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The cast of ABC’s Nashville, (l-r): Hayden Panettiere, Charles Esten and Connie Britton. Photo courtesy of Facebook.com/NashvilleABC.

In May, The Hollywood Reporter reported that ABC had picked up the pilot of the music industry drama series Nashville. Largely filmed in Nashville, the primetime show stars Hayden Panettiere as breakout...

Little Big Town photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.

Are you a songwriter just waiting for an opportunity to be heard? Now’s your chance! Submit an original song to the Music City Songwriting Competition for a chance to win BIG in Nashville. The winner will be flown to Music City and receive a cash prize, a TV interview, meet & greet with hosts,...

Jake Owen & Lacey Buchanan married Monday, May 7, 2012 in a sunrise ceremony in Vero Beach, Fla. Photo by Brian Pepper, courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Weddings bells rang and storks delivered for a number of country stars in 2012. Jake Owen married Lacey Buchanan in a small ceremony on the beach at sunrise on May...

Kelly Clarkson photo courtesy of kellyclarkson.com.

Congrats to Kelly Clarkson, who announced over the weekend on Twitter that she and Brandon Blackstock are engaged.

“I’M ENGAGED!!!!! I wanted y’all to know!!” Kelly tweeted December 15. “...

Vince Gill photo by Tim Wright, courtesy of UMG Nashville.

Vince Gill has an extensive collection of guitars. Each of them has a special story behind it and in a clip for Musician’s Friend, Vince invites cameras into...

Kimberly Williams-Paisley with orphans in Haiti. Photo Courtesy: Live Beyond.

Brad Paisley and wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley have partnered with Nashville-based organization Live Beyond to help bring clean water throughout Thomazeau, Haiti, a very poor suburb of Port au Prince. The couple have launched...

Every year, music reviewers pull from the year’s releases to create Top 10 lists. 2012 was a fantastic year for country music, offering album after album of quality titles to choose from while overall sales for the genre rose 3.2% compared to this point last year. By the very nature of a ‘Top 10′ list, not every title can be included, but the albums below make up our list of releases that stood out. If you don’t happen to see your favorite album on the list, let everyone know what you thought was the best country album of the year by leaving a comment. Now, in no...

Jimmy Wayne performing in the GAC studio.

Twenty years ago, Jimmy Wayne was in high school listening to Jody Lee Hager, an inmate from the local prison in Dallas, NC, talk to his class.

“The prison would send him around to the schools to tell the children, ‘Think smart. Don’t be like me,’ Jimmy recalls.

Hager also had a guitar. He picked it up and played an original Christmas song...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will be closed to the public from Tuesday, January 22 through Wednesday, February 6, 2013. The closure will allow the Museum to make needed improvements and accommodate construction related to the Museum’s expansion project. It will reopen on Thursday, February 7, 2013.

“We’ve had more than four million visitors since we moved downtown in May 2001,” Museum Director Kyle Young said. “We are usually closed on Tuesdays in January and February for routine maintenance, upgrades, etc. This winter, because of expansion-related construction, our...

Dec. 15, 2012 – Team Roper Jade Corkill wins the 2012 Gold Buckle at the 2012 Wrangler NFR. Photo courtesy of PRCA, photo credit Mike Copeman.

LAS VEGAS – Team ropers split the world championship.

The outcome simply wasn’t the one that appeared most likely.

The possibility of a header from one team winning the world championship with a heeler from another partnership became more and more...