Garth Brooks News

When the rest of the world paused last year to commemorate “the Day the Music Died,” the name given to the date of February 3, 1959, when an Iowa plane crash claimed the lives of rock pioneer Buddy Holly and his tour mates, the man probably most responsible for burning that phrase into the popular [...]

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Keenan is the program coordinator for the Des Moines Neighborhood Resource Office.

Isaac Phillips always wanted to be a farmer. But when he revealed his plans to some friends and colleagues at the Utah jail where he supervised inmate work crews, they said: a) don’t give up a steady job, b) you’re making a big mistake, and even c) you’re crazy.

HOT DISH: Garth Brooks Receives Leadership Music AwardCMT.com"This is the best one of these I've ever been to,"said Trisha Yearwood, who is still called Miss Yearwood by her husband, Garth Brooks. …

Admit it. You think you’ve got the best story. Even as you nod along while heartbroken friends recount their latest tale of lost love, you just know you have them beat. We’ve all heard the basic plotlines. There are garden-variety cheaters, lovers who go poof in the night, credit-ruiners, narcissists and jerks.

Back in 1856, Memphis was a one-fair town. It hosted the inaugural Shelby County Fair, which drew 6,000 people, half the city’s population at the time.

Writers share their pain in tales of lost love and nasty breakups.

Country music star Travis Tritt and his friend Jerry Douglas will make a rare appearance together to open the final weekend of the Festival, a summertime mid-Atlantic region tradition.

Despite the clouds which turned into rain, almost 17,000 fans turned out to see the country singer