August 23, 2012, 7:28 pm By Joseph Hudak © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Jerrod Niemann had just climbed aboard his tour bus after a March benefit show in Chattanooga, Tenn., for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital when his friend and fellow artist Lee Brice smelled something all too familiar — the acrid odor [...] Read More
August 22, 2012, 7:14 pm By Bob Doerschuk © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Lots of young artists come to Nashville to seek their musical fortunes. Dustin Lynch’s plans were more focused. He wanted to come to a specific part of Nashville — specifically, as close as he could get to the Bluebird Café [...] Read More
June 27, 2012, 11:25 pm By Bob Doerschuk © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. An honor student in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, Marlee Scott enjoyed junior high school, loved riding horses and showed promise in music. But while her mother thought it fitting for her to study flute, Marlee had other plans: She wanted [...] Read More
June 27, 2012, 1:14 pm By Robert K. Oermann © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Honky-tonk legend Gene Watson is celebrating his 50th anniversary as a recording artist with a flurry of activity that has made him gladly busy. “He’s extremely happy right now,” reported his manager, John Lytle, President, Lytle Management Group. “He [...] Read More
June 6, 2012, 5:52 pm By Bob Doerschuk © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. It was a typical afternoon in March at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Downtown Nashville. Browsers thumbed through CDs and vinyl rarities, arranged neatly in the middle of the room. Books lined the east and west walls — biographies, [...] Read More
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