Country Music News

Keeping a diary – it’s a nice idea, but who really has the time to do it? Hardly any of us, if we’re honest.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was 19 years old when he and lyricist Tim Rice wrote "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at the request of a London school. It was 1968 and the soon-to-be award-winning musical theater ...

NASHVILLE — Darius Rucker wrote 77 songs for his new album. That's not a misprint. Most of them ended up not making the cut for Charleston, SC 1966, Rucker's follow up to his country breakthrough, Learn to Live. The ...

Hank Cochran , the celebrated country songwriter and singer who died Thursday at age 74 from pancreatic cancer, spent most of his life immersed in music, searching for the next song to write, and it sounds like that’s ...

Of all the things I ever imagined might be on Ne-Yo 's play list, I never in a million years would've guessed country music. But the rapper admits that is indeed what he's into. "I listen to country music -- I like ...

[Editor's note: This is the second installment of a three-part series. Part III will appear in tomorrow's issue. Click here for Part I.] It has been observed that BDS groups, which seek the boycott, divestment, and ...

Tickets are available at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, by phone at 783-2009, ext. 208 or online at www.thecolisee.com. At the Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland: — Jo Dee Messina, John Michael Montgomery, Jack ...

A Pure Country Gift Stars George Strait, Katrina Elam, Travis Fimmel, and J.D. Parker The holiday movie A Pure Country Gift is being filmed in and around Nashville this week, bringing stars like country music superstar ...

GUAXUPE Brazil (Reuters Life!) - From close up you can hear the rasping breaths of a 450-kilogram (990-pound) bull as it bucks and whirls under the bright arena spotlights and struggles to unseat its plucky rider. Stand ...

Atlanta’s Robin Meade , morning host at HLN, has country music ambitions. Here she is singing at The Listening Room in Nashville. Judge for yourself if she has a possible alternative career (I will update this blog ...