August 19, 2011 2008 - Trace Adkins teams with 38 Special to tape an installment of "CMT Crossroads" at The Factory in Franklin, Tennessee. The set list includes "Hold On Loosely," "Ladies Love Country Boys" and "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"
August 2, 2011 2008 - Dierks Bentley plays the Lollapalooza rock festival at Grant Park in Chicago, where fans where T-shirts asking "Who the hell is Dierks Bentley?" He bookends his set with covers: "Lonesome On'ry And Mean" and "Folsom Prison Blues".
July 26, 2011 2009 - Tim McGraw stops his show at the Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles, California, to have security boot a man in the audience who has a woman in a headlock: "You don't treat a woman like that. Get outta here!".
June 17, 2011 2010 - Taylor Swift receives the Hal David Starlight Award at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel as the Songwriters Hall of Fame inducts David Foster, Jackie DeShannon, Leonard Cohen and Sunny Skylar.
June 3, 2011 2009 - George Strait's "Troubadour" album is certified platinum.
May 10, 2011
2008 - Carrie Underwood is inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, introduced by Garth Brooks. She performs "Last Name," "All-American Girl" and "Jesus, Take The Wheel," the latter with backing vocals by Vince Gill.
May 9, 2011 Q: What does Dierks Bentley put duck tape on before he hits the stage each night?
May 3, 2011 On this day in 2010, due to extreme flooding, power outages and road closures in Nashville, Dierks Bentley cancelled his "Up On The Ridge" concert dates scheduled in Knoxville, Tennessee and Charlottesville, Virginia.
April 19, 2011 On this day in 2010, Tim Mcgraw, Faith Hill, Darius Rucker, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum and Rascal Flatts performed for Acm Presents: Brooks & Dunn – The Last Rodeo, the tribute concert special honoring Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn.
Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley and Martina McBride opened the NASCAR Daytona 500 event on Sunday, February 20, with adrenaline pumping performances to get the drivers and fans ready for the day.
January 19, 2011 Dierks and Charles Kelley from Lady Antebellum were hanging out recently when Dierks decided to give Charles a look at his newly acquired Camaro...that's when it got interesting.
January 17, 2011 How do you burn off steam and stress? Well, Dierks Bentley plays hockey with his Nashville hockey team - the Nashville Iceholes.
