Hank Jr. picked for songwriter hall
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Hank Williams Jr. and bluegrass duo Flatt &amp; Scruggs will be among this year's five new inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall announced Monday.
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Country star Vince Gill, singer and humorist Mel Tillis and television and radio personality Ralph Emery were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday.
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Back   when Bob Dylan was a teenager named Robert Zimmerman growing up in   Hibbing, Minnesota, he and his guitar-playing pal Ric Kangas laid down a   few tracks in 1959 using Kangas' reel-to-reel tape recorder.
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A grand jury will decide whether country star Hank Williams Jr should stand trial on assault charges.
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Mr. Dylanâs set at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts mingled 1960s songs he could have played at Woodstock with those from his current album.
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When John Mayer discovered he was being inducted into his old high school&#39;s Hall of Fame last Thursday, he decided to put in a surprise appearance at the ceremony.
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On Sunday, 40 years to the day after Johnny Cash performed at Folsom Prison in Northern California, his longtime drummer Fluke Holland will lead a celebratory concert there. The Columbia recording âJohnny Cash at Folsom Prison,â released in the summer of 1968, appeared on the country music charts for 90 weeks and on Billboardâs Top 200 for 122 weeks. Sundayâs performance will feature several members of Cashâs original band, and, according to an announcement, âA special guest vocalist will be introduced at the show.â Although no inmates present at the 1968 concert will attend the new one, one former guard, now 80, will be there, as well as several guests who were present at the time, said the showâs producer, Jonathan Holiff, son of Saul Holiff, the Canadian entrepreneur who managed Cash from 1960 to 1973. The â40th Anniversary of âJohnny Cash at Folsom Prisonâ â concert will be filmed and streamed worldwide over the Internet at iClips.net.
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Alan Jackson loves tinkering with cars and boats and says he's even worked on a few houses in his time. But when a tornado destroyed a Tennessee family's home and paralyzed a mother as she protected her children, the country singer picked up a guitar instead of a hammer.
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In a development surprising only to the person who's unfamiliar   with country music, songs extolling the virtues of beer, Wal-Mart and   rednecks received a big "Hell, yeah!" as nominations were announced   Monday for the 38th annual Country Music Association Awards.
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Country Hall of Famer Merle  Haggard&#39;s four-decade career veers in a new direction of  American music with the upcoming release of &quot;The Bluegrass  Sessions.&quot;
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U2, the Pretenders, the O&#39;Jays, Percy Sledge and bluesman Buddy Guy will form the class of 2005 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Two groups with ties to Northeast Ohio -- the Pretenders and the O&#39;Jays -- are headed for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They&#39;ll be enshrined along with U2, Percy Sledge and Buddy Guy at the Rock Hall&#39;s 20th
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U2, Buddy Guy, Percy Sledge, The O&#39;Jays and The Pretenders will become the 20th class to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the Rock Hall foundation announced Monday (12/13), reports LiveDaily.
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Artists who are chosen to announce the Grammy nominations typically collect a few bids themselves, so rapper Kanye West, country singer Gretchen Wilson, rock balladeers Hoobastank and The Black Eyed Peas can count themselves among the likely contenders this year.
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Following is the list of nominees for the 42nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards announced Monday in Nashville. The awards will be presented May 15 in Las Vegas.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Due to a reporting error from a  mass merchant, Nielsen SoundScan on Wednesday reprocessed the  U.S. pop albums chart, allowing country veteran George Strait  to claim the No. 1 spot, having initially come in second to R&B  star Usher when the data were released earlier in the day.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Alan Jackson pulled in seven nominations, the most of the year, from the Country Music Association Monday, including entertainer of the year and male vocalist...