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Eric Church, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire and George Strait Presale Codes

Posted by Country Girl on January 27th, 2010

Jagermeister Country Tour featuring Eric Church and Josh Thompson
State Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
Thu, Mar 25, 2010 08:00 PM

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Start: Thu, 01/28/10 10:00 AM CST
End: Thu, 01/28/10 10:00 PM CST

Use Presale Code: CAROLINA

Shine All Night Tour: Martina McBride and Trace Adkins

Mar 04 Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI
Mar 05 Assembly Hall, Champaign, IL
Mar 06 Roberts Stadium, Evansville, IN
Mar 12 Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA
Mar 14 Verizon Wireless Arena – Manchester, Manchester, NH

American Express
Start: Wed, 01/27/10 10:00 AM
End: Thu, 01/28/10 10:00 PM

Radio Station / Venue Presale
Start: Thu, 01/28/10 10:00 AM
End: Thu, 01/28/10 10:00 PM

VIP Packages
Start: Fri, 01/29/10 10:00 AM
End: Thu, 02/18/10 10:00 PM

Use Presale Codes: AMEX or 8003272177

George Strait & Reba
Verizon Arena (formerly Alltel Arena), North Little Rock, AR
Sat, Mar 6, 2010 07:00 PM

American Express
Start: Wed, 01/27/10 10:00 AM CST
End: Fri, 01/29/10 10:00 PM CST

Use Presale Codes: AMEX or 8003272177

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George and Reba Sell Out….And Quick!

Posted by Country Girl on January 26th, 2010

When you are talking about country music and you say the names George and Reba there is really no need to include the last names of these two legendary artists. Everyone know EXACTLY who you are talking about. So it’s no surprise these two are selling out their upcoming tour together in record breaking time.

Tickets to the upcoming show in Tulsa, OK for Artist of the Decade George Strait and Entertainment Superstar Reba with special guest Lee Ann Womack sold out in less than an hour on Saturday. This marks the first time in the history of the Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center that over 18,000 tickets have been sold for one event.

For more information on George Strait and other upcoming tour dates, visit www.GeorgeStrait.com.

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Tim McGraw’s “Southern Voice” is Number 1!!

Posted by TawnyTucker on January 21st, 2010

Tim McGraw’s “Southern Voice” became Tim’s 23rd number 1 song today. “Southern Voice” took the top spot on Billboard’s Country Songs chart. Only George Strait comes close to this with 19.

Take a look at the chart here.

Congrats Tim!!!!

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New Music Weekend – Ruth Collins

Posted by Country Girl on December 5th, 2009

Ruth Collins was born in Western NY and was raised on a 13 acre grape farm that has been in her family for over 200 years. She is the youngest of four girls who were all raised as musicians but she was the only one of her four siblings who really loved and fell in love with her music. She sings, plays piano and learned the violin beginning at the tender age of three! She was a true child prodigy who later added the guitar to her repertoire.

She left home at the age of 18 and moved to Boston where she attended Berklee College of Music for 3 1/2 years before moving to Nashville in 2006 to become a songwriter.

You may recognize Ruth from televisions “Can You Duet” where she and a friend, Victoria Gibson, sang as a duo named “Wild Honey” where they made it to 6th place on the show. After leaving “Wild Honey” Ruth has been focusing on her solo career of writing and singing. She has had the good fortune to work with some amazing talent including songwriters who have written for Taylor Swift, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Big and Rich. A plethora of talent to draw from for a talented young lady new to Nashville!

She has an amazing voice with a wonderful range and clarity to it that is easy to listen to and begs to be heard. Her song “Disappear” is a ballad of truth about many relationships and speaks of a hopefully easier way to breakup when “someone stays too long” and says they didn’t “build this bridge to burn it down”. The lyrics are so close to anyone’s heart about two people who just need to not be together anymore and is sung w/the accompaniment of her guitar. I really loved the song – tender and the lilting notes of her voice are so touching.

“Lesson Learned” is a soft swaying melody about falling in love the first time and the lessons we learn during life in romance – “We live and we learn and we crash and we burn.” She has a wonderful handle on new ways to express what we have all lived through and felt about life and her voice has just a slight raspy edge that gives the listener a picture of a combination of an innocent but slightly seasoned young lady singing about life. It’s an interesting combination and very pleasant listening.

“Chasing the Rain” is another ballad with piano accompaniment that showcases her amazing voice as she sings about being a fool that goes “chasing the rain calling out your name” and “praying for the wind to knock them down again”. It’s a song that parallels a love gone wrong with rainstorms and the fool she is that still wants to chase it anyway. Something many of us have done, huh? But she has the words to put it to music and actually make it sound interesting!

