March 31, 2006 - Clint Black will re-open the late Buck Owens' club the Crystal Palace on Tuesday, April 4th in a special performance.
The Bakersfield, Cal. club is a popular landmark for music fans, and the last venue that the venerable Buck Owens performed in prior to his death last weekend. Black, an Owens fan,... »»»March 30, 2006 - Emerson Drive will make the funnies next week.
Emerson Drive will join the world of Nancy, Sluggo and Aunt Fritzi in the "Nancy" comic strip on Tuesday, April 4.
A country music fan, "Nancy" creator Guy Gilchrist often mentions country artists in the strip and decided to include Emerson Drive in an... »»»March 30, 2006 - Rascal Flatts may sing "What Hurts the Most," but they must be smiling now because the song took over the number 1 spot on the Billboard song chart for the week ending April 8. The song supplanted Kenny Chesney's "Living in Fast Forward," which fell to third.
Alan Jackson recaptured the top spot on the... »»»March 29, 2006 - Monique LeCompte was given her walking papers on Nashville Star Tuesday, cutting the field to 7 contestants.
LeCompte, 23, is from Grand Terrace, Cal.
The decision leaves Matt Mason, Jared Ashley, Chris Young, Nicole Jamrose, Kristen McNamera, Casey Rivers and Melanie Torres in contention for the... »»»March 29, 2006 - Little Big Town will join John Mellencamp as the opening act for his spring tour starting tomorrow in Evansville, Ind.
The Equity Music Group recording quartet will tour with Mellencamp through late April, and then continue their own tour through the summer, including several stadium dates with Kenny Chesney.... »»»March 28, 2006 - Joe Nichols' CD, "III" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, as announced today by Universal Records South's Senior Partners Tim DuBois and Tony Brown, meaning the disc has sold more than 500,000 copies.
This is Nichols' second gold CD ("Man With A Memory," Nichols' debut... »»»March 27, 2006 - Veteran Texas singer/songwriter Guy Clark inked a deal with Dualtone with an album due this summer.
Clark has enjoyed a long career with labels including Elektra and Sugar Hill, although he has had few releases in recent years.
"Workbench Songs," his first CD of new material since 2002's "The Dark," will drop Aug.... »»»March 26, 2006 - Cindy Walker, perhaps the greatest female songwriter in country history, died Thursday at 87. in Mexia, Texas after reportedly being in ill health for several months.
Walker's songs were recorded by Bob Wills, Ernest Tubb, Eddy Arnold, Webb Pierce, Roy Orbison, Stonewall Jackson and many others.... »»»March 25, 2006 - Country music great Buck Owens, who invented the Bakersfield Sound, died Saturday at 75 of unknown causes.
Owens was perhaps best known for "Act Naturally" as well as being on the television show "Hee Haw."
During his career, Owens had 76 songs hit the Billboard charts. Between 1959 and 1989, he had... »»»March 24, 2006 - Neal McCoy is in Salt Lake City for activities surrounding the retiring of Karl Malone's number 32 by the Utah Jazz after 18 years with the club.
McCoy will be among Malone's friends, including former Chicago bull Scottie Pippen and former Jazz coach Frank Layden, to roast Malone today.
Malone, along with Gen.... »»»March 24, 2006 - The Tim McGraw TV special will be delayed two days. NBC will now air McGraw 's network special "Tim McGraw Reflected" on Friday, April 7 at 8 p.m. eastern, his third network special, bringing his concert performance to a club in New York City and adding performances from his farm in Nashville, including... »»»March 23, 2006 - For the second straight week, Kenny Chesney topped the Billboard country chart for the week ending April 1 with "Living in Fast Forward," while Carrie Underwood remained atop the album chart yet again with "Some Hearts."
On the song chart, Rascal Flatts climbed one spot to second with "What Hurts the... »»»March 20, 2006 - Rhett Akins and Jamey Johnson hit the road this week for a two plus month tour sponsored by Wrangler.
Akins returns to action with a new album, slated for summer release, "People Like Me," while Johnson is touring behind his debut disc and hit single "The Dollar."
Akins has participated on Honky Tonk... »»»March 16, 2006 - Carrie Underwood took back the top spot on the Billboard album chart for the week ending March 25 with "Some Hearts" as last week's number one, "Precious Moments" by Alan Jackson, was down to fourth.
