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News Archive
June 2013
- Dawes, Blackberry Smoke join Zac Brown festival
- Deer Tick aims for "Negatvity"
- Hayes, Del & Glen lead new music releases
- Jarosz builds up to new album
- The Civil Wars release studio video
- Bentley chats it up with fans tonight
- Loveless celebrates 25 years at the Opry
- Stapleton wonders "What Are You Listening To"
- Cyrus splits with wife
- Mumford cancels Bonnaroo, Telluride gigs
- "Cruise" doesn't move
- CMA hit makers return to New York
- Keith sets tornado benefit; Brooks, Yearwood, Nelson, Dunn appear
- The Wild Feathers release video
- Ladies and gentlemen, Brad Paisley
- Lambert plays Boston songwriters' gig
- Shelton leads chart
- Guthrie tribute concert out today
- Mumford & Sons postpones tour dates due to medical emergency
- CMA fest sets attendance record
- Keith goes for "Drinks After Work"
- Rucker tells his story
- Underwood celebrates getting Ole
- Morgan helps put out tractor trailer fire, helps rescue drivers
- CMA Music Fest gets underway
- FGL, Shelton top charts
- Aldean releases "Night Train" as single
- Fogerty debuts in third
- Gill, Franklin pay tribute to Buck, The Hag with new CD
- Lambert wins big at CMT Music Awards
- Young announces fourth CD
- Drake White joins Keith tour
- Fulks returns home
- Rascal Flatts goes Live & Loud
- Rimes returns with new CD
- Underwood debuts video Wednesday
- Calexico slates live disc
- Florida Georgia Line, Nelly play online show today
- Lady A plays Kimmel
- Swift teams up with the Stones
May 2013
- Court Yard Hounds announce new disc for July
- Heartland concert raises $6M for tornado victims
- New Nashville label starts
- Underwood's Blown Away Tour gets DVD treatment
- Worsham plans to play "Rubberband" come August
- Rucker, FGL lead charts
- Rucker captures top spot
- Stringdusters announce river tour
- Thompson Square cancels shows due to vocal problems
- Bentley goes for "Bourbon" on new single
- Crow goes "Home" in September
- Lambert replaces Pistol Annies at festival
- Underwood rocks with Mick and band
- Urban lights the "Fuse"
- Messina kickstarts new CD
- Faster Horses fest adds bands
- Lewis plans Opry debut, releases new single
- Little Big Town hosts Country's Night to Rock
- Oklahoma tornado benefit coming Wednesday
- Strait, FGL lead charts
- Underwood donates $1 million to Red Cross from tour
- McGraw releases live tour tracks
- Pickler dances to victory
- Rascal Flatts gets Live & Loud
- Strait scores another chart topper
- Hank Jr. slates tour
- Rigsby honors Dr. Ralph
- Shelton planning Oklahoma tornado benefit show
- Judd gets ready to dance
- Keith supports hometown devastated by tornado
- Kramer maintains hope for new single
- Little Big Town premieres video
- Smith announces Opry debut
- Swift wins early and often at Billboard awards
- Harrison finishes second on Idol
- Musgraves offers vid for new single
- Sugarland's Nettles announces solo disc
- ZBB debuts video
- Fogerty plans media blitz
- Lady A gets gold
- THE FARM fly high
- Shovels & Rope leads Americana nominations
- New Bryan disc coming in August
- "Golden" likely to top charts
- Lady A premieres "Goodbye Town" video today
- Lowe sets solo dates
- Nichols sets PR for adds for new single
- Sweeney signs with Thirty Tigers
- The Time Jumpers find a Companion
- Chesney, FGL top charts
- Musgraves debuts vid on Friday
- Spaghetti places value on new CD
- Bryan visits Letterman on Monday
- Chesney heads to the top
- Jones farewell show becomes tribute
- Keith cancer fundraiser set for this weekend
- Swift goes to Oz, New Zealand
- Lady A, Pistol Annies top busy release day
- Murphey signs deal
- Underwood waits for Sunday night
- Crow debuts video
- Flatts, Journey team for second show
- Martin, Brickell play Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight
- Shelton films video
- Urban plays with Stones
- Aldean plays marathon bombing benefit
- CMT features Moore
- The Band Perry gets GAC treatment
- Florida Georgia Line, Shelton lead charts
- Jones' life memorialized in Nashville
- McGraw premieres video for "Highway Don't Care" on Monday
- Jones funeral open to public
- Krauss, Martin, Punch Brothers highlight IBMA festival
- Long-time Chesney, loveless band member dies
- Shelton makes top 10
- The Civil Wars announce new disc for summer
April 2013
- Chesney leads charge of new releases
- Curb sues McGraw again
- GAC airs Jones funeral live
- Thompson Square has the top spot
- Aldean files for divroce
- Allan goes to "Pieces"
- CMA Music Fest Nightly Concerts sell out
- Pistol Annies "search" for missing merchandise
- GAC broadcasts Jones specials today
- Jones funeral scheduled for Thursday
- George Jones dies at 81
- Tributes to Jones roll in
- Aldean splits from wife
- Bentley announces expansion plans
- Currington gets booked after warrant issued
- Keith visits troops
- Paisley goes On the Record
- Shelton, FGL lead charts
- Currington indicted for "terrorist threats"
- Shelton leads country chart
- Chambers, Nicholson separate
- Steve and Edie top new albums
- Dylan, Wilco, MMJ launch AmericanaramA fest
- Reid wins Juno for Country Album of the Year
- Marathon bomber search results in Richey show cancellation
- Monroe goes vinyl
- Jones admitted to hospital
- Nelson helps West, Texas
- Paisley, Florida Georgia Line top charts
- Big Kenny opts for Electro Shine
- Campbell previews new music
- Clark sings of his favorite picture
- Paisley debuts in second
- Country community responds to Boston Marathon bombings
- Earle, Nelson release new CDs
- Lady A scores chart topper again
- Miss Willie Brown splits
- Hill stops singing Sunday night
- Paisley video debuts
- "Accidental Racist" controversy sparks play
- Aldean gets ready for UGA
- Hayes makes the Watch list
- The Band Perry, FGL lead carts.
- Bare, Clement, Rogers join Country Hall
- LL Cool J calls "Accidental Racist" a "bold statement"
- The Band Perry comes in second
- Believe it, Rascal Flatts, Journey gig together
- Lewis headlines Jager tour
- Paisley sticks to his guns on "Accidental Racist"
- Paisley, Church top releases
- Strait finds that "Love Is Everything"
- Watershed fest sells out passes
- Brice drives all the way to the top
- GAC announces ACM rebroadcast
- Monroe, Mraz aid Hayes
- ACMs air tonight
- Aldean wins Male Vocalist honor
- And female vocalist goes to...
- Bryan wins biggest honor
- Lambert wins second ACM honor
- Lambert, Shelton take ACM for Song of the Year
- LBT wins video award at ACM prelims
- Little Big Town wins ACM Vocal Group award
- Thompson Square takes Vocal Duo award
- CMA songwriters head to Big Apple
- Wailin' Jennys' Moody gets wilder
- Paisley gets ready for TV
- Rucker leads Billboard songs chart, Shelton debut at top of album chart
- Underwood sells out
- Bryan debuts new single Sunday
- Hayes wants "Crazy"
- The Band Perry plays hometown gig
- The Band Perry, Wilson, Denver tribute drop
March 2013
- Paisley hangs at GMA on Monday
- Bryan headlines Summerfest
- Campbell sets May for soph CD
- Daniels receives pacemaker
- Musgraves, Shelton lead charts
- Musgraves tops country chart
- Underwood debuts new single
- Shelton, Thompson Square, AJ offer new music
- Adkins aims for love on new CD
- Urban adds second tour leg
- A "True Story," Shelton makes TV rounds
- Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Shelton take ACM honors
- Jackson goes blue
- Isbell veers "Southeastern" this June
- Mellencamp, Burnett, King ready "Ghost Brothers"
- Shelton, Bryan remain atop Billboard charts
- Bryan drops to third
- Carter's Chord member seeing double
- Like father, like daughter, Keith slates release
- McGraw plays London
- Coe hospitalized after car crash
- Pistol Annies reveal release info
- Underwood crosses the Pond
- Bryan sets PR
- Falcon debuts new video
- Jackson visits "Precious Memories" again
- Moore debuts new single on Fallon
- Jack "The Jolly Green Giant" Greene dies
- Rascal Flatts goes Down Under
- Bryan enjoys number one album, Shelton stays atop songs chart
- Swift kicks off tour in Omaha
- Bryan tops the charts with spring fling disc
- Judd releases single, dances
- Jennings, Sisk, Bibey-Benson release new discs
- Dailey & Vincent ride the Highway in May
- McGraw hopes "Highway Don't Care"
- Monroe visits Jay tonight
- Swift's "Red" video coming Wednesday
- Claude King, of "Wolverton Mountain" fame, dies at 90
- Paisley, Keith, Bryan headline Watershed Festival
- Bryan may spring for number one disc
- Jackson, Tritt join Jones finale
- Swift, Shelton again show the way
- CMA Music Fest adds Swift, Lambert, Paisley
- Sears diagnosed with lung cancer
- Bryan, Son Volt, Monroe out with new music
- Adkins announces new album
- The Band Perry discloses songs
- Big & Rich receive humanitarian honor
- Keith's bass player killed
- Rucker announces tour
February 2013
- Morgan goes to the dogs (in race)
- Shelton goes to the top, Swift stays there
- ACMs announce radio winners
- Crow gets a little help
- Mumford & Sons continue as best seller
- Paisley announces summer tour
- Swift adds opening acts
- Swift holds number one slots
- The Del-Lords are back
- Ballard streams tonight
- Brooks, Kid Rock join Jones finale
- Harris/Crowell join together finally, Mavericks return
- Judd, Pickler join Dancing With the Stars
- McCready laid to rest
- At the top, McGraw enjoys One of Those Nights
- Kershaw Tippin, Diffie hit road together
- Corbin releases new video
- McCready funeral set for Tuesday
- Rebels join Urban for Country Hall of Fame benefit
- Aldean starts tour in Louisiana
- Hayes, Swift lead charts
- McCready death ruled a suicide
- Mumford & Sons lead chart
- Swift sued for $2.5 million in concert snafu
- Yoakam sells out second Ryman show
- Aldean goes back in time with new single
- Lady A gets "Golden" in May
- The Band Perry stays at the top
- McCready's family expresses "deep sadness" over her death
- Montgomery Gentry, Rogers, Turner, Bentley join Jones Nashville stop
- Mumford, Yoakam, Petty play Bonnaroo
- McCready dead in apparent suicide
- McGraw, Hayes top charts
- Thompson Square debut video
- Church leads ACMs with seven nominations
- McGraw disc comes in second to Groban
- Paisley reveals album cover
- Capitol reissues four key albums on vinyl: Hag, Jackson, Rogers, Campbell
- Lady A gets set for ping pong and song
- Paisley discloses songs on his "Wheelhouse"
- Robison, Willis team up for new CD
- Underwood's Blown Away tour visits Country Hall - as an exhibition
- Vassar is alive with new single
- Yoakam adds second Ryman show
- Rascal Flatts' Rooney becomes honorary Ohioan
- Shelton goes for true stories on new CD
- The Grammys
- Shelton premieres video Monday
- Watson becomes subject of 4-CD set
- Allan, The Band Perry sit atop charts
- Helm receives Grammy tribute
- Urban wraps Aussie tour
- Allan falls from the top
- YouTube goes Country Now
- McGraw, Williams, SteelDrivers out with new music
- Mumford & Sons announce special tour
- Swift to open Grammys
- Aldean notches another number one
- Austin DJ starts Clear Channel syndicated radio show
- Campbell becomes a Road Warrior
- Daniels, Travis, Johnson join Jones farewell to Nashville gig
- Fogerty slates new disc for May
- Keith preps new tour
- McGraw surprises fans about tour
- Yoakam returns to the Ryman
- Moore sells out Boston in 20 minutes
January 2013
- Allan doubles up
- Son Volt goes honky tonk
- Allan notches first number one
- Earle takes "The Low Highway"
- If it's spring break, it's time for Bryan party music
- Kristofferson releases new CD today
- Phosphorescent announces tour
- Zac Brown Band gears up for Daytona 500
- Lady A sets record
- McGraw live streams gig on CD release day
- Country cruise coming in '14
- Sheryl Crow goes "Easy" on Kimmel
- Campbell visits Marie, Yahoo!Music
- The Band Perry goes to the top
- Bryan starts sold-out tour
- Chesney releases song next week
- Swift remains in top 10
- Allan, Houser top new discs
- Country Thunder Wisconsin sells out
- Cumulus seeks to establish "Nash" brand
- Gilbert, Kramer get engaged
- Hayes goes Double Platinum for "Wanted"
- Lady A goes downtown with new single
- Martin, Steep Canyon Rangers, Brickell tour
- Musgraves announces debut for March
- Swift reaches top of chart
- Country returns to New York radio
- Thompson Square feels good
- Aldean sells out MSG
- Gloriana gets ready for Sunday night
- Bryan sells out first leg of tour, announces second
- Bryan, Lady A, LBT, Underwood play CMA fest
- Chesney announces new disc
- Flatts reschedules three shows citing illness
- Shelton claims he's getting Ten Times Crazier
- Swift, Florida Georgia Line top charts again
- Parmalee headlines tour
- Rascal Flatts kicks off new tour
- Rimes visits ET tonight, Kimmel upcoming
- Swift owns top country disc
- Underwood vid goes live Jan. 23
- CMA heads to Paris
- Crowell/Harris announce tour with Thompson
- McGraw announces tour
- Walker trophy hunts for TV
- Young goes for Triple Play
- Campbell goes Down Under
- Chesney adds shows
- Country Music Hall's fundraiser gig goes to New York
- Jackson headlines cancer benefit
- McCready boyfriend dies at 34
- The Band Perry goes Gold, Platinum
- Richey looks ahead to "Thorn In My Heart"
- FGL, Swift top charts
- Paisley finds his "Wheelhouse"
- The Band Perry plans soph disc for April
- Hubbard visits Dave tonight
- New Nashville label starts
- Swift slips to third
- Bryan replaces Reba to co-host ACMs with Shelton
- Sammy Johns of "Chevy Van" fame dies
- CRS welcomes Opry
- Griggs releases song remembering Sandy Hook children
- Avetts join MerleFest line-up
- ZBB plays anthem at BCS game
- Corbin releases new single
- Swift dominates
- Swift's "Red" is second best in '12
- Pop/country singer Patti Page dies
December 2012
- Auldridge passes away
- Florida Georgia Line, Swift lead charts
- Dixie Chicks replace Lady A at Canadian fest
- Songwriters hit the road
- Swift, Florida Georgia Line lead charts
- The Mavs CD gets delayed again
- "Red" rules again
- Chesney plays Margaritaville for free
- LBT plays The X Factor
- Rimes performs new single on Leno
- Swift named country's top artist in '12
- Isbell visits Dave tonight
- Lady Antebellum gets the Gold
- Owen joins Country Thunder line-up
- Aldean rides "Night Train" to Platinum
- Florida Georgia Line tops song chart, Swift regains number one
- Urban, Swift, Nashville actresses nominated for Golden Globes
- Swift regains top spot
- CMA songwriter series goes abroad
- Miller, Lauderdale release disc
- Williams takes to The Highway
- Bryan cleans up at ACAs
- Musgraves picked by Vevo
- Swift sets record
- Paisley premieres video today, holds chat
- Chesney adds one more Foxboro gig
- Lady A's Scott announces she's due
- Swift registers chart double
- Hayes debuts new video
- Swift holds onto second
- Swift, The CIvil Wars, Church, Hayes grab Grammy nominations
- Campbell releases EP
- Young placed on vocal rest, postpones shows
- Lady A announces new charity, receives CMA honor
- Lynch, Trischka, Ickes win honors
- Underwood goes international
- Kramer cancels show after hospital stay
November 2012
- Underwood is alive with The Sound of Music
- Swift doubles up
- Brice goes home again
- Swift stays second
- Big Kenny receives honor for African work
- McGraw broadcasts video filming live today
- Shelton stays busy
- Pistol Annies member readies disc
- The Mavericks new disc will come out "In Time"
- Underwood unveils video trailer
- Owen becomes a dad
- Owens, Flatt and Scruggs, Charles songs enter Grammy hall
- Jackson visits Leno tonght
- Adkins to release holiday single
- Joey+Rory release "Josephine" video
- Miller/Lauderdale slate tour dates
- Country acts splt up awards
- Williams joins Vincent's Rage
- Swift sells out
- Underwood offers new single
- Swift continues leading charts
- Swift grabs three People's Choice nominations
- Swift's "Red" leads charts again
- Urban announces tour
- Urban, Paisley, Bentley lead Country Thunder Wisconsin bill
- Lady A, Church, Keith top Country Thunder line-up
- Lewis releases first full length
- Rascal Fltts appars on Chelsea, The Voice
- Brice slated to new people
- Jones announces final Nashville show
- Love and Theft member to become father
- Adkins, Isaak perform at Macy's Parade
- Chesney announces '13 tour
- Lewis releases new video
- Swift scores chart triple
- Citing discord, The Civil Wars cancel tour dates
- Swift leads pack
- Underwood plays Fallon
- Aldean announces tour cities
- Big & Rich receive CRS Humanitarian Award
- Niemann visits "Marie" today
- Aldean sells out two stadium gigs
- "Over You" takes Song of Year
- Chesney McGraw, Keith take early CMA honors
- Church wins Album of the Year
- Hayes takes New Artist honor
- Lambert wins another award
- LBT wins second award
- Little Big Town takes CMA single honor
- Shelton captures CMA's biggest honor
- Shelton wins second award
- Swift dominates charts
- Thompson Square takes Vocal Duo award
October 2012
- Aldean, Lady A also make top 10
- Broken Bow forms new label, signs Joe Nichols
- Reba, Rucker, Owen hand out awards
- BMI hands out honors
- Keith, Kelly out with new CDs
- McGraw announces new disc for February
- Swift's "Red" sells 1.2 million
- Thompson Square sets personal mark
- Brice notches another chart topper
- Chesney gets ready for Turkey Day football gig at Cowboys Stadium
- CMA anounces two winners on GMA Thursday
- Underwood extends Blown Away tour
- Aldean adds second Fenway show
- Rascal Flatts wraps tour
- Swift sees "Red" tour
- Aldean sells out Fenway in seven minutes
- Strait gives it all he's got on new single
- Aldean, Swift lead charts
- Urban, Gill, Hayes added to CMA line-up
- Aldean rolls to the top
- Show celebrates Lynn's golden anniversary on Opry
- Bentley, Lambert announce joint tour
- McGraw, Hill join CMA line-up
- Swift sees lots of green, not "Red"
- Brooks, Robbins, Smith join Hall of Fame
- Denver gets tributed by Matthws, Williams, Carpenter
- Jamey Johnson slates fall tour
- McCreery visits QVC
- Swift plays Jingle Ball at MSG
- Swift sees "Red"
- Lady A announces Xmas concert
- James joins songwriters gig
- Northern Ireland broadcaster receives award
- Aldean plays stadium gigs
- Aldean riding "Night Train" to the top
- Swift, LBT lead charts
- Rucker joins Opry
- Swift leads Billboard digi chart
- Swift readies media assault
- Underwood reaches the top again
- Aldean, Johnson release new music
- For Bentley, the show goes on
- Aldean goes online live today
- Bryan, Cabela announce endorsement deal
- Changes extend into '13 for Rascal Flatts
- Fogerty returns to studio
- Holly Williams takes "The Highway"
- Lady A, Shelton, EYB, Gilbert join CMA line-up
- Thompson Square previews new single
- Bad weather cancels Bentley ride
- Adkins becomes an Apprentice
- Bryan announces headlining tour
- Kelly slates EP for release
- Streamsound signs new artist
- Swift enjoys huge week on chart
- Allan releases new single
- Bryan leads ACA Awards with seven nominations
- Bush sells out Thanksgiving shows
- Chesney rocks with Hagar
- LBT stays in top 10
- Aldean streams "Night Train"
- Bryan, Underwood lead American Music Award nominations
- Keith, Lady A, Bentley lead Stagecoach charge
- Pickler signs with Black River
- Aldean, LBT lead charts
- Crook & Chase lead country radio hall inductees
- Mumford & Sons top charts, LBT leads country chart
- Niemann, Shelton lead new discs
- Rucker to join Opry
- Young sells out Ryman to start tour
- Isbell sets live disc
September 2012
- Niemann streams new disc free
- Yoakam plays Letterman tonight
- Aldean moves to top of chart
- Gibsons, Sisk & band win IBMA honors
- Moore visits Today in Tennessee
- Bryan tours farm country
- LBT, Avetts stay in top 10
- McGraw wins court ruling against Curb
- Strait announces final tour
- Infamous Stringdusters call home in new video
- Skaggs, Owen, Lauderdale/Hunter out with new music
- Swift slated to play Joni Mitchell
- Canada readies new band
- Paisley has a surprise for Underwood
- Alaina inches way to 18
- Keith moves up release date
- Swift sees "Red" for iTunes
- Hayes, LBT lead charts for first time
- Musgraves rides singles "Merry Go 'Round"
- Paisley releases new single, album due in April
- Yarn releases "Annie" video
- Little BIg Town comes in second
- Skaggs Yoakam, Harris, Sherrill receive honors
- Big & Rich, Yoakam, Corbin out with new CDs
- Grand Ole Opry goes pink
- Keith brings "Hope" to fans
- Nichols returns Down Under
- Urban joins Idol
- Underwood tour starts tonight
- Church debuts "Creepin'" video Friday
- Opry celebrates birthday
- Swift tops Hot 100 chart
- The CIvil Wars go Gold, slate overseas tour
- Welch wins Americana honor
- Yearwood cooking show returns in October
- Americana conference gets underway
- Miller, Lauderdale set duets disc
- Swift goes deluxe
- Underwood stands alone in top 10
- Brooks, LBT, Mattea, Hood out with new music
- Rascal Flatts are Hollywood stars
- Swift dedicates song to cancer victim
- Young and Crazy Horse announce another CD
- Brooks joins Bentley benefit
- Lady A announces Xmas disc
- Yoakam debuts new music
- Bryan fills the void
- Joe South dies at 72
- LBT rides "Pontoon"
- Richie receives first CMA nomination
- Underwood goes Platinum
- Church receives big shock
- CMAs announce nominations
- Gloriana announces new single
- Pickler goes bald - for a cause
- Underwood leads country chart
- Adkins gets "Tough"
- Church goes live via CD
- Robison gives birth
- Town Mountain puts out disc
August 2012
- Johnson slates Ryman gig night of Cochran tribute disc release
- Swift releases "We Are Never..." vid
- Lynch, Shelton lead charts
- Rimes opts for anxiety, stress treatment
- Judd resumes touring Thursday in wake of husband's bike accident
- Lynch zooms to top of chart
- Lynn celebrates Opry 50th anniversary
- Kramer wants Gold (and gets it)
- Lynch fixes her Compass
- The Flatlanders release new old music
- Adkins, Chenoweth return to host ACAs
- Campbell releases new single
- Chesney, McGraw close out stadium tour
- Aldean, Lady A to announce CMA nominees
- Levon Helm memorial tribute show coming
- Shelton, Zac Brown Band top charts
- Shelton is all "Over" being number one
- Swift sets sales mark
- Yoakam debuts new album track
- New artists debut
- Owen headlines CMT tour
- Swift plays VH1 Storytellers
- Aldean rides "Night Train"
- Bentley announces contest
- Judd cancels dates due to husband's bike accident
- Chambers, Nicholson record another CD
- Ford, Love And Theft lead charts
- Ford independence takes him to the top
- Lynch wants fans to Listen Up
- Rich looks for fame
- Underwood, Paisley back to host CMAs
- Urban tours Nashville
- Jones announces final tour
- Lund unleases "Cabin Fever"
- Skaggs announces new disc
- Bentley rides on
- Brooks visits GMA
- Love and Theft eyes number one
- Swift sees "Red"
- Aldean introduces new vid
- Rascal Flatts debuts new video
- Presley slated for Opry debut
- Lynne goes deluxe, live
- Travis arrested on driving charge
- ZBB leads country chart
- Ford, Cash tribute concert releases out
- Hill, McGraw go to Vegas
- StillHouse Band adds member
- Swift has "cool news"
- Aldean plays frst stadium gig
- Bentley tips on back with new song
- Lost Trailers' song makes Olympics
- Chesney, McGraw tour his 1 million mark
- Alaina put on vocal rest, cancels shows
- Avetts, Allman play Zac Brown Band fests
- Gloriana visits Fox & Friends Friday AM
- Paisley, Underwood to host CMAs
- ZBB, Chesney lead charts
- Miller, Lauderdale host Sirius XM show
- Zac Brown Band returns to the top
July 2012
- Gloriana, Joey + Rory put out new CDs
- Johnson gives Cochran the tribute treatment
- Newfield releases new video
- Barry Gibb debuts at Opry
- Chesney's "Come Over" goes to the top
- Turner goes live
- "Blown Away" vid debuts Monday
- Bentley serves up "Country and Cold Cans" EP, tour
- Bentley, Zac Brown Band lead charts
- Country Hall honors Cline with exhibit
- Zac Brown Band falls to second
- Love and Theft, Muth offer new songs
- New Merritt song available
- Underwood visits Today
- Aldean sets record
- Chesney goes Gold, addresses Colorado tragedy
- Eaglesmith receives Railway Hall of Fame honor
- Keith sticks with beer
- Swift cleans up at Teen Choice awards
- Flatts' DeMarcus becomes father again
- Jackson cancels show Sunday
- Parmalee debuts video
- Reid leads Canadian awards show with eight nominations
- Underwood sings on Aerosmith disc
- Eli Young Band, ZBB rise to top of charts
- Hood sets third solo disc for 9/11
- Yoakam announces first disc in seven years
- Little Big Town creates "Tornado"
- Zac Brown Band tops chart
- Aldean blows up chart
- Campbell cancels Down Under tour
- Currington takes "Good Directions" Platinum
- Old Crow, The Farm, Shaver drop today
- Thompson splits from RCA
- Aldean releases new single from next CD
- Kitty Wells, queen of country, dies at 92
- There's something about Platinum for Moore
- Bentley digs Weeds
- Lynch gets fried with CMT
- RaeLynn signs deal
- San Antonio station wins Underwood visit
- Gilbert notches number one spot
- Gloriana postpones shows due to vocal problems
- Wanda Jackson records new disc with Justin Townes Earle
- Williams rants against President
- ACM donates $2.5M to Country Hall of Fame expansion
- Bryan apologizes for National Anthem performance
- Chesney leads country pack
- Leno hosts Kramer tonight
- Lambert cancels more shows
- Zac Brown Band, Hank Jr. offer new sounds
- Little Big Town says "Good Afternoon America"
- McGraw records personal record
- Moore looks for "Beer Money"
- Nelson, Bentley head Cash Music Fest line-up
- Swift, Paisley, Lambert, Aldean play iHeartRadio fest
- Underwood breaks record
- Joey+Rory launch TV show tonight
- Lambert cancels weekend shows
- Brooks sets September for solo release
- Chesney, Bryan again lead charts
- Cyrus preps new music
- Chesney remains in top 10
- Richie's "Tuskegee" becomes second best selling CD
- Turner rings in Independence Day
- Fans vote on next Hodges single
- Lady A tour ends, playing to 1 million
- The Decemberists off-shoot band slates new CD
June 2012
- Alaina stretches out with "Eighteen Inches"
- Jackson helps out Colorado wildfire relief effort
- Lady A premieres new video today
- Nail cover of Adele leads to EP
- Chesney, Bryan reach the top
- Chicks' Robison pregnant with fourth child
- Lynch sets August for debut CD
- McGraw-Curb trail postponed, label claims McGraw under contract
- Pickler splits from BNA
- Chesney takes "Fishbowl" to the top
- Mumford & Sons announce U.S. tour
- Zac Brown Band joins Ram Jam series
- Cagle returns with first disc in four years
- Flatts' DeMarcus gets radio gig
- McGraw keeps on trucking
- The Time Jumpers sign with Rounder
- Hank Jr. premieres new video
- The Farm stream live on Tuesday
- Underwood joins CMA Songwriter Series
- Colt Ford is "Back"
- Underwood plays Royal Albert Hall
- Turner, Church hold top slots
- Yearwood cooks on TV
- AMA honors Booker T., Thompson
- Chesney goes live online tonight
- Judd marries again
- Merritt switches labels, records new music
- Turner's "Punching Bag" to lead chart
- Chesney, Williams put out new discs
- Paisley returns to Scandinavia
- Rascal Flatts starts tour with sell outs
- Brice goes back to Today
- Corbin is all over soph release
- Lady A sells out Aussie tour
- Pistol Annies add tour dates
- Sugarland's Nettles is due with first child
- Urban announces Aussie kick off to tour
- Houser becomes a Lion
- Nail likes "Someone Like You," a lot
- Aldean, Underwood get certified
- Jackson, Church lead charts
- Opry honors number one fan
- Casey James releases new single
- Hall of famer Preston dies at 83
- Jackson to lead country chart
- Carpenter, Turner top releases
- Lund recovers with "Cabin Fever"
- Underwood announces new single
- Chesney teams up with ESPN
- Church rides "Springsteen" to the top
- CMA Music Festival sets record
- Young goes virtual with fans
- The Civil Wars go on hiatus (temporarily)
- Dunn splits from Arista
- Hank Williams film, discussion panel comes to New York
- Rucker raises $121K for St. Jude
- CMA Festival sells out stadium shows
- Underwood captures two CMT awards
- Underwood tops charts
- Aldean sells out first stadium show
- Hank Jr., Paisley duet on new song
- Niemann announces soph disc for fall
- Underwood to lead country charts again
- Bryan Scores another Platinum single
- Wilson offers new single
- Young tours with Crazy Horse
- Young, Jackson, Crowell/Karr, Kramer top releases
- Chesney renews deal with Sony
- Lady A sets personal best
- Bryan, Perry host "Country's Night to Rock"
- Edens Edge goes deluxe route
May 2012
- Isbell leads AMA nominations
- Jennings final recordings coming in September
- Lady A goes Down Under
- Moore, Underwood lead charts again
- Nail preps for Nashville gig with choir
- Jackson plays NYC
- Nichols shares pregnancy experiences on The View
- Underwood leads country charts
- Doc Watson dies at 89
- Mumford & Sons stops over
- New record label forms
- Swift Speak Now exhibition opens at Country Music Hall of Fame
- Jones out of hospital again
- Chesney expands sunglasses deal
- CMA Songwriters Series heads west
- Pistol Annies member gets hitched
- Watson in critical condition after falling at home
- McGraw launches effort to help vets
- Moore notches first number one
- Parton song joins National Recording Registry
- Richie sells "Tuskegee"
- Bentley goes crazy for number 1
- CMA announces 2012 awards show
- Lambert takes over from Underwood
- Rascal Flatts goes for the Gold
- ZBB's "Uncaged" comes from "chemistry"
- Nichols, Show Dog split
- Showtime for Chesney tour
- Aldean sells out in Atlanta
- BP sells out in return to road
- Dunn releases special CD
- Gloriana announces second CD
- Jones returns to hospital
- McGraw signs with Big Machine
- Swift wins Billboard award, Aldean takes two
- Jana Kramer slates tour
- Nail kicks off Hot Nights at Hall of Fame
- Sweeney plays Country Throwdown main stage
- Doug Dillard of The Dillards dies at 75
- Underwood, Aldean lead charts
- Lady A raises almost $300K for tornado relief
- Little Big Town leads Ride for the Cure
- Miss Willie Brown release new single
- New West label forms new label
- Old Crow announces new disc, tour
- Swift pledges $4M to Country Music Hall of Fame
- Nelson vies for "Heroes"
- Underwood leads sales chart again
- Aldean claims another chart topper
- Lynn names Daschanel to play her on Broadway
- Chesney, McGraw practice
- Jessie James releases new single
- Cook visits Letterman, slates tour
- Covington tour bus involved in accident
- Lewis signs with Blaster
- Moore makes national TV debut Friday
- Rogers returns to Warner
- Underwood, Lambert top charts
- Bowen breaks a record
- Underwood blows away competition
- Owen gets cuffed, married
- Richie's "Tuskegee" goes Platinum
- Vassar doesn't miss out on playing new song
- Watkins, Green release new CDs
- Young debuts "Neon" video
- Carolina Chocolate Drops like "Country Girl"
- Lady A releases new single
- Lambert is "Over..." the top
- Underwood goes Down Under
- Jewel becomes June
- Lambert, Little Big Town added to CMA fest
- The Dirt Drifters take a hike
- Gill announces bluegrass tour
- Rascal Flatts, Richie lead charts
- Jackson previews new album at Opry
- Richie leads country chart
- Opry honors Skaggs for 30 years as member
- Rascal Flatts picks up another chart topper
- Underwood announces fall tour
April 2012
- Church backtracks on Rolling Stone comments
- Lady A checks out The View
- Thompson Square gets Better
- Voice problems cause Church concert cancelation
- Lynne seeks help in recovering stolen instruments
- Shelton, Lambert, Bentley headline Watershed Fest at the Gorge
- Farr makes Opry debut
- Jones cancels shows due to illness
- Shelton, Richie again lead charts
- For Underwood, kids will have to wait
- Pistol Annies support Lambert tour
- Richie slated to lead charts again
- Zac Brown Band becomes "Uncaged"
- Brice, Moore, Stuart lead news releases
- Clear Channel promotes new Underwood album
- Paisley does South Park
- Underwood schedules date at Royal Albert Hall
- Opry inducts Urban
- Brice deals with beer
- Lambert goes to the dogs
- Levon Helm dies at 71
- Richie tops all charts, Shelton leads country songs
- Rock Star video debuts Friday
- Nichols becomes parent
- Richie reaches the top
- Brice hit goes Gold
- Campbell, The Mavs, Rogers, Milsap join CMA line-up
- Helm is in "final stages" from cancer
- Underwood goes Live on Letterman
- Bucky Covington releases new single
- Lady Antebellum's Haywood gets married
- Rose covers Artic Monkeys for Record Store Day
- Shelton goes to the top - again
- Urban's All for the Hall gig raises $465K
- Beachwood Sparks flies again
- McCready gives birth
- Newfield helps launch label
- Turner becomes "Punching Bag" in June
- Rascal Flats will lead country charts
- Adams plans iTunes release
- Brice tops chart
- Lady A sells more than 750K tickets
- Nelson becomes a statue
- Steep Canyon Rangers, Trampled by Turtles out with new CDs
- Urban benefit gig leads to Opry invite
- Wilco plays Newport
- Carter's Chord preps new video
- Chesney, McGraw duet, "Rockstar," sets record debut
- Jackson sets CD for June release
- Owen plays once-in-a-lifetime gig (and his girlfriend is happy)
- Urban donates royalties to Navy SEAL fund
- Hank Cochran bio doc coming soon
- Mattea inks with Sugar Hill
- Richie debuts atop country chart
- Hank Williams Jr. leaves Curb
- Parton visits TV to push live disc
- Richie leads country chart
- Brice drives new single
- Cash, Flatts dish out new music
- Chesney-McGraw collaboration, "Rockstar," gets played - a lot
- Fogerty gets help for "Everyone"
- Jones goes home from hospital
- Richie debuts in second behind Madonna
- AJ re-releases "Precious Memories" CD
- Arlo heads Green River Festival, honors Woody's 100th birthday
- Social media re: ACMs skyrockets
- Aldean takes Single of the Year ACM award
- Chesney debuts first single from "Fishbowl" with McGraw
- Eli Young Band takes ACM Song of the Year
- Keith, Aldean/Clarkson take ACM honors off camera
- Lady A takes Vocal Group Award
- Lambert takes ACM Album of the Year
- Lambert takes ACM Female Singer
- McCreery scores New Artist Award
- Shelton scores ACM male vocalist honor
- Swift wins the biggie
- Thompson Square wins ACM vocal award in upset
March 2012
- Aldean quits music - for one day anyway to be a Brave
- Rascal Flatts changes
- Chesney extends "Welcome to the Fishbowl"
- GAC pays tribute to Scruggs
- Jones hosptalized with respiratory infection
- Martin, Rascal Flatts perform together at ACMs
- Owen ascends to the top
- Rogers becomes Hall of Fame resident
- Broken down bus leads to marriage
- Currington enjoys Gold
- Jana Kramer debut coming in June
- Scuggs dies at 88
- Earle, Hubbard out with new music
- First Lady presents award to Swift
- Jager helps Houser tour
- McGraw, Hill wrap Aussie tour
- Richie releases country disc
- Sara Watkins plans soph disc
- Aldean breaks more records
- Owen stands alone at number one
- Rascal Flatts plays Ali fundraiser
- Sugarland dances on Tuesday
- Turner rolls with Cracker Barrel
- Underwood goes big with new video
- Alaina visits Fox, Today
- Brooks burst vocal chord cancels gig
- CMA songwriters head to Big Apple
- Swift's "Ours" climbs to top
- Bryan's "Dunk on You" video drops Friday
- Chesney, Gill, Jackson, Harris receive ACM honors
- Gentle Giant returns
- Gilbert joins Ram Jam sweepstakes
- Keith goes into overdrive
- Nail finds the sound in Alabama
- Nelson, Kracker added to BamaJam
- Casey James, The Hunger Games out today
- Indiana school wins Lady A gig
- Kix Brooks single released
- Strait to the top again
- Young, Crazy Horse prep "Americana"
- Lady A opens for The Boss
- Gloriana member gets engaged
- Aldean breaks Houston record
- Aldean releases "Fly Over States" video
- The Civil Wars postpone dates
- Turner's "Time Is Love" makes time for Monday premiere
- Bentley, Lady A top charts
- Label signs three artists
- Turner co-hosts Today
- Jackson added to BamaJam
- Lambert makes history
- Lisa Marie Presley slates new CD
- Owen goes for the gold
- CMA reinstates awards
- Exile, Davis, HeadHunters to join Kentucky hall
- Bentley returns "Home" to number one
- Bjorklund backs White
- Chesney appears at Richie, PLAN!T shows
- Nail unplugged gig goes live Tuesday
- Church joins BamaJam
- Kramer sets Opry debut
- Swift: country's biggest money maker in '11
- Bentley, Shelton, Jackson join CMA field
- Chesney, Lady A lead charts
- Underwood's "Good Girl" video debuts Monday
- Exile, Adkins play colon cancer benefit
- McCreery goes Idol
- Morgan enjoys career best
- Steep Canyon Rangers plan new CD
- Yearwood brings cooking skills to Food Network
- Armiger announces tour
- Brice details soph disc
- Brooks, Smith, Robbins to join country hall
- Bryan, McCoy out with new music
- Houser becomes a dad
- Paisley extends tour to October
- Chesney faces reality of number one
- Paisley ends first tour leg with help from Underwood
- Stillwell tour bus destroyed in tornado, band uninjured
- Swift starts final tour leg
- Underwood gets "Blown Away"
- Fans can own Lady A for one night at high school prom
- Kip Moore CD debut coming in April
- Alaina returns to being Idol
- Corbin has fun with new single
- New Chesney disc coming in June
- Sweeney is NRA Country
- Urban, Lady A remain first on charts
February 2012
- Dungan leaves Capitol for Universal, replacing Lewis
- Lynch makes Opry debut Friday
- Lynne video goes live
- Newport Folk Festival announces line-up
- Sugarland puts its tour in hands of fans
- Underwood debuts atop digital chart
- Cash birthday tribute concert draws Chesney, Kristofferson, Johnson
- Morgan, Mead offer new music
- New music (mainly) comes from Hank 3 in April
- Bronchitis fells Strait gig
- Little Big Town heads to studio
- Musgraves to open Mayer tour
- Niemann shines on
- Jackson sets record
- Labels win Country Radio Seminar awards
- Aldean sells out second Atlanta show
- Bentley bus logs 1 million miles
- Gill leaves label
- Hill performs at CRS
- Johnny Cash Birthday Tribute coming Sunday
- New Underwood single released
- Songwriters bus damaged in Ireland accident
- Urban claims top spot
- Hank Jr. launches tour
- Lady A, Civil Wars, TBP, Swift see sales spurt
- Rascal Flatts receives CRS Humanitarian Award
- Martin "Paul Revere" video out today
- McGraw producer Gallimore forms label
- Nichols to become father again
- Sugarland defends self against suits
- The Chieftains explore roots
- Aldean takes four minutes to sell out Georgia show
- Alvin expands upon "Eleven Eleven"
- Nail sells out West Coast run
- Owen performs on Kimmel
- BamaJam 2012 goes forward
- New kid Kix Brooks readies debut single
- Bentley, TBP lead charts
- Jackson performs new single on Leno
- Nail grabs Gold
- Rascal Flatts changes it up for new CD
- Stuart readies music for April
- Bentley surprises military family
- Bentley's "Home" goes to the top
- Helton takes ACM award
- Holder releases Curb debut
- The Band Perry stays at number one
- Urban packs 'em in
- Avetts, The Civil Wars play Bonnaroo
- Kenny Rogers sues Capitol Records
- Punch Brothers release third CD
- Grammys wrap-up: Big night for Taylor Swift, The Civil Wars
- Civil Wars take Grammys
- Krauss, Helm win Grammys
- Lady Antebellum scores Best Country Album
- Swift scores two Grammys
- McCreery enjoys good news
- Swift's "Safe & Sound" video premieres Monday
- Brice looks to April for new CD
- Crowell combines forces with Karr for CD
- Domestic assault charges against Atkins to be dropped
- Gilbert, Hayes, McCreery vie for ACM award
- Grammys add The Civil Wars to line-up
- Hodges releases new single
- StubHub anoints Swift as top '11 tour
- The Band Perry, McGraw lead charts
- Haggard sets return to stage
- Jamie O'Neal creates label
- Nail celebrates hit single
- Yoakam, Corbin, Lewis added to Country Thunder
- Bentley releases "Home"
- Chesney's "You and Tequila" reaches Platinum
- Reba shows "All the Women" live
- Adkins headlines NRA jam
- Lady A slates July tour of Europe
- Owen performs again
- Travis arrested for drinking
- Bentley gets ready to go on "Home"
- Hoots & Hellmouth plans new CD, tour
- Jessie James debuts video today
- Lady A sets record
- Urban returns to action tonight
- Allan headlines Country Throwdown
- New Underwood CD coming May 1
- Pickler drives Ram Jam concert series
- Young, McGraw lead charts
- CMA charity donates $1M to school music program
- DBT's Hood protests Wal-Mart in song
- Lambert, Bentley, Paltrow to present Grammys
- McGraw debuts in first
- Nelson goes home
- Rascal Flatts announces new tour
- Road warrior Earle hits the road
January 2012
- Scott releases new disc
- Shelton, Lambert make "Beautiful" music at Super Bowl
- The Farm slates Opry gig
- Young notches another number one
- Bentley returns Country & Cold Cans to U.S.
