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Let the backlash begin. As Taylor Swift enjoys the fruits of her hard work, some people in the country music community aren't so thrilled to see the 19-year-old take home the award. Some, like Wynonna Judd weren't afraid to speak their mind about it.

Well folks, here you have it.  The final two categories to predict before tonight’s CMA Awards telecast (ABC TV 8pm E/W). We’ve saved what are usually the two most ‘important’ categories, Album of the Year and Entertainer of the Year.

Check out the latest releases from country music stars like Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, Taylor Swift, Joe Nichols and  along with albums from newcomers Luke Bryan, Derek Sholl and Bomshel.  These reviews now include listening parties for each of the albums!

Carrie Underwood is this week's chart queen as her third album Play On debuts on the top spot of the charts. Meanwhile, the rest of the chart told a story of remarkable sales growth for other country artists.

While Derek Sholl is new to a national audience, he has worked hard to master his craft by touring around the southwest, particularly in Texas where he's scored a few local chart hits.  This is his first nationally distributed album.

Country music has long had a fondness and awareness of history and for his latest Album, Steve Wariner pays tribute to a country music pioneer, his mentor and Gretsch 6120-playing Chet Atkins.

Here is our fourth of five installments of predictions for the 43rd CMA Awards show that will be broadcast Wednesday, November 11, 2009 on ABC TV.  These two categories may just be the hardest categories to predict as each song nominated is worthy of the nod.

Country superstar Keith Urban, who is up for a handful of CMA awards, was recently accused by an investigative report by Nashville's News Channel 5, of participating in a ticket broker 'ring' with Ticketmaster's "Ticketsnow" resale service...Is it true?

Amazon.com has recently put forth a holiday offer where anybody can get $3.00 free to try out their mp3 download service.  Anyone in the United States is eligible to be part of this promotion.  Might we suggest you download your favorite country star's latest song?