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Toby Keith Rocks the Jukebox
Toby Keith has bragging rights to the No. 1 most-played song on jukeboxes this year. AMI Entertainment Network, one of the world's largest jukebox manufacturers, has released its list of the Top 100 jukebox songs of 2009, with the country superstar's 'I Love This Bar' on top...
ACM Awards Throw a Few Curve-Balls
The Academy of Country Music Awards are getting a major makeover. Several ACM Award categories are being changed for the 2010 show. The night's top honor, Entertainer of the Year, will now have eight nominees instead of five. The New Male Vocalist and New Female Vocalist awards are now combined into one category, New Solo Vocalist...
Phil Vassar Brings ‘Circus’ to Town
Phil Vassar has never fit into the cookie cutter mold that is country music, and that's just the way he likes it. The genre's only "piano man" has been a unique force in the business for a decade now ... albeit a business with which he has a bit of a beef...
Trace Adkins Pays Tribute to Sweet Home ‘Ala-Freakin’-Bama’
Just a few days after the No. 1 ranked University of Alabama football team clinched the SEC championship, Trace Adkins is paying tribute to the Heart of Dixie. 'Ala-Freakin'-Bama' is the title of his humorous new song released this week. (Listen to the song below by clicking the blue arrow on the player...
Cledus T. Judd Spoofs Tiger Woods’ Sex Scandal
Tiger Woods has certainly given comedians food for fodder with his explosive infidelity scandal. Cledus T. Judd is the latest to poke fun at the golf sensation, grabbing a 'Tiger by the Tail.' The country comedian has taken the melody of the classic Buck Owens song and changed the lyrics to create his latest parody, 'Tiger by the Tail (The Tale of Tiger Woods)...
Josh Kelley and Katherine Heigl ‘Spoiled’ by New Baby
Josh Kelley, who recently announced he's crossing over to country, certainly has a musical family tree. His little brother Charles is the soulful baritone of Lady Antebellum, and while his wife, actress Katherine Heigl, and daughter Naleigh might not be singers (yet), they know a good tune when they hear it...
Taylor, Keith, Kenny, + More React to Grammy Nominations
Taylor Swift is second only to Beyoncé in 2010 Grammy nominations, as the country superstar has scored eight nods going into the Jan. 31 awards show. "I started freaking out and jumping up and down," Taylor tells the Associated Press of hearing about all of her nominations Wednesday night. "I ho...
Phil Vassar Serves Songs for ‘Waitress’
Following in the footsteps of Elton John, Phil Collins and Dolly Parton, Phil Vassar is trying his hand -- or rather his pen -- at Broadway. The illustrious country tunesmith is writing all of the music for the upcoming Broadway adaptation of the 2007 movie, 'Waitress...
Josh Kelley Comes Back Home to Country
Wearing jeans and a black T-shirt emblazoned with one word, "SOUTHERN," Josh Kelley walks into Nashville's Fido coffee shop feeling right at home. The Augusta, Ga. native known for his soulful fuse of pop and rock was a Music City resident for several years before moving to Los Angeles, where he now lives with his wife, actress Katherine Heigl, and the baby girl they adopted from Korea..
Gloriana ‘Freaked Out’ by AMA Breakthrough Artist Win
They thought Lady Gaga was a shoo-in, so when Gloriana heard their name announced as the winners of the American Music Awards' T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist award, the foursome couldn't mask their shock.
"Can we get a show of hands from everybody who just said, 'Who the heck is Gloriana...