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.

Roughstock has learned today that Texas music star Kevin Fowler (the songwriter of "Beer Bait & Ammo," "Long Line of Losers,") who formerly had a national record deal with Clint Black's Equity Records, has signed a deal with Disney-owned Lyric Street Records.

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?

It looks as if Brad Paisley, Bryan White and Keith Urban have company at the country singers married to hollywood stars table as Singer/Songwriter Josh Kelley, who is married to Katherine Heigl has signed a record deal with UMG Nashville.

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.

It has been reported today that Taylor Swift has joined BMI in a lawsuit against a small little Idaho sports bar called The Sports Cellar.  The lawsuit claims that the bar hasn't payed BMI for the right to play their songwriter's songs over their speakers. Can you believe this?

Georgia has been a hotbed for alternative and rock music for years now but it seems as if the tide has turned towards country with the success of the Zac Brown Band, Sugarland and Colt Ford.  Will Brantley Gilbert Follow them to success?

For their first Holiday themed release, Sugarland presents something that feels like the best of both worlds.  Composed of 10 tracks, the album features five standard "classics" with five newly written originals.

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.