July 24, 2008 - Paul Brandt, George Canyon, Doc Walker, Emerson Drive and Jessie Farrell were nominated for the Canadian Country Music Association's Fans' Choice Award.
Beginning Friday, July 25 until Sunday, Sept. 7, the public can vote online at CMT.ca for their choice. The winner will be announced during the CCMA... »»»July 23, 2008 - Faith Hill fans, who are in the Mobile Club, can listen to track previews from her upcoming, Christmas album, "Joy to the World." Fans can hear one new track per week, culminating with the album's official release on Sept. 16.
The 11-track CD features The Nashville String Machine as well as the... »»»July 23, 2008 - Vince Gill will go the acoustic route on a tour starting in mid-August and ending near Thanksgiving. The tour is being billed as A Special Acoustic Evening With Vince Gill. Accompanied only by pianist Pete Wasner and percussionist Billy Thomas,Gill will present an array of his songs along with some new material.... »»»July 23, 2008 - Taylor Swift has the two best selling country CDs, including one that I available only at Wal-Mart. And Randy Travis had his best opening week ever with his first country disc in eight years.
Taylor's "Beautiful Eyes" EP with six acoustic songs and a DVD debuted first on the country charts and ninth... »»»July 22, 2008 - Dolly Parton returned from the most successful European tour of her 40-plus year career, where she performed 17 shows to more than 170,000 fans, surpassing her then-best 2007 European tour, where she played 21 shows for over 140,000 people.
Parton was in Europe for a leg of stadium and arena dates... »»»July 22, 2008 - Sugarland certainly has enjoyed much success on their first two CDs with a slew of hits, including "Baby Girl," Something More," "Settlin'" and "Want To." Now, Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush are releasing their third CD, "Love On the Inside" in two formats. The deluxe version comes out today with 17... »»»July 22, 2008 - Ashlee Hewitt, the 20-year-Minnesota native, was given the boot from Nashville Star Monday, leaving 4 finalists. At one point, it seemed that Hewitt was in line to win the contest.
The decision at the end of the original song segment of the show left Coffey, Gabe Garcia, Melissa Lawson and Shawn Mayer in contention.... »»»July 22, 2008 - Alan Jackson is having a great week. On the same week that he learned that he garnered is 33rd number 1 single, the singer also crossed the 50-million album sales milestone.
Jackson was the first artist signed to the fledgling Arista Nashville record label in 1989, and with the release the following... »»»July 21, 2008 - Alan Jackson just scored the second number one single from "Good Time" with the title track doing the trick. "Good Time" is Jackson's 33rd number l and follows "Small Town Southern Man" at the top spot. Jackson takes over the top of the country song chart from Blake Shelton, who was number one with "Home.... »»»July 21, 2008 - Julianne Hough will try to double the pleasure and fun of Wrigley gum aficionados as she is going to cut her version of the Wrigley gum jingle. Hough will join Ne-Yo and Chris Brown in giving the "double your pleasure, double your fun" jingle the once... »»»July 21, 2008 - Julianne Hough was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Choreography" for her Mambo routine on Dancing With The Stars. Hough was a two-time winner of the dance competition.
Others nominated this year were Kenny Ortega, Charles Klapow & Bonnie Story (High School Musical 2), Wade... »»»
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July 21, 2008 - Music veteran James Stroud announced the formation of a new label last week, and it's been reported that Willie Nelson, Lorrie Morgan and Darryl Worley are coming aboard. Stroud was the former head of Giant Records and DreamWorks Nashville.
The label will be called Stroudavarious Records and distributed by Sony RED.... »»»July 18, 2008 - Tim McGraw is working on a movie with Robert Duvall. "Get Low" is slated to see the light of day in 2009.
There was no word on what the movie was about. Aaron Schneider is the director. The movie comes from a screenplay and story from Chris Provenzano. Schneider won an Oscar in 2004 for best short... »»»July 18, 2008 - Rissi Palmer will release a video for her latest single, "No Air," with the video debuting on CMT Monday, July 21 and online premiere at Yahoo! Music. "No Air" is Palmer's third single and has become her fastest rising song to date. Originally recorded by American Idol winner Jordin Sparks and Chris... »»»July 18, 2008 - Dierks Bentley will return to Europe this weekend for a headlining tour with sold out stops in England, Ireland, Norway and France.
"It's great to be going back over again," said Bentley before taking the stage last night at Country Thunder in Twin Lakes, Minn. "It's a chance to see some friends and... »»»July 18, 2008 - Kellie Pickler did quite well with her "Small Town Girl" debut, and now she'll try to follow-up that with her self-titled, sophomore album on Sept. 30.
"I'm so excited and proud of the new album," said Pickler. "The material on the new album is part small town girl, but also a reflection of the... »»»July 17, 2008 - Tim McGraw is working on a movie with Robert Duvall. "Get Low" is slated to see the light of day in 2009. the film is currently in pre-production.
There was no word on what the movie was about. Aaron Schneider is the director. Schneider won an Oscar in 2004 for best short film, live action for "Two Soldiers.... »»»July 17, 2008 - Blake Shelton is not resting on his laurels. With "Home" number one for a second week, he's looking ahead to his new single. "She Wouldn't Be Gone," from his forthcoming album, will premiere on CMT.com on Monday, July 21. The single is written by Cory Batten and Jennifer Adan and produced by Scott Hendricks.... »»»July 17, 2008 - Blake Shelton topped the Billboard country song chart for the second week in a row with "Home," while Taylor Swift once more was number 1 on the country album chart with "Taylor Swift" for the week ending July 26.
On the album chart, Alan Jackson was second again with "Good Time.... »»»July 17, 2008 - It may be only July, but it's not too soon to think about Christmas, at least for well-known music man James Stroud. He is releasing "Sounds of the Season" by the Stroudavarious Orchestra, a 10-song instrumental CD created for QVC. The collection is slated to play
throughout QVC's 24-hour Christmas in... »»»July 17, 2008 - Dan Tyminski, who just released his bluegrass album "Wheels" last month, shot a video for the title track.
The video, directed by Rocky Schenck, who co-produced with Brad Paul, was shot on The Sierra Hotel train car on June 10 -11 in California. The Sierra Hotel car was part of the California Zephyr... »»»
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