Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Glen Campbell to Join with Grammy® Nominees The Band Perry and Blake Shelton for a Special Performance on the 54th Annual Grammy Awards®

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Editor

Music’s Biggest Night® Hosted by Rapper/Actor LL COOL J Airs Live on CBS Sunday, Feb. 12, 8 ET/PT

Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and five-time GRAMMY® winner Glen Campbell — currently out on the road for his “Goodbye Tour” — will join current GRAMMY nominees The Band Perry and Blake Shelton for a special performance on the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards® (www.grammy.com). Music’s Biggest Night® — hosted by two-time GRAMMY winner LL COOL J — takes place live on Sunday, Feb. 12 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in high definition and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The show also will be supported on radio worldwide via Dial Global, and covered online at GRAMMY.com and CBS.com, and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/thegrammys. Additional performers, presenters and special segments will be announced soon. For GRAMMY coverage, updates and breaking news, please visit The Recording Academy®’s social networks on Twitter and Facebook: www.twitter.com/thegrammys, www.facebook.com/thegrammys. Continue reading →

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Nominations Announced for the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music® Awards

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Editor

COUNTRY MUSIC’S PARTY OF THE YEAR® – FANS WILL ONCE AGAIN VOTE FOR ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR & NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR

TELECAST TO AIR LIVE FROM MGM GRAND IN LAS VEGAS Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network

Kenny Chesney leads male nominees with 9 nominations; Jason Aldean earns 6 nominations, Brad Paisley earns 4 nominations, Toby Keith earns 3 nominations; Taylor Swift leads solo female nominations with 3, Grace Potter receives 3 noms for projects with Kenny Chesney; Lady Antebellum leads group nominations with 5, Eli Young Band earns 3 Continue reading →

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Kellie Pickler: Tough and True on “100 Proof”

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Editor

By Bob Doerschuk

© 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.

“I was born in the wrong generation,” said Kellie Pickler, looking through the windows at Sony Music Nashville’s offices toward somewhere far south of town. “I wish I would have been in the generation before Twitter and cell phones, when there was that mysteriousness about being an artist. I wish I could have been a part of that generation where you’d go to the Ryman and sing and then walk out the back door Continue reading →

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