"NOW That's What I Call Country" leads country chart
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 – Only two country discs will be in the top 20 of all music sold on Billboard's top200 chart when it is out Thursday. "NOW That's What I Call Country," a various artists package of recent hits, debuts at number 7 on the overall chart and first in country, while Sugarland's {Love on the Inside" was eighth and second respectively. Jimmy Wayne debuted at number 27 on the overall top 200 chart with "Do You Believe Me" selling 20,000 units.
Sugarland, Kenny
Chesney, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts,
Trace Adkins, George Strait and Reba McEntire are among those on the set.
CD reviews for Various Artists

Alice Randall is an author, college professor and country music songwriter. Over the past 40 years, Randall, who is African American and a long-time Nashville resident, has written/co-written hit country songs for artists like Trisha Yearwood ("XXX's and OOO's"), Glen Campbell, Moe Bandy, Judy Rodman, Holly Dunn, Radney Foster and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Like most Music ERow songsmiths, Randall is not a household name.
Despite all her success, her songs have mostly
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Unlike a few previous country artist tributes to other rock acts, the Rolling Stones also have some real country in 'em. Many of these twangier sounds were inspired by Keith Richards' friendship with country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons. Mick Jagger has likely never considered himself a country vocalist, as he's always called himself more of a blues singer. Nevertheless, he's always sung with more of an American tone, than a British one, so he's much countrier than he may
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This 12-song tribute to songwriter Billy Joe Shaver features country music outlaws, both old (Willie Nelson) and new (Ryan Bingham, Nikki Lane, Margo Price) with a few wildcards (Edie Brickell, Nathaniel Rateliff) also thrown into the mix. Shaver is best known among country folk, but is loved by any and all that appreciate truly heartfelt songs.
True outlaws, like David Allan Coe, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, recorded Shaver songs, but some of his greatest songs express a deeply spiritual side to his art.
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