Lorie Hollabaugh

(Pictured left to right are Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Recording Academy, George Flannigen, Sony Music Nashville chairman/CEO Gary Overton, Carrie Underwood and Nashville Chapter President Jon Randall Stewart) The ballroom at the Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel in Nashville could've been a set for one of the scenes of the popular new ABC-TV drama, "Nashville," Wednesday night (Ja

The members of The Farm had never even met when a mutual friend suggested they get together to write several years ago, and the common ground they found on that fateful, sunny day ended up being the perfect place for the seeds of some heartfelt, pure country music to take root...

As we prepare to close the book on 2012 and ring in a shiny, new year, we thought we'd pause for a moment and look back on the year in country music ... and what a year it was!

The Zac Brown Band has accomplished some really impressive things in the 10 years since they debuted on the scene back in 2002, and as 2012 winds down, the guys are proud to admit they marked off a major goal on their bucket list this past year --- selling out Madison Square Garden...

Uncle Kracker recently released his latest country-tinged CD, Midnight Special. The Detroit native has not only found a second home in country music, he's made some great friends as well, since teaming with Kenny Chesney on the smash duet "When the Sun Goes Down...

Garth Brooks apparently found himself right at home during a taping of one of wife Trisha Yearwood's episodes of her cooking show "Trisha's Southern Kitchen" in Oklahoma recently -- so much so that the producers originally wanted to call his episode "Gartha Stewart"...

Like a well-worn pair of your favorite jeans, Uncle Kracker has found a place in country music that's comfortable and just the right fit for the Detroit hitmaker. From his first No. 1 hit, "Follow Me" to the crossover smash "Smile," which landed squarely in the Top 5 on the country charts and sold two million copies (with plenty of hits with and for artists like Kenny Chesney a

Taylor Swift finds a lot of inspiration during the holidays and she shares some of her loves of the season in the premiere edition of Happy and Healthy: Your Guide to Living Well magazine, available exclusively in Walgreens stores. The scrumptious aromas of the holidays bring up warm memories for the young superstar, and since she loves to bake, her own home is filled with many of those smells fro

Jake Owen rocked the house at a sold-out stop in Detroit on his CMT: The Summer Never Ends 2012 Tour, and in a cool move he generously shared the stage with local singer-songwriter J.T. Harding (who just happened to write Jake's recent No...

Brad Paisley wanted to get out of his own comfort zone while recording his latest single, "Southern Comfort Zone," so he made some pretty radical changes to shake things up. He basically tore down the whole recording process and started from scratch, leaving his longtime producer Frank Rogers so that he could produce the project on his own...