21.   Then after the tour wraps in Kentucky, McBride will return to her family in Nashville and begin work on her next studio album.

22.   They encouraged their fans to tape their shows, unworried that bootleg recordings would prevent fans from buying their studio albums.

23.   They could have held back a hot song or two to keep their studio albums tantalizing.

24.   A new studio album?

25.   After releasing just three studio albums in the past decade, rocker Bruce Springsteen finished his latest record in eight weeks.

26.   Bruce Springsteen is recording again with the E Street Band, and one group member hopes the sessions will lead to a new studio album.

27.   But he grows animated when talking about the first time he sat in a studio surrounded by the tapes of his first seven studio albums.

28.   Fifteen studio albums later, the deans of heavy metal can still put your hair on end with searing regularity.

29.   Mary Chapin Carpenter is back with her first studio album in five years.

30.   She has released four studio albums, plus a live album under an independent label.