2009 May

• Headline Country – Key West Songwriters Festival

  If you’re talking top tunesmiths in a beautiful island setting, it can only be the Annual Key West Songwriter’s Festival. And if you’re talking songwriters, sunshine and free drinks, you know that Headline Country host Storme Warren can’t be far…

  24 May 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (Ruth St.)

  Drive-By Truckers front man Patterson Hood releases his second solo CD, this time on his own label. The release was 15 years in the making. The album was produced by Hood and long-time DBT producer David Barbe (Sugar). Most of…

  24 May 09 / Category: New Releases

   

• Reba McEntire – Keep on Loving You (Valor Music)

  Reba McEntire makes her label debut. Strange is the first single of the project. The album will include Keep on Loving You, co-written by Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn.

  

  24 May 09 / Category: New Releases

   

• Chris Young

  An air of high expectation and inevitability has always surrounded Chris Young. Anyone who heard him sing, and anyone who experienced his poised and engaging stage show, inevitably decreed that this tall fellow with the friendly smile had what it…

  24 May 09 / Category: Music / New Artists / New Releases

   

• Taylor Swift Accepts BMI President’s Award in L.A.

  Taylor Swift accepted the BMI President’s Award on Tuesday night (May 19) in Los Angeles during a gala ceremony honoring the year’s top songwriters. According to a press release, the award “honors an exceptional person in the entertainment industry deserving of…

  24 May 09 / Category: Artists

   

• NASHVILLE SKYLINE: New Sounds From Holly Williams and Del McCoury

  (NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.)

  This has been a listening week for me. Here are some of the sounds I’ve been enjoying.

  Del McCoury, Del McCoury: Celebrating 50 Years: The great bluegrass innovator celebrates his…

  24 May 09 / Category: New Artists / New Releases

   

• Doyle Lawson, Ricky Skaggs Performing During Ryman Bluegrass Series

  Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman, an annual concert series in Nashville, begins June 25 with a show featuring Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and with Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper. The series at the historic Ryman Auditorium will also feature Ricky…

  24 May 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Eric Church’s New Music Takes on a More Comfortable Feeling

  In 2006, Eric Church’s Sinners Like Me introduced the singer-songwriter from North Carolina as an artist with an edge. He describes that album as somewhat abrasive, but he found he was able to connect with fans through songs like

  24 May 09 / Category: Artists

   

• Another Week at No. 1 for Hannah Montana CD and Sugarland’s “It Happens”

  It’s another week at the top of Billboard’s country charts for the soundtrack album to Hannah Montana: The Movie and Sugarland’s song “It Happens.” Indeed, Hannah has held at No. 1 since its debut four weeks ago.

  Only one new album breaks…

  24 May 09 / Category: Artists

   

• Johnny Cash- Ring of Fire 1968

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  23 May 09 / Category: Video