She is an amazing talent that should you certainly should be hearing a lot more from soon! To listen to her music please visit her at www.myspace.com/ruthcollins and you can follow her on Twitter and Facebook as well. A delightful young lady who also gives of her valuable time to charity – she is definitely worth your time!

Calamity Annie
CMTT Music Contributor
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And the Grammy Nomination Goes To…..

Posted by Country Girl on December 2nd, 2009

The Grammy Nominations are airing right now and here are your country music Grammy nominations:

Song of the Year

Beyonce, ‘Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)’
Kings of Leon, ‘Use Somebody’
Lady GaGa, ‘Poker Face’
Maxwell, ‘Pretty wings’
Taylor Swift, ‘You Belong With Me’

Country Duo or Group With Vocals

Rascal Flatts
Sugarland
Lady Antebellum
Zac Brown Band
Brooks & Dunn

Album Of The Year:

I Am…Sasha Fierce (Beyoncé)
The E.N.D. (the Black Eyed Peas)
The Fame (Lady Gaga)
Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King (Dave Matthews Band)
Fearless (Taylor Swift)

Record Of The Year:

“Halo” (Beyoncé)
“I Gotta Feeling” (the Black Eyed Peas)
“Use Somebody” (Kings Of Leon)
“Poker Face” (Lady Gaga)
“You Belong With Me” (Taylor Swift)

Best New Artist:

Zac Brown Band
Keri Hilson
MGMT
Silversun Pickups
The Ting Tings

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Hometown Glory – Adele
Halo – Beyonce
Hot N Cold – Katy Perry
Sober – Pink
You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals

Sea Of Heartbreak – Rosanne Cash & Bruce Springsteen
Love Sex Magic – Ciara & Justin Timberlake
Lucky – Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Willie Nelson & Norah Jones
Breathe – Taylor Swift & Colbie Caillat

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Dead Flowers – Miranda Lambert
I Just Call You Mine – Martina McBride
White Horse – Taylor Swift
Just A Dream – Carrie Underwood
Solitary Thinkin’ – Lee Ann Womack

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

All I Ask For Anymore – Trace Adkins
People Are Crazy – Billy Currington
High Cost Of Living – Jamey Johnson
Living For The Night – George Strait
Sweet Thing – Keith Urban

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals

Beautiful World – Dierks Bentley & Patty Griffin
Down The Road – Kenny Chesney & Mac McAnally
Start A Band – Brad Paisley & Keith Urban
I Told You So – Carrie Underwood & Randy Travis
Everything But Quits – Lee Ann Womack & George Strait

Best Country Song

All I Ask For Anymore – Casey Beathard & Tim James, songwriters (Trace Adkins)
High Cost Of Living – Jamey Johnson & James Slater, songwriters (Jamey Johnson)
I Run To You – Tom Douglas, Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)
People Are Crazy – Bobby Braddock & Troy Jones, songwriters (Billy Currington)
White Horse – Liz Rose & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)

Best Country Album

The Foundation – Zac Brown Band
Twang – George Strait
Fearless – Taylor Swift
Defying Gravity – Keith Urban
Call Me Crazy – Lee Ann Womack

Keith Urban also received a nomination for Best Long Form Music Video for his Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy World Tour Live.

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What Do You Get When You Put George Strait, Reba McEntire & Lee Ann Womack on the Same Stage

Posted by Country Girl on November 18th, 2009

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What do you get when you put George Strait, Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack on the same stage? One heck of a country concert!

George Strait has announced that he has added Lee Ann Womack to his previously announced arena tour with Reba McEntire. The tour kicks off in early 2010 and continues through late Spring.

Lee Ann jokes, “I’m trying to figure out what to wear…cause you can’t out-starch George and you sure can’t out-spangle Reba!”

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43rd Annual Country Music Awards – Country Music’s Biggest Night

Posted by Country Girl on November 11th, 2009

CMA Awards

Country Music Tattle Tale will be updating and blogging the 43rd Annual Country Music Awards LIVE tonight!
Our live chat will start at 6pm (cst). Make sure to join in and chat. We will be giving away prizes every hour during the awards show.

See you tonight!

This is a java run chat room, please give it just a minute to load before you start getting upset at the computer.