- Worley signs record deal
- Keith named number one for trucks
- Washburn releases Chinese tour videos
- Brice said hit song writing was "magical"
- Bryan, Keith top charts
- Campbell joins Shelton, TBP at Grammys
- Chesney leads ACM nominations with nine
- Montgomery Gentry cap "unbelievable" year
- Brooks wins $1M in suit against hospital
- Jackson performs at CRS event
- Josh Thompson sets tour
- Lady A sells 500K tickets
- McCreery shows Hart
- Rascal Flatts' DeMarcus announces another child on the way
- Underwood becomes "Good Girl" in February
- CMA honors 13 songwriters
- McGraw, Pickler release new music
- Shiflett signs with Pinecastle
- Tritt, Niemann, Gilbert join Country Stampede
- Adkins slates Songs & Stories Tour
- Aldean starts '12 tour
- Currington announces headline tour dates
- McGraw strikes gold
- Urban flies with new video
- Paisley provides entertainment at NFC game today
- Paisley plays for the Cubbies
- Church, Lady Antebellum lead charts
- Martin, Steep Canyon Rangers announce tour
- Rascal Flatts seeks to be "Changed"
- Haggard sick with pneumonia
- Jackson debuts video this week
- Lambert postpones shows due to death of father-in-law
- Shelton postpones shows due to father's death
- Jessie James veers country
- Niemann reaches Platinum with "Love, Lover"
- Owen breaks collarbone, undergoes surgery Tuesday
- Church likes Drink In My Hand
- Paisley sells out first weekend of tour
- Urban is All for the Hall
- Acuff Smokey Mountain Boys' member dies
- In reality, Paisley sells out
- Lady A, Zac Brown Band, Paisley join CMA lineup
- Nail, Lady A lead charts
- Swift, Aldean to perform at Grammys
- Urban returns with Opry gig
- Gloriana premieres new vid
- Messina becomes a mom again
- Reba, Shelton co-host ACMs again
- Uncle Kracker goes the Hometown route
- Atkins makes return visit to Kimmel
- Bentley reaches for the Gold
- Bryan gets the Gold
- McCreery achieves Platinum
- New McGraw single out today
- The Grascals sign with Mountain Home
- Young debuts on Ellen
- Gill joins MerleFest line-up
- Lady A's Scott ties the knot
- Morgan video drops today
- Rascal Flatts plays "Banjo"
- 11 months later, Nail has a number one
- For Craig Campbell, art imitates life
- Brice gets engaged
- Canaan Smith releases debut single
- Carolina Chocolate Drops announce new CD, tour
- Paisley bags Cammobunga! tour for Virtual Reality
- Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum top charts
- "Four the Record," Lambert reaches Gold
- Lady Antebellum to top country chart
- Underwood foundation contributes $350K to hometown
- Bentley details his "Home"
- Curb details McGraw release
December 2011
- Swift leads country concert bucks
- Messina goes great with WD-40
- Wynonna gets engaged
- Lady Antebellum to top country chart again
- Greenwood sings at Alamo Bowl
- Lady A hosts GAC country videos shows
- Swift, The Civil Wars release film soundtrack song
- Bentley, Rucker play Super Bowl concerts
- Lady A holds top spot again
- Ballard shows up on late night TV
- Jones, Campbell to receive special Grammy honors
- Emmylou Harris celebrates 20 years at Opry
- Indiana settles with State Fair victims
- Lady Antebellum's Haywood gets engaged
- Hardly Strictly Bluegrass founder, Warren Hellman, dies
- Josh Turner releases new single tomorrow
- Trace Adkins, Big & Rich bring in new year in New York
- McBride greatest coming from old label
- Rodney Atkins files for divorce after arrest on domestic violence charge
- Rucker preps third disc
- Zac Brown Band scores another chart topper
- Adkins records with Exile
- Billie Jo Spears dies at 73
- Faith Hill performs at People's Choice Awards
- Kid Rock reaches out to needy
- CMA pledges $10M to Country Hall of Fame expansion
- Craig Campbell visits Fox
- Eli Young Band's "Crazy Girl" becomes '11's number 1 song
- Vincent plays Opry with new member
- Lady Antebellum dances away
- Paisley sings of the "Hard Life"
- Riders in the Sky member, Kenny Baker named to National Fiddler Hall
- Wynonna tweets for freedom of expression
- Aldean, Shelton, Keith headline Country Thunder
- Swift ranks at top
- Boston country mainstay, John Lincoln Wright, dies
- Lady A registers chart double
- McGraw gives fans gift of music today
- Zac Brown Band Red Rocks show airs on CMT
- Chesney tour sells 275K tickets
- Hank Jr. gig raises $75K for Country Hall
- Lady Antebellum cracks top 10 again
- Orbison widow dies at 61
- Scud Mountain Boys add two shows
- Tucker wishes a merry xmas "wherever you are"
- Aldean, the Band Perry added to CMA Music Fest
- Covington releases first music in two years
- GAC airs American Country Awards again
- Alaina parties with Aldean
- Aldean wins big at ACAs
- Drive-By Truckers' Shonna Tucker exits
- Isaak hits airport circuit
- Lady A owns number one spot again
- McCready goes to court in Arkansas
- McCreery goes Gold
- McCready's son found in Arkansas
- McGraw plans to release his own music, Curb to release "Emotional Traffic"
- After Midnite's Garner goes "Beyond the Hits"
- Chesney: "thrilled" with Grammy nominations
- Jackson, The Band Perry added to Arizona Country Thunder
- The Band Perry goes Platinum
- Aldean stunned by Grammy nominations
- Anderson debuts at Opry on Saturday
- Bryan, Galante join CMA board
- Chesney adds second Boston show
- Dr. Phil considers "Cost of Livin'"
- Grammy nomination carries special meaning for Gill
- Lady A tops chart (once again)
- McCready risks arrest for failure to return son
November 2011
- Aldean, Swift top country Grammy nominatons
- McCready must return son by Thursday talks with police
- McGraw wins court verdict against Curb
- Tony Rice pays tribute to Big Mon
- CMA songwriters head to England
- Krauss plays MerleFest
- It's official: "Red Solo Cup" is the new Keith single
- Lady A once again owns chart
- Little Willies play gigs
- Urban undergoes successful vocal chord surgery
- Wayne Scott killed in accident
- Women face charges in Sugarland concert tragedy
- Kid Rock tour aids charities
- Swift, McEntire headline Canadian fest
- Gilbert scores first number one
- Sugarland sued in stage collapse
- Wayne sings for Monday Night Football
- American Country Awards honors Alabama
- Joey + Rory TV specal airs Friday
- The Farm debut with "Home Sweet Home"
- Bentley wraps first leg of tour
- Church brings blood, sweat, beers
- Gilbert reaches top of chart
- Jackson, Brooks visit GAC show on Walk of Fame
- Krauss, Kristofferson, Bentley gig the White House
- Campbell gets fried
- Gloriana plays Leno
- Josh Thompson releases new single
- Sparks fly for Swift
- Underwood becomes first artist for '12 CMA Music Fest
- 60 Minutes airs Swift segment on Sunday
- CMA songwriters return to Big Apple
- Country's sexiest man - Trace Adkins, of course
- Currington announces headlining tour
- Atkins performs at Xmas tree lighting event
- Decades old Campbell live disc sees light of day
- Nail releases soph effort
- Shelton headlines free NASCAR show
- Chesney, McGraw reunite for summer tour
- Dierks Bentley goes for "Home" in February 2012
- Nov. 14 proves special for Love and Theft
- Sweeney ties the knot
- Gloriana releases Veteran's Day song
- Lady A's "Own the Night" hits Platinum
- Rascal Flatts take it "Easy" on Today
- Shelton, Bentley, Big & Rich headline Country Thunder
- Alaina sings anthem at Detroit Turkey Day game
- Fox producer receives CMA honor
- Gill hosts Thanksgiving special
- Lambert, Eli Young Band lead charts
- Swift becomes second woman to win multiple CMA entertainer awards
- TBP enjoys "surreal" night
- ABC, CMA re-up for 10 years
- CMA Awards coming tonight
- Is Sony buying Taylor Swift's home?
- Lambert sets record
- Swift wins CMA's biggest honor
- AMA fest airs on PBS
- Dailey & Vincent go gospel
- Nichols debuts new music, Flatts goes live
- The Civil Wars offer special release
- The McClymonts win CMA Global award
- "Crazy Girl" gets to the top
- Morgan does it all
- Paisley wins ASCAP award
- IBMA head resigns
- Lynne joins the Turkey Day parade
- Washburn visits China
- Bentley, Currington, McEntire, Rimes present CMA awards
- Hill gets ready to "Come Home"
- Jimmy Wayne, the author, writes book
- Keith, Shelton rule charts
- Urban to undergo vocal chord surgery
- CMA awards sell out
- Gill, Grant get in the holiday mood
- Keith leads the pack
- Loggins gets "Footloose" with Shelton
- Lambert goes for the record
- MerleFest names line-up
- Nelson goes way way back
- Paisley plays writer
- Reba hosts Nascar finale
October 2011
- Bentley goes international
- Daniels pulls rank
- Eli Young Band "Crazy" for Platinum
- Paisley, Gill, Urban pay tribute to Campbell
- Pickler goes for "100 Proof"
- Montgomery, Gentry happy with new disc
- Nail sings for St. Louis
- Follow the road to the CMAs
- Jones isn't ready for rocking chair
- McCreery, Shelton top charts
- Rucker plays Annika charity gig
- TK visits TV
- Crooked Still singer plays Leno
- Lonestar reunites with McDonald
- McCreery tops country sales
- Paisley, Aldean, Lambert, Shelton headline Stagecoach feset
- Richie slates country duets disc
- Gaga, Aldean perform together
- Punch Brothers' Piklney releases new CD
- Young releases "You" video
- Gill makes media rounds
- Gill, Keith out with new CDs
- Lynn gets out of hospital
- Six make country radio hall
- Sugarland's Bush goes solo (for one night anyway)
- Urban Fender guitar being auctioned
- Lynn cancels weekend shows
- The Mavericks reunite
- CMA New Artist nominees perform
- Craig Morgan announces EP coming
- Isaak, Montgomery Gentry, Lynne dish out new music
- Kix Brooks has Personality
- Strait has good time with Good Time
- CMA broadcast award winners announced
- Lady A announces '12 dates
- Moore hooks Edwards
- Opry goes pink
- Rascal Flatts thaws out
- Scud Mountain Boys reform 14 years later
- Charlie Daniels Band member killed in crash
- Plant, Miller take AMA honors
- Chesney, Rascal Flatts perform on CMAs
- Gill stages benefit to help those with AIDS
- McCreery hits number one
- Alaina, McBride release new sounds
- Bryan goes gold
- Hank Jr. gives it away
- Linda McCartney receives tribute treatment (so does Paul)
- Swift to receive Billboard honor
- Bentley stays Chicago Miles & Music fundraiser
- Parton makes a sacrifice
- The Band Perry: 3 million reasons to be happy
- Urban tops song chart
- Rascal Flatts joins Opry
- Gill plays QVC
- Martin, Rangers spotlighted on World News
- Sugarland returns to Indiana to end tour
- Aldean parties into 2012
- Church becomes a father
- ESPN cuts ties with Hank Jr.
- Hill joins CMA awards, performs new single
- Keith, Lady Antebellum lead charts
- Swift appears Wonderstruck
- Alaina makes the rounds
- Big Machine inks Bowen
- Chesney plays Clinton Foundation gig with Gaga, Bono
- Lady A stays in top 10, only country disc on list
- Bryan farm tour reaches 19K
- Lady A, Lambert, The Band Perry join CMA line-up
- McCreery, Hank, Hag, Atkins offer new music
- Aldean raises $315K for the Cure
- Bentley aids Wounded Warrior effort
- Ely plays A Prairie Home Companion
- Keith charts another number one
- Montgomery Gentry launches web site
- Rascal Flatts plays for children's hospital
- Shelton lights it up for '12 tour
- Trisha Yearwood's mother dies
- Williams compares Obama to Hitler; ESPN refuses to play Hank Jr. theme song
- Martin, Steep Canyon Rangers win top IBMA honor
September 2011
- Atkins, Lady A lead charts
- Adams announces tour
- Nail slates soph disc for November
- Cook says hi to Craig Ferguson
- Johnny Wright, Kitty Wells' husband, dies at 97
- Paisley, Underwood sing at CMAs
- Rascal Flatts asked to join Opry
- Rimes, McCoury lead new releases
- Bentley goes "Home" for new CD
- Aldean sells out
- Bentley wishes extend to Pink Floyd
- Bryan checks out Access Hollywood, Ellen
- CMA celebrates Country Music Month
- Lady A, Atkins lead charts
- Lewis' "Country Boy" goes gold
- Little Willies are back
- CMA honors Nashville mayor
- Lady A tops charts
- Swift slates live CD/DVD
- Bryan kicks off headlining tour
- Forbes rates Keith number one
- Swift, CMA nominees perform at awards show
- The Jayhawks return today
- Watson travels American Routes
- Atkins goes to number one
- Scott CD gets delayed
- SInger makes Opry debut honoring Jones
- Wildfire lead singer slates solo disc
- Wilma Lee Cooper dies at 90
- Lady A poised to have number one album
- Martina McBride rides the rails
- Strait, Owen lead charts
- Ashton Shepherd show airs on GAC
- Strait has a good time at the top
- Wade Mainer passes at 104
- Johnny Reid takes honors in Canada
- Jones celebrates 80th at Opry
- Lady A leads new releases
- Lowenstein teams with Firstman for The Cordovas
- Newport fest announces '12 dates
- Aldean parties to Double Platinum
- ASCAP honors Don Williams
- Swift visits Ellen
- Zac Brown Band plays on
- It's a girl for Shepherd
- Lady A streams Chicago show Saturday
- Keith lives it up again
- Opry goes pink
- Owen registers chart double
- Young debuts on Craig Ferguson
- Banjo player Shelor receives Steve Martin Prize
- Bryan partners with NRA Country
- Lady Antebellum kicks off CD release event
- Owen tops country chart
- Pikelny slates soph disc
- Aldean, Paisley, Shelton, Swift top CMA nominations
- Bentley announces Nashville charity bike ride
- Bryan gets fired up
- Chesney puts Berg in good mood
- Church thanks his peers
- Strait releases #39
- Zac Brown Band combines music, food
- Gill, Sting meet at the Crossroads
- Hill waits again for Sunday night
- Pistol Annies, Paisley lead charts
- Rucker announces headlining tour
- Strait tours in 2012, McBride open
August 2011
- Jake Owen calling
- Lady A tells the backstory
- Pistol Annies leads country chart
- Aldean parties with ACC
- ATO signs Caitlin Rose
- Owen leads new releases
- Austin City Limits, NPT host Americana awards show
- Chesney player receives award
- McCoy plans new single for October
- Paisley, Underwood hop to the top
- Swift adds four dates to Aussie/New Zealand tour
- The Band Perry quickly sells out Ryman
- "Americana" makes Merriam-Webster
- Bentley, Bryan lead charts
- Big & Rich, Wilson gig aids vets
- Owen, The Band Perry to announce CMA nominees
- Atkins knows the (SEC) score
- Chesney songwriters show streams live
- Hurricane forces Chesney to change show date
- Lady A strips down for three shows
- Paisley tours Europe
- Aldean sells out, offers new single
- Bentley rides for Chicago
- Early Buck Owens recordings coming out
- Jamey Johnson tributes ZZ Top
- Jaron travels long road on tour
- O Brother, Connie Smith, Pistol Annies release CDs
- Sugarland stage collapse claims seventh victim
- Alan Jackson performs in D.C. 9/11 commemoration
- Bentley's "Am I The Only One" is the only number one
- Brooks, Jackson top Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame nominees
- Sara Evans says yes to videos
- Aldean raises money for the cure
- Larry Stephenson finds his Compass
- Sixth person dies in Sugarland concert tragedy
- Bryan, Lady A lead charts
- Kentucky HeadHunters release new single
- Montgomery Gentry finds itself on the run
- Paisley rolls in London
- Sugarland returns to the stage
- Swift's "Fearless" tour goes to DVD
- The Civil Wars, The Jayhawks, Foster & Lloyd play Americana fest
- Bryan rides his tailgate to top
- McBride unveils new video
- The Boxcars top IBMA nominations with 9
- Chesney sets New York area record
- Dale Watson signs with Red House
- Eli Young Band, Jeff Bridges lead new releases
- Sugarland plans return to road Thursday
- Bentley to lauch fall tour
- Currington, Thompson play CMA Songwriters Series in NYC
- Indiana State Fair reopens, Lady A show canceled
- Keith goes international
- Lady A Owns the Night with new tour
- Letterman interviews Elizabeth Cook
- Rodney Atkins takes the road to new CD
- The Band Perry video premieres today
- Five killed at Sugarland concert
- Sugarland's Nettles expresses her sorrow about deadly state fair tragedy
- Alaina CD due one week after McCreery
- Bryan visits the farms (again)
- Eli Young Band get their plaques
- McCreery slates debut for October
- Aussie roots rockers Wagon invade U.S.
- Jackson works for free
- Jackson, Church lead Capitol party
- Lady A, Church lead charts
- Morgan raises $95K for charity
- Swift returns Down Under
- Church continues with best selling country CD
- Opry member passes away
- "Sparks Fly" in Swift video out Wednesday
- Bryan releases new music
- Church's stay at top looks to be short-lived
- Gill, Harris, Crow, Brown play Hall of Fame fundraiser
- Lambert claims person record
- Paisley plays to 100K
- The Dirt Drifters give Blood
- Tracy Lawrence arrested after dispute
- Alan Jackson visits Scandanavia
- Cash bassist Marshall Grant dies
- Lady A scores another chart topper
- Loretta Lynn cancels tour dates, needs knee surgery
- Nichols takes it off on new video
- Oak Ridge Boys join Opry
- Adkins, Chenoweth return as awards hosts
- The Band Perry announces tour
- Church scores top spot
- Hank Sr. songs see light of day
- Sweeney gets "Concrete" with new music
- Church tops charts
- Rascal Flatts celebrates
- Strait gets ready for a good time
- Adkins, DBT dish out new discs
- Miranda Lambert releases new single
- The Civil Wars announce headlining tour
- Zac Brown Band takes over the top
- Bryan headlines CMT on Tour
- Good news continues for Chris Young
- New music coming from Shelby Lynne
- The Gourds prep for tour
- The Jayhawks slate tour for "Mockingbird Time"
July 2011
- Daniels welcomes Vassar, Sawyer Brown to holiday show
- Jason Jones rides Ferris Wheel to new video
- Paisley reminds fans of new video
- Toby Keith makes it in America
- Country Hall of Fame launches capital campaign
- Eli Young Band's "Crazy Girl" goes Gold
- The Band Perry sets a mark for slowness
- The Bodean's Llanas goes solo with next CD
- Campbell goes fishing on video
- Johnny Reid grabs six CCMA nominations
- More Hank recordings coming
- Shelton leads country chart
- Bellamy Brothers dedicate Norway show to murder victims
- Church, Milsap, Montana dispense new sounds
- Tomorrow burns bright for Chris Young
- Adkins added to CMA Music Fest TV special
- Ira Dean signs with Average Joe's
- Joey+Rory take it to the farm at Xmas
- With three CDs coming, Hank3 tours
- Rimes breathes life into country classics
- Willie Nelson to join hall of fame
- Currington releases video Friday
- Mark Newton forms new band
- Shelton, Aldean top charts
- Biram announces new CD
- Shelton achieves number one status
- Black River signs artist
- Newport Folk Festival sells out
- Skaggs meshes grass, country; Dirt Drifters debut
- The Hag plans new release
- Young, Shelton top charts
- Aldean scores another chart topper
- IBMA seeks money for Monroe film
- Lady A unveils details on new CD
- CMA Music Fest TV special gets delayed one week
- Turner helps raise $150K for tornado victims
- Allman, Plant, Jayhawks set to hit AMA fest
- Lynn hospitalized, cancels dates
- Moore reaches top of chart
- Aldean makes top 10
- Bentley, Little Big Town added to CMA Music Festival TV special
- T Bone Burnett's Speaking Clock Revue gets released
- Junior Sisk announces new line-up
- McBride, Train DVD Crossroads DVD out today
- Nelson to receive environmental groups' honor
- Shelton, Shepherd, Young, Chambers dish out new sounds
- Blue Highway announces new CD
- Gloriana loses a member
- Paisley, Underwood to again host CMAs
- Rascal Flatts won't let go of gold
- Shelton visits TV for album release
- Ty Stone goes out in style
- Bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker dies
- Oak Ridge Boys invited to join Opry
- Cleaves slates live CD
- Lambert, Pistol Annies announce new discs
- Terri Clark announces new CD
- Hodges releases debut single
- Jamey Johnson, Shaver added to Farm Aid show
- Shelton, Aldean lead charts
- Aldean to lead country chart
- McEntire announces tour dates
- Shelton goes digital Platinum
- Swift postpones tour dates, suffers from bronchitis
- Lady Antebellum's Hllary Scott gets engaged
- Old 97's out with new disc again
- Swift postpones show due to illness
- Yoakam returns to Warner
- Big Machine sponsors Indy race
- Richie's loss is McBride's gain
June 2011
- Aaron Lewis gets tough on Ram Country
- Judd sings for free at Independency Day gig (on July 1)
- Lyda slates Opry debut
- Moore, Shelton lead charts
- Gloriana freely celebrates Independence Day
- Moore leads country chart
- Otto streams home concert for Minot victims
- James Wesley video debuts Wednesday
- Justin Townes Earle "Slippin' and Slidin' in video
- Strait single available digitally
- Swift's "Mean" hits number one
- Welch, Parton offer new CDs
- Brett Eldredge releases new single
- Bryan certifiably gold
- Chesney joins CMA songwriters gig in Boston
- Clement studio suffers fire
- Lady Antebellum video debuts today
- Marty Stuart visits Letterman
- Shelton's "Honey Bee" tops chart again
- Big & Rich debut new video
- Lambert side gig signs record deal
- Aldean, Shelton top charts
- Turner helps Georgia town hit by killer tornado
- Twain releases video
- Aldean tops country chart
- Campbell announces he has Alzheimer's, plans final studio disc
- Jackson's single now out digitally
- Keith returns to the clubs
- Guy Clark goes live
- Moore, Lauderdale release new music
- Urban kicks off tour
- Brooks, Jackson, Van Zandt nominated for songwriters hall of fame
- Friends join Chesney in Philly
- Joe Nichols goes with a different Joe
- Tiffany returns to country roots
- Underwood ends Down Under promo tour
- Bentley to perform at NHL awards show
- Vince Gill becomes "Guitar Slinger"
- Chesney plays Today on Friday
- Owen announces third CD for late August
- Paisley, Shelton lead charts
- Sugarland's Bush starts record club
- Bryan eyes "Tailgates and Tanlines"
- Currington checks out Big Apple
- Ronnie Dunn tops out at number one
- Parton releases new single
- Toby Keith stands behind "Made in America"
- Travis plays Leno tonight
- Adkins proclaims he's "Proud to Be Here"
- CMA Music Festival sells out
- Jackson finds there's a long way to go
- Moore becoming a father again
- Rodney Atkins event reaches $90K
- Shelton reaches the top again
- Strait readies for a good time
- Twain announces Vegas residency
- ATT, Samsung sponsor Urban tour
- Potter joins Chesney at Red Rocks
- Reba announces fall tour
- Stuart Late NIght Jam raises $30K
- Swift, Shelton win CMT honors
- Urban claims singles top spot
- Carpenter slates summer gigs
- Dunn, Travis lead new releases
- Lady Antebellum announces third CD
- Swift fights poverty with Black Eyed Peas
- Wayne Hancock cancels dates, plans to enter rehab
- Big & Rich get ready for football
- Skaggs, Bush give Moody Blues bluegrass treatment
- The Jayhawks return to action
- Adkins home burns Saturday
- Rascal Flatts plays Opry
- "NOW" country disc coming soon
- Shania Twain readies new single
- Alabama regroups
- Ballard unveils "Girls" video
- Chesney's "You And Tequila" video premieres Friday
- McCreery sets record
- Nichols ropes in sponsor
- Paisley registers chart double
- "If I Die Young" goes 2x Platinum for The Band Perry
- Country Music Hall hosts concerts, autograph signings
- Paisley tops country charts, #2 in US
May 2011
- Chesney sells 1 million tickets
- Clint Black goes into space
- Keith raises $650K for cancer victims
- Paisley finds going number one doesn't get old
- Stoney Creek Records, Ash Bowers look for heroes
- Sugarland stands up for tornado relief
- Avetts release video
- BamaJam 2011 cancelled
- McEntire, Shelton raise $500K for Oklahoma tornado victims
- Atkins tops tornado relief show
- Doobie Brothers, Bryan meet at the CMT Crossroads
- Paisley, Aldean lead charts
- Welch slates new CD
- McGraw countersues Curb
- Shelton makes history
- Zac Brown Band asks friends for help
- Eric Church strikes Gold
- Paisley performs with Alabama
- Secret Sisters "humbled" by AMA nomination
- Bentley rides on in Columbus
- Braddock Sheppard, McEntire join Country Music Hall of Fame
- Paisley defines "Country Music"
- Paisley grabs number one spot, do does Rascal Flatts
- Plant, Cook top AMA nominations
- Rich wins Celebrity Apprentice
- Swift cleans up country honors at Billboard awards
- Paisley unveils new video via NASCAR
- Underwood goes Down Under
- Campbell sings anthem at NASCAR race Sunday
- Lambert caps great week with number one single
- Shelton announces "Red River Blue"
- Swift is powerful
- Swift streams songs at tornado fundraiser Saturday
- Aldean makes top 10
- Connie Smith announces new CD
- Helm donates sales to Americana group
- Rascal Flatts surprises Oprah
- Alabama spearheads tornado relief gig
- Curb sues McGraw
- Rich, Helm, Hank III out with new CDs
- "Just a Kiss": just a record for Lady Antebellum
- Chesney gets a bargain
- For those who can't wait, Ballard streams CD
- Old 97's slates Volume 2 release
- Turner surprises American Idol finalist McCreery
- Shelton, Lambert tie the knot
- Aldean sells out
- Paisley hosts Mem weekend special
- Tornado relief concert to re-air Sunday
- Chesney donates Alabama concert fees to relief effort
- Evans, Aldean lead charts
- Lorrie Morgan inks record deal
- Paisley drives "Cars 2" soundtrack
- Zac Brown launches new label
- American Idol gives Lady A a boost
- Bryan announces new disc
- Farm Aid goes to Kansas
- Hunter Hayes issues "Storm Warning"
- Lambert goes to the dogs
- Womack, Shepherd, Nail kick off CMAs (unofficially)
- Gilmore returns to action
- The Band Perry helps hometown flood relief efforts
- Zac Brown Band gets "Knee Deep"
- CMA honors touring musicians
- CMA, Krogers offers concert discount
- Nail hosts Missouri flood relief show
- Swift dress rehearsal tix go on sale Thursday
- Young sees "Neon"
- CDB concert goes high def
- Parton, Tillis, Smith join Stuart's Late Night Jam
- Reba, Shelton add second tornado fundraiser show
- Swift opens up for tornado victims
- Krauss tour adds shows
- Sara Evans reaches top of chart
- Shepherd gives Mother's Day present - a song
- Urban, Hank Jr., Lady A play tornado benefit show
- Church becomes "Chief" of new CD
- CMA Music Fest: Sheryl Crow is out, Dierks Bentley in
- Kasey Chambers readies first CD in four years
- Robert Earl Keen announces new CD
- Colt Ford, Blind Boys offer new music
- Doobie Brothers' video reaches CMT
- John Rich dropping two EPs in May
- Oprah welcomes Twain
- Tornado damages singer's property
- Dirt Band finally reaches gold
- Kenny Chesney talks on the Boss, writing and sports
- Lady Antebellum releases new single
- New Randy Travis CD out today
- Swift closes CMA Music Fest
- The 9513 web site shuts down
- Vassar finds new home on new label
April 2011
- MerleFest 2011 attendance increases
- Dierks Bentley gets pranked
- Randy Montana joins Swift tour
- The Dirt Drifters want Something Better
- Bjorklund's "Summer Romance" video exclusive available
- Chesney, Krauss & Union Station top charts
- Junior Sisk announces new CD
- McEntire, Shelton play Oklahoma tornado benefit show
- The short wait is over for David Bromberg
- Bryan shakes up digital chart
- Carll, Willis, Robison, Fulks headline Twangfest
- The Civil Wars open Adele dates
- Atkins is back with new single
- Harris, Earle top new releases
- Chesney goes to number one
- Dunn reveals songs on debut
- Jana Kramer debuts son on One Tree Hill
- Messina releases new song
- New Shelton CD coming in July
- Opry remembers flood anniversary with special s how
- AMA extends fest deadline
- Bluegrass singer Hazel Dickens dies at 75
- Krauss and Union Station lead chart
- Kristofferson replaces Lynn at Stagecoach
- McMurtry kicks off tour this week
- Rimes gets hitched
- Hunter Hayes becomes Next Big Thing
- Joey+Rory schedule third BIb & Buckle Fest
- McCoy inks with indie label
- Allan kicks off free CMA Music Festival concerts
- Joe Nichols heads Down Under
- Rogers performs at Dove Awards, preps autobiography
- Jeff Bridges signs to EMI Blue Note
- Rucker scores fifth straight number one single
- Sugarland, Clarkson join CMA Music Festival
- Gentry-led project coming in May
- Ralph Stanley refuses to slow down
- McGraw pulls out of movie
- Rascal Flatts sued by former managers
- Zac Brown Band, Aldean lead charts
- Ashton Shepherd look for July release of CD
- David Nail video debuts
- Morgan heads NRA fest
- Ashton Shepherd sings for NASCAR
- Chely Wright announces August wedding date
- Krauss, lang, McCoury, Isbell out with new CDs
- McCurdy sings for Generation Love
- Chris Young visits Mid East troops
- Frankie Ballard slates debut release
- k.d. lang makes confession tonight
- Miss Willie Brown score Bonnaroo slot
- Sugarland launches virtual radio gig
- McGraw Emotional Traffic dates start tonight
- Jazz singer Diane Schuur croons the classics
- Krauss goes deluxe
- McDaniel memorial service set for April 13
- The Greencards forge ahead with new members
- Zac Brown Band plays MerleFest
- Zac Brown Band, Aldean hold number one slots
- Stand By Your Man, Tumbling Tumbleweeds make history
- Lawrence golfs for a cure
- Recording Academy overhauls Grammys, cuts categories
- Zac Brown Band gets hot with "Colder Weather"
- Campbell puts out debut
- Chris Austin Songwriting contest names finalists
- Houser prays for success with In God's Time
- ACMs help CBS winning ratings war
- Alison Krauss & Union Station schedule tour
- Bentley headlines first Canadian fest
- Big & Rich head to studio
- Leno hosts Swift Tuesday
- ACM awards coming tonight
- And one more for Lady A
- Lady Antebellum snags ACM Album of the Year
- Lambert cut wins ACM song of the year
- Lambert takes ACM Single Record of the Year
- Lambert takes three ACM awards, Swift wins biggest honor
- Lambert wins ACM for Video of the Year
- The Band Perry wins new artist honor at ACMs
- Zac Brown Band, Alan Jackson take ACM vocal event honor
- Craig Morgan signs with Black River
- Laura Cantrell pays homage to Kitty Wells
- Muzik Mafia rides again
March 2011
- Buffalo Springfield announces tour dates
- Keith gets locked in for new tour
- Kenny Chesney in 3D goes DVD
- Kinky Friedman tours, talks
- Mel McDaniel dies at 68
- Swift surpasses 20M in sales
- Thompson Square, Aldean lead charts
- Aldean sings a Dirt Road Anthem
- Harris finds The Road to her "Hard Bargain"
- Krauss flies with new video
- Songwriter Harley Allen dies at 55
- The Decemberists, Elvis, Emmylou headline Newport Folk Festival
- Wii goes country
- Willie won't be singing in court
- Cleveland, Nelson, Grascals top new music
- Swift, McEntire, Brooks receive ACM honors
- Travis anniversary duets CD coming
- Jason Michael Carroll goes by the "Numbers"
- Johnny Reid wins Juno
- Shelton makes the rounds
- The Coal Porters return to U.S.
