Steve Baltin

Since starting her career back in the mid-'90s Jewel has been a true renaissance woman, following her artistic muse from her early days as a pop/rock-folk troubadour to her current standing as country favorite. In between, she even made stops in Hollywood (appearing in acclaimed director Ang Lee's 'Running With The Devil') and as a poet, so it's no surprise that the now-pregnant entertainer has wr

It's very early in 2010, far too early to be making grandiose statements about bests of the year. But though it's only March it'd be hard to imagine a more ambitious record than Shooter Jennings' 'Black Ribbons,' a conceptual work set in a futuristic society tied together by the words of author Stephen King, playing a deejay who introduces the fictional band, Hierophant...

Carrie Underwood shared the Grammy stage with a cross-genre mix of other music superstars on Sunday, in a tribute to the late Michael Jackson. Singing with the country songbird were pop queen Celine Dion, R&B heartthrob Usher, Motown legend Smoky Robinson and R&B singer/actress Jennifer Hudson. One hi...

For Zac Brown, just getting a Grammy nomination in the Best New Artist category is unbelievable. In fact, he couldn't quite grasp it when asked if it had sunk in yet. "No, not really. That's something that's still gonna take a while to get my head around...

At 73, Kris Kristofferson has lived a life that transcends Hollywood legend. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, a serviceman, a movie star, a rebel, the songwriter of such classics as 'Me And Bobby McGee,' friend to the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, lover to Janis Joplin, Rita Coolidge and Barbra Streisand, father, and member of both the Country Music and Songwriters' Hall of F

In music interviews, "It feels like a new beginning" or "I feel like a new artist" falls just below "This is our best work" in ubiquitous clichés. But for Michelle Branch, it's true. In the six years since her last solo record, the one-time teen pop sensation, who scored two Top 10 pop albums by her early 20s, moved from L.A. to ...

Sure, Chris Daughtry is a hard-rocking frontman who loves his Bon Jovi and Metallica. But the arena rocker admitted he's not afraid to cry, and Alan Jackson is the guy who can do it to him. "'Remember When' from Alan Jackson is a song that kills me," Chris tells The Boot...

British hard rockers Def Leppard are the latest rock band to make musical friends in Nashville. Like the Eagles before them, Def Leppard are hitting next month's CMT Awards, where they have two nominations, for their work with Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift...

Kenny Chesney is looking to be inspired at tonight's Grammy Awards. As a songwriter, Chesney looks to his peers as influences. "When I hear a great song, I'm inspired to want to write a great song; or see a great performance, I'm inspired by it," the country superstar tells The Boot...

Carrie Underwood has played to millions of people in sold-out venues around the world, but the singer confessed to The Boot at the Clive Davis pre-Grammy soiree that appearing at the Grammys is something different, if only because of who's in the audience...