March 9, 2010 - Carrie Underwood's "Play On Tour," will kick off this Thursday, March 11 in Reading, Pa. with special guests Craig Morgan and Sons of Sylvia. The "Play On Tour," is currently slated to run through June 20 in Saskatoon, Canada.
The tour apparently plans to bring Underwood to the back of the crowd at one point.... »»»March 9, 2010 - Alan Jackson's 18th album, "Freight Train," releases on March 30, and a new track from the album will be available for purchase exclusively on the iTunes Store every week for 3 weeks heading into the album release.
The exclusive iTunes Countdown pre-release tracks begin today with Hard Hat and a Hammer.... »»»March 9, 2010 - Laura Bell Bundy's major label debut album, "Achin' And Shakin'," is slated for release April 13 on Mercury Nashville. The lead single Giddy On Up has received almost 1 million streams in a month and has sold more than 30,000 digital singles.
The album is a concept broken into two styles.... »»»March 8, 2010 - Billy Currington garners his fifth number one single with That's How Country Boys Roll this week, according to his record label. Currington will take over the top spot from Josh Turner's Why Don't We Just Dance.
The new number one song, written by Currington, Brett Jones and Dallas Davidson, is from... »»»March 8, 2010 - Little Big Town continues to get bigger. This time, Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook had their first child on Friday. Elijah Dylan Westbrook is the boy's name.
"We've been waiting for this for a long time and can't tell you how thrilled and blessed we both feel," People.com quoted Fairchild.... »»»March 8, 2010 - Dwight Yoakam allegedly owes the IRS $458,000, it was reported on several web sites Monday.
The IRS filed a lien against Yoakam at the Los Angeles County Records of Deeds on Jan. 10.
No further information was available about the country singer and his tax... »»»March 8, 2010 - Dierks Bentley is following through on his threat to go bluegrass. The country singer will release "Up On The Ridge " this summer.
Bentley will work with the Del McCoury Band and Chris Thile and the Punch Brothers on the release. The disc also features vocal and instrumental contributions ranging... »»»March 7, 2010 - The lead singer of alt.-country band Sparklehorse, Mark Linkous, committed suicide on Saturday in Knoxville at 47.
The New York Times reported that his manager Shelby Meade said Linkous shot himself in the heart in an alley outside a friend's home.
Sparklehorse released four adults between 1995 and 2006.... »»»March 7, 2010 - Jeff Bridges won the Oscar for best actor Sunday for his depiction of a down-and-out country singer Bsd Blake in "Crazy Heart." This was Bridges' first Oscar after being nominated five time.
Thrusting the Oscar statue aloft, Bridges said, "Thanks Mom and Dad for introducing me to a groovy profession," he said.... »»»March 7, 2010 - Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett won the Oscar for Best Original Song for The Weary Kind from the picture "Crazy Heart."
Bingham thanked the cast and crew of the movie about a down-and-out country singer before walking off the stage.
Other nominees were:
Almost There from The Princess and the Frog... »»»March 7, 2010 - Brad Paisley was hospitalized Saturday following a fall on stage, but suffered only a bad bruise, according to his publicist.
Paisley's American Saturday Night Tour made its final stop on the tour at the Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C. last night. On the final note of the encore finale... »»»March 5, 2010 - An inspirational compilation disc including songs by George Strait and Keith Urban is being put out by the Country Music Hall of Fame and New Haven Records.
"Sunday in the Country: 12 Inspiring Hits From Today's Top Country Artists" will be out this month, although no firm date was given.... »»»
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March 5, 2010 - Justin Townes Earle will head back into the studio in May to record his third full-length disc, he said Thursday.
Earle's stature has grown through steady touring and excellent reviews for his last album, "Midnight at the Movies," which came out in March 2009 on Bloodshot.
Earle said he would continue... »»»March 5, 2010 - Martina McBride and the Court Yard Hounds, the Dixie Chicks offshoot group, were added to the Lilith Fair, which is returning this year after an 11-year hiatus.
They join Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris, Sugarland and Miranda Lambert who were already announced as participating in the tour.... »»»March 4, 2010 - Josh Turner and Lady Antebellum continued atop the Billboard country song and album charts respectively for the week ending March 13 with Why Don't We Just Dance and "Need You Now" respectively. The last album from Johnny Cash, "American VI: Ain't No Grave," debuted at second on the country chart.... »»»March 4, 2010 - Lady Antebellum is keeping their Ryman dates in the family. The trio announced today that Universal Music's Josh Kelley, brother of Lady A's Charles, and Randy Montana will join their back-to-back sold out concerts on March 10 and 11.
Kelley and Montana will debut a selection of new music with short... »»»March 4, 2010 - Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson will participate in the CMA Music Festival in June in Nashville, the Country Music Association announced Thursday.
Billy Currington and Kellie Pickler also were added to the line-up for the festival being held Thursday through Sunday, June 10-13 in Nashville.... »»»March 4, 2010 - Faith Hill and Chris Isaak will be among the guest performers at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th annual induction ceremony Monday, March 15 in New York City, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Others slated to perform include Peter Wolf, Pat Monahan of Train, Ronnie Spector, Fefe Dobson,... »»»March 3, 2010 - The Claire Lynch Band has undergone a change with guitarist Jim Hurst leaving and Matt Wingate coming aboard.
Winning Merlefest's Doc Watson Guitar Championship in 1997 at the age of 15, at a time when he was performing with his family band, Wingate later honed his bluegrass chops performing across the U.S.... »»»March 3, 2010 - Following his tour last year in support of "The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo" CD, Steve Martin, once again joined by the Steep Canyon Rangers, will embark on a 2010 music tour beginning in April and expected to continue into October.
Martin, better known as a comedian and actor, is... »»»March 3, 2010 - The Grascals will release their fourth CD, "The Famous Lefty Flynn's," on Rounder Records March 30, just a few days before the band hits the road as a part of Hank Williams Jr.'s Rowdy Friends Tour.
As a guest on the CD, Williams also joins the band for a country/bluegrass version of I'm Blue, I'm... »»»
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