- Thompson Square reach the top
- Gaga goes country
- Songwriters invade NYC
- Thompson Square become wedding crashers
- Church to become a dad
- Currington, Evans lead Billboard charts
- Keith dances with the stars
- Swift extends U.S. tour
- The Grascals pay tribute to Andy Griffith
- Thompson visits TV
- Alan Jackson teams up with Capitol Records
- Gretchen Wilson plays NASCAR race
- Parton announces tour dates, new CD
- Dunn sets June release of solo disc
- Kelley, Shepherd top release list
- NewFound Road records live disc
- Paisley breaks record in Houston
- Swift joins Dr. Seuss movie
- Bentley releases new single today
- Conan hosts Thompson Square
- Craig Morgan honored for life saving efforts
- Currington assumes top spot
- Ralph Mooney dies at 82.
- Urban performs on TV next week
- Cyrus drops divorce
- Knee surgery sidelines Loretta Lynn
- Shania TV series starts in May
- Big & Rich rejoin to tour
- Carter's Chord sings at NASCAR
- Ferlin Husky dies at 85
- GAC, singers aid Japanese relief
- k.d. lang joins Stagecoach line-up
- Kip Moore debuts single
- Lee Brice partners with NRACountry
- Rascal Flatts gets festive
- Sara Evans, Aldean lead charts
- Evans is strong at the top
- John Oates reaches for his roots
- Church loves digital Gold
- CMA goes to school
- Martina McBride sings of Teenager Daughters
- Steve Martin, Larry Sparks deliver new music
- Urban premieres Without Now video
- Brice releases video
- Chesney gets shady
- Country singer Greg Allman?
- First Paltrow, now Aniston goes country
- Jason Isbell lays out tour
- Jewel escapes injury in accident
- Keith holds golf fundraiser
- Songwriter Todd Cerney dies
- "Family Man" Craig Campbell spreads the love
- Bentley rides on for Miracle
- Aaron Lewis, Aldean lead charts
- Paisley celebrates Opry anniversary
- Aaron Lewis crosses line to the top
- Church smokes Gold
- CMT's Next Superstar is...
- Eli Young Band goes crazy with new single, eyes new EP
- Randy Houser tour bus catches fire, no one injured
- Steve Martin, Steep Canyon Rangers slate tour dates
- Aldean parties into summer
- Cowsill, Johnston, Graham join forces
- Paisley, Zac Brown Band join CMA Music Festival shows
- Paltrow signs record deal
- Pride, Evans top releases
- Sierra Hull video debuts
- Mumford & Sons, Old Crow, Edward Sharpe hit the rails
- New Gloriana single out Tuesday
- Pokey LaFarge releases single with Jack White's label
- Swift starts European leg of Speak Now World Tour
- Hough lands film role with Cruise
- Montgomery Gentry likes Average Joe's
- Aldean, Lady Antebellum lead charts
- Emmylou Harris slates new CD
- Jewell's fourth CD coming in June
- Rascal Flatts welcomes Bieber, Bedingfield to TV special
- Steve Wariner teaches licks
- Swift names opening acts
- Town Mountain goes with Pinecastle
- Country Radio Hall inducts DJs
- Lady A makes the top 10
- McGraw, Hill honored with CRS humanitarian award
- Mississippi honors McAnally
- Nichols plays Aussie fest
- Caitlin Rose sets heavy touring schedule
- Drive-By Truckers play Conan
- Gloriana White House gig shown tonight
- Miss Willie Brown signs as label's first act
- New CDs drop from Williams, Miller, Lewis
- Otto leaves Warner
- Paisley announces new summer gigs
- Reba McEntire, Braddock, Shepard named to Country Music Hall of Fame
- Skaggs gives out Treasure Chest tour dates
- Zac Brown Band curates own fest
February 2011
- Aldean receives birthday present
- Country Hall of Fame inductees named Tuesday
- Deborah Allen signs record deal
- Paisley added to Opry All-Star Weekend
- Paisley wraps tour in Nashville
- Thompson Square plays Leno on Friday
- Lambert cancels Aussie tour, cites illness
- The Band Perry, Eric Church take ACM honors
- Avetts give away song
- Band of Heathens broadcast today from Mountain Stage
- Tuesday night Opry returns
- "Country Strong" coming out in April on DVD
- Mike & Molly show uses Josh Kelley song
- Sarah Darling develops "Bad Habit" with Gill
- Shelton, Lady A lead Billboard charts
- Waylon tribute CD show coming Saturday on GAC
- Young sells "Tomorrow"
- Gloriana become studio insiders
- John Cowan, Joan Osborne added to MerleFest
- Sarah Jarosz tells fans "Follow Me Down"
- Brantley Gilbert goes with Valory
- Guthrie/Irion, Gibsons, Cash are out with new discs
- Kimmel welcomes "Country Boy" Lewis
- Ray LaMontagne slates summer tour
- Urban gets deluxe with "Get Closer"
- Bellamys take more legal steps against Spears
- Crowe breaks arm getting off bus
- Lambert makes history
- Shelton scores third straight number one
- "Homebody" Eric Church gives it away
- Doobies ready Opry debut
- Blind Boys of Alabama change directions, go country (gospel)
- Stanley marks recording anniversary with two CDs
- Aldean, Bryan lead charts
- Justin Moore bus catches fire, no one hurt
- Old 97's extend tour
- Aldean makes top 10 with "My Kinda Party"
- As sure as it's spring, new Luke Bryan EP coming
- Charley Pride slates first CD in five years
- Felice Brothers sign with Fat Possum
- Montana rolls with Daytona 500
- Morlix tours behind Foley tribute CD
- Steve Martin visits Big Apple
- The Obamas ask Gloriana to White House
- Wilson helps couple live her song
- ACMs announce radio awards, Garner wins
- Aldean sings for Ellen, Conan
- Carll, Spaghetti, Jones top list of new CDs
- Chris Young rolls on
- James Dupré inks with Warner
- Nelson, Marsalis, Jones explore genius of Charles
- Paisley CD gets delayed
- Plant, Krauss, Lynn, Buffalo Springfield play Bonnaroo
- Sara Evans, LBT, Craig Campbell join Country Thunder Arizona
- The Band Perry finds Gold
- Urban visits GMA
- Adkins' "Brown Chicken Brown Cow" video released today
- Berg returns to recording after 14 years
- Church drops new single
- Grammy recap: Lady Antebellum wins big
- Luke Bryan scores yet one more number one
- Mickey Newbury discs being reissued
- Morgan rescues family in house fire
- New George Jones songs coming
- The Dirt Drifters debut with single
- Underwood co-hosts Opry weekend special in March
- Zac Brown Band debuts new video today
- Beatles take Grammy over Hank Williams
- Black Keys package takes Grammy over Chip Taylor
- Carolina Chocolate Drops win Traditional Folk Grammy
- Crazy Heart,"The Weary Kind" wins Grammys
- Diamond Rio takes gospel Grammy
- Lady A loses album of the year to The Arcade Fire
- Lady A wins Best Country Album
- Lady Antebellum takes record of the year
- Lady Gaga takes Grammy over Cash
- Lambert wins Grammy for female vocal performance
- Marty Stuart wins instrumental Grammy
- Mavis Staples takes Americana honor
- Need You Now wins song of the year
- Paisley drives Daytona 500 pace car
- Urban, Lady A, Loveless score Grammys
- Zac Brown Band, Alan Jackson win Grammy for collaboration
- Americana group hosts SXSW showcase
- Sara Evans grows "Stronger"
- Underwood gets "banned" by Canada station
- Avetts play at Grammys with Dylan, Mumford & Sons
- Chris Young, Aldean hold top spots
- Drive-By Truckers stream new CD tonight
- Marty Stuart jams on
- Morgan leaves BNA
- Have some Brice with your Mac
- McBride joins tribute to Aretha Franklin at Grammys
- Swift kicks off world tour today in Asia
- Telluride adds Steve Earle, Mumford & Sons, Old Crow
- Urban picks Owen to open shows
- Aldean leads country chart
- Lambert, Shelton, McEntire, Crow, Urban play CMA Music Fest
- Paisley performs at Dayton 500
- Robert Plant plays MerleFest
- Sugar Hill releases three Nickel Creek CDs on Record Day
- Bentley wraps recording in N.C.
- Branch takes a chance
- Carolina Chocolate Drops line-up changes
- Country Stampede completes line up
- Country Standard Time's Top 33 of 2010
- Dailey & Vincent clean up at bluegrass awards
- Walker Hayes won't wait
- Wilson does "The Talk," "Tonight"
- Young goes to number one again
- McCoury Band, Preservation Hall join forces
- Carter's Chord releases new single
- Swift, Chesney again lead charts
- Urban debuts new single
- Zac Brown becomes father again
- CMA Music Fest turns to Facebook to announce artists
- Lee Brice is a happy man
- Paltrow performs at Grammys
- Swift's "Speak Now' only country CD in top 10
- Swift, Lady A receive Juno nominations
- The Grascals, J.D. Crowe lead Joe Val Bluegrass Fest
- Easton Corbin's dream comes true with ACM nominations
- Jackson sells out start of '11 tour
- Jamey Johnson shares honor
- Lambert leads ACMs with 7 nominations
- Little Big Town holds breath
- Randy Rogers Band gets good news
- The JaneDear girls lead releases
- Trailer Choir becomes duo
January 2011
- Helms "Rambles at the Ryman"
- Lady Antebellum kicks off Super Bowl coverage
- Paisley sells out again (tickets-wise that is, in Canada)
- Revolution continues for Miranda Lambert
- Sugarland goes Platinum
- Swift celebrates at Hard Rock
- Brian Wright signs with Sugar Hill
- Carolina Chocolate Drops release EP
- Your Man stands tall on Idol
- Chesney, Swift lead charts
- Cushman joins Michael Cleveland
- Cyrus, Loveless team up to fight COPD
- Sugarland names James opening act
- Brandon Rhyder goes Live at Billy Bob's Texas
- Buffett released from hospital after fall from stage
- Charlie Louvin dies at 83
- Jake seeks closure with Taylor
- Kenny Chesney sells out Gillette, adds show
- Social Distortion makes top 5
- The Grascals team up with Gene Simmons to support troops
- "Country Strong" receives one Oscar nominatiion
- Blake Shelton is all about touring, again
- Currington plays Leno Thursday
- Lauderdale chats on Facebook
- Nichols, Jackson, McKenna dish out new CDs
- Spring break means new EP from Luke Bryan
- The Band Perry goes to the dogs
- Band of Heathens slate new CD
- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Cairo Gang release benefit single
- Engineer Jim Williamson dies
- Henley recording country disc
- Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper featured on radio shows
- Nichols releases new video
- Steve Earle preps new CD
- Wicks leaves RCA
- Americana group names executive board
- Country Thunder adds to Wisconsin line-up
- McBride sings anthem Sunday at AFC game
- Nichols performs at AFC game Sunday
- Alan Jackson, Sony split
- Bentley headlines Jager tour
- Chesney takes "Somewhere" to the top
- Infamous Stringdusters, Jarosz added to MerleFest
- Krauss and Union Stop fly with "Paper Airplane"
- Lydia Loveless signs with Bloodshot
- Marty Stuart slates UK dates
- Nelson headlines Country Throwdown 2011
- Ashton Shepherd leads CMA to Big Apple
- Big Country Records forms
- Keith Urban joins pre-Super Bowl festivities
- Swift's "Speak Now" will top country charts
- The Band Perry visits TV
- The Grascals top bluegrass chart
- Aldean parties to platinum
- New Amy Speace CD drops in March
- Not alone, Craig Morgan plays for U.S. troops
- Rascal Flatts feels special
- Rucker shoots This
- Sierra Hull reaches Daybreak
- Social Distortion, Sunny Sweeney release new music
- Alabama's Gentry plays Nashville
- Country acts raise money for St. Judes
- Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman become parents again
- Eight years later, Keith returns to Opry
- Ex-CDB guitarist dies
- NCIS show welcomes Lady Antebellum
- Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit rest
- Americana group holds weekend benefit with Hiatt, Crowell, Griffith
- Bellamys weigh legal action against Britney
- Brice, Niemann team up for tour
- Currington fulfills dream
- Swift, McGraw lead charts again
- Bellamy Brothers complain about Britney
- Cherryholmes announce they're done
- Chesney adds 41 shows
- DJ Dugg Collins dies
- First McGraw tour dates announced
- Shelton to co-host ACMs with Reba
- Swift sets record, but she won't be happy
- Jewel is pregnant
- Paisley, Underwood get special (CMOH) treatment
- Rascal Flatts launches leg two of tour
- Strait tour resumes Friday
- Chesney produces football show for ESPN
- Craig Campbell sets release of debut CD
- Faith Hill grows flowery
- Stanley has pacemaker installed
- Jones returns home from hospital
- Randy Montana releases new video
- Steel Magnolia added to CRS New Face show
- The Boot founder receives CMA award
- Webb Wilder to join Mississippi Hall of Fame
- Frankie Ballard makes Opry debut Friday
- George Jones hospitalized
- McGraw, Swift continue at the top
- Parton looks for a "Better Day"
- Steve Martin issues "Rare Bird Alert"
- Sugarland continues tour into '11
- The Harters open shows for Jackson
- JaneDear girls slate debut for February
- Lady A tops country CD sales in '10
- Paltrow hosts SNL
- Swift's "Speak Now" holds down top spot
- Swift, Gyllenhaal are no longer
- Washburn streams "City of Refuge"
- ACM Showcase show tickets go on sale
- Cadillac Sky goes on hiatus
- Kellie Pickler gets married
- Underwood wraps Play On tour
- Early ACM nominees named
- Justin Townes Earle plays Letterman, tour
- Miller readies new CD with Frisell, Ribot, Leisz
- New Ashton Shepherd song out Tuesday
- Sugarland's Nettles goes solo - for one show
- The Harters debut video airs today
- McMurtry goes live again
- Tim McGraw gets emotional with tour
- Twain gets married Saturday
December 2010
- Happy new year
- McGraw goes to first
- Jackson is in giving mood
- Joe Mullins CD premieres today on Sirius XM
- Strait owns top grossing '10 country tour
- Swift leads charts again
- Justin Townes Earle visits Letterman
- Kennedy Honors event honoring Haggard airs tonight
- Bentley becomes dad again
- Erelli, Andreassen win Passim Iguana grants
- Rimes gets engaged to Cibrian
- Early Johnny Cash recordings coming soon
- Skaggs opens "Treasure Chest" in Big Apple
- Swift, Reba lead charts
- Tumbledown has a song just for you
- Dolly Parton receives honor from Grammys group
- George Strait sees red
- Lonesome River Band member leaves band
- McEntire's Turn on the Radio goes to number 1
- Swift returns to number one
- Levon Helm hospitalized for one week
- Montgomery undergoes successful cancer surgery
- Rich, Fallon get Drunk on Christmas
- Twain confirms engagement
- Jackson goes Down Under
- Lovett, Hiatt tour together again
- Rascal Flatts teams up with Justin Bieber
- Shania Twain gets engaged
- Rascal Flatts welcomes another new member
- Colt Ford gets weird
- Josh Turner gets early Xmas present
- Americana fest coming in October
- Journey continues for Ty Herndon
- Rascal Flatts, Swift lead charts
- Stuart documentary short coming
- Gloriana works on new CD
- Jamey Johnson goes gold with "The Guitar Song"
- Lynne, Moorer visit NPR today
- Swift is second
- Crazy Heart tops Americana chart
- Rascal Flatts celebrates 10th anniversary at Opry
- The Band Perry has a million reasons for thanks
- Underwood, Country Home receive Golden Globe nominations
- Womack aids effort in Malawi
- Billboard names Aldean top male artist
- Joe Nichols goes great
- Judds visit Larry King on Tuesday
- Lee Brice's Love Like Crazy: most played country song
- Montana shows 1,000 Faces
- Peter Max commemorates Taylor Swift
- Tim McGraw plays it safe
- Sara Evans announces 2011 disc
- Charlie Sizemore keeps looking on new CD
- Urban tour pre-sale tickets starts today
- Corbin releases new video
- Lynn gets her rose
- Paisley announces new CD for April
- Rascal Flatts doesn't wait to claim top spot
- Sparkman leaves Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys
- The man in red visits John Rich
- LeAnn Rimes gets crazy
- Swift enjoys second best selling CD in U.S.
- Hank, Willie, Wills receive Grammy hall honors
- Hot Club of Cowtown extends tribute treatment to Bob Wills
- Taylor Swift goes triple platinum
- The Hag receives Kennedy Center Honor
- Those Darlins slate soph disc
- Urban plays Nightclub City
- Bill Anderson gets box treatment
- Swift adds LA, Boston tour dates
- The Grascals slate new CD on Cracker Barrel
- Underwood sweeps at American Country Awards
- Jimmy Wayne tells story on TV special
- New Krauss + Union Station CD coming
- Trace Adkins movie trailer out
- Turner visits Leno tonight
- Aaron Lewis releases video
- Armiger offers Best Song Ever
- IIIrd Tyme Out's Loudermilk signs with Mountain Fever
- Josh Turner mans up
- Messina streams charity gig
- Strait releases new CD, sort of
- The Band Perry notches first chart topper
- Tracy Montgomery: cancer of Eddie didn't lead to divorce filing
- DBT's Hood explains bagging tour, Cooley injured
- Eddie Montgomery's wife sues for divorce
- Gauthier, nine others elected to Americana board
- Lady Antebellum capture six Grammy nominations
- Swift names needtobreathe as tour opener
- Swift's "Speak Now" only country CD in top 10
- The Band Perry, Brice, Corbin, Niemann, Thompson play New Faces show
November 2010
- Drive-By Truckers cancel Europe shows
- Lucinda Williams records new CD, slates new shows
- Staind's Aaron Lewis goes country
- The Jayhawks announce January gigs
- Eldredge makes TV debut
- Josh Kelley releases three songs Tuesday
- Judds, Galante receive radio honors
- Paisley ends H2O World Tour
- Underwood postpones Michigan show tonight, cites illness
- Nelson busted again for pot
- Urban stays busy
- Eating with Carrie Underwood costs big bucks
- Lawrence leads annual turkey shindig
- Rascal Flatts leads country discs
- Chesney sells out, in eight minutes
- Jackson releases number ones
- Jackson to receive American Country Awards honor
- Taylor Swift Speak Now Tour set for '11
- Urban does turkey in Dallas
- CMA names new board
- Country Christmas is coming to TV
- Currington, Babyface change the world
- Former eastmountainsouth member moves slowly
- Gloriana hangs at Nightclub City
- Ralph Stanley stays busy
- Urban returns to the road
- Waylon tribute coming in '11
- Swift, Paisley, Lady A, Underwood win American Music Awards
- McGraw unveils new video
- Big & Rich play World's Greatest Country Music Festival
- Guthrie, Irion record new disc
- Eddie Montgomery diagnosed with prostate cancer
- Gerry House enters broadcasting hall of fame
- Kid Rock announces tour, Jamey Johnson opens
- Kix Brooks turns to acting
- McBride, Train meet at Crossroads
- Messina plays for Harvest Hands
- Parton slates new CD, tour
- Rascal Flatts gives gifts
- Taylor Swift gets special
- Zac Brown Band holds onto first
- Adkins to host American Country Awards
- Adkins visits Fox
- Lady Antebellum, Zac Brown headline Country Thunder
- Susan Boyle tops Swift in sales
- Aldean gets ready to party
- Cash to join Gospel Hall of Fame
- Lady Antebellum shows you can go home again
- Plant announces '11 tour
- Urban resorts to busking in Big Apple
- Urban, Rascal Flatts dish out new sounds
- Valerie Smith offers Xmas song
- Abigail Washburn drops new CD in January
- Keith, Rascal Flatts, Reba, Shelton perform at American Country Awards
- Lomax receives CMA honor
- Eddie Spaghetti goes with Bloodshot
- Little Big Town, Houser reveals songwriting M.O. on Today
- Thompson, Wesley, Smith visit Texas
- Urban readies TV gigs next week
- Caitlin Rose schedules March CD debut
- Jessica Lea Mayfield debut coming in '11
- Lambert plays Grammy Nominations Live gig
- Lambert, Paisley lead CMA winners
- Rascal Flatts resumes tour in '11
- Swift, Zac Brown Band lead charts
- Aldean parties on with new CD sales
- Lady Antebellum takes Vocal Group of the Year
- Lady Antebellum wins single of the year
- Lambert walks away with Album of the Year
- Lambert wins CMA Female Vocalist
- Lambert wins CMA for song of the year
- Lambert wins CMA for Video of the Year
- McAnally wins CMA for Musician of the Year
- Old 97's visit Leno, set tour
- Paisley wins CMA's Entertainer of the Year
- Shelton scores Male Vocalist award
- Shelton's "Hillbilly Bone" wins Musical Event honor
- Sugarland takes CMA for Country Duo
- Swift leads country one-two-three on chart
- Swift, Sherrill win BMI honors
- Zac Brown Band takes CMA for new artist
- CMAs sell out
- Darius Rucker plays with PGA Tour for charity
- Gloriana joins the Navy - for concerts
- Reba, Lynn tribute top new music
- Swift sets another record for sales
- The Hag resumes touring after illness
- Todd Snider goes live
- Twangfest announces 15th anniversary celebration
- Urban releases new songs starting Tuesday
- Benefit aids Charlie Louvin
- Drive-By Truckers put on "Go-Go Boots"
- Frankie Ballard debuts Lonely video
- Kristofferson, Tillis help Tootsie's celebrate 50 years
- Lady A's Hillary Scott takes SESAC honors
- McBride switches from RCA to Republic Nashville
- Otto's "Soldiers & Jesus" coming for free
- Randy Travis added to MerleFest
- Southern Culture on the Skids sets new CD
- Brooks slates nine shows aiding flood victims
- CMA awards available on-line
- Lawrence fries turkeys to help needy
- Rascal Flatts slates TV appearances
- Strait tours with McEntire, Womack in '11
- Strong sales continue for Swift
- Chesney returns to stadiums in '11
- Kid Rock performs at CMAs
- Swift tops charts, Rucker remains there
- Lorrie Morgan marries for the sixth time
- Secret Sisters take off for Letterman
- Swift's "Speak Now" sells more than 1M
- Williams' Family Tradition continues
- Aldean, Paisley release new music
- Bentley plays Good Morning America
- Joe Ely gets "Satisfied at Last"
- Aldean, Clarkson duet together at CMAs
- Country Radio Hall of Fame announces inductees
- Kristy Lee Cook inks with Broken Bow
- Swift's "Speak Now" sales could top 1M
- Underwood finds a place with Narnia
October 2010
- Randy and Elizabeth Travis divorce
- CMA Awards preview starts Saturday
- Doobies, Lovett, McCoury, Lauderdale lead MerleFest lineup
- Swift hangs with Dancing with the Stars
- Brett Eldredge makes Opry debut Friday
- Brooks plays Dec. benefit for flood victims
- CMA songwriters visit Library (of Congress)
- Judds host Thanksgiving show
- Lauderdale to receive honor
- New Carll disc due in February '11
- Sugarland, Rucker lead charts
- Billy Ray Cyrus files for divorce
- Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Underwood play Stagecoach 2011
- Lady A sings anthem at game two of World Series
- Lee Brice goes for Beautiful Every Time
- Rhonda Vincent receives bluegrass honor
- Sugarland's "The Incredible Machine" debuts at number one
- "Monster" sales for Taylor Swift's "Speak Now"?
- Aldean chats with fans tonight
- Diffie, Country Strong soundtrack lead new music
- Ingram checks into Acoustic Motel (tour)
- Johnson plays the part on new video
- McGraw, Rucker named to hand out CMA awards
- Rucker comes back to number one
- Urban "Gets Closer" by releasing new songs
- Don Williams, Jimmy Dean inducted into Country Hall of Fame
- Krauss parties with Louvin
- Mellencamp adds tour dates in '11
- Paisley goes on line with Letterman
- Parton brightens life for sick Michigan girl
- Swift starts world tour in Asia, pushes "Speak Now' in NY
- Today, Taylor Swift will "Speak Now"
- Shelton joins Opry
- Otto is ready for football Sunday
- Shelton, Lambert go gator hunting
- Worley cancer center opens in November
- Corbin, Rucker lead Billboard charts
- Paisley makes TV plans
- Sugarland's Nettles hosts CMA Country Xmas
- Taylor Swift gets Mean
- Cadillac Sky picks new lead singer, replacing SImpson
- Dailey & Vincent taps Fundis to produce new CD
- Gwyneth Paltrow sings at CMAs
- Jesse Dayton visits Texas dance halls
- Paisley, McBride Reba, Sugarland share Xmas spirit
- Shelton slates Twitterview Thursday
- Swift sells digital
- Aldean raises $132K for cancer research
- Paisley goes live
- Rascal Flatts wraps tour
- Sugarland releases new CD
- Swift performs at CMAs
- Blake Shelton hangs with Chelsea Handler
- Crow, Lambert honor Loretta Lynn at CMAs
- Lady A, Corbin lead awards nominations
- Paisley's H2O tour is history, renames it
- Songwriters hall inducts new members
- Wesley debuts on Opry
- Alan Jackson sells out third show Down Under
- Brad Paisley, author
- Swift slates week of CD release events
- Dave Evans announces retirement from heavy touring
- Keith, Turner lead Billboard charts
- Shelton starts headlining tour
- Sugarland becomes a diva
- Urban surprises Nashville
- James Wesley makes Opry debut
- Jarosz plans to release single in November
- Keith's "Bullets" packs a wallop on chart
- Lon Helton wins CMA honor again
- Loretta Lynn receives Nashville tribute
- Paisley, Little Big Town give free Gulf Shore concerts
- SteelDrivers play Mountain Stage
- Chip Taylor performs AMA dates
- Currington visits Ferguson Friday
- Dailey & Vincent raise $32K to help children
- McGraw number ones coming in November
- Rucker returns with soph country CD, The Band Perry debuts
- Steve Azar rings it up
- Tootsie's celebrates golden anniversary
- Turner tops chart again
- Kingsley hosts premiere of Swift's "Speak Now"
- Sugarland goes deluxe
- Justin Townes Earle completes addiction treatment, slates tour
- Soul singer Solomon Burke, recorded "Nashville," dies at 70
- Alan Jackson sells out Australia
- Marty Stuart Show readies thrid season
- Swift's ex-manager sues singer, parents
- The Judds go pink for Opry
- Brice claims gold
- Chesney registers chart double
- Josh Turner's video star bloodhound dies
- Lady A: 3 million reasons to be happy
- Swift wins suit against counterfeiters
- Swift's "Speak Now" sells
- All for the Hall does it again
- Armiger visits Early Show Saturday
- Chesney sells lots of "Whiskey"
- CMA donates $2.9M for flood relief, music education
- Elizabeth Cook releases video
- Paisley, Strait, Underwood, Urban added to CMA Awards
- Shelton gets "Loaded" with greatest hits
- Swift releases title track
- Adkins sings for Fallon
- BamaJam Records exec indicted
- Bryan concludes Farm tour
- Jason Aldean parties on in new video
- Keith, Avetts, Malo out with new music
- Lady A slates Xmas EP
- Otto backs AIDS walk
- The Grascals leave Rounder
- Uncle Kracker gets a little help on new single
- Underwood sells out Hollywood Bowl
- Dailey & Vincent take 4 IBMA awards
September 2010
- Ballard joins Uncle Kracker tour
- Bentley, Chesney, Lady A, Lambert, Shelton perform at CMAs
- Judds hop aboard Santa Train
- Opry returns home, Shelton receives invite
- Rascal Flatts announces fundraiser for fans
- Zac Brown Band gets to top of U.S. sales chart
- Chesney releases "Hemingway's Whiskey"
- Chuck Prophet launches fall tour
- Country returns to Opry tonight
- Hello World, it's Lady Antebellum
- Jamey Johnson gets Hollywood treatment
- McBride joins Nashville Symphony
- Turner talks about Opry reopening on Nightly News
- Chesney hangs at ESPN
- Swift names songs
- Wesley gets real with video
- Worley charity event raises $200K
- Earle goes to rehab, postpones tour
- Gloriana goes for the (digital) gold
- Jamey Johnson debuts at top of country chart
- Bryan gets the gold
- Earle disputes reports in A&B case
- Johnson debuts at the top
- Twain signs deal to write autobiography
- Joe Nichols takes on fifth grader
- Underwood video debuts Friday
- Zac Brown Band, Currington, Houser, Vincent releases new discs
- Bentley bike fundraiser nets $50K despite rain
- Justin Townes Earle arrested after dispute with club
- Katie Armiger video gets play
- Olsen hopes song is in good hands
- Montgomery Gentry leaves label
- Swift plans march on UN, well a concert anyway
- The Grascals sing Anthem at Titans game
- Zac Brown Band streams live Sunday from Red Rocks
- Earl Scruggs hospitalzed
- Lady A doubles on the chart
- Montgomery assumes new job
- Nashville honors Loretta Lynn
- Parton's musical opens in Nashville
- What happened to Rascal Flatts in Vegas won't stay there
- Good Morning America hosts Houser
- John Rich helps bring country to Big Apple
- Phil Leadbetter re-ups with Pinecastle
- Baby, hospital and new music for James Otto
- Hunter Hayes signs with Atlantic
- Jennette McCurdy channels fans' video skills
- Plant, Johnson SteelDrivers top busy release day
- Gord Bamford wins three Canadian awards
- Helm, LaMontagne tour together
- Lady A goes to the top for third straight time
- Walker Hayes sets to release digital EP
- Swift apparently responds to Kanye at VMAs
- Bingham wins two AMA awards
- Noam Pikelny takes Steve Martin prize
- New member joins Rascal Flatts
- Womack hosts ACM honors
- Americana music fest kicks off today
- Imus II coming in October with Johnson, Helm
- James Otto hospitalized
- Judds pay visit to Oprah Tuesday
- Kennedy Center honors The Hag
- Shelton joins Craig Ferguson Thursday
- Bentley goes up on the ridge in Big Apple
- Brice loves like crazy this record
- Chesney album premiere goes to Country Top 40
- Currington finds number one feels pretty good
- Faith Hill, the great great prognosticator, returns
- Jamey Johnson hangs in Big Apple
- Lynne, Moorer tour together for first time
- Olsen lives dream with weekly webisode
- Steel Magnolia delays debut release
- Trailer Choir "birthday" party leads to wedding
- Urban's All for the Hall gig returns
- Walker Hayes drops his "Pants"
- Atkins Cracker Barrel release out today
- Bentley's "Bad Angel" video premieres
- Gerry House hangs it up
- Jack White, Lucinda Williams added as AMA presenters
- Keith Urban gets closer with new music
- CMA music special doesn't draw big numbers
- Gloriana, Jane Dear Girls become Hot Topic
- Little Big Town, Shelton lead country charts
- Loretta Lynn receives musical tribute
- Pinecastle signs Nu-Blu
- Band Perry gains first nomination
- CMA hosts score nominations
- Lady A reacts
- Lambert leads CMAs with nine nominations
- Little Big Town goes number one with fourth CD
- Louvin returns to live action at AMAs
- Paste Magazine folds
- Shelton happy with CMA nominations
- Urban gives a massive thanks
August 2010
- Bingham, Kershaw release new CDs
- CMA announces ticket sale
- Currington sets record
- Gearing thinks about new single
- Lambert, Lady Antebellum score CMA nominations
- Paisley keeps fans drinking Water
- Rodriguez, Taylor join forces
- CMA Music Fest show: country's night to tweet
- Hag hangs with Dave
- James King released from hospital
- Pat Alger, Paul Davis named to Nashville hall
- Shelton continues number one run
- TelluRide is no longer, but lives on
- Trace Adkins gets definitive
- Taylor Swift's "Mine" video available here
- McClymonts open for Aldean tour
- Swift unveils "Mine" video tonight
- Adkins leads country song chart
- Bluegrasser James King hospitalized
- Gill plays free Florida gig
- McCurdy releases digital EP
- Musicians Hall goes on the road
- Paisley, Underwood host CMAs
- Shania Twain heating up again?
