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	<title>Songwriting News from Nashville&#039;s ParamountSong &#187; Entertainers</title>
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		<title>CMT : News : Kanye West Says &#8220;Sorry&#8221; to Taylor Swift</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been nearly a year since Kanye West&#8217;s outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards. So on this, his hateversary, he&#8217;s using Twitter to say over and over how sorry he is to Taylor Swift. So while it&#8217;s not a face-to-face apology, there&#8217;s something very real about doing it in front of his nearly 975,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheryl Crow: 100 Miles From Memphis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 100 Miles from Memphis, Sheryl Crow takes us back to the glory days of 1960s and 1970s American soul and R&#38;B. The album’s name is a reference to her hometown, Kennett, Missouri, which sits 100 miles from the Tennessee Blues capital. For Crow, the region “is part of who I am, and it’s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Music Association Award Nominations Announced &#8211; ABC News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today on &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; country music stars Dierks Bently and Miranda Lambert announced the star-studded lineup of country artists nominated for the coveted Country Music Association Awards.
Lambert led the crowd with nine nominations. Lady Antebellum &#8212; who recently wowed the &#8220;GMA&#8221; audience with the latest country hits &#8212; has been nominated for five.
more via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennette McCurdy: Country Music Strikes A Chord &#124; Jennette McCurdy &#124; Just Jared Jr. &#8211; JJJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennette McCurdy’s new EP, Not That Far Away, is out on iTunes now and rising on the country charts.
The 18-year-old actress/singer dished on just why she’s not a pop princess, meeting Faith Hill at a young age and telling a story with her album. Check it:
On why she chose country over pop: “It’s always been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Comes Home: Grand Ole Opry Announces Sept. 28 Re-Opening of Opry House as Historic Circle of Wood is Returned to Opry Stage &#8211; MarketWatch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug 25, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ &#8212; Country music&#8217;s most famous show is coming home.
Grand Ole Opry officials today announced that the show, displaced from its permanent home due to May&#8217;s historic Nashville flood, will return to the Grand Ole Opry House with a star-packed show Tues., Sept. 28. Among the artists scheduled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singer-songwriter Keith Anderson on the road</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes an artist interview by a writer for a newspaper in a smaller area can be more revealing than one in a maj0r metro area. Like this one from Appleton Wisconsin.
Leaving a top construction engineering firm in Dallas to wait tables in Nashville seemed like a risky decision for (Keith) Anderson in 1998, but in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosanne Cash: Music in her past, present, and future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It should come as no surprise that Rosanne Cash&#8217;s beautifully observed, often heartbreaking new memoir, Composed Viking, $26.95, reads in many ways like a song cycle: thematically linked, full of intense emotions and vivid moments of intimacy, of discovery, of pain.
more via Music in her past, present, and future &#124; Philadelphia Inquirer &#124; 08/12/2010.
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		<title>Alan Jackson earns ASCAP&#8217;s Founders Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASCAP will honor country star Alan Jackson with its Founders Award at the 48th annual ASCAP Country Music Awards on September 14.
A statement from the performing rights organization described the award as “among the most important honors that ASCAP gives to songwriters and composers who have made pioneering contributions to music by inspiring and influencing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sugarland enjoys success of new single Stuck Like Glue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nettles and Bush maintained their songwriting even after signing their Nashville recording contract.“They have a wonderful songwriting system in Nashville, but our roots are in the Atlanta singer-songwriter scene,” Nettles said. “We came into the Nashville scene doing our own thing. I think that’s been something refreshing for them.
”Despite the many great tunesmiths in Music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Mine,&#8217; first single off &#8216;Speak Now,&#8217; released early after bootleg appears online</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/taylor-swifts-mine-first-single-off-speak-now-released-early-after-bootleg-appears-online</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When faced with an Internet leak, Taylor Swift just goes with the flow.
According to Reuters, an MP3 leak forced the Grammy-winning songbird to move up the release of her newest single, &#8220;Mine,&#8221; by about twelve days. The 20-year-old pop star&#8217;s record label, Big Machine Records, released a statement explaining that the MP3 was of subpar [...]]]></description>
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