LOS ANGELES (AP) – The documentary “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” will air first on TV on CNN. The Hollywood Reporter reports CNN will run the film in June.

 

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lorrie Morgan and Vince Gill will play themselves on an upcoming episode of the ABC show “Nashville.” Their episode runs March 4.

 

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ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) – Trisha Yearwood is already in your kitchen. Now she wants to get into the rest of your house. Yearwood has announced a partnership with Klaussner Home Furnishings for her own line of furniture. The collection will be unveiled in April. Yearwood will also release her third cookbook, “Trisha’s Table: My Feel-Good Favorites For A Balanced Life,” on March 31. She’s currently on tour with her husband, Garth Brooks.

 

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dwight Yoakam thinks you’ll hear bits of his entire career in his upcoming album, “Second Hand Heart.” Yoakam says it has an “energy” and an “irreverence” that hearkens back to the Los Angeles cowpunk scene of the early 1980s. Yoakam also credits Beck as an influence. He says Beck worked with him on his last album, “Three Pears,” and encouraged Yoakam’s “return to a teenage recklessness.” “Second Hand Heart” comes out April 14.

 

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NASHVILLE (AP) – Martina McBride is already making her Independence Day plans. The Nashville Tennessean reports McBride will perform with the Nashville Symphony for the free downtown concert and fireworks display on July 4.

 

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NASHVILLE (AP) – The Country Music Hall of Fame is doing gangbusters in terms of attendance. The hall of fame reports attendance last year rose 45 percent from the year before, with nearly 971,000 people coming through its doors. The hall of fame completed a 210,000-foot expansion in April. Current exhibits focus on the music of Kenny Rogers, Ronnie Milsap, Alan Jackson and Tanya Tucker.

 

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Rosanne Cash didn’t plan to write an album about her heritage. It just sort of happened. Cash says she and her husband, musician John Leventhal, traveled to Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta for various reasons and got inspired to write songs about the characters there. The result was the Grammy-winning album, “The River and The Thread.” Cash says she’s been a New Yorker for 25 years and she thought of the American South as just an anecdote of her past. She says her heart was open this time around and she had a better sense of what “home” means.

 

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NEW YORK (AP) – Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town wants to get into your kitchen. She’s releasing her first cookbook, titled “Oh Gussie! Cooking and Visiting in Kimberly’s Southern Kitchen.” Schlapman will share recipes and stories about her roots in north Georgia, traveling with the band and her life in Nashville. Schlapman is promising the recipes will be “fresh, accessible, nutritious, quick and fun.” “Oh Gussie!” comes out April 14.

 

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NASHVILLE (AP) – Aaron Tippin will mark his 25th anniversary in music with a two-disc album of new music and new versions of his hits. “Aaron Tippin 25” will contain his re-recordings of songs like “You’ve Got To Stand For Something,” “There Ain’t Nothing Wrong With The Radio” and “Working Man’s Ph.D.” The album will also contain new songs, including his takes on Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” Frank Sinatra’s “The Way You Look Tonight” and The Georgia Satellites song “Keep Your Hands To Yourself.” “Aaron Tippin 25” will come out March 2.

 

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NASHVILLE (AP) – The people who put out the “Now That’s What I Call Music!” compilations will put out one focusing on the history of the Academy of Country Music Awards. “Now That’s What I Call The ACM Awards 50 Years” will be a two-CD set reflecting the show’s 50th anniversary. It will include recent songs like “The House That Built Me” by Miranda Lambert and “Need You Now” by Lady Antebellum, as well as classics like Willie Nelson’s “Always On My Mind” and George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today.” The set will also include songs by Carrie Underwood, Alabama, The Judds, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, Faith Hill, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift. It comes out March 31.

 

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Rosanne Cash has a special place for her three new Grammys. She says she has a “chick cave,” the opposite of a “man cave.” She was worried she’d have to share them with her husband and collaborator, John Leventhal, but she remembered he gets his own. Cash won three American roots Grammys last night.

 

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Miranda Lambert was glad to perform early at the Grammys. She says she gets really nervous when she performs, and she could have a cocktail afterward and settle down. She won the best country album Grammy for “Platinum.” Carrie Underwood won the country solo Grammy for “Something in the Water.” The Band Perry won the country group award for their version of Glen Campbell’s “Gentle on My Mind.” Campbell won a Grammy too, for co-writing the best country song, “I’m Not Gonna Miss You.” Old Crow Medicine Show won best folk album for “Remedy.”

 

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