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Biggest Little News Sheet In Country Music (Since 1963) • September 2010 Issue
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The Grand Ole Opry, displaced in May‘s historic Nashville flood, goes home with a star-packed show Sept. 28. Lineup includes:
Trace Adkins, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Charlie Daniels Band, Diamond Rio, Jimmy Dickens, Del McCoury Band, Montgomery
Gentry, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Mel Tillis, and Josh Turner. The show will air live on GAC: Great American Country.
Special events and artist appearances will follow throughout October in celebration of both the show‘s return and its 85th Birthday.
The six-foot circle of oak wood taken from the Ryman stage when the show moved to the Opry House in 1974, has also returned
to its home center stage at the Opry House.
Miranda Lambert heads the list of nominees for the 44th Annual CMA Awards with nine nods--more than any other female in history--vying
for Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist, Album (for Revolution) and two for each for Single and Music Video of
the Year (for “The House That Built Me” and “White Liar”). Lady Antebellum has five nominations as a group, including Entertainer,
Album (Need You Now), Vocal Group, both Single and Music Video (for “Need You Now”). Additionally, Lady A‘s individual
members have nominations for writing Song of the Year (“Need You Now”). Zac Brown Band is competing in four categories: Entertainer,
New Artist, Vocal Group and Musical Event (“Can’t You See” with Kid Rock). Band members Brown and John Driskell Hopkins
also earned individual Song of the Year nominations for their work on “Toes.” Blake Shelton is up for four: Male Vocalist, Single,
Musical Event and Music Video for “Hillbilly Bone.” Shelton cohort Trace Adkins picked up three for his contributions to
―Hillbilly Bone,” tying him with triple nominees Brad Paisley (Entertainer, Male Vocalist, and Music Video for “Water”) and Dierks
Bentley (Male Vocalist, Album —Up On The Ridge, and Musical Event for “Bad Angel” with Miranda Lambert and Jamey Johnson).
Earning two nods each are Carrie Underwood, George Strait, Keith Urban, and first-time nominee Easton Corbin. The
show will be hosted for the third time by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood and broadcast live from Nashville, Wednesday, Nov.
10 on ABC.
Luna Chica Records International (LCR) has signed country duo Jesse and Noah. Sons of David Bellamy (of the Bellamy Brothers),
the duo's first single, "First Call After Last Call," from their forthcoming album Landfall, is already receiving attention from
radio.
While the Sept. 2nd concert in Music City may have been Brooks & Dunn's final concert together, Music Row reports it does not
mark the end of life on the road for Brooks, who hosts the nationally syndicated American Country Countdown for Citadel Media.
Throughout 2011, Brooks will broadcast the weekly show at least once each month from the studio of a different radio affiliate.
With more than 350 stations airing the program, there will be no shortage of choices. Also planned for 2011 is the American Country
Countdown Concert Series. In six markets between May and October, Brooks will serve as master of ceremonies for live shows
featuring an array of established country artists and newcomers. The concerts are scheduled to be held in Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia,
San Diego, Seattle and Washington, DC.
WSIX-FM Nashville's morning host Gerry House told listeners Friday (Sept. 3) morning that his show, The House Foundation, is
going off the air Dec. 15. House has been on the air for more than three decades, won three CMAs (and nominated in the Large Market
broadcast category again in 2010 ), seven ACMs, eight Billboards, nine R&Rs and one Marconi. House Foundation co-host,
Mike Bohan, is also leaving the show. House, a noted songwriter, co-wrote with Devon O'Day,"The Big One" recorded by George
Strait; with Pat McManus and Bob DiPiero, "Little Rock"-Reba; with Garry Burr, "On The Side of Angels" recorded by Leann
Rimes and others recorded by Trace Adkins, Mark Collie, Pam Tillis and Randy Travis. According to a press release, Gerry will
remain on staff with WSIX as a contributor, writer and Consigliere. Word is that he is also writing a book.
NEWS BRIEFS: Rumor on the Row is that Ronnie Dunn is working on a solo album. ••• ASCAP will honor Alan Jackson with its
prestigious Founders Award during its 48th annual Country Music Awards on September 14 in Nashville. ••• The famed House of
Blues Studio D has moved from Memphis to Nashville. The studio begins anew as part of owner Gary Belz’s House of Blues studio
complex on East Iris in Berry Hill. ••• Brad Paisley and Bon Jovi will help bring focus and tourists back to the Alabama Gulf Coast.
The two free concerts on the beach are slated for the weekend of October 15-17 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Bon Jovi will perform on
Friday, and Paisley on Sunday. ••• Jean Shepard will be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame November 4 at
the Muskogee Civic Center. Also in November, she will celebrate her birthday, her wedding anniversary and her 55th anniversary as
an Opry member. ••• Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan will be inducted into the Buffalo (NY) Music Hall of Fame on October 7.
••• George Jones, Al Dexter, and Ray Winkler were inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame August 21.
Charlie Daniels has announced that Montgomery Gentry, Jake Owen, and Sawyer Brown will join him at The 2010 Charlie
Daniels Band & Friends Concert to benefit Christmas 4 Kids, November 22 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Christmas 4
Kids is a not-for-profit organization that has been in existence for over 25 years providing many children, each year, with their very
own shopping spree. The funds generated by the concert, and the Tour Bus Show/Artist Meet and Greet event are used to give children
from 29 different schools, a total of more than 400 children, a day-long shopping excursion. The special day consists of a chauffeured
trip from their school aboard an entertainer's luxury tour bus, lunch, and a party hosted by Santa and Mrs. Claus at College
Heights Baptist Church, and finally a trip to the Hendersonville, Tennessee, Walmart where they receive $150.00 to spend on anything
they want and also receive a brand new Tennessee Titan's Starter jacket.
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