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ABC via Getty Images The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.

Taylor Swift generously donated $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum last year, to fund a new area of the museum, which will be appropriately called the Taylor Swift Education Center. The songstress recently revealed why it was important for her to make such a sizable contribution...

Legendary country artists, pop and rock superstars and longtime friends paid tribute to the three newest inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday evening (Oct. 21). Garth Brooks, Connie Smith and Hargus "Pig" Robbins were officially welcomed into the ranks of country music's select few who are enshrined and commemorated with bronze plaques bestowed upon them by the Country M

Taylor Swift fans will be thrilled to wander through the new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, which displays countless items from the superstar's most recent world tour. Titled 'Taylor Swift: Speak Now -- Treasures from the World Tour,' the exhibit features clothing, guitars and even the balcony from which the singer floated above the crowd...

Christopher Polk/ACMA2012, Getty Images for ACM Kenny Rogers is back in the saddle again. The singer revealed last night (May 9) that he will be recording a new album for Warner Bros. Records with producer Dann Huff. The announcement came during the first of Kenny's two nights as the Artist-in-Residence at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Kix Brooks calls Hargus 'Pig' Robbins the Elvis of session players in Nashville. "Elvis had entered the building when Pig came in," Kix recalls, talking to The Boot about the recent Country Music Hall of Fame inductee. "When Pig walked in the room, all the musicians stopped and waited to see how he was gonna take the song...

New Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Connie Smith says she hopes each new artist in country music will take time to find their own individual voice. "I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike," Connie tells The Boot...

Kix Brooks jokes that half the records he and singing partner Ronnie Dunn sold as Brooks & Dunn were because someone wanting a Garth Brooks album reached into the wrong 'Brooks' section at the retail store. It may be closer to the truth that the two could be long-lost cousins, as they are steeped in the same love for country music and a give-it-all attitude on stage. G...

Garth Brooks was announced, along with Connie Smith and piano legend Hargus 'Pig' Robbins, as the newest addition of the Country Music Hall of Fame yesterday (March 6), and the country superstar and pop-culture phenomenon knows exactly what his late mother would have said upon hearing that he's been given the coveted honor...

The latest additions to the illustrious Country Music Hall of Fame were announced at a news conference on Tuesday morning (March 6) and they cover a wide range of entertainment and country music history. Global entertainment icon Garth Brooks has sold more than 128 million albums since the start of his career and toured the world taking his unique brand of country music to meteoric heights... Read