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Adam Ballard Goes Hank Williams Jr. Style

Is Adam Ballard not the coolest fullback ever? After telling you about the Navy fullback's love for country music last month, I stumbled across an actual performance of his (cowboy hat and all) while browsing around the NBC website. To watch Adam give his rendition of the Hank Williams Jr. classic "Family Tradition"...

Adam Ballard Likes Country Music (and Football)

Adam Ballard is so much more then just a big, bruising fullback who routinely knocks defenders on their backs. In fact, according to the Baltimore Sun, Adam Ballard is a big, bruising fullback who wants to grow up to be a country music singer. Gee, I thought I was the only one. In all seriousness, this is pretty much...

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Doc Watson Dead: Folk Legend and Guitar Pioneer Dies at 89

Doc Watson , the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world, died Tuesday at a North Carolina hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager.

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Lorrie Morgan, Pam Tillis Duets Album in the Works

Two of country music's most legendary ladies are teaming up for a duets album.

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Taylor Swift Speak Now Tour Exhibit to Open at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Taylor Swift 's globe-trotting, record-breaking Speak Now tour played to more than 1.5 million fans, with 111 shows in 19 countries spanning four continents.

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WATCH: Merle Haggard On Why He's Still Touring At 75

"That's what I'm for, that's what I do," Merle Haggard, "poet of the common man," said about the music that has catapulted him to stardom.

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Carrie Underwood and Ottawa Hockey Fans Make Nice

Country sweetheart and converted hockey fan Carrie Underwood thought she understood the passion of the sport's most avid followers, but nothing could have prepared her for the backlash she faced when her husband, NHL player Mike Fisher , was traded to the Nashville Predators in February of 2011.

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05/30/12 Bluegrass Legend Doc Watson Has Died Source: Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine Hugely influential folk and bluegrass guitarist Doc Watson died on Tuesday in North Carolina at age 89; he had recently undergone abdominal surgery.
05/30/12 âMillion Dollar Quartet' scrapes the marrow of early... Source: The Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City UT Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music.
05/30/12 Guitar Legend Doc Watson Dies At N.C. Hospital,... Source: NBC - WLWT - Channel 5 - Cincinnati OH Doc Watson, the bluegrass music legend from Appalachia who was renowned for his flatpicking and fingerstyle technique on the acoustic guitar, died Tuesday at a hospital in North Carolina, according to Mary Katherine Aldin of Folklore Productions, which represented the singer.
05/30/12 Watson leaves notes strung through music history Source: La Verne Community Newspaper - La Verne CA Fred Vultee is an assistant professor of journalism at Wayne State University who began playing bluegrass music as a student at the University of North Carolina in the 1970s and still has photos from the first time he saw Doc Watson.
05/30/12 Martin delivers serious bluegrass, funny introductions Source: Erie Times-News - Erie PA Steve Martin laughs at the surprising twist his career has taken in the past five years.