Posts Tagged ‘Country’

Lionel Richie to perform at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s All for the Hall in L.A.

Superstar Lionel Richie will perform at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s All for the Hall Los Angeles fundraiser on Thursday, September 23, at Club Nokia, Museum officials announced today. The event, which will follow a “guitar pull” format, will feature performances by Country...

August 13th, 2010 | Artists | Read More

Australia’s McClymonts make their American debut Aug. 17

Australian trio the McClymonts are making their American debut on Aug. 17 when they release their certified gold Australian album, “Chaos and Bright Lights,” in the United States. Recorded in Nashville, sisters Brooke, Mollie and Sam worked with record producer Adam Anders, who has also...

August 8th, 2010 | Interviews | Read More

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

Win signed t-shirt, concert tickets, backstage passes and free trip — all from Rascal Flatts!

Breaking news: Country Music Pride snagged an autographed t-shirt from Rascal Flatts! We thought about keeping it for ourselves (thought long … and hard … ), but we decided to give it you, the readers – we really do appreciate you. In order to qualify, e-mail contests@countrymusicpride.com...

June 24th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Country Music Hall of Fame member Jimmy Dean dies at 81

Country Music Hall of Fame member Jimmy Dean died Sunday night (June 13) at his home in Varina, Va., at age 81. His wife, Donna Meade Dean, told The Associated Press her husband had health problems but was still functioning well and was looking forward to his formal induction into the Hall of Fame...

June 14th, 2010 | Features | Read More

EXCLUSIVE: Whiskey & Co. “Rust Colors” album stream, plus interview

Here at Country Music Pride, we appreciate the finer things in life. We love whiskey, and we love good company. So naturally, we’d love a band called Whiskey & Company. And it turns out Whiskey & Co. loves us –– so much in fact that Country Music Pride is exclusively streaming their...

June 1st, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Darius Rucker welcomes all Hootie fans

When Country Music Pride asked Darius Rucker how he felt about Hootie & The Blowfish fans coming out to see him play country, he said, “I love it — I embrace it! I’m proud of the Hootie & The Blowfish songs that we do. I just want you to come see me because of the music.”...

May 10th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Win A Free Copy of Colt Ford’s Chicken and Biscuits

With Colt Ford’s Chicken and Biscuits on the shelves, folks everywhere are working up a craving for a big ol’ helping of their own. Since 2008′s Ride Through the Country, Colt Ford has been rocking out shows country-style all across America, and on Chicken and Biscuits he takes...

April 28th, 2010 | Contests | Read More

Rascal Flatts to launch new summer tour in June

One of country music’s most popular and awarded bands has teamed up with one of the country’s favorite retailers to present a concert tour like no other, including two hot, current singers as opening acts. Rascal Flatts, the decade’s top-selling and most awarded group in country music, will launch...

April 28th, 2010 | Tours | Read More

SIRIUS XM scores Haggard, other Stagecoach performances

Listeners of SIRIUS XM’s The Highway and Outlaw Country will get a chance to hear performances by some of today’s hottest stars at Stagecoach, California’s Country Music Festival, starting this Saturday, at noon ET. The Highway’s “Back-Stagecoach Weekend” will...

April 22nd, 2010 | Tours | Read More

Colt Ford Interview

With his second album launching tomorrow, Colt Ford took some time out to talk to Country Music Pride, about life, music and everything in-between. Staying true to his roots while he reinvents a new sound in a city that can be stubborn with its rules, Colt Ford brings fresh insights and enthusiasm...

April 22nd, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Win a signed copy of the new Lonestar album!

That’s right – we’ve got ‘em and you’ll get ‘em. Country Music Pride is celebrating the release of Lonestar’s 10th studio album, “Party Heard Around the World,” by giving YOU, the FANS, an opportunity to win a signed copy of the CD, which releases...

April 21st, 2010 | Contests, Features | Read More

7 questions with Luke Bryan

Luke Bryan sure is a busy man. Born and raised in Leesburg, Georgia, he graduated from high school and went off to Georgia Southern University, where he worked on his songwriting, played shows and self-released his own album. After moving to Nashville, Bryan signed with Capitol Records, released...

April 14th, 2010 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Easton Corbin “Easton Corbin”

Easton Corbin’s self-titled debut album largely lives up to the claims of its lead-off single – it’s “a little more country” than much of what we hear on radio today. And for the scores of country-starved folks out there staring quizzically at their radio, and wondering if their local country...

April 11th, 2010 | Album Reviews, Features | Read More

James Otto Video

James Otto made some time for Country Music Pride while playing at Viejas Casino in San Diego County in March. Otto was the headliner for a KSON radio show, and as always, was a crowd pleaser. Steel Magnolia and Danielle Tucker opened for the father to be! The award winning entertainer sat down with...

April 11th, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Ashton Shepherd Interview

On stage one minute, getting dirty milking cows the next. That’s what Ashton Shepherd calls a perfect day. “I don’t mind gettin’ dirty,” the country music entertainer says. On the day I caught up with Asthon she was preparing to muddy up her boots, “We bought a couple of milkin’ cows....

March 31st, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Brooks and Dunn to be recognized at Honors Gala March 22

Honors Gala raised over $400,000 last year Business and music industry leaders and celebrities will gather to celebrate the T.J. Martell Foundation Honors Gala on Monday, March 22. In Nashville, the Foundation annually supports cancer research through the Frances Williams Preston Laboratories at the...

March 4th, 2010 | Features, News | Read More

Josh Thompson’s keeping it real

For Kenny Chesney, it’s tiki bars and free living; for Reba McEntire, it’s love; but for Josh Thompson, it’s beer drinking, working-class, backwoods country that makes him tick. One of the great things about most country artists is that you tend to get what you see – singers living...

February 15th, 2010 | Album Reviews, Features | Read More

Review: Gloriana, The Blue Note (Columbia, Missouri) – 12/9/09

For a band as media-savvy as country quartet Gloriana (now a quintet with the addition of bassist Zack Brindisi), and one that has done a pretty excellent job of conquering Twitter and YouTube, it seems only fitting that their show at The Blue Note in Columbia, Mo. would begin with the audience whipping...

December 10th, 2009 | Features | Read More

Jo Dee Messina Interview

After selling more than five million albums, producing nine No. 1 hit singles, and earning various Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music awards, singer/songwriter Jo Dee Messina can look at her life and accomplishments and truly say, “I am.” She’s penned hits like...

December 8th, 2009 | Interviews | Read More