AP - Sep 1, 2009
Country musician Trace Adkins will perform the national anthem at this year s ceremony honoring the people who died on United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001....
More »AP - Nov 24, 2008
Trace Adkins feels like a marked man these days. I m the guy in Nashville where if a couple of songwriters are sitting down and write a song that is so nasty that nobody will possibly ever record it,...
More »Reuters - Mar 31, 2008
Country star Trace Adkins will make a ghostly appearance opposite Kelsey Grammer in David Zucker's indie Christmas comedy American Carol. Jon Voight, Leslie Nielsen and Dennis Hopper have cameos...
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 »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 »E! Online - Nov 7, 2006
The people have spoken. Unfortunately, they seem to be repeating themselves. Despite the potentially dramatic pairing of Isaiah Washington and recently outed Neil Patrick Harris as announcers of the...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »AP - Aug 14, 2006
There s a line between capitalizing on a breakthrough hit single and exploiting it, and Trace Adkins straddles that line when he closes his eighth album with a dance remix of Honky Tonk Badonkadonk. Pity...
More »E! Online - Apr 11, 2006
Nicole s man done good. Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley were among the big winners of the CMT Awards Monday night, with the American Idol alum managing to snag the only multiple win...
More »E! Online - Apr 3, 2006
Buck Owens might be gone, but the master of the electrified honky-tonk Bakersfield Sound won t be soon forgotten. Dwight Yoakam, Garth Brooks, Trace Adkins and Brad Paisley were among the more than...
More »AP - Apr 2, 2006
Some of country music s biggest names gathered in this central California farming hub Sunday to pay tribute to the flashy cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with his honky-tonk twang. Dwight...
More »E! Online - Mar 16, 2006
CMT voters gotta have Faith. And Carrie. And, uh, Reese? Faith Hill nabbed a leading four nominations for the 2006 CMT Awards, the country music video kudosfest voted on entirely by fans. Country...
More »AP - Feb 20, 2006
Country singer Vince Gill will host a television special next month with an unlikely combination of subject and venue: The Grand Ole Opry at Carnegie Hall. The two-hour show March 12 on the Great American...
More »Reuters - Oct 27, 2005
Leading names from Broadway and country music have signed on for the aptly named benefit concert Broadway Meets Country, which will take place November 12 as part of a series of events leading up to the...
More »E! Online - Sep 21, 2005
Trace Adkins is tryin to get better. The country crooner has been released from the hospital and is back at his Nashville home after undergoing emergency abdominal surgery last Friday, according...
More »USRN - Mar 22, 2005
Trace Adkins releases his new album, Songs About Me, Tuesday (March 22). The singer will be busy promoting the project with several television appearances this week, beginning tonight on Late Night With...
More »AP - Mar 16, 2005
The nominees for the 2005 CMT Music Awards, which will be broadcast live 8 p.m. Eastern time April 11: Male video: Keith Urban, Days Go By ; Kenny Chesney, I Go Back ; Tim McGraw, Live Like You Were...
More »AP - Mar 16, 2005
Music videos by newcomers Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson were among the leading nominees for the 2005 CMT Music Awards announced Wednesday. The video for Big & Rich s song Holy Water received nominations...
More »Reuters - Dec 16, 2004
Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop from the top of Billboard s Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as his hit tune Drop It Like It s Hot featuring Pharrell logged a third week at No. 1. The cut stems from Snoop...
More »Reuters - Dec 3, 2004
Of all the acts that have become prominent figures in the contemporary worship movement, the Newsboys impact might be the most surprising. The band has come a long way from the flying saucers and rotating...
More »Reuters - Nov 26, 2004
Country artists need to try harder when it comes to international markets, according to talent executive Bruce Allen. During a recent keynote speech at the Country Music Assn. s Global Markets Forum...
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