Keith Burns & daughter Savannah. Photo courtesy of Music City News Media & Marketing.

Keith Burns of Burns & Poe and a few of his friends are coming together for a charity golf tournament benefiting his daughter, Savannah. Savannah, 18, was diagnosed with a rare form of Leukemia in April of this year.  Shortly after entering the hospital to begin treatments, she slipped into a coma for several days. She is now regaining strength day-to-day.

The golf tournament will take place on Monday, October 24 at Ravenwood Country Club Gold Course in Hermitage, Tennessee. Check in will start at 8 a.m., with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Joe Diffie, Dave Innis, Bob Mueller, Julie Roberts, Ty Brown, Bernie Nelson, Lathan Moore, Kate Taylor and more are all scheduled to take part in the event. Continue Reading

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Charlie Daniels trades in his cowboy boots. Photo courtesy of Webster & Associates.

Country stars are trading in their cowboy boots for army boots to show their support for our nation’s troops. George Jones, the Oak Ridge Boys, Charlie Daniels, Randy Houser, Chuck Wicks and more are taking part in the Boot Campaign, which encourages Americans to buy and wear a pair of army combat boots in support of our troops.  Inspired by retired US Navy SEAL and author of the book Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell, proceeds from the boot sales are donated to partner charities. Continue Reading

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Steve Wariner at the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy® Grammy Nominee party. Photo courtesy of The Recording Academy® 2009 & Rubin Media. Photograph by Rick Diamond/WireImage.com.

Four country acts that launched a series of hits in the 1980s and ‘90s — Steve Wariner, Patty Loveless, John Michael Montgomery and the late Keith Whitley — are set to enter the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame when it holds its next induction ceremony in April 2011 in Lexington.

They’ll be joined as new members by bluegrass duo the Goins Brothers; gospel singer Larnelle Harris; and Molly O’Day, a country vocalist who left a critically acclaimed body of work in a short five-year recording period in the late 1940s.

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Danny Gokey photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Danny Gokey and Easton Corbin are very different kinds of singers, but they find themselves on very similar paths.

Easton is a traditional-country vocalist in the vein of George Strait and Alan Jackson, while Danny is a pop-country singer who built an audience on last year’s “American Idol.” Now they’re both competing for attention as new artists with their first albums in release — and those two albums came out on the exact same day.

As it turns out, Danny and Easton each celebrated the same way: They went to the store to buy their own CDs.

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Randy Owen presents Trace Adkins with the Humanitarian Award at the 2010 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, Tenn. on February 24. Photo by Bev Moser, courtesy of AristoMedia.

Trace Adkins received the Country Radio Broadcasters’ 2010 Artist Humanitarian Award Wednesday in Nashville, recogizing his contributions to the community during the opening session of the 41st annual Country Radio Seminar. Presented by 2009 winner Randy Owen, the crystal block honors Trace’s efforts on several fronts. He’s played for American soldiers fighting in the Middle East on a couple of tours, and he raised nearly $500,000 for the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, thanks in great part to his efforts two years ago on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Continue Reading

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David Lee Murphy, writer of Jason Aldean's "Big Green Tractor," celebrates with Jason at the platinum party for his Wide Open CD. Photo by Chris Hollo, courtesy of The GreenRoom.

One of the biggest hits of 2009 was Jason Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor,” which went to No. 1 for four weeks in the fall and — combined with the power-packed previous single, “She’s Country” — launched his concert sales into a whole new stratosphere.

The song, written by 1990s hitmaker David Lee Murphy and Jim Collins, used the tractor as a literary vehicle for the escapism that a relationship can provide. But Jason’s not completely sure that the tractor itself wasn’t the attraction in the song.

“I told the writers if they have any more tractor songs, be sure to send them to me,” Jason told The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader.

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