Artists like Taylor Swift have certainly added a "hip" factor to the country music industry.
The country music star filed the complaint for divorce against his wife Jessica on Friday afternoon in Williamson County, Tenn.
In a career that spanned 59 years, she taught students who made it to Broadway and the country music charts.
The Country Music Association's 45th annual awards show airs live on Wednesday, November 9, at 8 p.m. on ABC.
The Country Music Association of Australia already runs short intensive courses to help young up-and-coming musicians progress in their music careers.
He's never built an invisible jet or hosted the Country Music Awards.
After studying poetry and literature at Tufts University, he moved to Nashville to translate his knack for songwriting into the country music business.
Consider that a correctible oversight, and applaud the Country Music Hall of Fame for spotlighting a seminal musical movement that can still thrill and delight.
African-Americans always have been in the country music industry, said John Rumble, senior historian for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.
The song, which he said was his favourite, revived a flagging career and won him the Country Music Award's top male vocalist award in 1980 and 1981.
Jones, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, was honored by the Kennedy Center in 2008 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
And compared with the rest of his catalog which traverses punk and singer-songwriterly pop the new record features a new sound, one inspired by the country music of his Texas upbringing.
McCready broke into the country music scene in 1995.
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The country music group announced last week that Henryville Junior-Senior High School was the winner of its "Own the Night" prom contest based on a video entry submitted by a rival Clark County, Indiana, school.
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He won the Country Music Association's best new artist in November, was tied with Swift as the top-nominated country artist at Sunday's Grammy Awards, where he performed, and now takes center stage in Las Vegas.
While in the clinic he missed the release of his latest album, Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing, and was not present to accept his second male vocalist of the year honour at the Country Music Association Awards.
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While most 75-year-olds are retired or cutting back on their schedules, the Country Music Hall of Famer shows no signs of slowing down despite hospitalizations in January for double pneumonia, three stomach ulcers, eight polyps in his colon and diverticulitis in his esophagus.
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The country-music singer originally started the program in 1996 in her Tennessee hometown.
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The rising country music star has seven nominations for the April 7 awards show in Las Vegas.
The charity running the shelter partners with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, the country's recently established music academy, which encourages the girls to audition.
Gympie, two hours north of Brisbane, is well-known for its country music associations - the city hosts the annual National Country Music Muster every August.
It was a fitting site for the late country music legend, who had been a member of the show since 1956.
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She recorded five studio albums, and scored 12 hits on the US country music charts, including Ten Thousand Angels and Guys Do It All The Time.
Mr Walden hopes to expand the scheme with the help of the Australian Institute of Country Music so students will be able to take a degree in country music at the local university.
In 1992 Gaylord donated the moneylosing relic to the nonprofit Country Music Foundation.
But Hank is not the only country music star with charisma.
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The two dug into Charlie Poole's old recordings as well as Kinney Rorrer's biography, Rambling Blues to celebrate the life and times of the country-music pioneer, who died in 1931.
He is country's top-selling male act, one of its top touring draws and recently won the Academy of Country Music's male vocalist of the year award.
But if results from many of the year's other award shows, including the Tonys, the Grammys and the Academy of Country Music Awards, are any indication, the Tiffany network has reason to be hopeful.
After the comment, many country music radio stations boycotted the Dixie Chicks' music.
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