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Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood rehearse on Sunday, Nov. 8 at the Sommet Center in Downtown Nashville for "The 43rd Annual CMA Awards," which will broadcast live on the ABC Television Network on Wed., Nov. 11th, 8-11PM/ET. Photographer: John Russell / CMA

The wait for the 43rd Annual CMA Awards is almost over! We’ll be blogging during the show tonight and we want your participation! Watch along with us and leave your comments at the end of this blog entry. Continue Reading

Jack Ingram photo courtesy of Big Machine Records.

Jack Ingram is currently lodged among Billboard’s Top 10 country singles with “Barefoot And Crazy,” and he’ll pop in to chat with host Nan Kelley about it on this week’s edition of GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown.

The song appears on his new album, Big Dreams & High Hopes, which provided a backdrop for a huge push to set a new world record. Beginning at 8 a.m. Aug. 25, the day it was released, Jack did 215 interviews in a 24-hour period, a mark authenticated by The Guinness Book Of World Records. By the end, it’s a good bet that almost all the questions were the same: “How many more interviews do you have to do?” and “How are you holdin’ up?” Continue Reading

Pat Green photo courtesy of BNA Records. Photo credit: Danny Clinch.

By Holly Gleason

© 2009 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.

“I don’t need to be seen as an intellectual,” Pat Green admitted, with a laugh. “I’m not trying to save the planet or the monkeys or whatever. I just like to make people feel good. I love that part of my job – and it destroys my soul any time I think I make anyone feel bad. That’s who I am, and I think it says a lot about the music I make.”

Having quietly become an outdoor-shed headliner in Texas, Green broke through on national radio in 2003 with his double-Grammy-nominated existential hit “Wave on Wave.” Since then, he’s balanced uneasily between the Texas songwriter that he was and the mainstream Country star he seems destined to be. Continue Reading

Faith Hill photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Nashville.

With Barack Obama’s inauguration less than a week away, Faith Hill, Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus are among the country stars who’ve been added to official Washington, D.C., lineups that celebrate the incoming president.

And while Lee Greenwood, a longtime friend of the Bush family, hasn’t been named to appear at any of the events, there’s strong evidence that his 25-year-old flag-waver “God Bless The U.S.A.” will get an urban renewal during at least one of the ceremonies. Continue Reading