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  • Taylor Swift Has Her "Prom" With Aplomb
    "Since I didn't get to go to my prom this year, I'm going to create one," Taylor Swift told reporters Monday (May 12), just before the launch of a party to celebrate her recording successes and impending high school graduation. It may have been the first

  • Dierks Bentley Plays Backyards and Bars in Chicago
    CHICAGO -- Why is it that the bigger Dierks Bentley's career becomes, the smaller his venues get? Is it some kind of twisted irony? Or a deliberate move to bring the music closer to the fans?

  • Tim O'Brien Stands Alone on New Album, Chameleon
    Tim O'Brien wants you to get into something -- anything really, just "dirty those hands and get stuck in," he tells me as he sips his first pint of the day. We're at the Yazoo brewery in Nashville, a ploughman's lunch between us, talking about his new alb

  • HOT DISH: Media Should Leave Miley Cyrus Alone
    If I see another word about those photographs taken by Annie Leibovitz of Miley Cyrus, I think I will crawl up on the nude statues on the Music Row roundabout in Nashville and throw up. I have never in my almost four decades on Music Row heard of anything

  • At Last, James Otto Scores No. 1 Song
    Raise your glasses -- whether convivial or corrective -- to James Otto as he scores his first No. 1 Billboard single with "Just Got Started Lovin' You." It's been a long haul for the tall singer. He first visited the country chart in 2002 with "The