Grammys Add Shelton, Nelson, Haggard, Kristofferson
Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Blake Shelton will share the stage at the upcoming Grammy Awards to pay homage to their roots in Oklahoma and Texas.

This will be Haggard's first-ever performance on the show, according to the Recording Academy. The Grammy Awards will air live on CBS on Jan. 2

                    Taylor Swift donated $100,000 to the Nashville Symphony


Taylor Swift celebrated her 24th birthday ( Dec. 13) by giving a generous gift, instead of receiving one. In honor of her big day, the singer donated $100,000 to the Nashville Symphony.
The gift comes at an important time for the Music City venue. The Nashville Symphony considered filing for bankruptcy earlier this year, and continue to try to recover from their financial losses.
This is not the ‘Sweeter Than Fiction’ singer’s first donation to her local community. She previously donated an astonishing $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, with the money funding the Taylor Swift Education Center.
Swift is home for the holidays before she kicks off the final leg of her year-long, worldwide Red Tour, which will play a series of shows in London in 2014, as well as a stop in Berlin

                       
  

         

   

                                                     Upcoming Events

                                                     February 1, 2014
                                                     The O2 Arena - London
                                                     February 2, 2014
                                                     The O2 Arena - London
                                                     February 4, 2014
                                                     The O2 Arena - London
                                                     February 7, 2014
                                                     O2 World - Berlin
                                                     February 10, 2014
                                                    The O2 Arena - London
                                                     February 11, 2014
                                                    The O2 Arena - London

23 year-old Taylor Swift is a seven-time GRAMMY winner, and is the youngest winner in history of the music industry’s highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. She is the only female artist in music history (and just the fourth artist ever) to twice have an album (2012’s RED and 2010’s Speak Now) hit the 1 million first-week sales figure.
With RED, Taylor became the first artist since the Beatles (and the only female artist in history) to log six or more weeks at #1 with three consecutive studio albums. RED has topped the Billboard 200 Albums Chart for seven weeks, following Fearless (11 weeks), and Speak Now (six weeks).

   

   

                                                            Kirsten daugaard
                                                           new album des 2013


Kirsten daugaard er country vokalist fra Kristiansand og opptrer som duo med gitarist bengt Vagle.
Kirsten har det siste året spilt rundt om i Norge og fått god kritikk for sin opptreden både sang og valg av repotoar.
Ute med sin første solo cd "COUNTRY MUSIC MY WAY" Arne Benoni som produsent i sammarbeid med studio i Nashville.
Meget bra album

 

 Kirsten Daugaard is a Norwegian country singer
Out of his first solo CD also this is the Arne Benoni producing in collaboration with the studio in Nashville.

 Singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson will be honored with the Recording Academy’s Lifetime          Achievement Award during a Grammy Week ceremony Jan. 25, with formal acknowledgment of the honor made during the Jan. 26 Grammy telecast on CBS-TV

Kris is a three-time GRAMMY winner and one of the most accomplished country stars of the late 20th century. This legendary artist rose to fame when numerous country singers began to cover his music. The Texas-born singer, songwriter, musician, and actor dominated the country music scene during the early ’70s with hits such as “Help Me Make It Through The Night,” “Me And Bobby McGee,” and “Lover Please.” While balancing his music and acting career, Kristofferson went on to form the country supergroup The Highwaymen, which included Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Kristofferson also has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.

            Scandals in Country Music

 

 Glen Campbell 

1.  In 2003, country singer Glen Campbell had a run-in with the law in Phoenix, Arizona. According to police, he was driving drunk and hit a car at an intersection. He left the scene of the accident, and when confronted kneed a police officer in the thigh. According to Sgt. Randy Force, Campbell sung his hit "Rhinestone Cowboy" in his cell in the incident's aftermath. The singer pled guilty to DUI and leaving the scene of an accident. He spent 10 days in jail and agreed to carry out community service.

 

Billy Joe Shaver  

 In March 2007, Billy Joe Shaver shot Billy Bryant Coker in the face outside a bar in Lorena, Texas. Shaver used a light caliber .22 pistol, and lucky for Shaver  Coker survived

claimed that he had been defending his life.

"I felt he was gonna kill me," Shaver told a court in 2011. He explained that Coker, who had been rude to his then-wife Wanda, brandished a knife inside the bar and asked Shaver to step outside. "He was a big bully, the worst I ever seen -- a big bad one. And I been all around the world."

