When "Nashville Star" premieres on NBC on Monday, June 9, at 9 p.m., the search for the next country recording star will be featuring a special performance by SEAN BENNETT during the military auditions aboard the Iwo Jima, courtesy of the show's new host, BILLY RAY CYRUS.

Billy Ray was doing a show for the troops in Alaska the first time he met Sean. The young military man approached him and asked him to listen to a CD he and a buddy had made. Sean explained that he had just returned from Iraq and "Redneck Town" was an original song the two of them had written and recorded.

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