Tim McGraw is a superstar by himself. But add Taylor Swift and Keith Urban, and you have a great candidate for Vocal Event of the Year. Two of the three came together in Nashville last week to celebrate the song reaching #1. Tim McGraw was the guest of honor at a party held at The […]
Music Industry Guests Treated To A Special Evening Honoring King George Nashville, TN (August 29, 2013) – Wednesday night, nearly 700 guests were treated to a very special evening honoring George Strait at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Invited guests were music industry professionals, George’s family and friends, as well as songwriters from all of Strait’s No.1 […]
Easton Corbin co-hosts the Countdown this week. His current Top 10 hit is “All Over The Road.” He’s part of Blake Shelton’s Ten Times Crazier Tour. And he’ll join The Band Perry on their We Are Pioneers Tour next year. Easton talks about love of motorcycles, elk hunting, and Gators football. Plus Lon speaks live […]
Luke Bryan has a couple of young boys named Bo & Tate. Dierks Bentley and his wife Cassidy are expecting their first boy. So when Luke found out Dierks was having a boy, he had a lot to say. Dierks talked about it with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: “Luke was one of the first people […]
A few weeks ago, Dierks Bentley appeared on the ABC TV show The View. He did it to debut his new single, “I Hold On.” The show asked if Dierks could bring his dog Jake. That required some travel adjustments, as Dierks told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: “They wanted Jake to be a co-host, […]
The location itself was historic. A couple months ago, Dierks Bentley invited a small group of reporters to hallowed ground. When you say “Studio A” in Nashville, there is only one place. It’s RCA Studios, built by Chet Atkins in 1965. This was where Waylon Jennings recorded his first records. Where Dolly Parton recorded “I […]
Dierks Bentley co-hosts the Countdown this week. He’s currently on the Locked & Reloaded Tour with Miranda Lambert. He’s releasing a new single this week called “I Hold On,” and he explains the inspiration of the song, and why it may be his most personal one yet. Dierks and his wife are expecting a baby this fall. […]
Carrie Underwood spent the past year on the road with Hunter Hayes on her Blown Away Tour. It’s customary for practical jokes to fly during the final show. Carrie told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton what happened when the tour ended in May: “I’m not a huge prankster. I’m really not. We do our show, and […]
Carrie Underwood just returned from a 2-week vacation in Europe. She told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton that the trip took her to Northern Italy and Austria: “We went to Tuscany, did the whole wine country thing, Venice, Florence, and then went to Austria. We had to fly through there anyway, so I figured that […]
Carrie Underwood has a lot on her schedule this year, including hosting the CMA Awards for the 6th time, and the live revival of “The Sound Of Music.” But she told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton that there’s no time for working on new music this year: “That’s really not on the schedule for this […]
