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Miranda Lambert Mama’s Broken Heart-Video

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The Official Music Video For Miranda Lambert’s “Mama’s Broken Heart.” Miranda Lambert released the official music video for her current single, “Mama’s Broken Heart.” The song comes from her 2011 album, Four The Record. The song is fun and different and completely Miranda, I love it. The video is great and puts a spotlight on a time when more women hid their crazy! Miranda looks great in the video, I especially love her blue dress/bathtub scene. She definitely gives the camera some crazy eyes though. Watch the video for “Mama’s Broken Heart” below and tell us what you think! Current Miranda Lambert Tour Date and Tickets

Jaida Dreyer Half Broke Horses Lyric Video

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Jaida Dreyer Releases Lyric Video for Moving New Single Half Broke Horses. Jaida Dreyer‘s current single, “Half Broke Horses,” from her debut album I Am Jaida Dreyer is a powerful, personal and poignant song. Dreyer has an amazing voice, and a whole lot of writing talent…a surefire combo…and I have no doubt that she is headed for success. The video below is the recently released lyric video for the single, and if you haven’t heard this song yet, I suggest you check it out now. Don’t forget to comment to let us know what you think of Jaida, and be sure to find her on Twitter: @JaidaDreyer. Watch: Jaida Dreyer “Half Broke Horses” Lyric Video.

Kip Moore Calls Country Music Fans

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Video: Kip Moore Gives A Few of His Fans a Little Phone Call! Kip Moore and his team recently ran a contest that gave fans the chance to hear from their favorite country artist (Kip)! The video below is the fun result of the contest and features Moore being lovable self while he gives fans their “call back.” The responses from the fans are pretty amusing with some folks clearly screening calls and some being a little confused about what’s going on! Kip really is a good sport, and the vid is sure to make you smile! Watch: Kip Moore Calls His Fans.

ACM 2013 Fremont Street Experience Line Up

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Academy of Country Music Announces Line Up for Free Concert Series, 2013 Fremont Street Experience. For the 7th consecutive year in the run-up to the annual ACM Awards, the Academy of Country Music is offering a FREE concert series to country fans attending the weekend’s festivities in Las Vegas. The concerts take place on Friday, April 5th & Saturday, April 6th preceding the Sunday night, April 7th awards show! As usual, the concerts will be held in the Fremont Street district, and will feature two stages, one located at 1st Street and the other at 3rd street, giving attendees double the chance to catch some great live music. This year’s free concert series will be hosted by on air personality Blair Gardner. Find the complete line up below. 2013 ACM Fremont Street Experience Line Up. Friday, April 5th 9pm: Sunny Sweeney (1st Street Stage) 9:50pm: Joe Nichols (3rd Street Stage) 11pm: Kip Moore (1st Street Stage) 12am: Gary Allan (3rd Street Stage) Saturday, April 6th 9pm: Chris Janson (1st Street Stage) 9:50pm: Randy Houser (3rd Street Stage) 11pm: Jana Kramer (1st Street Stage) 12am: Jake Owen (3rd Street Stage)

Brad Paisley Beat This Summer 2013 Tour Date and Details

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Brad Paisley Announces Dates and Details On His 2013 Beat This Summer Tour! We were all waiting for this news, and it finally broke last week! Brad Paisley has released the first dates and details of his 2013 Beat This Summer Tour sponsored by the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store! The line-up of dates will kick off in St. Louis, Missouri on May 9th and make stops in 29 cities all over the U.S. and Canada all summer long. Bonus, fans will also get to see opening acts Chris Young and Lee Brice! There are more details to come…so, stay tuned! Also of note, Paisley is teaming up with the Nashville based non-profit Live Beyond whose mission is to provide medical care, clean water, nutritional support and development activities to impoverished communities in Haiti. $1 of each ticket sale from the Beat the Summer Tour will be donated to the organization. You can find more information on the official Live Beyond website.