Taylor Swift opened the Show with “Forever and Always” She opened it just like her tour, interview with Nancy O’Dell then popping out of the stage….Didn’t sound great, but I still like her.
Carrie and Brad look great. Brad is already joking about Carrie’s costume changes and we’re only on dress #1.
Kid Rock is presenting Single of the Year. And the first award of the evening goes to…….I Run to You – Lady Antebellum! OMG! Shocking! Very happy for them. I just got goosebumps.
Tawny and I both agree that Brad and Carrie have great chemistry together this year.
Darius Rucker performing “All Right”. I LOVE THIS MAN! He’s fabulous live.
Jake Owen and Kellie Pickler just presented Song of the Year Award to Jamey Johnson & James Otto for “In Color”
Miranda Lambert performing “White Liar” and looking stunning I might add. Blake Shelton you are a lucky man.
Brad Paisley performing “Welcome to the Future”. The sound on the show is not up to par tonight. Brad is by far the best performance thus far tonight.
Zac Brown Band performing “Devil Went Down to Georgia”. The only person that does this song better is Charlie Daniels. DAMN – Zac Brown Band the best performance so far this evening. No sound problems here.
George Strait performing “Twang”.
Lady Antebellum is performing “I Need You Now”. Beautiful stage and sounding amazing! I love that they took home Single of the Year.
Patricia Heaton & her co-star (can’t remember his name) are presenting Group of the Year – Lady Antebellum!!!! OMG!!!!! I can’t say anything about this right now.
Ok, I have gained my composure. Congratulations to Lady Antebellum…this is your night! 2 in a row. Although on a personal level, Rascal Flatts are deserving of that award.
Carrie Underwood performing “Cowboy Cassanova”. She sounds great as always but she is leaving little to the imagination in that outfit. Someone in our chat room said it best…….
The Judds are presenting New Artist of the Year…. and the award goes too…….Darius Rucker! Very well deserved. I am jumping up and down right now! YEAH!!!!
Vince Gill and Daughtry performing “Tennessee Line” I know Daughtry isn’t country but I have heard more non country songs on the show already performed tonight.
Little Jimmy Dickens just interruped Brad Paisley on stage like Kanye!!!!! I LOVE IT! Little Jimmy Dickens just said “You Go Girl!”
Keith Urban performing “Til Summer Comes Around” YUMMY! I mean… I love this song.
Tim McGraw is singing ”Southern Voice”.
Sugarland!!! I love Sugarland. They are performing and sound great! Not my favorite Sugarland song but they sound good and are AMAZING performers.
Randy Houser and Robin Roberts are presenting an award together but not before we get a look at cutie Drake from “Boots On”. Randy’s laugh makes me laugh. Album of the Year goes to: Taylor Swift! Can’t say that there is any shock there. The sales of her album were above all the best. Did I mention how much I love her dress
Brooks & Dunn performing their last ever song on the CMA Awards. “Honkeytonk Stomp” and joining them on stage is ZZ Top! So many country music fans are sad to see this duo coming to an end.
Kid Rock and Jamey Johnson performing together. I really like Kid Rock but i’m not a big fan of this song. That was quite a boring performance.
Newly single Julianne Hough presenting with Dale Earnhardt Jr. Vocal Duo of the Year goes to..SUGARLAND! WOW! Sugarland upsets Brooks and Dunn on their way out!
Taylor Swift performing “15″ in the middle of a crowd of ….. students from Hendersonville High School and you guessed it …they are all 15 years olds and singing along.
Brad Paisley takes home Male Vocalist of the Year. Many Keith Urban fans very upset right now. Don’t believe me….check Twitter.
Jason Aldean is singing “Big Green Tractor”. I like this song and Jason Aldean but it’s not the most fun to watch him do live.
Martina McBride helping to honor Barbara Mandrell and is singing “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool”. Oh…wait…there’s George Strait singing to!
Reba McEntire performing “Consider Me Gone”. Reba sounds amazing as always. @jakeoffical thinks Reba is HOT!!!!!! via his Twitter.
Billy Currington performing “People Are Crazy”. So Billy Currington gets to perform but Rascal Flatts doesn’t? People really are crazy!
Kris Kristofferson and LeeAnn Womack are presenting the Female Vocalist of the Year Award together. And the award goes to Taylor Swift. WOW – I love Taylor but don’t agree with this call. This should have went to Carrie or Miranda.
Dave Matthews and Kenny Chesney singing “I’m Alive”. I must say that these two sounds great. Does Kenny wear that same outfit for every awards show?
Faith Hill & Tim McGraw presenting Entertainer of the Year! And the nights highest honor goes to…..Taylor Swift. Taylor gave a very emotional acceptance speech and gave thanks all of the other nominees who let her open up for them this year.

Country Music’s Biggest Night has come to an end! Leave your comments and let us know you thought of the evening. High, lows, suprises and great performances.

