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CMA Provides Boost For Nashville Schools To the Tune of $1 Million
For the third year in a row, the Country Music Association is donating proceeds from the CMA Music Festival to Nashville area schools. Only this year the total amounts to over $1 million, more than the past two years combined. Thirty-one schools will benefit from the donation and twenty-one of those schools will receive instruments [...]
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ACM Officials Reconsider Criteria For Album of the Year
When the nominations for the ACM Awards were announced on Wednesday, several readers keenly noted that the album of the year nominees were missing from the list. It was reported that those nominations would be announced in March after a re-vote. Country Universe has the reasoning behind the re-vote via Peter Cooper’s article in The [...]
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Jo Dee Messina Welcomes Her First Child
Jo Dee Messina and her husband welcomed their first baby, Noah Roger Deffenbaugh, into the world at a Nashville-area hospital yesterday.
The folks from the Music Fog blog interviewed Bruce Robison and Sunny Sweeney at the Black Tie & Boots Inaugural Ball yesterday and posted videos of performances from Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jack Ingram, Gary P. [...] -
Brad Paisley and Kimberley Williams-Paisley Expecting Second Baby
Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams-Paisley are expecting their second child.
If the American Music Awards remind us of anything, it’s that the CMAs and ACMs could always be worse. Here’s the 2008 AMA nominees in the country category:Favorite Male Artist
Garth Brooks
Kenny Chesney
Brad PaisleyFavorite Female Artist
Reba McEntire
Taylor Swift
Carrie UnderwoodFavorite Band, Duo or Group
Brooks & Dunn
Rascal Flatts
SugarlandFavorite Album
Garth [...]
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Cross Canadian Ragweed – “Cry Lonely”
Songwriters: Chris Knight and Gary Nicholson
This single is currently #1 at the Texas Music Chart
Texas is probably the last market in the country where an artist can have a regional hit, and Cross Canadian Ragweed has one with their latest single “Cry Lonely”. In case you didn’t know, Cross Canadian Ragweed is at [...] -
New Jessica Simspon Album to Feature Dolly Parton
Rumor has it that Jessica Simpson is in talks with Dolly Parton about doing a duet on her new album. (via ggcolumn)
In an exclusive interview with Country Hound, Dierks Bentley claims his band is the best at Halo 3, beating both Miranda Lambert’s and the Cross Canadian Ragweed bands. And, in another Q&A with Peter [...]Continue reading "New Jessica Simspon Album to Feature Dolly Parton"
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UT Quarterback Colt McCoy Cites Country Songs as Best Motivators
Josh Turner is set to host the four-hour America’s Grand Ole Opry Weekend Year-End Special.
On Friday, January 5th Chuck Prophet and friends were accidentally locked in Closer Recording Studios. Armed with a few beers, peanut butter, and a battery powered record player with Waylon Jennings’ Dreaming My Dreams LP the incarcerated occupants made the best [...]Continue reading "UT Quarterback Colt McCoy Cites Country Songs as Best Motivators"
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Country Music: Republican or Democrat?
Bob Doerschuk says Porter Wagoner’s legacy is secure and unique.
“I may not be the world’s greatest singer,” Wagoner said in his 2007 interview with CMA Close Up. “But I know how to sing Country Music. I know what separates Country from other kinds of music. I’ve learned that it’s important, if you’re a singer or [...] -
October ‘07 Album Review Wrap-Up
October is over with and it seems like there was a whirlwind of new music. Some was good. The rest? Not so much. Browse through our assessments of the albums and let us know what you thought about the quality of October’s releases.
Brooks & Dunn — Cowboy Town
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“Singer Nelson Begins Prison Term…”
Our readers seem to be just as excited as I am about Ashton Shepherd. Chet Flippo shares that enthuiasm and tells a pretty cool story:
She was “discovered” a few weeks ago at an Alabama fair at a Lorrie Morgan concert.
As I heard it, the opening act had to cancel, and so the promoter invited people [...]
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