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If the Professor on 'Gilligan's Island' could fashion a radio from two coconuts, why can't Troy Olsen make a guitar from a cigar box? But unlike the Professor's radio, the EMI Nashville artist's creation actually works. Appropriately enough, he played it on 'Good Hands,' which reached No...

What are some of your favorite stars doing to welcome in the New Year? Many of them are working hard, helping fans celebrate. Several artists have taken the time off around the holidays and will hit it hard when they return to the road in mid-January...

Exercise more and eat less -- that may be the most common New Year's resolution, but that's not exactly what we heard when we asked about the resolutions of some of country's brightest stars! Here are a few of our favorite celebrity plans for 2011: Jaron and the Long Road to Love: "To end the long road to love...

Troy Olsen has picked up his phone to a lot of great news over the last year. First, there was the call from Capitol Records, offering him a deal on its new imprint, EMI Records Nashville. Then came the call to say that Tim McGraw was going to cut a song he wrote, 'Ghost Town Train...

More than 12,000 fans packed the Lake Elisnore, Calif. Diamond this past weekend for the two-day Wagon Wheel Country Music Festival. Dierks Bentley, Lee Ann Womack, Sara Evans, James Otto, Randy Houser, Troy Olsen, Dwight Yoakam and more all entertained the fans with their own hits and a few classic covers here and there...

Darius Rucker, Luke Bryan, Jennette McCurdy, Walker Hayes and Troy Olsen are set to perform this Wednesday, October 13 at Capitol Street Party 3, the third annual free concert hosted by Capitol Records Nashville, which takes place on Demonbreun Street near the city's famed Music Row...

Troy Olsen fans will have the chance to catch the Arizona cowboy in concert when the he takes to the road for his Get Right Tonight tour. While the southwestern U.S. has been aware of Troy for some time, the rest of the country will now see the singer/songwriter in his element, getting back to the comfort zone of live performance...

While Arizona and New Mexico have been keeping Troy Olsen a simmering secret for more than ten years, EMI Records and iTunes are letting the proverbial cat out of the bag, sharing this triple-talented new artist with the rest of us. While his self-titled album won't be released in full until later in the year, Troy's debut single, 'Summer Thing,' can be heard on radio now and downloaded by fans at

Artist: Troy Olsen Video: 'Summer Thing' Why We Dig It: The debut video from this Arizona-bred cowboy comes at the perfect time for fun in the hot summer sun. %VIRTUAL-globalVideoEmbed-{"videoIds":"517722227","width":"400","height":"346"}% Download 'Summer Thing'

Capitol Nashville, the record label that is home to Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Emily West has announced the formation of a sister label. According to Music Row, the new imprint will be called EMI Records Nashville, and the first artist will be singer/songwriter Troy Olsen, a real life American cowboy whose debut album i