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Country Music News

By DICK KELSEY, United Press International
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY

(Thursday, Nov. 7)

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"Hee Haw" star Archie Campbell born in Bulls Gap, Tenn., 1914.

Robin Lee born in Nashville, 1963.

Country music pioneer A.P. Carter dies at 68, 1960.

Lynn Anderson's first No. 1 single, "Rose Garden," is charted, 1970.

The Charlie Daniels Band's album "Full Moon" is certified gold, 1980.

David Allan Coe's "Greatest Hits" album is certified gold, 1983.

Red Foley cuts "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy," the first million-selling country hit recorded in Nashville, 1949.


MUSIC AND MORE


NEW ALBUM BY KRAUSS/STATION IN STORES

This week Alison Krauss & Union Station released "Live," a two-disc collection of bluegrass favorites.

The set on Rounder Records features Krauss and the band playing 37 songs, including "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow," "Down to the River to Pray," "Baby, Now That I Found You" and "The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn."

The songs were recorded last April at the Louisville Palace.


CHESNEY, KID ROCK POOL THEIR TALENTS

Kenny Chesney and Kid Rock may sound like an odd combination in a recording studio, but the duo recently recorded a song for RCA's tribute album to Waylon Jennings.

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Chesney tells LAUNCH he and the raucous rocker did some songwriting together and re-recorded "Lukenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics of Love)" with Chesney's band.

The two had first cut the song during the summer when Chesney's tour hit Detroit, near Kid Rock's home, and they wanted to do another version.

Chesney says of Kid Rock, "He really gets country music, and he understands where it should be, that pocket, so it's not as odd as it sounds."


MCGRAW VIDEO DEBUTS NOV. 22

Tim McGraw's new video, "She's My Kind of Rain," is set to debut Nov. 22 on CMT Most Wanted Live.

It's McGraw's 19th video and the first from "Tim McGraw & the Dance Hall Doctors," his new album due for release Nov. 26.

After the debut, CMT airs "Tim McGraw in London: Making the Video," a behind-the-scenes account of the video shoot. Viewers will be able to request McGraw videos through CMT.com.

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