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		<title>The Band Perry Gets Stolen Bicycle Replaced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When some unkind person or persons in Edmonton stole a bicycle from the Band Perry&#8216;s Neil Perry earlier in the week, other city residents were quick to act, giving the youngest Perry a replacement bike so he could enjoy his free moments on the band&#8217;s current tour. Neil Perry&#8217;s bike was apparently stolen in the town, presumably while the band were there for their Monday (September 21) show with Keith [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taylor Swift Performs Rare &#039;Speak Now&#039; Track &#039;Superman&#039; in Concert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift performed &#8216;Superman,&#8217; a rare track from the deluxe edition of her current album &#8216;Speak Now,&#8217; for the very first time in concert last night (September 24) in Kansas City, Mo. during a special solo acoustic segment. &#8220;This is the part of the show where I have an acoustic guitar, and I can kinda do whatever I want with it,&#8221; Swift announced while strumming, before setting the crowd off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrie Underwood Shows Off New Hair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carrie Underwood showed off a brand-new haircut this weekend at the IHeartradio Music Festival, adding bangs and layers and apparently trimming a bit of length all around from her previous look. She looks great, right? Then again, she looked beautiful before too, and we&#8217;re pretty sure you agree with us when it comes to complimenting her taste. After all, it was just a couple of months ago when Taste of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/carrie-underwood-new-hair/</link>
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		<title>Taylor Swift 2011 Teen Choice Awards Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taylor Swift was about the only country star making the scene at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards, despite the fact that a number of her peers were also nominated for awards at Fox&#8217;s nationally televised event. Hm, maybe that amazing work ethic is one more reason why she&#8217;s on top of the competition? As you can imagine, Swift provided more than enough glamour and star power for the whole night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/taylor-swift-2011-teen-choice-awards-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Ween Producer Ben Vaughn Details the Making of &#039;12 Golden Country Greats&#039;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the adventurous things the rock band known as Ween has done over their career, recording a straight-up country album with legendary Nashville session musicians was probably the most surprising. Their fans were already used to albums filled with a variety of eclectic stylistic changes, but staying in one genre for an entire record and abandoning their previous DIY recording methods was a big change even some Ween fans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/ween-12-golden-country-greats-interview-ben-vaughn/</link>
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		<title>Jeff Jenkins Lets &#039;Jesus Take the Wheel&#039; in Emotional Performance on &#039;The Voice&#039;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Country music&#8217;s teddy-bear sweetheart with &#8216;The Voice,&#8217; Jeff Jenkins, delivered a typically emotional reading of Carrie Underwood&#8216;s &#8216;Jesus Take the Wheel&#8217; on tonight&#8217;s episode of the TV singing competition. Without the help of people swinging flaming balls on chains, or any of the tricks the other competitors employed, Jenkins simply stayed in one place and sang the song &#8230; pretty well. We thought he was a bit screechy on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/jeff-jenkins-carrie-underwood-jesus-take-the-wheel-the-voice/</link>
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		<title>Chuck Wicks Tells WYRK About Bagging a 700-Pound Alligator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think Chuck Wicks is nervous about sharing the stage with Josh Turner and other country stars in front of 20,000 screaming music fans at Buffalo, N.Y.&#8217;s WYRK Taste of Country concert tonight, June 3, well, let&#8217;s just say he&#8217;s slayed bigger dragons this week. And we mean that almost literally, because Wicks shot and felled a 700-pound alligator just two days ago. Wicks told the full story to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/chuck-wicks-700-pound-alligator/</link>
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		<title>Josh Thompson Brings a Custom-Made Walnut Guitar to Tonight&#039;s Taste of Country Concert in Buffalo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the sound of his interview with WYRK DJ John LaMond, Josh Thompson is more than ready to share the stage with Josh Turner and the other country stars at the Buffalo, N.Y. station&#8217;s Taste of Country concert tonight, June 3. In fact, he&#8217;s got a special custom-made guitar that he seems pretty excited to show off at the event. &#8220;I love Gibson, but I&#8217;ve recently got hooked up with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/josh-thompson-taste-of-country-buffalo/</link>
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		<title>Josh Turner Ready for Basketball Rematch with Chris Young at WYRK&#039;s Taste of Country Concert Tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Josh Turner took a break from preparing to headline tonight&#8217;s Taste of Country concert in Buffalo, N.Y. this afternoon to speak to WYRK&#8216;s John LaMond about his plans for the evening (June 3), which he says will include an off-stage basketball rematch with Chris Young. Turns out that last year, Turner and Young were both out on the road with Alan Jackson. &#8220;I got to know Chris real well,&#8221; Josh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/josh-turner-taste-of-country-concert/</link>
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		<title>Scotty McCreery Wins &#039;American Idol&#039; Season 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scotty McCreery received more votes than Lauren Alaina and was crowned the winner of Season 10 of &#8216;American Idol.&#8217;  The young country singer remained impressively composed and humble after the announcement. He was also extremely gracious to his final competitor, Alaina.  McCreery told host Ryan Seacrest immediately after winning the award, &#8220;It&#8217;s been a year since Lauren and I tried out. Me and her have been together and we&#8217;re gonna [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/scotty-mccreery-wins-american-idol-season-10/</link>
