Tag: "Brad"
Brad & Carrie’s CMA Preview Pt 3
So here we are: CMA Day in Nashville. All the writing sessions, the rehearsals, and the last minute changes are pretty much done. Time for the show to begin. So what goes through the minds of the co-hosts Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood? “It’s like wait, we’re not ready.” Country Countdown USA host Lon Helton [...]
Brad & Carrie CMA Preview Pt 2
Yesterday, Brad Paisley said he always watches the previous year’s CMA show before begining work on the next one. So Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton asked the same question of Brad’s co-host Carrie Underwood: “I watch right afterwards, just to see how everything….I want to see my dresses.” Brad added, “Me too. That’s why I [...]
Brad & Carrie’s CMA Preview Pt 1
The 45th annual CMA Awards take place this Wednesday night in Nashville. For the 4th straight year, they will be co-hosted by Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood. They were in our studio last month, and we talked about how they prepare for the big show. Brad said, “Part of getting ready for this is looking [...]
Brad Paisley: Diary of a Player
Brad Paisley says he never intended to write a book. It was just something that came up last year as he was preparing to host the CMA Awards. He was working on the script with writer David Wild, when the subject came up. “It was his idea. It’s his fault. I had no interest in [...]
Brad & Carrie Look Ahead to CMAs
Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood move from co-hosting Country Countdown USA to co-hosting the 45th annual CMA Awards. It will be their fourth tour of duty on the awards show, and they told Lon Helton they’re just starting to think about it. “We have a few ideas, we’ve texted a few times. We have a [...]
Brad Jams With a Rolling Stone
This week’s co-host Brad Paisley just returned from a two week tour of Europe. He told Country Countdown USA host Lon Helton he had a great time: “I’m floored, I was absolutely floored. The beauty of it is it’s such a different culture, they knew the word to songs off the first album that had [...]
Carrie’s Record & Tour Plans
It’s been two years since Carrie’s third album, “Play On,” was released. Her most recent single, “Mama’s Song,” peaked back in January. So it’s been a while since we’ve had new music from Carrie on the radio. Speaking with Country Countdown USA host Lon Helton, Carrie said she wanted to take a break from public like [...]
Brad & Carrie on “Remind Me”
This week’s co-hosts, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, came together in our studio to tell the story behind their superstar #1 duet “Remind Me.” The song has already sold almost a million downloads. But it actually was the very last song recorded for Brad’s current CD. When he joined Lon Helton for Country Countdown USA [...]
Brad Beams Carrie to Tampa
Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood just topped the chart with their soaring duet, “Remind Me.” Brad has been on tour all summer, but that duet was conspicuously absent from his set list. Until last weekend. On Friday, September 9, the song was added to Brad’s show with a very stunning visual effect: A digital Carrie. The [...]
Brad & Blake Exchange Tour Pranks
This week’s co-host Blake Shelton is on the road this summer with Brad Paisley. Brad is a well-known practical joker, and so is Blake. So what happens when you get these two together? Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton asked Blake: “Everybody asks me about this, and the only thing that’s happened so far is on [...]
