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The Boot rounds up today's country music news headlines from around the web.
Carrie Underwood is teaming up with Tickets-for-Charity.com to offer fans some of the best seats in the house on her Blown Away tour. The program gives fans access to great seats in sold-out sections and also benefits ACM Lifting Lives and the C...
Mary Chapin Carpenter described being inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Sunday night (Oct. 7) as "tremendously exciting, nerve-wracking, very emotional and just humbling." The singer-songwriter joined tunesmiths Larry Henley, Tony Arata and Kim Williams as the newest members of the Hall of Fame at a dinner and ceremony held at Nashville's Renaissance Hotel and Conventi
Mary Chapin Carpenter has been selected as this year's Songwriter/Artist inductee to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. She was chosen over fellow nominees Ronnie Dunn, Kix Brooks and Larry Gatlin by Hall of Fame members, members of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), in addition to the boards of the Nashville Songwriters Foundation and NSAI...
Although she's been through a life-threatening illness, the death of her father and a divorce, all within a relatively short period of time, Mary Chapin Carpenter has emerged with Ashes and Roses, an album that is hopeful and demonstrates that even a difficult journey has its brighter spots...
Nominees for the 2012 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame include a long list of hitmakers. Ronnie Dunn, Kix Brooks, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Larry Gatlin are the four tunesmiths recognized in the Songwriter/Artist category. One of the four will be recognized alongside two of the finalists in the Songwriter category at the Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony on Oct...
On June 12, Mary Chapin Carpenter is set to release what is potentially the most poignant, deeply personal album of her career. Ashes and Roses, her fourth for Zoë/Rounder Records (including a 2008 holiday release), is the singer-songwriter's twelfth studio album and features a special duet with James Taylor on the track "Soul Companion."
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Mary Chapin Carpenter has set June 12 as the release date for 'Ashes and Roses,' the 12th studio album of her career and her fourth for Zoë/Rounder Records (including a 2008 holiday disc). 'Ashes and Roses' is the follow-up to the Grammy-nominated 2010 album, 'The Age of Miracles,' a Top 10 country and No. 1 f...
Mary Chapin Carpenter's upcoming tour dates in support of her Grammy-nominated project, 'The Age of Miracles,' have been announced. The 12-song collection is the singer-songwriter's eleventh studio album, which she recorded in Nashville and produced alongside longtime collaborator Matt Rollings...
Randy Travis may be in the middle of a difficult divorce, but he isn't letting his personal pain get in the way of performing for his loyal fans. The country music legend has been added to the 2011 line-up of the famous MerleFest, at the specific request of the festival's founder and host, Doc Watson...