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Jim Ed Brown Enlists Bobby Bare for First New Music in Decades
May 16, 2013 5:50 PM EDT In a career that has spanned well over five decades, talk to Jim Ed Brown and you will find an artist with a renewed sense of vigor and vitality. The legendary Grand Ole Opry star has just released a new single, "In Style Again," which i ...
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Country Music Hall of Fame Adds Kenny Rogers, Bobby Bare and 'Cowboy' Jack Clement
April 10, 2013 11:32 AM EDT Kenny Rogers, Bobby Bare and Jack Clement are the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. The trio of new inductees attended a news conference Wednesday at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Each has had a significan ...
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Recipe For a Thanksgiving Soundtrack
November 21, 2012 9:05 AM EST Never mind the meal. What's on the musical menu for Thanksgiving? Billboard has all the ingredients for a satisfying Turkey Day soundtrack. We trust that, at this point, you've planned the details of cooking your Thanksgiving dinner. (Or, ...
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Songwriter to Songwriter: Jamey Johnson to Hank Cochran
October 03, 2012 4:15 PM EDT Jamey Johnson fetes country legend on new tribute album. At the very end of the spare, evocative "That's Why I Write Songs," the last track on Jamey Johnson's 2010 double-album "The Guitar Song", Johnson offers, barel ...
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Jamey Johnson Releasing Hank Cochran Tribute Album
August 02, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Award-winning singer-songwriter Jamey Johnson is set to release "Livin' For a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran," on Oct. 16. The Buddy Cannon -produced homage to the late country great Hank Cochran , which will be available first on vi ...
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Bobby Bare Has Deja Vu at Historic Studio
June 06, 2012 6:20 PM EDT It was a scene that made country legend Bobby Bare have a little bit of déjà vu. After all, he had been here before -- many times. "Shame On Me," "Detroit City," "500 Miles Away From Home," and so many others from his R ...
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Plowboy Records Launches to Honor Eddy Arnold, American Music
May 15, 2012 11:55 AM EDT Were he still living, today would have been Eddy Arnold's 94th birthday. Though the singer passed away in May 2008, there is still a huge reason for celebration, with the announcement of the opening of Plowboy Records. Launched to celebrate and ...
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Liz Anderson, Trailblazing Country Songwriter, Dies at 81
November 02, 2011 10:50 AM EDT Famed songwriter and singer Liz Anderson died Monday evening of complications from heart and lung disease after a brief hospitalization, her family announced. The singer, who is the mother of Lynn Anderson and a key player in the success of Merle Ha ...
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Jamey Johnson Reveals 'Guitar Song' Details
June 09, 2010 10:28 AM EDT J amey Johnson will give fans plenty of new material when he releases "The Guitar Song," his follow-up to 2008's award-winning, gold-certified "That Lonesome Song," on Sept. 14. "The Guitar Song" spreads 25 songs a ...
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Keith Urban, Sugarland To Headline 2010 Stagecoach Festival
October 08, 2009 2:09 PM EDT Keith Urban , Toby Keith , Brooks & Dunn and Sugarland are confirmed to headline the fourth annual Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival, it was announced today (Oct. 8). The two-day outdoor fest will take place April 24-25, 2010 ...
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April 7, 2009
April 07, 2009 10:31 AM EDT 2008 – The newly reunited Stone Temple Pilots announce a 65-date reunion tour and play for the first time since 2002. 2008 – Bob Dylan becomes the first rock and roll musician to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. 1998 – George Michael is arrested for dis ...
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Chart Beat Chat
February 02, 2007 12:00 AM EST Fred and his readers discuss football, Fall Out Boy and more! GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Hi Fred, Like Chart Beat reader Darrell Roberts, I also fondly remember "The Super Bowl Shuffle." With the "big game" coming up this Sunday, I though ...
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Dualtone Signs With Navarre
September 01, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Label released CDs by Bobby Bare, Chely Wright. Label released CDs by Bobby Bare, Chely Wright. News Chely Wright , Bobby Bare ...
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Dualtone Signs With Navarre
September 01, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Label has released Bobby Bare, Chely Wright. Nashville-based roots label Dualtone has signed an exclusive U.S. distribution agreement with New Hope, Minn.-based Navarre Corp. Dualtone, which was previously handled by New York-based RED Distributio ...
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No Depression Surveys Decade Of Alt-Country
August 25, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Call it Americana, alt-country, roots music, what-have-you: The musical genre without a bin card has been defined for a decade by No Depression magazine. Call it Americana, alt-country, roots music, what-have-you: The musical genre without a bin car ...
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Love Flows To The Bellamy Brothers
April 07, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Excerpted from the magazine for Billboard.com. It says a lot about an act when it can record an album commemorating a 30-year career and have the likes of Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, Montgomery Gentry and George Jones eager to join in the fun. Then ...
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Opry Star Skeeter Davis Dies
September 20, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Skeeter Davis, a veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, died yesterday (Sept. 19), at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital. She was 73. Skeeter Davis, a veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, died yesterday (Sept. 19), at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital. She w ...
