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Kevin Costner Honky-Tonks in Nashville

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Kevin Costner Honky-Tonks in Nashville

Originally posted 11/11/2008 12:30PM

He may be an Oscar-winning actor and director, but Kevin Costner and his country rock band Modern West put in their time in Nashville the way so many new country acts do: by playing a honky-tonk on the city's Lower Broadway.

Costner and his band played a private show for about 200 people Monday night at the Stage as he joked to the crowd that he realized many of them were drawn by his Hollywood fame, not his musical chops.

"I know there's a curiosity factor," he said. "I get it. And I'm just as surprised to see you!'

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Kevin Costner & Wife Expecting Again

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Kevin Costner & Wife Expecting Again

Originally posted 10/16/2008 12:10PM

Kevin Costner and wife Christine are expecting their second child, a rep confirms to PEOPLE.

The actor, 53, and Christine, 34, were married in Colorado in 2004. The couple's first son, Cayden Wyatt, was born in May 2007. Costner also has three children from his first marriage to Cindy Silva.

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Kevin Costner Goes Country with a New Album

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Kevin Costner Goes Country with a New Album

Originally posted 09/29/2008 07:45PM

Kevin Costner will fulfill a longtime dream in November when he releases his first album with his country-rock band, Modern West.

The actor, who told PEOPLE that his unlikely turn as a lead singer elicited double-takes when the band played a NASCAR event in July, has been playing music with some of his band mates for nearly 20 years.

An early incarnation of the band (once called Roving Boy) stalled when Costner's movie career took off, but in the past few years he's devoted more time to music. "I remember looking out into the crowd, thinking, 'This just feels right,' " Costner, 53, said in a statement about an early performance with Modern West.

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Kevin Costner Opens Up About Past Fear of Settling Down

Kevin Costner Opens Up About Past Fear of Settling Down

Originally posted 07/18/2008 11:45AM

He may play hardened heroes like Eliot Ness onscreen, but in real life, Kevin Costner's biggest crisis came about because of his fear – of babies. Having another one, that is.

"For years, fear kept me from marrying Christine," Costner says of his wife of four years. "Christine wanted a child, but I was afraid I couldn't be an effective father."

In an interview with Parade, out Sunday, the 53-year-old Swing Vote star says the painful divorce from his first wife left him unprepared to ever love again.

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Kevin Costner: Playing Music for My Son Is 'Magic'

Kevin Costner: Playing Music for My Son Is 'Magic'

Originally posted 07/07/2008 11:50AM

Surprise! Thousands of NASCAR fans who turned up for Saturday's Coke Zero 400 were shocked to realize that the lively country-rock band playing featured a familiar face: Kevin Costner on lead vocals.

"There were double-takes," he said after the show at the Daytona International Speedway. "They get into the music without knowing."

The actor – dressed in faded jeans, sunglasses and white button-down with rolled-up sleeves – and his band Modern West played a 50-minute set of mostly original songs, capped off by a lively rendition of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man."

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Costner Forgives Madonna for Truth or Dare Diss | Kevin Costner, Madonna

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Kevin Costner Forgives Madonna for Truth or Dare Diss

Originally posted 05/29/2007 09:40AM

Kevin Costner has forgiven Madonna for making fun of him in her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare.

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Kevin Costner, Wife Have a Baby Boy

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Kevin Costner, Wife Have a Baby Boy

Originally posted 05/07/2007 11:00AM

Kevin Costner and his wife Christine welcomed a baby boy, Cayden Wyatt Costner, on Sunday, PEOPLE has confirmed.

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Aspiring Rocker Kevin Costner Sues Music Promoter | Kevin Costner

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Aspiring Rocker Kevin Costner Sues Music Promoter

Originally posted 04/06/2007 10:45AM

Plenty of actors have aspired to music careers – remember 30 Odd Foot of Grunts? – but Kevin Costner's hasn't yet taken off, and now he's suing his promoter.

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Kevin Costner, Wife Christine Are Expecting | Kevin Costner

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UpdatePosted 02/09/2007 04:25PM

Kevin Costner, Wife Christine Are Expecting

Originally posted 02/09/2007 10:00AM

Waterworld star Kevin Costner and his wife, Christine, are expecting their own little dipper, his rep said Thursday.

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Ryan Seacrest Buys Kevin Costner's House | Kevin Costner, Ryan Seacrest

Ryan Seacrest Buys Kevin Costner's House

Originally posted 04/10/2006 08:00AM

Kevin Costner's loss is Ryan Seacrest's gain. The American Idol host and E! News anchor, 31, has bought the Rumor Has It star's Hollywood Hills spread for $11.5 million, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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