GAC Valentine's Day Survey Finds Country Music Fans Love Their Love Songs
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Great American Country) -Nearly one-third of men and women have tossed embarrassment aside to sing a love song to that special someone in their lives, according to a national survey conducted for Great American Country network (GAC). The willingness to express one's love ...
| Tresa Jordan Re-Introduces Self-Titled CD On March 13, 2007
Nashville, TN (Top40 Charts/ CDA Promotions-Nashville) - Country singer/songwriter Tresa Jordan is set for the March 13 re-release of her self-titled debut album on South River Road Records thru an exclusive distribution agreement with Aspirion Records Group. Jordan and Aspirion are currently promoting ...
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The International Country Music Database Launches Indie Corner
Austin, TX (Top40 Charts/ Duval Media Group) - In an effort to further support and promote new and independent artists in country music, ICMDb has created an area just for these artists. The Indie Corner breaks out the independent artists from the growing ICMDB artist database (currently 700 artists). ...
| A Plethora of Pink to Meet 3,000 Dolly Parton Fans at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts' Valentine's Day Performance
SANTA ROSA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Wells Fargo Center for the Arts) - Crews will work throughout the night and well into the day tomorrow to prepare a palace of pink at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. Grace Pavilion, which normally takes on the appearance of an empty airline hanger, is being transformed ...
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Dixie Chicks Make History As First Female Group To Take Home Top Three Grammy Honors: Song of the Year, Record of the Year, & Album of the Year
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Open Wide/ Columbia Records) - The Dixie Chicks made music history at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 11, when they became the first female group ever to take home the big three top Grammy honors: Song Of The Year (for "Not Ready To Make Nice"), Record ...
| Kenny's New CD, How About Now, Set For February 25, 2007 Release
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Kenny Loggins Official Website) - This newest album, How About Now, finds Kenny in peak vocal form and firmly rooted in the soulful singer-songwriter tradition that's underscored every phase of his extraordinary career. The new disc features 12 original songs infused with ...
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Keith Urban Set To Perform On The Today Show Feb. 16, 2007h
Nashville, TN (Top40 Charts/ Liberty PR) - International Superstar Keith Urban is set to perform on the Today Show on Friday, February 16th. The Grammy Award winner will be performing three of his 12 Top 5 recordings, on the plaza Rockefeller Center in New York City . Urban, who has amassed seven No. ...
| Multi-City Tour Celebrates Jason Michael Carroll's Debut Album
Nashville, TN (Top40 Charts/ Arista) - Red-hot Arista Nashville newcomer Jason Michael Carroll is rolling through an exciting time with a Top-10-and-climbing smash single (the powerful 'Alyssa Lies') and this week's release of his debut album, Waitin' in the Country. Currently amid a multi-city album-launch ...
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Pat Green Continues To Feel Effect Of Visit To St. Jude
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ BNA Entertainment) - Reflecting on his recent visit to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , Pat Green recalls a phone conversation with his wife the night before the visit. 'I remember she told me, 'Ya know, tomorrow is going to be a hard day for you. I bet it hits ...
| Emerson Drive Nominated For Juno Award!
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Midas Records Nashville) - Midas Records Nashville recording artists Emerson Drive have been nominated for a Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Juno Award in the category of "Country Recording of the Year." "We are ecstatic! This is the second time we've ...
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Lucinda Williams Goes 'West' To The Village
Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ Village Studios/ www.villagestudios.com) - Lost Highway will release "West," the new album from acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams, on February 13. The album was produced during lengthy sessions in Studio D at The Village Recorder in Los ...
| Gina Whitney Releases New CD Titled: High Heels In A War Zone
NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Sea Star Entertainment) - Gina Whitney the hot new female country artist from Huntington Beach Ca. has what it takes to be the next big thing out of Orange County, California. Gina Whitney won the Phoenix Arizona competition on the original Nashville Star series and is ...
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Tracy Lawrence's For The Love CD Debut With An Impressive First Week
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Rocky Comfort Records) - Country music superstar Tracy Lawrence was met with an impressive response by record buyers across the United States the first week his new CD, FOR THE LOVE, was available in stores. With sales just shy of 17,000 units, Lawrence entered Billboard ...
| Kellie Pickler's 'I Wonder' Laments Absent Mother
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ BNA Entertainment) - Kellie Pickler's childhood, from her incarcerated father and runaway mother to the nurturing grandparents who raised her, was well documented during her amazing run on last season's American Idol. But feelings of abandonment by her mother left permanent ...
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Keith Urban Concert Special Premieres on Great American Country
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Capitol Records) - International superstar Keith Urban will give Great American Country viewers an exclusive one-hour concert special, Keith Urban: Inside These Walls, to premiere on GAC on Wednesday, Feb.14 at 10 p.m. ET. "It was kind of odd doing songs that people have ...
| KEITH URBAN: THE WAIFS CONFIRMED AS SPECIAL GUESTS FOR TOUR
Sydney, AU. (EMI MUSIC Australia) - In 1992 when, from Australia's east coast, Keith Urban departed for the USA - on the country's west, in the remote north town of Broome, two travelling sisters, Vikki and Donna Simpson, met up with Josh Cunningham and one of Australia's most successful independent ...
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Hank Williams, Jr. Logo Guitars Now Available!
NASHVILLE, TN (Top40 Charts/ Copley Musical Instrument Company) - Copley Musical Instrument Company has created an acoustic guitar exclusively for the Hank Williams, Jr. fan. The limited edition acoustic guitar, engraved with the Hank Jr. logo and created with superior craftsmanship, contains a 20 ...
| Jimmy Buffett - Take The Weather With You
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ RCA Records) - Long before Jimmy Buffett became a franchise for cheeseburgers in paradise and the intersection of tequila, ice and blender, he was a pretty marvelous populist poet of the palms'n'sea salt set. Slightly faded characters setting on barstools, comparing scars ...
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Alan Jackson - Like Red On A Rose
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Arista Records) - In some ways, barely-spoken Alan Jackson seems an odd heir to Hank Williams Sr's wild-eyed, yet austere traditional country mantle. He's a family man, seemingly disinterested in bright lights, cigarette smoke and the vices being plied beyond the bandstand ...
| A College Boy Can Survive: The Academic Side of Music Row
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Country Music Association) - It used to be that ambitious youngsters knocked on Music Row doors or networked in nearby bars to gain a foothold in Nashville's music industry. Some still prefer these approaches, but the more savvy among them have learned that the odds favor ...
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