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Nobody or nothing can hold country superstar Kenny Chesney down – not even an injury. The singer received the go-ahead from his doctors on Monday to continue his ‘Poets & Pirates’ tour after injuring his foot during a concert in Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday night. I’m actually still in awe that he continued performing [...]

Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was critically injured after his band’s bus crashed in Houston, Texas. The Grammy award winning singer and his band Rio had performed at a Houston nightclub on Saturday night. Around 5 AM on Sunday, cops say that the band’s bus slammed into traffic barrels on Interstate 610 northbound in Bellaire, [...]

Mindy McCready is going to start her new year on the right foot because she is a free woman. She definitely has a lot to be grateful for after the beleaguered country singer was sentenced to a year in jail for violating her probation. She’s been arrested about as many times as Foxy Brown!
Upon her [...]

Travis Tritt is having some trouble with his record label and its president. He just filed suit against them alleging that the label was started with money Ray Termini siphoned from the nursing home company he also ran. The country crooner filed the suit in US District Court in Nashville this week, claiming that his [...]

Australian country music star Keith Urban is on the cover of the upcoming issue of People magazine. In the interview that accompanies the cover, Keith admits that he “wouldn’t be here without [wife Nicole Kidman]. He apparently credits his music and Nicole for getting him through the roughest year of his life.
Keith also just [...]

As its title suggests, this balls-to-the-wall album finds Kid Rock latching onto the verities of sex, drugs and rock & roll as a path to redemption — both his and the country’s. He’d never admit it, but hurt over losing Pamela Anderson fuels his appetite for salvation. She’s the target of the hilarious country romp [...]

It should still be the honeymoon phase for most couples but then again, when you’re a celebrity, you can’t be considered in the ‘most’ category.
A month after he got married to longtime girlfriend Heather Singleton, country singer Joe Nichols got checked into rehab. Nichols, best known for his hit song ‘Another Side of You’, entered [...]

The country band Lonestar announced last week that they have a new lead singer and are working on churning out a new Christmas album. Said album will be exclusively available at Cracker Barrel locations throughout the country. The band may want to rethink that deal.
Cracker Barrel has had a sordid history of homophobic and racist [...]

Whether she’s gone under a tone of airbrushing or not, country darling Faith Hill is still quite a beautiful lady. The blonde bombshell looked radiant and fresh faced in New York this past weekend when she and husband Tim McGraw were spotted leaving their midtown Manhattan hotel.
While Faith was looking all kinds of radiant, Tim [...]

George Strait, who had his 55th No. 1 single this year and was recently inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame, returned Thursday to the Country Music Association Awards with top nominations including entertainer and male vocalist of the year.
Strait and Brad Paisley led with five nominations each. Strait was also nominated for musical [...]

If this is what comes from resting up, Amy Winehouse may have been better off remaining on the road. Just three days after calling off her U.S. tour and vowing to return to a countryside “retreat” to deal with her ongoing “health issues,” the “Rehab” chanteuse was photographed in London Thursday with bloody scrapes and [...]

Aaron Lewis is determined not to be what you expect. The front man of the band Staind is a bass fishing, camouflage wearing, pickup truck driving, country music and talk radio fan. And, as Lewis has often said, he’s a “musician, not an entertainer.” Yes, I heard this over and over again and each musician [...]

Since being reported and complained against as one crappy neighbor, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus has learned to pick up after himself.
The old country dog is learning a new trick. But then again, it doesn’t take rocket science to pick up some dog poop. Future star Miley Cyrus’, AKA Hanna Montana, dad must have felt [...]

Country star Billy Currington has penned a vicious new tune about his alcoholic step dad after realizing how his childhood was tainted by the bully in therapy. Hang in there Billy your wonderful, you can overcome this obstacle, you’re a wonderful talented singer and I’ll be praying for you! This is what happens when you [...]