Artist News Daily (5/17/07)

Kathy Mattea received an honorary doctorate of the arts recently from West Virginia University. She studied engineering there twenty years ago but left the school without a degree. Mattea comments, "I got so caught up...

Launch of Today Show Summer Concert Series

05/16/2007

Multi-platinum artists Josh Turner, Martina McBride, and Gretchen Wilson performed on the Today Show's Plaza Friday, May 11 to launch the show’s Summer Concert Series.

Pictured (L-R): Today Show host Matt Lauer, Martina McBride, Gretchen Wilson, Josh Turner and host Meredith Vieira. Photo: NBC Universal Heidi Gutman

Artist News Daily (5/15/07)

Taylor Swift has been chosen as the only artist for the new Verizon V-Cast "Move With Your Music" campaign and will be featured in print ads in magazines such as People and Seventeen for...

Opening Night For Big Boss Men

05/14/2007

Brooks & Dunn and Alan Jackson opened their 2007 co-headlining tour this past weekend to packed amphitheatres in Virginia Beach, Charlotte and Raleigh. They even hit the stage together to perform the Luther Dixon/Al Smith blues classic “Big Boss Man.” The shows, featuring opening acts Jake Owen and Catherine Britt, were the first of 30 coast-to-coast dates running May through October.

Pictured on opening night (L-R): Arista Nashville VP Nat’l Promotion Skip Bishop; Sony BMG Nashville Exec. VP A&R Renee Bell; Owen; Jackson; Britt; Sony BMG Nashville Chairman Joe Galante; Sony BMG Nashville Exec. VP Butch Waugh; and (kneeling) Sony BMG Nashville VP Marketing Tom Baldrica.

Big & Rich Visit CMT’s Studio 330 Sessions

05/14/2007

Warner Bros. artists Big & Rich recently recorded a Studio 330 Session for CMT Loaded’s original online performance series. This exclusive performance will be available online via cmt.com later this summer.

Pictured (L-R): Big Kenny; Ellie Chandler, Producer CMT Studio 330 Sessions; John Rich; and Kellie Robinson, Mgr. CMT Music & Talent.

Artist News Daily (5/11/07)

Justin Timberlake will be featured in an exclusive interview on an episode of CMT Insider, airing May 12 at 12:30 p.m. CT. Timberlake recently recorded "The Only Promise That Remains," a duet with Reba McEntire...

Stylesonic/Mercury Hit The Road with H2H

05/10/2007

Halfway to Hazard members David Tolliver and Chad Warrix recently visited Detroit, Atlanta and Indianapolis with their promotion team and label heads. Traveling along were Universal Nashville Chief Luke Lewis, VP Promotion John Ettinger, H2H Mgr. Christopher Washko, Scott Siman and StyleSonic owners Tim McGraw and Byron Gallimore. H2H’s lead single “Daisy” is taking off at radio and they will be joining McGraw’s Soul 2 Soul tour this summer.

Pictured (L-R): Ettinger, Lewis, WFMS MD JD Cannon, Tolliver, Warrix, McGraw, and WFMS PD Bob Richards.

Benefit News Daily (5/11/07)

Songwriter Thom Shepherd (“Redneck Yacht Club”) has planned two musical events benefitting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as part of his campaign to become LLS Man of the Year. The first will be held 7 p.m...

Artist News Daily (5/10/07)

Gretchen Wilson is the first artist to be featured in CMT Diary: Gretchen Wilson, set to premiere on Fri., May 25 at 7:00 p.m. CT. The show will feature Wilson's entire "redneck" family, an impromptu...

Jake Owen Has Some “Fun-N-Sun”

05/07/2007

Jake Owen performed his Top 20 hit “Startin’ With Me” at the recent WQYK “Fun-N-Sun” concert in Tampa, Florida.

Pictured (L-R): Veronica, WQYK night personality; Norbert Nix, Regional RCA Records; Cledus T. Judd, WQYK AM personality; Jay Roberts, WQYK MD; Owen; Chad Brock, WQYK AM personality; Mike Culotta, WQYK Operations/PD; Dave McKay, WQYK afternoon personality; Hank Dale, WQYK mid-day personality.