Darius Rucker True Believers 2013 Tour Announced

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Award-Winning Country Star Darius Rucker Announces Dates of the True Believers Tour Featuring Special Guests Justin Moore, Rodney Atkins and Jana Kramer Capitol Records Nashville recording artist Darius Rucker is calling all ‘true believers’ to meet him out on the road this summer for his newly announced headlining tour in support of his upcoming True Believers album release this spring. The 2013 True Believers Tour kicks off on May 9th in Estero, Florida, and will work its way through more than 20 cities across the U.S. before wrapping up in Clarkston, Michigan on June 30th. Rucker will treat concert-goers to tunes from across all three of his country albums, including current critically-acclaimed single “Wagon Wheel” and any number of his five No. 1 hits like “Come Back Song,” “This,” “Alright” and more. “This is going to be an exciting summer. I’ve got an album I can’t wait for y’all to hear and I’m hitting the road with a great group of artists. We’re gonna have a good time!” -Darius Rucker Joining Rucker on select dates will be special guests RIAA platinum-selling Rodney Atkins, top-charting country singer Justin Moore, and 2013 ACM New Female Vocalist winner and New Artist of the Year nominee Jana Kramer. Rucker will be offering two pairs of tickets to each tour date through an auction on www.DariusRucker.com with proceeds benefiting both the Country Music Association’s “Keep The Music Playing” initiative and the Academy of Country Music’s “Lifting Lives” program. “Keep the Music Playing” supports music in our schools and has funded music labs and more than 4,000 instruments in 80 Nashville Metro schools. ACM “Lifting Lives” is dedicated to improving lives through the power of music – its beneficiaries include the Holston Home in East Tenn. where Atkins was adopted as a child, Pattinson’s Academy in Rucker’s hometown of Charleston, S.C., and ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp, students of which accompanied Rucker in a very special ACM Awards performance of a song written and recorded by the campers, “Music from the Heart.” Darius Rucker – True Believers Tour Dates. May 9, 2013 | Estero, Fla. | Germain Arena* May 10, 2013 | Pensacola, Fla. | Pensacola Civic Center* May 17, 2013 | Savannah, Ga. | Savannah Civic Center* May 18, 2013 | Alpharetta, Ga. | Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park* May 19, 2013 | Knoxville, Tenn. | Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum** May 24, 2013 | Little Rock, Ark. | Riverfront Park** May 30, 2013 | Greensboro, N.C. | Greensboro Coliseum Complex* May 31, 2013 | Simpsonville, S.C. | Charter Amphitheatre at Heritage Park* June 1, 2013 | Virginia Beach, Va. | Patriotic Festival* June 6, 2013 | Morrison, Colo. | Red Rocks Amphitheatre** June 9, 2013 | Grand Prairie, Texas | Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie** June 13, 2013 | N. Lawrence, Ohio | Clay’s Park Amphitheater** June 14, 2013 | Buffalo, N.Y. | Coca Cola Field+ June 15, 2013 | Baltimore, Md. | Pier Six Pavilion** June 20, 2013 | West Long Branch, Continue reading Darius Rucker True Believers 2013 Tour Announced→

Taylor Swift 2013 Red Tour to Include Country Artists

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Taylor Swift Invites Country Newbie Joel Crouse, Florida Georgia Line and more to Join her 2013 Red Tour! Taylor Swift will be kicking off her brand new 2013 RED Tour on March 13th, and she’s inviting a few more talented folks to join her on the road! Swift and her team previously announced that singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran, whose duet with Taylor, “Everything Has Changed,” is featured on her Red album, would be joining what will no doubt be a hugely successful tour. Now though, fans are going to have extra incentive to turn out to the RED tour shows. In addition to Sheeran, Tswift will be including country music new kid, Joel Crouse, and other super popular country acts like Florida Georgia Line, Casey James and Brett Eldredge. Taylor’s Red album is easily the LEAST country of all of her releases so far, and she’s been receiving a fair amount of flack for it. So, I’m thinking that the addition of these new country artists has a lot to do with trying to stay in touch with the country music fan base. Smart move, if you ask me, and the new additions are sure to make the RED 2013 Tour a blast for fans. Not to mention, all of these guys are going to get a tremendous amount of exposure from this, and it’s well deserved. See below for details on the 13 Stadium tour stops.

