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Carrie Underwood Takes Video of Year at CMT Awards
Carrie Underwood's awesome week got off to a roaring start at the CMT Music Awards.
10 Questions for Natalie Maines
The last time you were in TIME, you were on the cover with the Dixie Chicks. Then nothing for seven years. What have you been doing? I've been being a mother...
Country Stars Remember George Jones
"The world has lost the greatest country singer of all time," says Merle Haggard
George Jones, Country Legend, Dead at 81
A great American singer passes away — Vince Gill, Garth Brooks, and Alan Jackson offer their tributes
Mindy McCready
'I call my life a beautiful mess and organized chaos ... I think that's really the life of a celebrity, of a big, huge, giant personality.' As a young...
Trend Alert: K-Pop Meets Country Music (and New Jersey)
From country-music sounds to American-born stars, the U.S. is a growing presence on the Korean pop-music scene
Exclusive First Listen: Rosanne Cash Records “Lonesome River” to Benefit Hurricane Sandy Victims
Rosanne Cash leads this album of storm classics recorded by top indie/folk artists.
Milestones
DIED Richard Zanuck, 77, Hollywood producer whose 43 films--including Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy and Dark Shadows--grossed more than $2 billion combined. DIED...
Country Music’s Biggest Night: Photos Inside the CMT Celebration
The biggest stars and best performances from the 2012 CMT Music Awards in Nashville
Everything You Need to Know About Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs, the bluegrass great, died on Wednesday at the age of 88. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly...
Barbie Dolls and Taylor Swift: Highlights From the Country Music Awards
Swift took top honors at last night's Country Music Awards
Road Trip Day 7: My Life is s Country Music Song
Austin, Texas And here’s the first verse: I murdered my iphone in a margarita last night We’d just seen Arcade Fire and I was feelin’ all right My wife set her...
Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean, who died June 13 at 81, was a great friend and fellow Texan. Our lives paralleled each other's in so many ways: we were both born in small Texas...
Dancing with the Stats
I can only imagine what went through the minds of Dancing with the Stars celebrities like wrestler Stacy Keibler, radio personality Adam Corolla or country...
Music: America's Ruffian
Toby Keith's gift as a performer is that he can hold a grudge for 11 years, or at least pretend to. Despite the fact that he is country music's biggest male star...
Sitegeist: Remembering Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash, Country Music's Bare-Bones Realist, Dies at 71 A detailed obituary from the New York Times includes links to a photo slideshow and audio...
Riding High
Mickey Gilley stood with hands on hips in front of the smoldering wreckage of his Branson, Mo., music theater. It was May 11, 1993, a date that would be forever...
Milestones Dec. 8, 2003
SENTENCED TO DEATH. JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD, 42, after being found guilty on two counts of capital murder (one conviction was under a new state antiterrorism law) in...
Waylon Jennings, 1937-2002
Waylon Jennings was the other man in black. The "Man Called Hoss." The orneriest corner of a three-man band of country-music outlaws that brought the grit — and...
Music: A Tale Of Two Hanks
Hank, ne Hiram, Williams made what is widely considered to be the loveliest country music recorded in the '40s and early '50s, and had an unmatched ability to...
