December 2, 2012, 4:15 pm Marty Stuart will celebrate his 20th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday, December 8. He will be honored during a one-hour segment on each of the night’s two shows with performances by his wife and fellow Opry member Connie Smith, Charley Pride, Old Crow Medicine Show, and songwriter Brandy Clark. [...] Read More
July 30, 2012, 1:23 pm Darius Rucker has established himself as a successful solo artist in the country music genre, but he is still part of Hootie & The Blowfish. Darius tells Billboard that while making country music is his priority, the band isn’t quite done yet. “There’s one more Hootie record and tour that we’re going to do,” 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
May 9, 2011, 2:40 pm The lineup for the 10th Annual Marty Stuart’s Late Night Jam has been announced. Joining Marty this year will be Dolly Parton, Mel Tillis, Connie Smith, The Quebe Sisters Band, Doug Kershaw and other surprise guests. The Late Night Jam has become known as the unofficial kick-off of the CMA Music Festival and tickets this [...] Read More
February 10, 2011, 6:38 pm Marty Stuart’s Late Night Jam has become recognized as the kick off event of the CMA Music Festival and in 2011, Marty will celebrate the jam session’s 10th year. Marty started the event as way to welcome fans to country music’s biggest festival, but the jam has also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for MusiCares, which provides [...] Read More
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