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		<title>Lauren Alaina Goes Toe-to-Toe With Carrie Underwood in &#039;American Idol&#039; Duet of &#039;Before He Cheats&#039;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lauren Alaina more than held her own with returning &#8216;American Idol&#8216; champion Carrie Underwood, during a duet of the latter&#8217;s 2006 smash &#8216;Before He Cheats.&#8217;  As opposed to the other vocal performances of the night, which each got big introductions, the performance started right out of a commercial. It was a dramatic move that ensured that all eyes were on her, and all ears were evaluating her vocal abilities without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/carrie-underwood-lauren-alaina-american-idol-before-he-cheats/</link>
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		<title>Tim McGraw Joins Scotty McCreery to Sing &#039;Live Like You Were Dying&#039; on &#039;American Idol&#039; Finale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Country legend Tim McGraw joined Scotty McCreery to sing an extremely strong duet version of McGraw&#8217;s 2004 hit &#8216;Live Like You Were Dying&#8217; on &#8216;American Idol&#8221;s final episode tonight. A single spotlight illuminated McGraw and his ubiquitous black cowboy hat from above as he stood still and delivered the track&#8217;s opening vocals in his rich, powerful voice. Even if he doesn&#8217;t win tonight, McCreery proved he can stand alongside country [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/tim-mcgraw-scotty-mccreery-live-like-you-were-dying-american-idol/</link>
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		<title>Sara Evans Performs &#039;A Little Bit Stronger&#039; on &#039;Dancing with the Stars&#039; Finale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sara Evans returned to &#8216;Dancing with the Stars&#8217; tonight and delivered a stirring performance of a very appropriate song, &#8216;A Little Bit Stronger,&#8217; just before the season&#8217;s celebrity dancing winner was announced on the finale. Evans, who appeared as a contestant on &#8216;DWTS&#8217; in 2006 before family trouble forced her to withdraw early, seemed happy to be re-visiting her old stomping ground, and the track&#8217;s message of overcoming obstacles rang [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/sara-evans-dancing-with-the-stars-finale-a-little-bit-stronger/</link>
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		<title>Keith Urban Plays &#039;Long Hot Summer&#039; at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keith Urban gave one of the best, and least gimmicky, performances of the night at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards with a straight-ahead reading of his recent song &#8216;Long Hot Summer.&#8217; Without guest stars, electrified dresses, explosions or any trace of the choreography that&#8217;s overloaded some of the pop music appearances across this star-studded night, Urban and his band simply stood in front of some bright lights and played a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/keith-urban-plays-long-hot-summer-at-the-2011-billboard-music-awards/</link>
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		<title>Taylor Swift Wins Billboard 200 Album Artist of the Year Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the surprise of absolutely nobody who can count, Taylor Swift won the &#8216;Billboard 200 Album Artist of the Year&#8217; award tonight at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards. Also not surprising: she looked really nice and smiled a lot while accepting the trophy. Considering that &#8216;Speak Now&#8217; has sold over three million copies, including over one million in the first week, and that this award is based strictly on sales, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/taylor-swift-billboard-200-album-artist-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>Lady Antebellum, &#039;Just a Kiss&#039; &#8211; Song Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lady Antebellum&#8216;s new single &#8216;Just a Kiss,&#8217; the first taste of their upcoming third studio album, finds the band playing it safe both romantically and musically. It follows the trio&#8217;s world-conquering 2010 album &#8216;Need You Now.&#8217; For a song that finds singers Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott supposedly &#8220;caught up in the moment&#8221; of exciting new romance, the song seems awfully serious and dour. From stately opening piano chords that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/lady-antebellum-just-a-kiss/</link>
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		<title>Martina McBride to Release New Album on August 23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martina McBride will release her new album on August 23, 2011. The singer informed fans of the release date for her so-far untitled 11th studio effort during a special live streaming video chat on Thursday afternoon. &#8220;August 23 is the magic day,&#8221; McBride announced excitedly, and then went on to explain why she&#8217;s so pleased with the record. &#8220;I think it shows a few different sides of me. I wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/martina-mcbride-new-album-august-23-2011/</link>
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		<title>Kenny Chesney&#039;s Tour Outsells Lady Gaga&#039;s This Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenny Chesney topped all comers, including headline-grabbing pop star Lady Gaga, when it came to selling concert tickets this week, according to a report from Billboard. The country star packed over 46,000 people into Arlington, Texas&#8217; Cowboy Stadium to help earn this honor. The &#8216;Live a Little&#8216; singer grossed over $6.5 million between that show and three others he played in Portland, Maine; Uncasville, Conn. and Witchita, Kansas during the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/kenny-chesney-tour-lady-gaga/</link>
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		<title>2011 &#039;American Idol&#039; Tour Dates Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scotty McCreery and the rest of the &#8216;American Idol&#8216; finalists have announced when they will hit the road for the television show&#8217;s annual nationwide tour. The country singer and his more pop-oriented competitors will play their first show on July 6 in West Valley City, Utah. Tickets for the tour go on sale at 10AM ET on May 13. All told, the 11 singers will play 42 shows across the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/2011-american-idol-tour-dates-announced/</link>
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		<title>2011 CMT Music Awards Nominees Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason Aldean received four nominations for the 2011 CMT Music Awards today, leading a star-studded field that also included multiple nods for Miranda Lambert, Kenny Chesney and many others.  The categories and nominees were announced this morning on NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Today&#8217; show. Aldean&#8217;s up for Video of the Year, Male Video of the Year, Best Web Video of the Year (a new category) and Collaborative Video of the Year for his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tasteofcountry.com/20110-cmt-music-awards-nominees/</link>
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