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The Time Was Right for Vince Gill & Paul Franklin’s Bakersfield
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin’s 2013 album, Bakersfield. Photo courtesy of UMG Nashville. Vince Gill and Paul Franklin will release Bakersfield, a tribute to Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, two of the...
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Vince Gill & Paul Franklin Surprised by Merle Haggard’s Liner Notes
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin’s 2013 album, Bakersfield. Photo courtesy of UMG Nashville. Vince Gill and famed steel player Paul Franklin have released Bakersfield, a tribute to two of Bakersfield’s...
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Vince Gill & Paul Franklin Give Fans Chance to Be a “Buckaroo” or a “Stranger”
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin’s 2013 album, Bakersfield. Photo courtesy of UMG Nashville. Vince Gill and Paul Franklin’s Bakersfield album, a tribute to Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, two of...
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GAC Album Review: Zane Williams’ Overnight Success
Zane Williams’ 2013 album, Overnight Success. Photo courtesy of Susan Niles PR. Texan Zane Williams’ fourth album is a master class in precise songwriting. For the man who wrote Jason Michael Carroll’s...
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Top 10 Country Tweets of the Week
Country music stars sure love Twitter! This week, Raelynn and Danielle Bradbery both reach out to their coach from The Voice, Blake Shelton; Dierks Bentley’s daughters provide a little competition;...
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Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw & More Featured in Esquire’s 80th Anniversary Issue
Willie Nelson photo courtesy of Lost Highway Records. Esquire magazine is celebrating 80 years with a special feature, “The Life of Man.” Comprised of 80 original photographs, the issue showcases...
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GAC Album Review: Joe Nichols’ Crickets
Joe Nichols’ 2013 album, Crickets. Photo courtesy of Alliance Media Relations. A new record label and a new production team seem to have re-energized Joe Nichols as he prepares to release his eighth...
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GAC Album Review: Randy Travis’ Influence Vol. 1: The Man I Am
Randy Travis’ 2013 album, Influence Vol. 1: The Man I Am. Photo courtesy of Webster & Associates. Randy Travis is a steadfast neo-traditionalist who came up through the ranks with a stinging...
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Suzy Bogguss To Release Merle Haggard Tribute Album
Suzy Bogguss will release Lucky, a Merle Haggard tribute record, on February 4, 2014. She didn’t set out to record a tribute to the country legend, but as she and her husband and co-producer Doug...
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GAC Album Review: Donna Ulisse’s Showin’ My Roots
Donna Ulisse’s 2013 album, Showin’ My Roots. Photo courtesy of donnaulisse.com. A celebrated songwriter with multiple International Bluegrass Music Association nominations in recent years, Virginian...
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Hank Williams, Jr. & Merle Haggard Team Up for a Country Classic
Hank Williams, Jr. photo courtesy of Webster & Associates. Two country music legends have teamed up to record a rendition of a classic. Hank Williams, Jr. and Merle Haggard went into the studio to...
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Merle Haggard, Blake Shelton & More to Perform at GRAMMY Awards
Blake Shelton photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Nashville. The first round of performers for the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards have been announced and they have a strong country flavor. Merle Haggard, Kris...
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Dierks Bentley: The Common Man’s Poet
Dierks Bentley’s 2014 album, Riser. Photo courtesy of The Green Room. There is no doubt that Dierks Bentley has a lot of fun making music, especially when he’s onstage. But despite the late nights...
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Merle Haggard to Release Okie From Muskogee Anniversary Edition March 25
Merle Haggard Merle Haggard will celebrate the 45th anniversary of his Okie From Muskogee album with the release of the 2-disc Okie From Muskogee Anniversary Edition on March 25. The set will include a...
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Country Stars Honor Merle Haggard with Tribute Album; ACM to Give Haggard...
Merle Haggard Broken Bow Records will release Working Man’s Poet: A Tribute To Merle Haggard on April 1. The project will include many of Merle Haggard’s biggest hits, recorded by Jason Aldean, Dierks...
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ACM Announces Off Camera Award Winners
The Academy of Country Music has announced the winners of the non-televised awards. The recipients of the ACM Special Awards, Industry Awards, Studio Recording Awards and Songwriter of the Year...
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The Band Perry to Open ACM Awards; George Strait & Miranda Lambert to Sing...
The Band Perry photo by David McClister, courtesy of Splash Public Relations. The Band Perry will open the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards with an explosive performance of their new single,...
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20 Country Songs About Mom
The perfect country song, according to David Allan Coe’s hilarious classic “You Never Even Called Me By My Name,” requires that you refer to trains, trucks, prison, gettin’ drunk and – of course –...
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