Bluegrass Royalty Ricky Skaggs Ascends New Peak With 'Honoring The Fathers of Bluegrass,' out March 25, 2008
Hendersonville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Skaggs Family Records) - Ricky Skaggs is bluegrass royalty, a 12-time Grammy winner (winning the Best Bluegrass Grammy an incredible 4 times in the last decade) and widely credited with the genre's revival in recent years. With 'Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute ...
| Country Artist Trent Willmon Signs Movie Deal
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Compadre Records) - Country music artist Trent Willmon makes his silver screen debut in summer '08 with the theatrical release of "Palo Pinto Gold," a family friendly, action packed Western set in the late 1800s. He begins filming in January in Texas and is contributing ...
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Atlanta-Based Americana Artist Bill Sheffield Celebrates Album Release
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ American Roots Records) - American Roots Records singer/songwriter Bill Sheffield has released his ninth album titled, Got a Gig, Gotta Go, with American Roots Records. A set of mostly original songs, the latest release from this Atlanta-bred Americana artist is a collection ...
| Lonestar Perform Along With Aaron Neville & Take 6 On 'Holiday Notes From Home'
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Grand Ole Opry) - Multi-platinum recording group Lonestar will join Aaron Neville and gospel/pop group Take 6 for a special program, taped at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, as a musical love letter to our men and women in the Armed Forces. The special will be hosted ...
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Country Musician Cast King RIP
CHICAGO, IL. (Top40 Charts/ Locust Records) - Country musician Cast King passed away at his Old Sand Mountain home in Alabama On December 13th. He will be missed. Cast taught himself to play guitar when he was a 10-year-old boy on Sand Mountain. In 1955 King recorded fewer than a dozen songs with his ...
| Trisha Yearwood's Greatest Love Songs Brought Together On One Album!
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ By Shannon Herber/ UMe) - One of the most popular female singers in country music, three-time Grammy Award winner Trisha Yearwood has epitomized the balance of assertiveness and vulnerability in the genre's modern woman. Nowhere is that more evident than in her greatest ...
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Willie Nelson Releases New CD 'Moment Of Forever' On January 29, 2008
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Lost Highway Records) - Fresh from receiving BMI's prestigious Icon Award, Willie Nelson releases yet another landmark album, Moment Of Forever, on January 29, 2008. Produced by Music Row veteran Buddy Cannon and superstar Kenny Chesney, the album was recorded in a series ...
| Eagles Long Road Out Of Eden Certified Triple Platinum
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Scoop Marketing) - Long Road Out of Eden has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA, on its first day of eligibility. Released October 30th, the album debuted at number one on The Billboard 200 Chart, with sales of 711,000 units, and has already become the 5th best ...
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Craig Morgan's Launches 'Trick My Tractor' Contest
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Broken Bow Records) - Craig Morgan's latest single, 'International Harvester,' is generating huge fan response, and fans are now customizing their tractors for a new contest on Morgan's website. 'Trick My Tractor' runs through January 4th, 2008 on www.craigmorgan.com. ...
| Jennifer Hanson Offers Free Christmas Download 'Santa's Toy Ride'
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Universal Records South) - In keeping with the spirit of the holiday season, Jennifer Hanson is offering music fans a free download of her Christmas single "Santa's Toy Ride." The song, which is the holiday version of her Universal Records South single, "Joyride," will ...
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Amber Rhodes Returns To Her Alma Mater To Perform At SCAPA
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Stray Dog Records) - Stray Dog Records recording artist Amber Rhodes has been invited to perform at the School For The Creative & Performing Arts (SCAPA) on Saturday, December 29, 2007 as part of its 20th Anniversary Celebration to be held at the Thoroughbred Center on ...
| Lonestar Joins Wayne Newton, Jerry Seinfeld, Paula Abdul, Sara Evans, And Others To Appear On Holiday Special This Weekend
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ AOL MUSIC) - Multi-platinum recording group Lonestar will join Wayne Newton, Sara Evans, Paula Abdul, Jerry Seinfeld, Emmett Smith, Olivia Newton-John among other celebrities for an hour of holiday cheer this Sunday, December 16th on ABC at 5 PM!!! Lonestar have combined ...
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Ohio Alt-Country Singer B.J. O'Malley Featured In New Music Video
Ithaca, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Diesel Movie Werks) - Diesel Movie Werks, an Ithaca, NY based film Production Company announced this week the production of the music video for Youngstown, Ohio's B.J. O'Malley. The five-minute video, featuring "The Whiskey Song" was filmed this fall in Ithaca, NY and at Kinzua ...
| Nitty Gritty Dirt Band To Be Joined By Poco And Jim Messina For Party In The Dirt Tour
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ AGENCY FOR PERFORMING ARTS) - 2007 marked the historic 40th Anniversary of the Grammy award-winning NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND, and the fun has only begun! The band that is known world-wide for "Will The Circle Be Unbroken," and their No 1 hits "Fishin' In The Dark," and "Baby's ...
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Emerson Drive Receives GRAMMY Nod!
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Midas Recording) - Midas Recording artists Emerson Drive just marked another career milestone with a GRAMMY nomination this morning for "Best Country Performance By A Group or Duo with Vocals" for their No 1 hit "Moments." "Wow, what a great way to wrap up 2007! We just ...
| Miranda Lambert Lands Grammy Nod For Best Female Country Vocal Performance
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Columbia Records) - Columbia recording artist Miranda Lambert received a Grammy nomination today for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Famous In a Small Town." The track, which she recently performed on Good Morning America, is from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, an album ...
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Tim McGraw Scores 4 Grammy Nominations
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Curb Records) - Tim McGraw scored a whopping 4 nominations for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Among them, McGraw garners his first Grammy nomination as a songwriter for the moving 'If You're Reading This,' which he debuted live on this year's Academy of Country Music Awards ...
| Ronnie Milsap Receives Legend Award; Continues Touring With 40 No 1 Hits
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ RCA) - RONNIE MILSAP was recently presented the Legend Award by Rocketown founder Michael W. Smith at a fundraising event in Nashville, Tennessee. The event dubbed "What a Difference You've Made In My Life," raised funds to help Rocketown's mission to strive to make that ...
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Taylor Swift Nominated For Multi-Genre Grammy For Best New Artist
Los Angeles, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Big Machine Records) - Taylor Swift got an early birthday present this morning when she received her first-ever Grammy nomination, for the prestigious multi-genre award for Best New Artist. Taylor, who turns 18 one week from today, was on stage at the Grammys press conference ...
| Wrangler National Finals Rodeo Announces Partnership with Brooks & Dunn
LAS VEGAS, NV. (Top40 Charts/ Wrangler National Finals Rodeo) - Las Vegas Events announced today that the song 'Cowboy Town,' recorded by superstar duo Brooks & Dunn, has been adopted as the official song of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) for the next two years. Written by Ronnie Dunn, Larry ...
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