The Grand Prize will include two tickets to “The 39th Annual CMA Awards” at Madison Square Garden on November 15; round-trip air transportation; 3 nights hotel accommodations at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square; a guided sight-seeing tour of New York City; two tickets to a Broadway play; a view from the top of the Empire State Building; two tickets to the “Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes” at Radio City Music Hall and $300 in spending money!

The second prize winner will receive a vertical three-CD stereo system that plays all formats, including CD-R/RWs and MP3-CDs. The system also features an AM/FM digital tuner with 32 presets and a LCD alarm clock.

Fans can obtain an official contest entry form at participating Waffle House restaurants or online by visiting, www.TraceAdkins.com or www.WaffleHouse.com. Entry forms will be available Friday, July 1, 2005 through Sunday, September 18, 2005 or while supplies last. Winners will be selected in a random drawing from all eligible entries received and notified by mail.

Earlier this year Adkins announced his special partnership with Waffle House restaurants corresponding with his summer tour. The fun kicked-off June 16, at a Waffle House restaurant in Chattanooga, TN where Trace met with 5 local radio contest winners and presented the Grand Prize winner with an authentic Waffle House jukebox filled with country favorites, including his very own hit single, “Songs About Me.” Adkins will continue to visit with his fans at Waffle House restaurants in other various cities across the U.S. throughout the summer.

In late March, Adkins latest CD, Songs About Me made its debut at #1 on the country albums chart and the project has already produced a #2 hit single and video with the title cut. The follow-up single is “Arlington,” a profound ballad sung from the perspective of a soldier buried in the national cemetery. Adkins has said he recorded it to honor all military men and women who have paid that ultimate sacrifice for our country’s freedom. ?Arlington? has been striking such a chord with fans and receiving significant radio airplay, that it made its debut among the Top 40 country singles three weeks prior to the official release date

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Toby Keith?s HonkyTonk University remains the #1 Country CD in the nation for a 6th consecutive week on the Billboard Country Albums chart. Artists in the 2-4 slots include Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban and Sugarland, with Toby Keith?s Vol. 2 Greatest Hits rounding out the Top 5.

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Jessica turns in a saucy new interpretation, produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, of the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood kick-ass feminist anthem, “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’,” featuring Jimmy Jam on keyboards and Willie Nelson on background vocals and guitar. Willie himself wails through a new rendition of the “Dukes of Hazzard” theme song, Waylon Jennings’ “Good Ol’ Boys,” produced by James Stroud.

A rollicking cross-section of American Southern and classic rock music, The Dukes Of Hazzard – Music From The Motion Picture compiles definitive tracks by the Allman Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Charlie Daniels Band, Molly Hatchet, Montgomery Gentry, Ram Jam, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Blueskins, Blues Explosion, and The James Gang. Bookending the soundtrack album are two ribald riddles posed by Willie Nelson (as “Uncle Jesse”). The renowned musical tastemaker Nic Harcourt (host of “Morning Becomes Eclectic”) served as music supervisor for the film.

“The Dukes Of Hazzard” is an action comedy inspired by the hit television series that ran from 1979-1985. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar (”Club Dread, Super Troopers”), “The Dukes Of Hazzard” stars Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds and Joe Don Baker with Lynda Carter and Willie Nelson.

Set in the present day, “The Dukes of Hazzard” follows the adventures of two “good ol’ boy” cousins — Bo (Seann William Scott) and Luke (Johnny Knoxville) Duke — who with the help of their eye-catching cousin Daisy (Jessica Simpson) and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson), try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County’s corrupt commissioner Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds). Their efforts constantly find the “Duke Boys” eluding authorities in “The General Lee,” their famed

1969 orange Dodge Charger that keeps them one step ahead of the dimwitted antics of the small southern town’s Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane (M.C. Gainey).

The Dukes Of Hazzard – Music From The Motion Picture
Tracklisting

1. Uncle Jesse Tells A Joke
2. These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ – Jessica Simpson
3. One Way Out – The Allman Brothers Band
4. Pride And Joy – Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
5. Call Me the Breeze – Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. The South’s Gonna Do It Again – The Charlie Daniels Band
7. Flirtin’ With Disaster – Molly Hatchet
8. Hillbilly Shoes – Montgomery Gentry
9. Black Betty – Ram Jam
10. Soul City – Southern Culture on the Skids
11. Change My Mind – The Blueskins
12. Burn It Off – Blues Explosion
13. Funk #49 – The James Gang
14. Good Ol’ Boys – Willie Nelson
15. Uncle Jesse Tells Another Joke

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Lynard Skynard, Montgomery Gentry and Brad Paisley are playing Bayfest Hawaii 2005 ? hosted by the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Base. The guys will welcome 11,000 troops returning to Oahu from Iraq and Afghanistan. Montgomery Gentry will play this Saturday and Brad Paisley will play Sunday, plus Lynyrd Skynyrd will be on hand for the Fourth!

