Lynn, Loretta (1935—)
With such feisty hits as "You Ain't Woman Enough" and "Fist City," country singer/songwriter Loretta Lynn voiced the concerns of blue-co...
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Willie Nelson can add another award to his long list of accolades.Broadcast Music Inc. announced Thursday that it will bestow upon Nelson its icon designation during its 55th annual Country Awards ...
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Willie Nelson will celebrate making music with his friends when BMI presents him with the icon award during the organization's 55th annual Country Awards on Tuesday night.Toby Keith, Josh Turner, K...
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It has all the makings of a country song: an escaped prisoner, his terminally ill mother, a Wal-Mart truck, NASCAR and a Nashville singer's tour bus.Since Christopher Daniel Gay, 32, escaped from a...
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Kris Kristofferson, who has written some of country music's most enduring hits, will receive CMT's Johnny Cash Visionary Award, the cable network announced Monday.Rosanne Cash, Cash's daughter, wil...
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Hank Williams Jr. and bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs will be among this year's five new inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall announced Monday.The two acts, along with ...
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Carrie Underwood's dark hit "Before He Cheats" won video of the year, female video and best video director Monday at the fan-voted CMT Music Awards.In the song, Underwood takes a baseball bat to a ...
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She was an "amazing talent," a young singer with a wonderful voice who wrote beautiful songs. But she was no beauty, plus flat-chested and overweight to boot.Remembering the aspiring star, music ex...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 8-14:April 8: Comedian Shecky Greene is 81. Original Mouseketeer Darlene Gillespie is 66. Singer J.J. Jackson is 66. Singer Peggy Lennon of the Lennon Sist...
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Depending on how you look at it, Marty Stuart is either a genius for saving all those cowboy boots, rhinestone suits and flashy string ties, or he's a pack rat with a taste for garish clothes.His c...
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If the Country Music Association was going to set up a special dressing room for its entertainer of the year nominees, it would do well to put in a couple of leather couches, a box of cigars, ESPN ...
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Lynn, Loretta (1935—)
BMI to honor Willie Nelson as music icon
