Country Music News
Tracy Lawrence launches Kickstarter to raise money for new album
Kickstarter! Everyone’s doing it! Kickstarter is a company where creative people (and sometimes not so creative people) can ask regular folks for money to help them fund a project. The person sets a goal and if they don’t reach their goal then no money changes hands. Kickstarter was recently in the news when "Scrubs" actor Zach Braff successfully raised $2.6 million to film a sequal to his movie "Garden State." Now country music is starting to figure out that the fund-raising site might work for them too. On Thursday, Tracy Lawrence officially launched a Kickstarer campaign to try and raise…
Carrie Underwood donates a million bucks to the Red Cross (from the mailbag)
As Carrie Underwood prepares to wrap her 2012-2013 "Blown Away Tour" tonight in Abbottsford, BC, a one million dollar donation is being made to the Red Cross for disaster relief. The charitable contribution to the Red Cross derives from the tour’s concert proceeds and was established when it launched in spring 2012. "I have watched the devastation in my home state of Oklahoma over the past several days with great sadness," says Carrie. "With the help of my fans who attended my concerts over the past year, we can offer the Red Cross a little extra help in comforting those…
This man dancing to the Dixie Chicks alongside his 20-year-old self made my whole day
Tyler Marcum was turning 30 so he did what any soon-to-be-over-the-hill fella would do … he did an interpretive dance of the Dixie Chicks’ cover of "Landslide." Yeah, we’ve all been there. Oh sure, maybe that’s not newsworthy in this day and age of newsworthy videos, but add in a some not so tidy whities and a video Tyler happened to have made 10 years previously when he was 20 dancing to the same song and you have internet gold. In case you can’t tell, the left is the current Tyler and the right is decade-younger Tyler. {via TowleRoad}