Zac Brown Band is nominated For 4 ACM Awards - Including Fan-Voted Entertainer of The Year - Zac Brown nominated for 2 additional individual nominations

Best New Artist GRAMMY winners Zac Brown Band are all about their live show experience and their latest DVD/2-CD release 'Pass The Jar - Zac Brown Band and Friends Live from the Fabulous Fox Theatre In Atlanta' will bring that experience to an even bigger audience on May 4 (Southern Ground/Atlantic). Taped at Atlanta's Fox Theatre, 'Pass the Jar...' is a live concert package that captures performances from Zac Brown Band's sold-out October 2009 show benefiting Athens's historic Georgia Theatre.

Billy Currington's latest single, 'That's How Country Boys Roll,' climbed to the top of both the Billboard and Mediabase/Country Aircheck charts this week, marking his fifth trip to No. 1 and his third consecutive chart-topper. The song is the follow up to Billy's previous No. 1 single, 'People Are Crazy,' both of which are from his current album, 'Little Bit of Everything.'


The Georgia native co-wrote the song with Dallas Davidson and Brett Jones, drawing inspiration from some of the shenanigans they got into when they were younger, such as "singin' in bars, soupin' their cars, just to see how fast they'll go." "I was with two other Georgia boys who I grew up [near], and they did all the same stuff," Billy tells The Boot. "So, we were talking about all that stuff. And that's how it came about. I think somebody said, 'That's how we roll,' or something like that, and that's how the title came about. We went from there."

Though the song was based on real life, he wasn't sure that it would be the right song for him. "The main thing was after I wrote it, do I record this song or not?" Billy explains. "It's not so much me at the very moment, but yeah, that's how I grew up -- hunting, fishing, dirt roads, you name it. All that stuff."

Billy is certainly glad now that he put the thoughts of not recording the tune aside, since it is now reigning over the country charts. He has a couple of weeks off from the road before he is set to roll on March 24.

Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett have their first Oscars. At the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night, the alt-country singer and famed producer won Best Original Song for 'The Weary Kind,' which is featured on the 'Crazy Heart' movie soundtrack.

"Thank you so much," said a beaming Ryan upon accepting the coveted trophy. "I'd like to thank my wife Anna, I love you more than rainbows. My uncle Clay, my band, Jack Whigham, Scott Cooper, the cast of 'Crazy Heart' -- Jeff [Bridges], Maggie [Gyllenhaal], Colin [Farrell] and Mr. Bob [Robert Duvall]. Everyone at Fox Searchlight and Mr. T Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton. Thank you all so much."

'The Weary Kind' was nominated alongside two Randy Newman songs -- 'Almost There' and 'Down in New Orleans,' from 'The Princess and the Frog,' 'Loin de Paname' from 'Paris 36,' and 'Take It All' from 'Nine.' Ryan and T-Bone's tune was also the winner for Best Original Song at the Golden Globes. Both Collin Farrell and Ryan perform renditions of 'The Weary Kind' in 'Crazy Heart,' which stars fellow Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges as a washed up country singer.

T-Bone and Ryan will continue their magical partnership, as the two are now working together on a new album for Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses.