NASHVILLE (AP) – Thirty years after “Islands in the Stream” was released, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton will release a new duet. It’s called “You Can’t Make Old Friends” and it’s the title track off Rogers’ album. It’s available for download now on iTunes. Rogers says working with Parton is “a little like going home. Everything felt comfortable.” The album comes out October 8.
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NASHVILLE (AP) – Alabama bassist Teddy Gentry believes even after four decades together, now is a good time to be in the band. Gentry says he’s there with two cancer survivors, Randy Owen and Jeff Cook, so how could he not be having the time of his life. He says he could be sitting there without either of them and they’re blessed to be able to do what they do. Their new album, “Alabama and Friends,” is out. Featured guests include Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney and Luke Bryan.”
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“I like you if I’m picking on you,” said Brad Paisley during his recent visit to Googleheadquarters, where he explained why so many names appear when “Brad Paisley pranks” is googled. Paisley also had the opportunity to try out Google Glass and compare their “nap pods” to his bus bunks. Watch his Talks At Google interview here.
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NASHVILLE (AP) – Dierks Bentley has enlisted Jake Owen and Easton Corbin to perform at his “Miles and Music for Kids” celebrity motorcycle ride and concert. Bentley calls the annual event the most fun day of his year. He feels he has to make up for last year’s ride because it got rained out. Proceeds benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville.
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Luke Bryan and Darius Rucker along withLee Ann Womack, Kenny Loggins, Backstreet Boys and more will perform during The MDA Show Of Strength Telethon Sept. 1 on ABC-TV. The Labor Day Weekend event was first broadcast in 1966 with Jerry Lewis as its host through 2010. More here.
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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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NASHVILLE (AP) – Alan Jackson’s 20-year-old daughter has been accused of hitting a police officer and then using her father’s name as leverage. Alexandra Jane Jackson has been charged with assault, underage drinking and resisting arrest during a traffic stop in Nashville yesterday. Police say she was irate and refused to stay in the car, and she struck an officer. The police affidavit says Jackson resisted when officers cuffed her. As she was booked into the jail, she told the officer her father “would do anything I wanted him to do.” WSMV-TV reports she was released early yesterday. Alan Jackson’s spokeswoman had no comment.
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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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