Dozens Of Big Names In Country Music Looking For New Labels

Over at CMT.com, their editorial team has finished a huge survey of signed and recently released acts- and there’s several big surprises on current unsigned acts.

Among the departures are Emerson Drive from Valory Music Co., Randy Owen from Broken Bow, Trace Adkins and Kenny Rogers from Capitol (Adkins has since signed to Show Dog-Universal) and the Bellamy Brothers, Hal Ketchum and Hank Williams Jr. from Curb. Also moving on are SHeDAISY, Jessica Andrews and Trent Tomlinson from Lyric Street, Kate & Kacey Coppola and Adam Gregory from Big Machine, Rhonda Vincent from Rounder, Jennifer Hanson, Kevin Costner and Shooter Jennings from Show Dog-Universal, Jason Michael Carroll from Arista, Crystal Shawanda from RCA Nashville, Pat Green from BNA, Keith Anderson, Caitlin & Will and Gretchen Wilson from Columbia Nashville (Wilson has since started her own label) and Shelby Lynne from Lost Highway.

Disney's Carolwood Records Closes- Jessica Andrews Loses Label

Disney's Lyric Street Records President Randy Goodman announced today the shuttering of the year-old Carolwood Records.

Current charted Carolwood artists Love and Theft, and Trent Tomlinson, will be folded into the Lyric Street stable and thus worked by the newly reorganized team but will continue to carry the Carolwood label for their current product. The first artist signed to Carolwood, singer/songwriter Jessica Andrews, looks as if she has not made the move over from Carolwood to Lyric Street

Goodman concluded, “I am very optimistic that this newly organized, aggregated Team will bring new focus and energy to our entire staff and roster and thus have great expectations that they will be the catalyst for resetting us towards better serving our Artists and Radio partners while achieving our cost goals.”

The newly consolidated Lyric Street roster includes multi-platinum superstar group Rascal Flatts; Platinum selling sisters SHeDAISY; American Idol alum Bucky Covington; new group break-thru Love and Theft, Trent Tomlinson, Sarah Buxton and new and developing artists, Ruby Summer, Tyler Dickerson, Kevin Fowler and The Parks.

Hear New SheDaisy Songs Off Their New Album

Kristyn from SheDaisy posted this on their mySpace page, "I may get in trouble, so perhaps by tomorrow I will have to take the songs down, but here are 3 more new ones. Pass the word along, let us know what you think, and we have 14 more to play you all! But I didn't just say that." Go HERE and you can hear these new songs off of their upcoming A Story To Tell album:

Mr. McLennen

Never Had A You

Unsatisfied

SheDaisy In Rehearsal For 2009 Album

We reported a few weeks back that SheDaisy is going to have a new album out on Lyric Street Records later in 2009. Here's a video showing them behind the scenes in rehearsal.

SHeDAISY Rehearsals 2009

New SheDaisy Album Date Set Later In 2009

SHeDAISY, sister group of Kristyn, Kassidy, and Kelsi Osborn will release their fourth studio album, titled A Story To Tell, in the spring.Kristyn Osborn co-wrote every song on the album. Bruce Leitl, of Canada, and Jann Arden co-produced the album with SHeDAISY. The album will be released September 29, 2009- the first single will be dropped early summer. Every song on the album is written or co-written by the sisters.