February, 2011
Valerie Wire 02/28/2011 Scheduled to appear for the return of the Tuesday night Opry are the Randy Rogers Band, Bill Anderson, Little Big Down, Dailey & Vincent and Jimmy Dickens....
Valerie Wire 02/28/2011 Inspired from a track on her "Play On" album, Carrie Underwood took a change and donated a large sum of money to charity....
Valerie Wire 02/28/2011 Eric Church was named the Top New Solo Vocalist and The Band Perry was named Top New Vocal Duo or Group by the Academy of Country Music and Great American Country....
Kersty Boll 02/28/2011 Jamey Johnson's latest album, "The Guitar Song," has received many honors, including a recent Gold certification....
Kersty Boll 02/28/2011 After suffering a fall from stage in one of last year's shows, Brad Paisley finally seeks medical help for the pains in his back....
Dustin Stout 02/25/2011 Gretchen Wilson, Montgomery Gentry and newcomer Sarah Darling are some of the artists slated to perform this weekend at the Grand Ole Opry
Valerie Wire 02/24/2011 Lady Antebellum is still celebrating five Grammy wins, and with more success comes a new level of responsibility. But that doesn’t make their return to the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Country Albums chart any less sweet....
Valerie Wire 02/24/2011 Kellie Picker and new husband songwriter Kyle Jacobs are offering exclusive video content from their recent nuptials....
Kersty Boll 02/24/2011 Tim McGraw keeps his focus away from the political spectrum and on his children and music -- for now anyway....
Kersty Boll 02/24/2011 Miley Cyrus's latest antics have caused her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, to shift focus from movies and singing towards fixing his family....
Jacob Ryan 02/24/2011 Sugarland fans that want the best seats in the concert will have the opportunity for those benefits and the chance to help out some of the duo's favorite charities....
Jacob Ryan 02/24/2011 Dolly Parton has joined other celbrities in a campaign that focuses on generating support for troops...
Kersty Boll 02/22/2011 Alan Jackson and GE appliances have teamed up to create a water-saving contest based on Jacksons hit song "Good Time"...
Kersty Boll 02/22/2011 The Bellamy Brothers have decided to talk to a legal council about the similarities between their 1979 hit and Britney Spears latest single, "Hold It Against Me."...
Valerie Wire 02/22/2011 Miranda Lambert began her “The Revolution Continues” tour this week, becoming the only artist to sell out back-to-back shows at the legendary Billy Bob’s in Ft. Worth, Texas....
Valerie Wire 02/22/2011 The Celebrity Bus Drivers Academy is an opportunity for a unique and exciting job experience, offering a chance to drive high-rolling entertainers and crew members....
Kersty Boll 02/22/2011 After Carrie Underwood's hockey hubby Mike Fisher was traded to the Nashville Predators earlier this month, Fisher couldn't attribute the trade to nothing but divine intervention....
Jacob Ryan 02/22/2011 Brad Paisley was quick to tweet Sunday after climbing out of the official 2011 Daytona 500 pace car...
Jacob Ryan 02/22/2011 Eric Church is offering fans a free download of "Homeboy," a single from his forthcoming album....
Jacob Ryan 02/22/2011 Steve Azar has set a release date for "Hard Road," a single from his 2009 release....
Kersty Boll 02/21/2011 Toby Mac and Chris Tomlin are the top nominees for the GMA's 42nd annual Dove Awards....
Kersty Boll 02/21/2011 The award-winning group The Doobie Brothers will make their Grand Ole Opry debut in late February....
Valerie Wire 02/21/2011 Justin Moore's tour bus caught fire this week while on a tour stop in Michigan....
Kersty Boll 02/21/2011 The Grand Ole Opry will host its All-Star Weekend with big-name country performances, backstage tours and in-show giveaways....
Valerie Wire 02/21/2011 Past attendees of the CMA Music Festival will be able to submit their event photographs online as part of a contest for the 40th anniversary of the festival....
Valerie Wire 02/21/2011 Country Thunder has added more talent to their already impressive line-up, which includes Toby Keith, Clay Walker, Rodney Atkins, Eric Church, Jason Aldean, Martina McBride, Sawyer Brown and many more....
Jacob Ryan 02/21/2011 Uncle Kracker's upcoming album is more country than his past projects, he said....
Jacob Ryan 02/21/2011 The mother-daughter duo will star in an OWN Network upcoming docu-series....
