Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift are among the first round of performers announced for the 2009 CMT Music Awards to be held June 17 at Nashville’s Sommet Center.
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Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift are among the first round of performers announced for the 2009 CMT Music Awards to be held June 17 at Nashville’s Sommet Center.
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When it comes to Toby Keith, The Tennessean’s Peter Cooper, Rolling Stone magazine and actor Ethan Hawke, I’m not here to say who is right or who is wrong. It’s not my job to judge. However, I will sometimes give my opinion if I know what is
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Were country fans there? Sure. Was it absolutely mandatory that you love country music? Not at all. But by the end of the hour-long taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show in late March, chances are you were a fan of both Winfrey and her cast of country c
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Now that he’s an established actor with some clout in Hollywood, Billy Ray Cyrus successfully lobbied for Hannah Montana: The Movie — starring his daughter, Miley Cyrus — to be filmed in and around Nashville. In many ways, Middle Tennessee is one
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The first thing you usually hear in Jason Aldean’s music is a big and crunchy guitar riff, and that attitude-driven approach is no coincidence. His new album, Wide Open, will debut at No. 2 this week on Billboard’s country albums chart.
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The recent dissolution of ties between Jessica Simpson and Sony Music Nashville focused attention on the plight of refugees from other musical genres who head to country in search of relief. Some find it. Most don’t. But — although Nashville does not reg
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Can you believe it — a Texas singer and songwriter who doesn’t think Nashville is out to steal his soul? Such a statistical oddity is Pat Green. Green is now touring in support of his second album for BNA Records, What I’m For.
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Now that’s more like it! Rascal Flatts, that titanic trio of tunefulness, creams every competitor in sight this week as its new album, Unstoppable, juggernauts to No. 1 on both Billboard’s country and all-genres charts.
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Sound the trumpets for Keith Urban as he sweeps into No. 1 on Billboard’s country albums chart this week with the aptly-branded Defying Gravity. Better news still, Defying Gravity also balances on the peak of the Billboard 200
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When Hank Williams Jr. received a letter from a 93-year-old woman living in a nursing home in Florala, Ala., he read it very carefully. The lady wrote to tell him she’d like to talk with him. Such letters are probably not that uncommon for country music a
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