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  • Kenny Chesney Wins CMA Entertainer Award

    With some strange moments (Faith Hill captured on camera reacting poorly, Keith Urban winning while in rehab), yesterday’s Country Music Awards finally finished with Kenny chesney winning Entertainer of the Year honors.

    Hill was seen on camera reacting poorly — and some say in horror — when American Idol winner Carrie Underwood won the Female vocalist award. Meanwhile, Keith Urban sent word from reab in a note that was read to the audience.

    But it was Chesney, country’s most salable crossover artist since Garth Brooks, who won the night’s big prize. Rascal Flatts won more awards, but Chesney solidified his hold on country and popular music.

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    Rock the vote — unplug and check out the returns.

  • Kylie Comes Homes

    After a disastrous 2005 during which Australian singer Kylie Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer (as was Sheryl Crow), the 38 year old singer returned home today, looking fit and happy according to the Australian papers.

    Minogue is one of Australia (and the rest of the world’s) most popular singers, and has been performing since the age of 11. Winner of the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording (Come Into My World) and two Billboard Hot 100 singles, Minogue’s success is much like Cliff Richards’ a generation earlier. Popular everywhere but in the US, American fans end up missing on some great pop music.

    She seems to have beaten breast cancer. Now the sexy ‘stralian singer can prep for her homecoming show next week. And if fans in Seattle or San Francisco don’t know her, they adore her in Sydney, which is where the first show opens.

    Spinning In The CD Today
    Listening to all of Demsond Child’s back catalog. He made some great music too, although people may know him more for the songs he has written — Aerosmith’s Angel and Dude (Looks Like A Lady) , Bon Jovi’s Bad Medicine and this little thing called Livin’ La Vida Loca — and produced. He helmed Meat Loaf’s third installment of Bat Out of Hell after the singer and Bat producer/writer Jim Steinman fell out, to generally positive praise, but I don’t hear why. I do in his earlier work, even his solo work, but the best cuts on Bat 3 (reviewed on Music Help Web soon) are the 10 and 25 year old songs Meat lifted from Jim Steinman’s catalog.

  • Snoop Busted

    Snoop Dogg, which is what he calls himself these days, was arrested over the weekend at Burbank Airport for weapon and drug posssession charges.

    Initial media reports said that the ground-breaking rapper originally was found to have a baton similar to the kind riot police and private security guards use, but that was actually an older incident at another airport, and Snoop was not charged.

    He was charged in Burbank, though, when police searched his car after he left it at the airport too long. Police reporting finding a gun and marijuana in the vehicle. Snoop has a long history of arrests and scrapes with the law — a self-destructive path that could eventually consume the 35 year old just like Jimi, Janis and so many others before him.

    Spinning In The CD Today:

    I’m still liking Death Cab for Cutie’s Plans, which still sounds fresh to me a year after its release. Ben Gibbard just doesn’t get the praise he deserves — critics yawn, the songs go nowhere on the charts and the band’s following is too small to influence either.