NASHVILLE (Billboard) – With his fourth album, "Haywire," country singer-songwriter Josh Turner has scored his third straight top 10 chart entry.
Fueled by national TV guest spots, a hit video and a No. 1 single with "Why Don't We Just Dance?," the February 9 releas debuted on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart at No. 2 and on the Billboard 200 at No. 5.
Turner says of the MCA Nashville album, "We chose
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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- Authorities in north Louisiana say two people in a pickup truck were killed when the truck ran head-on into a tour bus carrying members of country singer Trace Adkins' band.
Cindy Chadwick of the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office says five band members were treated for minor injuries in the Saturday morning accident.
Adkins was not on the bus. Chadwick says he drove to the scene after
more...NASHVILLE (Billboard) – In her self-penned biographical sketch, singer-songwriter Sarah Buxton says she "had a whole plan mapped out" when she signed with Lyric Street Records in 2005. Then reality revised her best-laid plans, as her bio further notes: "What's the old adage? 'If you wanna hear God laugh, tell him your plans?' Well ... I told him. And he laughed!"
Buxton is thankful her career didn't take off
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DURANGO, Colo. (AP) -- Fiddler-guitarist Charlie Daniels is recovering after suffering a mild stroke while snowmobiling in Colorado, his spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Daniels, 73, suffered the stroke Friday and was treated at a hospital in Durango, 230 miles southwest of Denver, spokeswoman Paula Szeigis said. He then was airlifted to a Denver hospital and released on Sunday.
"It was a scary moment there
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House went a little bit country Tuesday.
"Now, I know folks think I'm a city boy, but I do appreciate listening to country music," President Barack Obama said to guests gathered in the East Room for a performance by country musicians Alison Krauss and Union Station.
Brad Paisley and country music legend Charley Pride also entertained the audience, which
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Kevin Costner and his band Modern West were unlikely tent fillers during the first day of the Stagecoach country music festival in California on Saturday by rocking fans with tunes and heartfelt messages to the struggling and unemployed.
The Oscar winner dedicated one track, Five Minutes From America, to the people of Louisiana, where he was filming when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Costner won applause from the crowd when he recalled the decision he made to continue filming,
more...The Sex Pistols' John Lydon has apparently helped to revive sales of the butter brand Country Life.
The punk frontman has been appearing in TV commercials for its makers Dairy Crest, who have claimed that the brand’s sales have risen by 83 percent, reports Reuters.
Lyndon has appeared in a series of adverts with the slogan: "It’s all about great butter."
The advert received heavy criticism from
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