Updated: Hear McGraw’s New Album

Tim McGraw will celebrate his new album Southern Voice with a concert for select fans in Chicago on release day, Oct. 20. It is one of a handful of fall dates on the singer’s schedule, with other stops including Las Vegas (10/23) and Highland, CA (11/19). But fans can listen to the release a week […]

Musicians Hall Inductions Set For Monday

The Musicians Hall of Fame Award Show will take place Monday, Oct. 12 at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, with an all-star class of inductees and performers. Joining the Hall this year are some of the most influential and highly regarded musicians, producers and arrangers of their generations including Chet Atkins, Billy Cox (Jimi Hendrix Experience), […]

Underwood Preps Album Release With Hot Single

Carrie Underwood is building up to the Nov. 3 release of her new album, Play On, with hot lead single and video “Cowboy Casanova,” and a re-designed Web site, carrieunderwoodofficial.com, with its own music download store. “Cowboy Casanova” is sizzling on the radio, landing at No. 12 on the Country Breakout Chart, and debuted last […]

Luke Bryan’s Farm Tour Kicks Off

Luke Bryan kicked off his Farm Tour earlier this week (10/5) to an audience of 3,500 at the Hurricane Branch Plantation just outside of Statesboro, Georgia. The show, opened by Colt Ford, helped benefit a scholarship fund for students at Georgia Southern University, Bryan’s alma mater. The show was the start to Bryan’s Doing My […]

Book Offers Cultural Bill Of Rights

Book Review Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights Bill Ivey (University of California Press, 2008) Bill Ivey is one of the most articulate commentators on art and culture in America. He served as head of the National Endowment for the Arts during the Clinton Administration and prior to that was […]

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