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x Carnival Ride Carnival Ride cover
Carnival Ride is the second studio album from American country artist Carrie Underwood. It was released in the United States on October 23, 2007. It has been certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA. The album includes the #1 country singles "So Small", ...
x Troubadour GeorgeStraitTroubadour.jpg
Troubadour is the title of the 25th studio album by American country music singer George Strait. It was released on April 1, 2008 (see 2008 in country music) on MCA Nashville Records. The album comprises twelve tracks, including two duets. The lead...
x Back When I Knew It All Back When I Knew It All cover
Back When I Knew It All is the sixth studio album by the American country music duo Montgomery Gentry. It was released by Columbia Records Nashville on June 10, 2008 (see 2008 in country music). The album's title track, which is also its lead-off...
x That Lonesome Song That Lonesome Song cover
That Lonesome Song is the third studio album by American country music singer Jamey Johnson. Initially released to digital retailers in 2007 without the promotion of a record label, the album was physically released on August 5, 2008 (see 2008 in...
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Fearless is the second studio album by American country pop artist Taylor Alison Swift, and was released on November 11, 2008 on Big Machine Records. The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 592,304 copies in its first week...
x George Strait George strait 2005 cropped
George Harvey Strait (born May 18, 1952) is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend. He is known for his unique style of western swing music, bar...
x Brad Paisley Paisley performs with Alison Krauss in the successful video for "Whiskey Lullaby" from his album Mud on the Tires
Brad Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and country guitarist. His style crosses between traditional country and pop-rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop...
x Carrie Underwood carrie.jpg
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American country singer and songwriter from Checotah, Oklahoma. She rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol. She has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist,...
x Keith Urban Keith_Urban_2.jpg
Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967) is a New Zealand-born Australian country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban began his career in Brisbane having moved to...
x Kenny Chesney Kenny Chesney performing on May 11, 2007 at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music artist. Since 1993, Chesney has recorded 13 albums, 11 of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on...
x Sugarland Sugarland
Sugarland is a Grammy Award-winning American country music duo composed of singer–songwriters Jennifer Nettles (lead vocals) and Kristian Bush (background vocals, lead vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar, and harmonica). The duo was founded in 2003 by...
x Brooks & Dunn Deuceswild345
Brooks & Dunn are an American country music duo, consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn. Both Brooks and Dunn had worked as singer-songwriters before the duo's formation, charting singles of their own in the late 1980s. They are the most...
x Montgomery Gentry Something to Be Proud of
Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of vocalists Eddie Montgomery (brother of country singer John Michael Montgomery) and Troy Gentry. Both brothers and Gentry were originally members of a country band which had local success...
x Big & Rich Big Kenny (left), and John Rich (right)
Big & Rich is an American country music duo comprising singer-songwriters Big Kenny and John Rich, the latter of whom is a former member of Lonestar. Both members alternate as lead vocalists and play rhythm guitar. They first performed together in...
x Sarah Buxton sarah_buxton_the_bluebird_cafe.jpg
Sarah Buxton (born July 3, 1980, in Lawrence, Kansas) is an American country music artist, signed to the independent Lyric Street Records. She has charted four singles on the Billboard country charts: "Innocence" at #31, "That Kind of Day" at #26...
x Julianne Hough julianne-hough.jpg
Julianne Hough (born July 20, 1988) is an American professional ballroom dancer and country music singer. She is most widely known for being a two-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in...
x Ashton Shepherd AshtonShepherd_375.jpg
Ashton Delilah Shepherd (born August 16, 1986 in Coffeeville, Alabama) is an American country music singer-songwriter. She was first signed to Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA Nashville division in April 2007. Later that year, she released her...
x Jamey Johnson JameyJohnson
Jamey Johnson (born July 14, 1975, in Enterprise, Alabama) is an Academy of Country Music award-winning American country music artist. Signed to BNA Records in 2005, Johnson made his debut with his single "The Dollar", the title track to his 2006...
