2009 July

• Canadian Country Music Awards Nominees Announced

  The Canadian Country Music Association has announced its nominees for 2009. From k.d. lang to Shania Twain to Corb Lund and beyond, Canada has long been a hotbed of great country music, although it’s been the rare superstar to cross over to country…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Currington, Swift stay first on charts

  Billy Currington remained first on the Billboard country chart for the week ending Aug. 8 with People Are Crazy. On the album chart, Taylor Swift stayed first with “Fearless.” Darius Rucker stayed second with Alright while Swift was up one…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Gretchen Wilson looks to launch own label

  Gretchen Wilson apparently is looking to form her own record label in the wake of splitting with SonyNashville. She made those comments Wednesday in an interview with the Associated Press. Wilson hopes to release a single in September and a…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Hough joins American Red Cross cabinet

  Julianne Hough was named to the American Red Cross’ National Celebrity Cabinet, a group of celebrity supporters who promote Red Cross services by donating their time, helping neighbors prepare for emergencies, responding to disasters and lending help to those in…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Nanci Griffith tours to support "The Loving Kind"

  Nanci Griffith will hit the road in support of her new disc, “The Loving Kind.” Griffith has dates set between early August and December. The CD is Griffith’s 19th album and first studio album of original and contemporary material since…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Taylor Swift’s Abnormally Normal Life

  Her latest MySpace video says a lot about Taylor Swift. And so does Taylor Swift’s dad when he says into the camera, “You guys are weird.”

  And I mean that in a very good way. Swift is a textbook goofball teenager.…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Toby Keith, Trace Adkins Provide Encore Worth Waiting For

  If you put Toby Keith and Trace Adkins in a dark alley somewhere, that could very well be someone’s worst nightmare. All 12-foot-9-inches of combined tough badass hillbilly staring down at you. But if you put them together onstage at the end…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Caitlin & Will Change Addresses For Two Videos

  For their new single, “Address in the Stars,” Caitlin & Will have actually submitted two different versions from the production but they’re not all that different. Watch both videos and see if you can spot the differences. Which version do you prefer?…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Alex Woodard, Sara Watkins Get Saved in "Reno"

  Alex Woodard is a singer-songwriter with a somewhat different approach to his craft. On his Web site, he says he likes to write songs that aren’t necessarily so personal. Instead, he gravitates toward the things that link people together, even if…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Find Your Groove With the Moo La Moove

  Though I’d like to think of myself as Fred Astaire on the dance floor, with my weightless feet, graceful movements and eloquent poise, to most I evoke visions of Seinfeld’s Elaine — moving about as though I suffer from an…

  31 Jul 09 / Category: Shows