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After Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson was the most popular male country singer of the '90s. An heir to the new traditionalist movement of the '80s, Jackson's approach was rooted in classic honky tonk yet remained comfortably within the contemporary mainstream.

Trace Adkins at the Academy of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 5, 2009.

The first-ever Peanuts 60th Anniversary Look-A-Like Contest with the selection of 30 finalists, as chosen by a panel of celebrity judges including Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood and Jill Schulz, the daughter of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz.

Country music right now in many ways doesn't resemble at all what it was in the early 90s, when Garth Brooks became a giant crossover success but Shania Twain had yet to make it a full-fledged pop genre.

M odern country music - and, for that matter, tonight's 43rd annual Country Music Association Awards - is all about safety, sales and the status quo.

After Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson was the most popular male country singer of the '90s. An heir to the new traditionalist movement of the '80s, Jackson's approach was rooted in classic honky tonk yet remained comfortably within the contemporary mainstream.

Taylor Swift has sold more albums than anyone in 2009. Kenny Chesney had the year's biggest concert tour.

Kenny Chesney has made the very hard work of dominating country music look easy.

Ricky Van Shelton was one of country music's biggest male stars during the late '80s and early '90s, prior to the emergence of crossover sensations like Garth Brooks.

"Hank Williams sang it, Number 3 drove it, Chuck Berry twanged it, Will Faulkner wrote it." So begins the title song on the album the critics are calling Tim McGraw's "rockiest album ever." The top-selling Contemporary Country artist, who replaced Garth Brooks as Country's number one top male singer, has enjoyed a string of hit albums from 1994's ...

Singer Trisha Yearwood arrives at the 2007 MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Don Henley at the Los Angeles Convention Center on February 9, 2007 in Los Angeles, California.

Garth Brooks, left, presents George Strait with the Artist of the Decade award at the ACM Artist of the Decade All Star Concert on Monday, April 6, 2009, in Las Vegas.

Quick to mention the Rolling Stones, Rob Thomas, and Garth Brooks as influences, Casey Donahew started out as a favorite on the Texas bar circuit, but those years of steady gigging paid off on a national level in 2009 when one of his self-released albums cracked the country Top 30 album chart in ~Billboard magazine.

You know that game "Would You Rather"? Imagine being able to play that with country stars.

A Keizer man needs help to advance in the CMT Music City Madness contest. One of 64 amateur singer-songwriters chosen, there's big stakes for Jay Mast if he wins - a trip to Nashville, Tenn.

Toby Keith spent the '90s as a solid, workmanlike country star who met with considerable chart success, yet never quite broke free of the neo-traditionalist pack to become a household name like Garth Brooks or Alan Jackson.

The most annoying stunts pulled by celebrities are retirement announcements. Same goes for your bogus "farewell tours," Barbra Streisand and Cher! Talk about the idlest of idle threats, or hollowest of hollow promises, depending on your level of appreciation for the star in question.

Garth Brooks show tickets at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas sold out in less than five hours.

Bring a Surprising Mix of Jazz, Bluegrass, Bebop and More to the stage at bergenPAC - Saturday November 21st - 8:00 PM With a total of 11 Grammy wins and a whopping 27 nominations, banjo big-hit Bla Fleck and the Flecktones bring their multifaceted and seemingly unrivaled sound to the stage at bergenPAC on November 21st, at 8 p.m. Since the ...

Garth Brooks mused that the public may have moved on when he announced he was coming out of retirement.