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Ron Galella Collection The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.

The Oak Ridge Boys were enjoying a well-deserved vacation over the holidays, when a special request prompted the iconic group to change their plans. Former First Lady Barbara Bush asked the country quartet to serenade her husband, former President George H...

Various country singers are crossing party lines to support former Gov. Mitt Romney and Congressman Paul Ryan on their road to the White House. The Oak Ridge Boys, Trace Adkins, Collin Raye, Jo Dee Messina, Lee Greenwood and Lorrie Morgan have all signed on to perform at events and rallies supporting the presidential and vice presidential hopefuls...

Lady Antebellum has a new "baby" in the family. Plus, Blake Shelton gets bromantic yet again, but this time more intimately than ever! And Jake Owen celebrates his birthday with a similarly sexy guy who just happens to have the same b'day...

Countless celebrities -- from the controversial (Roseanne Barr) to the sublime (Whitney Houston) -- have sung our national anthem at special events. Now country music legends the Oak Ridge Boys have been proclaimed by the prestigious National Music Council as "the official leading singers" of "The Star Spangled Banner...

Cross-genre collaborations are nothing new, but few are as interesting as the upcoming album, 'When Country Meets Dixie,' which combines the talents of the Oak Ridge Boys and the Dukes of Dixieland brass band. Imagine a Dixieland band behind the country quartet's monster '80s hit, 'Elvira...

Members of the Oak Ridge Boys say they felt a kinship to the Grand Ole Opry long before they became members of the famous radio show Saturday night (August 6). Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban were made official members, welcomed to the family of Grand Ole Opry stars by Little Jimmy Dickens and Opry vice-president and general manager Pete Fisher...

The Oak Ridge Boys will be inducted as Grand Ole Opry members on August 6. Duane Allen, William Lee Golden, Richard Sterban and Joe Bonsall were invited to join the Opry this past Friday night (July 8) by Little Jimmy Dickens, who took the Opry stage dressed like William Lee, complete with long beard and sunglasses...

If you happen to see Randy Houser, George Jones or Josh Turner walking around in combat boots, don't be alarmed. They're joining dozens of their fellow country music artists who are taking off their cowboy boots and replacing them with combat boots in support of the 'Boot Campaign,' a grassroots initiative started by five women (a/k/a the Boot Girls) from Texas whose mission is to provide an easy

The Grascals are going to make some kids' wishes come true when they release their new duets album 'The Grascals + Friends: Country Classics With a Bluegrass Spin,' on January 10. That's because proceeds from the album will go to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital to help desperately ill pediatric patients...