Brooks & Dunn (Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn) and Bentley won the CMA International Artist Achievement Award at a backstage ceremony May 6 in Sydney, Australia, during the final stop of an Australian tour.
Previous winners include the Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, Keith Urban, Trisha Yearwood and Dwight Yoakam.
List of winners at Country Music Television awards
Jun 17, 2009 4:07 am PDT
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." • Female video: Taylor Swif...
US country artists try to build their base abroad
Jun 8, 2009 3:00 am PDT
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 act in the U.S. with a half dozen No. ...
Dierks Bentley revs it up for 'Feel That Fire'
Feb 17, 2009 12:00 pm PST
When Dierks Bentley turned over his finished album to his label after two years of hard work, he didn't quite get the response he was looking for. Capitol Records Nashville President Mike Dungan listened and listened, and then listened so...
Preview of January/February 2009 album releases
Jan 16, 2009 6:00 pm PST
Following is a preview of noteworthy releases for the first two months of the year. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "WORKING ON A DREAM" (COLUMBIA, JAN. 27) Reinvigorated by the rich pop that fueled 2006's "Magic" and the tour that followed, Bruc...
Dierks Bentley fired up for new album
Jan 9, 2009 1:00 am PST
After disappointing sales for his last album, country singer Dierks Bentley is hoping to recapture some heat with his February 3 release "Feel That Fire." The Capitol Records Nashville album offers "fun, uptempo party kind of songs and re...