David Lee Murphy News

He hails from Hobbema, Alberta, travelled with his two parents who were heavily involved in rodeo as a child, and is what many would call a true cowboy.

Gary Allan doesn't play Nashville much these days - on purpose. Locally, the platinum-selling country singer closely guards his reputation as a live musician, and until the opportunity to headline the historic Ryman Auditorium came up, he elected not to anchor any shows in town.

There were so many big green tractors parked around Music Row Tuesday that America's farmlands must have felt denuded.

Jason Aldean found himself with a couple of days off in mid-tour through Idaho last week, so he decided to do a bit of promotion work north of the border, in Alberta.

David Lee Murphy's polished blend of neo-traditional country and mainstream rock flourishes made the vocalist a star in the mid-'90s. Murphy moved to Nashville with hopes of become a star in 1983.