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Porter Wagoner Celebrates 50 Years With Opry And Stagecoach Highlights Different Sub-Genres Of Country
On Saturday, May 19 Porter Wagoner will celebrate his 50th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Marty Stuart will host the one-hour event to be televised on GAC and Patty Loveless and Dolly Parton will be giving special performances. Also to honor the occasion, The Martin Guitar Company is introducing the Martin [...]
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Josh Turner Records To A Full House At The Opry And Carrie Underwood Named Sexiest Female Musican
I’m running short on time, so please forgive today’s rather punctuated Roundup.
Matt Curry from the Associated Press talks about Clay Walker’s newest album, and has a lot of positive things to say about it as well as Walker himself. “It seemingly includes something for everyone, including the heart-tugging ‘It Ain’t Pretty (But It’s Beautiful)’ and [...]
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Rodney Atkins Celebrates Platinum Status And Last Of The Breed Debuts At #7 On Billboard
Michelle Branch, from the “country” duo The Wreckers, has a stalker. The guy shows up at all of her shows, sends her letters and videos, and even lunged at her once during an autograph session. Scary stuff.
Dierks Bentley and his wife Cassidy talked to People about their wedding on the beach in Mexico.
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Willie, Merle & Ray Could Be Country Equivalent Of The Rat Pack
Michelle Wright remembers the small town she came from and is returning to Canada to go on a small tour. The Brampton Guardian has a short interview with Wright. Her thoughts on Canadians traveling to the US to kick start their careers:
I think it is really a good, positive thing to celebrate the Canadians that [...]Continue reading "Willie, Merle & Ray Could Be Country Equivalent Of The Rat Pack"
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Angela Hacker Wins Nashville Star, Miranda Lambert Hits Platinum, And Josh Turner Goes Double Platinum
In a story that seems to never get old to the media, the Dixie Chicks are apparently patriotic since they criticized President Bush.
We’re a few days late, but Angela Hacker is your new Nashville Star. Her debut album will be released in less than a month, April 3rd.
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Kenny Chesney Squashes Gay Rumors & George Strait Earns His 54th Number One
There are only seven days left in the Last of The Breed ticket contest, so if you’re planning on entering you better do it now. Only six people are entered at the moment and it’s still anyone’s contest to win if they really want it. Update: This contest has ended. Congratulations to the winners.
Kenny Chesney [...]
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Mailbag: The First Edition
This is the first edition of the mailbag, except instead of answering questions that people sent to me via email, I pulled some questions from the search queries in our stats program that people used to find The 9513. Let’s get started.
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Who wrote the lyrics to Stupid Boy sang by Keith Urban?
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Urban Out Of Rehab, Clay Walker Gets Engaged, And George Jones 101
Today has been kind of slow on the news front. I think all the cold weather is killing everyone’s productivity levels, or maybe that’s just us? Funny how that works, we’re trapped indoors where it seems like we could sit down and just write, but then nothing comes out. Nevertheless, on to the news:
Keith Urban [...]
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Bucky Covington Signs To Lyric Street Records And Jimmy Buffett Goes Gold
First off, go check out Brody’s review of the Randy Rogers Band concert last Saturday night. I added a few pictures to the bottom of his post.
Afterwards, you can finish reading the following news.I guess Bucky Covington must have proved he’s got what it takes to be a country music performer afterall, for he has [...]
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Clay Walker Returns From A Three Year Hiatus
Clay Walker hasn’t recorded anything new since his album, A Few Questions, was released three years ago. He is scheduled to have an album out in January, which was originally planned to be released in March. However, his new single, ‘Fore she was Mama, is rising so fast the record label moved the [...]
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