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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>Kristofferson, Nelson and Foster honored at gala</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and visionary record mogul Fred Foster were honored with the Leadership Music Dale Franklin Award Sunday night at a gala awards dinner heavily attended by Music Row players.
Foster was the first to sign artists, including Dolly Parton and Kristofferson, and his label, Monument Records, was home to other music greats, including [...]]]></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>Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Mine,&#8217; first single off &#8216;Speak Now,&#8217; released early after bootleg appears online</title>
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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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		<title>Fox Plans New Country Awards Show : MusicRow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just what the world needs: another awards show. If you can keep up with them, you might want to keep up with the new one coming from Fox Network. Who knows? With their hit music show experience, they just might turn up with a winner. Catch this from Nashville&#8217;s Music Row.com.
Fox will announce today 8/1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rascal Flatts to Join Big Machine : MusicRow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Machine President/CEO Scott Borchetta announced today 7/29 that Rascal Flatts would be the latest addition to the Big Machine family. A new album called Nothing Like This, produced by Dann Huff, is due out November 16. The first single “Why Wait,” written by Neil Thrasher, Tom Shapiro and Jimmy Yeary, is being released to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul McCartney treats packed Bridgestone Arena to three hours of gems &#124; Tune In Music City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewing a legend, as in Paul McCartney, can&#8217;t be easy, but a Tennessean reviewer tries to say something relevant about McCartney&#8217;s appearance in Nashville last night. But the fans, as usual, say it all. Leaving the rest of us struggling for some words that haven&#8217;t been said many times. You might also check out Bubba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Music Continues to Shame Regular Music Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had you assumed that country-music acts still managed to sell albums because their targeted demographics hadn&#8217;t yet fully embraced the Internet? Well, how do you explain this: While the rest of the live music industry is slumping in 2010, country-music concerts are selling and selling. According to a new report, big names like Brad Paisely, [...]]]></description>
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