This week’s co-host Scotty McCreery loves baseball. He was a pitcher for his high school team, and he’s a fan of the World Series champion Boston Red Sox. He told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton he got the chance to test his skills while doing a show with The Band Perry: “We just opened up […]
Lady Antebellum’s Charles, Hillary, and Dave were in the middle of co-hosting the Countdown when their manager found out that CCUSA’s Lon Helton had won the ACM National Personality of the Year Award. So in between songs, he texted the trio the news, and they broke it to Lon. He hadn’t seen the release, so […]
Back in 2008, Thompson Square’s Keifer & Shawna were working at a small club in Nashville. Keifer recalls, “I was a 150 pound bouncer at a hip hop club. I had some interesting nights. I had to quit, or I wouldn’t be able to play guitar any more.” (Shawna) “Wasn’t there a night when Lady Antebellum […]
Last month, we told you about Zac Brown and Eric Church spear-fishing in Florida. The story doesn’t end there. After Zac left Eric’s beach house in Florida, Luke Bryan came down to visit. And Eric told him all about the spear-fishing adventures. So Eric went to the sport shop, and bought Luke some spear-fishing gear, […]
Luke Bryan’s latest hit, “Drink A Beer,” is anything but a fun party song. Luke talked about it with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: (Lon) I thought it was a poignant moment when you performed it on the CMA Awards and turned your back to the audience: (Luke) Awesome, it was an amazing moment for […]
David Nail loves baseball. And he REALLY loves his hometown St. Louis Cardinals. He even did spring training with the red birds a few years ago. So when they played the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, you might think David was sad when his team lost. Not so. He told Country Countdown USA’s […]
Eric Paslay is enjoying his first hit song with “Friday Night,” thanks in part to Lady Antebellum. The trio recorded the song three years ago for their “Own The Night” album, but never released it as a single. Eric told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton that’s when fate took over: “When it didn’t come out […]
This is Grammy Weekend in LA. One year ago, Eric Paslay was walking his very first Grammy red carpet. He earned his first nomination for writing “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” for the Eli Young Band. Now he’s co-hosting Country Countdown USA, and he shared his memories with Lon Helton: “It was mindblowing. We […]
Picture this for a moment: Zac Brown, Eric Church, and their families on beach vacation together. Sound impossible? When Eric co-hosted the Countdown last month, he told Lon that Zac and his family came down to Eric’s Florida beach house last summer. The really strange part, according to Eric, was that Zac wanted to go spear-fishing! Eric […]
It seemed like an unlikely collaboration: Roots country star Zac Brown and grunge rocker Dave Grohl. The two jammed on the CMA Awards. But according to Zac, that performance came about mainly by coincidence. Zac told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: “I met Dave during the Grammy Awards last year, and I told him I’d […]
