Happy Birthday to "Batman Begins" bad guy Cillian Murphy (1976), Fugees singer Lauryn Hill (1975), "Undeclared" actress Monica Keena (1974), "Ghost Whisperer" actor Jamie Kennedy (1970),

On November 13 Shout! Factory will release two special DVDs just in time for the holiday season. The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1976 and The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977 are the first releases to come out of the exclusive agreement between Shout! Factory and the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum,

Award-winning singer/songwriter/performer Deana Carter unveils The Chain, her fifth studio record October 9th on Vanguard Records. Each of the 12 songs on The Chain has a special importance to Deana, who personally chose material that had a great impact on her early life.

The level of freedom and autonomy that is taken for granted by today's contemporary Country music artists - a world of independent production deals, self-styled recording and publishing arrangements, and other advantages enjoyed by pop acts for a decade before their C&W counterparts caught up - owes an eternal debt to Waylon Jennings, the original Nashville Rebel.

Happy Birthday to "Batman Begins" bad guy Cillian Murphy (1976), Baltimore Oriole Miguel Tejada (1976), Fugees singer Lauryn Hill (1975), "Undeclared" actress Monica Keena (1974), "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" actor Jamie Kennedy (1970), "Volcano" actress Anne Heche (1969), "Austin Powers" star Mike Myers (1963), The Jam singer Paul Weller (1958), actress Connie Sellecca (1955), Scorpions lead singer Klaus Meine (1948), "Yoda" actor Frank Oz (1944), singer Jessi Colter (1943), "XIII" star Ian McKellen (1939), "Designing Women" star Dixie Carter (1939), opera singer Beverly Sills (1929), and actor Claude Akins (1918; d. 1994).

When singer, songwriter and bona fide multi-instrumentalist Ted Russell Kamp isn't in the studio crafting his own brand of classic, country-rock tunes, he works his bass alongside the man who put the "O" back in country as part of Southern-rock rebel Shooter Jennings' much-heralded musical crew The .357's.

Happy Birthday to "Batman Begins" bad guy Cillian Murphy (1976), Baltimore Oriole Miguel Tejada (1976), Fugees singer Lauryn Hill (1975), "Undeclared" actress Monica Keena (1974), "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" actor Jamie Kennedy (1970), "Volcano" actress Anne Heche (1969), "Austin Powers" star Mike Myers (1963), The Jam singer Paul Weller (1958), actress Connie Sellecca (1955), Scorpions lead singer Klaus Meine (1948), "Yoda" actor Frank Oz (1944), singer Jessi Colter (1943), "XIII" star Ian McKellen (1939), "Designing Women" star Dixie Carter (1939), opera singer Beverly Sills (1929), and actor Claude Akins (1918; d. 1994).