Little Big Town ,

is an American country music vocal group. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the same four members since its inception: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet. The quartet’s musical style relies heavily on four-part vocal harmonies, with all four members alternating as lead singers. Westbrook and Sweet also play rhythm guitar.

After a recording deal with the Mercury Nashville Records label which produced no singles or albums, Little Big Town released their self-titled debut on Monument Records in 2002. It produced two minor country chart singles before the group left the label. By 2005, the group had been signed to Equity Music Group, an independent record label owned by Clint Black. Their second album, The Road to Here, was released that year. Certified platinum in the U.S., it produced consecutive Top Ten singles on the country charts in “Boondocks” and “Bring It On Home”. A Place to Land is the title of their third album, released in 2007. This album’s first single, “I’m with the Band”, was a Top 40 hit on the country charts. Shortly after its release, the group was transferred to Capitol Records Nashville, which acquired the rights to A Place to Land and released “Fine Line” and “Good Lord Willing” as its second and third singles, respectively. The latter song is new to the re-release.

Little Big Town have charted twelve songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. This figure includes a Christmas single which was made available only as a download, and a live cover of “Life in a Northern Town” (along with Sugarland and Jake Owen) which charted in 2008 based on unsolicited airplay.

Little Big Town released their fourth studio album, The Reason Why, on August 24, 2010 via Capitol Nashville. ….Read More

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Dierks Bentley – Up On The Ridge ,

(born November 20, 1975 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American country music artist who has been signed to Capitol Records Nashville since 2003. That year, he released his self-titled debut album. Both it and its follow-up, 2005’s Modern Day Drifter, are certified platinum in the United States. A third album, 2006’s Long Trip Alone, is certified gold. It was followed in mid 2008 by a greatest hits package. His fourth album, Feel That Fire was released in February 2009.

Up on the Ridge is his fifth studio album released on June 8, 2010. Unlike Bentley’s previous work, Up on the Ridge is a bluegrass-influenced album, mixed with country and Americana. It features many collaborations, including The Del McCoury Band, Alison Krauss and Miranda Lambert. ….Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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Heidi Hauge – Country Rose ,

      Track Listing: :

01: Yellow roses
02: Banks of the Ohio Trad
03: Uten deg
04: Crystal chandeliers
05: She never spoke Spanish to me
06: Smokey mountain queen
07: Should I do it
08: Der elvene møtes
09: Much too young
10: Angel with a broken wing
11: I don’t want tonight to be over

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Eddy Mitchell ,

(born Claude Moine July 3, 1942, Paris) is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks), taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville). The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Le Golf Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.

Heavily influenced by American rock & roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page and drummer Bobby Graham were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Kenneth Buttrey, Reggie Young, David Briggs, Charlie McCoy and others. ….Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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Heidi Hauge – Country Jewels ,

      Track Listing: :

01: Sorry you asked
02: Forth worth
03: Hvis jeg savner deg
04: Silver threads and golden needles
05: Making plans
06: Country jente
07: Daddy
08: Fair to Midland
09: Vårt beste år
10: You are my sunshine
11: Akkurat nå
12: Till a tear becomes a rose
13: Trains and boats and planes
14: Whose bed have your boots been under

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Kenneth Eric Church ,

(born May 3, 1977 in Granite Falls, North Carolina) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Capitol Records in 2006, Church released his debut album Sinners Like Me that year. This album produced four chart singles on the Billboard country charts, including the Top 20 hits “How ‘Bout You,” “Two Pink Lines” and “Guys Like Me.” His second album, 2009’s Carolina, has produced two more singles: “Love Your Love the Most” and “Hell on the Heart” which have become his first two Top 10 hits. ….Read More

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Richell Rene “Chely” Wright ,

(born October 25, 1970) is an American country music artist who released her debut album in 1994. Although she received an ACM award for Top New Female Vocalist that same year, none of her initial songs made a significant impact on the charts. In 1997, Wright had her first Top 40 country hit, “Shut Up and Drive”. Two years later, she scored her first #1 single with “Single White Female”. Overall, Wright has released seven studio albums on various labels, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the country charts. She has also written songs for Brad Paisley, Richard Marx, Mindy Smith and a top 10 hit for Clay Walker, “I Can’t Sleep”. Wright released her memoir, Like Me, and a new album, Lifted Off the Ground, on May 4, 2010. Wright’s nine albums have sold 975,000 copies in the United States over the course of her career (as of May 2010). ….Read More

