Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day, and it goes back to the Civil War. The idea was to take a day and place flowers or a flag on the graves of soldiers. There are a lot of country songs that have a patriotic theme to them. Our Top 10 list focuses on recent country songs that […]
This week’s co-host is Scotty McCreery, who updates us on his 7 month old son Avery. Scotty is on the road now with Brooks & Dunn. He & his family were in Nashville for the opening of the American Currents exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame. He’s also been working on some new […]
This week’s co-hosts will be Dan + Shay. Their current Top 10 is “You.” Shay says he’s lost 64 pounds in the last year, but he gained a new son in January. The guys have been in Dan’s home studio working on new music. This year marks the duo’s 10th anniversary. Lon’s first observation is […]
This week’s co-host is Tyler Hubbard, who has a Top 5 with “Dancin’ In The Country.” He wrote it with Keith Urban. The video features actor Terry Crews. Tyler talks about writing his latest hit with Keith Urban: “I sort of set the tone that morning, I wanted to write something that was fun, light-hearted, and energetic. […]
Garth Brooks & Dolly Parton will co-host this week’s ACM Awards on Amazon Prime. Garth co-hosted Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton this past weekend. He didn’t say much about what he’s doing, but he talked a lot about Dolly! Listen to the unedited conversation below. Garth explained to Lon why this is the first […]
This week, Garth Brooks co-hosts the Countdown. He will co-host the 58th annual ACM Awards with Dolly Parton on Thursday May 11th. It will be the first time he’s co-hosted an awards show. One week later, he begins his Las Vegas residency. It continues through 2024. Plus, we get an update on his first and […]
This week Parker McCollum co-hosts the Countdown with Lon. His current hit ‘Handle On You,’ is in the Top 5. He will release his second album, Never Enough, on May 12th. He’s doing shows with summer with Eric Church and Morgan Wallen. He looks back a his first year as a married man. Plus he […]
After Brett Young co-hosted the Countdown, we had a chance to ask Brett more questions about his next album, his two children, and his favorite sports team: The Los Angeles Dodgers. Talk about going from having one daughter to now having two: One to two was remarkable to me. One is one, two is ten. […]
This week, Brett Young co-hosts the countdown. His current Top 10 is “You Didn’t.” He’s on the road now with a headline tour, and he told Lon, “This is the first year it feels normal again. Last year, the people seemed nervous about being in the room. We don’t feel that now for the first […]
This week, Lon’s co-host is Hardy, who has a Top 5 song with Lainey Wilson: “Wait In The Truck.” He just received seven nominations from the Academy of Country Music, including Song, Musical Event, and Video of the Year for Wait in The Truck. Hardy told Lon that “Wait In The Truck” began in a […]
