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When Heidi Newfield recently hit the Top 10 with her debut single "Johnny & June," she became just the fourth female artist to get inside the Top 10 of country radio's hits.  Just 10 years ago, 15 female artists had scored Top 10 hits.  What does this mean for country?

After achieving success as a southwestern band, Denton, TX.'s Eli Young Band has made the move to the national scene.  With their album "Jet Black & Jealous" recently released, the band was honored to be chosen by Yahoo! Music as a hot "Who's Next" band.

For his latest release, Kenny had decided to get introspective and as a result he's released an intimate, mostly personal album.  It's not "Old Blue Chair 2" but this is definitely not a 'driving' album.

While the song lyric is very important to country music, if the voice singing the words doesn't have at least an interesting voice, then what's the point?  Without a good voice/lyrics, a song is just music.

He became one of the 90's biggest stars by ably singing passionate love songs.  Now on his own label, John Michael Montgomery returns to the charts after a four year absense with this release. 

Richie Fields is but another in a long line of country artists who have come out in the past few years. While mainstream radio has turned away from the kind of vocalist that Richie is -think Conway Twitty-there should be a place for artists like him somewhere.

While Gone Country 2 featured a batch of better songs than the first cycle of the CMT reality show, the winners were always going to find a tough audience with country music.  Will Sebastian Bach receive a better reception from fans than Julio Iglesias, Jr? Or will they quickly for

Vanguard/Sugar Hill Records artist Joey+Rory will have the free single of the week for iTunes from October 14-21.  The free song is their rising hit single "Cheater Cheater," the debut single from their "The Life Of A Song" album.

After a successful relaunch of their career at indie Equity Records, Little Big Town moved to major label Capitol Records to re-issue this album.  Featuring the singles "Fine Line" and "With The Band," does the album continue their positive momentum?