- Skaggs leads Inspirational Awards with four nominations
- Zac Brown becoming a father again
- Lady A secures 3 Top 10s on album chart
- Opry returns home
- Otto becomes a papa
- Jesse Lee does it like her mom
- Julia Roberts walks through
- Shelby Lynne gets merry
- Skaggs, Stuart, LBT lead new CDs
- Aldean parties on
- Bryan chalks up digital gold
- Cash's "Composed" makes NY Times book list
- Jamey Johnson plays the part
- Jimmy Wayne becomes author
- Olsen makes debut on Opry
- Parton returns to silver screen
- Lambert goes DVD route
- Marty Stuart slates new tour
- Shelton co-hosts Today Monday
- Brice gig streams Saturday
- Chance meeting leads to Trailer Choir single
- Chesney goes deluxe
- CMA names new head
- Jerry Lee Lewis plays Broadway
- Shelton registers chart double
- Washburn gives preview to Prelude
- Dailey & Vincent lead IBMAs with 10 nominations
- Shelton EP debuts in first
- Shelton makes top 10
- Taylor Swift unveils CD cover
- Bentley rides with Lambert, Niemann
- CMAs take two days to announce nominees
- Jones to join Texas Country Hall
- Lady A offers iTunes EP
- George Richey, Wynette's husband, dies
- Keith gives out a bonus
- Shelton is all about number one
- Lionel Richie joins All for the Hall fundraiser
- Old 97's set new CD for October
- Thompson Square opens for Aldean
- 2011 CMA tix on sale soon
- Chesney, Tweedy join Farm Aid 25
- McCurdy video debuts Saturday
- Zac Brown Band goes to number one
- Luke Bryan becomes a dad again
- Pinecastle label rises from the dead
- Stagecoach returns in 2011
- Taylor Swift makes history
- Dierks Bentley map leads to second single
- Lynne, Taylor, Snider join AMA fest
- Parton receives gospel honor
- Shelton celebrates six pack release with TV visits
- Bryan heads back to the farm
- Chesney disc contains 11 songs
- Hot Rize reunites for first tour in decade
- Houser releases song snippets
- Jamey Johnson single coming out today
- Rascal Flatts extends tour
- Swift wins three Teen Choice awards
- Swift, DMB kick off NFL season
- Jackson, Mellencamp receive Americana awards
- Niemann meets and greets the fans Tuesday
- Henley settles case against Cal. politician for illegal song use
- Louvin recovers from cancer surgery
- Lady A, Niemann lead charts
- Lady Antebellum sells out in London
- Stroud announces new label
- Aldean parties with new single today
- Joey + Rory ready "Album Number Two"
- Paisley goes great
- Swift song leaks out, gets released early
- Swift unveils Mine at CMA's Country Night to Rock TV special
- Troy Olsen makes Opry debut
- Farm Aid 25 coming to Milwaukee
- Louvin goes north
- Tanya Tucker sues producer
- Bryan visits Kimmel
- Bundy "Drops on By" with second single
- Messina joins Beck's "Restoring Honor" event
- Niemann scores first number one
- Justin Townes Earle cancels due to injury
July 2010
- Elvis gets the spotlight
- LeDoux charity event raises $35K
- McBride celebrates birthday with 4,000 friends
- Steve Earle to produce new Egge CD
- Montana debuts at Opry
- Rascal Flatts switches to Big Machine
- Underwood, Lady A first on Billboard charts
- Pedal steel player Ben Keith dies at 73
- Rootsy Sheryl Crow hits third
- Vincent sets release for indie CD
- Wynonna to receive Scaife award
- Actress Gwyneth Paltrow grows country strong
- James Otto shakes it on new CD
- Jimmy Wayne keeps on walking
- Josh Turner becoming father again
- Little Big Town gives The Reason Why
- Loretta tribute disc drops, Olson solo disc out
- Worley runs the Tennessee River again
- Shaver cancels summer tour dates
- Songwriter Margaret Ann Rich, Charlie's widow, dies
- Troy Olsen goes on the road
- Underwood gets a lucky 13th
- Country Music Hall honors Wynette
- Gill reaches the Crossroads
- Helm goes the live route
- Bentley to become a father again
- Bentley visits late night TV
- Niemann, Bryan lead charts
- Toby Keith reloads with "Bullets in the Gun"
- Lady A steps aside for Niemann
- All for the Hall guitar pull features Swift, Kristofferson, Harris
- Montana debuts on Opry
- Stealing Angels streams Sunday gig
- Swift speaks out about third CD
- Fred Carter Jr. dies Saturday at 76
- Nichols goes digital gold with Gimmie That Girl
- Skynyrd receives tribute in song
- Craig Morgan goes Cracker Barrel route
- Hank Jr. Rowdy Tour starts up in fall
- Little Big Town raises $55K for cancer
- Bryan, Lady A lead Billboard charts
- Hank Cochran ("I Fall to Pieces") dies at 74
- Harris, Avetts, Crowell, Cash, Griffin appear at Americana fest show
- Swift holds web chat about next CD
- Avetts go live
- Jerry Lee Lewis readies new CD
- Mellencamp talks, sings
- Taylor Swift becomes calendar girl
- Lambert to head CMT fall tour with Church, Kelley
- Montana gets a little help from father in law (aka Kyle Petty)
- Steel Magnolia slates release of CD
- Swift enjoys top grossing country tour
- Zac Brown Band announces new music
- Aldean extends Wide Open tour
- Bryan grabs number one spot
- Chesney releases new single
- CMA Songwriters Series returns to NYC with Jamey Johnson
- Hillman & Pedersen slate live disc
- Nail makes national baseball debut tonight
- Nick Lowe slates fall band tour
- Opry launches trivia challenge to raise money for flood relief
- Paisley draws 70K to lake gig
- Treehouse Records joins with Stroudavarious
- Carrie Underwood marries
- Band Perry slates October for CD debut
- Rosanne Cash gets "Composed"
- Chesney names Boys of Fall new single
- Lady A visits Regis & Kelly
- Lady A, Paisley stay first on charts
- Nelson's July 4th set available
- Nichols finds out The Shape I'm In
- Steve Earle receives Emmy nomination, tours with Electric Hot Tuna
- Chesney presents at ESPY awards
- Shelton announces six pack songs
- The Grascals film Last Train video
- Louvin fights cancer
- Traller Choir releases debut CD
- Watson Twins launch August tour
- Chesney plays Vegas show on internet
- Lilith Tour cancels 10 more shows
- Sam Bush keynotes IBMA
- Cyrus rocks
- Music vets form new label
- Paisley, Lady Antebellum lead charts
June 2010
- Brooks & Dunn restart tour July 16, add dates
- Buddy Miller becomes Country Music Hall artist in residence
- Gill sets Xmas tour with Grant
- Louvin, Carll, Exene, Malo top AMA performers
- Old 97's start touring tonight, offer EP
- Rascal Flatts getting bigger
- Colt Ford goes for Chicken and Buscuits in Twilight-themed video
- Escovedo, Webb offer new music today
- Justin Townes Earle gets the blues
- McBride loves her Cheerios
- I See Hawks in L.A. mourns Byrd's passing
- Little Big Town rides for a cure
- Paisley rises to the top with Water
- Sugarland plans October CD release
- Lady A appears on Ellen special
- Foo Fighters axe man explores country
- Malo goes Tex-Mex route
- McCoury receives national honor
- Lambert, Lady A post number ones yet again
- Strait tribute show coming June 27
- Underwood wraps up part one of tour
- Lambert continues at the top with House
- McCurdy celebrates birthday
- Pickler engaged to songwriter
- Rascal Flatts works to prevent youth suicide
- Stringdusters host the Festy Experience
- Bill Anderson bus destroyed in fire, no one hurt
- Brooks & Dunn postpone tour, Dunn put on voice rest
- Chesney goes for "Hemingway's Whiskey" in September
- Gloriana gets ready for Long Hot Summer
- Lawrence friend found
- McClinton, Parnell join Texas Songwriters hall
- Mellencamp joins Dylan tour
- Rascal Flatts starts new tour
- 46 arrested at Paisley concert
- Allan gets off on new video
- CDB releases July 4 digital singles
- Indie label shuts down
- Troy Olsen debuts video today
- Aussie promoter receives CMA honor
- Country songwriters visit Big Apple
- Daniels to host July 4 special
- Eaglesmith visits Letterman Friday
- Lambert, Lady Antebellum once again top charts
- Owen treated for prostate cancer
- Rascal Flatts gets its star
- Anyone seen Tracy Lawrence's English bulldog?
- Chesney reaches Crossroads with Steve Miller
- Deer Tick visits Letterman tonight
- Lady A leads Bentley, barely
- Nashville songwriters aid flood victims
- Shelby Lynne extends tour
- Skynyrd gets tribute treatment
- Abigail Washburn readies new CD
- NFL tough guy tries country
- Punch Brothers, Welch offer new discs
- Skaggs gets inspired with "Mosaic"
- SteelDrivers return with disc in September
- Stuart jam raises $30K for flood relief
- CMA fest attendance up 16 percent
- Little Big Town announces new music
- Plant disc coming in September
- Heat causes health emergencies at CMA Music Fest
- Jimmy Dean dies at 81
- Swift sings and signs
- 40 treated at CMA Music Festival
- Bentley visits CBS Sunday Morning
- Those Darlins announce September tour
- CMA Music Fest kicks into gear
- Joe Nichols streams CMT fan club party
- Judds Last Encore tour starts in November
- Lambert, Lady Antebellum lead charts
- McGraw hosts CMA Music Fest TV special
- Shelton sets August release of second six pack
- Swift unleashes phone app
- Urban, Avetts play Grammy benefit
- Chesney songwriters pay tribute
- Ely, Blasters, Travelin' McCourys top FitzGerald's fest
- Lady Antebellum leads country charts
- Octone Records goes country
- Parade kicks off CMA Music Fest
- Rucker raises $49K for St. Jude
- Toby Keith jons Boston July 4th celebration
- Underwood wins two CMT awards
- Band Perry offers new single
- Bentley, Jewel release new music
- Gloriana awards prize
- Jakob Dylan extends tour
- Jamey Johnson plans 2-CD set for September
- OfficeMax contributes to flood relief via Lady A gig
- ACM donates $1M to relief effort
- Buddy Miller records with Ribot, Frissell
- Kid Rock plays Friday CMA show
- Hough releases single to radio
- Isobel Campbell preps new CD
- Keith Urban chats Monday
- Lost Trailers call it a day
- The Grascals ride the train
- CMAs coming in November
- Dolly doantes $250K for flood relief
- Lady Antebellum added to comedy lineup
- Lambert, Lady A lead charts
- Los Lobos bags Arizona gig citing immigration law
- Tim O'Brien looks to release new CD
- Be Good Tanya's Ford tour, releases CD
- Paisley gets his own guitar
- Strait sets fall tour dates
- Taylor Swift hosts CMA meet and greet marathon
- Toby Keith fundraiser takes in $600K
- Dixie Chicks offer new CD, not new material
- Randy Rogers Band readies first single
- Underwood, Gill, Nichols play ball
May 2010
- Country Throwdown cancels shows
- The Hag visits CBS Sunday Morning
- Chris Young, Lady A again top charts
- What Willie did!
- Chris LeDoux statue comes to Wyoming
- Lady A helps flood relief efforts
- Lady A tops country charts
- Fogerty's "Centerfield" returns to the line up
- Prine, Wynonna, Scott put out new music
- Alan Jackson honors fallen miners
- Bundy makes Opry debut
- Hall of Fame inducts Husky, Sherrill
- Paisley kicks off H2O World Tour
- Eagles cancel two shows with Dixie Chicks, Urban
- Cross Canadian Ragweed takes a break
- Hank III readies new CD
- Lady A announces headlining tour
- Recording Academy aids musicians following flood
- Bentley tapes Ryman show for TV
- Bret Michaels readmitted to hospital, has hole in heart
- Chris Young pays tribute on EP
- Chris Young, Lady A continue topping charts
- Guitars of the Stars auction coming in June
- Steep Canyon Rangers visit A Prairie Home Companion
- Underwood visits American Idol on finale
- DBT film new videos
- Diffie returns with bluegrass CD in August
- Dolly helps flood effort
- Gauthier, Crooked Still lead releases
- Those Darlins postpone Aussie tour due to accident
- CMA honors Brit
- Houser preps soph disc
- Nashville telethon raises $1.5M for flood relief
- Nichols visits TV
- ACM money goes to flood relief
- Lady Antebellum poised again to be number one
- Opry preserves flood items
- AMA voting starts Monday
- Brooks & Dunn, Reba visit Dave
- Jenny Gill gets married
- Webisode focuses on David Nail
- Young, Lady A lead Billboard charts
- Pickler spins tunes
- Rawlings tops AMA with four nominatons
- Stone River Boys announce tour
- Toby Keith adds to auction
- Eric Church goes soft
- Lambert, Shelton get engaged
- Swift to receive Hal David Starlight Award
- Swift, Lady A, Underwood, Aldean grab 3 CMT nominations each
- Troy Olsen debuts today
- Bundy visits Chelsea Tuesday
- iCarly's Jennette McCurdy picks first single
- The Grascals, Loveless play Mountain Stage
- Young scores another number one
- President speaks with Paisley on floods
- Hall of Fame reopens today
- CMA Fest donates to flood relief
- Country Music Hall of Fame remains closed Thursday
- Jackson, Paisley play Opry this weekend
- Nichols, Lady Antebellum lead country charts
- Paisley, Urban lose gear in flood
- Peggi Young records soph CD
- Rich defends self against Wright claims
- Swift doantes $500K for flood relief
- Country Music Hall plans to reopen later this week
- Crow readies new disc, dates
- Gill, Urban, Krauss help with flood relief
- Jimmy Wayne backs California foster bill
- Lexington, Ky. to get playground
- Luke Bryan visits Tonight Show
- Opry show goes on
- Willie Nelson cancels shows
- Bret Michaels released from hospital
- Chely Wright announces she's gay
- Court Yard Hounds debut, lead new releases
- Nichols remains at the top
- Opryland, Hall of Fame shut by floods
- BamaJam sells single tickets
- Big Country Bluegrass member killed
- Country Music Hall damaged by floods
- Flooding forces Opry move
- Keith Urban is In
- Bad weather fells two Bentley gigs
- Chesney teams with Hooters
- MerleFest draws big crowds
April 2010
- Alan Jackson gives concert proceeds to dead miners' families
- Chesney goes for the gold
- Keith visits troops overseas
- The Hag sells
- Case, Black Lilies picked for AMA fest
- Emerson Drive expands
- Hough added to CMA line-up
- Justin Townes Earle visits A Prairie Home Companion
- Mayer/Urban play together in Washington
- Nichols Broadway debut in "Pure Country" may be out
- Nichols, Lady Antebellum lead charts
- Opry celebrates 85th birthday
- Big Country Bluegrass signs with Rebel
- Gill brings the love
- Junior Sisk, Ramblers Choice return in June
- Lady A enjoys second best selling CD
- McBride bags European dates
- New Trace Adkins single coming next week
- Nichols ropes in deal
- Strait breaks record
- Bentley visits Leno tonight
- Carpenter, Messina, Lonestar release new CDs
- Chesney film pulls in $1M plus
- Chris Young, CDB manager join Stars For Stripes board
- Peter Wolf announces May tour
- Students get their Taylor Swift hug
- Court Yard Hounds disc available for listening
- Gimmie number one, says Joe Nichols
- Kinky heads west - after 20 years
- Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" gives 3 million reasons to smile
- Paisley gets in the water
- Swift shoots for Sony
- Wilson urges Predators to "play harder"
- Wynonna finds "Love Heals"
- Bret Michaels remains in ICU
- Americana, First Amendment Center sponsor on-line auction
- Dixie Chicks' Maines wins West Memphis Three court battle
- RImes records with Gill
- Shania Twain goes Idol
- Taylor Swift - comic book hero?
- Johnny Cash visual tribute launches on line
- Kenny Chesney in 3D opens
- Lady A registers chart double
- Rascal Flatts visits American Idol
- Rascal Flatts, LBT visit Churchill Downs
- Worley does military tour
- Faith Hill guests on Project Runway finale
- Lady Antebellum moves up to third
- Stars come out for Brooks & Dunn tribute
- Willie Nelson bonus track out today
- Band Perry gives it away
- Gretchen Wilson makes last minute appearance on Ellen
- Lambert visits Craig Ferguson tonight
- ACM ratings decline from '09
- Chatham County Line slates new disc
- Great American Taxi offers free download to aid miners
- Rascal Flatts launches summer tour
- Academy of Country Music awards on display tonight
- ACM entertainer of the year: Carrie Underwood
- ACM single of year goes to Lady A
- ACMs on Country Standard Time and Twitter tonight!
- Blake Shelton wins ACM for Vocal Event
- Bryan takes home Top New Artist honor
- Lady A takes best new group honor
- Lady A wins Song of Year at ACMs
- Lambert takes album of year honor
- Lambert wins ACM for Video of the Year
- Lambert wins top female vocalist
- Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum take ACM honors, Underwood wins biggest
- Montgomery Gentry wins Humanitarian Award
- Paisley takes ACM male vocalist honor
- Top vocal duo goes to Brooks & Dunn
- Chesney movie premieres April 17 in Vegas
- Randy Houser streams keep live Saturday
- Underwood plays on this fall
- Alabama's Jeff Cook announces new CD
- Colt Ford slates busy release week
- Disney chops roster - Buxton gone, Covington stays
- Gloriana shoots video
- Lady A scores chart double
- Sony BMG names new head
- The Judds kick off CMA Fest
- Concord Music Group buys Rounder
- For Rounder, this time was the right time
- Rascal Flatts' label to close
- Sony BMG label head to depart
- Stone River Boys map debut
- Americana sampler available on Record Store Day
- Bundy tops list of new CDs
- McGraw, Scruggs land movie roles
- Bryan, West become celebrity apprentices
- Dixie Chicks get best of treatment
- Former CMA head leads new network
- Hank Williams receives Pulitzer Prize
- James Otto rides with Toby Keith on tour
- Lady Antebellum reaches the top with "American Honey"
- Shaver found not guilty of shooting
- Anthony Smith offers new single
- Chesney throws preview film party for fans
- The Price Is Right goes country
- Wynette gets Hall of Fame treatment
- Bice records new CD
- Heavy Trash continues tour
- Ingram readies Early Show gig
- Moorer, Earle welcome son
- Shania Twain gets real
- Zac Brown goes to number one with Highway 20 Ride
- Bentley sets June release for bluegrass disc
- Hank Cochran undergoes surgery
- Jewel plans acoustic tour
- Lady A tops country charts, bests AJ
- McCready video placed on hold
- Rodney Atkins gets cheesy this summer
- Strait slates fall tour
- Peter Wolf, Decemberists side project debut
- Peter Wolf performs on Fallon
- Gary Nichols named SteelDrivers' new singer
- Marty Stuart returns home
- Pat Green goes live
- BamaJam Music fest stages battle of the bands
- Chris Stapleton leaves The SteelDrivers
- Hank Williams, Robbins, Carters movies available
- McCready challenges sex tape authenticity
- Underwood moves to top, Lady A stays there
March 2010
- Adkins, Shelton, Turner join CMA field
- Belmont University honors Vince Gill
- Jewel performs benefits for Project Clean Water
- Palin plans to use old interview of Toby Keith
- Jackson launches new CD
- Swift wins a few more awards
- Carpenter receives honor for free speech efforts
- Krauss records with Union Station, no Plant CD this year
- McGraw plans disc with Hill, new label
- Robert Plant records, tours again, but noto with Krauss
- Corbin, Lady A reach top
- Exene Cervenka tours for free
- Rascal Flatts visits Ellen
- Emerson Drive looks to get bigger
- Helm, Prine, Martin, Avetts slated for Newport festival
- Lady A once again at number 1, but sales fall below 100K
- This one's for the McBride fans
- Chesney visits Oprah
- Chesney, Reba, McGraw, Underwood perform at ACMs
- McCready, Summerton Road debut new discs
- Roger Miller widow wins suit
- Corbin scores first number one
- Messina plans three EPs this year
- Paisley slates H2O tour
- The Band Perry coming out with EP
- Urban announces summer tour
- Carrie Underwood driver killed in Saturday crash
- Bentley expands ride to Seattle
- Shelton makes his Ryman headlining debut
- Court Yard Hounds debut at SXSW
- Jason Boland keeps it live
- Lady A, Shelton lead Billboard charts
- Bob Schneider cleans up at Austin Music Awards
- Lady A stays number one - on the country chart
- Loveless, Whitley, Wariner to join Kentucky Music Hall
- Taylor Swift receives honor
- DBT, Graham Parker, Jessica Harp lead new releases
- Gloriana, Joey + Rory, Luke Bryan win ACM awards
- Mindy McCready sees "The View" in her future
- Planning underway for Farm Aid 25
- Shelton sells out Ryman headlining debut
- The Eagles, Chicks, Urban announce summer stadium tour
- Bentley preps Up on the Ridge Tour
- Chip Taylor sings for Cactus Cafe
- Lauderdale teams up with Robert Hunter, write CD together
- Mandolinist Sierra Hull releases teaching video
- Shelton takes Bone to the top
- Guitar stolen from Justin Moore
- Moore gets his guitar back
- Capitol forms new label, signs Troy Olsen
- Grascals, Keen, Wilson join BamaJam
- James Otto gets groovy
- Kate and Kacey exit Big Machine
- Strait, Swift, Lady A, Paisley join Brooks & Dunn tribute show
- Zac Brown Band goes live with DVD/CD
- Currington, Lady Antebellum capture top spots
- Elizabeth Cook announces new CD
- Lambert readies tour
- Rascal Flatts ends tour
- Cash teams with NPR for special concert
- Drive-By Truckers visit Dave, Fallon
- Jamey Johnson, Macs Davis and McAnally win awards
- Lady A returns to number one
- Nashville to host National Folk Festival
- Shelton may need a six pack thanks to his debut
- Alan Jackson previews "Freight Train"
- Allan releases new disc.
- Laura Bell Bundy aches and shakes in April
- Rascal Flatts' Rooney becoming father again
- Rucker hosts concert for St. Jude Hospital
- Underwood's Play On Tour ready to get going
- As threatened, Bentley goes bluegrass
- Currington assumes number one post
- Little Big Town grows bigger
- The taxman cometh for Dwight Yoakam
- Bingham, Burnett take Oscar
- Bridges wins Best Actor Oscar for "Crazy Heart"
- Paisley hospitalized after fall on stage, suffers bruise
- Sparklehorse's lead singer dies
- Inspirational disc with Strait, Urban, McGraw coming
- Justin Townes Earle plans ahead for third disc
- McBride, Court Yard Hounds join Lilith Fair
- Hill, Isaak perform at Rock Hall induction ceremony
- Jackson, McGraw return to CMA Music Festival
- Josh Kelley, Randy Montana open Lady A Ryman shows
- Lady A, Turner continue leading charts
- Cash sells 54K, but not enough to top Lady A
- Chesney goes from Ryman to Lower Broadway bar with Steve Miller
- Claire Lynch Band gets new guitarist
- Jessica Harp quits recording for writing
- Joe Mullins signs with Rebel Records
- Kimmel goes Urban
- Steve Martin resumes touring
- The Grascals all set for fourth disc, out March 30
- Bentley Tillis, Lauderdale host WSM shows
- Blake Shelton celebrates a busy Tuesday
- Lady Antebellum receives seven ACM nominations
- Lambert excited about six ACM nominations
- Lambert, Chesney, Brooks & Dunn participate in ACM events
- Producers, musicians receive ACM nominations
- Randy Houser keeps marching with Boots On
- Rucker can't believe it
- Shelton, Corbin, Gokey offer new music
- Womack picks up another nomination
- Bucky Covington dishes out new single
- Clapton calls on Gill
- Luke Bryan goes on spring break
- Swift guitar goes for $16K in auction
February 2010
- Country fan spending declines
- Krauss, Martin, Carpenter play on Rounder anniversary DVD
- Trace Adkins receives humanitarian award
- Underwood, Bryan play ball
- Brooks & Dunn announce final show
- Bryan to become father again
- Lady A, Turner lead Billboard charts
- Rascal Flatts celebrates decade
- Turner visits Jimmy Kimmel Monday
- Zac Brown Band, Marty Stuart, Travis Tritt added to BamaJam
- Broadcasters receive induction
- Lady A has a million reasons to be happy
- New label starts in Nashville
- Underwood guests on "How I Met Your Mother" Monday
- Vincent leaves Rounder Records
- Big Machine signs comedienne Melissa Peterman
- Cash, Thompson, Buxton lead new music
- Dean, Husky, Sherrill, Williams make Country Music Hall of Fame
- Tift Merritt's new CD coming in May
- Brooks goes on and on, and so does his schedule
- Carrie Underwood goes for the dogs
- Gloriana learn the world is theirs
- Jackson's "Freight Train" tour gets ready to leave the station
- Josh Thompson goes home again
- PBS snags Rounder anniversary concert
- Turner stays first again with Why Don't We Just Dance
- Whitney Duncan goes digital
- Dixie Chicks show up at Olympics
- Aldean lives for Crazy Town
- Buxton sets record with Window
- Lady A unveils American Honey video
- Dale Hawkins of Susie Q fame dies at 73
- Emily West launches webisode
- Jason Michael Carroll, Arista split
- Krauss, Zac Brown play Hangout Beach Music fest
- Lady A, Reba, Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Urban play CMA Music Fest
- Stone River Boys sign with Cow Island
- Turner, Lady A lead charts
- Faith Hill judges Project Runway finale
- Mindy McCready decries release of new CD
- Chesney, Miller to tape Crossroads
- Easton Corbin hit available for free
- Indie acts lead charge of new CDs
- Lady A visits Oprah
- Mindy McCready plots comeback with new CD
- Nelson plays Soundstage
- Sade sends Lady Antebellum to second
- Shelby Lynne announces solo gigs
- Brandon Rhyder releases new single
- Paisley reaches the top
- Church faces tough first week of tour due to snow
- Tyler Dickerson releases debut single
- Adkins band members hurt in crash, none seriously
- Leadbetter leaves Grasstowne
- Bryan debuts iheartradio show Monday
- Gill plays at Clapton's Crossroads festival
- Joey+Rory look to soph CD, Zac Brown Band tour
- Lady A, Turner lead charts
- Lambert announces headlining tour
- Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Gloriana contribute to Olympics soundtrack
- Reckless Kelly, Cross Canadian tour together
- Swift guitar goes up for bid
- Chely Wright signs with Vanguard, new CD coming
- Chesney's "Greatetst Hits II" ain't what it used to be
- Dailey & VIncent's Statlers tribute reaches number one
- Dixie Chicks side band, Court Yard Hounds, debuts at SXSW
- Eli Young Band switches labels
- Gretchen Wilson sings anthem at NBA all-star game
- Keith announces tour dates
- Lady Antebellum stays first for a second week
- The Hag goes to Vanguard
- Worley goes for the Cribs
- Avetts, Fogerty, Zac Brown, Johnson play Bonnaroo
- Dylan, Mellencamp sing at the White House
- Emily West likes blue sky
- Ferguson gives Nail red light
- Greetings from Taylor Swift
- Turner, Reckless Kelly, Moorer dish out new music
- Underwood's Play On tour plays on a little longer
- Aldean continues at the top
- Bryan premieres new video
- Gretchen Wilson returns to the clubs
- Josh Ritter slates new CD for May
- No Justice signs with Texas indie label
- Rascal Flatts spreads the love
- Wariner, Thompson Square release CDs along with Waylon tribute
- The Judds reunite again
- Josh Turner visits Letterman
- Levon Helm documentary coming to SXSW
- Malo kicks off Americana series
- Underwood tells fan - she's performing at CMA Music Festival
- Kelly Clarkson takes on Swift's label honcho
- Kix Brooks among ACM radio finalists
- Label head defends Swift
- Lady Antebellum tops CD chart, Aldean leads song chart
- Sugarland unveils '10 tour
- Underwood lands in pictures
- Eric Church opens up his house
- Krauss + Union Station play Telluride
- Lady A tops charts with 480K sold
- "Crazy Heart" song gets Oscar nomination
- Nail turns home for new single
- Opry returns to its House
- Sugarland, Zac Brown, Hough cut We are the World
- Underwood unveils new video
- Urban's dream comes true
- Bluegrass label Pinecastle Records closes
- Canadian DJ wins CMA international award
- No rest for Taylor Swift
- Paisley sells out first stadium show
- Toby Keith goes back to the road
- Travis gives a big thanks for Grammy win
January 2010
- Scott Brown - country music fan?
- Swift saves best for last
- Swift takes Best Country Album Grammy
- Taylor Swift wins two early Grammys
- Zac Brown Band wins Best New Artist Grammy
- Eilen Jewell returns to studio with Lorett Lynn covers band
- Rucker goes Today tomorrow
- Carrie Underwood sings Anthem at Super Bowl
- Chesney's No Shoes Radio heads to Miami
- Strait postpones two shows due to bad weather
- Sugarland's Nettles teams with Elton
- Swift, Aldean lead Billboard charts
- Willie Nelson's ex-wife dies
- Wynonna goes Early on Saturday
- Johnson, Bryan, Young top ACM nominations
- Kevin Fowler signs with Lyric Street
- Rascal Flatts recognizes songwriters
- Aldean scores yet another chart topper
- Burns & Poe go to radio with new single
- Drive-By Truckers announce tour, give away song
- Jack Ingram goes Free
- Lady A drops second disc
- The Decemberist's off-shoot group CD coming in April
- Bentley records CD in NC, and you can watch
- Chesney goes Vegas
- Hank Jr. launches Rowdy Friends Tour
- Justin Townes Earle release duet song
- Blake Shelton sets song list for EP
- Lady A readies TV drive
- Aaron Rogers becomes country singer
- Lonestar returns to action
- Luke Bryan goes digital gold
- McGraw, Swift lead charts
- Swift, Urban participate in Haiti relief concert Friday
- Thompson Square signs with Stoney Creek
- "Crazy Heart" wins two awards
- Katie Armiger puts out new single from upcoming CD
- Kenny Chesney readies new song
- Loretta Lynn, Harold Bradley honored by Recording Academy
- McGraw raises his Southern Voice to the top
- Paisley headlines New England Country Fest
- Professional Bull Riders team with Gary Allan
- Sarah Buxton opens Adkins/McBride tour
- Aldean restarts Wide Open tour Friday
- Charlie Daniels suffers mild stroke
- Ex-Wreckers Jessica Harp goes to radio with single
- Messina sets new CD, tour
- Movie soundtrack, Blue Highway offer new CDs
- The Del-Lords live again
- AMA showcase submissions now accepted
- Chicks duo records as Court Yard Hounds
- Colt Ford slated for Opry debut
- New Taylor Swift song available
- Singer Carl Smith dies at 82
- Lady A sells out (the Ryman)
- Willie Nelson signs with Rounder
- Easton Corbin debut coming in March
- Jeff Bridges to present a Grammy
- O'Connor pays tribute to Grappelli
- Reba, Swift yet again top charts
- Shelby Lynne opts for the "Tears, Lies, and Alibis"
- The Band Perry record CD
- Alan Jackson rolls on with "Freight Train"
- Bentley spearheads CMA Songwriters Series
- Broadway actress giddies on up
- Johnny Cash's final "American" CD coming in February
- Mary Chapin Carpenter looks for Miracles in April
- Orbison becomes a Hollywood Star
- Tippin becomes spokesperson for military aviation group
- Trace Adkins switches labels
- Warner, NASCAR team join forces
- Zac Brown Band plays MerleFest
- Country sales dip, but Swift helps
- Deer Tick finishing CD, tours in spring
- Hubbard, Kohrs, Waylon top first CDs of '10
- Jackson serves up new single
- Luke Bryan visits Craig Ferguson
- Maguire, Robison record new music
- McGraw movie starts filming this week
- Pieta Brown opens Knopfler tour
- Rascal Flatts relaunches tour
- Academy of Country Music awards coming in April
- Bellamys release new single
- Cash makes appearances to support "The List"
- Chesney, McGraw, Urban play Houston Rodeo
- Gatlins return to TV
- New Grascals CD coming in March
- Phil Vassar tours across the pond
- Ryan Bingham plays Letterman tonight
- Lady Antebellum plays the Ryman
- Rounder anniversary concert goes to CD
- Blake Shelton goes for the Hillbilly Bone
- Faith Hill signs with new management
- Hank Jr.,Lambert join BamaJam line-up
- McEntire, Swift yet again lead charts
- Paisley relaunches American Saturday NIght tour
- Swift sets digital record
- Taylor Swift goes 3-D on tour
- "How I Met Your Mother" lands Underwood
- And the number one selling album of 2009 was....
- Country sales drop 5 percent in '10
- Dailey & Vincent pay tribute to The Statlers
- Gloriana visits Ellen
- Lee Brice offers new single
- Swift wins People's Choice award
- Swift, Lady A, Sugarland show up on Grammys CD
- Swift, Underwood, Urban win at People's Choice
- Wanda Jackson shakes all over
- Cagle greatest hits coming
- Eric Church tours hard, again
- Lady Antebellum unveils song list
- Zac Brown Band performs at Grammys
- BLEVE donates CDs for slain Washington police
- Country Crossing slates opening
- Jimmy Wayne kicks off long walk for homeless
- Kershaw returns with new single
- Swift appears likely to have top selling CD of '09
- Doyle Lawson plans gospel DVD
December 2009
- Chesney: top grossing country tour of '09
- McEntire, Swift lead charts
- Swift's "Fearless' top selling CD of '09 - for now
- Guitars autographed by Paisley, Swift, Nelson stolen
- Seth Avett solo discs available again
- Shania Twain runs with the torch
- Buxton CD slated for February release
- Taylor Swift: the top news story of 2009
- Covington counts down with Hard rock
- Daniels goes the way of the gecko
- New Johnny Cash CD on the horizon?
- Vassar releases new video
- Swift shows up again on Saturday Night Live
- Reba grabs top spot
- Gokey CD coming in March '10
- Rimes reaches divorce settlement
- Barry Scott & Second Wind visit Stained Glass Bluegrass
- Jimmy Wayne walks America for homeless
- Jones talks about He Stopped Loving Her Today
- Swift, Lady Antebellum perform at Grammys
- Zac Brown Band debuts new video
- CMA head search starts in January
- Decemberists members form bluegrass side project
- It's Gretchen Wilson Day for singer's adult ed efforts
- Underwood gets engaged
- Academy of Country Music alters categories
- Is Taylor Swift a Supergirl?
- kd lang goes "truly western"
- Keith label joins with Universal South Records
- Levon Helm becomes Spectacle on Elvis show
- Nelson's On the Road Lyrics sell at AMA auction
- Special Consensus preps for 35th anniversary
- Americana conference announced for September '10
- Americana lyrics auction closes soon
- Faith Hill gets a lot of play
- Lady Antebellum goes platinum with Need You Now
- Lovell Sisters call it quits as a trio
- Swift, Lady A still top charts
- Amber Digby makes Opry debut
- Away in a Manger gets Flatts treatment
- Boyle challanges Swift
- Brooks sues hometown hospital over donation
- Opry Live coming Saturday
- Underwood gets in Harmony
- Country Music Hall of Fame plans changes
- Deer Tick works on new CD
- McCoury undergoes gall bladder surgery
- Phil Vassar releases new CD
- Josh Turner goes deluxe for "Haywire"
- Justin Townes Earle puts out '09's best CD
- Lady A's reign continues on Billboard
- Lady Antebellum likes American Honey
- Nitty Gritty's Mr. Bojangles makes Grammy Hall of Fame
- Rucker makes History on GMA
- Swift turns 20
- Wilson talks it up with Hazel Smith
- Duncan gets rid of Versace gown (for a good cause)
- Love And Theft looks to Dancing in Circles
- Drive-By Truckers sign new deal, slate new CD for March
- Lillith Fair returns with Lambert, Harris, Sugarland
- Lynn, Bradley win Grammy awards
- Swift, Lady Antebellum lead Billboard charts
- Underwood announces Play On tour
- Urban arrives in Oz to start tour
- Bottle Rockets release live 7-inch single
- Jason Aldean resumes tour in '10
- Tiger gets the Cledus treatment
- Chesney closes out Country Thunder
- CMA donates $1M for music education
- Lady Antebellum sings National Anthem (twice)
- Wariner releases Xmas single
- Aldean goes for the gold
- Bentley becomes first country act on Lopez, sings with Griffin
- Rascal Flatts does CSI
- Sammy Hagar receives a little surprise
- Brooks & Dunn ride The Last Rodeo
- Rascal Flatts drops digital holiday gift
- Strait, Womack, Currington express Grammy thanks
- Billy Joe Shaver sets tour dates, plans new CD
- Chesney humbled by Grammy nomination
- Cyrus, Nail participate in New York tree lighting.
