Billboard Bits: Songwriters Hall, Big & Rich, Pretty Girls Make Graves

The Feb. 19 Nashville stop on Gretchen Wilson and Big & Rich's Chevy-sponsored American Revolution Tour will be an "All for the Hall" fundraiser for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The show at the historic Ryman Auditorium will also feature Cowboy Troy, Jon Nicholson and James Otto.

Tickets for the show are available via CMT Auctions and Ticketmaster. CMT Auctions is also auctioning special packages, with the biggest including hotel accommodations, airfare, a pre-concert dinner and reception with the show's headliners, a Gibson guitar autographed by the artists, a commemorative portrait of the Museum and a post-show reception with Cowboy Troy and others at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. At deadline, seven of eight "ultimate" packages remained available, each with a "buy it now" price of $10,000. In other news, Big & Rich will perform a six-song set today (Jan. 4) in Pasadena, Calif., as part of ESPN's National Championship Tailgate Party. Part of the set will be broadcast on ESPNU. A specially recorded version of the duo's "Comin' To Your City" has aired throughout the football season on ESPN's weekly "College Game Day" preview show.

Seattle rock act Pretty Girls Make Graves will return in April with its next Matador album, "Elan Vital." The set was produced by Colin Stewart (Destroyer, Black Mountain) and will include such songs as "Parade," "Pyrite Pedestal" and "The Number," according to the label's Web site . "Elan Vital" is the follow-up to 2003's "The New Romance," which reached No. 15 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart and No. 19 on the Top Heatseekers tally. In advance of a longer tour, Pretty Girls Make Graves will perform Feb. 14 in Moscow, Idaho, Feb. 16 in Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 17 in Portland, Ore., and Feb. 18 in Bremerton, Wash.