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04/11/02
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YouHeardIt
www.CMT.com
Upgrades Site
During the weekend
of April 12-14, CMT.com visitors will not be able to access some areas of
our site. This is because we are in the process of upgrading in order to
bring you a better online experience. You should have full access to all
areas of www.CMT.com on Monday (April
15).
Fan Fair Tickets, Awards Voting
Fans from around the
world will flock to downtown Nashville for the 31st Annual Fan Fair, the
world's biggest country music festival, June 13-16. For Fan Fair tickets,
call 1-866-Fan-Fair
or purchase online at www.fanfair.com .
Also, www.CMT.com has information on
who is scheduled to appear, how you can meet your favorite daytime soap
stars and how you can buy tickets for the CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards
show. And be sure to visit
www.CMT.com to cast your vote for the
CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards beginning Tuesday (April 16).
http://www.cmt.com/cmt/news/flameworthy.tickets.031202.jhtml
Win a Trip to CMT
Flameworthy Awards and Fan Fair
www.CMT.com
wants to send you to Fan Fair. You can win a trip to Nashville, Tenn.,
including air, hotel and Fan Fair passes, along with tickets and a limo ride
to the CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards show. Vote for your favorite
videos on
CMT Most Wanted Live beginning Tuesday (April 16), then enter to win a trip
to
country music's biggest festival.
http://www.cmt.com/cmt/request/mwl.vote.jhtml
Kenny Chesney Stream-a-thon on CMT.com
www.CMT.com
is bringing you 72 hours of Kenny Chesney. Watch eight of Chesney's best
music videos in full-length, high-quality streaming video. Also, you can ask
Kenny a question in our "20 Questions" feature, check out photos of Kenny
with some of his fans and learn about a concert coming up on CMT. Join in
the fun starting Friday (April 12) at noon ET/PT through Monday (April 15)
at noon
ET/PT.
http://www.cmt.com/av/
What's Up on MWL
CMT Most
Wanted Live brings you video debuts and live performances from your
favorite artists. Here's what's happening this week: Thursday (April 11) -
Debut of
Kellie Coffey's
first video
"When You Lie
Next to Me."
Friday (April
12) - Debut of
Kasey Chambers'
video
"Not Pretty Enough"
and Dwight Yoakam calls in to talk about his role in the movie Panic Room.
Saturday (April 13) - The legendary Willie Nelson will stop by to perform,
and Katie will be backstage at the Grand Ole Opry.
http://www.cmt.com/cmt/request/mwl.jhtml
Nelson, LeDoux on Opry Live
Tune in to CMT's Grand Ole Opry Live for performances from country music
legends and today's hottest artists. Willie Nelson and Chris LeDoux take the
stage on Saturday (April 13).
http://www.cmt.com/cmt/shows/opry.live.jhtml
CMT's The Big 4-0!
CMT
features a five-part series on music video "firsts," including first videos,
image makeovers and the first time artists performed a duet together. Watch
all five episodes of CMT's The Big 4-0! back-to-back on Sunday (April 14)
beginning at 3 p.m. ET/PT. The episodes repeat Monday through Friday (April
15-19) at 2 p.m. ET/PT and 8 p.m. ET/PT.
http://www.cmt.com/cmt/event/big.4-0.jhtml
Calling All Fans: Survivor
If the
Survivor show had a country music challenge, which artists do you think
would be first to get kicked off the island? Who would win? See what the
fans had to say on CMT.com.
http://www.cmt.com/comm/callingfans/
McEntire Hosts ACM Awards
Reba
McEntire will host The 37th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards May 22 in
Los Angeles. McEntire will also host the awards show in 2003. Get the latest
ACM Awards news along with a list of nominees on CMT.com.
http://www.cmt.com/news/events/acm02.jhtml
Last Chance to Win
You still have time to win a trip to Suwannee River Country in Florida.
Three grand prize winners will see performances by Montgomery Gentry, Jo Dee
Messina, Charlie Daniels, Darryl Worley, Aaron Tippin and more. The Grand
Prize includes airfare, hotel, rental car, meals and gold VIP tickets to the
event. Vote for your favorite videos on CMT Most Wanted Live, then enter to
win.
http://www.cmt.com/cmt/request/mwl.vote.jhtml
04/10/02
courtesy of Country Music Association info@cmaworld.com
MORE OF COUNTRY
MUSIC'S HOTTEST STARS SIGN ON FOR FAN FAIR 2002!
Fan Fair 2002 has added
several of the industry's most exciting artists to its already star-studded
roster. Alabama, Bill
Anderson, David Ball, Tracy Byrd, Mark Chesnutt, Charlie Daniels, Deryl
Dodd, Eric Heatherly, Daniel Lee Martin, Jo Dee Messina, John Michael
Montgomery, Montgeomery Gentry, PinMonkey, Craig Morgan, Tim Rushlow, Sawyer
Brown, Tommy Shane Steiner, Doug Stone, Bryan White, Wild Horses and The
Wilkinsons join the
growing list of dynamic entertainers scheduled to appear during Fan Fair,
taking place in Downtown Nashville, Thursday through Sunday, June 13 - 16.
http://www.fanfair.com/2002/appearing/default.asp
TICKETS ARE GOING FAST!
Advance ticket sales for Fan Fair 2002 are going fast. All seats at Adelphia
Coliseum are reserved. For complete ticket information, please call
1-866-FAN-FAIR (326-3247) or check out
http://www.fanfair.com/2002/tickets/default.asp.
