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Joanna Carter The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.

Frank Dycus, who wrote such memorable country hits as "Unwound" and "Marina del Ray" for George Strait and "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" for George Jones, died Friday (Nov. 23). He was 72. "He was a great writer, who came from nothing and carved out a life for himself through his own thoughtfulness," said Jim Lauderdale, who co-wrote "Gonna Get a Li

Mark Chesnutt is doing something no one in country music has tried before. The singer is releasing his next album on a one-of-a-kind Blue-Ray 3D disc. Titled Your Room, the project was filmed at an intimate show in Los Angeles, during which Mark and his band performed 15 of his most beloved hits including "Too Cold at Home," "Going Through the Big D" and "It's a Little Too

Hank Cochran was one of the most prolific and successful songwriters to call Nashville home. The man who penned "Make the World Go Away," "The Chair," "I Fall to Pieces" and "Don't Touch Me" was celebrated Wednesday night (April 25), with the premiere of "Hank Cochran: Livin' For a Song" at the Nashville Film Festival...

Randy Houser is just one of the new crop of artists hanging out at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge these days, and he and his buddies will no doubt provide the famed 50-year-old watering hole with a whole new set of stories and legends before his performing days are through...

Country artists are still anxiously awaiting the results of several upcoming awards shows, including the CMA's and the American Country Awards, but in France, many of the nominees are already winners. The French Association of Country Music hosted their awards show recently and several familiar names here at home earned the international honor...

Kris Kristofferson, Randy Houser, Terri Clark, Mel Tillis, Mark Chesnutt, the Grascals, Ronnie McDowell and Joanna Smith will pay musical tribute to Nashville's Tootsie's Orchid Lounge at the bar's 50th Anniversary Celebration November 7, with a special event across the alley at the Ryman Auditorium...

Sammy Kershaw will headline a free benefit concert this Sunday, July 18 in Houma, Louisiana to assist those hit hardest by the Gulf oil spill. Mark Chesnutt will also be participating in ProtectOurCoastline.org's Concert For The Coast, to be held in Houma's Court House Square...

Mark Chesnutt was hard at work being a rock 'n' roller until he heard Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Now the Texas-born singer is paying tribute to the two men, as well as others at the forefront of the outlaw movement, in his new album simply titled 'Outlaw...

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