Country Music

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Filed under: Country News The 2013 CMT Music Awards will feature performances from Carrie Underwood, George Strait, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban and more. Seven new artists were announced on Tuesday, one week after Taylor Swift, Hunter Hayes and Pistol Annies were named on the initial list of artists to perform during the June 5 broadcast from Nashville. Darius Rucker, Florida Georgia Line and Lady Antebellum will also play, as will Little Big Town and Luke Bryan. CMT made the announcement yesterday, adding the biggest names in country music to a show that unofficially begins the CMA Music Festival.

Filed under: Country News Kellie Pickler was the last to know she'd won Season 16 of 'Dancing With the Stars.' Host Tom Bergeron announced her as the winner, and partner Derek Hough began to celebrate with the live audience. Pickler didn't hear him, however. After a few brief moments of confusion she was brought in on the secret and began an emotional celebration. The country singer may have wrapped up the competition on Monday night with a beautiful freestyle dance. Fans picked the routine for Tuesday's encore dance, so Hough and Pickler had a chance to perform the vulnerable and extremely difficult choreography one more time.

  Angie Johnson’s new song “Sing For You” is taken from stories soldiers told her about their time overseas and she wanted to hear more.   “‘Sing for You’ is the most dear song on the EP to me.  I wrote it with Catt Gravitt and my producer Josh Leo.  I had gotten pitched a [...]

  With the devastating images coming from those deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma, Trace Adkins wants to remind everyone about the Red Cross relief effort already under way in the affected areas.  During his Tuesday appearance on Live with Kelly and Michael, Trace said, “I’ve got a lot of friends in Oklahoma and yeah, there are Red Cross volunteers [...]

  Black River Entertainment artist Kellie Pickler and her dancing partner Derek Hough took the 2013 Mirror-Ball Trophy on ABC-TV’s “Dancing With The Stars” last night. Pickler became the first Country artist to win the competition.   The duo performed their “instant” dance, which they chose to be the jive, on the episode and earned a perfect 10 from each judge, [...]

Tim McGraw will be releasing live tracks from his Two Lanes of Freedom Tour 2013 for the first time ever this summer as part of his new program "McGraw Overdrive Series Live." The first track, Southern Girl, will be available starting this Friday, May 24 exclusively at timmcgraw.com with four other live songs to be released on June 7,...

Bluegrass ace Don Rigsby does the tribute thing on "Doctor's Orders: A Tribute to Ralph Stanley" (Rebel), which was released today. Ricky Skaggs, Larry Sparks, Charlie Sizemore, James Alan Shelton of Stanley's band, and Dr. Ralph himself all play on the disc of 14...

Blake Shelton is working on a benefit concert to help the victims of Monday's tornado in his home state of Oklahoma that has killed 24 people and leveled Moore, Okla., Billboard reported....

If you will be in town for CMA Fest make sure to join the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and Ashley Monroe as she kicks off their third-annual summer concert series – Hot Nights at the Hall. Tuesday, June 4 – 8:00 PM Access to the concert can be purchased by becoming a [...]