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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NASHVILLE (AP) – Look for Carrie Underwood to be wearing a lot of gold nail polish soon. Nail polish maker Nicole By OPI has created a signature gold shade called Carrie’d Away for Underwood. She has signed an endorsement deal with the company, which has created 13 other nail polishes with Underwood in mind. They will be available at mass retailers beginning in January.

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – A judge in Georgia has set an October 4 trial date for Billy Currington. The country star has been charged with threatening a 70-year-old tour boat captain who was cruising past the dock of a waterfront home where the singer was staying. During yesterday’s hearing, Currington’s attorney entered a not guilty plea for the singer. The boat captain and his two passengers said they were cruising along the creek when a man became irate, jumped into his own boat and chased them. When the boat docked, they say Currington cursed the captain and said he and his brother would catch him in the river and “finish him off.” Currington is charged with making terroristic threats and abuse of an elderly person. Each count is a felony punishable by one to five years in prison.

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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – The Backstreet Boys, Paula Abdul and Luke Bryan are among the acts who will appear on this year’s Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon. Darius Rucker, Lee Ann Womack, Enrique Iglesias, Kenny Loggins, No Doubt drummer Adrian Young, “The Voice” finalist Chris Mann and “American Idol” runner-up Jessica Sanchez will also appear. The MDA telethon will run September 1 on ABC.

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NASHVILLE (AP) – The Country Music Association is sticking with a winning formula for the CMA Awards. Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley will return to host the awards for the sixth year in a row. They’ve got a long way to go to beat Vince Gill’s record. He hosted the CMAs 11 times. The CMAs will be November 6. Nominees will be announced next month.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Usually when a music artist has a big album, they start dropping CD’s like a dandruff sufferer drops off flakes of scalp. But Luke Bryan is taking a different approach. He says he wants to get new music to his fans as soon as possible – but he also says he doesn’t want to show up everywhere at once. Bryan won this year’s Academy of Country Music entertainer of the year in April – and since then has turned down nearly every offer that has come his way. He says since it’s only his “first year in” he wants to continue to develop as an entertainer. He says he has a couple of albums ready to be released before the year is out – but for now wants to make sure that he can live up to the entertainer of the year crown he won a few months back.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tompall Glaser has died. The country music singer, publisher and studio owner was 79 and his nephew says he died in Nashville after a long illness. Glaser is best known for his association with the outlaw movement against record labels. Glaser performed with his brothers as the Glaser Brothers in the 1950s and moved to Nashville after meeting Marty Robbins, who had the brothers sing backup for him. Glaser and his brothers began to chafe under the label system in place in the 1960’s and 70’s. And along with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson, they rebelled against Music Row.

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