Taste of Country

Back in March, restaurant goers filled Nashville hot-spot Roosters Texas Style BBQ and Steakhouse in downtown Nashville during the dinner hour, but they had an added bonus on their hands. While the packed house chowed down on brisket, pork, chicken, nachos and other BBQ favorites, television crews set up for the arrival of country duo LoCash Cowboys.

Taylor Swift beat out an A-list batch of superstars to take home the Country Artist of the Year award at tonight's Billboard Music Awards.

These performance pictures from the 2011 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., give a feel for the country scene during the annual event.

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 'Long Hot Summer.'

Lady Antebellum delivered a quality performance of their history-making new song 'Just a Kiss' on the Billboard Music Awards tonight.

Lady Antebellum's 'Need You Now' beat out fellow country music superstars The Band Perry and Taylor Swift, to name a few, for the 2011 Billboard Music Award for Country Song of the Year.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody who can count, Taylor Swift won the 'Billboard 200 Album Artist of the Year' award tonight at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards. Also not surprising: she looked really nice and smiled a lot while accepting the trophy.

In these red carpet pictures from the 2011 Billboard Music Awards, country fans can catch up with their favorite artists as they arrive at the celeb-studded event. The 2011 Billboard Awards are being held at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., and some of country's biggest stars are in attendance.

When it comes to music, Jerrod Niemann has no qualms about sharing what he is currently listening to. Niemann is not shy or embarrassed about the contents of his iPod because there are no such things as guilty pleasures for the singer.

Big and Rich are back on country radio with their first new release since their hiatus from music back in 2008. 'Fake I.D.' is a tune written by the duo about trying to track down a fake I.D., and the sooner the better.