x Jake Owen Startin' With Me cover
Joshua Ryan "Jake" Owen (born August 28, 1981 in Vero Beach, Florida) is a Grammy-Award nominated American country music artist. Signed to RCA Records Nashville in 2005, Owen released his debut album Startin' with Me that year. This album produced...
x James Otto james_otto400x400.jpg
James Allen Otto (born July 29, 1973 at Fort Lewis in Washington) is an American country music artist who is a member of the MuzikMafia, a group of country musicians known for their "country music without prejudice". Otto began his career on Mercury...
x Toby Keith TobyKeith CampLeMonier
Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961), best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's...
x Little Big Town LittleBigTown
Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the same four members since its inception: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet. The quartet's musical style relies...
x Rascal Flatts Rascal Flatts in August 2005.
Rascal Flatts is an American country music band founded in Columbus, Ohio. Since its inception, Rascal Flatts has been composed of three members: Gary LeVox (lead vocals), Jay DeMarcus (bass guitar, keyboards, vocals), and Joe Don Rooney (lead...
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x Randy Rogers Band Randy-Rogers-Band.jpg
The Randy Rogers Band is an American country music group from the state of Texas. The band is composed of Randy Rogers (lead vocals), Geoffrey Hill (guitar), Jon Richardson (bass guitar), Brady Black (fiddle), and Les Lawless (drums). They have...
x Lady Antebellum ladyantebellum.jpg
Lady Antebellum is an American country music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. It is composed of Charles Kelley (lead and background vocals), Dave Haywood (background vocals, guitar, mandolin) and Hillary Scott (lead and background...
x Lee Ann Womack Lee Ann Womack head
Lee Ann Womack (born August 19, 1966, in Jacksonville, Texas, United States) is an American country music singer and songwriter, who is best-known for her old fashioned-styled country music songs that often discuss subjects such as cheating and lost...
x Miranda Lambert Miranda Lambert performing at Laughlin Air Force Base
Miranda Leigh Lambert (born November 10, 1983) is a Grammy Award nominated American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records. Lambert...
x Taylor Swift taylor_swift.jpg
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American country pop singer–songwriter, guitarist and actress. In 2008, her albums sold a combined four million copies, making her the best-selling musician of the year in the United States,...
x Heidi Newfield Heidi Newfield
Heidi Newfield (born October 4, 1970 in Healdsburg, California) is an American country music artist. She was lead singer, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the group Trick Pony, alongside Keith Burns and Ira Dean from 1996 until 2006, when...
x Zac Brown Band zac-brown-band1.jpg
The Zac Brown Band is a Grammy nominated and Academy of Country Music-award winning American country music band based in Atlanta, Georgia. The lineup consists of Zac Brown, (lead vocals, guitar), Jimmy De Martini (fiddle, vocals), John Driskell...
x Eli Young Band eli_young_band_1_500.jpg
The Eli Young Band is an American country music band based in Denton, Texas. The band is composed of Mike Eli (vocals, guitar), James Young (guitar), Jon Jones (bass guitar), and Chris Thompson (drums). The band released its self-titled debut album...
x Dolly Parton Dolly Parton in April 2005
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music. In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she...
x Garth Brooks GarthBrooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at #2 in the US country album chart while climbing to #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. Brooks's...
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Alabama is a Grammy Award-winning country music and southern rock band that originated in Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. In the late '60s, Randy Owen (lead vocals), and his cousin Teddy Gentry (bass guitar, background vocals) found they both...
x Willie Nelson Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular...
x Hank Williams, Jr. Hank Williams, Jr
Randall Hank Williams (born May 26, 1949), better known as Hank Williams, Jr., is an award-winning American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern Rock, blues, and traditional country. He is...
x Merle Haggard Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield Sound, which is characterized by the...
x Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1932) is an American country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and is revered as a country music cultural icon. Lynn ruled the charts...
x Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way cover
The Dixie Chicks are a country music group, currently comprising Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and lead singer Natalie Maines. The group has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States through August 2009, making them the best-selling female group...