Jacob Ryan 02/18/2011 A list of songs written by Johnny Cash has got Roseanne Cash thinking about a new album....
Dustin Stout 02/18/2011 Terri Clark and Craig Morgan are just some of the artists slated to perform this weekend at the Grand Ole Opry....
Valerie Wire 02/17/2011 The Academy of Country Music Awards presents the annual awards for radio awards, which are announced during a pre-televised ceremony.
Valerie Wire 02/17/2011 The Bandy Perry's self-titled debut album, released on Republic Nashville, achieved Gold certification from RIAA for sales reaching over 500,000...
Jacob Ryan 02/17/2011 Kenny Chesney was named this year's "Tennessean of the Year" for his contributions to high school athletics...
Jacob Ryan 02/17/2011 Kenny Rogers' next release with Cracker Barrel Old Country Store will make the singer the first to release two albums in partnership with the restaurant...
Jacob Ryan 02/17/2011 Brad Paisley has set the date for his latest album release...
Kersty Boll 02/15/2011 Billboard.com has calculated their list of the highest earners rolling into 2011, and country musicians made an impressive showing...
Valerie Wire 02/15/2011 Luke Bryan is celebrating his third No. 1 on Billboard's Country Songs chart for "Someone Else Calling You Baby."...
Valerie Wire 02/15/2011 Country queen Carrie Underwood will co-host “America’s Opry Wekeend New Faces of Country Special” special the weekend of March 5...
Valerie Wire 02/15/2011 Mavis Staples walked away from the 53rd Grammy Awards with the coveted Best Americana Album Grammy for her 2010 album “You Are Not Alone.”...
Dustin Stout 02/15/2011 Country music was the center of attention Sunday at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards when superstar trio Lady A snagged five awards, more than any other artist in 2011...
Jacob Ryan 02/15/2011 A tribute to The Byrds' late guitarist, Clarence White, has earned Marty Stuart a Grammy Award...
Jacob Ryan 02/15/2011 Brad Paisley will be going from the stage to the driver's seat at the start of the 2011 Daytona 500...
Jacob Ryan 02/15/2011 Gretchen Wilson has joined a campaign that focuses on supporting troops returning from active military duty...
Valerie Wire 02/14/2011 The lineup for this year's South By Southwest Music Americana Showcase will feature the Old 97’s, Abigail Washburn, Emmylou Harris, Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison and the Band of Heathens....
Kersty Boll 02/14/2011 Guitar guru Steve Wariner is honoring one of his fellow Grand Ole Opry members by turning his flood-damaged guitars into works of art....
Kersty Boll 02/14/2011 As many country stars celebrate the arrival of newborns, Blake Shelton gives his theory as to why so many couples are expanding their families...
Valerie Wire 02/14/2011 Fans will have the chance to purchase a specially packaged release of Sara Evans' "Stronger" when she appears on QVC Feb. 16 for a live performance....
Kersty Boll 02/14/2011 Carrie Underwoods husband was recently traded from the Ottawa Senators to the Nashville Predators, bringing the couple closer to home but further from winning the heart of one Canadian radio station...
Valerie Wire 02/13/2011 Country music legend and GRAMMY nominee, Mary Stuart, will be celebrating 10 years of his annual LATE NIGHT JAM June 8 at 10 p.m. at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium....
Dustin Stout 02/11/2011 Danny Gokey, Diamond Rio and Terri Clark are just some of the artists scheduled to perform at this weekend's Grand Ole Opry show....
Kersty Boll 02/10/2011 Steve Warner hopes to add to the success of his 30 Top 10 singles with the release of his latest album entitled "Guitar Laboratory."...
Kersty Boll 02/10/2011 Lee Brice was chosen as the featured artist for both McDonald's restaurant and Continental Airlines to entertain customers as the enjoy their flights or meals..
Valerie Wire 02/10/2011 Jason Aldean proved this week on the Billboard charts exactly why he's nominated for his first-ever Academy of Country Music Awards....
Kersty Boll 02/10/2011 Sara Evans and Ronnie Dunn will headline the fifth-consecutive ACM Concerts at Fremont Street Experience....
Valerie Wire 02/10/2011 Another talent television series will hit the airwaves when Nigel Lythgoe partners with his son, Simon Lythgoe, to launch “CMT’s Next Superstar,” a one-hour series set to launch on CMT in April....
Jacob Ryan 02/10/2011 Robert Plant will perform at Merlefest 2011, a music festival founded in 1988 in memory of Eddie Merle Watson...
