Toby Keith loves football. On Saturdays, you’ll see him walking the sidelines at Oklahoma Sooners games. On Sundays, he roots for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But on Friday nights, you’ll find him cheering his 17-year-old son Stelen, who plays high school football. Toby talked about his son with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: When you watch […]
Toby Keith co-hosts the Countdown this week. His just released a new single: “Drunk Americans,” and he explains why this song is different from his other songs about Americans. Veteran’s Day is November 11th, and Toby talks about his continuing commitment to our troops. Toby reveals that he just bought a beach house in Cabo […]
Luke Bryan Wins His First CMA Award – Entertainer of the Year! NASHVILLE – Top winner Miranda Lambert collected trophies and broke records, while Luke Bryan picked up the night’s top honor, winning his first-ever CMA Award for Entertainer of the Year at “The 48th Annual CMA Awards.” Lambert won four awards Wednesday, including her […]
This Wednesday, Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood will co-host the CMA Awards for the 7th time. In the days leading up to the show, they’re preparing for the big night, and working on the opening monologue. When they co-hosted Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton, they said they’re already hard at work. So are you […]
There was one of those unplanned moments that happened as we were recording this week’s Country Countdown USA with Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood. There was a fly buzzing around in the area where we were sitting. It was just your standard, run of the mill housefly. It was annoying all of us. Finally, it […]
Earlier this year, Brad Paisley did a tour of England and Ireland. During that trip, he brought along a carpenter friend of his to find a way to bring the charm of an Irish pub into his Nashville area farm house. That Irish Pub became the inspiration for Brad’s latest album, Moonshine In The Trunk. […]
It might have been the most exclusive Halloween party in Nashville: The city’s music media invited to an album party hosted by Garth Brooks. The setting was the Chet Atkins Chapel in the Sony Nashville building on Music Row. On a bare stage with a stool and an acoustic guitar, Garth Brooks talked about the […]
As we drove up to Brad Paisley’s farmhouse for this week’s Countdown, it was obvious someone was ready for Friday’s Trick Or Treaters. The entire house, outside and inside, was fully decorated. There were ghouls and goblins seated on the outdoor furniture. Pumpkins and corn stalks set up on the porch. Cobwebs and other decorations […]
Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood co-host a special pre-CMA Awards edition of Country Countdown USA. Lon traveled to Brad’s pub, which was decorated for Halloween, to get the inside story on next week’s CMA Awards show. The two will co-host that show for the 7th time, and they admitted to being a bit nervous this year. Carrie is […]
Tyler Farr has been on Jason Aldean’s Burn It Down Tour all year. A few months ago, Tyler told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton that he does an imitation of Jason Aldean: “We were in a dressing room one night, and he puts my hat on, and I put his cowboy hat on, and I’m […]