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With the Fourth of July just around the corner,
America?s heart is turning to patriotic music?featuring 17 of the
biggest names in country music. the album released by the SonyBMG
Strategic Marketing Group in alliance with ?Music For A Cause,? an
organization that matches music to charitable causes, is a unique
project designed for every music lover.

Tippin will
perform the track from the album, and will chat with Sean and Alan
on-set.

?To have my song on the same album as Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash is
something special to me, I would never have dreamed of that one,? says
Tippin. ?This project is something special to me; I have traveled to
foreign land to perform for the troops and will be going to Iraq for
Thanksgiving. I know what patriotism is and I think everyone should
support this project and our troops.?

In addition to Tippin, Presley, and Cash, artists on the new project
include: Hank Williams Jr., Alabama, Montgomery Gentry, Lonestar, Phil
Vassar, Darryl Worley, Chely Wright, John Conlee, Willie Nelson, and
Billy Ray Cyrus, among others.

The CD, released, June 14th, is available at all major retailers of
music nationwide and is a great way for Americans to show their pride
and support for the troops and military families that keep our nation
free.

For additional information on ?Patriotic Country? resource: patrioticcountry2.com

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The mural comprises six 6? by 8? panels, and three 3? by 3? canvases. For the large panels, an oversized map of Nashville circa 1940, featuring the Jefferson Street area, serves as backdrop for the collage of 34 acrylic-on-canvas paintings.

Spearheaded by Ron Kates, an associate professor of English at MTSU, the mural project was originally conceived as a learning service initiative attached to his seminar ?Re-visiting and Re-visioning the Hometown.? Says Kates, ?In this class, students take a close look at their hometowns, with the goal of understanding how they are defined by their roots. As part of the course, they participate in a public service project. With Night Train to Nashville, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum took a closer look at our hometown, so to speak, offering a deeper understanding of how Nashville became Music City, so a public art project celebrating both the exhibit and Nashville?s R&B music and culture seemed a natural.?

As the project evolved, however, Kates came to see the mural as a larger opportunity to bring together young artists throughout Nashville and Murfreesboro. MTSU?s art department partnered with Watkins College of Art and Design and Riverdale, Oakland and Stratford high schools, and more than three dozen artists and art instructors took part in the mural?s creation. Before brushes were laid to canvas, students toured the Night Train exhibit and immersed themselves in the music. Says Kates, ?The student artists were encouraged to learn as they painted. This learning involved not only artistic techniques, but also an understanding that Nashville?s ?Music City? moniker refers to the untold histories of those who performed in and patronized venues like Club Del Morocco or the Bijou. It?s a story that interweaves many subjects – music, civil rights, urban renewal and more.?

The resulting creations not only evoke this particular time and place in Nashville history, but also, like the music that came from this era, elicit the same pathos and joie de vivre. Key images from the exhibit, such as the ?Feed the Kitty? tip jar featured in the exhibit?s opening photograph, and the Peggy Scott-Jo Jo Benson ?Soul Shake? video, are lovingly reproduced in the mural; other paintings pay homage to prominent moments in Music City history, such as Ray Charles? performance at Maceo?s and Etta James recording her live album, Etta James Rocks the House, at Nashville?s New Era Club. One canvas is a painstaking, loving recreation of a portrait of Frank Howard and the Commanders, as seen on the cover of the Grammy-winning Night Train to Nashville CD.

?We are thrilled to be the first home for this incredible piece of public art,? said Michael Gray, the Museum?s associate editor and co-curator of the Night Train exhibit. ?These beautifully rendered images capture the spirit, verve and emotion of this vibrant time and place in R&B history, and are a fitting homage to the many artists who made this music.

?One of the Museum?s hopes for the Night Train exhibit was that it would spur further discussion of this topic in the community – that it would inspire others to create their own interpretations of this story,? Gray continued. ?This mural does that and, in a sense, it helps extend the life of the exhibit. Night Train will close at the end of the year, but as the mural is displayed in new locations, it will continue to bring this story to new audiences.?

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