Jacob Ryan 02/10/2011 Brad Paisley will be performing three of his hit songs before the Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 20...
Kersty Boll 02/09/2011 Barbara Mandrell's boots return home to the Fontanel Mansion in honor of the Hall of Fame entertainer...
Kersty Boll 02/09/2011 No one is immune to catching Bieber fever... not even the country superstar trio Rascal Flatts....
Kersty Boll 02/09/2011 John Dailey and Darrin Vincent were among the top award winners in Sunday’s Bluegrass Music Awards ceremony....
Webb 02/09/2011 The 2011 CMA Music Festival, June 9-12 in Nashville, will also feature first-time artists like Sheryl Crow and iconic superstars such as Martina McBride...
Valerie Wire 02/08/2011 The 2011 Country Stamped, which is presented by Verizon Wireless, recently announced their lineup for their annual country music festival....
Valerie Wire 02/08/2011 The former "Nashville Star" champ is topping the charts and breaking records with his third consecutive No. 1 single "Voices."...
02/07/2011 Trace Adkins doesn't see himself as a brand. To him, he's just a normal guy from Sarepta, La....
Valerie Wire 02/07/2011 While the nominations for the 46th Academy of Country Music are rolling out, so are the off-camera nominations....
Valerie Wire 02/07/2011 David Nail is still getting accolades for his debut album "I'm About To Come Alive," and he's wasting no time delivering fans fresh new music....
Kersty Boll 02/07/2011 Alan Jackson will perform live at the Houston Livestock Show right after being inducted into the Star Trail of Fame....
Kersty Boll 02/07/2011 With a televised concert in Beijing, China, and the onset of his made-for-TV movie, Billy Dean has started 2011 on a successful note....
Jacob Ryan 02/07/2011 One of country music's fastest rising duos will take to the stage on the Late Show tonight to perform their latest hit single "Last Night Again."...
Dustin Stout 02/06/2011 Country darling Miranda Lambert is featured on the latest cover of “Ladies Home Journal” in which she “keeps it real” in a total Miranda manner....
Kersty Boll 02/04/2011 In celebration of Valentine's Day, "CMT 40 Greatest Love Songs" will count down the 40 greatest love hits of all time....
Kersty Boll 02/04/2011 Martina McBride is going back in the studio and back to her roots with her new album with Republic Nashville....
Dustin Stout 02/04/2011 Jimmy Wayne, Vince Gill and Mark Wills are just a few of country's biggest names appearing this weekend on the Grand Ole Opry stage....
Dustin Stout 02/04/2011 Joe Nichols is in good shape with the video for his latest single, which debuted as the most watched video on CMT.com....
Webb 02/03/2011 Melissa Peterman and Reba McEntire will reunite Friday on CMT's new hit sitcom "Working Class."...
Valerie Wire 02/03/2011 The nominations for the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards were announced this week, and Miranda Lambert leads the country crowd with seven nominations....
Valerie Wire 02/03/2011 One of the biggest nights for sports will begin this year with country artist Sean Patrick McGraw’s song “Get Yer Cowboy On.”...
Jacob Ryan 02/03/2011 Carolyn Dawn Johnson has earned a nomination for Country Album of the Year from the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences....
Jacob Ryan 02/03/2011 Two of country music's leading men have found success north of the border, each with a number of sold-out shows....
Dustin Stout 02/02/2011 Miranda Lambert's "Revolution" tour dates will continue beginning late February and continuing into late March with special guests Justin Moore and Josh Kelley....
Dustin Stout 02/02/2011 Sugarland's latest release "The Incredible Machine" recently earned the duo their fourth Platinum album in a row....
Dustin Stout 02/01/2011 Miranda Lambert and Ronnie Dunn announced the nominations for the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards Tuesday at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame....
Webb 02/01/2011 Enter the Drive for COPD Songwriting Competition and you could end up on stage at this year's CMA Music Featival...
Valerie Wire 02/01/2011 Taylor Swift and her label Big Machine Records celebrated her many accomplishments during a “Heavy Metal at the Hard Rock” party on Jan. 28 in downtown Nashville....
Valerie Wire 02/01/2011 Kenny Chesney's "Somewhere With You" is claiming the No. 1 spot on two separate charts for the third consecutive week....
Dustin Stout 02/01/2011 The country star's new video for "Brown Chicken Brown Cow" finds him co-starring alongside puppets....
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