x Reba McEntire Reba McEntire in 2005
Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955) is a Grammy award-winning American country music artist. She began her career in the music industry singing with her siblings on local radio shows and rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a...
x Kenny Rogers KennyRogers0042
Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. He has charted more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and...
x Freddie Hart freddiehartcd.jpg
Freddie Hart (born Frederick Segrest, December 21, 1926, Loachapoka, Alabama) is an American country musician and songwriter. He is best known for his hit song "Easy Loving," which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award two years...
x Barbara Mandrell Barbara Mandrell on the cover of her 1971 album Treat Him Right
Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25, 1948) is an American country music singer. She is best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows (1980-82) that helped her become one of country music's most successful female vocalists of the...
x Mac Davis Mac Davis
Morris Mac Davis, known as Mac Davis (born January 21, 1942), is a country music singer and songwriter originally from Lubbock, Texas who has enjoyed much pop music crossover success. He became one of the most successful country singers of the 1970s...
x Mickey Gilley Mickey Gilley from the cover of his "Super Hits" album.
Mickey Leroy Gilley (born March 9, 1936) is an American country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him...
x Roy Clark WIKI ROY CLARK
Roy Linwood Clark (born April 15, 1933) is a versatile American country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969–1992. Clark has been an iconic figure in country music...
x Shania Twain Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (pronounced /ʃəˈnaɪə ˈtweɪn/; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop artist. Her third album Come on Over is the best-selling album of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She...
x O Brother, Where Art Thou? O Brother, Where Art Thou? cover
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack of music from the 2000 American comedy film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman....
x Killin' Time Killin' Time
Killin' Time is the 1989 (see 1989 in music) debut album by swing-country singer-songwriter Clint Black. The album, buoyed by the chart-topping success of its first four singles, was a huge hit upon its release, and established Black as one of the...
x The Woman in Me The Woman in Me
The Woman in Me is the Grammy award-winning second studio album by Shania Twain, released in 1995. The album was certified 12× platinum, denoting shipments of 12 million albums in the United States and won as the Best Country Album of 1996. It has...
x Wide Open Spaces Wide Open Spaces
Wide Open Spaces is the Grammy-nominated fourth album by American country music band the Dixie Chicks, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). It was their first record with new lead vocalist Natalie Maines, and became their breakthrough commercial...
x Fly Fly
Fly is the fifth album by American country band Dixie Chicks, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). The album was very successful for the group receiving diamond status by the RIAA on June 25, 2002 in the USA, having shifted 10 million units. The...
x Trio Trio
Trio is the long-awaited collaboration album by three of the most successful American female singers of the 1960s and 1970's, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. The 1987 release was certified triple Platinum and also received several...
x A Lot About Livin' A Lot About Livin'
A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love) is Alan Jackson's third album, released in 1992 on Arista Records. This album produced the singles "Chattahoochee", "She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues)", "Tonight I Climbed the Wall", "(Who Says)...
x Some Hearts Some Hearts cover
Some Hearts is the debut album from fourth-season American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, released in the United States on November 15, 2005. It has been certified seven times platinum in the U.S. (RIAA) and three times platinum in Canada (CRIA). On...
x Okie from Muskogee Okie From Muskogee cover
Okie From Muskogee is an album by Merle Haggard and the Strangers, released in 1969. Haggard has stated that the title song on this album is somewhat of a satire. This album was recorded live in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Originally released in 1969 it was...
x Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell cover
Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell is a 1968 album by Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry. Gentry and Campbell's harmonies resulted in a gold record and three hit singles, including a cover of the Everly Brothers' hit "All I Have to Do Is Dream", which rose...
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x Carrying Your Love With Me Carrying Your Love with Me cover
Carrying Your Love With Me is the title of an album released in 1997 by American country music singer George Strait. It was released by MCA Nashville Records and it produced four singles for Strait on the Billboard country charts. "One Night at a...
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