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Heidi Hauge – Country Girl ,

      Track Listing: :

01: I’m gonna be a country girl again
02: Blue rose is
03: Alene mot mamma
04: Blanket on the ground
05: I don’t wanna play house
06: That’ll be me
07: Når du har reist fra meg
08: You got gold
09: Honkey tonk angels
10: Livets landevei
11: Don’t tell me what to do
12: A song I can sing
13: Min barndoms grønne dal
14: Coal miners daughter

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Steel Magnolia ,

is an American country music duo that won season two of the television talent show Can You Duet. The duo consists of Meghan Linsey and her boyfriend, Joshua Scott Jones. After becoming the top winner on the show, the duo signed a recording contract with Big Machine Records, and released its debut single “Keep On Lovin’ You” in August 2009. ….Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Merle Ronald Haggard ,

(born April 6, 1937) is an American country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield Sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.

By the 1970s, Haggard was aligned with the growing outlaw country movement, and has continued to release successful albums through the 1990s and into the 2000s. In 1997, Merle Haggard was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame for his song “Okie from Muskogee”. ….Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Court Yard Hounds ,

is an American country music duo founded by sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison. They, along with Natalie Maines, make up the Dixie Chicks, which went on hiatus in 2008. Maguire and Robison decided to record a new Dixie Chicks album in 2009, but when Maines stated that she was not ready, the sisters decided to record a side project under a different name. Court Yard Hounds released its debut album for Columbia Records, the same label for which the Dixie Chicks has recorded, in May 2010. ….Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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The Texas Sapphires ,

A former Chesapeake Bay-area hog farmer, Malkus left the Baltimore punk scene in ‘97 to come to Austin with his new band “Mondo Generator,” with members of the Dwarves and Queens of the Stone Age. Manure still on his boots, he sought to show those Urban Cowboys (who were busy sullying the country music he’d grown up with) a thing or two. In the wake of the band’s demise, Malkus dug closer to his roots and began playing in various honky-tonk and Americana outfits. He currently plays guitar and sings backing vocals with Nathan Hamilton in his band No Deal. His discography is extensive, featuring releases on the indie labels Caroline, GoKart and Southern Lord ….Read More

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Mary Chapin Carpenter ,

(born February 21, 1958) is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter’s first album, 1987’s Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989’s State of the Heart and 1990’s Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts. ….Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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Laura Ashley Bell Bundy ,

(born April 10, 1981) is an American actress and singer who has performed in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Her most well known Broadway roles are the original Amber in Hairspray and the original Elle Woods in Legally Blonde – The Musical. She signed to Mercury Records Nashville and released her first country music single, “Giddy On Up,” to radio in early 2010.
Achin’ and Shakin’ is her second studio album released on April 13, 2010. Achin’ and Shakin’ is Bundy’s first mainstream album; her first album, Longing for a Place Already Gone, was self-released in 2007. Achin’ and Shakin’ features the lead-off single, “Giddy On Up,” which debuted at #60 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the chart week of February 20, 2010. ….Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Chester & Lester ,

is a collaborative album by guitarists Chet Atkins and Les Paul released in 1976.

It was recorded in the mid-1970s when Chet was in his fifties and Les in his sixties. Chet coaxed Les out of his decade-long retirement for this recording. The liner notes state there is very little overdubbing and the majority of the album was live in the studio.

Chester & Lester peaked at No. 11 on Billboard’s Country album chart and No. 172 on the Pop album chart. It peaked at No. 27 on the Country chart again in 1978. At the Grammy Awards of 1976, Chester & Lester won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance. ….Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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Gretchen Frances Wilson ,

(born June 26, 1973 in Pocahontas, Illinois) is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single “Redneck Woman,” a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007. ….Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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William Matthew (Billy) Currington ,

