In this week's round-up of the news, we gather information about The Americana Music Awards winners, Merle Haggard, bad news about country album sales along with review rundowns of the latest singles and albums featured here on Roughstock.

This week featured news about the 44th CMA Awards nominees (Miranda Lambert lead all nominees with 9), Little Big Town's big debut on the albums chart, Joey+Rory's upcoming tour with an icon and four fantastic new releases and many new single reviews.

This week we find the Grand Ole Opry and Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood the main news pieces with other tidbits including this week's best-selling CDs, including three Top 10 spots for Lady Antebellum. Click the image above to catch up on this week's news.

Here's our first post in what will be a Friday Feature here at Roughstock.  We'll collect the biggest news stories of the week and showcase them here.  This week we learned some more news about Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift, Gene Watson, Dale Watson and More.

In Today's news round-up we learn who won the coveted Best New Solo, Duo and Group awards from the Academy of Country Music while we learn that the Court Yard Hounds album won't be the end of the Dixie Chicks.  Blake Shelton also got some good news yesterday.

In today's news roundup we find some information regarding Dierks' new tour, information about Blake Shelton, sneak peaks of Alan Jackson's upcoming Freight Train and about a new label opening up in Nashville.