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New Artist Spotlight: Jessica Ridley
By Bob Doerschuk Used by Permission, © 2011 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Raised in Airdrie, a small town near Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Jessica Ridley was a performer...
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New Artist Spotlight: DJ Miller
By Bob Doerschuk Used by Permission © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Even as a boy back in Idaville, Ind., DJ Miller was determined and focused in pursuit of his...
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New Artist Spotlight: Beth Cayhall
By Bob Doerschuk Used by Permission © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. There’s a noble lineage in Country Music composed of singers who are short in stature but...
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Nashville Welcomes the Johnny Cash Museum
By Kip Kirby Used by Permission © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Downtown Nashville will soon be getting a new celebrity attraction that promises to become both a...
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New Artist Spotlight: Kelleigh Bannen
By Bob Doerschuk Used by Permission © 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Kelleigh Bannen never made the trek to Nashville — she was already there. Born and raised in...
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New Artist Spotlight: Florida Georgia Line
By Bob Doerschuk Used by Permission © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. You don’t need to know that Tyler Hubbard comes from Monroe, Ga., or that his partner in...
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CMA New Artist of the Year Hunter Hayes
By Bob Doerschuk Used by Permission © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Imagine your name has just been announced at the CMA Awards as New Artist of the Year....
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New Artist Spotlight: Tate Stevens
By Bob Doerschuk © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Tate Stevens’ triumph on Season 2 of The X Factor confirms that Country Music is stronger than ever. More...
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LeAnn Rimes Rises Above Controversy with Spitfire
By BRIAN MANSFIELD © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. For the past four years, a tabloid-skewed version of LeAnn Rimes’ life has played out online and in public....
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Hunter Hayes Announces Let’s Be Crazy Tour Dates Announced
Hunter Hayes is kicking off his Let’s Be Crazy tour on October 10, 2013 as the headliner of the 12th Annual CMT on Tour event. Hayes will be visiting 21 cities during the tour, performing 24 two-hour...
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New Artist Spotlight: The Henningsens
By Bob Doerschuk Used by Permission © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. These are halcyon times for Country vocal groups. So how does a new group stand out? The...
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Country Artists Take a New Spin on Vinyl
By Randy Rudder Used by Permission © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Not since the early 1990s has the acronym “LP” had currency in the recording world. Yet it’s...
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Music Spotlight: Kellie Pickler’s “A Little Bit Gypsy”
American Idol‘s Kellie Pickler has just released her latest single “A Little Bit Gypsy” via Black River Entertainment. The new single was co-written by Pickler’s husband Kyle Jacobs, Tammi Kidd Hutton...
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New Artist Spotlight: Charlie Worsham
By Bob Doerschuk Used by Permission © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Born in Mississippi, Charlie Worsham learned enough banjo by age 10 for bluegrass legend...
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New Artist Spotlight: Sundy Best
By Bob Doerschuk Used by Permission © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. They come from Appalachia. Their friendship dates back to elementary school. Their voices...
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Sheryl Crow Crosses the Country Divide
By Bob Doerschuk © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Sheryl Crow didn’t get off the Greyhound in Nashville, with guitar case in hand and a heartful of dreams....
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New Artist Spotlight: Chelsea Bain
By Bob Doerschuk © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. NASCAR fans like their Country Music tough, sleek and hot, just like their cars. That explains why Chelsea Bain...
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Hunter Hayes Set for CMA Country Christmas
The latest addition to the list of performers set to take the stage and spread holiday cheer during the CMA Country Christmas is Hunter Hayes. The special, to be hosted for the fourth year by Jennifer...
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New Artist Spotlight: Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay
By Bob Doerschuk, © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Before the World Was Made is a delicious mix: raw, retro Country plus sweet irony. That’s apparently the...
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New Artist Spotlight: Brandy Clark
By Bob Doerschuk © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc. Brandy Clark came to Nashville from Morton, Wash., where she watched her grandmother smoke on the front porch as...
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