McGraw wins country song honour
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Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney pick up two prizes each at the Country Music Association awards.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Texan George Strait, once called a "honky tonk Sinatra," led the list of the 42nd Academy of Country Music Awards nominees announced on Monday at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Singing a takeoff of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" helped a Texas commercial property developer win an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest during a festival honoring the author that ended Sunday.
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George Strait led the nominees announced Monday for the Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nominations, including entertainer of the year and top male vocalist.
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Country singer Reba McEntire is chosen as 'woman of the year' by US music magazine Billboard.
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George Strait returned this year to the Country Music Association awards with top nominations including entertainer and male vocalist of the year.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - A career-best week for Tim McGraw  should net the country king his third No. 1 on the Billboard  200 for the week ending Aug. 29.
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Kenny Chesney won entertainer of the year for the third time at the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, while former "American Idol" sensation Carrie Underwood's reality also continued on the up.
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Gretchen Wilson, the 31-year-old country music sensation, received the Breakthrough Favorite New Artist award at the American Music Awards on Sunday night, her second major award in less than a week.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Country star Tim McGraw lived it  up on top of the Billboard 200 for a second consecutive week  Wednesday, while Ray Charles, Jill Scott and LL Cool J entered  the pop albums chart in the next three spots.
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Kenny Chesney waited 12 years to win a Country Music Association award &#151; but had less than two minutes to give his acceptance speech. Chesney won album of the year honors Tuesday for "When The Sun Goes Down," and, at the end of the night, received the coveted entertainer of the year award.
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Soul singer Amy Winehouse won the Record of the Year trophy at the 50th annual Grammy awards for her single "Rehab," picking up her fifth major award of the night.
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Brooks &amp; Dunn and Brad Paisley were both nominated for six Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, but Ronnie Dunn emerged as the leader with seven nominations, including one for the group's inspirational song "Believe."
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - After more than a decade of hit  records and relentless touring, Kenny Chesney ascended to the  top of the country format last November when he claimed the  entertainer of the year prize at the Country Music Assn.  Awards. Now he's exercising his hard-won creative clout to take  something of a musical left turn.
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Nominees for the 40th annual Country Music Association Awards, to be held Nov. 6 in Nashville, Tenn:
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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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Rod Stewart has scored his first US number one since 1978 this week, as &quot;Stardust...The Great American Songbook Vol. 3&quot; ousts George Strait from the top of the Billboard Top 200.