Alabama Announces Fan Appreciation Show at The Bowery

Forty years ago, country supergroup Alabama paid their dues as the summertime house band of a tiny bar in Myrtle Beach, S.C. called The Bowery. As they prepare to launch their 2013 Back to the Bowery Tour, Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook are holding a special fan appreciation concert to relive the memories [...] Read More

Dolly Parton To Release Live CD/DVD Set Exclusively At Cracker Barrel

Dolly Parton will release a two-disc DVD and CD set, An Evening With… Dolly, exclusively at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store on April 2nd. Taped during a sold-out show at London’s O2 arena, the set will give fans a front row seat as Dolly performs some of her most popular songs like “Coat of Many [...] Read More

Alabama to Receive Greatest Hits Award at American Country Awards

Legendary country music group Alabama has been tapped to receive the Greatest Hits Award at the American Country Awards, airing live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Monday, Dec. 5, 8-10 p.m. ET (PT tape-delayed) on FOX. The veteran band, which gave its farewell tour in 2003, also will perform during the [...] Read More

GAC’s Top 10 Workin’ Man (& Woman) Videos

Aaron Tippin earned a PhD, Merle Haggard’s got the blues and Travis Tritt asks for mercy. When it comes to country music, the working man is one busy guy. But only a few artists can “bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan” in their videos. We worked overtime to come up [...] Read More

Jamey Johnson: The Insider’s Outsider

By Robert K. Oermann © 2011 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Jamey Johnson has a way of defying our expectations. At a time when it is harder than ever to sell full-length albums relative to single digital tracks, he has followed his Mercury Nashville Gold-certified That Lonesome Song with a [...] Read More