Kellie Pickler, Rising Country Star
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Kellie Picklerâs got a gold album, a hockey-player boyfriend and a big yen to cohost 'The View.' The only thing she doesnât get is why they wonât let her drive the tour bus.
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Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks and Toby Keith have a couple apiece. Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton did one together. The ever-prolific Willie Nelson has at least four of them. Most country stars, and many of their pop counterparts, have a Christmas album or two in their catalogs, and for good reason: The records are relatively easy to make and have the potential for big payoff.
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Jewel will host the fifth season of USA Network's "Nashville Star," country music's search for the next great country artist.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - Country music singer Skeeter  Davis, a veteran of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, died on Sunday,  according to a family friend.
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It was clear that rock was on a Grammy roll when the award for best country album went to a disc produced by a long-haired punk from Detroit. Jack White produced and played on Loretta Lynn's winning "Van Lear Rose, but the White Stripes lead singer was far from the only rocker to put a stamp on Sunday night's show.
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TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - Singer/songwriter Jewel has won   international acclaim for her folk music but the U.S. musician   says she'd now like to try her hand at country music.
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Faith Hill is country music&#039;s most beautiful woman, according to a reader poll released Friday in Country Weekly magazine.
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Kenny Chesney took home top honors at the thirty-eighth annual Country Music Awards last night at Las Vegas&#39; Mandalay Bay. The veteran singer won Entertainer of the Year and Album of the Year for his When the Sun Goes Down.
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Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Kenny Chesney were each nominated for three Country Music Association Awards, it was announced Wednesday, but more could follow.
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Porter Wagoner was a country singer who mixed rhinestone suits, a towering pompadour and cornball jokes with direct, simple songs over a career best known for his partnership with Dolly Parton.
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Jessica Simpson is getting back to her roots.  The singer, 27, has begun recording a country album in Nashville, Billboard reports.  "I am a country girl," she told the magazine. "I grew up in Texas, and country music was what I listened to. I alwa...
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In the past year, projects by Alan  Jackson, the Del McCoury Band and Alabama are the most  high-profile examples of established country and bluegrass  artists doing exceptionally well with gospel albums.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - With the "American Idol" finals just getting under way, it's too early to tell if there are any budding country stars in the field, but the last two seasons have provided a bumper crop. And country-rocker Bucky Covington, who finished eighth last year, is the latest "Idol" finalist to get a Nashville record deal.
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Brad Paisley, Keith Urban and Kenny Chesney are leading contenders for this year's Country Music Awards.
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She may have passed her American Idol title on to Taylor   Hicks, but Carrie Underwood is far from idle.
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Country legend Dolly Parton picks up an award for her songwriting, including hits like I Will Always Love You.
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Country music star Skeeter Davis dies of cancer aged 72. Plus more entertainment news in brief.