AP - Jun 9, 2009
Fans attending Tuesday night s Grand Ole Opry shows will get a sneak peek of some specially designed guitars. The Epiphone acoustic guitars were decorated by some of country music s biggest stars, including...
More »AP - Aug 25, 2008
Vince Gill didn t need coaxing to record tracks for a new CD featuring classics by influential 70s group Little Feat. Since I was about 18 or 19 they ve been my favorite band, Gill told The Associated...
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 - Nov 20, 2007
Here are reviews of key box set releases: Bob Dylan, Dylan (Columbia) The box set is a curious beast — a combination of curatorial selection, increased quality, whiz-bang packaging and new insights...
More »AP - Oct 28, 2007
Country star Vince Gill, singer and humorist Mel Tillis and television and radio personality Ralph Emery were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday. Al Anderson, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell...
More »E! Online - May 15, 2007
The Academy of Country Music was just giving it away to Carrie Underwood and George Strait tonight. A newcomer no longer, Carrie Underwood took home a leading three honors, including Top Female...
More »AP - Mar 5, 2007
Following is the list of nominees for the 42nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards announced Monday in Nashville. The awards will be presented May 15 in Las Vegas. Entertainer of the Year: Brooks...
More »Reuters - Dec 31, 2006
We know that the Rolling Stones, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw/Faith Hill and Dave Matthews Band will sell the heck out of tickets in 2007. But there is always a dark horse that rises seemingly out of nowhere...
More »Reuters - Dec 27, 2006
Bob Seger told a 1975 audience at Detroit s Cobo Arena, where he taped his famed Live Bullet album, that it might just end up on a record. He ll be able to say it again this week at the Palace of Auburn...
More »E! Online - Dec 7, 2006
Here s the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles: Album Of The Year Taking the Long Way, Dixie ChicksSt. Elsewhere, Gnarls...
More »E! Online - Nov 7, 2006
It s hard to believe how many times Brooks & Dunn have won Duo of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards. The Hillbilly Deluxe artists, who also hosted the ceremony Monday night at the...
More »AP - Oct 17, 2006
Vince Gill approached his record label last summer with 31 new songs and a wild idea. Instead of releasing one album of new material, why not three albums staggered over a year? I told them before...
More »Reuters - Oct 13, 2006
Usually when an artist releases a multiple-CD collection, it s a boxed set of greatest hits, perhaps with a few previously unreleased tunes thrown in. In a possibly unprecedented move, Vince Gill s new...
More »AP - Sep 14, 2006
Vince Gill and Jimmy Webb have unveiled a song touting Oklahoma s guts, grace and mercy as the state nears its 2007 centennial. They premiered Oklahoma Rising in a performance at the Civic Center Music...
More »AP - Aug 30, 2006
Nominees for the 40th annual Country Music Association Awards, to be held Nov. 6 in Nashville, Tenn: Entertainer of the year: Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban....
More »E! Online - Aug 30, 2006
Stick a fork in the CMA Award nominations--they re Dunn. Brooks & Dunn and solo crooner Brad Paisley racked up six nominations apiece for the Country Music Association Awards, with Ronnie Dunn besting...
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 »E! Online - Jun 13, 2006
Forty-plus years after tweaking folkies by going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan s going Modern again. Out to prove he can keep on keeping on, the music icon has announced plans to...
More »Reuters - Apr 12, 2006
Rascal Flatts, a group some initially branded as a country boy band, has achieved in six short years what many acts can only hope for in the length of a career. In addition to numerous awards, the band...
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 - Feb 3, 2006
Louise Scruggs, who bucked the male-dominated country music industry by managing her banjo-playing husband Earl Scruggs, has died, hospital officials said on Friday. Scruggs, 78, died on Thursday at Baptist...
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