(born November 19, 1973) is an American country music artist. Currington has released three studio albums for the label: 2003’s Billy Currington, 2005’s Doin’ Somethin’ Right, and 2008’s Little Bit of Everything. These three albums have produced eight singles for Currington on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the Number One hits “Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right”, “Good Directions”, “People Are Crazy” and “That’s How Country Boys Roll”. He has also charted as a duet partner on Shania Twain’s “Party for Two” and the non-album single “Tangled Up” for a total of ten Top 40 country hits. ….Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Brandon Rhyder – Head Above Water ,

      Track Listing: :

01. Rock Angel
02. You Can Count On Me
03. You Burn Me
04. Like It Was The Last Time
05. Last Swan Song
06. It’s The Country That Saves Me
07. Head Above Water
08. Ultimate Deceiver
09. I’ll Take You
10. You Like Me Again
11. Battery
12. Breathe
13. (Hidden Track) Queen Of My Roost

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Brad Douglas Paisley ,

(born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer-songwriter and country guitarist. His style crosses between traditional country and Southern rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references.
American Saturday Night is his seventh studio album. It was released on June 30, 2009. Like all of his previous studio albums, it is produced by Frank Rogers. The first single, “Then,” has become his fourteenth Number One on the Hot Country Songs chart. iTunes released songs from the album weekly as part of the countdown to the album’s release. “Water” was released on June 9, 2009, followed by the title track on June 16 and “Everybody’s Here” on June 23. The second radio single is “Welcome to the Future.” The title track was released as the third single on November 16, 2009. As of April 2010, it has sold 533,102 copies in the U.S. It has earned a 2010 Academy of Country Music Awards nomination for “Album of the Year”. ….Read More

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Kathryn Dawn Lang ,

(born November 2, 1961), better known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials. ….Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Gloriana ,

is an American country music group founded in 2008. It is composed of brothers Tom Gossin and Mike Gossin (vocals, guitar), as well as Rachel Reinert (vocals, tambourine) and Cheyenne Kimball (vocals, mandolin). Before the band’s foundation, Kimball was the 2002 winner of the competition America’s Most Talented Kid and a solo artist on Epic Records. Gloriana released its debut single “Wild at Heart” in February 2009, which has become a Top 15 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The group’s self titled debut album, Gloriana, was released on August 4, 2009. ….Read More

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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The History Of Country & Western Music ,

German digitally remastered box-set featuring 400 legendary songs from 185 famous
artists including Roy Acuff, Merle Travis, Bill Monroe, Bob Wills, Chet Atkins, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family
One could argue with the inclusion or exclusion of certain songs or artists, but with this boxed set you get 20 CDS, 400 SONGS of mostly fantastic country & western (& a dash of bluegrass and “cowboy”,
and there’s western swing and honky tonk, etc.) music from the late 1920s to the early 1950s.

From Jimmie Rodgers to Hank Williams, from Bob Wills to Tennessee Ernie Ford, from Gene Autry to Flatt & Scruggs, and on and on, this set is a superb way to jump-start your classic country collection.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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Alan Eugene Jackson ,

(born October 17, 1958, in Newnan, Georgia) is one of the most popular country singers of all time, blending both honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. In his career, he has recorded twelve studio albums and several compilations, all on the Arista Nashville label. More than fifty of his singles have reached Top 30 on the Billboard country charts, including twenty-five Number Ones. He is the recipient and nominee of multiple awards. Jackson is also a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
Freight Train is his sixteenth studio album. It was released on March 30, 2010. The album’s first single, “It’s Just That Way”, was released in January 2010. ….Read More

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Joshua Otis “Josh” Turner ,

(born November 20, 1977) is an American country music artist. Signed to MCA Nashville Records in 2003, Turner has released four studio albums for the label. The first of these was 2003’s Long Black Train, whose title track was his breakthrough single release. 2005’s Your Man accounted for his first two Number One hits: “Your Man” and “Would You Go with Me,” while 2007’s Everything Is Fine included a #2 in “Firecracker.” Haywire, released in 2010, produced his biggest hit in the #1 “Why Don’t We Just Dance.” Overall, Turner has charted ten times on the Billboard country singles charts, with all but one of his singles reaching Top 40 or higher. ….Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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American VI: Ain’t No Grave ,

is a posthumous album by Johnny Cash. It was released on February 23, 2010, three days before what would have been Cash’s 78th birthday. The music on this album comes from the same sessions as American V: A Hundred Highways. ….Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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