Archive for the ‘Features’ Category

CMA nominations announced

CMA nominations announced
Today, on “Good Morning America,” country music stars Dierks Bently and Miranda Lambert announced the star-studded lineup of country artists nominated for the coveted Country Music Association Awards. Lambert led the crowd with nine nominations. Lady Antebellum — who recently wowed the...
September 1st, 2010 | Features, Music, News | Read More

Don’t miss Merle Haggard on Letterman

Don’t miss Merle Haggard on Letterman
Legendary country artist and outlaw conspirator Merle Haggard will appear on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 11:30 p.m. Known for writing anthems like “Okie From Muskogee,” “The Fightin’ Side of Me” and “Mama Tried,” Haggard released his latest album, I Am What...
August 30th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Contest Giveaway: Signed Copies of Marty Stuart’s Ghost Train

Contest Giveaway: Signed Copies of Marty Stuart’s Ghost Train
That’s right, we’re giving away TWO copies of Marty Stuart’s critically acclaimed Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions which just hit the streets Aug. 24. (Three sample tracks are included at the bottom of the page.) Oh, and they’re both signed by Marty Stuart himself. Drop us a line at Contests[AT]CountryMusicPride.com...
August 25th, 2010 | Contests, Features, Music | Read More

Blake Shelton seizes both the albums and songs summits

Blake Shelton seizes both the albums and songs summits
For only the second time this year, Lady Antebellum have surrendered the top bunk on Billboard’s country album chart. The victor is Blake Shelton’s new EP, All About Tonight, which bumps Lady A’s usually triumphant Need You Now down to the No. 2 berth. Equally cool for Shelton, his...
August 23rd, 2010 | Features | Read More

Contest Giveaway: Pete Seeger’s new CD

Contest Giveaway: Pete Seeger’s new CD
The great Satchel Paige famously said, “Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” This definitely holds true for the indomitable Pete Seeger. He’s seen it all and done so much for so many people. Always a champion of the working class, of civil rights, of...
August 19th, 2010 | Contests, Features, Music | Read More

Contest Giveaway: Signed copy of Rosanne Cash memoir, Composed

Contest Giveaway: Signed copy of Rosanne Cash memoir, Composed
We were fortunate enough to meet up with Rosanne Cash backstage at a recent performance/reading at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, and she was gracious enough to sign a couple of copies of her book for us despite our incoherent and fawning blather. One book will go into our archives and the...
August 18th, 2010 | Contests, Features, Music | Read More

Ty Herndon opens up about drug addiction, new album

Ty Herndon opens up about drug addiction, new album
Ty Herndon’s Country music career has seen its share of ups and downs, a fact the No. 1 hit singer and songwriter discusses frankly in the Aug. 16 issue of Country Weekly magazine, on stands now. With a new album titled Journey On released in June, Herndon reveals to Country Weekly that the subject...
August 13th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Get a sneak peek of Randy Houser’s sophomore album

Get a sneak peek of Randy Houser’s sophomore album
Singer-songwriter Randy Houser — most known for his rabble-rousing “Boots On” single (and more importantly the head-banging baby video that went along with it) — is offering fans the opportunity to listen to his sophomore album, “They Call Me Cadillac,” weeks before it’s...
August 9th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Fox debuts American Country Awards Dec. 6

Fox debuts American Country Awards Dec. 6
Fox TV Network has announced it will host its first-ever country music awards — dubbed the American Country Awards (ACAs) — on Dec. 6 in Las Vegas. The show will be run by Teen Choice Awards producer Bob Bain, and will be completely fan-voted. The American Country Awards joins the ranks of three...
August 6th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Summer tour ticket giveaway and a chance to meet Rascal Flatts!

