MCA Nashville released Ashton Shepherd's debut record Sounds So Good, produced by Buddy Cannon (Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire), March 4. Shepherd co-wrote 10 songs for the 11-track album, seven of which she single-handedly penned, including the debut single "Takin' Off This Pain".

Country singer Lorrie Morgan has filed for divorce from Sammy Kershaw after six years of marriage.

Some of the biggest names in country music, including Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson and Reba McEntire, are coming together to record a tribute album for country legend Barbara Mandrell, who stepped away from her singing career in 1997. The album will be titled She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool, after one of Mandrell's best-known tracks.