- McGraw leads off Soundstage series
- Swift regains top spot on chart, Lady A stays there
- Those Darlins can't stay home
- Urban happy with Grammy nominations
- Wilson wants a hippo for Xmas
- Burns and Poe record debut CD
- Clinch Mountain Boy Jack Cooke dies
- CMA head to leave
- Currington sets up foundation to help Central America
- McGraw to star with Paltrow in film about country singer
- Swift grabs 8 Grammy nominations, second to Beyonce
- Crowell, Malo, Miller elected to Americana board
- Great American Taxi readies second CD
- Messina performs at Rockefeller Center
- Wilson goes 360 on CMT program
November 2009
- Covington, Sawyer Brown, Love And Theft bring the cheer
- Keith concludes sold-out Euroepean tour
- Rosanne Cash visits Craig Ferguson
- Rucker hosts year-end special
- Urban loses ARIA to Cassar-Daley
- Lady A, Underwood lead country charts
- Reckless Kelly sets '10 for new CD
- Vassar releases CD ahead of schedule
- Lady Antebellum releases CD cover art
- Steve Martin offers "The Crow" deluxe style
- Sugarland visits Oprah
- Worley recovers from neck surgery
- Jimmy Wayne is out with new CD; Aldean goes live
- Opry show with Underwood, McBride streams on MySpace
- Ricochet releases holiday song
- Banjo player Allen Shelton dies
- Berklee College launches American Roots Program
- Billy Ray Cyrus, performs, stars in new movie
- Lance Smith leaves CMT
- Marley's Ghost returns in '10 with Jack Clement-produced CD
- Nichols goes live for video
- Parton enters retail business
- Taylor Swift takes home biggest AMA prize, wins five awards
- Bluegrass band Summertown Road readies debut
- Broken Bow signs James Wesley
- CMT Crossroads pairs Buffett, Zac Brown Band
- Tomlinson slates digital EP release
- Wynonna visits Oprah
- Country acts play Vegas rodeo
- Josh Kelley signs with Universal, goes country
- Underwood, Lady Antebellum go number one
- Band Perry trio makes Opry debut
- Bentley plans 2 releases in '10, including bluegrass CD
- Burns, Poe,Cowboy Troy do the Cowboy Stomp
- CMAs boost sales
- Kenny Chesney concert footage goes live
- Lee Ann Womack added to Strait tour
- Covington offers live EP; Bloodshot issues Escovedo, Old 97's LPs
- Faith Hill splits from manager
- Monsters of Folk shoot Say Please video
- Radney Fosters releases Angel Flight video
- Sugarland plays D.C. Xmas show
- Swift launches a new career
- Underwood's Temporary Home video out
- Joy Kills Sorrow signs with Signature Sounds
- Label hires two Music City vets as co-presidents
- Lady A now is number one again
- Faith Hill's "Waitin' All Day"
- Justin Townes Earle slates '10 touring
- Gretchen Wilson plays hard for NASCAR
- Joey + Rory offer Xmas single
- Swift headlines at home of Patriots
- BBC producer receives CMA international honor
- Swift cleans up at CMAs
- Underwood scores a chart triple
- CMAs: Lady A takes vocal group
- Jamey Johnson takes CMA Song of the Year with "In Color"
- Mandrell accepts Hall of Fame induction
- McAnally wins musician of the year award
- McGraw, Urban perform at CMAs
- Paisley takes male vocalist of the year
- Paisley, Urban score vocal event award
- Rucker wins new artist of year at CMAs
- Sugarland performs at Grammy Nominations gig
- Sugarland thinks about new CD
- Sugarland win vocal duo of the year
- Swift takes female vocalist at CMAs
- Swift wins album of the year
- Swift wins musical video award
- Swift wins songwriting honor, Kristofferson recognized
- Swift wins the big one - entertainer of the year
- Underwood to debut at the top
- CMAs are sold out
- Dolly, Big Kenny offer new music
- Underwood hits the top, again
- Chesney goes to the movies
- Rosanne Cash takes "The List" to TV
- Taylor Swift opens CMAs
- Roger Daltrey - country music fan?
- Bentley met Fort Hood hero at July 4 show
- Rascal Flatts ends first leg of tour
- The Boxmasters do The Chipmunks
- Jerry Douglas sets tour dates
- Swift, Zac Brown Band lead charts
- Wynonna launches holiday tour
- Bingham visits Letterman tonight
- Blue Highway collection drops in January
- Jessi Colter joins Bentley fundraiser
- Swift to regain top spot on chart
- Carolwood Records closes
- Carrie Underwood tops releases
- Covington releases video of Gotta Be Somebody
- Currington participates in Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
- Parton, Daniels, Tubb, Kid Rock to join Music City Walk of Fame
- Academy of Country Music seeks nominations
- Neil Young archive live CD coming
- Six named to country radio, DJ Hall of Fame
- Strait sets tour with Reba opening
- Toby Keith releases tribute as single, video
- Vans Warped Tour organizers announced Country Throwdown Tour
October 2009
- Band of Heathens appears on Austin City Limits
- Chesney radio goes to iTunes
- Kid Rock joins Zac Brown Band at Georgia fundraiser
- McGraw debuts in first
- Grand Ole Opry closes season this weekend before returning home
- Justin Moore becoming a father
- Paisley, Underwood perform on Good Morning America
- Steve Martin heads to MerleFest
- Thomas now singing National Anthem
- Zac Brown Band moves to first
- Bama Jam tickets go on sale Friday
- Earnhardt to present at CMA Awards
- Keni Thomas sings at World Series
- McCoury, Joe NIchols top new releases
- Watson Twins plan for February '10 CD release
- Former Drifting Cowboys member dies
- Jo Dee Messina slates release of new single
- Paisley ends first part of tour
- Shelton readies new single
- Taylor Swift's "Fearless Platinum" drops today
- Garth Brooks sells out
- Carrie Underwood plays on in New York
- DiPiero joins songwriters' line-up
- Owen to host CMA preview webisode
- Taylor Swift sells out fast
- Aaron Watson offers new single
- Alan Jackson Collection coming
- Chet Atkins' widow dies
- Elvis, Avetts lead MerleFest 2010
- McGraw announces 2010 Southern Voice tour
- Urban, Swift lead country charts
- Avett Brothers member forms side group
- Chesney headlines two 2010 fests
- Danielle Peck has her day
- Urban ends tour in a cab
- Houser plays pre-CMA songwriters gig
- McGraw, Lovett release new CDs
- Tim McGraw gets help from Greg Allman
- Urban tops song charts
- Dave Matthews joins Chesney at CMAs
- For Jo Dee Messina, the number to call is...
- Gloriana debuts new video
- Joe Nichols takes off with Colt Ford
- Nitty gritty of NSAI Hall of Fame honors
- Songwriters group honors Keith, Swift
- Swift plays Timberlake benefit show
- Paisley goes "Nashville"
- Paisley surprises lucky fan
- Ralph Stanley autobiography out today
- Underwood debuts CD on Kingley's Country Top 40
- Brooks goes solo in Vegas
- Commander Cody takes American Routes
- Garth Brooks is coming back
- McGraw joins CMA line-up
- Swift to host SNL in November
- All for the Hall fundraising show returning in 2010
- Broken Bow gets Wise
- Steve Martin goes for the dogs, calls for all videos
- Taylor Swift's "Fearless' gets enhanced
- Toby Keith sells most country albums
- Viva Las Vegas for Brooks?
- Zac Brown Band slates Atlanta theatre benefit
- Carrie Underwood headlines TV special
- Justin Moore goes to Backwoods
- Kix Brooks wins broadcasting award
- Rascal Flatts debuts on Tonight Show
- Sugarland offers first holiday disc; McMurtry goes live again
- Christie's launches country music auction
- Joe Nichols serves Gimmie That Girl
- McGraw launches "Southern Voice" on TV today
- Swift visits Oprah
- Houser visits Fox & Friends: Weekend
- Jones appears on CBS Sunday Morning
- Junior Sisk readies second Rebel disc
- New old Hank Williams music sees light of day
- Lambert, Keith lead country charts
- Six Waylon Jennings releases to be reissued
- Swift extends tour to 2010
- Urban,Brooks & Dunn, Keith, Sugarland headline Stagecoach 2010
- Farm Tour starts for Luke Bryan
- Lady A sets 2010 CD release date
- Lambert debuts in first with "Revolution"
- Live John Denver DVDs out next week
- Paisley extends American Saturday Night tour
- Record exec, producer Shelby Singleton dies
- B.J. Thomas works get reissued
- Cash, Keith, Bryan offer new music
- Dierks Bentley fundraiser enlists 3 Doors Down members
- eastmountainsouth returns for first gigs in five years
- Michael Martin Murphey signs again with Rural Rhythm
- Adkins, McBride set tour together
- Anderson, Caitlin & Will leave SonyBMG
- Chesney, Underwood, Swift, Strait, Urban named to perform at CMAs
- Gloriana sees how far they can go with new single
- Old 97s, Escovedo get reissue treatment
- Randy Houser starts Whistlin' Dixie
- Richey plans 2010 release for CD
- CMT premieres nine videos this weekend
- Dierks Bentley fundraiser heads west
- Emmylou Harris to receive honorary doctorate from Berklee
- Gretchen Wilson starts Redneck Records, new single coming
- Josh Turner CD delayed until 2010
- The nitty gritty of the IBMAs
- Chris Young joins Charlie Daniels Xmas gig
- Dailey & Vincent win big at IBMAs
- Haggard closes new Moore documentary
- Second Harvest Nashville gig raises $5K
- Toby Keith scores number one song
- Underwood's Cowboy Casanova makes its mark
September 2009
- Bentley plays O'Brien, Ferguson
- Bucky Covington releases new single
- David Nail blogs baseball
- Fiddler player Amy Farris dead at 40
- John Grady heads ACM board
- Isaak hosts Country Music Hall of Fame benefit
- Lambert, Avetts, Loveless, Kristofferson offer new music
- Rosanne Cash goes live with "The List"
- Vocal rest for Levon Helm continues
- Luke Bryan promotes new CD
- The Grascals gain sponsorship
- Underwood, Robin Roberts help Opry fight breast cancer
- Gill, Harris play Leno Wednesday
- Creedence Clearwater Revival hits rise again
- Jewel starts African water project
- Gayle to receive Hollywood star
- Justin Moore scores a chart topper
- Messina works on new CD
- Sam Bush Band, Sarah Jarosz play Prairie Home Saturday
- Trace Adkins video coming next week
- Country Hall of Fame looks to expand
- Jason Aldean goes for The Truth
- Pat Green splits with BNA
- Rising stars salute ACM winners
- Wariner to join Thumbpickers Hall of Fame
- Cowboy Casanova out today as a digital single
- ACM raises $750K for charity from Strait concert
- Guy Clark, NGDB, Adam Steffey CDs drop today
- Paisley makes TV rounds
- Americana conference suffers dip
- BLVE resumes promoting Milsap single
- Chesney's Sun City Carnival comes to a close
- Moore reaches the top
- Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inducts Underwood
- Rockie Lynne becomes an admiral
- Little Nashville Opry burns to ground
- Bucky Covington goes back home
- Capitol receives order against small Nashville label over Milsap song
- Scotland Barr passes away at 43
- Americana conference underway
- Brooks & Dunn debut in first
- Buddy, Julie Miller win big at Americana awards
- Rascal Flatts slates limited edition greatest hits package
- Robert Earl Keen readies new CD
- Rosanne Cash goes digital with sort of new EP
- Thad Cockrell returns after six years
- Chesney to take off 2010
- Farrar sets tour dates with Death Cab's Gibbard
- Fogerty to receive Americana achievement award
- Kanye apologizes to Taylor Swift
- Lady A premieres new video
- Martina McBride, Miley Cyrus join VH1 Divas
- Nichols performs at ceremony honoring Dali Lama
- WPA, Ricky Skaggs drop new discs
- Wynonna rides the Santa Train
- Chesney beams NYC show over Internet
- Eric Church soldiers on despite broken foot
- Gretchen Wilson receives honor for literacy efforts
- Kanye West apologizes again to Swift on Leno
- Luke Bryan announces first headlining tour
- Rascal Flatts plays on "America's Got Talent"
- Taylor Swift takes high road against Kanye West
- John Fogerty plans November tour
- Johnny Reid cleans up at Canadian CMAs
- Kanye West ruins Taylor Swift's VMA win
- Otto teams up with ACC for football
- Swift looks to The View
- Aldean, Swift lead country charts
- Paisley, Urban CMA count increases due to error
- Tim McGraw kicks off NFL season
- Chesney looks to entertainer award number five
- Kix Brooks snags CMA radio nomination
- Lady A enjoys two nominations
- Mandrell joins steel guitar hall
- Melissa Etheridge to play LA Country Music Hall fundraiser
- Paisley grabs seven CMA nominations
- Randy Houser honored by CMA nomination
- Taylor Swift has 10 million reasons to be happy
- Urban inspired by CMA nominations
- Brooks & Dunn lead new releases
- Levitan to receive Americana award
- Luke Bryan goes back to the farm
- Oprah hosts Rascal Flatts
- Pieta Brown sings with Red House
- Urban pledges Country Hall benefit for 2010
- Del McCoury readies new CD
- George Jones teams up with Cracker Barrel
- McEntire hits the TV circuit
- McEntire, Aldean continue topping Billboard country charts
- Carrie Underwood sings of the Cowboy Casanova
- Guy Clark sets tour dates
- Love And Theft debuts top 10
- McGraw serves up music for Agassi benefit
- Zac Brown Band's "The Foundation" launches again
- Alecia Nugent releases new video
- Fogerty delves into past for new release
- Rimes calls it quits for her marriage
August 2009
- Brad Paisley added to Country Music Hall concert
- Grascals, Walker to appear on Muscular Dystrophy event
- Sugarland announces first holiday disc
- Underwood releases "Play On" cover
- Urban gigs for Country Music Hall
- Calling all Tanya Tucker lookalikes
- Opry goes pink
- Country Music Hall of Fame releases 2010 calendar
- Ingram gets with the sauce
- Reba, Aldean lead country charts
- Rucker, Womack to announce CMA nominations
- Sideman Larry Knechtel dies at 69
- Aldean takes over the top from Swift
- Chesney debuts new song for college football
- Houser joins Angelou on radio interview today
- Jack Ingram sets world record
- Luke Bryan hosts America's Opry Weekend Number One Party
- McEntire goes to number one with "Keep on Loving You"
- Mike Herrera's Tumbledown releases new video
- Paisley, Underwood to host CMAs
- Rosanne Cash receives interview treatment at AMA
- Hill waits all day for Sunday night again
- Jack Ingram goes for the record
- Jerry Lee Lewis offers new country single
- Bill Emerson and band sign with Rural Rhythm
- Gloriana plays GMA, Today Friday
- Opry Country Classics returns
- Rosanne Cash kicks off "The List" at Country Music Hall
- Rucker celebrates platinum, number one single
- Shhh! Willie Nelson plays secret show
- Earle, Flatlanders Isbell to appear at Americana awards show
- Kohrs puts out new single from next CD
- Love And Theft readies for debut week
- Strait leads all music in sales
- Strait goes to the top
- Underwood forms foundation to help hometown
- Alan Jackson plays Scandanavia
- Ex-Confederate Railroad member dies
- Heavy Trash duo returns
- Reba McEntire tops new releases
- Setzer offers new songs
- Yonder Mountain String Band opens DMB dates
- Dierks Bentley rides again
- Griffth, NGDB, Malo, Greencards join Americana line-up
- Alison Krauss band members lead IBMAs with nine nominations
- Les Paul dies at 94
- New Toby Keith video premieres Friday
- Sugarland tops U.S. in sales, Swift leads country song chart
- Tracy Lawrence hospitalized
- Country Hall honors Cindy Walker
- Sugarland goes number one
- Tim McGraw helps kick off NFL season
- McMurtry plans second live set
- Strait, Justin Moorer offer new CDs
- Brooks & Dunn announce they will split
- Buddy Jewell signs with new label
- Corb Lund sets New West debut for late September
- Heat fells Dylan, Mellencamp, Nelson show Tuesday
- Josh Turner debuts single Wednesday
- Lady A releases new single
- Underwood elected to Okie Music Hall of Fame
- Steel Magnolia wins Can You Duet?
- Bill Anderson returns to recording studio
- Luke Bryan calls all video experts
- Malo slates NPR appearance
- Americana group honors Jim Rooney
- Currington cancels four shows following deadly concert accident
- Lambert starts a "Revolution"
- Rucker scores third number one single
- Bryan set to release CD in October
- Lee Ann Womack to host ACM Honors
- Satellite official joins Chesney radio venture
- Katie Armiger releases new single
- Lorrie Morgan goes Broadway
- Rodney Atkins wants to hear your worst 15 Minutes
- Steve Martin plans tour
- Zac Brown Band offers live EP starting today
- CMA Songwriters Series goes on road to LA, Chicago
- Costner feels "lucky to be alive" following deadly stage collapse
- Currington says he'll make full recovery following deadly concert accident
- Billy Lee Riley dies at 75
- Person killed in accident at country jamboree; Currington, Costner escape serious injury
July 2009
- Easton Corbin releases first single
- Holly Williams get engaged
- Peters streams concert to mark greatest hits release
- Currington, Swift stay first on charts
- Gretchen Wilson looks to launch own label
- Hough joins American Red Cross cabinet
- Nanci Griffith tours to support "The Loving Kind"
- Band Hero snags Swift
- Charlie Cushman undergoes triple bypass
- Dolly's "9 to 5" gets pink slip
- Gloriana debut available for listening today
- Johnny Reid leads Canadian country nominations with six
- Maria Muldaur returns to jug band roots
- W.P.A., Marty Stuart, CCR play Americana showcases
- Chesney finds I'm Alive for singledom
- Gretchen Wilson splits with SonyNashville
- Kieran Kane offers new disc
- Kristofferson plans September CD release
- McEntire offers new single
- Michelle Branch returns with solo disc
- Randy Kohrs Band equipment stolen
- Tim McGraw's "Southern Voice" coming Oct. 20
- Womack lives for Today on Wednesday
- Americana awards show tix on sale
- Band of Heathens preps new CD
- Blaine Larsen offers new single on new label
- Boats keep coming for Alan Jackson fest
- CDB finds "It It All Begins With a Song"
- Chesney's No Shirts concept goes to radio
- McGraw stops gig, fan told to leave
- Rimes, husband separate
- Jason Aldean live DVD coming late August
- Joey + Rory create web site to say good bye
- New Rider's founder John Dawson dies
- Tracy Lawrence to become San Antonio citizen
- Vassar disc gets delayed
- Currington, Swift lead country charts
- McDaniel sent to rehab facility following heart attack
- Shelby Lynne signs up for Army Wives
- Wilco, Johnson join Farm Aid
- Chesney rushes to defend Sugarland over cancellations
- Gary Allan stalker gets restraining order
- Swift looks ahead
- CMA Music Fest performers added for TV special
- Country comes to the White House
- Currington should be glad People are Crazy
- Rascal Flatts offers new material
- Ailment causes Haggard to cancel five shows
- Ingram looks towards his "Big Dreams & High Hopes"
- Krauss, Paisley, Pride show at White House be streamed live
- Nettles vocal problems stymie Sugarland concert
- Rascal Flatts sells out Wrigley Field
- Sam Bush receives Americana honor
- Church plays Late Night Monday
- Jamey Johnson releases new single
- Holly Williams gets Weekend Edition spotlight
- Jewel dreams on
- Lady Antebellum, Paisley lead charts
- Nelson, Young, Mellencamp spearhead Farm Aid 2009
- Anthony Smith slates first single for new label
- Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver play Mountain Stage
- Paisley, Krauss are going to the White House
- Terri Clark shows "Road Rage"
- Bentley goes ballad route on new single
- Bentley, Bingham participate in free Atlanta concert for Samsung series
- Big Kenny shoots video, offers free download
- Chesney makes top 10 in Pollstar concert report
- Keith slates CD for October release
- Mark Wills gives away song
- Lady Antebellum runs to top of chart
- Stroudavarious imprint signs Blackberry Smoke
- Willie Nelson celebrates a decade on Lost Highway
- Mickey Gilley recovers from back surgery following fall
- Asleep at the Wheel to receive AMA award
- Loudon Wainwright III previews Poole disc at Country Hall
- Carrie Underwood headlines salute to troops show
- Chesney plays Big Apple on Good Morning America in August
- Flatlanders play Letterman
- Paisley, Bentley lead charts
- "Mountain Soul II" coming from Patty Loveless
- Austin band porterdavis readies new CD
- Bellamys, Bacons found Guilty of the Crime
- Love And Theft overcomes obstacles, shoots video
- Paisley's "American Saturday Night" to debut at top
- George Strait goes for "Twang" in August
- Rosanne Cash covers "The List"
- Son Volt offers new CD; Jayhawks anthology drops
- Teen actress Jennette McCurdy signs with Capitol Nashville
- Terri Clark tries on Gypsy Boots
- Third release from Carrie Underwood coming Nov. 3
- Houser breaks into top 10 with Boots On
- Nashville songwriters invade NYC
- Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins contribute to Cy Coleman tribute
- Rascal Flatts goes for Today
- Aquapalooza line-up grows
- Holly Williams debuts at Opry tonight
- Hannah Montana, Dierks Bentley lead charts
- Keith event raises $500K for cancer charity
- Whitney Duncan goes Skinny Dippin'
- Aaron Watson goes live for next release
- David Nail debut coming in August
- Old Crow Medicine Show goes live for DVD
June 2009
- Josh Turner becomes a father again
- Keith unveils new single Wednesday
- Lou Reid plans CD for July
- McClinton readies first disc in four years
- Paisley, Helm top new releases
- Terri Clark plans September CD release
- Tim McGraw's "Southern Voice" coming this fall
- Ash Bowers signs with Stoney Creek
- Avett Brothers release CD jacket art
- Bentley's Sideways goes to number one
- CMA Music Festival TV special expands to three hours
- Lady A's I Run to You gets Now! treatment
- Ray Price undergoes surgery
- Sugarland releases new single, Joey
- Gloriana debuts new live video for The Way It Goes
- Little Big Town cancer ride raises $52K
- Vassar goes to video with Bobbi With An I
- Yonder Mountain tours this summer
- Chesney, Hannah Montana lead Billboard country chart
- Guitarist Tim Krekel dies at 58
- Jamie O'Neal debuts new single at Opry
- My Morning Jacket's Jim James plans Harrison tribute EP
- Ralph Stanley band members injured in car accident
- Accidental overdose kills Bennett
- Avett Brothers offer free single
- Jason Aldean goes gold with "Wide Open"
- Charlie Robison, Patterson Hood lead new releases
- Joey + Rory enter celebrity dining biz
- Montgomery Gentry join Grand Ole Opry
- Alan Jackson plays boating concert
- CMT Crossroads with Adams, Aldean coming Friday
- Sugarland hosts first TV special
- Chesney becomes Ambassador of Rock
- Def Leppard singer backs Taylor Swift performance
- Chesney, Hannah Montana top Billboard charts
- Jackson receives Hollywood Star
- Steve Martin gigs on A Prairie Home Companion
- Trailer Choir rocks the beer gut
- Paisley wins three CMT awards
- Rascal Flatts tastes Unstoppable Breakfast
- Sugarland goes "Live on the Inside" on CD/DVD
- Yet another number one from Kenny Chesney with Out Last Night
- Blaine Larsen signs with new label
- CMA Music Fest attendance increases
- Holly Williams backs new CD
- McBride raises $72K for YMCA
- Shooter Jennings gets engaged from stage
- Weather forces Jimmy Wayne cancellation
- CMA Music Fest tonight at LP Field with CST & Twitter
- Hannah Montana, Paisley lead country charts
- Producer Barry Beckett dies
- Storms cut Rascal Flatts show at CMA Fest
- George Jones, Stanleys make National Recording Registry
- Jack Ingram shoots video Friday
- Lambert starts a "Revolution" in September
- Americana gets Grammy recognition
- Brady Seals back with new song, CD
- Drive-By Truckers plan two summer releases
- Judds museum opens, temporarily
- Lawrence, Worley release new CDs
- Swift, T-Pain rap together
- Kenny Chesney closes CMA Music Fest
- Lorrie Morgan celebrates 25 years on Opry
- Love And Theft slates August CD release date
- Sarah Buxton releases new single
- Fogerty completes Blue Ridge Rangers CD
- James Hand records new CD
- New Nashville label starts with Sunny Sweeney aboard
- The Parks go digital route
- Daddy - Kimbrough, Womack - hold live video chat today
- Gloriana sets August for CD release
- McBride helps throw a wedding
- McCoury boys receive hometown honor
- Paisley, Hannah Montana top charts
- Bentley expands Miles & Music For Kids fundraiser
- IBMA tickets go on sale
- Performing Songwriter, R&R magazines to close
- Strait's "Troubadour" goes platinum
- Atkins, Daniels to enter Musicians Hall of Fame
- Costello, Lawson alum release CDs, Charles reissued
- Country Hall spotlights Underwood
- Gretchen Wilson kicks off CMA Festival
- Lambert raises $120K for Humane Society
- X's Exene Cervenka discloses she has MS
- Amy LaVere gets MTV treatment
- Dierks Bentley releases live EP Tuesday
- Megan Mullins video debuts
- Trent Tomlinson offers new single
- Woody Guthrie box set coming in August
May 2009
- John Rich defends self against criminal charges
- Dailey & Vincent film video
- Allan stalker appears in court
- New George Strait single coming Thursday
- Alvin debuts new band, Gaffney gets tribute treatment
- Montgomery Gentry to join Opry
- Urban's Kiss A Girl video debuts today
- Wynonna tops Nashville July 4 celebration
- Ex-Wilco member Bennett dies
- Wynonna, Thornton, Martin go Hollywood
- Fogerty's Blue Ridge Rangers return
- Drive-By Truckers exit New West
- Hannah Montana, It Happens stay number one
- James Otto offers new single
- Jason Michael Carroll goes for the Cubbies
- Old 97s hit the road in June
- Willie Nelson becomes 2009 Texas State Musician
- Arty Hill recording Hank tribute
- Buddy Miller grabs five AMA nominations
- Jason Aldean goes for the Big Green Tractor
- McBride on Bachelorette Monday
- Chesney, Bradley, IIIrd Tyme Out, Red Stick Ramblers serve up new music
- Porter Wagoner fishing tourney set
- Ray Charles gets reissue treatment
- Steve Martin performs on American Idol finale
- Chesney returns to Dallas without rain
- Clark, Mandrell, McCoy join Country Music Hall of Fame
- Jamie O'Neal sets new single
- Montgomery Gentry teams with Cracker Barrel on CD
- Reba McEntire returns to CMA Music Festival
- Shea Fisher signs with Stroudavarious
- Keith Urban goes Idol
- Rock Band goes country
- Worley goes to hospital, finishes show
- Carrie Underwood goes Home Sweet Home on Idol
- For Sugarland, It Happens
- Lauderdale, Miller helm Americana awards show
- Americana conference sees registration boost despite economy
- Chesney plays Austin City Limits
- John Carter Cash, Stanley, Stuart merge Appalachian, Uzbek music
- Little Big Town rides for a cure
- David Nail fans get Red Light
- Earle, McCoury lead new releases
- Those Darlins tour, announce CD song list
- Brooks & Dunn, Bentley receive international honor
- CMAs coming Nov. 11
- Paisley play the Garden
- Stephen Bruton dies at 60
- Taylor Swift visits Oprah
- Underwood combats malaria in Africa
- Underwood tells everybody so - she's number one, again
- Alvin plans tour with Guilty Women
- Chesney "cuts down" touring by adding 3 shows
- Megan Mullins releases debut single for new label
- Urban begins tour
- Aldean moves to first, Hannah stays there
- CDB tours Iraq, Kuwait
- Currington plays Southern 500
- Flatlanders plan European dates
- George Strait returns to Houston
- Jack Ingram sings anthem at Mavs game
- Josh Turner, Little Big Town play CMA Music Festival
- Lonesome River Band lead singer slates solo debut
- Lou Reid signs with Rural Rhythm
- Sugarland's Nettles put on vocal rest
- CMT Camp Nashville postponed
- Earle readies "Townes" tour
- Stevie Walker signs with 1720
- Willie Nelson's stage manager dies
- Lawson, Oberst top new releases
- Paisley plays GMA Summer Concert Series
- Stagecoach draws 100K
- Stroudavarious Records names president
- Welch reissues coming
- Adam Gregory to star in "WWJD" movie
- Chesney returns to Dallas May 17
- Eli Young Band plays Leno
- Gracin splits with Lyric Street, releases song
- Jason Aldean goes digital gold with She's Country
- Lambert's Dead Flowers goes to radio
- Martina McBride performs on The Bachelorette
- John Anderson keyboardist dies
- Rain stops Chesney in Dallas
- LaVere tours, releases EP
- Vans Warped tour owner plans country tour
April 2009
- Hannah Montana, Atkins lead Billboard country charts
- Twangfest coming with Escovedo, Robison, Borges, Isbell, Hot Club
- Aldean hosts cancer cure gig at CMA Fest
- Chesney debuts Out Last Night on MySpace
- Gretchen Wilson to testify before Congress on education
- Hough, Wicks get Dancing boot
- Tim McGraw switches management
- Vern Gosdin dies at 74
- Americana Music Association showcase application deadline looms
- Chesney tapes Austin City Limits
- Father/son duo The Parks release debut
- Jason Michael Carroll, King Wilkie, Dean Brody, NewFound Road offer new CDs
- Mac McAnally donates royalties to soldiers group
- MerleFest names songwriting winners
- Oak Ridge Boys debut on QVC Wednesday
- Pandolfi, Sutton slate July releases
- Aaron Watson goes live
- Jason Aldean reaches top
- Love and Theft shoot first video
- Randy Houser, 4 year old fan debut Boots On video
- Urban gets acoustic with Yahoo!
- MerleFest draws 70K plus through 3 days
- Laura Cantrell tributes Kitty Wells
- Nelson tours with Dylan, Mellencamp
- Paisley appearance on Leno postponed
- Taylor Swift opens solo tour
- Atkins hits number one
- Dierks Bentley goes Down Under
- Letterman welcomes Kenny Chesney
- Montgomery Gentry hits one out for Atlanta Braves
- Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, The Judds added to CMA Fest
- Shane Wyatt wants his guitars back
- The Tractors boogie on
- Boxmasters play Kimmel
- Elvis Costello returns to roots
- Emerson Drive CD gets delayed
- Greencards, Watson, Hancock, Boxmasters offer new music
- Jimmy Dean home suffers fire
- McBride partners with winery
- Newfield, Otto, Vassar, Carroll top CMA free concerts
- Rascal Flatts schedules new tour
- Becky Schlegel has a son
- Canadian CMAs coming to Vancouver in September
- Chesney swings into action
- Jamey Johnson goes for the gold
- Randy Owen receives honor
- Zac Brown Band CD reaches gold
- Ferlin Huskey hospitalized with heart failure
- Hank Jr. offers bailout package
- Nashville film fest highlights Dolly
- Paisley becomes a father again
- Toby Keith addresses National Press Club
- Chuck Mead plans tour
- Rascal Flatts scores chart double
- CMA readies study
- Rhonda Vincent announces new CD
- Steve Wariner slates Atkins disc for June
- Tift Merritt goes live
- Tim McGraw set to co-star in "The Blind Side"
- Toby Keith returns to Gulf
- Rascal Flatts' Here Comes Goodbye skyrockets to the top
- Single concert tickets soon available for CMA Fest
- Boxmasters bag Canadian dates
- Charlie Daniels receives university honor
- Jack Ingram sings with Patty Griffin on upcoming CD
- Joe Nichols lands "Pure Country" lead for Broadway
- John Rich sues former Nashville Star contestant
- Miranda Lambert's pick is cotton
- Urban debuts in first, Strait tops singles chart
- Country Hall honors Brenda Lee with exhibit
- Oprah welcomes country stars
- Urban scores top selling CD
- Conor Oberst set to release documentary
- Rascal Flatts, Aldean, Cyrus dish out new music
- Son Volt returns in July
- dB's members ready duo disc
- MerleFest songwriting finalists announced
- McGraw withdraws from ACMs over production differences
- Sugarland presents, Shelton performs at ACMs tonight
- Underwood wins entertainer award at 44th Academy of Country Awards.
- Dale Watson goes live at Willie's Place, Sirius
- Jason Aldean goes all out for "Wide Open"
- NBC doesn't renew Nashville Star
- Rascal Flatts makes rounds for "Unstoppable"
- Worley shoots video with a little help
- Chesney debuts song, ad Sunday
- John Rich video of Shuttin' Detroit Down debuts
- Kellie Pickler gets Idol
- McBride, Rucker lead Billboard country charts
- The Jayhawks reunite
- Duane Jarvis dies at 51
- Martina McBride debuts in first
- Megan Mullins switches to Stoney Creek
- Steve Martin slates Opry debut
March 2009
- Eli Young Band makes national TV debut Thursday
- Elizabeth Cook joins Twitty musical cast
- Ingram heads to Cuba
- Paisley, Urban win ACM awards
- Urban, Atkins, Flatlanders top new releases
- Joe Nichols tries to make Believers
- Lucinda Williams cuts her fans a break
- McAnally offers first single.
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott takes to the road
- Steve Wariner plans Chet Atkins tribute disc
- Taylor Swift notches another chart topper
- Reba gets Strange
- Broken Bow head starts new label
- Country Standard Time goes web only
- Pickler launches fan club
- Rodney Atkins heads to New York
- Carrie Hassler adds new banjo player
- Dan Seals dies of cancer
- Duane Jarvis suffering from terminal cancer
- McBride helps combat teen dating abuse
- Rucker, Swift reign on charts
- Those Darlins ready debut
- Emily West releases new single
- Gloriana documents ACM trip
- Gold Heart signs with Rural Rhythm
- Swift to lead country chart
- Swift, Johnson, Owen, Atkins, Aldean added to CMA Fest
- Doyle Lawson slates new CD
- Parton, Howard, Haggard, Travis, Hank Jr. honored by Hall
- Rich, McBride, Sahm tribute top new releases
- Alan Jackson's Sissy's Song debuts today
- Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, Lee Womack, Miranda Lambert perform at Strait all star concert
- Elvis Costello readies acoustic disc
- Love And Theft sets Opry debut
- Marine Corps group honors Toby Keith
- McCoy, Murphey, Linda Davis receive honor
- Bentley, Paisley, Rich play CMA Music Festival
- Lady Antebellum premieres video
- Martina McBride gears up for "Shine"
- Rucker scores another number one, Swift stays there
- Illness forces Willie Nelson to postpone shows
- Jonathan Singleton & The Grove release debut single
- Rascal Flatts sets sales mark
- Rich's CD available for listening online
- Brad Paisley concludes Paisley Party Tour
- Cook, Bonnie "Prince" Billy offer new discs; Willie reissue out
- R&R drops Americana chart, AMA head dismisses move
- Urban's "Defying Gravity" debuts on iLike
- ACM Entertain of the Year voting starts today
- Country Thunder Records folds
- Jo Dee Messina's web site goes dark for a cause
- Mac McAnally signs with Toby's label
- Sara Evans becomes novelist
- Ryan Adams marries Mandy Moore
- Todd Snider's plan is to get excited
- Red Stick Ramblers slate May CD release
- Survey finds Brad Paisley popular, Jimmy Wayne not so much
- Taylor Swift plays Aussie brush fire benefit
- Trace Adkins sings for ACM charity
- Belleville Outfit readies second CD
- Kenny Chesney preps "Greatest Hits: Vol 2"
- U2 knocks out Taylor Swift from top of chart
- Adkins, Lambert, Reba, McBride play CMA Music Fest
- Deborah Allen ruptures appendix
- Grand Ole Opry meets American Idol
- Old 97's Rhett Miller preps solo CD
- Shooter Jennings best of coming
- Kentucky honors Exile
- Milsap goes gospel, Sometymes Why debut on Signature Sounds
- Rascal Flatts releases Here Comes Goodbye today
- For Carrie Underwood, it's Home Sweet Home
- Jason Michael Carroll soph disc coming late April
- Randy Owen receives radio humanitarian award
- Steve Earle gives "Townes" the tribute treatment
- Hank Locklin dies
- Del McCoury plans box set
- Dixie Bee-Liners work on theme disc
- Hough, Owen, Zac Brown win ACM awards
- Jewel won't be Dancing With the Stars
- Keith, Lambert, Swift, Sugarland perform at ACMs
- Oak Ridge Boys ventures to SXSW
- Paisley plans CD for June, single comes Monday
- Sounds like a new CD for Darryl Worley
- Survey finds 40 percent are country fans
- Gloriana debuts Friday at Opry
- Jamey Johnson show tonight broadcast on web
- Miley, Billy Ray match Cashes record
- Opry introduces new show
- Strait, Swift, Underwood lead ACM album nominations
- Swift, Urban lead charts
- CMA donates $1M to schools
- Haggard receives honor
- Luke Bryan goes on "Spring Break"
- Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out offer new single
- Signature Sounds signs Sweetback Sisters
- Swift acts, runs contest
- Swift tops charts
- Cash live recording goes on eBay
- Dave Alvin leads his Guilty Women on CD
- Joe Nichols goes Down Under
- Malo, Millers, Dallas Wayne, Justin Townes Earle offer new CDs
- MerleFest extends early bird special
- Urban fans can get a bit extra
- Honky Tonk Tailgate Party returns with Wills, Willmon, Bates
- Jason Aldean films gig
- Messina plans song/story tour
- Opening for Little Big Town is...
- Opry's Ernie Ashworth dies
- Tim Easton offers "Porcupine"
- Toby Keith continues road warrior ways
- Tracy Lawrence gets inspirational
- Yet another Randy Travis hits package coming
- Jack Black makes Opry debut
February 2009
- Dolly expands "Backwoods Barbie" via Cracker Barrel
- Little Jimmy Dickens returns to the Opry
- Sugarland sets 2009 tour
- Alabama's Jeff Cook readies new CD
- Opry series starts with Del McCoury, Skaggs, Eli Young
- Strait, Travis receive Dove nominations
- Taylor Swift stays first, Toby Keith makes it there
- The Boxmasters ready yet another CD
- WSM, gotradio join Americana radio panel
- CMA alters voting rules
- Daryle Singletary signs new deal
- Judd judges on Can You Duet?
