Martina McBride spent the first two months of 2012 on the road with George Strait. The tour ended Saturday night in Kansas City. When she co-hosted Country Countdown USA, she told Lon Helton about the night he became a grandfather: “Norma his wife told me the weekend before they were anxiously awaiting their first grandchild. […]
Martina McBride and her husband John are good friends with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. When Martina co-hosted Country Countdown USA, she told Lon Helton Tim & John spend a lot of time on the phone together during football season: “Why they don’t just get together and watch together, I don’t know. Tim’s at his […]
Toby Keith’s latest hit “Red Solo Cup” has a fan in Martina McBride. Turns out that Martina has written several hit songs with two of the guys involved in Toby’s hit: The Warren Brothers. “It’s so much fun, it’ so different, it’s different for Toby, and I think it’s great. It’s one of those songs, […]
How do you thank your team for a #1 song? If you’re Keith Urban, and you’re celebrating your 14th #1, you send the Father Ryan High School marching band to the offices of your record label, performing the song that made it to the top: “You’re Gonna Fly.” Keith would have been there himself, but […]
Kenny Chesney loves the road. He loves making music. He loves his friends, his family, and the islands. But what about having kids? That subject came up this weekend on Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton. Kenny was co-hosting, talking about his friends Tim McGraw and Keith Urban. Lon pointed out that Tim has three […]
Martina McBride joins Lon this week. She talks about her tour this winter with George Strait, and seeing photos of his new grandson. Her current hit is “I’m Gonna Love You Through It.” She also talks about her “teenage daughters.” Martina responds to comments from Taylor Swift & Ronnie Dunn about that song. Martina also has […]
Kenny Chesney has been working on his next album. This picture shows Kenny & team at Ocean Way studio in St. Barth’s. Kenny gave Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton a progress report: “I’m well into the process. I feel like we got some great songs. I’ve worked more on music this off-time in previous off-times. I’ve been […]
Back in September, Kenny Chesney joined Taylor Swift on stage in Nashville as she sang his hit “Big Star.” Kenny tells Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton that the song choice was no accident: “You know, Big Star is kind of Taylor’s story. She’s lived every part of that. Like the character in that song, the girl in […]
Last week, a couple thousand radio station programmers descended on Nashville for an annual event called Country Radio Seminar. Among the memorable events: George Strait performed at the Ryman Auditorium, Faith Hill previewed songs from her next album, and Carrie Underwood debuted her new single. Thursday afternoon, Alan Jackson gave radio programmers a tour through […]
Kenny Chesney’s Brothers of the Sun tour, featuriing Tim McGraw, won’t even begin until June 2nd, but he shared details of it with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton. First question: Who goes on first? Tim or Kenny? “Tim’s going to go on, then I’m going to go on, and then we’re going to be on together. […]
