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Dolly Parton's Fans Flock to Dollywood for Charity Concerts
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. -- Dolly Parton hosted three sold-out benefit concerts at her Dollywood theme park over the weekend, raising money for the Imagination Library with two shows on Saturday (Aug. 16) and one on Sunday (Aug. 17). She's been actively tourin
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Taylor Swift Electrifies Her Fans in Savannah, Ga.
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- It was the night the lights went out in Georgia, but that didn't stop Taylor Swift from playing a rare headlining show at Savannah Civic Center on Friday night (Aug. 15). An underground explosion a few hours before the sold-out show kille
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HOT DISH: Brad Paisley Becomes Country Music's Play Boy
One of my faves, Brad Paisley has a new album titled Play that's almost mime -- that's to say it's almost without words. It's a mostly-instrumental project, but there are vocals on four songs. Brad always thinks of clever things to sing about ("Tic
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Sugarland Holds Top Album Slot, Taylor Swift Cops No. 1 Song
Sugarland holds onto the country album crown this week with Love on the Inside, and Taylor Swift reaches the summit of Billboard's country singles chart with "Should've Said No."
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Jessica Simpson Is Ready for the Country
"Everybody has a preconceived notion of who Jessica Simpson is. They just do."
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Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts Sing Out From Greeting Cards
Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and a dozen or so other country artists are reaching new fans through "sound cards" designed, licensed and distributed by the Hallmark greeting card company.
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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Country Quiz: Test Your Country Knowledge
Test your acumen at recent and not-so-recent country music happenings. If you score between 16 and 20, congratulations! You're a top-level country aficionado. If you get 11 to 15, that's good -- you're paying attention. A score between 6 and 10 -- well, t
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Dailey & Vincent Rule IBMA Nominations
Dailey & Vincent, a duo formed just last year, topped the nominations for the 2008 International Bluegrass Music Association awards. The announcements were made Thursday (Aug. 14) at the Country Music Hall of Fame's Ford Theater by multiple IBMA award
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Music Row Helps Alan Jackson Celebrate Sales of 50 Million Albums
"It's 50 times better than that first million, I guess," Alan Jackson quipped when a reporter asked him how it felt to have sold 50 million albums.
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Montgomery Gentry Join Writers to Toast "Back When I Knew It All"
At any No. 1 party involving Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry, the accent is sure to be on "party." And so it was Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 12) when ASCAP and BMI, the performance rights organizations, staged back-to-back celebrations at their Nashville off
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Hanging Out in Graceland's Front Yard for Elvis Week
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- It's Elvis Week here in Memphis, and thousands of fans are expected to descend upon Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley, for Friday night's (Aug. 15) candlelight vigil. However, as of Monday (Aug. 11), just a few hundred fans were chill
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After Three-Year Delay, Keith Anderson Bows New Album
Anderson admits he was frustrated last year when, just after finishing his second album for Arista Records, he was told he was going to have to switch labels. While still within the Sony BMG family, the transfer meant it would be another year before his a
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