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Brad Paisley Feels The Pressure of Five CMA Nominations
We’re not the only ones with predictions for the CMAs tonight, both Country Universe and USA Today have chimed in as well. With all the different choices being made it doesn’t seem as though the awards are as predictable as they’re generally made out to be.
East Tennessee State University unveiled a kiosk and accompanying exhibit, [...]Continue reading "Brad Paisley Feels The Pressure of Five CMA Nominations"
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Emery, Gill and Tillis Bestowed With Hall Of Fame Honors
Wanting to work where no one would bother them, Gary Allan and songwriters Jim Lauderdale and Odie Blackman visited the jungles of Costa Rica for a week.
Peter Cooper has a synopsis of the Country Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Ralph Emery, Vince Gill, and Mel Tillis.
Asked is he still considers himself a [...]Continue reading "Emery, Gill and Tillis Bestowed With Hall Of Fame Honors"
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Jim’s Big State Wrap-up: Saturday
The beer is always free when you can’t drink it.
Lucky enough to be on the VIP list for last weekend’s Big State Festival, I was taunted by the endless supply of free golden-bubbly goodness available in the festival’s private lounges. Let me reiterate: Free. Beer.
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The Start of Something Big: Big State Festival Day One
Only a few short hours removed, via sleep, from the end of the first day of Big State Festival, and only a couple hours until the second day begins, we find ourselves beat and wore down, but eagerly anticipating another day of great music and fast cars. The blisters, cherry red sunburn, and general [...]
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Jack Ingram Caged By Brad Paisley
This past Monday night I was fortunate enough to catch a Gary Allan show at Nutty Brown Cafe. His stage props appeared more death metal than country, but he was in fine form as he covered most of his newer songs — only traveling past Smoke Rings In The Dark for a handful of songs. [...]
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Friday The 13th Not So Kind To Gene Watson
At 8 PM on July 23rd, ABC is going to broadcast a two-hour special titled CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock that was filmed during this year’s event. This will be the third year that ABC has aired the show. CMA Chief Operating Officer Tammy Genovese commented on the overall growth of the festival [...]
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Marty Stuart’s Sixth Annual Late Night Jam
One wouldn’t think that on a stage that featured two country music Hall of Famers, five Grand Ole Opry members and several major label artists that the radio DJ acting as the night’s master of ceremonies would come closest to stealing the show. Thirty minutes before curtain, Eddie Stubbs announced that Marty Stuart’s annual benefit [...]
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Surprise Guest Garth Brooks Drops In On High School Graduation
Linda from Still Is Still Moving had her blog mentioned by Willie Nelson on Bill Mack’s XM Satellite Radio show. She writes:
He gave the site address out several times: “It’s still is still moving.com. Like my song.” He said he’d never met me, but that one of his fans had made a website about him. [...]Continue reading "Surprise Guest Garth Brooks Drops In On High School Graduation"
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Merle Haggard’s Cracker Barrel Exclusive Working Man’s Journey Now Available
Merle Haggard released a Cracker Barrel exclusive yesterday. Titled Working Man’s Journey, the album consists of six new songs and six fan favorites.
At this year’s CMA Music Festival Eric Church and his fan club will be planting 25 trees in Music City’s East Park. Afterwards Church will perform an acoustic set to thank his fans.
Rick [...]Continue reading "Merle Haggard’s Cracker Barrel Exclusive Working Man’s Journey Now Available"
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Sara Evans Divorce Update, Planned Chris LeDoux Statue, And New Willie Nelson Record Label
In an effort to curb what is called “payola” in the radio industry, radio broadcasters have agreed to pay the government 12.5 million and provide free airtime for independent record labels and local artists. The article doesn’t list any genres specifically, but hopefully this deal is inclusive of the country genre and we’ll see some [...]
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Martina McBride - “Ride” Catchy, but a little low on cogency–not to mention originality. And it essentially resolves into the same kind of positive “message song” that has defined so much of McBride’s recent work.
Richie McDonald - “How Do I Just Stop” So gloriously simple and unequivocally lackluster that people of every political persuasion should rejoice in the opportunity to come together and have a hearty laugh at its expense.
Donnie Vondra - “If I Didn’t Love You” Combinining a golden trifecta of country music—steel guitar, fiddle and a strong, twangy vocal—"If I Didn't Love You" pulls together a sweet, toe-tapping ditty reminiscent of Marty Raybon-era Shenandoah.
Lance Miller - “Bacon Frying” A charming country song that is beautiful for its simplicity, a musical remnant from a time when songwriters understood that often the best thing to do is just get out of the song’s way.
John Rich - “Another You” For a guy who is supposed to be a genius songwriter, John Rich sure does seem to be running out of ideas. 
George Ducas - “Walk Through This World” Ducas banks on the success of recent artists’ pleasantly bland lyrics and agreeable instrumentation for his first release with WhiteStar Nashville.
In this exclusive interview for The 9513, Little Big Town’s Jimi Westbrook talks about life with the band, as well as A Place to Land, the group’s current album, which has charted in the top 10 of Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart on two separate occasions
Forgotten Artists: Cal Smith - When the Florida Sunshine Opry (Eustis, FL) booked its first “name” (non-local) act back in 1999, the act they chose was Cal Smith. No wonder, since Cal is an excellent singer, musician, storyteller and showman. | View more artists featured in Paul W. Dennis' recurring "Forgotten Artists" feature »
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