AP - Taylor Swift started what could be an interesting week with her second straight song of the year award at the BMI Country Awards Tuesday, when Kris Kristofferson was honored as an icon. more »
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- One of Nashville's hottest new groups, Gloriana, is set to release their much anticipated self-titled debut album on Aug. 4, Access Hollywood can report exclusively.
The album includes their Top 20 hit single "Wild At Heart," which is the best selling single from a new country act in 2009. This week the single landed at #98 on the Top 200 Digital Singles Chart having sold nearly 100,000 copies of the single to date.
more »NEW YORK, NY -- Imagine driving down some dusty old Texas road in the middle of summer, and pulling over at a beaten down juke joint in the middle of nowhere to grab a beer. You walk in (to your utter astonishment) to find Bob Dylan and his band tearing through a selection of songs written on the request of a French film director for a movie that no one has seen as a disinterested barmaid washes glasses behind the counter and a ceiling fan lazily twirls overhead. Such is the feeling of Dylan's new album "Together Through Life." While not quite on the order of his recent albums like "Time Out of Mind," "Love and Theft," or "Modern Times", it is apparent that Bob has reached a point in his career where he is able to make whatever kinds of music he feels like, and trusts his audience to come along with him. Or not. He doesn't care.
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"The fact that that was news was astounding to me," he tells Jimmy Kimmel more »
The Boxmasters say a band member has the flu more »
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The playing field on "American Idol" got a little bit bigger on Tuesday night when a handful of contenders stepped up to challenge frontrunners Danny Gokey and Adam Lambert.
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After 20 years together, Woody and Laura Louie finally make it official more »
One concertgoer called the singer who dedicated a song to Tony Romo "an embarrassment" more »
RANDALL, Wisc. -- Jessica Simpson's gone country - but can she stay there?
The aspiring crossover singer made her country concert debut at the Country Thunder USA Festival in Randall, Wisc. on Saturday, where she reached out to an unsure audience.
"I don't know what your perception is of Jessica Simpson or what tabloid you buy, but I just want you to know that I'm just a girl from Texas; I'm just like you," Simpson told the crowd. "I'm doing what I love and dating a boy."
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