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Canadian country star Rita MacNeil died Tuesday, April 16, after suffering complications following surgery. She was 68. A native of Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, she recorded her first album, Born a Woman, in 1975. In all, MacNeil recorded 24 albums, including 2012's Saving Grace...

Sony Music Nashville The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web. Kenny Chesney is launching his own line of rum. The country music superstar, who has been very vocal about his love for island life and a great cocktail, created Blue Chair Rum with a master blender from one of the Caribbean's oldest distilleries...

Hey baby, let's go to Vegas! And Louisiana ... and Canada ... and Alaska, Texas, L.A. and NYC! The Boot scoured pretty much all of North America to find pictures of some of the biggest country music news stories this week. Flip through photos below of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw making their big Sin City announcement, plus Miranda Lambert catches a big fish and Blake Shelton finds a little drinking