In Concert This Week in Nashville

Regina Spektor at the Ryman - November 14

Chris Cornell at the Wildhorse Saloon - November 14

Jason Michael Carroll & Bucky Covington at the Wildhorse Saloon - November 17

Tickets now on sale for Sound & Speed concert

Tickets are on sale for the 2008 Sprint Sound & Speed Presented by SunTrust festival, which for the third consecutive year will bring together stars of country music and NASCAR and concludes with a concert extravaganza headlined by Grammy-winning, multi-platinum-selling recording artist Alan Jackson, with special guests Taylor Swift and Jason Michael Carroll, and other top country music performers at Nashville's Sommet Center.

Fans of country music and racing have two blockbuster events on Jan. 12 in the Sommet Center: the annual Backstage Garage Pass festivities, where they can get up-close-and-personal with NASCAR and country music stars for autographs, story-telling and question-answer sessions from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST, and the concert at 8 p.m. headlined by Jackson and special guests Swift and Carroll. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and the Sound & Speed Website.

Tickets are $39.50 for the concert, $20 for the Backstage Garage Pass event, or $54.50 for both events.

Can't Keep Bucky Out of the Bars

Jason Michael Carroll and Bucky Covington are teaming up for the 20-city bar tour that begins next month and stops in Nashville on Nov. 17.



"Every time I go back into a bar, it takes you back to when you first got into music," Bucky says. "I played bars eight years or so. I think anybody who gets into music got into it because they went to a bar, played music and people liked it. It's about the music, but it's also about the attention in the bar."

"It's called Raisin' the Bar tour.

Read more Nashville news in Beverly Keel's column today.