November 20, 2009 - James Wesley signed with Broken Bow Records, the home of Jason Aldean. Wesley's new single, Jackson Hole, was shipped to radio and goes for adds Dec. 7.
CEO/President Benny Brown said, "James Wesley has all the traditional values of a true country artist, yet adds a contemporary flair to his sound.... »»»November 20, 2009 - The self-titled debut album by Summertown Road will be out Feb. 16, 2010. Produced by bluegrass musician Don Rigsby, the bluegrass band members wrote 9 out of 14 tracks. Summertown Road straddles both sides of the bluegrass - the traditional and the contemporary.
Summertown Road broke onto the... »»»November 20, 2009 - Jimmy Buffett and the Zac Brown Band were booked for CMT Crossroads. The performances will be filmed in front of an invitation-only audience in Nashville in December.
The pairing will air on CMT in March. Buffett will release a new album, "Buffet Hotel, on Dec. 8. The Zac Brown Band's hits include... »»»November 20, 2009 - Trent Tomlinson is preparing to release a 3-song digital exclusive EP, "A Guy Like Me," on Monday, Nov. 23. The project features previously unreleased tracks That's How It Still Ought To Be and Henry Cartwright's Produce Stand plus Tomlinson's brand new single, Angels Like Her.
Tomlinson was slated to... »»»November 20, 2009 - Wynonna Judd will perform on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" next Tuesday, Nov. 24. Oprah teamed up with People magazine to hold a private celebration on the Ft. Bragg military base to welcome home the 82nd Airborne Division, 3rd Brigade Combat Team returning from Iraq. As part of the celebration, Wynonna and... »»»November 19, 2009 - Country albums experienced a big jump in sales thanks to the Country Music Association Awards last week. Carrie Understood stayed first on the Billboard country album chart for the week ending Nov. 28 with "Play On." She sold 128,000 units, down 60 percent from her debut week, the previous week.... »»»November 19, 2009 - Singer/songwriter Josh Kelley is joining his brother in Nashville and apparently veering towards country. He signed with the Universal Music Group Nashville family, the label announced Thursday. Kelley signed with the label in September and is currently in the studio recording his forthcoming album,... »»»November 19, 2009 - The Academy of Country Music will host the Academy of Country Music Stage at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) held in Las Vegas from Thursday, Dec. 3 through Saturday, Dec. 12 with artists including Joe Nichols, David Nail and Sunny Sweeney performing.
"The Academy of Country Music is excited... »»»November 18, 2009 - A preview of Kenny Chesney's upcoming 3-D movie went live on line today.
Chesney is slated to release "Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D" in April, but a part of it was shown starting today at Moviefone, AOL Music and The Boot.
"It's amazing to me how intense this footage is," Chesney said.... »»»November 18, 2009 - Lee Ann Womack was added to George Strait's 2010 tour, which also features Reba McEntire. The tour kicks off in early 2010 and continues through late Spring.
"Does Ft Worth Ever Cross Your Mind? Whoever's In New England? The Fireman? Little Rock? Wrapped? The Last To Know? We're talking classic... »»»November 18, 2009 - The Country Music Association Awards show of last week proved yet again to be a harbinger of great record sales.
Zac Brown Band's "Live From Bonnaroo," which contains the group's cover of The Devil Went Down To Georgia, skyrocketed 379 percent to about 900 units.
Darius Rucker saw sales of his "Learn... »»»November 18, 2009 - Friday the 13th proved to be a lucky day for the Band Perry because the trio made their Grand Ole Opry debut last Friday.
The Republic Nashville act consists of siblings Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry, performing their first single, Hip to My Heart, along with another self-penned song, If I Die Young.... »»»
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November 18, 2009 - What do the Dallas Cowboys and country duo Burns & Poe and Cowboy Troy have in common? Apparently a lot, because Keith Burns, formerly of Trick Pony, and Michelle Poe, filmed the music video for the Cowboy Stomp, the Dallas Cowboys' 2009 season theme song. Burns & Poe along with Cowboy Troy and the... »»»November 18, 2009 - Dierks Bentley apparently is planning not one, but two albums in 2010. The country star is going to work on both country and bluegrass albums, he told The Boot.
Bentley has been a big fan of bluegrass and included b luegrass songs on his albums.
The Boot reported that Bentley would take the rest of... »»»November 17, 2009 - Bucky Covington released "Live From Rockingham" today,a five-song digital EP recorded at his recent hometown concert in Rockingham, N.C. The disc features 3 of Covington's hits A Different World, It's Good To Be Us and I'll Walk plus his new single Gotta Be Somebody and Mexicoma from his upcoming sophomore album.... »»»November 17, 2009 - Sugarland along with Neil Diamond and Mary J. Blige will be among a slew of acts performing a Christmas show for President Obama.
The Christmas in Washington concert will also include Rob Thomas, Usher and host George Lopez in a TNT show at 8 p.m. Dec. 20.
The event is a holiday musical... »»»November 17, 2009 - Taylor Swift will launch a new carer - writing greeting cards for American Greetings. Swift and the card company will create a line of greeting cards, gift packaging, stationery, online photo personalization products and online greetings to be made available worldwide this coming spring.... »»»November 17, 2009 - Carrie Underwood has a new video out for Temporary Home, a song from her new "Play On" disc about a boy who must move from home to home. The video is available for viewing at the CMT web site.
This follows the number one single status of Cowboy Casanova, the first single from "Play On.... »»»November 17, 2009 - Faith Hill has split with her long-time manager, it was disclosed Tuesday.
Hill and Gary Borman have agreed to dissolve their long business association. "We are so proud of what we have achieved together over the past 16 years," said Hill and Borman in a joint statement. "We love each other like a... »»»November 17, 2009 - Monsters of Folk - Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogis - shot a video for the quartet's new single, Say Please.
Shot by cinematographer Lance Acord, the video features a frontier town, World War II soldiers and rollerskating. The video can be seen now at http://new.music.yahoo.... »»»November 17, 2009 - Radney Foster and the Man Bites Dog film production company released their music video of Foster's Angel Flight, about 7 soldiers whose helicopter from the 2nd Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment of the Texas National Guard went down in southern Iraq - and the Air National Guard crews that bring home the fallen.... »»»
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