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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) In the September issue of Cowboys & Indians magazine, Kris Kristofferson talks about his life before Nashville (Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford, Army captain and aspiring songwriter) and the turn of [...]

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The Hank Williams Estate has teamed up with Time Life for a three-CD set, collecting newly discovered Hank Williams recordings, meticulously restored to their original sound quality. ‘Hank Williams: The Legend Begins’ features the late icon’s earliest home recordings on the first ‘Rare and Unreleased’ disc, including cuts ‘Fan It’ and ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band,’ which [...]

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If you Google something totally random like, “Where does Tim McGraw get his jeans?” you will get about 10.9 million answers. The veracity of which I cannot guarantee. But before Jake Owen was a big deal, out on the road opening shows for Keith Urban, he was just a country artist in search of the [...]

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He’s got a little hitch in his gitalong now, that much is obvious. But how’d it get there? I spent some time with Tim McGraw before his Chicago show on Saturday night (July 16) and thought I’d get some real answers about how he injured his foot. Because if anyone knew how McGraw broke his [...]

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Jewel is a mom! The singer gave birth to a 7 lb., 6 oz. baby boy named Kase Townes at a hospital in Texas on Monday evening, July 11. The Alaska native and her husband, rodeo star Ty Murray, are thrilled with the new addition. “Ty and I are so pleased to welcome our new [...]

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Keith Urban is having a hot summer indeed. The guitar slinger is crossing the country on his Get Closer world tour, performing his current Top 30 single, ‘Long Hot Summer,’ which he wrote with ’80s pop icon Richard Marx. “We hadn’t written a lot in the last year or two,” the father of two explains [...]

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“I don’t think our music could be any more opposite than Rascal Flatts, me and those guys,” Justin Moore confesses to GAC. “But that’s one reason I’m looking so much forward to [the shows]. I think it’s gonna be a lot of fun. It’ll be challenging for us a little bit, and we’re gonna play [...]

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