Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:54 PM EDT
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will return as co-hosts of the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville this fall.
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Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:50 PM EDT
Country singer Jack Ingram is talked out.
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Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:39 AM EDT
Ruby Amanfu and Sam Brooker get a funny look sometimes when they step on stage.
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Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:52 PM EDT
Dan Tyminski sure made the most of his time off from Alison Krauss' group Union Station.
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Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:28 PM EDT
In the days after Michael Jackson's death, Joann Smith couldn't turn off her TV. She felt she was reliving the pain of her own idol's death almost 32 years ago — Elvis Presley.
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Tue Aug 4, 2009 8:32 PM EDT
Country rocker Charlie Robison didn't have to retreat to a cabin in the hills or listen to old records to find inspiration for his new album, "Beautiful Day."
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Thu Jul 2, 2009 11:01 AM EDT
As much as he enjoys singing about the double lives of computer geeks ("Online") and amorous country boys ("Ticks"), Brad Paisley says there's too much going on in the world to be too lighthearted on his new album, "American Saturday Night."
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Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:10 PM EDT
Taylor Swift opened the Country Music Television awards with a skit about living out her dreams. The 19-year-old country and pop sensation went a long way toward doing just that by winning video of the year and female video of the year for "Love Story" and by performing with one of her favorite rock bands.
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Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:00 AM EDT
The Country Music Association's annual festival is supposed to be all about the fans, but Tanya Tucker says the artists get quite a bit out of it, too.
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Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:50 AM EDT
Little Big Town's career has had more stops and starts than a bus ride uptown.
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Tue Jun 9, 2009 12:35 PM EDT
Country star Alan Jackson is celebrating two decades in the music business with a free concert.
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Mon Jun 8, 2009 6:51 AM EDT
Dierks Bentley and his band recently jetted to Australia to open six shows for Brooks & Dunn, playing to more than 10,000 people a night in the country's largest cities.
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Thu May 28, 2009 6:16 AM EDT
The melody is dark, ominous and unmistakable to any rock fan: "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes.
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Wed May 27, 2009 7:02 AM EDT
If you missed some of your favorite '80s and '90s bands the first time around, there's a good chance you can catch them on the reunion trail this summer.
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Fri May 22, 2009 6:35 AM EDT
Kix Brooks of the hit duo Brooks & Dunn has visited the dusty military bases in Iraq and Kuwait, seen the armored vehicles and the big transport planes and talked with the men and women in uniform.
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Tue May 19, 2009 11:27 AM EDT
Sugarland leads all the nominees announced Tuesday for Country Music Television's awards show next month with five nominations.
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Sun May 17, 2009 7:53 PM EDT
Barbara Mandrell, Roy Clark and Charlie McCoy were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday in an at times emotional ceremony that saluted them for their music as well as their contributions to bringing the genre to a mass audience through television.
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Wed May 13, 2009 6:43 AM EDT
Recession? What recession?
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Thu May 7, 2009 3:07 PM EDT
Keith Urban understands that paparazzi come along with the fame, but he draws a line when it comes to his infant daughter.
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Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:26 PM EDT
Veteran Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman capped an emotional year in which he lost his 5-year-old daughter in a tragic accident by winning artist of the year during the Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards on Thursday.
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Thu Apr 9, 2009 9:52 AM EDT
If you want to sit in the really good seats for a Keith Urban concert this summer, a pair of tickets will put you about back about $170. But in a nod to the tough economic times, the country superstar has also priced some tickets as low as $20 per seat, so fans won't stay home because they can't afford to go.
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Tue Apr 7, 2009 9:57 AM EDT
George Strait couldn't help feeling a little like he was being led out to pasture when the Academy of Country Music saluted him as their Artist of the Decade with an all-star concert.
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Sun Apr 5, 2009 11:16 AM EDT
The women of country have taken the wheel.
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Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:19 PM EDT
It's hard to imagine Keith Urban choosing a more appropriate title for his fifth studio album, "Defying Gravity."
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Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:49 AM EDT
Dan Seals, who was England Dan in the pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley and later had a successful country career, has died of complications from cancer. He was 61.
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