Country Music Stars Attend TJ Martell Honors Gala – in pictures

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Last night, March 26, 2012, music stars, business, medical, sports, and entertainment industry leaders attended the TJ Martell Honors Gala at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville to raise funds for the TJ Martell Foundation. During the evening several honors were handed out including a Lifetime Entertainment Achievement Award for Joe Galante, and the Lifetime Music Read More

New Video: Blackbird – Sarah Darling

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Sarah Darling recorded a wonderful version of the Paul McCartney classic ‘Blackbird’ for the ‘Let Us In’ Nashville – A Tribute to Linda McCartney, charity project benefiting The Woman and Cancer Fund. Read More

Taylor Swift Tops the Mediabase Country Singles Chart with ‘Ours’

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Taylor Swift has once again conquered the Mediabase Country Singles Chart, this time with ‘Ours’ which hit #1 this week. Jake Owen‘s ‘Alone with You’ climbs to #2, and Lee Brice‘s ‘A Woman Like You’ leaps from #7 to #3. Blake Shelton goes to #4 with ‘Drink on It,’ Lady Antebellum takes ‘Dancin’ Away with Read More

Single Review: Fly Over States – Jason Aldean

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Songwriters: Neil Thrasher and Michael Dulaney Singing about rural life has always been a staple of country music, and rightly so. The problem in recent years has been that it often dissolved into lyrics constructed from sloppily thrown together markers of ‘countriness’, which failed to make any sort of point (if they were even trying). Read More

John Jorgenson Will Join Rodney Crowell Tonight at BlackBerry Farm

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If you are already going, you are in for a treat, and if not, there is still time to head out to Blackberry Farm for this Americana Music Association benefit featuring Rodney Crowell and Mary Gauthier. Read More

Granger Smith Joins The Boot Campaign’s Second Annual 100-mile Walk

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One of my favorite ‘support the troops’ initiatives, The Boot Campaign, has teamed up with Texas singer-songwriter Granger Smith for the Second Annual 100-mile Walk. This is a great cause, so please check out the links below in the press release: Read More

CMA Songwriters Series Returns to NYC’s Joe’s Pub, May 9

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The immensely popular (and immensely fun!) CMA Songwriters Series will return to New York City’s Joe’s Pub. The next installment will feature Phil Vassar, Al Anderson, Craig Wiseman, and Bob DiPiero. Read More