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Country Music Artists Flocking to Vegas for ACM Awards
LAS VEGAS -- Country music artists, their managers, record label executives and ... well ... just about the entire industry are flocking to Las Vegas in advance of the 43rd annual Academy of Country Music Awards taking place Sunday (May 18) at the MGM Gra

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15-Year Artist Jack Ingram Likes Being "New"
May 16, 2008 — There’s a certain irony in Jack Ingram’s nomination for Top New Male Vocalist at this weekend’s Academy of Country Music Awards. He made his first album in the mid-1990s, so he’s got about 15 years of his career behind him, and some critics in the industry question whether he really belongs in the "new" category. He has no issue with it.