Category Archives: Country Star

Swift releases ‘Hunger Games’ song: ‘Safe and Sound’

By doris | Published: December 29, 2011

Full Story at MarqueeBlog.CNN.com When she’s not busy winning awards or working on her upcoming album, Taylor Swift has been lending her talents to the soundtrack for “The Hunger Games.” The 22-year-old country star tweeted a link to the single, titled “Safe and Sound,” on Thursday, teasing, “Something I’ve been VERY excited about for a [...]

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Aldean, Shelton enter rarefied air at CMA Awards

By doris | Published: November 9, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jason Aldean thinks this year’s Country Music Association Awards could be the start of something new. Country music is slow to change, and so are the 6,000 members who vote for the winners of Wednesday night’s show. So when they nominated Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton in [...]

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Glen Campbell diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

By doris | Published: June 22, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK – Country music legend Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and plans to put out his final album this summer. Campbell’s representative Bobbie Gale made the announcement Wednesday. The disease is in its early stages. The 75-year-old’s wife Kim also talked to People magazine and said they [...]

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Neil Young heads to the country on ‘A Treasure’

By doris | Published: June 17, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Neil Young entered the mid-’80s under fire from his record label for making music it said it couldn’t sell and under attack from the IRS for having “too much artistic control.” He was making a rockin’ kind of country music that didn’t resemble his greatest records and his label [...]

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Shelton, McEntire raise $500,000 for tornado relief

By doris | Published: May 31, 2011

Full Story atTODAYmsnbc.msn.com Country superstars Blake Shelton and Reba McEntire raised $500,000 for victims of recent tornados in Oklahoma. PHOTOS: Stars’ good deeds Shelton, a musician coach of NBC’s “The Voice,” teamed up with McEntire, his adviser on the competition series, for two relief concerts May 25 and 26 in Durant, Okla. Kelly Clarkson even [...]

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Marie Osmond remarries 1st husband in Vegas

By doris | Published: May 4, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Marie Osmond tied the knot on Wednesday — and the groom was a very familiar face. Osmond, 51, remarried her first husband, Stephen Craig, 54, at the Las Vegas Mormon temple on Wednesday. VIEW THE PHOTOS: Celebrity Wedding Photos! “I am so happy and look forward to sharing my life with [...]

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Young women of country rule ACMs

By doris | Published: April 4, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LAS VEGAS — The young women of country ruled The Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night with Taylor Swift winning the prestigious entertainer of the year award and the night’s top nominee, Miranda Lambert, taking home a leading four trophies. Swift covered her mouth with her hands, did a [...]

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‘Idol’ delivers dramatic finish in epic episode

By doris | Published: March 25, 2011

Full Story atTODAYmsnbc.msn.com In what was the best results show in recent memory, “American Idol” had a little bit of everything Thursday night. It went from a Motown legend to a country-music duet to a wrestling icon to a surprising and dramatic finish. There were also plenty of winners and losers along the way. Here’s [...]

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Billy Ray Cyrus: I could have been a better dad

By doris | Published: March 24, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (PEOPLE.com) — Billy Ray Cyrus is recanting the remarks that ricocheted around the world. “I love ‘Hannah Montana.’ I love Disney. I wouldn’t change anything,” the musician and father of Miley Cyrus said on Wednesday’s “Good Morning America,” in response to a volatile interview he gave in December in which he [...]

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Trace Adkins passes ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ screen test

By doris | Published: March 20, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Trace Adkins summed up his role in the new film “The Lincoln Lawyer” in his own succinct way when he gathered friends and media for a screening of it recently. “I’m in it at the beginning and the end and there’s a buncha crap in the middle,” Adkins [...]

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