A country music artist with ties to North Dakota and family in East Grand Forks and Grand Forks was one of the big winners at the 43rd annual Country Music Awards broadcast live Wednesday night on ABC ...

Country singer James Otto, a musician who spent part of his formative years in North Dakota and who was nominated earlier this week for two Grammy awards, will be in concert Jan. 28 in the Alerus ...

"They travel from around the country -- it's like [the movie] 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' trying to get here," James Otto says of the thousands of country music enthusiasts who visited Nashville ...

James Otto's music has served as the soundtrack to a lot of his fans' love lives, and now it has even inspired a romance novel! 'Last First Kiss' is the title of a new book by Lori Leger, a Louisiana ...

Muzik Mafia’s James Otto has a double-barrel voice suited to the “music without prejudice” amalgam’s swagger. With John Rich producing eight songs, it’s a full-on body slam: ‘80s-style r&b-undulating ...

For his third album, Shake What God Gave Ya, James Otto knew exactly what he wanted. “I set out to make a country soul record so I wrote in that direction,” the Nashville-based artist says. “As a ...