Birthdays
Tuesday (7/8): Toby Keith, Fred Young (Kentucky HeadHunters).
Wednesday (7/9): David Ball.
Thursday (7/10): Gary LeVox (Rascal Flatts), Ken Mellons, Shaw Wilson (BR549).
Friday (7/11): Scotty Emerick. On TV
Tuesday (7/8): Florida Georgia Line debuts "Dirt," The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC).
Wednesday (7/9): Big Smo (A&E); Florida Georgia Line performs "Dirt," Live With Kelly & Michael (syndicated); Kellie Pickler, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (repeat)(syndicated). Upcoming Album Releases
Jul. 15 Cowboy Jack Clement For Once And For All
Jul. 22 Sammy Kershaw Do You Know Me? A Tribute To George Jones
Aug. 5 Sunny Sweeney Provoked
Aug. 19 Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute To Mötley Crüe
Chase Rice Ignite The Night
Aug. 26 Brad Paisley Moonshine In The Trunk
Sep. 2 Terri Clark Some Songs
Sep. 9 Lee Brice I Don't Dance
Dustin Lynch Where It's At | 
Officials in Dublin, Ireland are scrambling for a solution in the wake of a statement from Garth Brooks saying he'll play five shows or none at all. The ultimatum comes after the city issued a license for only three of the five shows booked in the city's Croke Park. "I can't thank the people of Ireland enough for how welcome they have made me feel," says Brooks in the statement released over the weekend. "I have faith that [the] Dublin City Council will make the best decision for the people of Ireland. For us, it is five shows or none at all. To choose which shows to do and which shows not to do, would be like asking to choose one child over another." City chiefs held an emergency meeting and even attempted to rebook the two canceled shows at another location – a move promoters say is logistically impossible since staging and lights were designed for the dimensions at Croke Park.
Shania Twain, the late Hank Snow, k.d. lang and two other country artists are being honored with Canadian postage stamps. "Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours. July 31st in Canada!" Twain 
Taylor Swift was asked to contribute to a Wall Street Journal package called "The Future Of Everything" in honor of the newspaper's 125th anniversary. In Swift's op-ed piece, she says she's "one of the few living souls in the music industry who still believes that the music industry is not dying...it's just coming alive." Read Swift's thoughts on whether music should be free, the importance of surprising fans and the death of the autograph 
Lady Antebellum are among the artists featured in a new ad for Samsung's Milk Music streaming app. The "Put Your Spin On It" campaign launched Friday (7/4) in movie theaters and will air later on TV. Lady A's featured song is "Long Stretch Of Love." Watch 
Sheryl Crow has released a new arrangement of her 1996 song, "Redemption Day." It's a mashup of her live performance and Johnny Cash's 2010 cover from his posthumous album American IV: Ain't No Grave. In the video, Crow's concert footage is interspersed with images of Cash from the '70s and historic scenes of American war involvement throughout the 20th century. See it on 
After Dolly Parton played for more than 150,000 fans at Glastonbury last week (6/29), workers cleaning up the concert site found a dog in one of the tents and named her "Dolly." Parton heard the news and had her manager call the Happy Landings animal shelter where the dog was taken. In a July 6 
Brad Paisley sang "River Bank" Sunday (7/6) on Rising Star. Watch 
