AP - Jun 17, 2009
Here is a list of the winners at the Country Music Television awards, presented Tuesday: • Video of the year: Taylor Swift, Love Story. • Male video: Brad Paisley, Waitin on a Woman. ...
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Country star Alan Jackson is celebrating two decades in the music business with a free concert. Jackson normally plays arenas, but he planned to sing Wednesday at a club called Cadillac Ranch in Nashville...
More »AP - Jun 8, 2009
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. And yet Bentley, a headlining...
More »Reuters - Feb 5, 2009
New faces mix with familiar friends among the country artists vying for Grammy awards on Sunday. Jamey Johnson, Lady Antebellum and James Otto -- who may one day be referred to as the class of 2008 much...
More »AP - Dec 3, 2008
A veteran star being saluted by a bunch of hot new ones Alan Jackson knows this can be trouble. But in his case, Country Music Television s CMT Giants: Alan Jackson (9 p.m. EST Saturday) doesn...
More »AP - Oct 13, 2008
Alan Jackson won songwriter/artist of the year honors for his hits A Woman s Love and Small Town Southern Man during the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers country awards Monday. Other...
More »AP - Mar 5, 2008
Alan Jackson presses a plastic jug to his lips and takes a big swig. I live about 10 minutes from here. This is all right. I ll be home in time to watch the news I reckon. Jackson, who once worked in...
More »AP - Jan 31, 2008
This city is full of singers and musicians looking for a break. Very few, though, have a country superstar for an uncle. And there s the rub: No matter how talented Adam Wright and his wife Shannon may...
More »Reuters - Jan 27, 2008
After taking a couple of creative detours on his last two albums, Alan Jackson returns to his readily identifiable brand of traditional country with the March 4 release of Good Time. I always come...
More »AP - Dec 6, 2007
Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year: Irreplaceable, Beyonce; The Pretender, Foo Fighters; Umbrella, Rihanna featuring Jay-Z; What Goes...
More »AP - Aug 24, 2007
Denise Jackson knew that her marriage to Alan Jackson wasn t perfect. She was too needy and insecure in the relationship, and he was on the road a lot, becoming one of country s biggest superstars....
More »AP - Jun 12, 2007
The Country Music Association s 2007 festival drew a record attendance of 191,154 people over four days. The music festival, which began Thursday and ended Sunday, featured dozens of artists including...
More »E! Online - Jun 11, 2007
If you hit a bump on the road, you can't expect everyone around you to stop driving. That's pretty much what the judge presiding over Phil Spector's murder trial told the famed music producer...
More »AP - Jun 6, 2007
The first of Dierks Bentley s two big outdoor shows this month is a gimme. He ll play for thousands of adoring country fans this week at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville. The second gig is tricker...
More »AP - May 31, 2007
It doesn t take a second for David Kells to recall the first concert he ever saw: Aerosmith with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Starwood Amphitheater, 1990. Over the next 16 years, few summers passed...
More »E! Online - May 22, 2007
The Adriano De Souza Show has finally run its course. The driver who allegedly heard Phil Spector say, "I think I killed someone," took the stand for the fourth, and presumably last, day Tuesday...
More »E! Online - May 16, 2007
Perhaps something was lost in translation between Phil Spector and his chauffeur. The music producer's defense team got Adriano De Souza, the driver working for Spector the night Lana Clarkson died...
More »E! Online - May 14, 2007
The night Lana Clarkson died, Phil Spector didn't seem particularly drunk, according to the woman who he took to the House of Blues and, after meeting Clarkson, sent on her merry way before the night...
More »Reuters - May 7, 2007
It was craft versus showbiz at the inaugural Stagecoach festival, held Saturday and Sunday in Indio, Calif., the site of the Coachella rock extravaganza the weekend before. For the audience, the calculated...
More »E! Online - Apr 25, 2007
The prosecution and defense agreed on one point: In court, Phil Spector is "Phillip" Spector. Beyond that, the two sides were typically of a split mind as opening arguments began Wednesday in...
More »E! Online - Apr 11, 2007
Nasvhille's big Macs couldn't serve up enough customers to keep the latest installment of Now That's What I Call Music! from the top of the food chain. For the week ended Sunday, Now! 24...
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