Summer tour ticket giveaway and a chance to meet Rascal Flatts!
If you haven’t seen Rascal Flatts in concert yet, now’s your chance! We scored a pair of tickets to the trio’s July 31 concert in Hartford, Conn., at the Comcast Center. Courtesy of JCPenny, one lucky winner (and guest) will also get to MEET THE BAND!! If you’re going to be in...
July 27th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Book Review: Rosanne Cash – Composed (a memoir)

Book Review: Rosanne Cash – Composed (a memoir)
Rosanne Cash, firstborn child of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian, was a writer long before she became a musician, singer and songwriter. A light went on with the assignment of a seventh-grade English project for which she created an original metaphor. When revisiting that moment...
July 26th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Taylor Swift’s New Album, Speak Now, Set for Oct. 25 Release

Taylor Swift’s New Album, Speak Now, Set for Oct. 25 Release
Taylor Swift announced that her new album, Speak Now, will be released Oct. 25. She made the announcement during a web chat in Nashville on July 20. The first single and video is called “Mine,” a song that is about “my tendency to run from love,” she said during the chat. She...
July 21st, 2010 | Features | Read More

Reba to release second album off new record label Nov. 9

Reba to release second album off new record label Nov. 9
If at first you succeed, try, try again. Reba McEntire is releasing a second album with her new record label, The Valory Music Co., on Nov. 9. And why not? Reba’s first effort with the independent label, Keep On Loving You, sold more than 500,000 copies and yielded the mega-hit “Consider Me Gone,”...
July 20th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith among top-earning musicians, says Forbes

Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith among top-earning musicians, says Forbes
Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith are among the top-earning musicians of the last 12 months, according to the financial publication, Forbes. The list ranked musicians’ earnings from June 2009 to June 2010, factoring in album sales, touring, publishing royalties and endorsement deals, among other revenue...
July 20th, 2010 | Features | Read More

The Infamous Stringdusters Fly High

The Infamous Stringdusters Fly High
With fingers flying across acoustic strings and a sound blending the finest traditions of American bluegrasss with the aesthetic sensibilities of the contemporary music, the Infamous Stringdusters embody today’s young, hip bluegrass scene. And with the release of their third album, Things That Fly,...
July 19th, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Luke Bryan’s ‘Rain Is a Good Thing’ leapfrogs Brad Paisley’s ‘Water’ to No. 1

Luke Bryan’s ‘Rain Is a Good Thing’ leapfrogs Brad Paisley’s ‘Water’ to No. 1
Take a deep breath and sit down. There’s a new No. 1 song on the Billboard country chart this week, and it’s Luke Bryan’s “Rain Is a Good Thing.” It dislodged Brad Paisley’s lingering “Water” to seize the summit after a slow 27-week climb. But for those...
July 19th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Merle Haggard: Country Music Traditionalist, Internet Prophet

Merle Haggard: Country Music Traditionalist, Internet Prophet
In April 2010, Merle Haggard’s latest album, I Am What I Am hit stores and radio stations around the nation. Amid the smooth, polished, heavily produced (some would say overly-produced) opus of much of the modern Nashville sound, I Am What I Am was like a revelation — a voice and sound that seemed...
July 16th, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

10 Questions with Coy Bowles from Zac Brown Band

10 Questions with Coy Bowles from Zac Brown Band
The motto is: Do what you love, love what you do. That certainly seems to be the way the members of Grammy-Award winning Zac Brown Band look at life. The band’s debut album, The Foundation, is platinum certified, and played a big role in landing the boys with a Best New Artist award in 2009. Their...
July 16th, 2010 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Charlie Daniels’ Real America

Charlie Daniels’ Real America
To the world at large, no musician epitomizes country music more than Charlie Daniels. His name is shorthand for epic fiddle playing. His albums are country music classics. Not only is “Devil Went Down to Georgia” one of the most widely recognized country music songs in the world, it is the...
July 16th, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

CMA Songwriters Series returns to Joe’s Pub starring Jamey Johnson

CMA Songwriters Series returns to Joe’s Pub starring Jamey Johnson
NASHVILLE – CMA Songwriters Series will returns to New York City’s Joe’s Pub, on Wednesday, Sept. 8 (6:30 and 9:00 PM/ET). Tickets for the popular series will go on sale Wednesday, July 14. Featuring two-time CMA Song of the Year Award winner and Universal Music Nashville recording artist Jamey...
July 16th, 2010 | Features | Read More
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