2009 December

• Carrie Underwood Poses Fur-Free for PETA Ads

  Before this week, this year and this decade are officially over, Carrie Underwood is gonna squeeze in one last good deed. She’s working with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Top 500 Country Music Songs – Ordinary Life – Chad Brock – Guitar Tabs, Chords & Lyrics

  Top 500 Country Music Songs – Ordinary Life – Chad Brock – Guitar Tabs, Chords & Lyrics

  

  30 Dec 09 / Category: Music / New Releases

   

• Buxton CD slated for February release

  Singer Sarah Buxton is readying her CD for release Feb. 23 on Lyric Street. The disc contains her current single Outside My Window. Buxton is best known as the writer of Keith Urban’s hit Stupid Boy. Buxton put out a…

  30 Dec 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Taylor Swift: the top news story of 2009

  2009 was the year of Taylor Swift as she emerged as the number 1 story of 2009. She did everything from win entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association awards to grabbing 8 Grammy nominations to launching her…

  30 Dec 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Three Artists Who Made My Decade Traditional

  It’s easy to refer to some country music as pop music. It is, after all, popular. And the hooks are catchy, the beats infectious and the appeal is broad. But it’s not all that way. Plenty of music over the…

  30 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• No More "Weed With Willie" in My House

  Uh oh. Time to clean out the music library. A new study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has found that teens who listen to music about pot are more likely to smoke…

  30 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Ryan Bingham Gives Crazy Heart Musical Weight

  Since it’s only out in limited release, I haven’t seen Crazy Heart, the new film about a fictional country singer-songwriter starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall. But I’m pretty much counting…

  30 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Zac Brown Band Beam Throughout Ryman Show

  I managed to find a last-minute ticket to Zac Brown Band’s show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last night (Dec. 28), the second…

  30 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Kenny Chesney and Girfriend in Puppy Love

  Molly and Dolly. Those are the names of two teacup Maltipoo sisters that Kenny Chesney and his girlfriend, Amy Colley, brought home from a breeder in Bardstown,…

  30 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Would You Prefer Elvis Presley’s "Loving Arms"?

  In 1973, Elvis Presley recorded a great song in Memphis called “Loving Arms,” right around the same time the

  30 Dec 09 / Category: Shows