Thanks so everyone who chatted with us online and on Twiter tonight! Tawny and I had a great time!

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Country Fans can join George Strait on the Big Screen!

Posted by TawnyTucker on November 9th, 2009

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George Strait will be hitting the big screen this week in Nashville. The holiday movie, Pure Country Gift, will be filmed this week in Nashville and country fans are invited to join the cast which includes George and Kristina Elam as part of a concert taping at Nashville’s Municiple Auditorium. The taping is November 11th from 10am-4pm and fans are asked to wear their finest western-gear. All who attend will get a BBQ lunch from the Loveless Cafe and be entered to win prizes which include an on-screen extra role with King George himself.

Click here for more information.

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CMT Poll Gives CMA Awards Insight-Fan Style

Posted by TawnyTucker on November 3rd, 2009

CMA Awards

CMT recently wrapped-up a poll, asking fans who they thought would take home various CMA Awards on November 11th…Well, BIG surprise, Taylor Swift apparently has it ‘in the bag.’ Ok, nobody is surprised. Here are the winners according to the CMT poll.

1) Entertainer of the Year – Taylor Swift
2) Album of the Year – Taylor Swift’s Fearless
3) Song of the Year – Carrie Underwood’s “I Told You So” written by Randy Travis
4) Female Vocalist of the Year – Taylor Swift
5) Male Vocalist of the Year – George Strait
6) Vocal Group of the Year – Rascal Flatts
7) Vocal Duo of the Year – Brooks & Dunn
Do you agree? I don’t mean…who do you WANT to win…I mean who do you THINK WILL WIN. That’s two VERY different things. I am surprised Keith Urban didn’t make the list somewhere…surly he can beat someone out of one of these awards. Here’s my opinion, as if any of you care…

EOTY-Taylor Swift or Kenny Chesney (he won’t be eligible next year due to his “hiatus” so it may get a pitty vote)
Album-Taylor Swift
Song- I have no earthly idea
Female vocalist-Carrie Underwood
Male Vocalist-Brad Paisley (though I’m pullin for Keith)
Group-Rascal Flatts
Duo-Brooks & Dunn

I do wonder who the heck voted that Taylor will win female vocalist over the amazing singers in the category. I really like Taylor, but she doesn’t (or shouldn’t) stand a chance in that category.

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George Strait and Reba Tour Together in 2010

Posted by TawnyTucker on November 3rd, 2009

According to Jimmy Carter, two of country music’s greats will be touring arena’s across the country in 2010. George Strait and Reba McEntire will be hitting select cities.

22-Jan
Baltimore, MD
1st Mariner

23-Jan
Greensboro, NC
Coliseum

29-Jan
Knoxville, TN
Thompson Boling

30-Jan
Charlottesville, VA
JPJ Arena

5-Feb
Phoenix, AZ
US Airways

6-Feb
Las Vegas, NV
MGM

18-Feb
St Louis, MO
Scottrade Center

19-Feb
Wichita, KS
Intrust Bank Arena

20-Feb
Tulsa, OK
BOK Arena

25-Feb
Atlanta, GA
Philips Arena

26-Feb
Orlando, FL
Amway Arena

4-Mar
Memphis, TN
FedEx Forum

5-Mar
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Arena

6-Mar
Little Rock, AR
Verizon

26-Mar
Portland, OR
The Rose Garden

27-Mar
Tacoma, WA
Tacomadome

8-Apr
Omaha, NE
Qwest Center

9-Apr
Kansas City, MO
Sprint Center

10-Apr
Des Moines, IA
Wells Fargo Arena

I seriously cannot imagine the ticket prices for this tour…or the prices brokers are going to charge. Any bets on how quickly these shows sell-out? It seems that everyone is taking full advantage of Kenny Chesney’s hiatus, and making a run for the Entertainer of the Year trophy for 2010.

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CMA Music Awards Lineup Getting Bigger and Better

Posted by Country Girl on October 15th, 2009

The star-packed lineup for “The 43rd Annual CMA Awards” grows dramatically with the announcement today that Tim McGraw will perform for the first time in four years, and that Vince Gill will duet with rock band Daughtry.

Other performers announced today include Jason Aldean, Billy Currington, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, and Zac Brown Band. “The 43rd Annual CMA Awards,” hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, airs live from the Sommet Center in Nashville, Wednesday, Nov. 11 (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Previously announced performers include Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Paisley, Darius Rucker, George Strait, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Underwood, and Keith Urban.

Still noticeably missing from the performances this year is Rascal Flatts.

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