Kenny Chesney Wins Billboard Road Work 2005 Award; 'The Road & The Radio' Hitting The Stores November 8, 2005
NASHVILLE, TN. (BNA Records) - Having sold well over a million concert tickets for the third summer in a row - and besting U2 by over 200,000 tickets as the biggest ticket seller for the first half of 2005 - Kenny Chesney is all about the live performance. In addition to being the only country act to ...
| Clint Black Talks About New CD With Craig Ferguson
NASHVILLE, TN. (Equity Music Group) - Clint Black will be the lead guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on November 1st (CBS TV, airing at 12:35 a.m. ET). The Equity recording artist is set to discuss the inspiration behind his new CD, 'Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic' with the host. Drinkin' ...
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Chad Burdick Releases New CD 'What's In Store'
NASHVILLE, TN. (Chad Burdick Official Website/ www.chadburdick.com) - Critically acclaimed country artist Chad Burdick, formerly known as the front man for the popular Country Mile Band, has decided to embark on a solo career. 'I am looking forward to performing as a solo artist and working with my ...
| Multi-Platinum Selling Country Music Group Lonestar Entertains Troops in Mississippi on USO Tour
WASHINGTON, DC (USO Network) - Top country music group Lonestar will perform a USO show for troops stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., Nov. 4. This special performance is open only to military personnel and their families. For the sixth consecutive year, the band is nominated for ...
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Greg Garing's Music City Circus To Include National Talent Search
Nashville, TN. (Greg Garing Official Website) - Greg Garing, King of Nashville's Lower Broad Honky Tonk revival and the twangmaster who brought gen-u-wine country music to New York City's rollicking Alphabet City Opry, announces the launch of the Greg Garing's Music City Circus. Along with Garing for ...
| Nashville Star Auditions Coming Soon
NASHVILLE, TN. (USA Network) - NASHVILLE STAR will launch a national casting tour across America in numerous cities including Chicago (Oct. 29), Dallas, DC, Portland, Atlanta and Las Vegas. The auditions are open to women and men, ages 18 and over (as of January 1, 2006), who think they have what it ...
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Timeless Clocks In At No 1 For Martina McBride
NASHVILLE, TN (Martina McBride Official Website) - It seems fitting that while rehearsing for the upcoming Johnny Cash television special, reigning CMA Female Vocalist Of The Year Martina McBride learned that Timeless, her new album of classic country songs, debuted at Number One. Martina's poignant ...
| Jeff Bates' Inspires Fans To Form Operation Circle Of Love
NASHVILLE, TN (Jeff Bates Official Website) - Jeff Bates' music inspired members of his People On A Mission fan club to attend his concert at the county fair in Dunbar, Pennsylvania last year. It was that fateful concert that brought these fans together with Staff Sergeant Al Stenzel, Jr. (Al Jr.) who ...
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Sara Evans Realizes That There Is Not A Real Fine Place To Shoot A Video
Nashville, Tenn. (Sara Evans Official Website) - A week after her No 1 debut with Real Fine Place, Sara Evans was home in Nashville yesterday during her brief break from touring with Brad Paisley to shoot the video for her latest single 'Cheatin'.' After the last video shoot in the desert where she ...
| Montgomery Gentry Celebrate Their 3rd Platinum Album
NEW YORK, NY (Sony Music Nashville) - Montgomery Gentry's current album, You Do Your Thing, has reached platinum status, while their new single, "She Don't Tell Me To," receives the largest add-date station count ever, with a total of 75 Billboard and R&R reporting stations, for the high-powered country ...
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MICHAEL LEE AUSTIN Celebrates 'Labor Pains' On November 7, 2005
NASHVILLE, TN. (Michael Lee Austin Official Website) - Just a few years ago, Michael Lee Austin (www.michaelleeaustin.com) was singing country cover songs in bar bands across his adopted home state of North Carolina, dreaming of what it would take to become a famous country artist himself. The answer: ...
| RHETT AKINS GETS FANS EXCITED ABOUT NEW SINGLE
NASHVILLE, TN. (Rhett Akins Official Website) - Last week Rhett Akins ran into a few fans outside of the Dukes of Hazard gift show on Music Valley Drive as they were admiring the replica of The General Lee. Akins, who was heading to his tour bus for a weekend show in Pensacola, FL, took time to play ...
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Musician Spotlight: Jerry Douglas - A Slide Ruler
NEW YORK (Koch Records) - If you ask 50 guitarists, "Who is the most important guitar player ever?" you are likely to get 50 different answers. From Django Reinhart to Chet Atkins to Les Paul to Eddie Van Halen, the list of guitar virtuosos is endless. But if you ask 50 Dobro players about the greatest ...
| Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Releases Exclusive Charlie Daniels Band CD Of Patriotic Songs
LEBANON, Tenn. (Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.) - Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. ('Cracker Barrel') has added another exclusive CD to its growing collection of specialty music. Beginning today, fans of the legendary Charlie Daniels Band can purchase and enjoy Country Stars N' Stripes, ...
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Michael Lee Austin Changes The Norm of The Music Industry By Giving Away 3,726 Free Digital Fan Club Memberships From His Website
Raleigh, NC (Michael Lee Austin Website) - Look around any artists website and you'll see the option to join their 'fan club.' It's been the standard of the music industry and a significant part of any grass roots strategy to maintain a strong relationship with the fans of each artist whether you're ...
| Wynonna Judd to Receive ANASAZI Foundation Turn for Peace Award
Mesa, Arizona (ANASAZI Foundation) - ANASAZI Foundation, a nonprofit outdoor behavioral healthcare provider focused on strengthening parent-child relationships, has named entertainer Wynonna Judd and her husband D.R. Roach as recipients of the 2005 Turn for Peace award. The couple will receive the award ...
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Trace Adkins Goes To Washington
Nashville, TN. (Trace Adkins Official Website) - Multi-platinum selling country star, Trace Adkins has partnered with The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), a non-profit organization, in an effort to promote food allergy awareness. The country hitmaker recently traveled to Capitol Hill to take ...
| Ann-Marita Wins Honorable Mention For Alive & Kickin'
NASHVILLE, TN. (FlightSafe Music Publishing) - Ann-Marita's "Alive & Kickin'" has been given Honorable Mention from FlightSafe Music Publishing in their QuickLaunch Song Contest. "Alive And Kickin'" has been described as "…a 'can't hold me down' declaration that will stir the blood of 'Hell-Yeah' ...
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Tresa Street Rockin' Her way Up The Chart
NASHVILLE, TN. (Tresa Street Official Website) - Tresa Street is one spot away from the top with her current single "Rockin' a Baby"! It is currently at the No 2 position on the IndieWorld Country Record Report! "Rockin' a Baby," a bluesy-country song with Tresa voicing her complaint about immature ...
| Cross-Genre Music Elite Added To Performers On 'The 38th Annual CMA Awards'
NASHVILLE, TN. (CMA) - The stars appearing on "The 39th Annual CMA Awards" are a testament to the overall popularity of Country Music as artists from other genres and some of America's top actors join "Country Music's Biggest Night™." Added to the star-packed line up for the 2005 CMA Awards ...
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