Charley Pride News

Former Hootie & the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker has gone country and will be performing his new songs at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center.

See Darius Rucker at the 2009 Country Music Awards and with Hootie and the Blowfish.

Taylor Swift made history at the Country Music Awards, becoming the youngest person to win entertainer of the year and the first solo female to win it in a decade.

Taylor Swift became the youngest person, and the first teenager, to win Entertainer of the Year at the CMA Awards in Nashville Wednesday, winning all four categories in which she was nominated, which also included album of the year, video of the year and female vocalist of the year.

Darius Rucker is looking to become the Larry Doby of country music. Just as Doby became the second African-American to play major league baseball behind Jackie Robinson, Rucker is in position to become the second black to win best male vocalist at the Country Music Association Awards.

The 19-year-old makes history as the youngest person to win CMA entertainer of the year.

Nashville, Tenn . -- Taylor Swift made history at the Country Music Awards, becoming the youngest person to win entertainer of the year and the first solo female to win it in a decade.

A A Nov. 11: In a special Veterans Day performance, Bon Jovi perform their song "Who Says You Can't Go Home" on Rockefeller Plaza.

Darius Rucker was just a young boy with a love for "Hee Haw" and FM radio when he made a discovery - and a decision - that would shape the rest of his life.

Country music star and Sledge native Charley Pride brings his rich baritone home to Mississippi on Dec.

Miranda Lambert , Jason Aldean, Martina McBride and Charley Pride are playing the 2010 Craven Country Jamboree.

20, 2009, AND THEREAFTER ** In this July 21, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama smiles at the start of the White House music series event celebrating country music in the East Room at the White House in Washington.

Eight pioneers who made significant contributions to the culture and tradition of America's western frontier will be inducted on Nov.

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That's how Canadian Country Music Hall of Famer Dick Damron feels about the tribute concert that's being held for him Saturday tonight in Calgary, and it's more than a mere matter of flattery that's touched him so.

"The Wheeling Cat" Slim Lehart fell to his knees to kiss the stage where country music legends Doc Williams, Johnny Cash and Charley Pride once performed at the Capitol Theatre.

Well, boys and girls, it's time to go back to school and back to work. To lively up those dormant, moribund, sodden brain cells of yours, here's a little quiz to stretch your synapses.

With 36 number one hits under his belt, Charley Pride, who is black, has helped prove how little race matters to the majority of country music fans.

Alan Jackson will perform Sept. 17 and 18 at Caesars Windsor in Windsor, Ontario.

Nowadays it's hard to surf Sirius XM stations without stumbling upon a Darius Rucker tune.