KNOW SOMEONE WHO MAY BE
INTERESTED IN FAN FAIR?
If you know someone who may be interested in Fan Fair, please feel free to
forward them this information and encourage them to sign up for our Fan Fair
e-news!
www.FanFair.com or call toll-free
1-866-FAN-FAIR for more information.
04/06/02
courtesy of Jake
mindymonline@yahoo.com from
MindyOnline@yahoogroups.com
The album Mindy McCready debuts at #29 on the Billboard Country Albums
Chart.
Jakee
04/09/02
courtesy of mlr6629@webtv.net
from
countryqueens@yahoogroups.com
Rhonda Lee Overseas Again
Rhonda Lee & RED
VELVET to tour overseas Nashville, TN Nashville
Recording artist Rhonda Lee and her band, RED VELVET will once again tour
overseas entertaining U.S. troops. The 43 day tour includes Hawaii, Guam,
Singapore, Diego Garcia, Micronesia, and Japan. The tour dates are April
17th through May 29th. The band just returned from a four month long
tour of South Korea where they performed 106 shows for US Army and Air Force
troops. Visit the redesigned website at:
www.rhondalee.net Rhonda Lee
Enterprises (615) 264-3611
04/04/02
courtesy of mlr6629@webtv.net
from
countryqueens@yahoogroups.com
Reba
Singer-turned actress Reba McEntire
will host the 37th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, a three-hour
special that will be broadcast live from the Universal Amphitheatre in L.A.
Previously announced performers on this year's broadcast include
Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Martina McBride,
Willie Nelson, George Strait and Lee Ann Womack.
McEntire, 46, is the most successful female artist in the country genre and
has sold more than 50 million records. This year, her
27th CD
and third greatest hits package: "Greatest Hits III -- I'm a
Survivor,"entered the country charts at number one. In 2001 she starred in
the Broadway production of Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun." Currently
she stars in her own comedy series on The WB, entitled "Reba." During
the broadcast, 13 awards honoring the past year's elite in country music
will be handed out. Presenters and other performers scheduled to appear on
the show will be announced shortly. Nominees and winners of the Academy of
Country Music Awards are selected by members of the Academy of Country
Music. The 37th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will be broadcast
live on Wednesday, May 22 from 8-11:00 p.m. on CBS
04/04/02
courtesy of mlr6629@webtv.net
from
countryqueens@yahoogroups.com
Dolly Parton STORY
BEHIND THE SONG
A lot of country
music hit songs have come from strange circumstances. Dolly Parton's
1978 hit, "Two
Doors Down" was
just such a song! Dolly says,
"I wrote "Two Doors Down"
because I was on a diet."
According to Dolly, "I
didn't get heavy until I started making enough money to get fat. And so I
did. I was eating everything I wanted and
plenty of it! By 1977 I had tried all those crazy diets and at the time I
was on a liquid protein diet. I had been on the diet for about a month. The
diet was working--I was losing weight but I was starving myself to death!"
"I was on the road and in my motel room. The band had gone out to eat but I
didn't go because I was trying to stay on the diet. So I stayed in the motel
room, drinking my liquid protein and feeling sorry for myself. And to get my
mind off of eating--I decided to write some songs." "The band was just
two doors down--eating and having a party. So that's where "Two Doors Down"
came from." Dolly
added, "I ordered
some black coffee to help keep me awake so I could keep on writing and I
also wrote "It's
All Wrong But It's All Right"
that same night.
The two songs were issued as a back to back single and entered the country
music charts March 18th, 1978 and became a two sided number one hit.
"Two Doors Down" also scored a # 19 hit on the pop music charts.
04/04/02
courtesy of mlr6629@webtv.net
from
countryqueens@yahoogroups.com
MARTY PARTY TOO HARDY?
Marty Stuart faces
drunk driving charges after being arrested early Tuesday in Hendersonville,
Tenn. www.CMT.com reports the singer
had been spotted in a store, intoxicated, and was sub- sequently pulled over
by police while behind the wheel of a 1989 Cadillac. He was charged with one
count of DUI and one count of violation of the implied consent law. Stuart,
43, has a court date April 23.
GARTH BROOKS TO BE HONORED BY SONGWRITERS
Garth Brooks
will be honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He'll be presented with the
Hitmaker Award at this year's induction ceremony June 13 at the Sheraton New
York Hotel & Towers, Allstar News reports. Others being honored this year
include Stevie Wonder, Barry Manilow, Michael
Jackson, Nicolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, recent Oscar winner Randy
Newman and Sting.
DOLLY PARTON, CLINT BLACK
Dolly Parton and
Clint Black will appear at upcoming benefit concerts in Minneapolis and
Pittsburgh, respectively. Parton will perform at a May17 event to benefit
the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund for victims of the Sept. 11 terror-
ist attacks, www.Billboard.com
reports. The event, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in
downtown Minneapolis, will also help establish the Families of Promise
fundraising effort formed to help low- and moderate-income families. Both
funds are administered by the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation. Black,
meanwhile, will headline the July 13 Dollar Bank Jamboree at Pittsburgh's
Bank State Park. The free concert is part of a day-long event that includes
the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania's annual Three Rivers Fishing
Classic as well as family-oriented games and activities. Last year's event
featured Phil Vassar and Wynonna. Past years have fea- tures such artists as
Sawyer Brown and John Michael Montgomery. |
