Lady Antebellum tour bus catches fire

Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott’s tour bus caught fire on a Texas freeway Thursday morning, but everyone on board was safely evacuated.

Michael Barnett captured dramatic video of the fire, on Interstate 30 just northeast of Dallas, and uploaded it to CNN iReport. Smoke and flames poured from the rear of the bus as traffic slowed to a crawl and Barnett slowly approached in his vehicle.

As he drew closer to the bus, Barnett decided to stop filming because he didn’t know what to expect.

“It was shocking,” he said. “I didn’t know what I was about to see. I didn’t know if anyone was hurt.”

Barnett said he didn’t realize at the time that the bus belonged to the country band.

Hillary Scott, co-lead singer for the band, posted a photo of the charred bus on Instagram and noted that she, her husband, the tour manager and the driver were all evacuated safely.

“Thanking God for our safety and the safety of all of those who helped put this fire out and keep us safe,” she wrote.

The tour manager told CNN affiliate KTVT that the bus stopped after a rear tire blew out. It burst into flames after everyone had gotten off.

Scott also posted an Instagram photo and message saying that the fire destroyed everything in the bus’s back lounge except her Bible.

The band’s two other members, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, were not traveling on the bus, KTVT reported.

Lady Antebellum is set to perform at the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday in Arlington, Texas.

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Chris Tyrrell and Hillary Scott: With Hillary Scott providing the vocals and Chris Tyrrell supplying the drumbeat, these two stars of Lady Antebellum are a match made in country heaven. They met on a Tim McGraw tour in 2010 and by 2012 were tying the knot. "I've found a guy who truly embraces me for who I am and appreciates the things that I don't necessarily love about myself," Scott has said. The pair welcomed daughter Eisele Kaye in July 2013.

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Country music is home to some of our favorite songs, and a few of our favorite celebrity couples. In anticipation of seeing some of them Sunday at the Academy of Country Music Awards, we're writing little love notes for the country couples we never could get enough of. To begin with, there's Johnny Cash and June Carter, who set the standard for a showbiz couple from the late 1960s until their deaths in 2003.

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Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter: Before Waylon Jennings died in 2002, the country legend and his partner in life and music, Jessi Colter, had "a beautiful love affair," as Kris Kristofferson once put it. Colter was Jennings' fourth wife, but she says she was the one who truly understood him. "I just loved him," Colter told CMT after his death. "I loved him! He really entertained me. He made me laugh. He made me feel loved. He inspired me."

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Tammy Wynette and George Jones: These two didn't make it as husband and wife, but they were always successful as musical partners. The couple wed in 1969 and soon found themselves mired in a difficult marriage, one that was highlighted in some of their songs. Wynette had as hard a time letting go of their union as their fans did; she first filed for divorce in 1973 only to reconsider and then file with more certainty two years later.

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Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton: We're pretty sure that if Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton have a kid, that child's going to come out gold. The musical couple are routinely among country's most celebrated and successful artists, not to mention being individually adored by fans.

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Faith Hill and Tim McGraw: With a marriage that's lasted 17 years, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are one of contemporary country music's most enduring couples. The pair, who met in 1996 when Hill opened up for McGraw on a tour, are so close that the music industry can't quite believe they're still together. When rumors that they were headed for divorce flew around last fall, Hill, who has three daughters with McGraw, told People magazine the gossip left her "perplexed": "I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story."

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Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood: Garth Brooks came out of a five-year retirement in a big way in 2005, when he proposed to his longtime friend and fellow country singer Trisha Yearwood in front of a crowd of 7,000. Both Brooks and Yearwood had been married in the years between their first meeting in 1987 and their eventual marriage, but as luck would have it, they both found themselves single at the same time and decided to give a romantic relationship a try. "I've got to tell you, I never knew it could be like this," Brooks told Ellen DeGeneres last fall.

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Keifer and Shawna Thompson: The husband-and-wife team behind Thompson Square aren't afraid to put their love front and center in their music. Their latest album, "Just Feels Good," is all about their 13-year marriage: "Ever since we've been married, we've always worked together," Shawna says on Thompson Square's website, as her husband Keifer chimes in, "I don't know that the other way would work. ... Obviously we fight like everybody else and, when we do, we do it really well. But if we had a choice between being together all the time and not being together, we'd choose the former."

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Martina and John McBride: Country superstar Martina McBride and her husband, John, will celebrate their 26th wedding anniversary in May. The couple has longtime roots in Nashville's country music scene, as she's been steadily cranking out hits while he's held down a recording studio. "I'm not a religious guy, but I always felt God put us together," John McBride told The Boot in 2010. "It's crazy. I'd never had that feeling before. This girl, she's incredible and I love her more [now] than I ever have. I told her, 'If we could bottle what we have, we could retire, girl.' We're so lucky."

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Reba McEntire and Narvel Blackstock: Marrying your manager wouldn't work for everyone, but for Reba McEntire it's been a dream. She met Narvel Blackstock in 1980, and after working together as friends they soon realized they had a great thing going and wed in 1989. The country icon and Blackstock, who's been McEntire's manager for years, haven't looked back since.

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Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock: OK, so Kelly Clarkson isn't technically a country singer (although she's been known to duet on a country song every now and again). But her husband, Brandon Blackstock, is Nashville through-and-through: the son of Narvel Blackstock, the talent manager began dating Clarkson in 2011 and popped the question the following year. The pair, who are expecting their first child together this year (Blackstock already has two kids from a prior relationship), married at Tennessee's Blackberry Farm in October 2013.

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Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman: After Nicole Kidman's marriage to Tom Cruise fell apart, she found love with a man who shared her Aussie background: country singer Keith Urban. And after marrying in 2006, it seems they're still just as in love as they day the met at a 2005 event honoring Australians in Hollywood. "I have such deep love and gratitude for everything she's done for me," Urban has said of his wife, who recently revealed to InStyle that Urban still leaves her love letters "every single night he's away."

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Kellie Pickler and Kyle Jacobs: With songwriter Kyle Jacobs by her side, "American Idol" alum Kellie Pickler has been inspired to write personal songs, like the title track from her most recent album, "The Woman I Am." The couple met through friends around 2008, and wed in 2011. "Kyle took away all my fear of marriage," Pickler said when she accepted Jacobs' marriage proposal in 2010. "(He's) shown me the way love is supposed to be."

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Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams-Paisley: Brad Paisley fell for "Father of the Bride" actress Kimberly Williams from the moment he saw her in the 1991 movie, which he liked so much he wrote the title track to "Part II" about the film. When the time came to film a music video for a single from that album, he sought out Williams to be the star. Never underestimate a man who knows what he wants: the pair married in 2003.

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Mike Fisher and Carrie Underwood: As one of music's top-selling artists, Carrie Underwood is far more than a hockey player's wife -- but that doesn't mean she doesn't enjoy every moment of it. The "American Idol" champ married Canadian hockey star Mike Fisher in 2010 after a little more than a year of dating. "You make my life better in every way!" Underwood gushed of her athlete love in the liner notes for her 2009 album, "Play On." "I thank God for you every day."

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