Taylor Swift is nominated for six American Music Awards and like her recent sweep of the Country Music Association, I don't see how she doesn't come away with more awards. There are also Male Artist and Country Group categories up for grabs on Sunday night.

Here's Joe Nichols' latest video.  It's for the second single from "Old Things New."

Watch a great live performance of the classic Johnny Cash song "Cry, Cry, Cry" from Norah Jones.

Keith Urban has scored three huge hits from Defying Gravity yet not one of them has featured lyrical content that went beyond whimsy.  With his fourth single off the record, did the Aussie superstar manage to release a meaty lyric and melody?

Rising country act Gloriana will be representing country music, along with Taylor Swift, this coming Sunday when the American Music Awards program is telecast on ABC TV.  The Embem/Warner Brothers Quartet is up for Breakthrough Artist Of The Year.

Yesterday afternoon it was announced by George Strait and Lee Ann Womack that Lee Ann would be joining his tour with superstar Reba McEntire.  The tour, which starts in January 2010 at Baltimore's "First Mariner Center ends in April with a date in Des Moines, IA.

Even though "It's America" went #1 on the charts and the follow-up single "Fifteen Minutes" scored a Top 15 hit for Rodney, he seemed to be losing his charming homespun likeability.  That has changed as this single returns him to exactly what made him a star, relatability.

Listen to a track from newcomer Veronica Ballestrini's debut album What I'm all About.

Love and Theft scored a Top 10 hit, the only new artist of 2009 to do so (so far),  with first single “Runaway” off of their debut album World Wide Open and now the trio has moved on to their follow-up single in “Dancing In Circles.”  Will the song be a hit?

Listen to the title track from Norwegian Kurt Nilsen's 2008 country release.