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Lee Ann scrapped a whole album's worth of material in favor of of the stuff on "Call Me Crazy." Did she make a wise decision or should we really call her crazy?  The album artwork may point to the latter more than the former.

Casey Rivers first came to national attention as a contestant on the third season of Nashville Star.  While he didn't win the show, Rivers kept working towards his career and now has self-released his eponymous debut.

"She Never Cried In Front Of Me," Toby Keith's first single from "That Don't Make Me A Bad Guy," recently hit #1; just as the album is about to drop. Toby's back at radio and video outlets with his second single from the album in the form of the uptempo rocker "God Love Her."

After their last single, "American Radio" failed to do much of anything on the charts, Equity Records trio Carolina Rain is back with an upbeat, pop-country single.  It's a 'message song' but does the message get lost in the delivery? 

With 3 successful singles under his belt, Jason Michael Carroll he debut single from his upcoming 2009 release.  "Where I'M From" is another in a long line of 'from the country and I love it' songs.  While His voice is good, is it enough for the song to rise past similar songs?

For their 2nd Mercury Records album, Randy Rogers Band has teamed up with Radney Foster once again to create a sonically diverse country-rock record. Does that diversity make for an interesting album?

It's that time of the week again, it's time for the Soundscan chart numbers.  With 176,414 copies sold, Kenny Chesney's "Lucky Old Sun" Landed on top. Meanwhie, John Michael Montgomery's return netted him the less-than stellar place of 172 with "Time Flies.

Country artist and "Dancing With Stars" contestant Julianne Hough was hospitalized last night (10/21) in Los Angeles for stomach pains after the DWTS results show on ABC.

Crystal Shawanda returns to the charts with her second single.  It follows up her Top 20 hit "You Can Let Go." It was chosen as iTunes Discovery Download single for the week of October 20-26, 2008.  Does the bluesy single have enough to stack up against the ballads now on radio?