Steve Azar Hist The Road With Hootie
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Midas Records) - Country blues rocker Steve Azar will kick off the summer by hitting the road with American pop rock band, Hootie & the Blowfish. The singer/songwriter has been tapped to open several shows with the band throughout June and July. Azar, known for seducing ...
| Carolina Rain In California
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Equity Music Group) - Equity Music Group's Carolina Rain played at Club Rodeo in San Jose, CA, on June 1st. While backstage they had a chance to catch up with Big Machine artist, Taylor Swift. The next day both Carolina Rain and Swift traveled to Modesto , CA , where they ...
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Rio Grand Shut Down the CMA Music Fest Riverfront Park Daytime Stages on Sunday with a Powerful Performance
Nashville, TN. (CMA) - As an unquestionable beneficiary of the country music landscape, fans of the genre should stand poised for massive entertainment coming to a radio station in their city as Curb/Asylum Records gets ready to ship Rio Grand's next single, 'That's My Memory,' a heart-wrenching, passion ...
| MuzikMafia Member Rachel Kice Contributes Original Painting to Martina McBride's YWCA Celebrity Auction
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ MuzikMafia Fans Website) - MuzikMafia member Rachel Kice donated an original painting inspired by Martina's McBride's current album, Waking Up Laughing, for the 24th Annual YWCA Charity Auction June 9th at Nashville's Hall of Fame Park. During the event, Kice, a performance ...
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Newcomer Katie Armiger To Radio This Week With Debut Single
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Katie Armiger Official Website) - On the heels of a successful performance at the 2007 CMA Music Festival, newcomer Katie Armiger is set to release her debut single, '17 In Abilene,' to radio this week. The song, which Katie co-wrote with fellow newcomer Ashlee Hewitt, ...
| Mark Wills Pulls Some Strings In SF
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Equity Music Group) - Equity Music Group's Mark Wills joined 95.7 The Wolf in San Francisco for their first event since the station's launch- a guitar pull at the Fillmore. Other artists on the bill included Steve Holy and Ty Herndon. Wills' brand new single, 'Days of ...
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Rissi Palmer Visits KKGO-FM In LA
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ 1720 Entertainment) - 1720 Entertainment recording artist Rissi Palmer recently made a stop to KKGO-FM (Go-Country) in Los Angeles during her West Coast radio tour. After hearing Rissi's debut single "Country Girl," KKGO Music Director, Tonya Campos commented, "Rissi Palmer ...
| Tracy Lawrence Make History With Hit Single 'Find Out Who Your Friends Are'
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Rocky Comfort) - Country music superstar Tracy Lawrence is perched atop national music trade charts, Billboard/R&R and Mediabase, with his 17th No. 1 record, "Find Out Who Your Friends Are." History was made when the song topped the charts making Lawrence the first country ...
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Billy Joe Shaver To Release New Spiritual Album, 'Everybody's Brother,' On August 7, 2007
HOUSTON, TX. (Top40 Charts/ Compadre Records) — Billy Joe Shaver's been thinking about making a spiritual album for a long time, but like everything in his life, he approaches spirituality on his own terms. 'Somebody called this album 'honky tonk Gospel,'' Shaver says chuckling. 'I kinda like ...
| Tim McGraw's 'If You're Reading This' Released To Radio
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Curb Records) - Tim McGraw's moving tribute to families of fallen hero's, 'If You're Reading This,' is being released immediately as a remixed and newly mastered recording from his show-stopping performance on this year's Academy of Country Music Awards. Simultaneously ...
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Brad Paisley Has Largest Tour Weekend of Career
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Arista Records) - Brad Paisley's 'Hershey's Presents Bonfires and Amplifiers Tour' continues to play to sold-out shows across the country. This past weekend over 50,000 fans in Indianapolis, Buffalo and Boston came out for the show, making it the largest tour weekend of ...
| Kellie Pickler Stuck I n High-Heeled Fashion
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ BNA Entertainment) - Fashion comes at a high price, and self-admitted shoe fanatic Kellie Pickler found that out on stage this weekend while on tour with Brad Paisley's Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour. Just as she began singing her 'girls' anthem,' 'Red High Heels,' Kellie ...
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2007 CMA Music Festival Breaks Attendance Record With More Than 191,000 Country Music Fans Attending
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ CMA Music Festival) - CMA Music Festival set a new aggregate attendance record in 2007 with 191,154 people attending the four-day Festival, June 7-10, in Downtown Nashville. "It was an amazing event on many different levels - from the outstanding lineup of artists; to ...
| Joe Nichols Fan Club Partners With CPF To Create Memorial Gift In Father's Name
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Universal South) - The Joe Nichols Fan Club and The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) today announced the establishment of the Mike Nichols Fund of Hope in an effort to raise awareness and research funding for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), the deadly lung disease ...
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Chris Gray Receives Standing Ovation At Music Fest Event
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Brown Bear Music) - Chris Gray brought fans and made new ones today at B.B. Kings nightclub in Nashville. The Mirrome Records recording artist received a standing ovation for his acoustic performance at the HMG/Powersource Showcase, one of many events being held this week ...
| Tequila Rose Offers Country Fans an Opportunity to Become 'Roadies' With Bomshel Singing Duo
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Tequila Rose) - Tequila Rose, the original strawberry cream liqueur with a splash of premium Tequila, has again partnered with Bomshel, a sassy, female country singing duo, to offer fans an opportunity to become "Roadie for a Week" with the group on their national 2007 ...
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Dolly Parton to Become a Girl Scout
KNOXVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council) - What honor is left for the most celebrated female country music singer and songwriter of all time? To become a Girl Scout. Dolly Parton will become a lifetime member of Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council June 15, 2007, during a presentation ...
| Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Jeep Story Launches 'Share Your Favorite Jeep Story' Contest on June 7, 2007
AUBURN HILLS, MI. (Top40 Charts/ Chrysler Group) - It was during a ride in a Jeep in 1996 in State College, Pa., that country music's reigning first couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill decided to build a life together. That's their Jeep story. What's yours? The brand wants to know in the "Share Your Favorite ...
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Kelly Willis Translated From Love In Stores June 26, 2007
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Rykodisc) - Kelly Willis, named by NPR as 'alternative country's golden goddess,' returns after five years with the much-anticipated Translated From Love. The album is the follow-up to the acclaimed Easy (2002), of which Rolling Stone said, 'Kelly Willis' sweet, burnished ...
| Skyla Spencer Entertains Nashville Veterans
Nashville, TN. (Skyla Spencer's Official Website) - Skyla Spencer recently stopped by to visit and perform for local veterans at the Veteran's Administration in Nashville. 'I hold so much admiration and respect for the men and women who have served and are presently serving our country. My father is ...
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