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[caption id="attachment_54191" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Teddy Gentry's 'Best New Nashville' album cover"][/caption]

Teddy Gentry has long been celebrated as a member of the country supergroup Alabama, and he is also the force and inspiration behind multiple other music successes in Nashville.

Now, Gentry, and Porter-Gentry Productions, are lending a guiding hand to a very [...]


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[caption id="attachment_54137" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="THE VOICE -- Pictured: Blake Shelton -- Photo by: Lewis Jacobs/NBC "][/caption]
Country Music sensation Blake Shelton is lending his expertise to the upcoming reality show The Voice right smack dab in the middle of planning his wedding to this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards winner, Miranda Lambert.

But to [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53996" align="alignleft" width="314" caption="Hazel Smith and Wynonna Judd on 'Southern Fried Flicks' "][/caption]

Wynonna Judd recently spent some time at host Hazel Smith’s kitchen to cook up some southern comfort food and discuss her latest projects, including the premiere of The Judds on OWN.

The two openly discussed Wynonna’s career as both a [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53900" align="alignleft" width="253" caption="Ashton Shepherd Where County Grows album"][/caption]

MCA Nashville singer/songwriter Ashton Shepherd will release her second album, Where Country Grows, on July 12.

Look It Up, the album’s debut single and the first song she recorded for this project, has become the fastest-rising hit of her career and currently sits [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53894" align="alignleft" width="265" caption="'Jim Quick Down South' album Jim Quick Music© 2011 All Rights Reserved"][/caption]

Jim Quick who has established his musical reputation and permanent place at center stage in venues across the Southeast with a devoted group of concertgoers known as the Coastline Crazies.

He will finally release his first solo [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53756" align="alignleft" width="408" caption="Picture: Ashton Shepherd. Photo credit: Danny Clinch."][/caption]
Talladega, Alabama is the place to be this weekend for the prestigious Aaron’s 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

The race will broadcast nationally on FOX with Country Music star Ashton Shepherd kicking off the action performing the national anthem.

Shepherd is currently burning up the [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53350" align="alignleft" width="314" caption="Country Thunder in Florence, Arizona "][/caption]

Country Thunder has arrived.  Today marks the kick-off of the 4-day festival, with music, fun, and attractions for everyone.

A special announcement has been made that the award-winning bluegrass band, The Grascals, has joined the Crown Stage line-up and will be kicking off Sunday’s festivities at noon.

Starting today at 5:00 [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53261" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Wynonna Judd "][/caption]

“My mother, while she was transforming herself into the country legend Naomi Judd, created an origin myth for the Judds that did not match my reality,” Ashley Judd writes in her new book All Things Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir, about mother Naomi.  I loved my [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53254" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Less is better for the new Grammys"][/caption]

Neil Portnow, Recording Academy president announced in a statement, “After careful and extensive review and analysis of all categories and fields, it was objectively determined that our Grammy categories be restructured to the continued competition and prestige of the highest [...]


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[caption id="attachment_53232" align="alignleft" width="468" caption=""Tracy Lawrence" visiting fans on the USS Enterprise"][/caption]

Multi-platinum, award-winning, country recording artist, Tracy Lawrence will be hosting the 1st Annual Golf For A Cure Charity Golf Classic on May 2, benefitting Susan G. Komen Greater Nashville.

As part of his personal initiative to give back, Lawrence, along with his friends [...]


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