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Grammy Award winner Linda Ronstadt, best known for her pop and rock hits in the '70s and '80s, also turned out several hit country singles and one unforgettable country album before announcing the end of her career this week. The 67-year-old has Parkinson's disease.

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Ash Bowers is the perfect voice for his new single 'Shake It Off.' The Tennessee native sings with true grit. His working class upbringing comes through on this song about "shaking off" troubles holding you down.

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Trisha Yearwood says she and Garth Brooks have plans to begin work on an album that's been talked about for almost as long as they've been married. In addition to that, the singer and her husband have plans for a joint tour.

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Fans love Kelly Clarkson's new 'Tie It Up' video, but do they love it enough to make it the No. 1 video on the Taste of Country Top 10 Video Countdown? The clip competed with over 30 other hot music videos for a spot atop the weekly countdown. Check out the latest poll before choosing your favorites for next week.

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Hunter Hayes' duet with Jason Mraz is his fifth single release from his self-titled debut album and its repackaging. But 'Everybody's Got Somebody But Me' still manages to show something new to those who haven't bought it. It's a change of pace from the heavy ballads and the more intense country-rocker 'I Want Crazy.' This is the most fun he's been since 'Storm Warning.'

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Luke Bryan joins a small group of country artists who've watched their new albums go Gold in the first week of sales. Actually, he joins just one other artist who has done it in the last five years.

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Get ready for the year's biggest album releases. September typically begins the busy season when it comes to new country music releases, as artists want to have a new album on fans' minds come the Christmas shopping season. Keith Urban, Chris Young and Justin Moore are just three of the stars with new releases to look forward to. 

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Morgan Frazier's new single 'Hey Bully' is a neat and tidy soundtrack for an anti-bullying PSA. The singer shares a story she seems intimately familiar with, but the scattered lyrics don't quite latch on as tightly as one hopes.

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Chris Young's leg infection could have triggered something much more serious had doctors not intervened. The singer was treated in Denver last week after falling ill during a flight. Doctors performed emergency surgery to remove the infection after he began to go into septic shock.

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Warning: Not for the squeamish! Jake Owen has shared a picture of his recently-severed finger.

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In addition to recording hit songs like 'It Goes Like This,' Thomas Rhett is a talented and successful songwriter. His successes include Jason Aldean's '1994,' Lee Brice's 'Parking Lot Party' and one other song that caused some minor marital discord when he let another artist cut it.

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Jason Michael Carroll pulls back the production to reveal a new sensitivity in his single 'Close Enough.' The singer has a unique way of taking a phrase and turning, twisting and shaping it to mean several different things within a three-minute song. It's a talent that's on display once again during this regret-filled ballad.

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