- Nashville songwriters head to Big Apple
- Jake Owen, Randy Weeks offer new CDs
- Lon Helton, radio stations win ACMs
- Louris, Olson add tour dates
- Pneumonia knocks out Drive By-Truckers concerts
- Ralph Stanley celebrates birthday at his museum
- Toby Keith goes first for the 25th time
- Tony Brown to receive honor
- Buddy Miller undergoes triple bypass
- Lambert raises money for animal shelter
- Even Now, Caitlin & Will try to show duet skills
- Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band plan new CD
- Jake Owen hits GMA on CD release day
- JCPenney sponsors Rascal Flatts tours
- New York's Li'l Mo and the Monicats are back, sign with Cow Island Music
- Sugarland heads to Europe
- Trace Adkins visits Glenn Beck Show
- King Wilkie goes with new label, CD coming in April
- Rascal Flatts offers songs one at a time
- Swift, Chesney take top spots
- Charlie Robison looks to offer new CD in June
- Fate of Montage label remains up in air
- Paisley sells in Canada
- Rascal Flatts once again sells out the Garden
- Rodney Atkins finally plans new CD release
- Swift reclaims top; Plant/Krauss surge
- The Wreckers' Jessica Harp releases debut
- Alan Jackson drops Sissy's Song
- Chesney goes down the road to number one
- Corb Lund signs record deal
- Dickens returns home
- Dierks Bentley gets a little Sideways
- Gurf Morlix takes the road to "Happyland"
- Michael Cleveland plots solo release
- Strait opens Cowboys stadium
- Dailey & Vincent win six bluegrass awards
- For Rascal Flatts CD cover, the winner is...
- Kenny Chesney becomes country's biggest money maker
- Nugent CD delayed again
- Plant, Krauss record again
- Bentley scores a double
- Fiddler Casey Driessen goes his own way
- Gloriana releases debut single
- Pop goes Ben Kweller
- Rascal Flatts sued over copyright infringement
- Americana Music Festival picks first two bands
- Bentley ends Swift's chart reign, scores chart double
- Dolly Parton entertains Washington
- It's a happy day for Heidi Newfield
- James Otto receives "huge honor"
- Joey+ Rory excited with first ACM nomination
- LeAnn Rimes receives ACM Humanitarian Award
- Paisley scores six ACM nominations
- Underwood becomes first woman nominated for ACM entertainer since 2000
- Emerson Drive's Mates featured on GAC show
- Keith Urban personalizes Sweet Thing video
- Levon Helm plays Conan
- Murphey, Parmley, Thacker, Kaukonen top new releases
- Will Sugarland be third time lucky?
- Brad Paisley likes the news
- Group reopens Wheeling Jamboree
- Keith Urban goes cheap
- Chris Gaffney tribute gets delayed
- Chuck Wicks, Jewel ready to begin Dancing With the Stars
- Former BR549er Chuck Mead pushes back CD to May
- Plant/Krauss take five Grammys
- Singer Molly Bee dies
- Jessica Simpson endures rough outing
- Keith Urban shows go on sale next week
- Rascal Flatts picks four finalists for CD cover, fans now vote
- Swift LA show goes clean in two minutes
- Shuttin' Detroit Down single causes rush release of John Rich CD
- Randy Houser sings with his Boots On
- Shelton, Swift continue leading charts
- Buckaroo Tom Brumley dies
- Clark, Mandrell, McCoy named to Country Music Hall of Fame
- Scott Miller readies new CD
- Springsteen ends Swift's number one run
- Bentley, Willie and the Wheel, Wynonna lead CD releases
- Bucky Covington slates USO tour in Europe
- Gibson Brothers switch from Sugar Hill to Compass
- Haggard, SteelDrivers, Merritt play Bonnaroo
- NewFound Road readies new CD
- Simpson, Pickler, Rimes, Hough announce ACM nominations
- Swift teams with Miley Cyrus at Grammys
- Vassar puts out new single
- Bart Crow goes Hollywood with new single
- Jamey Johnson opens for Willie
- Shelton stays first
- Steep Canyon Rangers plan work on new CD
- Jamey Johnson releasing new single
January 2009
- Drive-By Truckers, Oberst, X play Coachella
- John Doe, The Sadies team up on "Country Club"
- Taylor Swift announces headlining tour
- Zac Brown Band follows up Chicken Fried
- MySpace Music streams Bentley CD
- Plant, Krauss perform at Grammys
- Shelton, Swift lead country music charts
- Stacey signs with Christian label
- Dierks Bentley makes the rounds
- Faith Hill sings at Super Bowl festivities
- Toby Keith launches clothing line
- Country Music Hall starts $1.1M fundraising effort, results from fraud case
- Lambert returns to studio
- Paisley sell outs continue
- Pat Green, Louris/Olson, Dry Branch top CD releases
- American Saturday Night tour announced by Paisley
- Blake Shelton takes over
- Carter Twins debut single
- Dan Hicks tour supports new CD
- Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out signs with Rural Rythm
- Watson Twins go live with EP, tour
- Keith Anderson bags shows, needs vocal cord surgery
- Lauderdale, Bush, Griffith, Foster & Lloyd top Americana series
- Aldean readies third CD
- Americana fest to pick showcase artists
- McCoy plans '09 tour
- SonyBMG Nashville lays off staffers
- Dailey & Vincent guest on A Prairie Home Companion
- Keith Urban tries "Defying Gravity"
- Little Jimmy Dickens moves from hospital to rehab
- Swift is one-two on album chart, Jackson leads singles chart
- Atkins, Gatlins, Greenwood play at Bush welcome home rally
- Blake Shelton joins Strait tour
- Little Big Town: calling all opening acts
- Luke Bryan chairs hunting and fishing day
- Carrie Underwood performs at Grammys
- Currington tops chart
- Lambert, Little Big Town, Owen, Rucker highlight CRB shows
- Messina gives birth to boy
- Paisley starts last tour leg, goes clean on three shows
- Pam Gadd offers bluegrass disc
- Lady A plays Leno, Early Show
- Taylor Swift reportedly covers Shania in Jonas Brothers flick
- Trace Adkins slates TV appearances
- Brooks, Nettles sing at Obama concert
- Dale Watson goes trucking
- Dixie Chicks Martie Maguire records
- Floridian wins Colgate Country Showdown
- Jamey Johnson gets vinyl treatment
- When it comes to Rascal Flatts, Here Comes Goodbye
- Green, Houser launch first Jager tour
- MerleFest 2009 songwriting contest opens
- Swift, Paisley top charts
- Ted Russell Kamp back with new CD
- Wanda Jackson, Elvis sidemen to join Rock Hall
- Chesney plays Grammys
- Gretchen Peters, Tom Russell collaborate on western CD
- James Stroud brings country to China
- Little Jimmy Dickens has brain surgery
- McBride sings at NFC championship
- Neko Case gives away free download
- Urban's Sweet Thing debuts on MySpace
- Brooks, Nettles, Springsteen play pre-inaugural show
- Eric Church to launch tour in support of "Carolina"
- Kenny Chesney announces tour dates
- Kristen Scott Benson releases new CD
- Loveless debuts on Prairie Home Companion
- Mandolin player Butch Baldassari dies
- The Greencards ready fourth disc, tour
- Charlie Louvin returns to road
- Lambert, Lady Antebellum officially join Chesney tour
- Loretta Lynn works on two CDs
- Paisley notches ninth number one
- Rascal Flatts starts final tour leg
- Rob Ickes start own label
- Taylor Swift goes to the scene
- The Flatlanders travel Hills and Valleys and the U.S.
- Jon Hager of The Hagers dies
- Billy Ray Cyrus goes home with new single
- Country Music Hall of Fame spotlights John Hartford
- Keith Urban races to Daytona
- Ronnie Milsap goes the gospel route
- Brooks & Dunn, Reba song becomes digital single
- Jamey Johnson plays Leno
- Rascal Flatts works on CD cover with a little help from fans
- Swift, Sugarland lead charts
- Underwood, Rascal Flatts win at People's Choice awards
- Charlie Robison plans new CD for '09
- Jason Michael Carroll rings up gold
- Rascal Flatts try to be Unstoppable
- Taylor Swift continues at number one
- Tennessee judge seals Eddy Arnold paternity suit records
- Trace Adkins shares stage
- Chesney tops 2008 concert ticket sales
- Cledus T. Judd waits on Obama
- Kathleen Edwards returns to touring
- Lady Antebellum introduces new single
- Sugarland reaches the top
- The Gourds release a "Haymaker!"
- Americana Music Association conference discount ends today
- Country sales drop 24 percent, Taylor Swift tops U.S. sales
- James Otto undergoes the knife
- Keith Urban plays 58 cities
- Live from New York, it's Taylor Swift
- Ray Price celebrates 83rd birthday
- Time Jumpers get NPR treatment
- Bluegrass Now on line folds
- Merle Haggard returns to stage for first time after cancer surgery
- Tanya Tucker, Collin Raye plan spring discs
- Original Texas Playboys fiddler Bob Boatright dies
December 2008
- Bluegrass stars hit the road
- Country Music Hall of Fames reaches deal on McLean instruments
- Grasstowne works on soph CD
- John Rich plans single for January release
- Lady Antebellum singer gets engaged
- Taylor Swift stays number one
- Whitney Duncan offers digital EP
- Danielle Peck goes the digital route
- Gene Autry, Brenda Lee receive Grammy honor
- Old Crow plays Conan
- The SteelDrivers go number one on iTunes
- Eric Church plays governor's ball
- Kid Rock, Gary Allan, Blake Shelton, Pat Green play BamaJam
- Spring Creek records Rebel debut
- Taylor Swift returns to number one
- Earle, Scruggs headline RockyGrass Festival
- Lady Antebellum plays Today next week
- Sierra Hull picks tour band
- Taylor Swift reaches 5 million in sales, tops Billboard
- Wicks performs Express
- Equity Music Group folds
- For a hot Lady Antebellum, Baby, It's Cold Outside
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit slates tour dates
- Little Big Town launches headlining tour
- Rodney Crowell guests on Acoustic Cafe
- Trent Tomlinson presents new single
- And now for something completely different: Tim McGraw, Chris Brown sing together
- Carrie Rodriguez goes to World Cafe
- Dailey & Vincent set soph CD
- George Strait announces tour, Julianne Hough opens
- Keith Urban plans Sweet Thing video
- Louris, Olson set tour dates
- NewFound Road keeps bassist in the family
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott plans new CD
- Kenny Chesney goes clean super fast
- Trace Adkins takes off New Year's Eve
- Chesney tops country tour gross
- Chris Gaffney tribute coming in '09
- Budding video directors, Brad Paisley wants you!
- Cook exits Arista Nashville
- Kevin Costner, The Knitters, Jim Lauderdale added to Stagecoach
- Luke Bryan gets in holiday spirit
- Poor sales sack Adkins/Lynyrd Skynyrd Nashville New Year's Eve show
- SoCal country rocker Chris Darrow gets reissue treatment
- Swift, Montgomery Gentry are number one
- The Flatlanders plan on yet another CD
- Whitney Duncan goes digital
- BlueHighways TV features Texas music show
- Buddy, Julie Miller schedule first CD in eight years
- It's a Sun City Carnival summer for Kenny Chesney
- Raul Malo five-song sneak preview EP coming
- Swift continues atop country chart
- Vince Gill resides at Country Music Hall of Fame
- Allison Brown plans 10th release
- Charlie Louvin releases second CD since September
- Julianne Hough stays busy
- Justin Towne Earle preps soph CD
- Lady Antebellum, James Otto, Kellie Pickler, Chuck Wicks, The Zac Brown Band play new artists gig
- John Rich ties knot
- Montgomery Gentry rolls to number one
- Jake Owen readies new CD, gets Grammy nomination
- Kenny Chesney finally gets first Grammy nod
- Toby Keith re-releases "A Classic Christmas" with a twist
- Chesney starts planning '09 tour, hits Gillette again
- Dixie Chicks sued over West Memphis 3 case
- James Otto suffers Grammy shock
- Lady Antebellum ecstatic over Grammy nominations
- Miranda Lambert goes gold
- Rascal Flatts shoots video for I'll Be Home For Christmas
- Road warrior Toby Keith continues tour
- Swift, Zac Brown Band lead charts
- Aaron Tippin returns from Iraq tour
- Dierks Bentley: and the name of the new CD is...
- Kevin Costner and Modern West tour
- Krauss, Plant top Grammy country nominations
- Rimes hosts Colgate Country Showdown final
- Want to sing with Elvis? No problem
- Wynonna plans standards disc
- Alecia Nugent delays third CD until March '09
- Craig Morgan hosts Opry special
- Dixie Chicks release song marking World AIDS Day
- Jeff Black's Black Tuesdays podcast resumes
- Neko Case readies first CD in three years
- Alan Jackson fans make their debut
- Coming live in 2009, Keith Urban
- Dry Branch Fire Squad to release first studio CD in six years
- Martina McBride heads to Big Apple for TV appearances
- Springsteen's My Lucky Day out on Amazon, MySpace
- The Road Hammers offer new single in Canada
November 2008
- Zac Brown Band goes number one, Taylor Swift stays there
- John Berry performs holiday dates
- Jason Isbell plans new CD, switches labels
- Michael Martin Murphey connects with Rural Rhythm
- Trace Adkins releases X
- Doug Sahm tribute coming
- Emerson Drive's David Pichette becomes a dad
- Jay Bennett releases new disc
- Mark Chesnutt gutarist shoots self in hand
- Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins signs with Nonesuch
- Paisley, Swift, Underwood, Rascal Flatts win at American Music Awards
- Rhonda Vincent's The Rage unveil two new members
- The Raconteurs get a little help from Skaggs, Monroe
- Elvis-McBride Blue Christmas video released
- Life continues for PovertyNeck Hillbillies singer
- George McKnight hosts bluegrass show
- Massive Bob Wills set gets reissued
- Swift scores a chart triple
- Darrell Webb joins Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper
- Faith Hill promotes Xmas CD in Big Apple
- Taylor Swift posts largest sales
- Tim McGraw considering another movie?
- Clint Black sues business partner
- Montgomery Gentry does a 360
- Trisha Yearwood cooks
- Zac Brown Band, Blake Shelton, Randy Houser, Earl Scruggs release new music
- George Jones, John Anderson, Clint Black contribute to charity CD for Alabama school
- Jessica Simpson plays Ellen
- Jewel special CD sale backs Country Music Hall of Fame
- Miller Lite agrees to sponsor Luke Bryan
- Paisley, Urban video debuts Tuesday
- Randy Weeks readies new CD
- Joe Jonas says it ain't so about Taylor Swift charge
- Swift, Paisley lead Billboard charts
- Tracy Lawrence spearheads food drive
- Brooks & Dunn release Cowgirls single with Reba
- Josh Gracin becomes a father again
- Krauss, Harris, Jones contribute to Shel Silverstein tribute
- Tift Merritt elected to AMA board
- Barry Scott & Second Wind signs with Rebel Records
- Brad Paisley debuts at number one with "Play"
- Girls Guns and Glory inks with Lonesome Day
- John Rich performs at Intrepid ceremony
- Justin Townes Earle finishes new disc
- Kenny Chesney wins entertainer award at CMAs
- Kenny Chesney: top country tour act
- Terri Clark goes indie, leaves BNA
- Bradley Walker offers new video
- Keith Urban offers live DVD
- Rascal Flatts announces new tour leg
- Reba jumps to Valory label
- Taylor Swift earns song of year honor
- Taylor Swift tops new releases
- Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman present at CMAs
- Vince Gill records with Richard Marx
- Merle Haggard discharged from hospital following cancer surgery
- Tim McGraw to host Saturday Night Live
- Josh Turner establishes scholarship
- Merle Haggard recovers from cancer
- Patty Loveless to release alternative tracks
- Rucker, Gill, Hough, Owen Rich, Wayne added to CMA line-up
- Cartoonist keeps it country
- Compass signs Missy Raines
- Ellen hosts Taylor Swift
- Gurf Morlix plans new CD
- Jason Michael Carroll releases new single
- Jeffrey Steele releases three CDs, writes with Miley Cyrus
- Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Reba McEntire, Kid Rock top StageCoach line-up
- MerleFest tickets go on sale Tuesday
- Underwood, Keith occupy number one spots
- Jason Aldean debuts new single
- Jewel plans solo acoustic tour
- New Coon Creek Girls found receives benefit
- Toby Keith tops country chart
- Country Radio Broadcasters honor Merle Haggard, Shelia Shipley Biddy
- Heidi Newfield offers new single
- Julianne Hough Dancing With the Stars appearance gets delayed
- Kevin Costner and Modern West plan Opry debut
- Paisley, Randy Owen, Mark Wills dish out new music
- Academy of Country Music changes awards categories
- Jerry Douglas hits Mountain Stage, Prairie Home Companion
- Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus to present CMA award
October 2008
- Carrie Underwood attracts 1 million fans
- Hough, Morgan give CMAs red carpet treatment
- ACMs move to April, name George Strait Artist of the Decade
- AMA recycles almost 3/4 ton at conference
- Marty Stuart Show kicks off Saturday
- Taylor Swift gets "Fearless" on TV
- Tennessee honors Little Jimmy Dickens
- Underwood, Chesney lead Billboard country charts
- Carrie Underwood rises to top of song chart
- James McMurtry gives away We Can't Make It Here
- Julianne Hough undergoes successful surgery, plans quick return to Dancing
- Reba, Barry team up for Islands in the Stream
- Zac Brown Band readies "The Foundation"
- Alecia Nugent readies third CD
- Bruce Robison sets release of "His Greatest" in '09
- Craig Morgan plays Today
- Emmylou Harris, Daily Vincent, Jim Lauderdale, Tritt/Douglas play MerleFest
- Julianne Hough suffers from endometriosis, needs appendix removed
- Keith Urban preps new single, Sweet Thing
- Lorrie Morgan files for bankruptcy
- Reese Witherspoon presents at CMAs
- Toby Keith, Hank Williams, Rascal Flatts, Reba offer new CDs
- Brad Paisley plans media blitz around "Play"
- Brooks & Dunn get original on iTunes
- Songwriters hall inducts John Hiatt, Matraca Berg, Tom Shapiro
- Opry inducts Craig Morgan
- Taylor Swift sings at World Series
- Trace Adkins opposes gay marriage, saying it "ain't right"
- Bobby Osborne goes for "Bluegrass & Beyond"
- Jessica Andrews returns to new label
- Kenny Chesney debuts in first
- Kristy Lee Cook makes Opry debut
- The Grascals play WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
- Tim McGraw has a ball at World Series
- Carrie Underwood gets wax treatment at Madame Tussauds
- Escovedo plans live EP release
- Julianne Hough hospitalized with stomach pains
- Taylor Swift slated to perform at Grammy nomination show
- Womack, Waylon, Hank 3, Craig Morgan top new releases
- Country Music DJ Hall announces inductees
- Hot Club of Cowtown member offers Veteran's Day single
- Toby Keith singles goes to number one, takes over from Kenny Chesney
- Curb Records disputes McGraw comments on new CD
- John Rich gets involved in two fights
- Reba McEntire used to be a man?
- Chesney, McGraw lead Billboard charts
- Rascal Flatts builds playground
- Ryan Adams, Laura Cantrell join Merge Records covers disc project
- The Eagles will perform at CMAs
- Hot Club of Cowtown regroups
- Lucinda Williams webcasts Minneapolis show
- McGraw's greatest is top selling country CD
- Taylor Swift, Def Leppard reach the Crossroads
- The Eagles nominated for American Music Awards
- Tim McGraw knocks new greatest hits CD
- Chesney, Cash, Williams, Currington lead slew of new releases
- Charlie Daniels receives T.J. Martell honor
- Randy Travis plans Xmas DVD
- Tritt, Stuart reunite for November tour
- Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain Live" sees light of day
- CMA announces radio awards
- Todd Snider gives away new CD, for awhile
- Trace Adkins, Lynyrd Skynyrd open, close different concerts New Year's Eve
- Trailer Choir goes digital
- Carlene Carter plays Mountain Stage
- Chesney, Pickler top Billboard country music charts
- Pedal steel player Jim Baker dies
- Alabama firm buys land for country megadevelopment
- Gretchen Wilson CD gets delayed
- Pickler, Chesney supplant Rucker on charts
- George Strait, Tim McGraw, Ralph Stanley, Billy Graham biopic soundtrack debut
- Michael Cleveland hires new banjo man
- Sarah Buxton offers new single
- Carrie Rodriguez plays Austin City Limits
- Dierks Bentley becomes a pop
- John Rich sings on CBS Early Show Tuesday
- StageCoach announces 2009 dates, cut to 2 days
- Stonewall Jackson settles Opry suit
- Charlie Louvin uninjured in accident
- Paisley, Yearwood, Turner entertain debate crowd at Opry
- Aaron Tippin works on new CD
- Blake Shelton readies fifth CD
- Toby Keith's "Beer For My Horses" sets TV premier
- Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters host Country Music Hall of Fame benefit
- Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood host CMA awards
- Brooks, Yearwood help Jerry Douglas end Hall of Fame residency
- Dailey & Vincent clean up at IBMAs, win 6 awards
- Darius Rucker scores another chart double
- Josh Turner performs pre-debate Opry show
- Little Jimmy Dickens celebrates 60 years at Opry
- Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt join forces
- Marty Stuart turns 50 with a little help
- Ashton Shepherd gets in the GAC circle
- Darius Rucker continues at the top
- Hank Cochran recovers from cancer
- Kevin Costner goes country
- Lee Ann Womack film set to debut
- Rascal Flatts announces '09 tour, Jessica Simpson opens
September 2008
- It's Xmas in September thanks to Faith Hill, Mary Chapin Carpenter
- Justin Townes Earle about to start work on new CD
- Kenny Chesney enters rum business
- Letterman hosts Rucker, Williams
- Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Sugarland, George Strait to perform at CMAs
- Joe Diffie signs with Rounder
- Charlie Daniels plans DVD release
- Faith Hill's "There'll You Be" gets new lease on life
- George Ducas signs new record deal
- Julianne Hough does Xmas
- Vince Gill, Amy Grant announced holiday tour
- CMA funds Country Music Hall of Fame program
- Darius Rucker scores chart double
- Lady Antebellum goes Late
- SonyBMG's Joe Galante receives honor
- Darius Rucker debuts in first on album chart
- Toby Keith ranks third on music earnings list behind Police, Beyonce
- "Lucky Old Sun" starts rising today for Kenny Chesney
- Americana fest proves positive; Girls Guns and Glory gets buzz
- Crowell, Gill, Harris perform at New York benefit for Country Music Hall of Fame
- James House resurfaces with new deal
- Randy Rogers, Old Crow, Ralph II offer new CDs
- Alan Jackson seeks a little help from his fans
- Carrie Underwood starts fall tour Tuesday
- Darius Rucker thinks about number one
- Johnny Cash, Gene Watson receive hall of fame treatment
- Glen Campbell may tour
- Americana radio ranks low in listenership, but could improve
- Buddy and Julie Miller ready new CD, Robert Plant helps
- Heather Myles completes CD
- Texas artists show their appreciation
- Academy of Country Music honors winners
- Billy Joe Shaver indicted in 2007 shooting
- Craig Morgan asked to join Grand Ole Opry
- Jimmy Wayne, Jessica Simpson lead Billboard country charts
- Levon Helm, Krauss/Plant take key Americana honors
- "Do You Know" that Jessica Simpson's CD is number one?
- Spring Creek signs with Rebel
- Burnett, Crowell face Americana conference interviews
- Charlie Louvin, Kasey Chambers release new CDs
- Levon Helm Ramble attracts Hiatt, McClinton, Crow
- Mark Wills readies new CD
- Parton goes on TV, extends tour
- Craig Morgan goes home again, to Fort Bragg
- James Hand finishes recording new CD
- Kasey Chambers, Shane Nicholson play Conan Tuesday
- Rascal Flatts concert again benefits Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
- The Grascals, Dailey & Vincent, Skaggs, SteelDrivers play IBMA awards show
- Emerson Drive completes new disc
- Grand Ole Opry's Charlie Walker dies
- Laura Bryna sings at BoSox game
- Billy Ray Cyrus video debuts Friday
- One Night Rodeo becomes Next GAC Star
- Paisley participates in 50 States in 50 Days
- Paisley, Sugarland hold down number one spots
- Reba McEntire gets box treatment
- Brad Paisley extends Paisley Party tour
- Chesney happy with nominations
- Dierks Bentley releases new single
- Kenny Chesney gains seven CMA nominations
- Luke Bryan hosts songwriters' charity event
- Radio personalities nominated for CMA awards, Kix Brooks nominated
- Doc Walker cleans up at Canadian CMAs
- George Jones receives Kennedy Center honor
- Jessica Simpson, Patty Loveless top new releases
- Tim McGraw plays Sept. 11 military base gig
- Alison Krauss' "A Hundred Miles or More: Live From The Tracking Room" goes DVD
- Brad Paisley notches one more number one
- Gary Louris/Mark Olson CD gets delayed
- Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton co-headline tour
- The Greencards sign with Sugar Hill
- Gustav washes out McGraw's Swampstock
- John Hiatt, Matraca Berg, Tom Shapiro receive honor
- Johnny Cash's "At Folsom Prison" gets deluxe treatment
- Fisher Stevenson splits with Big Machine Records
- For Jessia Simpson, next stop is Grand Ole Opry
- Jimmy Wayne, NOW top country music charts
- "NOW That's What I Call Country" leads country chart
- Big State Fest not happening in '08
- Brooks LA concerts money disbursed to fire victims, agencies
- Craig Morgan readies new CD
- Faith Hill fans receive bonus
- Sugarland stands up to cancer
- Taylor Swift sells out
- Jerry Reed dies
- Rodney Crowell offers new music along with Bruce Robison, Chris Knight, Mark Erelli
August 2008
- Kix Brooks flattered by Democratic use of song at convention
- McGraw greatest hits coming
- Audie Blaylock & Redline sign with Rural Rhythm
- Billy Currington looks to third CD
- Billy Ray Cyrus films video
- Faith Hill Xmas CD gets delayed
- Sometymes Why signs with Signature Sounds
- Sugarland, Keith Urban lead charts
- Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson, Josh Turner, Patty Griffin contribute to Billy Graham bio CD
- Jimmy Wayne, Lost Trailers release new CDs
- Marty Stuart comes to TV
- Alejandro Escovedo performs at Democratic convention Tuesday
- Patty Loveless returns to road
- Adam Gregory goes digital
- Drummer Buddy Harman dies
- Kenny Chesney fans get deluxe treatment
- Rascal Flatts gets greatest hits treatment
- Angela Hacker no longer on Warner
- Taylor Swift, Sugarland continue at number one
- Brad Paisley celebrates with 500,000 friends
- Rascal Flatts adds tour dates
- The Cardinals extend tour
- Tim McGraw returns home for Swampstock
- Alison Krauss signs up for Danny Pearl event
- Crowell glad the fame is over
- George Jones, Glen Campbell, Crystal Shawanda, Cadillac Sky offer new music
- One Flew South plays Farm Aid
- Jamey Johnson added to Farm Aid
- Jessica Simpson song gets feature treatment
- Lee Ann Womack sets release date
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott enters studio
- Rosanne Cash rebukes John Rich for Johnny Cash comments
- Lady Antebellum makes Lookin' For a Good Time video available
- The Lawsons sign to Kindred Records
- Austin City Limits features Lyle Lovett
- Willie Nelson author?
- Charlie Daniels, Koch Records extend deal
- Dailey & Vincent top IBMA nominations with 10
- Dierks Bentley gets ready to ride
- Randy Rogers Band readies new music
- Swift races to number one; Sugarland stays there
- Buck Owens, Mickey Newbury, The Whites join Texas Country Hall of Fame
- Jason Aldean headlines CMT tour, Lady Antebellum opens
- Nashville Star winner Melissa Lawson makes Opry debut
- Sugarland slips to third, Heidi Newfield debuts in 10th
- Former Wilco member Jay Bennett stays busy
- Hank Williams III slates new CD for October
- Rosanne Cash headlines Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Fest
- Taylor Swift wracks up another number one
- The Duhks, Ricky Wasson release CDs
- Alejandro Escovedo plays Harley anniversary party with Springsteen
- Brad Paisley goes to "Play"
- Hank Williams pedal player Don Helms dies
- Sugarland lawyer knocks lawsuit by former member
- Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts will announce CMA nominees Sept. 10
- Jewel marries Ty Murray
- Toby Keith comments on Obama
- Former Sugarland member sues Nettles, Bush
- It's a new world for Bruce Robison
- Joe Diffie goes live
- Josh Gracin becomes "Unbelievable"
- Taylor Swift gets "Fearless" on new CD
- Dixie Chicks Emily Robison, singer Charlie Robison divorce
- Martina McBride hosts ACM honors show
- Ralph Stanley receives honor
- Sugarland scores a triple
- Cagle hopes "Never Ever Gone" works
- Elvis Xmas duets coming with Carrie Underwood, Gretchen Wilson
- George Strait debuts new video
- Glen Campbell makes push on new covers disc
- Jake Owen readies new single
- Montgomery Gentry rolls out new single
- Next GAC picks six finalists
- Sugarland climbs to the top
- Taylor Swift offers "Change" for Olympics, wins Teen Choice award
- Brooks & Dunn get their star
- Clay Walker sets ride to fight MS
- Keith Anderson, Heidi Newfield, Jamey Johnson top new CDs
- Kristy Lee Cook readies first single
- Luke Bryan debuts "Country Man" video
- Wade Bowen sets release of new CD
- Chris Knight delays CD two weeks, slates tour
- Del McCoury tapped to host IBMA show
- Melissa Lawson wins Nashville Star
- Sugarland reaches number one
- Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, George Strait Sugarland, Carrie Underwood top Now country CD
- Are you ready for Jason Aldean on Xbox live?
