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Tin Pan South reveals 2012 performers
Click to see a gallery of images from Dierks Bentley and WIll Hoge at the Ryman Auditorium on Feb. 2, 2012 (photo: Patricia Melton/The Tennessean) Legendary songwriters and modern music stars will...
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Taking in Tin Pan South: Your guide to this week’s music festival
Dierks Bentley (photo: submitted) Songwriters of all stripes gather in Music City this week for the 20th annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival, taking place Tuesday-Saturday at 10 local music...
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Dierks Bentley makes his 10th trip to the top of the charts
Dierks Bentley (photo: Larry McCormack/The Tennessean) Dierks Bentley landed his 10th No. 1 song as an artist and songwriter on Monday when his uptempo, fun-loving “5-1-5-0” topped both the Billboard...
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Updated: 2012 CMA nominations revealed
Click to see a gallery of Eric Church's concert at Bridgestone Arena earlier this year. (photo: Britni Runions / The Tennessean). Eric Church led the field with five nods when the CMA Awards...
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Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees speak of collaboration
Kim Williams, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Larry Henley, Tony Arata enshrined Garth Brooks greets Mary Chapin Carpenter, one of four 2012 inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, before Sunday...
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2012 BMI Country Awards honor Tom T. Hall, Dallas Davidson, Luke Laird
Click to see a gallery of the 2012 BMI Country Awards (this photo of Kenny Chesney: Dipti Vaidya/The Tennessean) Country stars, hit songwriters and living music legends gathered in Nashville on Tuesday...
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Dierks Bentley feels right at home at Grammys
For a Nashville-based star like country singer Dierks Bentley, going to the Grammy Awards in L.A. is a unique social experience: though you're thousands of miles from home, you bump into friends...
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ACM Award 2013 nominees revealed
Click to see a gallery of Eric Church over the years (photo: Ed Rode/AP Photo). Out with the Grammys, on with the ACMs. Next awards show up: the annual awards show for the West coast-based Academy of...
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BMI honors Rodney Clawson as top songwriter, ‘Wanted’ as song of year
Click here for a photo gallery from Tuesday's 61st annual BMI Country Awards show. Shown here are Hunter Hayes, center, and Troy Verges, right, who won Song of the Year honors for "Wanted" during the...
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Story Behind the Song: ‘Red Solo Cup’
When the clock strikes 12 on New Year's, revelers will raise their drinks to celebrate, and many of those drinks will be in red cups made by the Solo Cup Company. The company’s signature product is a...
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