Outside, witnesses reported that Shaver asked Coker, "Where do you want it?" He then shot him and fled the scene.

All the same, the jury acquitted Shaver of aggravated assault charges.

Afterwards, Dale Watson wrote a song about the shooting called "Where Do You Want It?"

Shaver denies he ever asked such a question, and later penned his own song about the event called "Wacko From Waco."

 

 

 

 

 

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COUNTRY GOSPEL KONSERT I GRIMSTAD KIRKE
Fredag 27 Desember er det klart for en ny og Populær Gospelkonsert i Grimstad Kirke,
Artistene er klare og er som følger :
Aslak Gjennestad
Ivar Erdal
Dawn Elizabeth Erdal
Sivert Bjørdal
Rita Skjeggedal
Karianne Gjennestad
Steffen Jakobsen

Dørene åpner kl 18.00 og konserten starter kl 19.00 og varer ca 2 timer.
inngang kr 250,- pr.person barn under 12 år kr 150,-

Dolly Parton releasing a brand spanking new album! ‘Blue Smoke’ will go hand in hand with the Blue Smoke World Tour 2014
Parton’s very own record label, appropriately named Dolly Records, joined forces with Sony Masterworks for the upcoming project. American and European fans will have to wait a little longer than Aussie and Kiwi fans, however — the record comes out Jan. 31 in New Zealand and Australia, but isn’t set for release in the States and Europe until May
“We at Masterworks think that ‘Blue Smoke’ sits with Dolly Parton’s very best recorded work, as global audiences will discover when she begins her world tour in January 2014,” Bogdan Roscic, president of Sony Masterworks, says.
Parton’s tour will bring her all over the world in 2014, with stops in places like the U.K., Norway, Germany, and of course, America.

                                          .Dolly Parton’s 2014 Blue Smoke World Tour Dates:
1/24 – Rancho Mirage, CA | Agua Caliente Casino                                         
1/25 – Primm, NV | Star of the Desert Arena
1/26 – Reno, NV | Reno Events Center
1/28 – Phoenix, AZ | Comerica Theater
2/7 – New Zealand, Auckland | Vector Arena
2/8 – New Zealand, Auckland | Vector Arena **2nd Show
2/11 – Australia, Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena
2/11 – Australia, Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena **2nd Show
2/15 – Australia, NSW, Hunter Valley | Hope Estate
2/18 – Australia, Sydney | Entertainment Centre
2/21 – Australia, Brisbane | Entertainment Centre
2/22 – Australia, Brisbane | Entertainment Centre **2nd Show
2/25 – Australia, Adelaide | Entertainment Centre
2/27 – Australia, Perth | Perth Arena
5/22 – Tulsa, OK | Hard Rock Casino
5/23 – Tulsa, OK | Hard Rock Casino
5/25 – Cherokee, NC | Harrah’s Cherokee Casino
5/27 – Richmond, KY | EKU Center For The Arts
5/28 – Knoxville, TN | University of Tennessee
5/30 – Thackerville, OK | Winstar Casino
5/31 – Thackerville, OK | Winstar Casino
6/8 – Liverpool, England | Echo Arena
6/10 – Belfast, Northern Ireland | Odyssey Arena
6/11 – Dublin, Ireland | O2 Arena
6/12 – Cork, Ireland | Live At The Marquee
6/14 – Newcastle, England | Metro Radio Arena
6/15 – Aberdeen, Scotland | GE Arena
6/17 – Glasgow, Scotland | Hydro Arena
6/18 – Scotland, Glasgow – Hydro Arena
6/20 – Leeds, England | First Direct Arena
6/21 – Manchester, England | Phones 4U Arena
6/22 – England, Birmingham, LG Arena
6/24 – Cardiff, Wales | Motorpoint Arena
6/25 – Cardiff, Wales | Motorpoint Arena
6/27 – London, England | O2 Arena
6/28 – London, England | O2 Arena
7/2 – Nottingham, England | Capital FM Arena
7/5 – Cologne, Germany | Lanxess Arena
7/6 – Berlin, Germany | O2 World
7/8 – Copenhagen, Denmark | Forum
7/9 – Oslo, Norway | Spektrum
7/11 – Stockholm, Sweden | The Globe

Jake Owen - 'Days of Gold' (December 3 2013)

Image courtesy of RCA Nashville Records

This summer, Jake Owen revealed the release date of his fourth studio album on Jimmie Kimmel -- as well as an album trailer sure to wet fans' appetites. Feast your eyes and ears.

