Merle Haggard Cancels Tour Dates Because Of Illness
Country legend and my dad's favorite singer, Merle Haggard has canceled four remaining January tour dates to recover from pneumonia. It’s not clear when, if at all, he will be rescheduling shows.
Country legend and my dad's favorite singer, Merle Haggard has canceled four remaining January tour dates to recover from pneumonia. It’s not clear when, if at all, he will be rescheduling shows.
Today the Academy of Country Music and Great American Country (GAC) announced the 2012 semi-finalists for the New Artist of the Year award, which consists of eight artists after the first round of professional voting. This year’s semi-finalist list includes Scotty McCreery, Brantley Gilbert, Hunter Hayes, Thompson Square, JT Hodges, David Nail, Jerrod Niemann and Justin Moore.
If you Colts fans need a reason to tune into the Super Bowl, it was just announced that country music’s hottest couple Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert will be opening up the big game with a duet performance, making the game of the year even more worthwhile for country music fans.
Eric Church and his wife Katherine are looking forward to the first holidays they’ll share with their new baby boy, Boone McCoy. He was born on Oct. 3.
On the show this morning we told you about a very sad and disturbing incident involving country artist Rodney Atkins. Here is what we know......
Justin Moore has posed for plenty of photos with his guitar , but this picture holding his new baby girl shows a different side of the country singer. Justin, wife Kate, 21-month-old daughter Ella Kole and baby Kennedy Faye posed for a super cute family picture.
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Luke Bryan's Tailgates and Tanlines Tour was one of the most successful CMT tours in it's 10-year history.
Billy Currington has just announced he will be headlining his very first tour next year, taking along his Universal Music Group labelmates David Nail and Kip Moore. Now THAT'S a BUFFET OF HOTNESS!! ;-)
Except for a few short performances, Keith Urban has cleared his calendar for the remainder of the year. He says he’ll be undergoing surgery to remove a polyp that formed during his most recent tour with Jake Owen.