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Keith Urban breaks his post-vocal cord surgery silence by saying it was a strange recovery, one spent in total silence.

“I had this operated on and you have to [go] three weeks [with] no talking, no uttering a sound, and you can’t cry, you can’t sneeze, you can’t cough, you can’t clear your throat“It was a strange three weeks," he said, adding it was tough not being able to talk with his wife, Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, and their 3-year-old daughter Sunday Rose.

“Not being able to talk for three weeks, that’s a long time,” Keith said. “If you have to engage in some sort of heated discussion, the other person can talk and I just have to write.”

But not to Sunday Rose.

“She can’t read, so I had that issue, too. . . . Mum had to communicate,” he said, smiling.

Merle Haggard is still recuperating in a Georgia hospital after a bout with pneumonia,Merle was hospitalized after being stricken with the illness early last week, forcing him to cancel shows. He left the hospital over the weekend and was on his way back to his home in California. But the trip became too unsettling and he decided to return to the hospital.

One of the most spectacular voices in any genre of music, Martina McBride is a four time CMA Female Vocalist and Grammy winning recording artist with more than 18 million in album sales. Hits and More is a collection of four number 1's, 10 top 5, and 2 top 10 hits along with 3 new tracks.

Rhonda Vincent to Release Album on Her Own Label Sept. 21

July 27, 2010

Rhonda Vincent, whose departure from Rounder Records was announced February, will release her first album on her own Upper Management Music label Sept. 21. It is titled Taken. According to her website, she co-produced the project with her band, the Rage, which also played on the sessions. Guest vocalists include Dolly Parton, Richard Marx and Vincent's daughters, Sally and Tensel Sandker. One selection on the album is Billy Sherrill and Glen Sutton's "Tonight My Baby's Coming Home," a 1972 Top 10 hit for Barbara Mandrell. Vincent and her band will debut the album at Sweet Caroline's in New York's Times Square on the release date.