THOMPSON SQUARE
DOWNLOAD: "LET'S FIGHT"
Husband-and-wife duo Keifer and Shawna Thompson offer up a sly ode to marital spats-and the making up after. "It's about two people who start a fight with one another just for fun, just to make up and make out," says Keifer.
TRAILER CHOIR
DOWNLOAD: "ROLLIN' THROUGH THE SUNSHINE"
"It's a song about heading down the highway to go chase the sun and just forget about life for a while," says frontman Marc "Butter" Fortney.
• WHO THEY ARE
Discovered by Toby Keith, Fortney, Crystal Hoyt and Vencent "Big Vinny" Van Zant Hickerson had an '09 hit with "Rockin' the Beer Gut." Their CD Tailgate is due July 6.
JARON AND THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE
DOWNLOAD: "PRAY FOR YOU"
Jaron Lowenstein's lighthearted debut single "is about me being heartbroken and wishing really bad things on my ex."
• WHO HE IS
As half of the duo Evan and Jaron (Evan is his twin), he scored a pop hit in 2000 with "Crazy for This Girl."
The Dixie Chicks' Martie & Emily!
COURT YARD HOUNDS
DOWNLOAD: "THE COAST"
Though the Dixie Chicks are back on tour this summer (opening for the Eagles), sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire-sans the third Chick, lead singer Natalie Maines-are also striking out on their own as the Court Yard Hounds. Their first single is a folkie tribute to their native Texas' Gulf Coast.
MERLE HAGGARD
DOWNLOAD: "HOW DID YOU FIND ME HERE?"
After almost 50 years in music, the Nashville icon released I Am What I Am in April with this "happy beer drinking song" that, he says, is about "a guy in the rut of his life who is redeemed by someone who finds him there-and he is surprised that anyone cared."
SONGS FOR THE TROOPS
ROCKIE LYNNE
"HEROES COME FROM SMALL TOWNS"
For every one of these Lynne CDs sold, an album will also be sent to a soldier serving abroad.
4TROOPS
"ANGEL"
Four Iraq war veterans team up on patriotic and inspirational songs. A portion of CD sales supports veteran causes.
JAMIE TATE
"I'LL GIVE MY ALL"
Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne All-American Chorus pitches in on vocals, and a portion of the download sales goes to veteran and soldier causes.
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