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Montgomery Gentry Tickets – Montgomery Gentry Honored With Acm Award Before Awards Show!

The 45th annual Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards aren’t until April 18, but Montgomery Gentry is already a winner. ACM Awards host Reba McEntire and Blake Shelton announced this year’s batch of nominees on CBS’ The Early Show on March 2, also revealing that Montgomery Gentry will be honored with the ACM/Home Depot Award this year.

The Boot reports that one-half of the duo, Eddie Montgomery, said of receiving the prestigious honor, “Thanks to everyone out there who has helped us to get where we are today. We just want to make sure we do our part in making the world a little better.”

Montgomery Gentry is following in the footsteps of country artists like LeAnn Rimes and Rascal Flatts, past recipients of the Humanitarian Award. Eddie Montgomery and bandmate Troy Gentry have donated their time and raised funds to support a myriad of causes, such as the U.S. military, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Hospice of the Bluegrass, Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee, Camp Horsin’ Around in Lexington, Ky., TJ Martell Foundation, Leukemia & Lymphoma Foundation, Multiple Myeloma Foundation and more.

The Academy of Country Music isn’t just recognizing Montgomery Gentry for the duo’s good deeds, however, as the group earned a nomination in the Top Vocal Duo of the Year category. Montgomery Gentry will compete against Brooks & Dunn, Joey + Rory, Steel Magnolia and Sugarland for the prize at the 45th annual awards show. The 2010 edition of the ACM Awards will be held at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 18.

The list of presenters and performers for the ACM Awards has yet to be announced, but CMT.com revealed on March 2 that Montgomery Gentry will host the ACM Chairman’s Ride as part of the festivities taking place during the week of the awards show. After hosting the invitation-only motorcycle ride, Montgomery Gentry and Randy Houser are slated to perform a free private show for those stationed at the Nellis Air Force Base outside of Sin City. Other events that week include free concerts by Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert.

Montgomery Gentry is currently finishing up the duo’s seventh studio album, Freedom, which will arrive via Columbia Nashville later this year. The lead single off Freedom, “Oughta Be More Songs about That,” arrived in November 2009 and debuted at No. 59 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Produced by Blake Chancey and recorded in the country music capital of Nashville, the album includes a track with the working title “Shotgun Wedding” as well as the patriotic track “Freedom Never Goes out of Style.”

While fans wait for Montgomery Gentry’s new album, they can pick up Montgomery Gentry tickets from StubHub.com. The duo has a few lone dates this spring before embarking on the Country Throwdown Tour with Jamey Johnson on May 14. The first foray into country music by Warped Tour producers 4fini Production, the Country Throwdown Tour will also feature performances by Little Big Town, Jack Ingram, the Eli Young Band, Eric Church, the Lost Trailers, Heidi Newfield, Emily West, Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses and Jonathan Singleton and the Grove. Montgomery Gentry and the rest of the country acts will stop in cities like West Palm Beach, Fla.; Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; Charlotte, N.C.; Saratoga Springs, N.Y. and more.

LeAnn’s 4th video. LeAnn is the original singer of this song not Trisha Yearwood. (read history below). Albums: You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs & Greatest Hits Writer: Diane Warren © 1997 Curb Records, Inc. History of How Do I Live: “How Do I Live” is a 1997 song, written by Diane Warren, that was released originally by LeAnn Rimes, and shortly afterward by Trisha Yearwood. The song was originally intended for release as a single for the 1997 action blockbuster Con Air soundtrack. Warren wrote the song for Rimes to sing. The producers felt that Rimes’s version had too much of a pop feeling to it, and requested that she re-record it to fit their standards. She refused, and the producers chose Trisha Yearwood to record the song. Her more country-style version was released on May 27, 1997 and appeared in the film. When Rimes heard of the release, she quickly released her version. Despite only peaking as high as number seven in the UK Singles Chart, LeAnn Rimes’ version of How Do I Live spent thirty-four weeks in the chart. It set a record for staying on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for sixty-nine weeks. The song entered the Top 25 US Country singles chart on June 21, 1997 and was still there in February 2003, a record 291 weeks (five and half years) later. How Do I Live was covered by FIR (Faye and Real featuring LeAnn Rimes). FIR invited Rimes to record a portion of the song for their third album Flight Tribe in 2006. The song has also been performed on the hit …
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The American rocking singer/songwriter Toby Keith and company honored

The American rocking singer/songwriter Toby Keith and company honored another Outlaw legend by sliding into Willie Nelson’s nocturnal standard “Night Life”, then geared up for some get-down on a gutbucket-funk edition of “Harper Valley PTA.” As they worked the crowd up into a roiling, R&B frenzy, it began to seem like a door had opened into an alternating world where the legendary icon Keith was the leader of the greatest bar band in the world and he seemed to echo the idea. “How about that for one rehearsal?” he shouted after the song’s explosive ending. Oklahoma rocking music star Toby Keith, who lost almost all of his touring equipment in the recent Tennessee floods, has signed up to perform at Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s Nashville Rising concert, which will help raise funds for victims of the storm. The country couple will stage the benefit concert Tuesday at the Bridgestone Arena. The rocking star Keith joins a line-up of stunning artists that includes fellow Oklahoma stars Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton and Brooks & Dunn (which includes former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn), along with Billy Ray Cyrus, ZZ Top, LeAnn Rimes, Amy Grant, Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean, Martina McBride, Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus. The profits from the concert will benefit flood relief efforts. Country music star Toby Keith will celebrate Independence Day with the Boston Pops. On Wednesday Liberty Mutual, the event’s sponsor, announced that Toby Keith will join conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for the annual Fourth of July concert and fireworks show on the banks of the Charles River. The 40-year old singer-songwriter’s hits include “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” “You Shouldn’t Kiss Me Like This,” and “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue.” Keith’s latest album, “American Ride,” was released last year by Show Dog Nashville. On June 19th The rocking star prepares to launch his summer concert tour Saturday in Holmdel, N.J., Toby Keith knows it’s significant for Nashville to host the CMT Awards again on Wednesday June 9 night. given the recent flooding that ravaged the country-music capital. Keith also applauds the people of Nashville for the way they have rebounded from flooding. The great country music Toby Keith will play the St. Augustine Amphitheatre on Labor Day weekend. He also announced the Sunday, Sept. 5 concert. The concert is part of Keith’s American Ride tour in support of his album by the same name released last October. Toby Keith has last appeared on the First Coast a year ago when his America’s Toughest Tour stopped at nearly sold-out Veterans Memorial Arena. ‘Trailerhood’ is the first single from country music superstar Keith’s upcoming album of the same name. The new record will follow the 2009 album ‘American Ride’ and is expected to be released sometime this fall. Recently the Toby is out making a bunch of new friends on a tour that will take him all across America before the end of summer. Get your Cheap Toby Keith Tickets