country news round-up

This week featured news about the 44th CMA Awards nominees (Miranda Lambert lead all nominees with 9), Little Big Town's big debut on the albums chart, Joey+Rory's upcoming tour with an icon and Brooks & Dunn's final concert in Nashville.

Here's our first post in what will be a Friday Feature here at Roughstock.  We'll collect the biggest news stories of the week and showcase them here.  This week we learned some more news about Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift, Gene Watson, Dale Watson and More.