Author: Cindy Watts, Nashville Tennessean

Alabama’s 50th Anniversary Tour will launch in January in Michigan. More tour dates will be announced.

The Journey Home Project donated $50,000 to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville.

“It’s what you do for friends,” said the Oak Ridge Boys’ Duane Allen, whose group made a promise to the late president long before his death that they would perform at his Texas funeral.

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Kid Rock, Gretchen Wilson, Tanya Tucker and more co-star in the new video for Bill Anderson’s ‘Waffle House Christmas.’

“Dolly & Friends: Making of a Soundtrack” will premiere Nov. 29 on CMT. The soundtrack will be available Nov. 30.

Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol will have its world premiere at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, Minn., this weekend.

Roy Clark passed away on Thursday of pneumonia. He was 85. Brad Paisley said he owes it all to the “Hee Haw” host.

Keith Urban won his second Entertainer of the Year Award on Wednesday night at the 52nd CMA Awards, 13 years after he picked up his first trophy in the show’s most prestigious category.

Kane Brown’s a new album, “Experiment,” is out Friday, and his road to success was his dream true — and his ticket out.

Dolly Parton’s new song “19th Amendment” is available now.