One week ago, Trace Adkins was named the All Star Celebrity Apprentice. For Memorial Day, Trace is in our Nation’s Capital to be Honorary Grand Marshall at the National Memorial Day Parade. Trace told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton the honor came as a shock: “It’s just a huge honor, and humbling too. It’s just […]
Perhaps one of the most iconic patriotic country songs is “God Bless The USA.” But the song was very controversial at the time, and was almost not released. Country Countdown USA spoke with the song’s writer and performer, Lee Greenwood, at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. “It was actually very risky. The […]
Last Sunday, Trace Adkins was chosen by Donald Trump as the first All Star Celebrity Apprentice. This week, Trace joins Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton to talk about the five-week competition. He told Lon the reason he won: “I raised more money than he did, I thought my portion of the show was better than […]
Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert performed their award-winning song “Over You” Tuesday night on The Voice. The purpose was to raise money for victims of Monday’s devastating tornados in Oklahoma. Blake was born and raised in that state, and he’s seen tornadoes before. But the scope of the damage shocked him. Earlier in the day, Blake spoke with Country […]
Trace Adkins co-hosts the Countdown this week. Trace was just named the winner of the All Star Celebrity Apprentice. He joins Lon with stories about his winning ice cream flavor: Maple Macadamia Mash-Up. He has behind the scenes stories from the show, and the reason why he won. He also previews songs from his new CD, “Love […]
Darius Rucker did several tours with Brad Paisley, and he’s described Brad as his best friend in the music business. Brad made headlines last month with the song “Accidental Racist,” a duet with LL Cool J. Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton spoke with Darius about Brad’s song: “Brad played the song for me early, and […]
Back in 1994, Darius Rucker’s band Hootie & The Blowfish topped the pop chart with “Hold My Hand.” That same year, Sheryl Crow did the same thing with “All I Want To Do.” Now, almost 20 years later, Darius and Sheryl are together again in the country chart. Darius has “Wagon Wheel” in the Top 5, and […]
Darius Rucker co-hosts the Countdown this week. His current Top 5 hit is Wagon Wheel. It’s from his new CD, True Believers,” available next week. He talks about becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opr, his 20 year friendship with Sheryl Crow, the dangers of playing poker with Brad Paisley, and the challenge of […]
George Strait is about to wrap up the first leg of his Cowboy Rides Away tour. He announced that this will be his farewell tour, wrapping up sometime in 2014. He told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton that he intends to go out with a bang. “We’ve got some surprises up our sleeve, so next […]
George Strait and wife Norma are the proud grandparents of a 15 month old boy named George Harvey Strait III, who they call Harvey. George talked about Harvey with Lon Helton this week on Country Countdown USA: “He’s doin’ great. He’s not walkin’ now, he’s running! He’s just a mess, boy. I guarantee you. He’s […]
