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<title>At Last, James Otto Scores No. 1 Song</title>
<description><![CDATA[Raise your glasses -- whether convivial or corrective -- to James Otto as he scores his first No. 1 <I>Billboard</I> single with "Just Got Started Lovin' You." It's been a long haul for the tall singer. He first visited the country chart in 2002 with "The]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-10T18:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles Gives Credit to Eddie's Attic</title>
<description><![CDATA[DECATUR, Ga. -- As one of the breakout country bands of the last few years, Sugarland can easily draw thousands of people to their high-energy concerts. But back in the day, Jennifer Nettles would finesse her singer-songwriter skills at a very laidback ba]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 16:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-09T16:34:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Remembering Eddy Arnold</title>
<description><![CDATA[As remarkable as the late Eddy Arnold's country music career was, his lasting legacy will be that he made the world safe for country pop music. His enormous success with a smooth brand of mellow songs won over pop and country audiences alike and took the]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-08T18:12:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Country Music Hall of Fame Member Eddy Arnold Dies at Age 89</title>
<description><![CDATA[Country Music Hall of Fame member Eddy Arnold died early Thursday morning (May 8) at NHC Place, an assisted living facility near Nashville at age 89. His wife of 66 years, Sally Gayhart Arnold, died in March while he was recovering in a Nashville hospital]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:10:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-08T09:10:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Book Excerpt: &lt;I&gt;Willie Nelson: An Epic Life&lt;/I&gt;</title>
<description><![CDATA["When I came to Nashville, the people I hung out with were serious songwriters, none of whom were successful yet," said Kris Kristofferson. "Willie was the hero of the soulful set -- the people who were in the business because they loved the soul of count]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-07T17:59:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>ACM Honoring Brenda Lee, Oaks, Conway Twitty, Porter Wagoner With Pioneer Awards</title>
<description><![CDATA[Brenda Lee, the Oak Ridge Boys and the late Conway Twitty and Porter Wagoner have been named as this year's recipients of the Academy of Country Music's Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award. Additionally, Dick Clark will receive the ACM's Jim Reeves International]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-07T17:57:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>James Otto Rattles the Charts With a No. 1 Single</title>
<description><![CDATA[James Otto titled his new album <I>Sunset Man</I>, but he could have just as aptly dubbed it <I>Persistent Man</I>. The album has been nearly five years in the making, during which time Otto saw the careers of his buddies Big &amp; Rich and Gretchen Wilso]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-06T17:42:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Country Superstars, Good Vibes Ride Shotgun at California's Stagecoach Festival</title>
<description><![CDATA[INDIO, Calif. -- If I could sum up Stagecoach 2008 with just one lyric, I'd choose this one: "I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight with a billion stars all around." Of course, that's from the Eagles' "Peaceful Easy Feeling," and that iconic Cali]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-05T18:35:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>HOT DISH: Love, Life and Good Friends</title>
<description><![CDATA[Good friends joined in the celebrating of the wedding of the wonderful and much-loved Renee Bell and Shane Bortscheller in Nashville. Renee is senior vice president of A&R at Sony BMG Nashville, and Shane is Brad Paisley's pilot.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-05T06:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>George Strait Commands Both &lt;I&gt;Billboard&lt;/I&gt; Charts</title>
<description><![CDATA[George Strait owns both <I>Billboard</I> country charts this time around as his single, "I Saw God Today," spends its second week at No. 1, and his album, <I>Troubadour</I>, reclaims the peak position it lost last week to Lady Antebellum.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-03T18:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>&lt;I&gt;CMT Insider&lt;/I&gt; Interview: Kenny Chesney Talks About His Injury</title>
<description><![CDATA["My foot looked like it had a baseball on it," Kenny Chesney said Thursday (May 1) during an interview with <I>CMT Insider</I> host Katie Cook. "But it's better now. It's getting better. It's black and blue."]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 18:25:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-02T18:25:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Emmylou Harris: Country's Timeless Songbird</title>
<description><![CDATA[The induction of Emmylou Harris into the Country Music Hall of Fame, for me at least, was one of the most special moments in country music history that I have been privileged to witness.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-05-01T18:17:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Alan and Denise Jackson Delight a Hometown Crowd</title>
<description><![CDATA[NEWNAN, Ga. -- Alan and Denise Jackson returned Tuesday (April 29) to the town where their love story began at a Dairy Queen one Sunday after church.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-04-30T18:34:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Alan Jackson Joins in Celebration for "Small Town Southern Man"</title>
<description><![CDATA[Alan Jackson faced a room of steely-eyed reporters, each determined to ask him in no uncertain terms if he knew just how wonderful he was. The soft-spoken superstar grinned like a man in familiar territory.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:23:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-04-29T18:23:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Emmylou Harris, Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman Enter Country Music Hall of Fame</title>
<description><![CDATA["This is the biggest thing that's happened since water." 

In rendering that assessment, Patsy Stoneman Murphy pretty much summed it up for everyone who turned out Sunday (April 27) to witness her father, the late Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman, and Emmylou H]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<dc:date>2008-04-28T18:54:00-04:00</dc:date>
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