- Tift Merritt, Joe Ely, SteelDrivers, Bruce Robison head Americana fest performers
July 2008
- Avett Brothers score highest debut
- Black Crowes charge Gretchen Wilson with copyright infringement
- John Rich is "Raising McCain"
- Sugarland, Jackson top charts
- Dwight Yoakam receives surprise
- James Otto opens for Alan Jackson on fall tour
- Mike Curb receives honor
- Sugarland enjoys record week, debuts in second behind Miley
- Vince Gill, Kathy Mattea, Michael Martin Murphey play IBMA Fan Fest
- Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, Blue Moon Rising offer new CDs
- Ryan Adams and The Cardinals add tour dates
- Trace Adkins muddies the water with new single
- 76 arrested at Chesney concert, 2 killed in car accident
- Coffey gets axe on Nashville Star
- Hal Ketchum moves quickly
- If it's Sunday Night Football, it's time for Faith Hill
- Jon Dee Graham injured in car accident
- Kenny Chesney joins Farm Aid line up
- Mark Chesnutt tour bus rear-ended in accident
- Chris Cagle found not guilty in domestic assault
- Grand Ole Opry adds country classics show
- Little Big Town pushes "Fine Line"
- Toby Keith launches media blitz for "Beer For My Horses"
- Canadian Fans' Choice nominees named
- Justin Townes Earle plays Americana gig, tours
- McCready enters rehab, reportedly has breakdown
- There's a new number one (sort of)
- Faith Hill previews Xmas CD for fans
- Taylor Swift owns top of country chart
- Vince Gll plans acoustic tour
- Alan Jackson reaches 50 million mark
- Ashlee Hewitt gets boot from Nashville Star
- Dolly Parton returns from successful Europe tour
- Sugarland puts out third CD, Avetts go soft
- Alan Jackson scores 33rd number one
- Julianne Hough nominated for Emmy
- Julianne Hough tries to double your pleasure, fun
- Stroudavarious Records launches
- Dierks Bentley plays Europe, works on new CD
- Kellie Pickler sets September release of new CD
- Rissi Palmer comes up with "No Air"
- Tim McGraw gets low with new movie
- Blake Shelton readies new single
- Dan Tyminski shoots video for "Wheels"
- For James Stroud, it's Christmas in July
- Shelton, Swift top country music charts
- Tim McGraw works on new movie
- Alan Jackson launches fall tour, Trace Adkins opens
- Country Music Association awards set for November
- Jason Boland suffers ruptured vocal chord
- Joan Baez to receive Spirit of Americana award
- Raul Malo works on new CD, tours
- Taylor Swift remains first
- Eli Young Band shots video
- Farm Aid coming to New England with Willie Nelson
- Gretchen Wilson releases new single
- Levon Helm brings Ramble to Americana fest
- Randy Travis, The Grascals top new releases
- Dierks Bentley, Emerson drive perform at Canadian awards
- Gretchen Wilson's "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is voted ESPN best
- Jessica Simpson set for Sept. 9 country debut
- Chesney tops country tours for first 6 months
- Jack Ingram becomes Next GAC Star judge
- Billy Ray Cyrus releases new single
- Johnny Cash meets Snoop Dog in Johnny Cash Remix
- Old 97's Hammond offers solo CD
- Americana Music Association honors Austin City Limits head
- Jessica Simpson debuts video
- Patty Loveless readies new CD
- Phil Stacey makes Opry TV debut
- Prairie Oyster leads Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductees
- Swift, Shelton lead country music charts
- Beer For My Horses tracks set
- Jazz ace Charlie Haden goes country
- Martina McBride heads outdoors
- Taylor Swift leads country chart
- Del McCoury's "Moneyland" concept CD drops
- Reba's "Every Other Weekend" video airs
- Avetts sign with American/Columbia
- Blake Shelton calls number one "Home"
- George Strait goes for "Classic Christmas" in October
- Keith Urban/Nicole Kidman have a girl
- McGraw tour grosses nearly $20M
- Rascal Flatts plays Today Friday
- The SteelDrivers play Mountain Stage
- Watson Twins start tour
- Kenny Chesney goes extraterrestial
- Montgomery Gentry, Swift lead Billboard country charts
- Rodney Atkins goes five deep
- The Chapmans offer free single
- A few Sugarland fans receive surprise
- Darius Rucker fulfills life-long dream
- Taylor Swift stays at number one for another week
- Todd Snider gets political
- Zona Jones signs with Tracy Lawrence's label
- Brad Paisley video with Andy Griffith debuts
- Jeff Bates releases new single
- Keith Urban "scraps" greatest hits CD, sort of
- Nashville Star boots Alyson Gilbert
- Phil Stacey releases "Old Glory" single for holiday
- Ricky Skaggs offers new CD
- The Grascals make television rounds
- Tracy Lawrence adds singer to label
June 2008
- American Idol's Kristy Lee Cook inks with Arista Nashville
- Darius Rucker hosts ESPN show July 4
- Darryl Worley gears up for seventh River Run event
- Kathy Mattea, Cross Canadian Ragweed play Americana fest
- Montgomery Gentry reaches number one
- Sugarland sets fall tour
- Tom T. Hall, The Statler Brothers join Country Music Hall of Fame
- CMA Music fest softball game raises more than $100K
- James Otto plays Madden NFL 08 on Xbox LIVE Sunday
- Jo Dee Messina CD gets delayed
- Once again, McCready is arrested
- Waylon's backing bond joins forces
- Blake Shelton guests on Nashville Star
- Cherryholmes records thirds disc
- George Strait readies Xmas music CD
- Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift stay number one
- Randy Owen pens autobiography
- The Wilders appear on NPR Saturday
- Former Bill Anderson drummer Snuffy Miller dies
- Jessica Simpson added to Country Thunder line up
- McGraw subdues fan at concert
- Sara Evans plays Million Dollar Password
- Swift, Chesney will top country music charts
- Tift Merritt plays Letterman, tours in U.S., England
- CMA Songwriters series returns to Big Apple
- Congressional resolution honors Toby Keith
- Escovedo, Junior Sisk, Crooked Still, Road Hammers release new CDs
- Justin Gaston gets Nashville Star axe
- Unreleased duets coming from George Jones
- Darryl Worley debuts new single
- Jerry Douglas readies new dsic
- Jessica Simpson goes for The View
- Jolie Holland plans fourth CD
- Marty Stuart, Travis tritt reuniting for tour
- Taylor Swift reaches milestones
- McGraw plans CD for fall release
- Kasey Chambers plans Sugar Hill release
- Ralph Stanley II plans disc on new label
- Sugar Hill inks Austin musician Sarah Jarosz
- Chesney moves into first on singles chart, Swift tops album chart
- Haggard gets tribute treatment from ex-wife, Leona Williams
- Jason Aldean unveils "Relentless" video
- Lee Ann Womack goes for "Last Call" to radio late June
- Ricky Skaggs gives bluegrass treatment to songs
- Tracy Byrd spearheads benefit concert for Texas governor's manion
- Brad Paisley reaches back for new single
- Rascal Flatts celebrates July 4th in Boston
- Country Music Hall, Shout! Factory team to produce history documentaries
- Tyminski, Carter's Chord top new releases
- Blue Mountain dishes out two CDs this summer
- Faith Hill's new CD's may bring "Joy to the World"
- Sara Evans gets married
- Taylor Swift goes exclusively with Wal-Mart
- The Grascals play CBS Early show
- Third Town gets boot from Nashville Star
- Toby Keith's Ally House fundraiser raises $700K
- Chris Young reaches fans with "Voices"
- Danny Davis of Nashville Brass dies at 83
- Jewel, Underwood lead country charts
- Josh Gracin announces fourth child coming
- Stolen guitar returned to George Jones 46 years later
- CMA Music Fest enjoys record setting event
- Carrie Underwood makes history with "Last Name"
- Elmer Alley, creator of Fan Fair, Opryland, dies at 87
- Jewel debuts in first
- Little Big Town bike ride raises money to fight cancer, AIDS
- McMurtry, Levon Helm tie for three AMA nominations each
- Taylor Swift goes the MTV route, hosts TRL
- Carrie Underwood expands tour this fall
- Emmylou Harris, Montgomery Gentry, Infamous Stringdusters lead new releases
- Jason and the Scorchers will receive Americana Lifetime Achievement award, reunite for show
- Nashville Star sends home Utah singer
- Shania Twain thanks fans for support in wake of marital split
- The SteelDrivers schedule Conan O'Brien appearance
- Lee Ann Womack serves "Last Call"
- Nashville Star names 12 finalists
- Rascal Flatts gets Make-A-Wish honor
- Taylor Swift, Julianne Hough, Kellie Pickler host CMA Music Fest TV special
- Tim McGraw sings for Wal-Mart
- Alan Jackson returns to CMA Festival
- Cow Island Records sign the Dixons
- Rascal Flatts, Bucky Covington team up with Hannah Montana
- Taylor Swift reclaims top spot, Brad Paisley stays there on Billboard charts
- The Gougers give it away
- The Lost Trailers gain traction
- Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper release band debut
- Sugarland goes deluxe
- Calexico plans new CD for September
- Jewel, Jennifer Hanson, Neal McCoy out with new music
- Next GAC Star show names Desmond Child, Victoria Shaw judges
- Rascal Flatts grows
- Ryan Shupe hospitalized with appendicitis
- Shooter Jennings hits national TV this week
- CMA Music Fest starts (unofficially) Monday
- Jessica Simpson song goes to country radio
- Playgirl announces country issue
- Steve Wariner receives honor for diabetes efforts
- The Jordainaires' Hugh Jarrett dies
- Vince Gill, Luke Bryan, Andy Griggs lead Wagoner fishing tourney
- Avett Brothers release single
- Kaukonen, Robin & Linda Williams, Wailin' Jennys play A Prairie Home Companion
May 2008
- ACMs enjoy ratings jump
- Carrie Hassler offers new single
- Heidi Newfield readies solo debut
- TwangFest holds eBay auction
- Billy Ray Cyrus gets "Real Gone"
- Paisley, Hough top Billboard charts
- Sugarland notches career high
- Taylor Swift kick starts Nashville Star
- Taylor Swift signs all day long
- Wind-Up Entertainment expands to Nashville, signs Eric Durrance
- Carter's Chord gets digital release date
- Chris Cagle arrested, charged with domestic assault
- Julianne Hough debuts at number one
- Mica Roberts teams with Verizon to combat domestic violence
- Paisley, Chesney top charts
- Andy Griggs, Ryan Shupe, Eliza Gilkyson release new discs
- Home Depot seeks hometown heroes to help Rascal Flatts
- Joe Ely appears on A Prairie Home Companion
- Laura Bryna becomes voice of AIr National Guard
- Lost Trailers photo shoot turns into on-stage show with Kenny Chesney
- Mac Wiseman honored with National Heritage Award
- Randy Owen signs with Broken Bow, plans June single release
- Jim Lauderdale cancels dates, cites vocal problems
- Country Thunder Texas shows canceled
- Motherlode of unreleased Hank Williams recordings coming
- Statlers' Jimmy Fortune receives honor
- Jim White, James McMurtry, Paul Thorn, The SteelDrivers perform at AMA fest
- Paisley, Keith hold number one spots
- Rascal Flatts adds band member (for one night anyway)
- Record exec D Kilpatrick dies at 88
- Sara Evans, Joe Nichols get close with fans
- Blake Shelton honors producer David Foster
- Chesney thanks fans in wake of controversial ACM comments
- CMA Music Fest hosts soap stars
- Jamey Johnson signs deal, releases video
- Toby Keith remains number one
- Brad Paisley receives more good news - the guy is number one
- Julianne Hough, James King, Cory Morrow offer new music
- Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers ready soph CD
- Carrie Underwood returns to American Idol
- Chesney experiences "amazing feeling"
- Eddy Arnold charts again, in death
- Grand Ole Opry summer concert series starts up
- Lady Antebellum win proves "too exciting"
- Swift, Underwood, Wilson, Gracin, Louvin meet fans
- The Grascals undergo line-up change
- Chesney wins two ACM awards, including big one; Paisley, Rascal Flatts also take two
- Dolly Parton lashes out at Howard Stern over alleged comments
- Gretchen Wilson graduates high school
- Sugarland releases third CD
- Underwood pitches Nintendo
- Alejandro Escovedeo opens Dave Matthews shows
- James Otto, Toby Keith lead Billboard charts
- Once again, Keith Anderson CD gets delayed
- Phil Vassar, Jo Dee Messina launch CMA fest
- Randy Houser dishes out first single
- Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson plan more tour dates
- Ronnie Milsap launches #1 Tour in June
- Shania Twain, Robert "Mutt" Lange split
- Underwood,Montgomery Gentry, Luke Bryan kick off Opry CMA fest shows
- Adkins, Mattea, Yearwood, Vassar hold court at Country Music Hall of Fame
- Chesney logs 24th consecutive top10 hit
- Taylor Swift heads to CBS Early Show Saturday, announces deal with clothing line
- Toby Keith leads country charts
- Carter's Chord goes the digital route
- Fisher Stevenson offers first single
- Old 97's release new disc
- Old 97's, Hayes Carll, Wacos headline Twangfest
- Yoakam breaks record on Leno
- Duhks plan fourth disc this summer
- Gretchen Wilson, Old Crow join Marty Stuart benefit
- Jennifer Hanson plans digital only CD
- John Michael Montgomery checks into rehab
- New artist Christian Kane gambles for charity
- Carrie Underwood joins the Grand Ole Opry
- Gospel singer Dottie Rambo killed in bus accident
- Life gets spicy for Tim McGraw
- Move over Nashville Star, here comes Next GAC Star
- X's Exene Cervenka signs with Bloodshot
- Chris Cagle goes to prom
- Eddy Arnold dies at 89
- Funeral services held next week for Eddy Arnold
- Kellie Pickler debuts new single
- Reckless Kelly spills beliefs with "American Blood"
- Singer Jerry Wallace dies
- Strait, Chesney do "Shiftwork" at ACMs, Keith, Pickler, Rimes perform
- The Grascals "Keep on Walkin'" to third release
- Tim McGraw, James Otto lead charts
- Garth Brooks receives ACM honor
- Porter Wagoner, Dick Clark, Brenda Lee, Conway Twitty win ACM awards
- Ray Scott goes his own way
- Sara Evans, Maroon 5 meet at the Crossroads
- Tim McGraw greatest hits at WalMart goes to the top
- Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters drop new video
- Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton, Sierra Hull offer new CDs
- Sarah Buxton joins Dierks Bentley on Today
- StageCoach attendance doubles
- Tim McGraw launches tour this week
- Whisperin' Bill Anderson becomes a Georgia fellow
- Collin Raye goes home again
- Dierks Bentley becomes a real man of genius
- Hank Jr., Miranda Lambert, Trace Adkins, Ralph Stanley lead BamaJam line-up
- James Otto scores number one hit
- Jim Reeves guitarist Leo Jackson dies
- Rascal Flatts to launch Bob That Head tour; Taylor Swift opens
- Carelene Carter plays Nashville, LA
- Jim Hager of The Hagers dies
- Ralph Stanley clawhammer project coming
- The Eagles, Taylor Swift, John Fogerty, Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts lead StageCoach
- Avett Brothers prep new release
- Dierks Bentley makes house calls
- Emily West makes televised Opry debut
- George Strait doubles up on charts
- Jason Michael Carroll offers video for "I Can Sleep When I'm Dead"
- Let the (ACM) voting begin
- MerleFest songwriting winners announced
- Miranda Lambert raises thousands for humane society
- Rhonda Vincent releases new video
- Taylor Swift, Gretchen Wilson, Randy Travis get Close-Up at CMAs
- Trailer Choir goes "Off the Hillbilly Hook" with single
April 2008
- Chip Taylor gives his perspective on new CD
- Gene Autry biography receives honor
- Justin Townes Earle makes Grand Ole Opry debut Friday
- MerleFest attracts more than 76,000
- Phil Vassar enjoys record week, but Strait remains first
- Rascal Flatts plays Leno, Dances With the Stars
- Survivor team looks for country vibe on new Jingles show
- McBride, Stacey, Earle offer new CDs
- McCready acknowledges relationship with Clemens
- Montgomery Gentry, Keith Anderson, James Otto join Vegas charity cycle ride
- Taylor Swift announces she's triple platinum
- Tim McGraw gets fragrant
- Toby Keith show comes under enemy fire
- Despite concert mishap, Kenny Chesney receives go ahead for upcoming shows
- Emmylou Harris, Pops Stoneman inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame
- Little Big Town, Keith Anderson lead country riders for a cure
- Songwriter charged with homicide
- Accuser against Miranda Lambert gets tables turned and is charged
- Marty Stuart hosts Late Night Jam for CMA Music Festival
- Release of Jypsi CD delayed
- Tim McGraw becomes first country act on classic rock chart
- Tim McGraw sets date for Swampstock
- George Strait, Lady Antebellum top country music charts
- John Hiatt receives Americana Music Association honor
- Jake Owen records second disc
- Lady Antebellum scores number one disc with debut
- Little Big Town splits from Equity, signs with Capitol Nashville
- Randy Owen picked to receive honor
- Adkins, Brooks & Dunn, Lambert, Montgomery Gentry perform awards show
- Emily West makes Opry debut
- Toby Keith heads to Gulf
- CMA concert tickets go on sale Saturday
- George Strait notches another number one song
- Taylor Swift introduces new video
- Trace Adkins gets young and restless
- Chris Gaffney dies at 57
- Carrie Underwood partners with Vitamin Energy
- Clay Walker prepares for golf tourney to fight MS
- Trace Adkins, George Strait continue atop charts
- Lady Antebellum, James McMurtry, Laura Cantrell offer new music
- Lady Antebellum makes TV rounds
- Laura Bryna joins Make-A-Wish board
- Cumberland University honors Charlie Daniels
- Opry offers help from USPS to Tax Day procrastinators
- Steve Azar forms label, plans to release "Indianola"
- Former Trick Pony singer Heidi Newfield offers debut single
- New Randy Travis video starts airing Sunday
- Rhonda Vincent shows video
- Secret Talents of the Stars remains a secret - show off the air
- Walk of Fame plans to induct Hank Williams Sr., Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Steve Wariner, Merle Kilgore
- "Pure Country" goes to the Great White Way
- Eddie Montgomery receives keys to the city
- George Strait, Trace Adkins score number ones
- Illness causes Sugarland to postpone two shows
- Jason Aldean becomes "Relentless" with new single
- Kathleen Edwards becomes school teacher
- Funny man Clint Black advances on "Secret Talent of the Stars"
- George Strait sings his way to the top
- Josh Gracin debuts in fourth
- Julianne Hough premieres video Friday
- Vanguard signs Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters
- James Otto, Jeff Bates, Hayes Carll, Longview, Gibson Brothers dish out new music
- Josh Turner premiers video, lands acting role
- Keith Urban winds down year-plus tour
- Riders in the Sky win Spirit Award
- "The Braves Play Here," according to James Otto
- Ashton Shepherd, Lady Antebellum play Good Morning America
- Blake Shelton video for "Home" released
- Blue Rodeo takes home Juno trophies
- Dierks Bentley ventures abroad
- Josh Gracin tackles the Big Apple
- Krauss, Plant touring band set; Union Station members tour
- Mr. Sulu goes country courtesy of Montgomery Gentry
- Taylor Swift works on second CD
- Kenny Chesney makes surprise Opry appearance
- Canadian singer Adam Gregory releases single in U.S.
- Chesney, Underwood, Swift songs designed to induce sleep
- Laura Cantrell returns with EP
- Canadian band Emerson Drive sings anthem at two home openers
- Carrie Underwood extends the ride
- Clint Black, a comedian? Jo Dee Messina, a dancer?
- Randy Owen, Sugarland play ACM event in Vegas
- Trace Adkins, Taylor Swift top Billboard charts
- Danny Paisley steps out with The Southern Grass
- Eddie Montgomery breaks ground on new restaurant
- Fans vote on Dierks Bentley greatest hits
- Infamous Stringdusters plan second CD for June
- Ryan Bingham visits Jay Leno
- 1720 Entertainment signs Jamie O'Neal
- George Strait, Kathy Mattea, Aaron Watson, Willie Nelson release new CDs
- John Rich launches talent search
- Ricky Skaggs recuts country songs bluegrass style
March 2008
- American Idol welcomes back Phil Stacey, Bucky Covington
- HighTone shuts doors, sells catalogue to Shout! Factory
- Kenny Chesney reports strong response to Next Big Star competition
- McCoy sings at Texas Rangers opener
- Montgomery Gentry release new disc June 10
- Songwriter Lonnie Nipper dies
- Trace Adkins places second on Celebrity Apprentice
- Trace Adkins reaches number one
- Singer Glenn Barber dies at 73
- Brad Paisley's "I'm Still A Guy" flies fast on charts
- Martina McBride extends tour
- Neal McCoy gets best of treatment
- Alan Jackson, Taylor Swift place first on country music charts
- Darryl Worley becomes a father
- Kenny Chesney turns the big 4-0
- Old 97s, The Waco Brothers and Chuck Prophet headline Twangfest
- Suzy Bogguss joins Prairie Home Companion summer tour
- Taylor Swift, Luke Bryan, Kellie Pickler perform at ACM charity event
- Chris Gaffney diagnosed with liver cancer
- Keith Anderson CD release gets delayed one month to June
- Luke Bryan gains whiskey, restaurant sponsors
- Montgomery Gentry enjoy fastest rising single of career
- Taylor Swift assumes top of country charts, takes over from Alan Jackson
- Cledus T. Judd, Bechtol manager Miles Bell dies
- Kenny Chesney makes bands big stars
- Ricky Skaggs, Gaudreau & Klein, Justin Townes Earle offer new music
- Willie Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel recording joint album
- Crowe, Sizemore band member Wayne Fields dies
- Johnny Bush records new CD, Willie Nelson, Ray Price help
- Phil Stacey makes Grand Ole Opry debut Saturday
- Sara Evans gets engaged
- Toby Keith drops two
- Underwood, Gill, Vassar, Wicks, Otto try a different playing field
- Faith Hill, Reba, Collin Raye participate in Muhammad Ali fundraiser
- Troy Gentry helps the uninsured
- Wylie yodels away on Conan
- Alan Jackson scores a chart double
- Alison Krauss/Robert Plant go platinum
- Martina McBride goes the live route
- Shooter Jennings releases "This Ol Wheel"
- Alan Jackson continues topping country music charts, slips to 5th on Billboard 200
- GAC introduces Lady Antebellum
- James Otto readies for NASCAR race Sunday, sort of
- More Academy of Country Music nominations announced
- Denise Jackson readies new book on faith
- Kellie Pickler returns to American Idol in "Red High Heels"
- Luke Bryan becomes a dad
- Emerson Drive records new CD
- Harp Magazine announces it's shutting down
- Lost Trailers release new single
- Sierra Hull announces tour dates
- Grand Ole Opry asks Carrie Underwood to join
- Blake Shelton sings with Michael Buble
- Carolina Rain records second disc
- Charlie Daniels shmoozes with Ralph Emery Monday
- Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice sign with Rebel
- Alan Jackson, Carrie Underwood lead charts
- Bluegrass Now magazine changes to e-zine format
- Brad Paisley sets Houston Livestock record
- Cadillc Sky looks to release second disc
- Crystal Shawanda becomes Artist to Watch
- Lady Antebellum makes televised Opry debut Saturday
- Neal McCoy gets "Rednecktified"
- Phil Stacey debuts video this week
- The Bittersweets head to the studio
- Walter Hyatt CD subject of NPR broadcast Friday
- George Strait gets the satellite treatment
- Good times for "Good Time": Alan Jackson CD is number one
- John Rich judges Nashville Star
- Brooks & Dunn sell out - in Australia
- Clint Black, Joe Ely, Dave Insley releases new CDs today
- Mountain Heart releases first video
- Randy Travis offers free download
- Charlie Daniels, 38 Special, Shooter Jennings lead Volunteer Jam
- Jason Aldean gets "Stripped"
- Jason Boland, Aaron Watson team up for Texas tour
- Travis Tritt, John Rich, Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek join Randy Jackson disc
- Julio Iglesias Jr. wins "Gone Country
- Craig Morgan signs with SonyBMG
- Former Lonestar singer Richie McDonald plans on Christian music disc
- Tim McGraw/Def Leppard song featured on NBC broadcasts
- Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift top charts
- Fred Eaglesmith set to new CD
- Watson Twins sign with Vanguard
- Brad Paisley announces '08 tour
- Clay Walker receives humanitarian honor
- Dale Watson returns to the road
- Dolly Parton scores highest debut; Carrie Underwood reaches the top
- Rissi Palmer interview with Maya Angelou repeated
- Waylon Payne CD gets reissue treatmenet
- ACM nominations leave Kenny Chesney happy
- Carrie Underwood video debuts tonight
- Changes continue for Kellie Pickler
- Good news piles up for Jake Owen
- Kenny Chesney captures 11 ACM nominations, Adkins 6
- Lady Antebellum members can't believe they have ACM nomination
- Luke Bryan freaks out
- Wanda Jackson documentary airs on Smithsonian channel
- Blake Shelton teams with Wal-Mart
- Carrie Underwood starts tour strongly
- Montgomery Gentry sets record
- That's Dr. Ricky Skaggs
- Conway Twitty children sue for royalties
- Miranda Lambert headlines spring, summer shows
February 2008
- Grand Ole Opry goes to the House
- The Bittersweets sign to Compass
- Chris Cagle, Rodney Adkins hold number one spots on Billboard charts
- Lonestar releases new single
- The Avetts make their Grand Old Opry debut
- Toby Keith stars in "Beer for My Horses" movie
- William Elliott Whitmore signs to Anti-
- Alan Jackson gears up for new CD
- Once again, Reba McEntire hosts ACMs
- Taylor Swift finally steps aside as Chris Cagle scores number one
- And the nominees are...
- Brad Paisley manages to prank Chuck Wicks on closing night
- Dolly Parton, Tift Merritt, Blue Collar Comedy, Punch Brothers top new releases
- Nashville Brigade releases disc
- Brad Paisley concludes tour, draws 1 million fans
- Carlene Carter records web only song
- Doyle Lawson finishes recording new disc, looks for March release
- Little Big Town plays Craig Ferguson
- Sugarland goes digital gold
- Three years later, Keith Anderson is finally back
- Randy Owen bows out of fire victim benefit concert
- Barack Obama - country music fan?
- Gearing become Child Welfare League ambassador
- Hold off on that Faith Hill/Tim McGraw duets disc
- Stonewall Jackson gets 2009 court date in Opry discrimination suit
- Dwight Yoakam, Crystal Gayle, Norro Wilson join Kentucky Music Hall of Fame
- Jeff Bates releases new disc in April
- Rodney Atkins makes history
- Rodney Atkins, Taylor Swift score number ones
- Kathleen Edwards auctions off her music
- McEntire, Clarkson conclude tour with - what else - another sellout
- Rhonda and Darrin Vincent make history
- Rodney Atkins tops Billboard country chart with fourth song
- Cherryholmes, Trace Adkins, Tracy Lawrence added to BamaBash
- Chris Cagle, Jim Lauderdale, Allison Moorer, Gary Louris offer new music
- Craig Morgan leaves Broken Bow Records
- Dierks Bentley plans greatest hits with a twist
- Long, cool Clint Black goes digital route
- Miley Cyrus talks about dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, on Barbara Walters show
- Montgomery Gentry hosts Vegas bike ride
- No Depression magazine closes
- Live from New York, it's Carrie Underwood (again)
- Shooter Jennings performs TV, live dates
- Van Morrison plays SXSW
- Grand Ole Opry member Bobby Lord dies
- Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain working on second CD
- Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift remain number one
- Capitol Nashville goes to the vault with Tanya Tucker, Suzy Boggus, George Ducas
- Dolly Parton reschedules tour dates
- Ira Dean leaves Trick Pony
- Josh Gracin gets green light for second CD
- Kathy Mattea opts for "Coal"
- Larry Sparks, Dave Evans get deep vault treatement from Rebel Records
- Marty Stuart, Connie Smith donate memorabilia to Country Music Hall of Fame
- Phil Stacey debut coming late April, delayed two weeks
- Rascal Flatts CD sells 5 million units
- Sara Evans holds online auction for Red Cross in wake of tornados
- Taylor Swift keeps number one perch
- The Eagles headline StageCoach
- Blue Highway releases new CD
- Blue Rodeo receives three Juno nominations
- Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, Statlers, Ernest Stoneman named to Country Music Hall of Fame
- Ernie Thacker signs with Pinecastle
- George Strait sets record with new single
- Sierra Hull signs with Rounder
- Tim McGraw goes mobile
- Blake Shelton goes "Home" for NASCAR
- Dolly Parton postpones tour, cites back problems
- Former Compadre Records exec starts new label, signs James McMurtry
- James McMurtry gets political again with "Cheney's Toy"
- Keith Urban goes green
- Kellie Pickler's Iraq tour airs on GAC
- Vince Gill, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Krauss/Plant, The Eagles win country Grammys
- Dierks Bentley becomes Grammy award presenter
- Faith Hill bows out of Aretha tribute due to bronchial infection
- Another number one week for Paisley, Swift
- Carrie Underwood hits the 7 million mark
- Rascal Flatts partners with Rubik's Revolution
- Riders in the Sky receive honor
- Longview regroups with J.D. Crowe, Lou Reid
- Plant/Krauss, Willie Nelson lead country acts at Bonnaroo
- Taylor Swift stays in top 10
- Brad Paisley keeps number one single
- Hank Jr., Randy Owen, Del McCoury, Miranda Lambert top new Alabama fest
- Railroad Earth hits the studio
- Rascal Flatts hosts ACM golf tourney
- Sugarland tops CMT awards nominations
- Toby Keith's greatest coming
- James Otto returns with new CD
- Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood start tour
- Rhonda Vincent cleans up at bluegrass awards
- The Wreckers' Jessica Harp marries
- Tim McGraw releases "Suspicions" video
- Carrie Underwood achieves milestones
- Rhonda Vincent pushes new CD on TV
January 2008
- Blue Mountain heads to the studio, tours
- Brad Paisley performs in Grammy Beatles tribute
- Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift once again top Billboard country music charts
- Tim McGraw starts tour in May
- Blake Shelton calls "Home"
- Randy Owen hits the road
- Robert Plant, Alison Krauss meet at the Crossroads
- Swift, Brooks make top 10 at Billboard
- Avett Brothers song goes on "Friday Night Lights"
- Lady Antebellum appears on CMT
- Rascal Flatts starts overseas tour
- Willie Nelson, The Wrights, Dailey & Vincent, Chesney guitarist offer new CDs
- Carrie Underwood will perform at Grammys
- Deana Carter gets very late with Craig Ferguson tonight
- Dixie Chicks grow
- Faith Hill premiers Elvis' "That's Alright Mama" on website
- Sara Evans will perform at Super Bowl Tailgate shindig
- Willie Nelson readies new CD with help from Kenny Chesney
- ShowDog Nashville's Mica Roberts plans on February single, video
- Nash Street wins Colgate Country Showdown
- John Rich of Big & Rich goes solo route
- Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson add concert video to websites
- Rodney Atkins gos for Extreme Makeover
- Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley secure top spots on Billboard charts
- "Picture This" from Taylor Swift
- Brad Paisley notches another number one single
- Dierks Bentley debuts new single
- John Rich goes Wall Street
- Tim McGraw gets Def (Leppard, that is)
- Chuck Wicks, Drive-By Truckers, Jason Ringenberg lead new releases
- Dan Tyminski Band plans tour
- LeAnn Rimes releases second single
- McCoy heads to Persian Gulf
- Montgomery Gentry prepare new CD
- Paul Franklin joins The Time Jumpers
- Grand Ole Opry induct Charlie Daniels
- Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood tour adds dates
- The SteelDrivers make national debut
- Nashville Star moves to summer, changes networks
- Phil Stacey releases debut in April
- Tift Merritt plans tour
- Tim McGraw plays spinal cord benefit
- Dolly Parton plays SXSW
- Jewel releases single
- SHeDAISY releases greatest hits in February
- Taylor Swift once again tops two charts
- Faith Hill recuperates from knee surgery, records musc
- Rascal Flatts starts tour Thursday
- Taylor Swift tops country chart
- Chuck Wicks start tour opening for Brad Paisley Wednesday
- Eric Church gets hitched
- Jason Michael Carroll surprises
- Shooter Jennings plays Leno
- Carter's Chord goes for adds on "Young Love"
- Dolly Parton delays release of new CD
- George Strait goes gold
- Jypsi goes for the love with single
- Neal McCoy performs Sunday at Giants-Cowboys playoff game
- Alabama's Randy Owen looks to release single
- Jennifer Hanson opens for Phil Vassar
- Missy Raines leaves Claire Lynch Band, Mark Schatz named new bassist
- Taylor Swift scores a chart double
- Americana Music Association names new board members
- Carrie Newcomer plans tour
- Garth Brooks, George Jones help launch new Crook and Chase show
- Jamie O'Neal video dropping Monday
- Johnny Cash Folsom Prison tribute show cancelled
- Silos bassist Drew Glackin dies suddenly
- Taylor Swift takes over top of album chart
- Hall of famer Ken Nelson dies, signed Haggard, Owens
- It's official: Keith and Nicole are expecting
- James Otto releases new single
- Jason Michael Carroll surprises
- Joe Nichols sets career best with "It Ain't No Crime"
- Ray Scott, Lance Miller split from Warner Nashville
- Rhonda Vincent, iiird Tyme Out, Andy Hall release new discs
- The Wreckers record solo projects
- Carrie Underwood announces new tour; Josh Turner opens
- Country music sales decline 16 percent in 2007
- Garth Brooks plans apperance at country radio event
- James McMurtry plans new CD on new label
- Ronnie Milsap announces tour dates
- Phil Stacey releases debut single Monday
- Taylor Swift, The Eagles continue leading country charts
- Little Big Town welcomes new member
- Neko Case plans northeastern swing
- Steve Holy threatened by Dallas police; now police may be charged
- Gary Allan goes gold
- Lady Antebellum films first video
- Mindy McCready released from jail early
- Reba releases Valentine's Day CD
- Robert Plant, Alison Krauss to tour Europe
December 2007
- Dolly Parton plans world tour
- Keith Urban-Nicole Kidman expecting?
- Jessica Simpson goes country
- Taylor Swift, The Eagles top Billboard country music charts
- Toby Keith's family wins suit in father's death
- Dixie Chicks's Natalie Maines appears at West Memphis 3 rally
- Joe Nichols debuts new single on Leno
- Kenny Chesney gets a little help from a friend, Keith Urban
- Shooter Jennings discovers Crime Scene Investigation
- Team Shelton places second
- Charles Daniels Opry induction set for January
- Joanna Cotten splits with Warner
- Taylor Swift, The Eagles lead the charts
- Whitney Duncan signs with Warner
- Aces prove too wild for Luke Bryan, but Charley Pride's happy
- Alan Jackson looks to tour in 2008
- Carrie Underwood, Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley contribute to live gospel set
- Joe Ely delays CD release
- Rodney Atkins enjoys top played song, again
- The Eagles continue leading country music charts
- Big & Rich head north of the border
- George Strait goes 7x platinum
- Jeff Bates signs new record deal
- The Grascals start recording new CD
- Chuck Wicks achieves fastest rising single from debut artist
- Clash starts tonight for Blake Shelton
- Cracker Barrel looks to release Ricky Skaggs, Kenny Rogers CDs in 2008
- Dailey & Vincent plan Opry debut
- Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw team up in Xmas comedy
- Lonestar broadcasts holiday songs to troops
- Chris Cagle arrested on assault charge
- New Alan Jackson disc coming in March
- Carrie Underwood goes double platinum
- Dancing with Stars champ signs record deal
- Driver-By Truckers ready new CD, tour
- Garth Brooks premiers new video Monday
- Halfway to Hazard performs at Kentucky inauguration
- Kenny Chesney: number one country concert draw in '07
- Sara Evans celebrates holidays with TV show
- Taylor Swift, The Eagles sit atop country music charts
- Toby Keith touring juggernaut continues
- Colgate Country Showdown picks five finalists
- Jason Aldean hits the road
- Kenny Chesney co-produces new Willie Nelson disc out in January
- The Eagles enjoy best selling country disc
- Bluegrass museum adds three streaming shows
- Brad Paisley jams away
- Idol finalist Phil Stacey records CD
- Jennifer Hanson offers free Christmas download
- Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Sugarland, Dierks Bentley play Country Thunder USA
- Travis Tritt sues record label
- Craig Morgan fans trick their trucks
- Miranda Lambert wines up
- Rascal Flatts receives Nashville honor
- Sara Evans co-hosts The View
- Sarah Johns opens George Strait tour
- Taylor Swift jumps to top of country chart, replacing Carrie Underwood
- Eric Church heads into the studio
- If "You Can Duet," Nashville wants you
- Dierks Bentley, Tim McGraw top Grammy country nominations with four; Paisley gets three
- McGraw, Bentley, Gill, Emerson Drive excited about Grammy nominations
- Rascal Flatts member expecting
- Swift gets an early birthday present
- The Eagles reclaim top spot, Carrie Underwood stays there
- Brooks & Dunn's "Cowboy Town" adopted by Wrangler Rodeo
- Capitol/Giantslayer team to release Xmas song
- Laura Bryna goes the Vegas route to promote upcoming CD
- Raul Malo looks to record in '08
- Sara Evans helps national Christmas tree lighting festivities
- The Eagles experience huge sales jump
- Carrie Rodriguez starts recording new disc
- Josh Turner hosts year-end radio show
- The Wreckers, Trace Adkins go live, greatest on new CDs
- ACMs set for May event
- Bucky Covington, Trent Tomlinson release Xmas singles
- Dierks Bentley releases fourth single
- Garth Brooks sells out five LA shows
- Lori McKenna wins Boston Music album award
- Taylor Swift enjoys record week
- Kellie Pickler heads to Persian Gulf on USO tour
- Garth Brooks donates items to Smithsonian
- Kenny Chesney sells out first stadium show in 15 minutes
November 2007
- Ferlin Huskey hospitalized
- Holidays introduces Carter's Chord trio
- The Wreckers ready live CD/DVD
- Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks lead country music charts
- Luke Bryan helps honor soldiers
- Tammy Cochran offers soldiers something extra
- Tanya Tucker tours with The Imperials
- Tickets for Garth Brooks fire benefit go on sale Saturday
- Toby Keith lashes out at failed lawsuit over stealing song
- Brooks & Dunn go Down Under
- Brooks & Dunn, Montgomery Gentry contribute to CD for troops
- Garth Brooks continues with best selling country disc
- Kathleen Edwards announces third disc for 2008
- Uncle Earl clogs on in new video
- Dailey & Vincent perform at Gaither gathering
- Dixie Bee-Liners release new single
- Justin Earle signs with Bloodshot Records
- Red House Records names new president
- Tippin returns from Thanksgiving in Iraq
- Trace Adkins plans winter tour
- Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, Buddy Miller tour together
- Garth Brooks plans Los Angeles benefit for January
- Kathy Mattea starts annual holiday tour this week
- Rascal Flatts brings cheer to Oprah
- Raul Malo commences first holiday tour
- Ryan Adams confirms west coast dates
- Taylor Swift gains airtime
- Garth Brooks, Carrie Underwood claim top spots on country music charts
- Danielle Peck plans for second CD in 2008
- Rodney Atkins gets the VIP treatment from President Bush
- Category 5 Records owner faces state investigation into nursing home business
- Category 5 Records owner files bankrupcty for nursing home company
- Charlie Daniels receives a surprising invitation
- Chris Cagle releases new single
- Keith Urban releases greatest hits
- Kenny Chesney sets first date of 2008 tour
- Rhonda Vincent picks new member for The Rage
- Trace Adkins, meet Donald Trump
- Carrie Underwood notches another number one
- Carrie Underwood takes American Music Awards honors
- Clay Walker sponsors golf tourney
- Collin Raye shows he's no quitter
- John Hughey, steel player for Gill, Twitty, dies
- LeAnn Rimes encourages students to go green
- Luke Bryan shows his foodie skills
- Luke Bryan releases second single
- McGraw goes double platinum
- NewFound Road heads back to studio
- Dierks Bentley, The Eagles top Billboard country music charts
- Dolly Parton takes single to Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Faith Hill performs for troops
- Garth Brooks cancels TV shows, supports writers's strike
- LeAnn Rimes hosts Colgate Country Showdown
- New disc coming from Alan Jackson
- Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson tour together
- Aldean releases new music in Wal-Mart exclusive
- Brad Paisley goes home again
- Dailey & Vincent release set for January
- Sugarland performs at American Music Awards Sunday
- The Eagles still sell the best country-wise, but second best overall
- Underwood, Keith, Brooks, McEntire, Gill help Oklahoma celebrate centennial
- Alan Jackson releases new single
- Dierks Bentley rides single to number one, displaces Kenny Chesney
- Folk Alliance honors Tommy Jarrell, Rounder Records, Mavis Staples
- Trisha Yearwood, George Strait, Alabama, Pam Tillis offer new CDs
- Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow featured on Clapton guitar fest release
- Alabama teams up with Cracker Barrel on live disc
- Celebration of Hank Thompson's life planned
- Keith Urban plays Good Morning America
- Toby Keith enters Okie Hall of Fame
- Tracy Byrd, Mark Chesnutt, Zora Young host Texas bash
- Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban set to tour together
- Ben Helson joins Larry Stephenson Band
- Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Big & Rich highlight 2008 STAGECOACH fest
- Fairytale year continues for Taylor Swift
- Kenny Chesney names new sponsor for 2008 tour
- Lady Antebellum connects with Wagoner family
- The Eagles, Kenny Chesney hold down number one positions
- Tracy Lawrence terms first CMA award "amazing experience"
- Hank Thompson passes away
- Kenny Chesney wins entertainer of the year at CMAs; Underwood, Paisley take two awards apiece
- MerleFest 2008 box office opens soon
- The Eagles top charts
- Brooks, Swift, Little Big Town, Lonestar top new release list
- Eric Church takes on the death penalty in new video
- Garth Brooks launches concert run in Kansas City
- Kenny Chesney readies for 2008 tour, names Rimes opening act
- Rosanne Cash to undergo brain surgery
- Crook & Chase return to TV
- Garth Brooks: number one in sales
- Hank Thompson suffers from cancer
- John Michael Montgomery forms own label
- Avetts works hard for success
- Big Machine starts new label, signs Jewel, Jimmy Wayne, Justin Moore
- Hayes Carll looks for album in '08
- Patty Griffin, Avett Brothers take two Americana Music Association awards
- Porter Wagoner receives musical sendoff at funeral
- Taylor Swift joins elite company
- Underwood, Kenny Chesney top country charts
October 2007
- Carrie Underwood tops charts with sales of 500,000 plus
- Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, Rodney Crowell honor Porter Wagoner in musical tribute
- Martina McBride announces 2008 tour
- Alison Krauss to perform at CMAs
- Alison Krauss, Jason Aldean, Kellie Pickler to perform at CMAs
- Chris LeDoux inducted into Texas Trail of Fame
- Larry the Cable Guy, Josh Turner, Levon Helm lead new releases
- Conway Twitty holiday music sees light of day
- Dolly, Marty Stuart, Dierks Bentley remember Porter Wagoner
- Elizabeth Cook kicks off satellite radio show
- Lorrie Morgan files for divorce from Sammy Kershaw
- Porter Wagoner's funeral set for Thursday
- Toby Keith leads holiday sales
- Vince Gill, Ralph Emery, Mel Tillis join the Country Music Hall of Fame
- XM remembers Porter Wagoner
- Porter Wagoner dies of lung cancer
- Josh Turner joins Grand Ole Opry
- Brad Paisley writes new Grand Ole Opry theme song
- Josh Gracin offers another new single
- Porter Wagoner goes to hospice care
- Carrie Underwood could top charts next week; Plant/Krauss second
- Chesney, Rascal Flatts lead country music sales charts
- Jason Michael Carroll, Bucky Covington start tour tonight
- Trace Adkins shelves scheduled CD for greatest hits package
- Brad Paisley gets marching
- Carrie Underwood sings "The Sound of Music" live in concert
- Country eBay auction, concert support fight against breast cancer
- Rascal Flatts tops album chart
- Bon Jovi adds country flair to opening NJ venue
- Carrie Underwood, Dwight Yoakam, Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, Gary Alan release new CDs
- Keith Urban sets release of greatest hits package; DVD coming also
- Lady Antebellum heads for "The Hills"
- Little Big Town previews new CD
- Reba goes platinum with "Duets"
- "Big" Kenny Alphin arrives in Sudan with medical supplies
- Jamie Foxx joins Rascal Flatts at Country Music Association awards show
- New members named to country DJ and Radio Halls of Fame
- Rebel inks new bluegrass duo
- Risi Palmer makes televised Opry debut
- Tanya Tucker evacuates Malibu home due to area fires
- The Waybacks return to studio
- Porter Wagoner diagnosed with lung cancer
- Blue Grass Boy Tater Tate dies
- Kenny "Big" Alphin heads to provide help in Sudan
- Rhonda Vincent tries to keep a good thing going
- Toby Keith brings holiday cheer to TV
- Bobby Brown, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, Maureen McCormick go country
- Jennifer Hanson completes CD
- Josh Turner performs with Anthony Hamilton
- Kim Richey song on "Grey's Anatomy" tonight
- Porter Wagoner hospitalized in Nashville
- Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney hit number one on country music charts
- Sara Evans launches tour tomorrow with Josh Turner, Luke Bryan, George Ducas`
- Suzy Bogguss appears on A Prairie Home Companion
- Garth Brooks, here he comes to your movie theatre
- LeAnn Rimes hits TV circuit
- Rascal Flatts continues to sell, LeAnn Rimes debuts in second
- Vince Gill, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton get ready for Halloween
- Alan Jackson, Shooter Jennings honor Hank Jr.
