Garth Brooks is coming back to the stage and out of retirement on December 11, 2009. He will be performing in Las Vegas for the next five years at Wynn Las Vegas. Country music fans are more than thrilled to learn that Garth Brooks will be the headline performer at Wynn Las Vegas for 15 weeks a year through 2014.

The ACM Awards (Academy of Country Music Awards) were held Sunday night. The big winner was Carrie Underwood, who took away the Entertainer of the Year Award.

CMA Award winners of 2008 also inclurde Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley and Jennier Nettles. However, George Strait is one of those CMA award winners who has won 22 CMA Awards.

Jerry Reed, the man who made “Eastbound and Down, loaded up and truckin’” the well-known theme song from Smokey & The Bandit, has passed on today.

Melissa Lawson became the winner of Nashville Star last night. The blogging community has viewed Nashville Star country music award in various ways. Today we represent the view presented by the blogger of For The Record.

Country singer Chris Cagle was arrested at 4:40am this morning along with his girlfriend, Jennifer Tant after partying at Players Inn, in Bellevue community just west of Nashville.

Kenny Chesney became the ACM winner as entertainer of the year for the fourth straight time at Sunday's U.S. Academy of Country Music Awards.

Earlier in the week country singer Miranda Lambert was under investigation after a “fan” accused her of pushing her several times during a confrontation at Bootlegger’s, in Tyler, Texas. Authorities announced yesterday that Miss Lambert has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

The Nashville Country Music Marathon, or Music City Marathon as most people call it, is well under way. The marathon and 1/2 marathon starts in Centennial Park and runs through Nashville’s most scenic sights. 50 bands on 28 entertainment stages and hundreds of high school cheerleaders entertain runners, walkers and spectators alike. Country, rock, jazz, blues, swing and more pulsate every mile on the course.

Organisers hope to attract more than 11,000 bootscooters to a world-record line dancing attempt at the Tamworth Country Music Festival this weekend.

CMA will provide up-to-the-minute interviews and rehearsal footage of “The 41st Annual CMA Awards” with four Video News Release (VNR) feeds beginning today.