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Richard Gehr | October 09, 2007

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  • CMT.com asked Merle Haggard to comment on the state of mainstream country music: "'Perfect' is a good word. Perfect, always perfect. Nobody's gonna take a breath. You're not gonna hear breathing on it. Used to, you could hear Elvis breathe. You knew he was a man. But nowadays, it seems like everything is digitally perfect—boringly perfect." The Hag answers 19 other questions here.

  • El Cantante stars Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony proved themselves the Faith Hill and Tim McGraw of Latin pop during their Sunday-night show at Madison Square Garden.

  • Brian Wilson will sing "God Only Knows" with the English National Ballet at the Intercontinental London hotel in London (natch) on Nov. 11.

  • If you're into Garth Brooks and live in the Greater Kansas City, Mo., area, you may be in luck. Brooks's scheduled Nov. 14 date has expanded into nine shows between Nov. 5 and 14, with nearly 160,000 tickets sold in less than two hours on Saturday. The country star will also release The Ultimate Garth Brooks, a three-CD box set, on his own Pearl label Nov. 6.

  • Boogie Woogie Flu posts a bunch of MP3s to make you think.

  • Road Trips: Aimee Mann's second annual Christmas Show tour begins Nov. 29 in Solana Beach, Calif., and wraps up with a two-night stand Nov. 17-18 in Alexandria, Va....John Mellencamp's tour, which continues Oct. 26 in Terre Haute, Ind., has been extended to Dec. 15 in Atlantic City, N.J....Brad Paisley's extensive Bonfires and Amplifiers tour continues Thursday in Virginia Beach, Va., and burns out Feb. 22 in Peoria, Ill.

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