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The Shania Twain Centre in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, built to celebrate the global success of the country-pop superstar, has been sold to a mining company and is expected to close its doors.
Two years ago, when Kix Brooks stepped back from his hugely successful career as part of Brooks & Dunn, one of the biggest duos in country music, no one could blame him. After all, with two decades of touring, 23 No. 1 singles and 30 million albums sold, he certainly had nothing left to prove. Bu...
Martina McBride is constantly asked how she balances her career with being a mom of three. It's a juggling act she has perfected, and one for which she feels eternally grateful. The Boot had the opportunity to see firsthand how the songstress pull it all off, as we were invited to join her in Austin, Texas, before her show at the state-of-the-art Moody Theater at Austin City Limits Live...
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It's just after noon on Saturday, February 18, a sunny and unseasonably warm day in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where Rascal Flatts will play the last show of their winter tour. As our crew pulls into the Izod Center's parking lot, it's hard to miss all nine tour buses in the Flatts' fleet, along with the big tractor trailers housing their massive set...
"I slept a little bit," Luke Bryan admits at 7:35 AM on August 9, 2011, the morning of the release of his third studio album, 'Tailgates & Tanlines.'
Luke, who has already squeezed in an early morning workout, sits in his dressing room, prepping for a performance on 'LIVE! Wi...
"Our tour family is our family," says the proud 'papa' of Sugarland's traveling brood, Kristian Bush. "It's a family of choice, a family of like-minded people."
"It's taken us a little while to form the whole team," adds Kristian's partner, Sugarland's vocal powerhouse Jennifer Nettles, who's more like a cool big sister than mama bear to the family...
It's a little more than four hours before his 26th birthday, and Chris Young is backstage at Nashville's LP Field, preparing to face 60,000 fans for one of the biggest nights of his life and career, a decade after starting his journey to stardom...
Billy Ray Cyrus has been a household name for almost 20 years. Ever since his 1992 debut album, 'Some Gave All' stormed the Billboard 200 album chart and latched onto the top spot for a staggering 17 weeks, he's been in our lives.
From the career-defining smash, 'Achy-Breaky Heart,' a song forever synonymous with the early '90s and mullets, to his 22 other hits on the country charts and his roles
Jerrod Niemann pulls up to his record label's offices on this gorgeous, sunny Nashville day and quickly walks over to introduce himself, extending an easygoing hand as we exchange hellos and congregate with others to carpool to the first destination on a long, hectic day ahead...
"It's like a drug. I cannot stop!" says a beaming Josh Kelley on a brisk spring day in New York City. His vice: writing country music, a talent that has come full circle for the platinum-selling musician.
"This whole journey started with a song I wrote about two-and-a-half years ago called 'Gone Like That...