- Emmylou Harris gives keynote interview at Americana fest
- iiird Tyme Out releases collection with new recordings
- Jason Michael Carroll scores second Top 10
- John Rich wins songwriting honor
- Merle Haggard goes to number one
- Carrie Undewood promotes new CD
- Garth Brooks teams with Komen charity to raise money from sales of "Ultimate Hits"
- George Strait releases "22 More Hits"
- Good news continues for Taylor Swift
- Hank Williams Jr., Flatt & Scruggs, Bob DiPiero, Dottie Rambo inducted into songwriters hall
- Melba Montgomery recuperating after car accident
- Joe Nichols enters rehab
- Rissi Palmer performs at American League championship game
- Ashley Gearing sings for the Red Sox
- Big & Rich go a different route with new video
- Rascal Flatts, Toby Keith lead country music charts
- Taylor Swift goes Opry
- Bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent sign with Rounder
- Carrie Underwood plans to play New York
- Jesse Dayton, Diana Jones showcase at Americana Music Conference
- Opry performances hit DVD
- Rascal Flatts debuts in first, Brad Paisley is number one "Online"
- Chris Thile and band sign with Nonesuch
- Greenwood, Opry team up to send troops care packages
- Keith Urban returns to recording studio
- Rimes, Evans, Van Zant lead new releases
- Sara Evans heads to Big Apple to promote new CD
- Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts top country American Music Awards nominations
- Toby Keith notches another number one
- Vince Gill stays busy, real busy
- Brad Paisley extends tour into 2008
- Crossin' Dixon film tourism commercial for Mississippi
- Deadstring Brothers announce live DVD recording
- Jo Dee Messina completes Chicago Marathon
- Patty Griffin joins Americana concert
- Rodney Atkins performs for troops
- Springsteen likely to take top sales spot from Rascal Flatts
- Tracy Lawrence readies first Christmas disc
- Garth Brooks sells out nine shows
- Marty Stuart receives country music honor
- Taylor Swift plans deluxe edition of debut
- The Grascals win key IBMA honor again
- Garth restricts concert ticket sales to area states
- Little Big Town launches new disc in November
- Brooks & Dunn, Haggard, Faith Hill top new releases
- Carrie Underwood performs "So Small" at the Opry
- Garth Brooks plays Kansas City show
- Neal McCoy raises $500K for charity
- Tim McGraw web site to host living memorial to soldiers
- Chuck Wicks performs "Stealing Cinderella" at wedding of UT coach's daughter
- George Strait announces '08 tour
- Keith Urban involved in bike accident
- Lyle Lovett to receive American music honor
- Rascal Flatts looks to top charts
- Tony Brown forms production company
September 2007
- Josh Turner invited to join Grand Ole Opry
- Rascal Flatts, Craig Morgan raise women's cancer awareness
- Sara Evans receives divorce
- And debuting at number one, Reba McEntire
- Faith Hill hits the Big Apple
- Grand Ole Opry goes with XM
- Lori McKenna goes to the Grand Ole Opry
- Rodney Atkins named adoption spokesperson
- Uncle Earl, Todd Snider, Sunny Sweeney, Old Crow added to Americana festivities
- Gill, Yearwood, Griffin, Jewel pull in New York
- Pam Tillis gets in the holiday spirit
- Rascal Flatts, Steve Earle, Billy Joe Shaver, Ricky Skaggs and The Whites release new CDs
- The Eagles set to play CMAs
- Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Sugarland Brooks & Dunn, Josh Turner join CMA list performers
- Dierks Bentley goes down the road for charity
- Gene Clark/Carla Olson set of new and old coming in October
- Rascal Flatts donates more than $800K to Vanderbilt hospital
- Reba may end up with number one CD
- Tanya Tucker joins Billy Joe Shaver
- Bomshel finds a roadie
- Nashville reality show features Taylor Swift song
- Rascal Flatts pushes new CD
- Bobby Osborne goes the academic route
- Chesney, Rascal Flatts top charts
- Shooter Jennings makes Opry debut
- Carrie Underwood video premieres Thursday
- Chesney settles in behind Kanye, 50 Cent
- Dualtone Music Group owners sell label
- Marty Stuart to host XM show
- Sara Evans scores number one video for "As If"
- Big & Rich play the wedding circuit
- Reba McEntire, Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, Mary Gauthier release new CDs
- Ryan Adams plans on new EP for October
- Chesney, McBride, Strait, Urban, Rascal Flatts perform at CMAs
- Chuck Wicks debuts single
- Montgomery Gentry rolls into Vegas
- Taylor Swift joins Tennessee fight against online predators
- Hank Williams object of Country Music Hall of Fame exhibition
- Reba McEntire receives honor
- Tour continues for Rascal Flatts
- Rascal Flatts blitzes TV promoting new CD
- Rascal Flatts notches another number one; Taylor Swift stays there
- Ralph Stanley II signs with new label
- Chesney, Flynville Train, Yearwood release new discs
- Drew Davis Band member gets called up
- Elvis special includes Willie, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Faith Hill
- Emerson Drive takes home three award at Canadian CMAs
- Tim McGraw changes Swampstock fundraiser; next one slated for 2008
- Collin Raye joins Utah miners' event
- Joe Nichols ties the knot
- Keith Urban plans greatest hits collection
- Kenny Chesney marches to a different beat on closing night
- Nashville Songwriters honor Hank Jr., Lester Flatt, Bob DiPiero, Mac McAnallay, Dottie Rambo
- Townes Van Zandt named for Americana honor; Emmylou Harris, Hacienda Brothers, Cook play AMA show
- Catherine Britt splits with SonyBMG
- Kenny Chesney tour ends this weekend
- Montgomery Gentry headlines Country in the Rockies
- Toby Keith Xmas disc drops in October
- Blake Shelton donates $100K for Oklahoma disaster relief
- Carrie Underwood breaks her own record
- Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift top Billboard country music charts
- Tim McGraw/Faith Hill set concert record
- Bucky Covington, Jason Michael Carroll co-headline tour
- Faith Hill discloses tracks for "The Hits"
- Garth Brooks sets record, debuting at number one
- Eric Church gets ready for Michigan gig with special T-shirt
- Rockie Lynne becomes first artist of new label
- Keith Urban announces second leg of Love, Pain & the whole crazy World Tour
August 2007
- Larry the Cable Guy gets ready for Christmas
- Reactions to CMA nominations predictably are happy
- Brad Paisley, George Strait top CMA nominations
- Dixie Bee-Liners finish recording new CD
- Faith Hill debuts new song
- Kenny Chesney receives four nominations
- Taylor Swift reacts to CMA nomination
- Taylor Swift, Rodney Atkins lead Billboard country music charts
- Bucky Covington offers new single
- Carrie Underwood announces she's ready for a "Carnival Ride"
- Diamond Rio signs with Word, plans Xmas CD
- Faith Hill kicks off NFL football Sunday night
- Rodney Atkins notches third straight number one
- Chip Taylor, Carrie Rodriguez plan live disc
- Curb signs Ashley Gearing
- Dolly Parton releases new single
- XM Radio expands Nashville presence
- Capitol Records pub crawl draws 5,000, Bentley, Bryan
- Fifteen nominated for Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
- Lucinda Williams makes live shows available on CD
- Charlie Daniels gets a little help from friends Paisley, Brooks & Dunn, Parton
- Skaggs, Hornsby to perform at Americana conference
- The Road to Nashville names a winner
- Carrie Underwood spearheads new Christmas compilation disc
- Only the week has changed: Swift, Chesney stay number one
- Travis Tritt, Joe Nichols lead new releases
- It's a girl for Jason Aldean
- Josh Turner plans on new CD for fall release
- Taylor Swift tops country music chart yet again
- Chuck Wicks makes Opry debut
- Dierks Bentley announces fall tour; Jack Ingram opens
- Little Big Town offers new single
- Taylor Swift shows her talent on "America's Got Talent"
- Garth Brooks confirms new CD/DVD coming in November
- Deana Carter gets a little help from her friends
- Kenny Chesney friend Uncle Kracker charged in sex crime
- Kenny Chesney plays for Saints, but football career appears over
- For Hank Jr., the Monday Night Football tradition continues
- Kenny Chesney,Taylor Swift once again top charts
- Rhonda Vincent, Doyle Lawson lead IBMA nominations
- Heartland lead singer becomes a father
- Is Kenny Chesney quitting music for a pro football career?
- McKenna, Bryan, Steep Canyon Rangers release lead new releases
- New Trick Pony line-up makes Opry debut
- Wynonna gets in the holiday spirit with tour
- Flynville Train readies debut on Toby Keith's ShowDog Nashville label
- Heartland hopes for repeat success
- Sam Bush hosts IBMA show
- Toby Keith announces holiday CD details
- Big & Rich go gold
- Garth Brooks looks to release new CD
- Neither rain, nor wind stops Bucky Covington
- Dixie Chicks, The Eagles team up to open L.A. concert hall
- Ryan Adams plans fall tour
- Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney lead Billboard country charts
- Charlie Daniels hosts Xmas affair with Taylor Swift, Rodney Atkins, Montgomery Gentry, Chris Young
- Taylor Swift remains number one for third straight week
- Willie Nelson's FarmAid sets line up
- Brad Paisley makes a detour
- Faith Hill helps kick off NFL season
- Vince Gill, Mel Tillis, Ralph Emery elected to Country Music Hall of Fame
- Brad Paisley gets his revenge on Kellie Pickler
- Carrie Underwood's "So Small" sets country music record
- Lee Hazlewood dies at 78
- Trisha Yearwood greatest hits package coming in September
- Alison Krauss collaborates with Robert Plant on new CD
- Jennifer Hanson returns with new single
- Kellie Coffey returns with new CD
- Dolly Parton goes her own way with new label, CD
- John Rich auctions his wheels
- Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift remain chart toppers
- Taylor Swift stays at the top
- Tim McGraw adds "If You're Reading This" to "Let It Go" CD
- Vince Gill plays Today show Friday
- Clint Black starts tour late August, Laura Bryna opens
- George Canyon, Shane Yellow lead Canadian CMA nominations
- Shooter Jennings sets release for fourth CD
July 2007
- The Derailers, Tammy Cochran, Robert Gordon/Chris Spedding release new discs
- Carrie Underwood releases new single
- Keith Urban debuts fan video at show
- Pinecastle Records signs Beth Stevens
- Rascal Flatts jump starts "Revolution"
- Little Big Town's Kimberly Roads gives birth
- Big & Rich celebrate getting "Lost in the Moment"
- Brad Paisley plays Leno
- Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley top Billboard country music charts
- Bucky Covington tops sales for debut country artist
- Mindy McCready arrested for probation violation
- Taylor Swift overtakes Brad Paisley on country music chart
- Dwight Yoakam gives Buck Owens the tribute treatment
- Pat Green receives Red Cross honor
- Tim McGraw, Faith Hill plan benefit concert for Katrina victims
- Banjoist Jason Davis completes debut recording
- Brad Paisley sets record, expands tour
- Jason Michael Carroll is a hit in LA, sort of
- Kenny Chesney sets record with "Never Wanted Nothing More"
- Mindy McCready arrested again
- Lucinda Williams plans NY, LA runs, playing entire disc each night
- Big & Rich receive Viet Vets honor
- Joe Ely receives Americana Music Association honor
- Paisley, Big & Rich lead country music charts
- Brad Paisley goes "Online" for video
- Brad Paisley's "Fifth Gear" stays in first gear
- Brooks & Dunn set to release new CD in October
- Gene Watson plans album for September release
- iiird Tyme Out hires new band member
- Josh Gracin returns from Persian Gulf tour
- Tim McGraw, Faith Hill opt for bread and water in Chicago
- Halfway to Hazard opens Tim McGraw/Faith Hill tour
- Jason Aldean plays on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- New Carrie Underwood disc coming this fall
- Rascal Flatts sells out
- Stray Cats founder Lee Rocker plans new CD
- Taylor Swift surpasses 20 million streams
- Lance Miller joins Faith Hill/Tim McGraw tour
- Taylor Swift goes for speed
- Brad Paisley, Big & Rich top Billboard country music charts
- Cowboy Troy searches for Miss Hick Chick
- Martina McBride enjoys top grossing country female tour of 2007
- Willie Nelson will receive BMI honor
- Brad Paisley once again owns best selling country music disc
- Cole Deggs, Sarah Buxton, Bobby Osborne, Kim Richey top new releases`
- Grascals, Cherryholmes, Emmylou Harris, Doyle Lawson top bluegrass event
- Tim McGraw enjoys best selling country music CD of year, so far
- Big & Rich gets lost at number one
- Country Music Fall of Fame honors Marty Robbins
- Jo Dee Messina becomes a "Biker Chick"
- Pickler performs on Good Morning America
- Pinecastle Records inks Dixie Bee-Liners
- Rascal Flatts single goes top 25
- Sugarland, Little Big Town, Jake Owen tour together this fall
- Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood play Live Earth
- Merle Haggard goes bluegrass
- Capitol signs Lady Antebellum
- Jamie O'Neal, Capitol Nashville split
- Montgomery Gentry, Brad Paisley top charts for second straight week
- Ryan Adams extends tour behind record sales
- Terri Clark gets CD rescheduled to 2008
- Bluegrasser Ray Goins dies
- Josh Turner releases live CD
- Neal McCoy gets his mug on beer can
- Billy Joe Shaver readies spiritual disc
- Boots Randolph dies at 80
- Faith Hill, Tim McGraw auction off Jeep on eBay
- Kathy Mattea opposes coal mountaintop clearing
- Steve Earle returns with new disc in September
- George Strait becomes all-time co-leader of most chart toppers
- New Trisha Yearwood single coming
- Rascal Flatts releases new single
- Reba's company manages Kelly Clarkson
- Rosanne Cash signs record deal
- Sarah Buxton, Trent Tomlinson share something in common
- Sugarland cancels three shows due to Nettles' tonsilitis
- With "What Kinda Gone," Chris Cagle hopes for chart return
- CMA Music Fest brings $21 million to Nashville
- Mark Chesnutt signs with Lofton Creek
- Sara Evans releases new single
- So goes Hootie, so goes Steve Azar
- Van Zant plays their kind of country
June 2007
- Blake Shelton becomes a foodie
- Montgomery Gentry, Brad Paisley reach number one on Billboard country music charts
- Taylor Swift joins with Symphony for July 4 celebration
- Bon Jovi's country influenced CD "Lost Highway" goes numero uno
- Brad Paisley's "5th Gear" goes first
- Terri Clark disc gets delayed
- Alabama's Randy Owen plans solo disc, tours
- Sarah Buxton goes the digital route
- Brad Paisley gets in tune with "Online" video
- Jason Aldean hits the top of the video chart
- Jason Michael Carroll hits the 200,000 mark
- Johnny Rodriguez is busted
- Josh Gracin tours Persian Gulf
- Kris Kristofferson becomes Country Music Hall of Fame artist in residence
- Montgomery Gentry gets lucky, man
- Jo Dee Messina announces engagement
- Keith Urban plays Live Earth New York
- Kenny Chesney sets release date for new CD
- Miranda Lambert receives honor from Texas legislature
- LeAnn Rimes gets almighty
- Brad Paisley loves "Ticks," while Toby Keith goes to the top
- Avett Brothers, Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin lead Americana nominations
- Chris Cagle goes to Korea for military
- Toby Keith goes to the top with new disc
- Faith Hill, Tim McGraw receive Academy of Country Music honor
- Carrie Underwood goes digital platinum
- Ferlin Huskey resting after surgery
- James Stroud to co-produce Clint Black CD
- Jason Michael Carroll enjoys top selling CD at CMA Music Fest
- The Band's Richard Bell dies
- Rissi Palmer makes Opry debut June 22
- Brad Paisley plays Good Morning America in Big Apple
- Country Music Hall of Fame offers 2008 calendar
- Messina performs at the White House
- Porter Wagoner hits David Letterman show in July
- Sammy Kershaw runs for political office
- Stray Cats plan summer tour, new CD/DVD
- Taylor Swift earns special status
- Tracy Lawrence plans "Friends" video
- Tracy Lawrence, Big & Rich top Billboard country charts
- Trisha Yearwood, Rhonda Vincent, Ashley Monroe perform at ACM event
- Big & Rich will top Billboard country music album chart
- Buzz Cason signs with Palo Duro Records
- Clint Black releases new single
- Former Clinch Mountain Boy Charlie Sizemore signs with Rounder Records
- Steve Azar headlines July 4 D.C. show
- Tim McGraw/Faith Hill tour sets records
- Trace Adkins cancels Presidential performance, cites back injury
- Billy Joe Shaver gets spiritual with help of John Carter Cash
- CMA Music Fest enjoys record attendance`
- Josh Turner live coming out in July
- Rascal Flatts launches summer tour
- Tracy Lawrence finds out he's number one
- Jake Owen scores first Top 10 single
- Keith Urban opens U.S. leg of the tour
- Taylor Swift goes platinum
- Tim McGraw officially releases "If You're Reading This" to radio
- Mel Tillis joins the Grand Ole Opry
- Bronchitis forces Taylor Swift to cancel shows
- LeAnn Rimes releases new single
- Toby Keith ready to launch "Big Dog Daddy" CD
- Indie labels' Aldean, Emerson Drive top Billboard country music charts`
- Kenny Chesney names new disc
- Country Music Festival gets ready to start Thursday
- Jo Dee Messina, Trace Adkins to sing for President Bush
- Porter Wagoner opens for White Stripes at the Garden
- Emerson Drive enjoys the "Moment"
- Jason Aldean debuts at number one
- Craig Morgan launches tour
- Jennifer Hanson cuts single, shoots video
- Sarah Johns makes Opry debut
- Chris Cagle returns to studio
- Chris Cagle returns to studio
- Ryan Adams announces tour dates
- Tim McGraw/Faith Hill tour adds opening acts
May 2007
- Carrie Underwood, Billy Currington lead country music charts
- Dierks Bentley goes virtual
- Martina McBride participates in July 4 celebration
- New country label forms
- Carrie Underwood regains the number one country music album spot
- Chely Wright launches benefit auction
- Jedd Hughes signs with Capitol
- Kenny Chesney plans to release new single from forthcoming CD
- Tim McGraw song scores at radio despite not being released
- Toby Keith picked for Okie Hall of Fame
- Miranda Lambert beats Dierks Bentley to the punch
- Porter Wagoner receives IFCO Tex Ritter Award honor
- Josh Turner sings at Memorial Day event
- Gretchen Wilson, Billy Currington lead country music charts
- Jason Michael Carroll, Elizabeth Cook, Tanya Tucker and Darryl Worley top CMA Music Fest show
- Montgomery Gentry, Maya Angelou: strange bedfellows perform together
- Special Consensus add new member
- Tim McGraw, Dierks Bentley, Gary Allan, Lyle Lovett headline Big State Festival
- Rascal Flatts, Ricky Skaggs, Charlie Daniels participate in religious disc
- The Derailers' Brian Hofeldt unhurt in car accident totalling his car
- Billy Currington stays at number one
- Charles Lamb country music journalism honors announced
- Eric Church shows you can go home again
- Opry parties swings into action
- Phil Vassar releases new single
- Tracy Byrd plays for free
- Porter Wagoner celebrates golden anniversary at Grand Ole Opry
- Carrie Underwood goes sextuple platinum
- Sugarland pushes new single
- "The Bluegrass Sessions" from Merle Haggard are coming
- Big & Rich exhibition lands at Country Music Hall of Fame
- Billy Currington, Carrie Underwood secure top of country charts
- Ronnie McCoury releases kid's album
- Soap opera stars hit CMA Music Fest
- Travis Tritt releases first single for new label
- Carrie Underwood returns to the top
- For Kenny Chesney, the ACMs prove "unbelievable"
- Shania Twain plans on '08 release for new CD
- Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn start tour
- Brad Paisley lets out "Ticks"
- Faith Hill debuts new single at Academy of Country Music awards Tuesday
- Gretchen Wilson, John Anderson top week's releases
- Kenny Chesney wins top Academy of Country Music honor
- Tonight's the night for the ACM Awards show
- Mel Tillis to join Grand Ole Opry
- Tammy Cochran signs with Shanachie
- "Reba Duets" gets a firm September release date
- Final Academy of Country Music presenters, performers announced
- Gene Watson signs with Shanachie Records
- Sugarland, Miranda Lambert top country charts
- Trisha Yearwood jumps from MCA to Big Machine
- Miranda Lambert tops the country chart with "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
- Toby Keith embarks on USO tour
- Music veteran starts country label
- Tim McGraw goes platinum
- Country Music Hall of Fame honors George Strait, Harold Bradley, Sonny James
- For Brad Paisley, the tricks by Kellie Pickler, Jack Ingram, Taylor Swift are on "Ticks"
- Taylor Swift achieves digital gold
- International Bluegrass Museum launches Internet radio station
- Academy of Country Music adds second night of free music
- Blake Shelton raises more than $100K in fundraiser
- Neal McCoy's 903 label to close
- Carrie Underwood sets record with iTunes track
- Jason Aldean plans Concert for The Cure
- Jennifer Hanson returns to action with Universal South
- Taylor Swift spots Brad Paisley, may seal her own fate
- Toby Keith outing raises more than $500K
- Underwood receives good, bad news on charts
- Carrie Underwood ascends to top of album chart again
- Wrangler continues sponsorship of Darryl Worley
- Billy Currington goes platinum
- Dann Huff wins Academy of Country Music producer honor
- Mary Chapin Carpenter cancels tour due to illness
- Terri Clark gets a little help from friends on new CD
April 2007
- Brad Paisley starts tour
- Doyle Lawson announces new band member
- Ralph Stanley sings for Queen Elizabeth II
- Rascal Flatts takes over at number one from Carrie Underwood
- Sarah Buxton debuts at Opry House
- Attendance drops at Merlfest
- Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, Rodney Atkins, Craig Morgan hit the diamond
- Joe Nichols releases new single
- Marty Stuart announces Late Night Jam lineup
- Carrie Underwood video available on iTunes, benefits charity
- Carrie Underwood, Bucky Covington sit atop Billboard country music charts
- Faith Hill greatest hits CD receive delay
- Jimmy Wayne, Dusty Drake CDs get pushed back
- Keith Urban releases new single
- Bucky Covington debuts at number one on country music album chart
- Jason Aldean, Vince Gill, Little Big Town, Josh Turner, Taylor Swift perform at ACM Awards
- NASCAR drives Joe Nichols
- Ron Block of Alison Krauss' band releases bluegrass CD in June
- Carrie Underwood travels to South Africa for American Idol
- Raul Malo plans new solo disc
- Willie Nelson pleads out on pot charge
- Collin Raye signs with new label
- Kenny Rogers goes digital via Capitol Nashville
- Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, Little Big Town, The Wreckers perform at ACM charity event
- Reba McEntire plans duets album
- Brad Paisley still recording new CD
- David Nail signs new record deal
- Keith Urban starts world tour
- Universal inks Charlie Pate
- Dierks Bentley gives a handout
- Dolly Parton, Buck Owens, Waylon Jennings, Harlan Howard honored by Academy of Country Music
- Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood once again lead country music charts
- Trace Adkins tries to feel something with new single
- Josh Turner returns home to sing National Anthem at NASCAR's Darlington 500
- Tim McGraw continues as best selling country music CD
- Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood named to perform at ACM show
- Trick Pony debuts new line-up
- Universal signs Ashton Shepherd to deal
- Asleep at the Wheel joins Stagecoach festival
- Bucky Covington, Clay Walker, Pam Tillis top new releases
- Uncle Earl, band member win John Lennon songwriting contest
- Blake Shelton holds hometown fundraiser
- Lori McKenna joins Tim McGraw/Faith Hill tour
- MerleFest 2007 reaches out to the North Carolina community
- Vince Gill hosts Academy of Country Music golf tourney
- Dale Watson sets tour in support of new Johnny Cash-influenced CD
- Jason Isbell leaves Drive-By Truckers
- Kelly Willis releases first album in five years
- Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Reba McEntire, Sugarland perform at ACMs
- Big & Rich host poker tourney
- Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw top Billboard country song, album charts
- Rascal Flatts to perform on American Idol
- Sandy Brooks' kidnapper goes free
- Toby Keith helps raise money to battle cancer
- Uncle Earl, Pete Wernick help kick off MerleFest
- Carrie Underwood goes number one yet again
- George Strait, Wrangler team up for 2007 endorsement deal
- Joe Walsh of The Eagles joins Kenny Chesney on tour
- Josh Gracin performs for Laura Bush
- Luke Bryan reaches a goal - playing the Opry
- Tim McGraw tops country music chart, slips to second overall
- Fire destroys home of Johnny Cash
- Dierks Bentley hits Austin City Limits
- Trace Adkins releases new single
- Josh Turner partners with Cracker Barrel for tour, live CD
- Bluebird Cafe celebrates 25th anniversary
- Jack Ingram plans for new single
- Little Texas regroups for "Missing Years"
- Tim McGraw checks in at number one on Billboard overall, country music charts
- Tim McGraw-owned label partners with Mercury
- Billy Joe Shaver posts bond in alleged shooting, versions of incident differ
- Capitol Records launches online contest to find country music talent
- Gretchen Wilson concludes back to basics tour
- Tim McGraw scores number one CD in U.S.
- Martina McBride, Alison Krauss, Larry the Cable Guy top week's country, bluegrass releases
- Vince Gill adds Del McCoury Band, Amy Grant to summer tour
- Charlie Daniels releases book about country music
- George Canyon wins Canadian Juno award
- Marty Robbins receives Country Music Hall of Fame honor
March 2007
- Bill Anderson goes bluegrass with new disc
- Nashville Star sets tour dates
- Rodney Atkins set to appear on Today show
- Faith Hill, Tim McGraw add dates to Soul2Soul2007 tour
- Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood maintain number one status on Billboard country music charts
- Little Big Town's Phillip Sweet ties the knot
- Taylor Swift opens Dodgers season
- Clay Walker steps to the plate
- For Catherine Britt, the fans know the words
- MerleFest 2007 songwriting contest finalists announced
- Billy Currington works on new disc
- Kix Brooks leads Academy of Country Music off-air nominations
- Tim McGraw, Jack Ingram top album releases
- Wynonna Judd files for divorce
- Brad Paisley slates June release of new CD
- Carmen Rasmusen signs with Lofton Creek Records
- Craig Morgan catches American Idol live
- Former Alabama member Jeff Cook signs record deal as duo
- June Carter Cash tribute gets moved up
- Marty Stuart plans new disc for June
- Rodney Atkins goes to platinum
- Tickets for Tim McGraw, Faith Hill go on sale
- Rascal Flatts plans new disc for September
- Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss play at upcoming Eric Clapton guitar fest
- Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney top Billboard country charts
- Reba McEntire hosts ACMs
- Waylon Jennings ringtone for "Dukes of Hazzard" goes platinum
- Alison Krauss launches summer tour
- Billy Currington sings at NASCAR race
- Haggard/Nelson/Price and Skaggs/Hornsby release new discs
- Road Hammers sign with Montage Music
- Bon Jovi goes country with new CD, "Lost Highway"
- Brad Paisley extends tour into fall
- Jason Aldean video for "Johnny Cash" set to play on TV
- Lonestar's Richie McDonald leaves, band leaves label
- Singing with George Jones, Joe Nichols gets a special Opry treat
- Raybaw label folds, John Anderson left without label
- Chesney, Allan top charts
- Gary Allan tops country chart
- Tim McGraw checks out the Big Apple
- Toby Keith plans Big Dog Daddy tour
- Chely Wright returns to the studio with Rodney Crowell
- Country music celebrity houses being auctioned
- Terri Clark releases first single
- Trent Tomlinson goes to the Grand Ole Opry
- Willie Nelson plans to record for his own label, signs sons
- Gretchen Wilson: new CD coming May 15
- Kim Richey plans on releasing first disc in five years
- Little Big Town goes platinum
- Live from New York, it's Carrie Underwood
- Tim McGraw sets record in Canada
- George Strait reschedules weekend shows
- Dierks Bentley pushes DVD
- Joe Nichols records new disc
- Little Big Town hits Great American Country show
- Little Big Town's Kimberly Rhoads is pregnant
- Trace Adkins, Dixie Chicks remain atop Billboard country music charts
- Bucky Covington hits the Grand Ole Opry
- Jason Aldean goes platinum
- Jo Dee Messina goes for Extreme Makeover
- Tim McGraw, Faith Hill announce tour plans
- Miranda Lambert shoots video
- Pam, Mel Tillis featured at Country Music Hall of Fame
- Rural Rhythm bluegrass label adds digital distribution
- Chris LeDoux to be honored by statue
- George Strait leads ACM nominations with eight, Brooks & Dunn win Humanitarian award
- Palo Duro, Jerry Jeff Walker settle lawsuit
- Phil Vassar leaves Arista for Universal South
- Surprise surprise, Academy of Country Music nominees are thrilled
- Willie Nelson forms record label
- Miranda Lambert goes platinum
- Angela Hacker wins Nashville Star
- Bucky Covington video goes to number one
- Josh Turner goes double platinum
- Brooks & Dunn, Pat Green, Kellie Pickler join Red Cross Cabinet
- Cherryholmes CD coming in June
- Trace Adkins tops song chart; Dixie Chicks reign over album chart
February 2007
- Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn hit the road - together
- Country Music Hall of Fame presents Hank Cochran program
- Ryan Adams plans new CD
- Sandanista tribute disc to The Clash coming
- Compadre Records bought by Beyonce's father
- Country music songwriters descend on New York
- Daryle Singletary, Elana James, Donna Hughes lead new releases
- Hank Jr. assault charges dropped
- Jason Aldean plans May CD release
- Rascal Flatts surpasses 1 million downloads with 2 songs
- Emmylou Harris, Mark Knopfler close Soundstage season
- Flatt & Scruggs TV show DVD coming
- Golden Smog releases new disc
- Grand Ole Opry returns to the house
- Montgomery Gentry host bike rally
- Willie Nelson opposes war, but supports troops
- Brad Paisley becomes a father
- Dixie Chicks take long way back to the top
- Split Lip Rayfield's Rundstrom dies
- Category 5 inks first female artist
- Jackson, Strait, Buffett live album coming out
- Nashville celebrates Rascal Flatts
- June Carter Cash book, tribute CD coming
- Kenny Chesney denies being gay on "60 Minutes"
- Rascal Flatts goes quad platinum
- Terri Clark files for divorce
- Gretchen Wilson raises $160K
- Strait, Carroll top charts
- Carroll goes straight to the top
- Chesney gets the "60 Minutes" treatment
- Hollywood home of McGraw, Hill broken into
- That's Dr. Loretta Lynn
- Miranda, what's that single again"
- Americana Music Association gets new head
- Chicks win big at the Grammys, taking five awards
- Chesney announces tour schedule
- Kenny Chesney sells out
- Sony, Patty Loveless part ways
- Luke Bryan plays the Opry
- Totally Country tops charts
- Keith Urban sues Keith Urban
- Sugarland hoops it up at ACC basketball tourney
- Trace Adkins rings up gold
- Wailin' Jennys change
- Marty Stuart hosts Grammy event
- Reba returns to CMA Fest
- Toby Keith sets June for new CD
- Tim, Faith plan summer tour
- Atkins, Underwood stay atop the charts
January 2007
- Jason Aldean records new disc
- Live from New York, it's Keith Urban
- Rascal Flatts hangs with Chad
- Rowdy Frynds tour announced
- Chuck Wicks debuts in top 10
- Montgomery Gentry do it again and again, 80 times again
- Pam Tillis returns in April with new CD
- PovertyNeck Hillbillies leave Rust behind
- Fugitive arrested in alleged Gayle tour bus theft
- Totally Country coming soon again
- Atkins maintains his watch
- Urban announces tour stops
- Van Zant starts work on second disc
- Toby Keith releases new single
- Keith Urban thanks fans
- Tippin releases new single
- Taylor Swift goes gold
- Darryl Worley performs at AFC championship game
- The Hag, Willie and Ray Price join forces
- Atkins moves to the top, while Rascal Flatts stays there
- Cole Deggs digs Dunn
- Martina McBride announces new CD, tour for April
- Pickler goes for the gold
- Miranda Lambert set for soph release
- Taylor Swift, Tyler Hilton get together for video
- Urban plans world tour
- Bentley, CCR hit the clubs
- Dale Watson plans new album with new label
- Rodney Atkins goes to the top
- Kenny Chesney adds 13 stadium shows
- Live from LA, it's Garth Brooks
- Chesney hits the stadiums this summer
- Rascal Flatts reclaims the top
- Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, Nelson join StageCoach Festival
- Carrie Underwood reaches 5 million
- Dierks Bentley plans March DVD release
- Sneaky Pete Kleinow passes away
- Brad Paisley announces '07 tour
- Jason Michael Carroll rises
- Kenny Chesney tops '06 with most concert tickets sold
- First McGraw CD in three years about to drop
- Category 5 inks Jerrod Niemann
- Clint Black feels the love on new CD
- Paisley, Underwood top the charts
- Pinecastle signs Grasstowne
- American Idol finalist Covington signs with Mickey
- Del Reeves dies at 73
- Jimmy Buffett goes for the gold
- Jo Dee Messina heads to Italy to perform for troops
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