Kellie Pickler and Wynonna Judd Join Dancing with the Stars

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Kellie Pickler and Wynonna Judd On Dancing with the Stars Competitors Roster. The upcoming 16th season of Dancing with the Stars just got a lot more interesting with this week’s announcement of the competitors roster which includes country stars Kellie Pickler and Wynonna Judd! Pickler will be paired with professional dancer and DWTS regular Derek Hough (yes, Julianne Hough’s bro!), and Wynonna will be trying out her own dance skills with Tony Dovolani. Kellie and Judd kind of have their work cut out for them though as they will be dancing against athletes and Olympians (find the whole list below)! I’m not the biggest, biggest fan of reality TV shows, though I do try to keep up with them when country artists are featured, of course. DWTS really is a fun show, and I think that both Kellie and Wynonna were great choices for competitors. Can’t wait to tune in for the premiere on Monday, March 18th, and see how they do! Find complete info on ABC.com. Dancing with the Stars Season 16, Complete List of Competitors: • Boxer Victor Ortiz and new pro Lindsay Arnold • Singer Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough • Country star Wynonna Judd and Tony Dovolani • Soap star Ingo Rademacher and Kym Johnson • Disney Channel star Zendaya Coleman and Valentin Chmerkovskiy • Comedian Andy Dick and Sharna Burgess • Reality star Lisa Vanderpump and new pro Gleb Savchenko • Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman and Mark Ballas • Olympic skater Dorothy Hamill and Tristan MacManus • Comedian D.L. Hughley and Cheryl Burke • NFL star Jacoby Jones and Karina Smirnoff Comment below, and let us know which country stars YOU would love to see compete on DWTS!!

New Country Tours: March 2013

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March Continues Trend of Hot New Country Tours Featuring Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney and More! In the first two months of 2013, we’ve already seen some really amazing artists like George Strait, Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley hit the road while folks like Eric Church, Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts just picked up where they left off at the end of last year! Continuing this trend, there are even more great tours launching this month. From Taylor Swift’s highly buzzed Red Tour to Justin Moore’s first ever headlining venture, there are going to be plenty more chances for fans to catch a good live concert in the coming months. Find more info and links below! If what you need isn’t here, find even more ticket details from this posts sponsor on their official page! Taylor Swift, Red Tour, kicks off March 13th! Justin Moore, Outlaws Like Me, kicks off March 14th! Kenny Chesney, No Shoes Nation Tour, kicks off March 16th! Shania Twain, Las Vegas Residency at Caesars Palace! If you could only see one more country artist live in concert for the rest of your life…who would it be?

Craig Morgan To Headline St. Jude Country Music Marathon

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Craig Morgan And Sarah Darling To Perform At The St. Jude Country Music Marathon and 1/2 Marathon. Craig Morgan and Sarah Darling will be a part of the 14th annual St. Jude Country Music Marathon & ½ Marathon presented by Nissan. Continuing the tradition of combining great country music with Nashville’s premier running event, Morgan and Darling will end the weekend of festivities with a post-race concert at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. CST on Saturday, April 27. The musically themed road race attracts more than 30,000 runners, walkers and 6,000 junior racers through ING KiDS ROCK Nashville, who will take on the 26.2 and 13.1-mile courses while passing many of Nashville’s best live bands along the route. Complimentary concert tickets are provided to all registered runners and volunteers. Runners may purchase additional tickets for $35. “As a Nashville area native, I’m proud to represent Country Music and St. Jude and give all the runners a chance to let loose after the big race. Save up some energy for the end of the night because we’re gonna make sure you leave Music City with a lot of great memories!”, said Craig Morgan. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, one of the world’s premier centers for the research and treatment of childhood cancer and other deadly diseases, is the official benefiting charity of the St. Jude Country Music Marathon & ½ Marathon. Again this year, participants registered for the race are encouraged to also sign up as St. Jude Heroes and Run For a Reason®. St. Jude Heroes, a special group who raise incremental funds for the hospital by securing donations from family, friends and co-workers, are instrumental in supporting the $1.8 million per day it takes to run the hospital. Thanks to the generosity of donors, no family ever pays St. Jude for anything. St. Jude covers the cost of treatment, travel, lodging and food for each patient and a family member.