Brooks & Dunn, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney: several halls of fame are bursting with news about their programs or their members. The Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame have new inductees on the way, the Country Music Hall of Fame has a couple of fundraisers on the docket in Nashville and Los Angeles, and one Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member invoked the names of two Country Hall of Famers when he played next door to Nashville’s best-known museum. Here’s a bundle of Hall of Fame-related music news: Read More
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LeAnn Rimes may have given up on Twitter this week, but she’s still hanging out with GAC, joining host Nan Kelley as a guest on this weekend’s edition of GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown. LeAnn made headlines for announcing her departure for the moment from Twitter, the social-network outlet that allows people to send and follow messages 140 characters at a time. Lots of artists, such as Blake Shelton and Jack Ingram, have found it’s a good way to keep in touch with their fans, but those two in particular have shown a strong ability to hurl back at mean-spirited Tweeters. It’s been tougher for LeAnn to do that. Read More It was called Live On The Lawn. But with the heat index challenging 100 degrees these days in Nashville, outside concerts aren’t really all that attractive. So Sony pulled a couple of new artists indoors and showcased Jerrod Niemann and Josh Thompson Wednesday for a bevy of industry folks in its Music Row headquarters. Only in Nashville can you “turn a record label into a honky tonk in the middle of the afternoon,” Jerrod quipped. It wasn’t quite a honky tonk — there was no sawdust on the floor, no neon sign and very little chatter during the singers’ sets. There were, however, frozen margaritas and a serve-yourself fajita bar. And some pretty good music. Read More “I feel like an old man.” A limping Chuck Wicks laughed off an injury Wednesday morning as he took a stage in the lobby of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to sing four songs and welcome a contingent of fans to Nashville. Chuck, Chris Young, Joey + Rory and Love and Theft took part in the third annual GAC Fan Breakfast, an adjunct event to the CMA Music Festival, which officially began with a parade just a few hours later. It wasn’t Chuck’s first public moment of the week. He took part Monday in the City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge, joining Joe Nichols, David Nail, Vince Gill and others on the “After Midnite With Blair Garner” team, which defeated the Grand Ole Opry squad 15-10. Chuck unfortunately got a raspberry chasing a ball, and the wound still stung Wednesday a.m., explaining his hobbling entrance at the Hall of Fame. Read More A large chunk of the country audience still remembers LeAnn Rimes as the innocent, 13-year-old prodigy who blew people’s socks off with her big-voiced rendition of “Blue” in 1996. And that’s part of the reason that the end of her relationship last year with husband Dean Sheremet was shocking and scandalous for so many fans. LeAnn is not proud of the behavior, but she believes she ultimately ended up where she needs to be in her personal life. Read More |
 
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