Album Releases

October 1
Lucky Ned Pepper/Get Lucky/Nine North Records

October 2
Iris DeMent/Sing The Delta/Flariella
Jerrod Niemann/Free The Music/Sea Gayle-Arista
Blake Shelton/Cheers It’s Christmas/Warner Bros.-WMN
Charlie Peacock/No Man’s Land
Various/Live at Musicians Corner, Vol. 1
Angel Snow/Angel Snow

October 9
Bonnie Bishop/Free/Be Squared Records
Lori McKenna/Heart Shaped Bullet Hole [6-track digital only EP]
Wanda Jackson/Unfinished Business/Sugar Hill Records
Kyle Sherman/Hear Me/RayLynn Records

October 16
Jason Aldean/Night Train/Broken Bow Records
Jamey Johnson/Livin’ For A Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran/Mercury Nashville
Scotty McCreery/Christmas With Scotty McCreery/UMG
Steven Curtis Chapman/Joy/Provident
Gordon Mote/The Star Still Shines/Haven Records & RSI Music Group

October 22
Taylor Swift/Red/Big Machine
Lady Antebellum/On This Winter’s Night/Capitol

October 23
Billy Ray Cyrus/Change My Mind
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson/Wreck and Ruin/Sugar Hill

October 30
Toby Keith/Hope On The Rocks/Show Dog-Universal
Elvis Presley/Prince From Another Planet (Live at Madison Square Garden, June 1972) [2-CD+DVD box set]/RCA-Legacy
Rosehill/Crooked Thoughts
LiveWire/Livin‘/Way Out West

Single Releases

October 1
Faith Hill/American Heart/WMG
Little Big Town/Tornado/Capitol
Heartland/The Sound a Dream Makes/R&J Records
Taylor Swift/Begin Again/Big Machine
Zac Brown Band/Goodbye In Her Eyes/Atlantic-Southern Ground
Kyle Park/The Night Is Young

October 8
Brett Eldredge/Don’t Ya/WMG
Danielle Peck/Impossible Dreams/Namaste-9 North
Uncle Kracker/Nobody’s Sad On A Saturday Night/Sugar Hill-Vanguard-EMI Nashville

October 15
Kristy Lee Cook/Airborne Ranger Infantry/BBR
Josh Turner/Find Me A Baby/MCA
Chris Young/I Can Take It From There/RCA
Montgomery Gentry/I’ll Keep The Kids/Average Joes

October 18
Tracy Lawrence/Stop Drop and Roll/LMG

October 22
Josh Abbott Band/I’ll Sing About Mine/PDT-Atlantic-WMN
Sarah Darling/Home To Me/Black River
Sweetwater Rain/Starshine/Curb

Industry Events

October 7
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Dinner & Induction Ceremony at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel

October 10
Nashville Premieres on ABC

October 12-14
Southern Festival of Books. On the steps of the Tennessee State Capitol

October 17
Capitol Street Party. 7 pm
Dale Franklin Awards

October 28
SESAC Nashville Music Awards. Pinnacle at Symphony Place. Invitation Only.

October 29
ASCAP Country Awards. Gaylord Opryland Resort. Invitation only.

October 30
BMI Country Awards. BMI Nashville headquarters. Invitation only.

October 31
Full Moon Festival outdoor concert series

November 1
46th Annual CMA Awards. Broadcast live at 7 pm/CT on ABC