Country Music
Chris Young to Receive Coveted CMA Triple Play Award
13 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Chris Young to Receive Coveted CMA Triple Play Award
Honoring his hit songwriting ability, Chris Young will receive the coveted CMA Triple Play Award on January 29. The award is given to songwriters who pen three chart toppers in any 12-month period, and Young took ‘Voice,’ ‘Tomorrow,’ and ‘You,’ to #1 in 2011-2012. xz Following this new accolade, Young will head overseas for the Read More
Feel Good Story: Dierks Bentley and Jake, Reunited
13 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Feel Good Story: Dierks Bentley and Jake, Reunited
Here’s one of the good news section! Yesterday, Dierks Bentley‘s dog Jake had enough of the bad weather around here, jumped over a fence, and perhaps sought out somewhere warmer and drier. Can’t say I really blame him for that. Bentley took to Twitter and Facebook to ask for help and many responded, including Mike Read More
Craig Campbell Returns to Australia for Country Music Awards and Festivals
13 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Craig Campbell Returns to Australia for Country Music Awards and Festivals
Craig Campbell will return to Australia this week for his second visit Down Under. The singer will perform at the famous Tamworth Festival and will attend the 41st CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia, to be held there on January 26th. In celebration of his headlining performance at the Tamworth Festival, ABC Music / Universal Read More
The Band Perry Starts the Year with Gold and Platinum Certifications
13 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on The Band Perry Starts the Year with Gold and Platinum Certifications
A few months before the release of their new album, trio The Band Perry already has a reason to celebrate. The album’s first single, ‘Better Dig Two,’ has been certified gold by the RIAA for selling over 700,000 copies. The song sits currently at #6 on the Mediabase chart, and is their fastest climbing single Read More
Tim McGraw Talks to Billboard about Split with Curb and New Album, Two Lanes of Freedom
13 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Tim McGraw Talks to Billboard about Split with Curb and New Album, Two Lanes of Freedom
Tim McGraw will release his new album, Two Lanes of Freedom, on February 5, 2013. It will be his first release on Big Machine Records and the singer has made no secret of the fact that the last few years have been more like tow lanes of frustration. A still-running legal battle with Curb Records Read More
Taylor Swift Holds Top-selling Country Album and Digital Country Song of 2012
13 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Taylor Swift Holds Top-selling Country Album and Digital Country Song of 2012
Well, OK, so that headline will not actually surprise anyone, I’m sure. For 2012, Taylor Swift tops both the top-selling albums and digital songs lists. She had no competition. Swift’s Red outsold the #2 album, Carrie Underwood‘s Blown Away, by just under 2 million copies. The next-best-selling song, Hunter Hayes‘ ‘Wanted,’ fell 885k units short Read More
Attend a Cooking Class with Christian Kane
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There seem to be very few creative outlets which country singer-songwriter Christian Kane does not know how to master. While I knew his guitar player (and incidentally also ridiculously talented songwriter), Steve Carlson is a trained chef, turns out Kane himself is a culinary connoisseur himself. For the webseries Taste of Music, he shared his Read More
Jon Wolfe Releases It All Happened In A Honky Tonk: Deluxe Edition, January 15, 2013
13 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Jon Wolfe Releases It All Happened In A Honky Tonk: Deluxe Edition, January 15, 2013
Texas troubadour Jon Wolfe has announced the release of the new deluxe edition of the It All Happened in a Honky Tonk album. The new edition will hit stores on January 15, via Warner Music Nashville/ILG. In addition to the existing album, the disc will contain three brand new tracks as well as music videos, Read More