Kenny Chesney remains "Living in Fast Forward" because the song is again first on the song chart.... »»»March 16, 2006 - A tribute to George Jones, which will include the singer, will be out later this year on the new Nashville label Category 5 Records.
A new single from Jones, "He Still Has Songs To Sing," and featuring superstar guests is due July 1.
"As far as I am concerned this man is the greatest country music... »»»March 14, 2006 - Nashville Star began Tuesday, but Jewels Hanson will not be the fourth winner when the show finishes in eight weeks because she was voted out by the judges.
"It didn't look real," said guest judge John Rich of Big & Rich, alluding to Hanson's performance of Montgomery Gentry's "Gone.... »»»
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March 14, 2006 - Terri Clark has split with Mercury after 7 albums and 9 top 10 hits.
Clark said in a statement on her web site, "I have been on Mercury Records since 1995. During that time I formed many wonderful relationships with the staff, and will always look back on our years working together with great fondness.... »»»March 14, 2006 - Kenny Chesney announced a second leg of The Road & The Radio Tour, which will start in June in Indiana and end there in September.
"It's a funny thing about these kinda towns," said Chesney. "They may not be big or flashy, but they're like where I come from: real basic, pretty simple and all heart.... »»»March 13, 2006 - Little Big Town went gold with "The Road To Here," signifying sales in excess of 500,000 units.
"We couldn't possibly be more proud of Little Big Town," said Mike Kraski, President of Equity Music Group. "These four extraordinarily gifted artists have worked so hard for so long, and proven that... »»»March 13, 2006 - Tracy Byrd is going his own route for his next album. After stints with RCA and MCA, Byrd is releasing his own album and already has distribution lined up.
The disc is being recorded in March and April and slated for a summer release.
Byrd signed a deal with Artist To Market (A2M) Distribution to be... »»»March 10, 2006 - The Dixie Chicks announced Friday they will release their fifth album, "Taking the Long Way," in late May with Rick Rubin producing and the Chicks writing all 14 songs.
A tour is expected to start this summer.
A press release said the songs would delve into "deeply private and resoundingly political" subjects.... »»»March 9, 2006 - Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney were atop the Billboard album and song chart for the week ending March 13. Jackson's "Precious Moments" took over the album chart lead from Carrie Underwood's longstanding number one, "Some Hearts," which fell to third.
Chesney's "Living in Fast Forward" moved up from... »»»March 8, 2006 - Alan Jackson began his gospel project, "Precious Memories," as a private Christmas gift for his mother, but the end result is the number one country album on the Billboard chart when it is released Thursday.
Jackson displaced Carrie Underwood, who had a stranglehold on the chart with her debut, "Some Hearts.... »»»March 8, 2006 - Brad Paisley led the nominees for the 41st annual Academy of Country Music with six, including male vocalist and single record of the year. "When I Get Where I'm Going," his song with Dolly Parton, was responsible for three nominations.
Sugarland and Brooks & Dunn earned five apiece with Sugarland... »»»March 7, 2006 - Carrie Underwood will debut her second single, "Don't Forget To Remember Me," from double platinum selling album "Some Hearts" with debut appearances on "The Late Show with David Letterman" March 13 and "Live with Regis & Kelly" March 14.
Underwood's first single, "Jesus, Take the Wheel," hit number... »»»March 6, 2006 - Reese Witherspoon took home the Oscar for best actress for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line," the Johnny Cash biopic.
This was the first Oscar for the Nashville native, who gave a heartfelt, emotional speech, including praise of Cash, who told her she just wanted to "matter.... »»»March 6, 2006 - "Living in Fast Forward" continued going forward because Kenny Chesney's song will be the number one song on the Billboard song charts when they are officially released on Thursday.
Chesney takes over from Josh Turner's "Your Man," which had been first for one week.
"It's funny," said Chesney,... »»»March 3, 2006 - Carrie Underwood will start her 2006 tour in April hitting festivals and fairs. This will be Underwood's first round of touring since the "American Idols Live! 2005" 44-city sold-out tour last summer and the release of her big selling double platinum album "Some Hearts" in November 2005.... »»»March 2, 2006 - Josh Turner tops the Billboard song chart for the week ending March 11 with "Your Man," while Carrie Underwood continues to dominate the album chart with "Some Hearts."
Turner took over the song chart top spot from Brad Paisley's "When I Get Where I'm Going" with Dolly Parton, which fell to second.... »»»
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