Artist Spotlight: Steel Magnolia emerge from CMT’s ‘Can You Duet’ as a winning duo

Chemistry is a unique, but often difficult thing to explain — when something works, it just works. I guess no explanation is really neeeded. Steel Magnolia has red-hot chemistry as a country music duo. When Meghan Linsey and Joshua Scott Jones were competing against other pairs on season two of the CMT program “Can You Duet,” the spark between this real-life couple leapt off the television screen. What was apparent to TV viewers must have been especially obvious to record exec Scott Borchetta, who served as a judge on the show and whose Big Machine Records label ultimately signed the winning duo to a deal….

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Dorton concert ticket sales off to good start; fans can still find good seats

Advance tickets to the State Fair and Dorton Arena concerts went on sale Monday, and fans of North Carolina native Kellie Pickler hopped online quickly to snap up tickets.  As of early Friday, the Albemarle native and BFF of country superstar Taylor Swift led all other acts with 2,130 tickets sold. She is quickly closing in on the half-way mark of ticket sales. Rounding out the top 5 in sales are Third Day with 1,391 tickets sold, Blake Shelton with 1,252 tickets sold, Eric Church with 1,121 tickets sold and Jeremy Camp and Tenth Avenue North with just under 1,000 tickets sold.  While sales…

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