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

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Rocker Billy Corgan has fuelled rumors he is romancing Jessica Simpson - after refusing to confirm or deny if he is dating the pop singer. The odd couple is rumored to have begun dating in December after the stars were snapped together during a night out.

Sources claimed the longtime pals had taken their relationship to the next level and were "officially dating." However Corgan, 42, has refused to go public about the alleged romance - deflecting questions about the status of their 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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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Billy Ray Cyrus has been preparing his whole life for the role of Daniel Burton in the Hallmark Channel movie "Christmas in Canaan."

"I started digging through like old boxes of stuff and finding old Polaroids of my dad from 1964," the 48-year-old country singer said. "I thought, if I can become my dad — if I can be Ronald Ray Cyrus in 1964 — then that's this guy. Just go be your dad."

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Billy Crystal has warned tech-savvy ticket holders of his upcoming comedy show "700 Sundays" to leave their cell phones at home - because he's tired of audience members 'tweeting' while he's onstage.

The 61-year-old actor/comedian is baffled by the sweeping popularity of social networking websites like Twitter.com, where members write up-to-the-minute updates on their thoughts and whereabouts.

The craze has made Crystal anxious to revive the Broadway show on his upcoming more...