Grand Ole Opry House celebrates grand re-opening
Click to see a gallery of photos from the re-opening of the Grand Ole Opry House on Sept. 28, 2010 (this image: Larry McCormack/The Tennessean). Much of Nashville was under water five months ago, the...
View ArticleBlake Shelton quiet on wedding details, at Miranda Lambert’s request
Click to see a gallery of Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert photos (this image: Julie Jacobson/AP Photo). Outspoken country star Blake Shelton is rarely at a loss for words — unless his fiancé Miranda...
View ArticleIt’s official: Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton tie the knot
Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton at the CMA Awards in November. (Sanford Myers/The Tennessean) The most anticipated country union since Faith Hill and Tim McGraw said “I do” in 1996 is now complete....
View ArticleBlake Shelton, Miranda Lambert help Neal McCoy with new album
Neal McCoy (photo: John Partipilo / The Tennessean) Neal McCoy estimates that it had been six or seven years since he was last in the recording studio before making his newest album, XII, and he says...
View ArticleCountry Music Association announces CMA Music Festival riverfront lineup
Montgomery Gentry (this photo: Dipti Vaidya/The Tennessean). The Country Music Association announced the performers set to appear on its free Chevrolet Riverfront Stage during CMA Music Festival, which...
View ArticleWynonna, Trace Adkins, Lynyrd Skynyrd on deck for cruise concerts
Wynonna Judd (photo: Julie Jacobson / Associated Press / File) Country music and Southern rock fans, your ship has come in. Again. Norwegian Cruise Line just announced a second country-music cruise...
View ArticlePeter Cooper on Music: Neal McCoy pays tribute to mentor Charley Pride
Neal McCoy calls his mentor Charley Pride the “Jackie Robinson of country music."(photo: Getty Images for Slate Creek Records) They met one day in 1981. By that day, Charley Pride had notched 24 No. 1...
View ArticleProducer Nelson Larkin dies at age 70
Nelson Larkin, the publisher, songwriter and producer who produced top-charting country hits for Earl Thomas Conley including “Fire & Smoke,” “I Can’t Win For Losin’ You,” “Right From The Start”...
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