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Jason Aldean photo courtesy of Broken Bow Records.

If you got the bucks, you can load up the truck with lots of country music memorabilia. Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood and Montgomery Gentry are among a slew of artists who’ve contributed autographed merchandise to Women Rock For The Cure, a Nashville-based agency that raises money for breast cancer research and awareness.

Jason, Carrie and Montgomery Gentry each put their names on instruments with starting bids that range from $200-$500 at http://myworld.ebay.com/womenrockforthecure. Another guitar bearing signatures from the Oct. 2 Opry Goes Pink night has a $500 minimum. Artists who inked the PRS model include Lorrie Morgan, Terri Clark, Jo Dee Messina, Bill Anderson, Mindy Smith, Connie Smith, Little Jimmy Dickens, The Whites and Caitlin Lynn.

But that’s just a start. Continue Reading

LeAnn Rimes photo courtesy of Curb Records.

Trace Adkins, Ronnie Milsap and LeAnn Rimes are all affected by a spate of tough news stories, though none of them are the kind of issue that would make or break a career.

A single recorded by Trace and Ronnie is being hung out to dry in a spat between record companies, while LeAnn had her second minor car accident in a month. In addition, a fire at a long-established Indiana venue leaves a series of artists with cancelled shows. Continue Reading

The Boxmasters photo credit: Sandrine Lee

By Ted Drozdowski

© CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.

To get a perspective of Billy Bob Thornton as an artist, begin with his band, The Boxmasters, and then go further back through the deep ties he has nurtured throughout his life with Country Music.

“Country Music today gives me a lot of feelings – dismay, sadness, anger,” the Arkansas native explained by phone from The Cave, the recording studio in the basement of his home in Los Angeles. “I grew up listening to rock ‘n’ roll and Country when Country was Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Del Reeves, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and it was amazing. Today, Country seems to be ’80s pop ballads with steel guitars and music videos with a bunch of hot people in hot tubs. Continue Reading