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Brooks & Dunn Solo Projects in the Works

Posted by WhiskeyChick On August - 13 - 2007

Brooks & Dunn’s Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn plan to release solo albums in the near future, but that is not an indication that the award-winning duo is breaking up.
“In the contract we are signing right now . . . we are allowed to release solo projects,” Ronnie tells Nashville’s daily newspaper The Tennessean. “That [...]

Billy Currington Surprised by Success: Earns His First Platinum

Posted by WhiskeyChick On August - 13 - 2007

Billy Currington has a hot new single in “Tangled Up” and he’s just earned his first platinum album. At a recent party in Nashville celebrating the platinum status of Doin’ Something Right, he told Country Weekly that success snuck up on him.“I didn’t see it coming,” he says. “It was out of the blue, because [...]

Willie Nelson Sings for Marijuana Law Reform

Posted by WhiskeyChick On August - 13 - 2007

Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel were among the performers who gathered Friday night (Aug. 10) in Austin, Texas, for Austin Freedom Fest, a benefit concert for four pro-marijuana groups, including the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the Marijuana Policy Project. The event at the Backyard music venue was [...]

More on Garth: Garth’s Return: Retail, Radio, Live Stage?

Posted by WhiskeyChick On August - 11 - 2007

Ed Christman, N.Y.; Ray Waddell and Ken Tucker, Nashville
The Garth Brooks juggernaut is setting the table for a new release. And this time, Billboard has learned, you won’t find it only at Wal-Mart. After exclusively selling his music through that big-box merchant for the last two years, Brooks will once again make it available to [...]

Miley and Billy Ray join Frank and Nancy Sinatra

Posted by WhiskeyChick On August - 10 - 2007

Really cool news guys! Miley and her dad Billy Ray are joining Frank and Nancy Sinatra as the ONLY father and daughter combos EVER to be in the Billboard Top 200 Charts for different CDs at the same time. That’s right, this has only ever happened once before and with no less than the [...]

New CD From Garth Brooks on the Way

Posted by WhiskeyChick On August - 6 - 2007

The Tennessean reports that Garth Brooks is releasing a new project on Big Machine Records, which recently signed his wife, Trisha Yearwood.
It’ll reportedly include four new songs and 30 hits on two CDs, plus a DVD of 33 music videos. No release date has been announced yet.
In related news, Garth will perform at New York’s [...]

Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in Stealing Cars

Posted by WhiskeyChick On August - 4 - 2007

Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks will play a prison nurse in an upcoming movie, Stealing Cars. The film will start shooting in September and will be directed by Michael Skolnik, who cast her after seeing the Dixie Chicks documentary, Shut up and sing. Maines’ husband, Adrian Pasdar, stars in the NBC series, Heroes. The [...]

New Album for Shooter Jennings

Posted by WhiskeyChick On August - 3 - 2007

Shooter Jennings, son of Jessi Colter and the late Waylon Jennings, is scheduled to release a new album, The Wolf, on Oct. 23 for Universal South Records. Produced by Dave Cobb, this is Shooter’s third studio album, for which he penned nine of the 13 tracks. Guest vocalists The Oak Ridge Boys perform on “Slow [...]

The home for wayward drunks, punks, and hicks gets revamped!

Posted by WhiskeyChick On August - 3 - 2007

Drunkenhillbilly.com (DH) was started when a drunken webmaster from Oklahoma contacted his equally drunken Texan friend and said “Dude, I just bought Drunkenhillbilly.com” to which the Texan replied “cool! What are ya gonna do with it?”… “Umm, I have no idea. How ‘bout create a forum for Country music fans?” And it was born… after [...]

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