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	<title>Songwriting News from Nashville&#039;s ParamountSong</title>
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		<title>Loretta Lynn Picks Deschanel for Broadway Version of Coal Miners Daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three hundred cheers for Loretta Lynn, the iconic Country Music star who at age 80 keeps on truckin&#8217; with another major career move: Broadway.
As the Washington Times reports, Country Music Hall of Fame member Loretta Lynn is taking her life story to Broadway, and she has tapped film and TV actress Zooey Deschanel to play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrie Underwoods New Album Blown Away Debuts At No. 1 on Billboard 200 Album Chart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Country music continues to chart heavily with this weeks Carrie Underwood album release hitting number 1 on the Billboard 200.
As reported by Billboard.biz, Carrie Underwood easily trounces the competition this week as her fourth album, Blown Away, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 267,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The debut for Blown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Alan Jackson Album a Collection Songwriters Can Cheer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Norm Daniels
In June, Alan Jackson will release his first album since leaving Arista Records and forming his own label, AJR, in conjunction with EMI. The album is titled Thirty Miles West, in honor of the legendary Dixie Highway he grew up near. Alan is still total Country, of course, a solid fact that traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheryl Crow Competes in Nashville&#8217;s St. Jude Country Music Half Marathon</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/sheryl-crow-competes-in-nashvilles-st-jude-country-music-half-marathon</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a big thing for Nashville Music Stars and obviously a lot of others folk. Music Row and environs were taken over this past Saturday (4/28) by what some call the Music City Marathon, but is really the St. Jude Country Music Marathon (the name gets longer). As MusicRow.com reports:
Over 30,000 runners turned out for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What No Songwriter Should Miss: Hank Cochran Documentary Premieres at Nashville Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/what-no-songwriter-should-miss-hank-cochran-documentary-premieres-at-nashville-film-festival</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Songwriter News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Note to songwriters: If you get within a hundred miles of a showing of the Hank Cochran documentary, &#8220;Livin&#8217; for a Song,&#8221; get there. See it. It&#8217;s not just history, its a lesson for all songwriters from one of the greatest of all time.
There&#8217;ve been a lot of lines written about it and Hank &#8230;here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heard of Chirpify? Best Check it  Out. It Could Be the Next Big Thing for Songwriters</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/heard-of-chirpify-best-check-it-out-it-could-be-the-next-big-thing-for-songwriters</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as everything digital — especially music —  is exploding, along comes a new and supposedly simple way to sell it. Compete with iTunes? Will simplify do it?
As Billboard reports, the two-month-old startup allows people to buy and sell digital goods using nothing but tweets by linking Twitter and PayPal accounts. Now a new round of funding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAC’s “Noteworthy at the Opry” to Premiere with Urban’s Induction</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/gac%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cnoteworthy-at-the-opry%e2%80%9d-to-premiere-with-urban%e2%80%99s-induction</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought just a few years ago that a hard-driving pop-sounding guitar slinger like Keith Urban would become a member of the once staid Grand Ole Opry? Too pop they&#8217;d say. Country is just going to hell, they still say in many cases. But keith is about to be inducted into the Opry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lee Brice Headed For Album Launch With Hit Single</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prime lesson for aspiring songwriters and artists on how the recording industry works. First release a single to radio, then follow with an album. That is if the single is successful. And if it&#8217;s not? The business is strewn with deals that didn&#8217;t work because the first single didn&#8217;t. In the case of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taylor Swift to Collaborate with Justin Bieber on New Song for Upcoming Album</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/taylor-swift-to-collaborate-with-justin-bieberon-new-song-for-his-upcoming-album</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The girl gets around. Taylor Swift that is. Now it&#8217;s the turn of Justin Biever.
Justin Bieber has revealed that his upcoming album Believe, his third, will feature a songwriting collaboration with Taylor Swift. The U.K.s Capital FM Radio posted audio yesterday from a recent conversation with Bieber on the program Vodafone Big Top 40 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Radio Grabbing More Listeners With More Choices in Music</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/internet-radio-grabbing-more-listeners-with-more-choices-in-music</link>
		<comments>http://blog.paramountsong.com/internet-radio-grabbing-more-listeners-with-more-choices-in-music#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not to steal a title from a chart stalwart from the past, but radio and records have gone together since radio got started back in the 1920&#8217;s. And now radio has expanded to the Internet. Big time, and getting bigger. For songwriters, this could present far more opportunities to get their songs heard. And getting [...]]]></description>
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