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Today’s country music news is peppered with a little bit of everybody. Billy Ray Cyrus is going to star in another movie. The family flick Flying By will put Billy Ray into the role of a real estate developer who decides to rejoin his high school rock band after 25 years. Heather Locklear will play his outraged wife in the film that examines the internal battle between fun and responsibility. There’s no word on a release date for this newly announced project, but it likely won’t be anytime around the release of the highly anticipated Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Keith Urban will be a part of the all-star Fashion Rocks concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall on Sept. 5. The show will be broadcast on CBS on Sept. 9. Additional performers include Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas, Chris Brown, Mariah Carey, Duffy, Fergie, Kid Rock, Lil Wayne, Rihanna and Justin Timberlake. Proceeds from the fifth annual concert will benefit Stand Up to Cancer.
Big and Rich are parking the tour buses for the rest of the year. It was previously announced that the duo would be taking most of 2008 off while Big Kenny was undergoing physical therapy for a neck injury suffered several years ago in a car accident. The slowdown, however, didn’t stop either man from pursuing individual projects or performing the occasional Big and Rich show. "Kenny has no problem doin’ shows every now and then," John Rich says. "It’s just that constant, 100-shows-in-a-year thing that you can’t do." At this past weekend’s show at a music festival in Wisconsin, however, Big and Rich announced that they won’t be doing any more shows in 2008.
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant have concluded the better part of the Rising Sand Tour. The pair has a few more scattered dates in September and October, after which they are considering working on another album together. "I don't remember any of us really hoping for anything," Alison said regarding the first CD. "We were looking for a good time. With T Bone, Robert and myself, it was something very different than what we've done. It was, 'Let's go see what this is like.'" As it turned out, the Raising Sand album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and appeared on numerous critics’ best-of-2007 lists. And now Raising Sand is one of 12 albums nominated for the Mercury Prize, the annual award determined by a panel of judges in the British music industry. The winner will be announced on Sept. 9. Other nominees for the prestigious honor include Adele, British Sea Power, Burial, Elbow, Estelle, Laura Marling, Neon Neon, Portico Quartet, Rachel Unthank & the Winterset, Radiohead and the Last Shadow Puppets.
And finally, Alan Jackson has reached another career milestone. Having just scored his 33rd #1 single with “Good Time,” the title track to his 17th album, Alan has just received the news that his cumulative album sales have crossed the 50-million mark.
Today’s country music news is peppered with a little bit of everybody. Billy Ray Cyrus is going to star in another movie. The family flick Flying By will put Billy Ray into the role of a real estate developer who decides to rejoin his high school rock band after 25 years. Heather Locklear will play his outraged wife in the film that examines the internal battle between fun and responsibility. There’s no word on a release date for this newly announced project, but it likely won’t be anytime around the release of the highly anticipated Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Keith Urban will be a part of the all-star Fashion Rocks concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall on Sept. 5. The show will be broadcast on CBS on Sept. 9. Additional performers include Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas, Chris Brown, Mariah Carey, Duffy, Fergie, Kid Rock, Lil Wayne, Rihanna and Justin Timberlake. Proceeds from the fifth annual concert will benefit Stand Up to Cancer.
Big and Rich are parking the tour buses for the rest of the year. It was previously announced that the duo would be taking most of 2008 off while Big Kenny was undergoing physical therapy for a neck injury suffered several years ago in a car accident. The slowdown, however, didn’t stop either man from pursuing individual projects or performing the occasional Big and Rich show. "Kenny has no problem doin’ shows every now and then," John Rich says. "It’s just that constant, 100-shows-in-a-year thing that you can’t do." At this past weekend’s show at a music festival in Wisconsin, however, Big and Rich announced that they won’t be doing any more shows in 2008.
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant have concluded the better part of the Rising Sand Tour. The pair has a few more scattered dates in September and October, after which they are considering working on another album together. "I don't remember any of us really hoping for anything," Alison said regarding the first CD. "We were looking for a good time. With T Bone, Robert and myself, it was something very different than what we've done. It was, 'Let's go see what this is like.'" As it turned out, the Raising Sand album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and appeared on numerous critics’ best-of-2007 lists. And now Raising Sand is one of 12 albums nominated for the Mercury Prize, the annual award determined by a panel of judges in the British music industry. The winner will be announced on Sept. 9. Other nominees for the prestigious honor include Adele, British Sea Power, Burial, Elbow, Estelle, Laura Marling, Neon Neon, Portico Quartet, Rachel Unthank & the Winterset, Radiohead and the Last Shadow Puppets.
And finally, Alan Jackson has reached another career milestone. Having just scored his 33rd #1 single with “Good Time,” the title track to his 17th album, Alan has just received the news that his cumulative album sales have crossed the 50-million mark.
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