known to finish each others sentences. It&amp;#x27;s very cute. And nothing that&amp;#x27;s happened to these guys--from earning Grammy nominations to snagging the coveted Academy of Country Music&amp;amp;#8217;s &amp;amp;#8220;Vocal Duo of the Year&amp;quot; award to opening for none other than Lady Antebellum--gives them even a little bit of an ego. Ready to get to know these guys a bit better? Promise, you&amp;#x27;ll be glad you did! Glamour: When did you guys start performing together as a duo? Shawna Thompson: We moved here individually from Alabama and had a dream of coming to town and hopefully getting a record deal individually. About six years into marriage, nothing was really going on with our individual careers and we thought, &amp;#x27;Let&amp;#x27;s try being a duo!&amp;#x27; And that&amp;#x27;s when things started happening for us. Keifer Thompson: We just didn&amp;#x27;t like being apart, I was touring with other artists playing the guitar and Shawna was doing her thing. It just sucked and when we started doing it together that&amp;#x27;s when everything just started clicking. Glamour: Do you like always being together? ST: It&amp;#x27;s awesome. KT: It shouldn&amp;#x27;t work. It doesn&amp;#x27;t work for a lot of people but for some reason it&amp;#x27;s just not work at all. But we fight like everybody else, everything&amp;#x27;s the same we just travel around and do it. And it when I&amp;#x27;m always right there, it&amp;#x27;s a little hard for her to cheat on me. Ed note: They couldn&amp;#x27;t keep their hands off each other so I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s a problem in the least! Glamour: What were the first musicians you were obsessed with? KT: Merle Haggard. ST: For me it was Alabama. KT: I was at a party at a friends house. My dad&amp;#x27;s always listening to Haggard and all the old classics, I was always around it. You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to. When I was about 15 I did that and then I heard the Big City record from Merle Haggard (check it out here) again at a party where a friend of mine was a big country fan. I was like, &amp;#x27;My dad was right--that&amp;#x27;s what I want to do for the rest of my life.&amp;#x27; I got obsessed by it and learned every song of his and always listened to it as a kid but that&amp;#x27;s when it really flipped a switch for me. ST: My aunt took me to an Alabama concert in Biloxi, Mississippi. Somehow she got front row seats for our entire family. I have a huge family, so we took up the whole front row. I remember this lady gave Randy Owen some flowers and I didn&amp;#x27;t have any flowers to give him. I was very upset. My aunt was like, &amp;#x27;Baby, we don&amp;#x27;t have any flowers for him but maybe you can give him a kiss later.&amp;#x27; Back then they would go outside and sign autographs until everybody was gone. So my aunt stood in line with me I got to meet Randy and I was able to give him a kiss. That was my first experience with Alabama and being obsessed. Glamour: Who were your first celebrity crushes? Shawna, was Randy Owen of Alabama yours? ST: Absolutely, yep. KT: I didn&amp;#x27;t have a crush on Merle Haggard. Daisy Duke, that was my first crush. Oh yeah, I had the poster on my door! Glamour: What albums are you obsessed with? ST: That would be Shelby Lynne. Temptation is the name of the record. It&amp;#x27;s our absolute traveling record we listen to. It&amp;#x27;s seems that every time we go to Alabama to visit family that record is there. KT: For me, it&amp;#x27;s everything that [Bruce] Springsteen comes out with. I&amp;#x27;m so inspired by his writing and every new album that comes out I just dissect it and learn all of it. I&amp;#x27;m a huge Springsteen fan and a lot of it has to do with his writing. I love the way he paints a picture in a song. Glamour: Do you guys have any collections or things that you pick up in your travels? ST: Keifer collects many many many guitars. He has them all over the house. KT: You know those machines that smoosh pennies? Shawna collects them. Everytime we go somewhere, I&amp;#x27;ll give her a penny to get smooshed. Glamour: Shawna, you have dark hair and a fair complexion--do you think that&amp;#x27;s why people have called you &amp;quot;Goth Country?&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s a little strange considering your songs are really happy . . . not dark! KT: It&amp;#x27;s the most ridiculous thing I&amp;#x27;ve ever heard. ST: To me, goth is like really hard black lipstick, black nails, black clothes. So, I&amp;#x27;m not sure about that. Glamour: When have you been starstruck? ST: Last year we did some shows with Darius Rucker and he was so sweet and invited us to come up on stage with him for a song. After about the third night of doing that, it just hit me that we were on the stage with Darius Rucker. KT: Let me tell you exactly what she said. We just got down singing a &amp;quot;Family Tradition&amp;quot; with Darius. I look over and I can tell when Shawna&amp;#x27;s getting ready to cry. All this is so surreal for us and we&amp;#x27;re touched all the time by every little thing because we just never thought we would be anything. And she&amp;#x27;s like, &amp;#x27;We just finished singing with freaking Hootie!&amp;#x27; ST: Darius hates it when people call him Hootie. KT: Because he&amp;#x27;s not Hootie, but he is Hootie. It&amp;#x27;s just stuff like that, that makes all of this worthwhile. Those are the moments that no one else sees. It&amp;#x27;s awesome. Glamour: What&amp;#x27;s the craziest fan experience you&amp;#x27;ve ever had? KT: We&amp;#x27;ve had a lot of people tattoo our names and signatures on their bodies. ST: It&amp;#x27;s flattering. KT: It&amp;#x27;s flattering, but it&amp;#x27;s a commitment. What if we say something to piss them off one day and they&amp;#x27;re like, &amp;#x27;Now what do I do?&amp;#x27; That&amp;#x27;s probably the most intense. ST: And the most strange. Me with the lovely Keifer and Shawna Thompson! Are you a Thompson Square fan? If not, are you going to download their self-titled debut right now? And if it&amp;#x27;s already in your playlist, what&amp;#x27;s your favorite song? P.S. Want more Obsessed? Sign up for our awesome daily newsletter that features the latest celebrity gossip, TV news, hilarious Internet sensations, and more! More music we love! * Lauren Alaina Dishes on Life One Year After American Idol--And Why Carrie Underwood Made Her Cry! * Big News--Another Boy Band is Reuniting! Here&amp;#x27;s a Hint . . . They Were Very &amp;quot;Hot!&amp;quot; * Woah, Regina Spektor Has a Soft Spot for Eminem?! 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