Carrie Underwood will perform “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night” for NBC-TV’s Sunday Night Football alongside appearances by the Arizona Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald, Denver Broncos’ Peyton Manning, Dallas Cowboys’ DeMarcus Ware and 10 other NFL Players. The theme opens each game of the season beginning when Dallas hosts the New York Giants Sept. 8. Watch Joan Rivers, Heidi Klum and some of the other talent that Underwood beat out during the theme’s open auditions here.

 

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Alan Jackson will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City Oct. 28. Jackson plans to highlight song selections from his upcoming The Bluegrass Album, which is set for release Sept. 24. More here.

 

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NASHVILLE (AP) – Even as Randy Travis recovers from a stroke and heart failure he suffered last month, he is putting out new music. Travis will release an album in honor of his musical heroes called “Influence Volume 1: The Man I Am.” Those heroes include Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, George Jones and Ernest Tubb. It’s uncertain when Travis made the recordings. One of the songs will be a duet with Joe Nichols on “Tonight I’m Playin’ Possum,” which Travis debuted during the CMA Music Festival in June. “Influence Volume 1” comes out October 1.

 

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Performers for the 7th Annual ACM Honors will include host Dierks Bentley, musical director Frank Liddell, presenters Deana Carter, David Nail,Darius Rucker and Steve Wariner along with musical tributes by Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill and Paul Franklin, Kree Harrison, Robert Earl Keen,Lorrie Morgan, Jesse Keith Whitley, Chris Young andThompson Square. More are expected to be announced leading up to the event at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Sept. 10.

 

 

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Kimberly Perry says overseas fans of The Band Perry get the group’s music – but not her jokes. She thinks it’s because of “the language barrier” – but her band mates say her jokes are just no good. The group will get to try out their music – and jokes – on overseas audiences again. They are launching a world tour that starts in Europe. Neil Perry says he loves that audiences have learned the words to their songs – even though they don’t know English. Kimberly Perry says she’s excited that they will “go into some territories that don’t get touched by country music that often.” She says it’s a chance for the group to “get boots on the ground and plant he country flag.”

 

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Justin Moore will launch his Off The Beaten Path Tour with a free concert at the University Of Arkansas Sept. 13. The event will be sponsored by Razorback Athletics as a part of their Family Weekend during which Arkansas plays Southern Mississippi. Also, limited edition CDs and official Razorback-branded Justin Moore T-shirts will be available at the show. Details here.

 

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Congratulations to Luke Bryan, UMG/Nashville and the entire Luke team on the No. 1 all-genre debut of Crash My Party, which moved approximately 528,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The total is the third-biggest debut of the year and makes Bryan one of only two country artists that have sold more than a half-million copies of an album in a single week since 2008 (Taylor Swift).

 

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Sheryl Crow says the day the CMA Awards nominations come out is a day every country artist looks forward to. And this year, she will be joining Florida Georgia Line as the ones announcing the nods. That will happen on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, September 10. The announcement will air in the 8:30 segment of the morning show. The awards themselves will be November 6 – also on ABC.

 

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WASHINGTON (AP) – He may be a big man on campus. But former “American Idol” star Scotty McCreery says he wants his peers at North Carolina State to look at him as just another student. He is a sophomore at the school this year – and says he is more at ease than he was during his first year. He’s to perform Saturday at Welcome Week for the school.

 

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The Band Perry will launch their first worldwide headlining tour this fall. The We Are Pioneers World Tour starts in Gothenburg, Sweden Nov. 8. Easton Corbin and Lindsay Ell come aboard for support during the North American leg beginning in Penticton, BC, Canada Jan. 9. Details here.

 

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Carrie Underwood will voice the Grand Ole Opry‘s new radio campaign, which begins next week. The spot features Underwood reflecting on her fifth anniversary as an Opry member, encouraging listeners to visit Nashville and touting the Opry app.

 

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