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Carrie Underwood salutes her “awesome” mother, who was also her school teacher, in this clip from last night’s (Aug. 17) ‘Teacher’s Rock’ special on CBS.

It’s a busy month for new country music releases in September 2012, with no less than 10 albums from major country music stars hitting the shelves. While few are using the day after Labor Day to release new music, Sept. 11 is literally packed with new music. Little Big Town, Kix Brooks and Aaron Lewis are just three of the artists with new albums out that day.

Jerrod Niemann is helping his fans gear up for the release of his highly anticipated sophomore album. “Free the Music’ is set to hit stores in less than two months — October 2 — and this week, the singer revealed the album’s sexy cover and the track listing for the 12-song project.

After seven days of voting, Brantley Gilbert‘s fans proved what the singer already knew: His supporters are the most passionate in all of country music. The BG Nation took over 35 percent of reader votes in a week-long readers poll, easily topping second and third place finishers Taylor Swift‘s Swifties and Scotty McCreery‘s McCreerians.

Taylor Swift is asking fans to ‘Speak Now’ on August 13, with the singer taking to her official YouTube channel to talk directly with her legion of loyal followers in real-time for the unique fan interaction. And, she’s got some news to share.

August is a good month to pick up new music by “new” artists.  Colt Ford isn’t really new, but to some mainstream/casual listening country fans, he sure is.  Colt is not your typical country artist…he has a lil urban flare, let’s say.  Colt’s new album dropped Tuesday-“Declaration Of Independence.”  Other artists that have new music in August include…

Rumors have already been swirling regarding Brad Paisley and a possible position as a judge on "American Idol."  Now, "Country Vibe" is reporting that Paisley will

American Idol fans are still trying to figure out who will be sitting alongside the $18 million a year Mariah Carey on the judges panel.  So far, we've heard names like Aretha Franklin, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Adam Lambert etc..etc..  One big name country artist who reportedly rejected the offer is

JT Hodges is going a million miles a minute these days, between writing songs, living on the road and preparing for the release of his debut self-titled album. To help take a load off his shoulders, Hodges has turned to his fans for a little bit of help in picking the third single that he will release around the same time that the album drops on August 21.

Blake Shelton, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift and the Eli Young Band are just a few of the country artists nominated for this year's Teen Choice Awards. Blake finds himself in the same category as Justin Bieber for "Choice male artist."  The show airs next Sunday, July 22, on FOX.

Monday was a good day for a bunch of country music fans that work here at WYRK. New music rolled in … Zac Brown Band’s Uncaged (see Brett Alan’s post) and also the new radio single from Tim McGraw called, “Truck Yeah.” Let me tell you, Tim is ready to go for this summer. There are two songs that have been getting great reaction at some of his latest shows and those are “Mexicoma” and “Truck Yeah.”

Hot country newcomer Dustin Lynch has revealed the cover art and song titles for his self-titled debut album, which is due August 21 from Broken Bow Records.