Songwriter Jaren Johnston revealed via twitter today that he recently co-wrote with Season 9 Idol Casey James. Casey’s debut album is set to be released on Sony Nashville later this year.

BurnThisMedia has a video of Jaren’s Nashville rock band American Bang, which makes hard rock, Southern-style. [...]

It’s been quiet on the Casey James front ever since he was signed to Sony Nashville over the summer.

But things may be gearing up ever-so-slowly for Casey’s debut album, set to be released sometime this year.

The Casey James Band official website is slowly but surely taking shape, and [...]

With so little Casey James news lately, I thought I’d post a little something that’s been floating around the net the past couple of days.

It’s a pre-Idol song, written and arranged by Casey, called “She”.

The live acoustic recording reveals a pretty melody and solid effort from Season 9′s resident guitar god.  That’s [...]

Casey James has been added to the Sony Music Nashville site as the “Casey James Band”

Check it out HERE. And at the BNA site HERE.

The site is pretty empty, but I’m sure that will change soon. Looking forward to Casey’s new band!

Casey is taking meetings in Los [...]

Casey James joined his pre-American Idol band–now the Tim Hood Band on stage  Friday night at the Ranch at Las Colinasto in Las Colinasto TX, to share lead vocals and perform a a few scorching guitar solos.  It’s the blues, peeps.

Casey will be heading to Nashville soon to work on his [...]

Casey James was taken to a local hospital last night after the Idols Live show at the Scottrade Center  in St. Louis.

According to his mom, Casey was treated, released and will be performing tonight in Des Moines.

Does anyone know where my son is!? They took him [...]

It’s official. Casey James has been signed to Sony Nashville. His debut album will come out on 19 Recordings/BNA Records in 2011.

Casey will be labelmates with Kenny Chesney and Kellie Pickler!

Press Release below:

NASHVILLE, TN – Cool, TX native Casey James has turned his third place American Idol finish [...]

The rumors have been swirling since the American Idol finale in May and now it’s finally official! Casey James announces his record deal with Sony Nashville!

He did it in a tweet:

I will be working with Sony Nashville!!! Not sure the exact specifics, but there will be an [...]

Update:  USA Today reports, the contracts have not been inked yet, but Casey will be signing with Sony Nashville.  Read more HERE. Country music blog mostly rehashes, but they also confirm HERE.

The rumors have been swirling for weeks. Now the LA Times is also reporting that [...]

Is a record deal for Season 9′s Casey James about to become a reality?

Hans Ebert, a record executive out of Hong Kong has been following Casey’s career ever since the Idol guitar virtuoso stepped onto the Idol stage earlier this year.  Ebert was the first to blog about Casey’s talks with Sony Nashville shortly [...]