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Flashback: Kenny Rogers and the First Edition

Country Music Hall of Fame member Kenny Rogers has been one busy fellow. He just concluded a three-day stint (Jan. 15-17) with the Nashville Symphony’s Pop series program. On Saturday (Jan. 17), he joined members of the First Edition at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for a panel discussion. Their appearance was… Read more »

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Miranda Lambert: The First Thing That Came Naturally

Miranda Lambert is the perfect example of being born with a gift. And while she’d never brag about it, she admits that, yes, songwriting did come easy to her. Even when she was just a teenager. “I was 17 when I started writing,” she said in an interview with Gibson Guitars. “My dad is a… Read more »

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Dixie Hall, Songwriter and Wife of Tom T. Hall, Dead at 80

Dixie Hall, the renowned writer of bluegrass songs and wife of Country Music Hall of Fame member Tom T. Hall, died Friday (Jan. 16) at the age of 80. She had been suffering from a brain tumor. In addition to her hundreds of bluegrass cuts, Hall and her husband co-wrote “All That’s Left,” a song… Read more »

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Garth Brooks Album Back on Top, Brad Paisley’s Single No. 1 for Second Week

Perhaps Garth Brooks should have called his new album Man Against Gravity instead of Man Against Machine since the collection seems intent on resisting that elemental force. Since debuting nine weeks ago, Man Against Machine has spent seven of them crowning the summit of Billboard’s country albums chart. It was driven out of that lofty… Read more »

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Blake Shelton, Ashley Monroe Offer Insight About Latest Hit

Ashley Monroe faced a dilemma when Blake Shelton contacted her to sing with him on his recording of “Lonely Tonight.” The two of them now have a major hit, but in annotations they’ve just provided exclusively to Genius.com, Monroe says she had mixed feelings when Shelton made the offer to join him in the recording… Read more »

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