 The album got some positive reviews from Allmusic, Country Weekly, Got Country Online and USA Today. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave it a three-and-a-half out of five stars, and thought that the album had a less polished sound than its predecessor. He wrote that "There's no mistaking Days of Gold for anything earthy, but this sonic thawing winds up emphasizing Owen's inherent sweetness in an appealing fashion."At Country Weekly, Tammy Ragusa graded the album to be an A-, saying that Owen's voice was "ffortless and easy", and that its themes seemed like an artistic evolution from the previous album. Donna Block of Got Country Online gave it a perfect five star rating, and called this album "precious", which fans and listeners alike should own this album. At USA Today, Brian Mansfield rated it a three out of four stars, and felt that after the first three songs that the album goes south somewhat, which he noted that the hits are likely to be the "party songs"; however, he affirmed that "the others separate him from the pack."

Troy and Adam withdraw album from Golden Guitars

Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey have requested that all voted nominations for their album Great Country Song Book be withdrawn from the 2014 Golden Guitar Awards.

In a media release issued late today, the pair said their decision had been made after careful consideration.

"There was, and still is, no problem with the album's legitimate qualification in the categories for which it was nominated," the release said, "however, due to recent objection and the ensuing industry debate, both Troy and Adam have decided (with respect) to withdraw their nominations."

"The conversations and debates about the album over the past few days has fragmented an already fragile music community," the pair said. "We are very proud of the achievements of the project however wish to not have the album as part of the Awards. We are just sad for country music that this has all happened. The last thing we wanted to do was cause any controversy. It was just two mates paying tribute to our musical heroes."

" The Great Country Song Book is a lovingly hand-picked bunch of country music classics, recorded entirely in Australia, top-heavy with both Troy and Adam's favourite childhood songs," the release continued. "Songs that evoke memories of families that lived and loved country music; songs that have formed the fabric of their musical careers such as their faithful rendition of Slim Dusty's Lights On The Hill which was released as the first single from the album in direct response to pleas from their fans."

The album went Gold after five weeks following release. It jumped to the top of the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) album charts, debuting at number one on the Country Album chart and number two on the mainstream album chart. It held top 10 on the mainstream album chart for eight weeks and number one on the Country Album chart for 13 consecutive weeks. The album currently sits at number three on the Country Albums chart and has sold more than 60,000 copies to date.

" The Great Country Song Book has been extremely special to both Troy and Adam and they have had a lot of fun touring the country together over the past five months with a talented band of Australian musicians, many of whom recorded the album with them," the release said.

                                                       

 

                                                                     Garth Brooks

  Garth Brooks , American country singer and songwriter , raised in 1967 in the Oklahoma City suburb of Yukon . Breakthrough in 1989 , and in 1990's runaway success with its modern , bright pop and rock embossed country music. Several of his first album is among the most sold in the United States , regardless of genre : The debut Garth Brooks (1989 ) , No Fences (1990 ) , Ropin ' The Wind (1991 ) , Beyond The Season (1992 ; Christmas album ) , The Chase (1992 ) In Pieces (1993 ) , Fresh Horses (1995 ) and Sevens (1997 ) . In 1999 he changed , at least for a while , both in name , appearance and style of music , and released the album Garth Brooks In ... The Life Of Chris Gaines . This was associated with a film project , but Brooks ' audience did not understand what happened, and the whole were slaughtered by the critics . As Chris Gaines however, he had his biggest hit in the U.S. poplistene : Lost In You. In 2001 he came back strongly with their own name and modern country music album Scarecrow . Brooks went in 1989-1998 at the top of the country charts with singles If Tomorrow Never Comes , The Dance , Friends In Low Places, Unanswered Prayers , Two Of A Kind Workin 'On A Full House, The Thunder Rolls , Shameless , What She 's Doing Now , The River Somewhere Other Than Tonight , That Summer , Is not Going Down (To The Sun Comes Up ) , American Honky - Tonk Bar Association , She 's Every Woman , The Beaches Of Cheyenne, longneck Bottle, Two Piña Coladas and To Make You Feel My Love.

                                              GARTH BROOKS: Confirms 2014 World Tour!

It was more than 10 years sidene then it went later. But 9 desember confirmed Garth Brooks him to venture out into the world on the new tour. Where and when is not clear, but we will return as soon as we know something