The Super Bowl and Nashville Music Just Naturally Go Together
December 22nd, 2011
Super Bowl fans attending the SB in February can get a good dose of Nashville’s Country Music, AND a generous dash of Nashville Pop/Rock.
According to MusicRow.com, Music City will be well-represented at festivities surrounding the Feb. 5 Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
Numerous free concerts will take place at the Super Bowl Village from Jan. 27-Feb. 4. The line-up features Darius Rucker and Dierks Bentley from the country set, and Will Hoge, Six Pence None The Richer and Here Come The Mummies from Nashville’s pop/rock scene.
Is Dierks Bentley Going off the Deep End?
April 26th, 2011
As recording artists get more popular, many of them begin to believe their own publicity and get up in the clouds somewhere or go off the deep end and quit recording the music that got them where they are. That’s when they start doing what the artist – not the fans – want. In a recent encounter with Billboard, Bentley seems to be showing some of those signs. Here it is from Billboard.com:
Bentley is “not really in a rush” to put out his next album — the follow-up to 2010s Grammy Award-nominated bluegrass diversion “Up On the Ridge” — but hes already got the project well under way. ”Weve cut the tracks for 15 songs, and Im trying to sing on the record now,” Bentley, whos currently headlining the Jaegermeister Country Tour, tells Billboard.com. “But its impossible for me to do this Jaeger tour and go in and do vocals, too. So I might have to wait a little longer to make sure I have exactly the best possible vocals I can put on.”
more via Dierks Bentley Recording My Kind of Country Music for New Album | Billboard.com.
Shelton, Bentley Named As Grammy Presenters : MusicRow
February 3rd, 2011
More performers and the first group of presenters have been announced for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards Sunday, Feb. 13. Nashville is represented twice on the presenters list as nominees Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton, Norah Jones, Selena Gomez, LL Cool J, and Nicki Minaj have been included in the initial lineup.
more via Shelton, Bentley Named As Grammy Presenters : MusicRow.
ASCAP Awards Held in Nashville Last Night
September 15th, 2010
ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) hosted its 48th annual Country Music Awards on Tuesday evening (09/15/10) at the War Memorial Auditorium in downtown Nashville.
The writers of country music’s most performed songs of the period between April 2009 and March 2010 were honored before an audience of many of Nashville’s most distinguished songwriters, top country stars and music industry leaders. Special tribute was paid to Alan Jackson, who was honored with the ASCAP Founders Award.
Top honors were awarded to the following: Read the rest of this entry »
Country Comes Home: Grand Ole Opry Announces Sept. 28 Re-Opening of Opry House as Historic Circle of Wood is Returned to Opry Stage – MarketWatch
August 26th, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug 25, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Country music’s most famous show is coming home.
Grand Ole Opry officials today announced that the show, displaced from its permanent home due to May’s historic Nashville flood, will return to the Grand Ole Opry House with a star-packed show Tues., Sept. 28. Among the artists scheduled for the show are Trace Adkins, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Charlie Daniels Band, Diamond Rio, Jimmy Dickens, Del McCoury Band, Montgomery Gentry, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Mel Tillis and Josh Turner. The show will air live on GAC: Great American Country. Read the rest of this entry »