2009 August

• McEntire goes to number one with "Keep on Loving You"

  Reba McEntire’s first new solo studio album in six years – and her first on her new label The Valory Music Co. – debuts at number 1 on both the Billboard Top Country and the Top 200 Albums charts. “Keep…

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Mike Herrera’s Tumbledown releases new video

  Mike Herrera’s Tumbledown is releasing a video today for their new single Butcher of San Antone through the Hot Topic’s Shockhound web site. The track is the second single from he bands self-titled debut album, released through End Sounds earlier…

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Paisley, Underwood to host CMAs

  The reigning CMA Male and Female Vocalists of the Year, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, will reunite to host the 43rd Annual CMA Awards. This will be the second consecutive time that Paisley and Underwood hosted the event, which airs…

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Rosanne Cash receives interview treatment at AMA

  Rosanne Cash will be the subject of the Americana Music Association’s Festival and Conference 2009 Keynote Interview. The interview, conducted by author/journalist Michael Streissguth, will take place Thursday, Sept. 17. Cash is releasing The List, a collection of cover songs…

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Catch a Love and Theft Live Stream

  Love and Theft’s debut album, World Wide Open, dropped Tuesday (Aug. 25), and the band is doing a satellite radio tour to spread the word. Admittedly, it won’t be anywhere near as difficult as

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Shows

   

• American Idol’s Danny Gokey Goes Country

  Danny Gokey, one of the finalists from last season’s American Idol, admits that yes, he is going country. In this video from EW.com, he says his music…

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Weather Channel Drifts Toward Digital Music

  The only thing that could make a crummy forecast a little sunnier, to me anyway, is country music. (If you’re going through hail, keep on going …) And the folks at The Weather Channel must know this because their licensing…

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Allison Moorer Will Make Her Next Album in Nashville

  If you’re a big fan of Allison Moorer’s early work, you’ll be pleased to know that she’s coming back to Nashville at the end of the year to make a new album with…

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Shows

   

• A Brit’s Advice for Camera-Happy Country Fans

  My husband was across the pond this past weekend, and he brought me the Sunday paper from London. It was all bloody good, but I loved what the columnist Nigel Farndale had to say about

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Tweet ‘N’ Greet With Country Stars on Monday

  If you have time to kill on Monday (Aug. 31), and you can handle hardcore multi-tasking, get ready to follow some major Tweeting. (Or is it Twittering?) Whatever. Monday is officially

  26 Aug 09 / Category: Shows