Nashville!

by contributing author Matt Rogers

Lee Ann Womack’s highly anticipated sixth album, Call Me Crazy (2008), comes after a nearly three year long, but well-deserved, hiatus. But the absence hasn’t knocked Womack off of Nashville’s radar. The overwhelming success she garnered from her previous record, There’s More Where That Came From, has kept fans and industry insiders alike wondering just what she’d bring to the table the next time around, and if it was even possible to match what some consider to be a nearly flawless country record.

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by contributing author Matt Rogers

If The Stage on Nashville’s lower Broadway ever lost its Saturday night house band, the boys of River Country could easily fill in without missing a step. This Whitland, IN-based trio – which has opened for acts such as Rascal Flatts, Andy Griggs and Jack Ingram – creates the kind of infectious energy that contemporary country audiences just can’t seem to get enough of.

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by contributing author Matt Rogers

Since his passing in 2003, Johnny Cash’s popularity among folks outside of the country genre has spread like wildfire, due especially to the success of the Oscar Award-winning film, Walk the Line, in which actor Joaquin Phoenix portrays the Man in Black with brilliance.

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by contributing author Matt Rogers

Cooper Boone is an interesting character. Though a son of America’s heartland, he has spent more than a decade in the Northeast, dividing his time between being a farmhand in Pennsylvania and a psychotherapist in the Big Apple. He’s an ardent environmentalist about to go nationwide with his Small Change Big Planet tour, and he’s launching an online cooking series called Cowboy Kitchen. Needless to say, he’s a pretty busy guy.

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