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Sam Bush stands center stage at Nashville's most elegant concert hall, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, leading the biggest band of his life.

If you need something more to be thankful for today, maybe this will do: two very different but very beloved artists will be releasing new albums in 2010.

Rock legend John Fogerty is back with a new album, consisting mostly of country music chestnuts from the past fifty years.

Emmylou Harris was a silver-haired spirit of the Earth, like watching a mysterious, snow-covered mountaintop in the distance.

I don't follow mainstream country, so I have no idea what's happening in Nashville.

Jim Lauderdale recently hosted the Americana Music Awards ceremony in Nashville with his pal, Buddy Miller.

The few hundred people that made the effort to show up early Saturday to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9 festival in Golden Gate Park were rewarded lavishly.

The Brilliant Mistakes , the New York City-based band lauded for "restlessy catchy hooks, a clever turn of phrase and frothy, piano-driven pop with heart, soul and smarts" are back with 'Distant Drumming', their new album released on the band's own Aunt Mimi's Records.

Country Singles Jubilee 9.28.09: The Who's That Lady Edition Posted by Jasper Jones on 09.28.2009 It's the ladies turn! This week's Jubilee covers five female country singers flying under the radar of mainstream country radio.

Kristi Rose is a singer with a voice like Wanda Jackson and Patti Smith. Instrumentalist Fats Kaplin has performed with artists as diverse as the Tractors, the Manhattan Transfer, Pure Prairie League, Emmy Lou Harris, Nanci Griffith, the Mavericks, Suzy Boggus, Elvis Costello, the Judds, Buddy Miller, Jason Ringenberg and in his own Americana ...

All things music from the Tennessean.com entertainment staff. CLICK THIS IMAGE to see photos of the eighth annual Americana Honors and Awards ceremony at the Ryman Auditorium.

Polished and pristine coal mining equipment, state-of-the-art coal industry innovations and thousands of "coal people" jammed the National Guard Armory/Civic Center complex Wednesday morning for the start of the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce's 2009 Bluefield Coal Show.

Buddy Miller won four awards and veteran John Fogerty received a special honor Thursday night at the eighth annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show.

John Fogerty and band. See the slideshow for more photos . We came to Mercy Lounge for last night's not-so-secret John Fogerty appearance at the AMA Festival expecting a mere 45-minute set of country covers and maybe a classic or two.

Thirty-six years after leaving Creedence Clearwater Revival for a solo romp under the Blue Ridge Rangers guise, Fogerty revisits similar landscape with even better results.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 6-12: Sept. 6: Comedian JoAnne Worley is 72.

John Fogerty , 'The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again' *** After Creedence Clearwater Revival broke up, John Fogerty adopted another band name - the Blue Ridge Rangers - for a 1973 solo album of country and gospel covers.

Moorer once regularly enlivened local stages with deep-Alabama country soul while creating several of the best Music Row albums released just before and after the turn of the century.

N., Seattle; $36 . Concert Review The term "hootenanny" was put out to pasture long ago, but the four musicians who beguiled a meadow full of listeners at Woodland Park Zoo Wednesday night may want to revive it.

In the beginning, there was Emmylou Harris. The legendary singer has been a friend, mentor, confidante, supporter and more nouns than can fit in a sentence to a generation of musicians since she first gained fame with Gram Parsons in the early 1970s.