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Top Country Stars
Alan Jackson helps Tennessee family devastated by tornado (Gwinnett Daily Post) NASHVILLE, Tenn. ? Alan Jackson loves tinkering with cars and boats and says he?s even worked on a few houses in his time. But when a tornado destroyed a Tennessee family?s home and paralyzed a mother as she protected her children, the country singer picked up a guitar instead of a hammer. Singer Alan Jackson helps Tennessee family (Knoxville News Sentinal) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Alan Jackson loves tinkering with cars and boats and says he's even worked on a few houses in his time. But when a tornado destroyed a Tennessee family's home and paralyzed a mother as she protected her children, the country singer picked up a guitar instead of a hammer. RECAP OF HILLBILLY JIM'S SIRIUS RADIO SHOW (PWinsider) 1. Starts the show at 10AM with the usual "Don't Go Messin' With A Country Boy". A not-so-lonesome Hank revealed (Gallatin News Examiner) For Jett Williams, the daughter of singing legend Hank Williams Sr., the best part of a series of 1950s radio recordings made by her father comes when he declares that Tennessee shouldn't be the only state to have its own waltz; Alabama needs one, too. A little bit country and rock 'n' roll (The Times of Northwest Indiana) Shooter Jennings doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve -- it's somewhere much more permanent than that. On the singer-songwriter's left forearm, underneath a sprawling tattoo of a gun, are inked the initials CBCS, for "Country Boy Can Survive." It's credo he can turn to if he ever loses faith. Who's the new guy? (New Orleans Times-Picayune) Among Hank Williams Jr.'s all-star band of rowdy friends in the new "Monday Night Football" pre-kickoff music video is a guy who seems to have jumped out of the stands of an actual NFL game to grab a guitar and riff along with the likes of Charlie Daniels, Little Richard and Aerosmith's Joe Perry. New music from Ol' Hank? (Fairview Observer) Dozens of Hank Williams recordings rescued from the trash decades ago may be heard by the public again, thanks to a Tennessee Supreme Court ruling that has put radio shows the country great recorded in the 1950s in the control of his children. Thousands swing to Hank Jr. and Gretchen (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald) ROANOKE RAPIDS - Saturday's concert at Carolina Crossroads took place in a field - a temporary location for the new venue - but the setting seemed appropriate for the singers' down-home styles. Wilson wows Muncie audience (The Star Press) MUNCIE -- If conciseness were required, I could write this review in just 11 words: Gretchen Wilson is the greatest entertainer to ever play Emens Auditorium. Toby Keith in concert at Cricket Pavilion (East Valley Tribune) Country star Toby Keith performed Friday night at Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix. Newsfeed display by CaRP |