New Artist Spotlight: Katie Tuck

Emerging country music starlet Katie Tuck has a voice so powerful and mature, Nashville has taken notice. Insiders are saying she could be the next Taylor Swift.

Check out Katie Tuck’s ‘I Wanna Be That Girl‘ –

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For more information on Katie Tuck, check out www.myspace.com/katietuck.

Carrie Underwood Helps Create Fund To Aid Flood Relief

Reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year Carrie Underwood and ACM Lifting Lives have committed seed funding to create the new ACM Lifting Lives Temporary Home Fund to support relief efforts for families devastated by the recent floods in Middle Tennessee. The Fund takes its name from Underwood’s co-penned hit song “Temporary Home,” in acknowledgement of the immediate needs surrounding those impacted by the floods.

Donations can be made NOW by texting ACM to 501501 through August 2010. Text donations are confirmed by replying with YES, and can be made up to three times. Donations can also be made online at www.ACMliftinglives.org and at www.CBS.com/give. For information on the funding application process, visit www.cfmt.org. Read more

Shania Twain To Star In A New Reality TV Show

Country superstar Shania Twain is set to star in her own reality TV show. The show would apparently chronicle her attempt to make comeback and essentially revive her music career.

Although Shania has recently launched fragrance collections, appeared on American Idol, and is doing interviews on Canadian radio stations, the fact of the matter is she hasn’t released any music since 2002!

People.com is reporting that the new reality show titled “Why Not,” is to air on OWN, which is part of the Oprah Winfrey Network.

A statement from the TV company reads, “The show will follow (Twain) as she begins her climb back to the top, a personal journey filled with risk, revelations and unexpected adventures.”

Do you guys think she can make a comeback?! Are you ready for new music from Shania?!

Carrie Underwood To Perform at 2010 Academy Of Country Music Awards

Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, and Lady Antebellum are among the country artists who will perform on the Academy of Country Music Awards on April 18 in Las Vegas, organizers announced today. Chesney and Underwood are among the 10 nominees for entertainer of the year, while Lady Antebellum earned seven nominations in various categories. Other performers include Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Reba McEntire (who will also host the show), Tim McGraw and Blake Shelton with Trace Adkins. The ACM Awards will air on CBS.

Brad Paisley Exposes Kellie Pickler’s Boob Job

Starpulse.com is reporting that country star Brad Paisley exposed his tourmate Kellie Pickler’s secret boob job, by screening before and after shots of the sexy star to thousands of concert fans.

Kellie Picker never confirmed or denied that she has plastic surgery after she appeared on American Idol even though it was quite obvious something changed.

Brad Paisley decided to let their fans decide for themselves.

Brad Paisley said, “It was her last show, so we produced a video. We called it, ‘You be the judge.’ We showed photos of her before and after ‘American Idol’ and just asked if anything was different. As most of you know, cosmetically, something is different. She had to walk out onstage to it (the photos).”

Taylor Swift Is Suing Sports Bar

Country sensation Taylor Swift is suing the owners of a bar in Idaho for allegedly playing her songs without permission.

The Love Story hit-maker has teamed up with Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), the organization which collects license fees on behalf of songwriters and distributes them as royalties, to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against The Sports Cellar venue.

The legal action comes after BMI representatives allegedly discovered that Swift’s hits were being used to entertain revelers even though the bar’s owners had failed to obtain a proper music license.

According to TMZ.com, Swift and BMI bosses are seeking unspecified damages.

Garth Brooks in Las Vegas: It’s a Sellout!

Garth Brooks mused that the public may have moved on when he announced he was coming out of retirement.

Was he ever wrong.

Tickets for Brooks’ first 20 shows at the Wynn Las Vegas resort sold out in less than five hours. The resort said Saturday it reached maximum capacity for callers at 141,934, with many getting busy signals.

Officials say the ticket Web site had more than 5.4 million page views with 40,000 waiting to buy tickets online at one point.

Brooks announced a five-year deal with casino owner Steve Wynn last week that includes 15 weeks of shows a year in the Encore theater, which seats about 1,500. Tickets were $125 plus fees.

Brooks, the best-selling solo act in history, plays Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays of select weeks beginning Dec. 11.

Sugarland To Release Holiday Album

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Fresh off their Pop and Country chart-topping CD/DVD combo “Live On The Inside”, superstar duo Sugarland is set to release a 10-track holiday-themed record titled “Gold And Green” on October 6, which includes 5 original songs co-written by lead members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush. With the purchase of “Gold And Green”, available everywhere, fans will be able to access exclusive content such as downloads and the chance to enter special sweepstakes.

The track list for Gold and Green which includes 5 original songs co-written by lead members Jennifer Nettles and Krisitan Bush (*) is as follows:
1. City Of Silver Dreams*
2. Winter Wonderland
3. Holly Jolly Christmas
4. Coming Home*
5. Gold And Green*
6. Maybe Baby (New Year’s Day)*
7. Nuttin’ For Christmas
8. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
9. Little Wood Guitar*
10. Silent Night

Will you be purchasing this cd??

Happy Birthday Trisha Yearwood

Country singing star, Trisha Yearwood turns 45 years old today. I wonder what her husband Garth Brooks is going to buy her for her Birthday?

DARIUS RUCKER’S COUNTRY COUNTRY TRIUMPH IS NO FLUKE

 

With his second No. 1 country single, Hootie & the Blowfish’s Darius Rucker feels like his welcome to the country world isn’t a fluke.

“The acceptance has been really great, much more than I ever expected,” says Rucker, who’s spending a second week atop the Hot Country Songs chart with “It Won’t Be Like This For Long,” the second single from his 2008 album “Learn to Live.” Rucker credits the fact that “I’ve been going to Nashville for so long, and I’m on a Nanci Griffith record and the Radney Foster records and I worked with Mark O’Connor. I’ve been writing songs with people there and just have been around the whole country music world.

“It wasn’t that I was part of the scene, but I knew a lot of people that were. So I think when (‘Learn to Live’) came out, it wasn’t like, ‘What’s this guy doing making a country record?!’ I already had some credibility there, and I really love the music.”

“It Won’t Be Like This For Long” makes Rucker the first male artist to place his first two singles atop the Hot Country Songs chart since Clay Walker 15 years ago, and this week marks the first time that an artist’s first two format singles reigned for multiple weeks since March 1997. 

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