Category: Artist
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Names New Class
This year’s inductees have been revealed, with the official ceremony set for Sunday, October 16 at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel.
Category: Artist, Awards, Featured, Organizations
Weekend Notes, Artist Updates
Laura Bell Bundy on Southern Fried Flicks with Hazel Smith • Women Rock For The Cure’s Pink Trash Ball • Jason Aldean to donate proceeds from Roanoke concert to Susan G. Komen • Paisley sells out O2 Arena in London, jams with Ronnie Wood
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Montgomery Gentry Album Arrives After Difficult Year
Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry—award-winning duo Montgomery Gentry—will soon release the duo’s seventh studio album, Rebels on the Run. The new 11 song collection will be available from their new label home Average Joe’s Entertainment, on Oct. 4, 2011. “In a lot of ways the past year has been has been nothing but hell,” said Eddie […]
An Evening With Martina McBride
An industry-packed crowd attended “An Evening With Martina McBride” this week at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Ford Theater. Presented by Republic Nashville, the listening party offered attendees a live performance of McBride’s upcoming CD Eleven slated for an Oct 11 release.
Will Hoge Previews New Album
Nashville singer/songwriter Will Hoge treated industry friends and guests to a selection of new songs at The Standard on Wednesday (8/17). Hoge’s seventh studio album, Number Seven (Ryko), is due out September 27.
Taylor Swift’s “Haunted” Featured In True Blood
Rolling Stone is reporting that True Blood’s music supervisor, Gary Calamar, has confirmed this Sunday’s episode […]
Kentucky Headhunters Return; Deborah Allen Releases New Album
The boys who made “Dumas Walker” famous in 1989 are back with their first studio album since 2003. The Kentucky Headhunters have just released a new single, “Great Acoustics,” from their upcoming album Dixie Lullabies on Red Dirt Records scheduled for release Oct. 18. Holly Gleason recently wrote for No Depression, “Twenty years after being […]
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Musicians Team For Benefits At Ryman
On the schedule are Craig Wiseman’s Stars For Second Harvest, and the star-studded Let Us In: Women and Cancer Fund Benefit
ACM Announces $661,000 Endowment
The Academy of Country Music announces a $661,000 endowment to ACM Lifting Lives, made on behalf of the artists who participated in the taping of […]
Category: Artist, Organizations
CMA Songwriters Series To Stream Boston Show
CMA’s Songwriter Series heads to Boston for an Aug. 25 show with a stellar cast of performers and for the first time will be audio-streamed. Joining host Bob DiPiero for the sold-out Royale Nightclub show are Matraca Berg, Brett James, Wendell Mobley, Craig Wiseman and superstar Kenny Chesney. The hit-packed songwriters in the round event will […]
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Colt Ford Takes Nashville To Georgia For Big Benefit
Athens, Georgia native Colt Ford recruited some of his Nashville buddies for a benefit show in his hometown on Tuesday (8/16) to raise money for the families of one injured and one fallen police officer.
