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Capitol Records Nashville The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.

Gregg DeGuire, FilmMagic Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, the Eagles and Lisa Marie Presley are among the artists who have donated music memorabilia to an auction benefiting those affected by last December's Sandy Hook school shootings.

The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web. Gary Allan, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Kelly Clarkson, Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes, Miranda Lambert, Jake Owen, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift, the Band Perry, Keith Urban and Zac Brown Band have all been added to the 2013 CMA Music Festival lineup...

Country music has been an integral part of the Grammy Awards since the first trophies were presented in 1959, although the first country Grammy was actually awarded to folk group the Kingston Trio for the murder ballad "Tom Dooley." Country music has also been a presence since the first Grammy live telecast in 1971, although arguably a limited one until recent years...

John Mayer joined the Zac Brown Band for their Southern Ground Music & Food Festival in Nashville in September, and now the group's lead singer is returning the favor. Zac and his bandmate Clay Cook will head to Bozeman, Mont., on Jan. 16...

Kevin Winter, Getty Images It would take a pretty special event for John Mayer to defy doctors' orders ... and this weekend's Southern Ground Music & Food Festival in Nashville is just that special. The Grammy-winning rocker has been added to both the Friday and Saturday night lineups (Sept. 21...

Noam Galai, AOL The five musicians of Blackberry Smoke stride into AOL Music's New York City office on a day for celebration, as just hours earlier their new album, The Whippoorwill was released after months of blood, road sweat and studio tears...

Atlantic/Southern Ground "No direction is the direction," Zac Brown Band multi-instrumentalist Clay Cook tells The Boot with a laugh when summing up the group's mindset making their third studio album, Uncaged. Released this week, Uncaged is indeed unconventional, yet not unexpected for the Grammy winners, who have always defied genre...

"We want to exceed expectations," says Zac Brown. And that's not only what Zac Brown Band is doing with their third studio album, Uncaged, but also what they're doing with their whole business philosophy. Just a little over a year after Zac started his own record label, Southern Ground Artists, Inc...

Zac Brown Band is continuing the practice of having concerts appeal to all five senses. The now seven-member group, thanks to the recent addition of percussionist Daniel de los Reyes, has announced the second annual Zac Brown Band Southern Ground Music & Food Festival, set for October 20 - 21 in Charleston, S.C. ...