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Joe Nichols , Jimmy Wayne and Gloriana lead the way in new videos that were screened by the CMT New Music Video Evaluation Team. Nichols goes for a good-time song. Wayne resurrects the old Hall & Oates 1976 pop hit, "Sara Smile." Gloriana get in the Christmas spirit with "Silent Night." And ...
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Joe Nichols
Jimmy Kimmel
Country
Good ol' Jimmy Wayne . He is giving us two very solid reasons to love Mondays, at least for today. One, his new album, Sara Smile , is out today. And two, he's doing a live video chat and sing (I just made that name up) at 7 p.m. CT to showcase some of the new music. You can catch it on his ...
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Jimmy Kimmel
Country
Keith Urban
Get in the holiday spirit with the American Music Awards ' breakthrough artist of the year, Gloriana . This quartet sings "Silent Night," which is featured on A Very Special Christmas 7 and supports the Special Olympics . After watching this acoustic performance, it makes me want to curl up by ...
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American Music Awards
Olympics
Country
So many of John Fogerty 's songs are like time machines. By the time the first three notes ring out, my mind has already pulled up some long-forgotten memory. And since I was one of the younger people in the crowd at Sunday night's (Nov. 22) show at the Ryman Auditorium , I can only imagine ...
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Country
Inspired by a message he wanted to share with future generations of his family, Big Kenny 's new single, "Long After I'm Gone," is definitely philosophical. However, I'm especially drawn to the thumping pulse of the song. During a recent interview at CMT, I asked him why he wrote it with an ...
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Country
Who needs you, country radio? Artists have Oprah and this so-called Oprah effect. And it is all about getting results after you perform on her afternoon talk show. The show has something like 6.2 million viewers every single day. That apparently made certain CDs jump to the top slot of the U.S. ...
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Oprah Winfrey
Country
Kenny Chesney
Martina McBride
Tim McGraw
Sugarland
I suppose today's list should be called Top 10 Tracks We're Digging because I compiled this list on Friday night when I was out to dinner with friends. There were five couples, so nine borderline country fans and me. When the conversation turned toward country music and they asked me what my ...
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Country
Kenny Chesney
Faith Hill
Phil Vassar
Dixie Chicks
Trace Adkins
Jimmy Buffett fans don't need to grab their flip-flops or mix their margaritas for this. All they need to do is sit back and relax and watch their favorite singer come together with Zac Brown Band for their upcoming CMT Crossroads . It doesn't air until March 2010 but it is taping next month ...
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Zac Brown Band
Jimmy Buffett
CMT Crossroads
Country
Sandra Bullock . Faith Hill . It doesn't matter who she is, Tim McGraw just wants to be around women who rule. In his new movie, The Blind Side , Bullock plays his wife who takes charge of every situation. McGraw tells Parade.com that he was at home with that. "In our family, my wife Faith ...
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Tim McGraw
Faith Hill
Country
Winning and losing isn't something that usually comes to mind when thinking about music, but the guys in Reckless Kelly say that sometimes at the end of a concert you get one feeling or the other from a crowd. They definitely won Thursday night (Nov. 19) at Nashville's Exit/In . Opened by Scott ...
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Country
Though it's not even quite Thanksgiving, I couldn't help but feel the Christmas spirit last night (Nov. 19) as my husband and I stood outside Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Hotel . We were sipping hot apple cider and waiting anxiously with hundreds of others gathered to witness the ceremonial ...
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Country
Montgomery Gentry
Charlie Daniels is already spreading the good tidings of Christmas. First of all, he's released a new holiday album, Joy to the World: A Bluegrass Christmas , with guests like Jewel , Kathy Mattea and Aaron Tippin , as well as Suzanne and Evelyn Cox , the Grascals and Dan Tyminski . Instead of ...
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Country
Jewel
Zac Brown Band
CMA Awards
Courteney Cox
Aaron Carter
If you have fans, you have everything. Yes, record labels and money and relationships help but this is a story about how the fans matter the most. Take this guy, Jaron Lowenstein . Never heard of him? Me neither, until I heard some radio people talking (OK, Facebooking) about his new song, ...
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Country
I've loved Miranda Lambert 's music since day one so this kind of shocked me: She told The Tennessean newspaper that her latest album is the one she would hand out to her heroes. She said, "The fact that Patty Loveless knows my music at all, that made me really pumped. This is the first time ...
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Miranda Lambert
The Revolution
Country
Heroes
Let me preface this entry by saying that I love, love, love country concerts. I do wish, however, that an artist would ask me for advice just once on making the perfect set list. I know these artists have to do their big hits -- the ones everybody is paying big bucks to hear. And I know they ...
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Country
Keith Urban
Madonna
Brad Paisley
Sugarland
Miranda Lambert
If you've ever wondered what performing on the CMA Awards would do for your career, I have three words: triple digit spikes. That's what happened for Lady Antebellum , Sugarland and Jamey Johnson . After winning two awards and performing the snowy "Need You Now," Lady Antebellum had their ...
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CMA Awards
Lady Antebellum
Country
Kid Rock
Sugarland
Some of my earliest memories of really connecting with music come from a Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle Vol. 1: The 20 Greatest Hits CD that my mother owned, and usually it started with a guitar lick. The riffs that John Fogerty wrote with Creedence were so iconic and natural that I ...
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Country
Rides
Grammy nominations are right around the corner but their hard and fast rules are making it impossible for some major artists to take home a trophy come Jan. 31. Like Lady Gaga , who has been on top of the pop world and a household name but didn't make the cut this year because her "Just Dance" ...
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The Grammy Awards
Zac Brown Band
Country
Lady GaGa
Kenny Chesney
Jimmy Buffett
In his nostalgic new video, "Charcoal Sky," esteemed singer-songwriter Chip Taylor reminisces about placing nickels on the rails as a kid and listening to his father chat with the conductors. Taylor sets numerous family stories to music on a new album, Yonkers NY , with one of the two discs ...
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Country
Johnny Cash
Frank Sinatra
Aretha Franklin
Criss Angel
Oh great. Just what you want to see after you've stuffed yourself with turkey, gravy, cranberries, pumpkin pie and every kind of carbohydrate casserole known to man: the slim, trim and gorgeous Carrie Underwood doing what she does best. She'll be on CNN on Thanksgiving night performing for CNN ...
