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God love stars who blog, so we bloggers can blog about their blogging. Like this one from Taylor Swift on her MySpace page, that confirms that she is indeed going to be the musical guest on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live. That makes Swift, 19, the youngest country star to ever appear as a musical [...]

I hope everyone was able to catch America’s country sweethearts, Doyle & Debbie, last night (Jan. 5) on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. They perform their comedy routine weekly at the Station Inn in Nashville and I’ve been trying to go for a while, but it hasn’t worked out. I’ve got no choice but to [...]

The curiosity is seriously killing me. Rascal Flatts will make a “very special announcement” tomorrow (Jan. 7) on the People’s Choice Awards on CBS, according to the band’s Web site. For the life of me, I cannot imagine what it could be. It can’t be something awful like that the band is breaking up [...]

This week, the CMT News team is covering some of our favorite music out of Texas. (Read the first installment, a feature story on Reckless Kelly.) So I thought Id chime in with my own personal favorite album out of Texas, Kelly Willis What I Deserve. She released it in 1999 when I happened to [...]

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is full of what country fans and historians consider priceless artifacts. Four of the most precious pieces are Bill Monroe’s 1923 Gibson F-5 mandolin, Mother Maybelle Carter’s 1928 Gibson L-5 guitar and two of Johnny Cash’s guitars (his 1968 Martin D-35 and his 1997 Martin Prototype). These [...]