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Joe Nichols recently visited troops on US military bases in Kuwait and Iraq. His trip was filmed for the GAC special, Joe Nichols: My Military Diary, premiering Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 at 10 p.m. Eastern.

Joe Nichols spent a week this summer singing for American troops in the Middle East, and the good vibes from that trip are getting coverage on GAC, in the special Joe Nichols: My Military Diary.

Joe made some new friends on his overseas visit, and he was particularly impressed by the dedication the service men and women demonstrate on a daily basis. Their lives are on the line every hour, and they’re forced to be away from home for months at a time during their tour of duty.

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Carrie Underwood rehearses 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

When Carrie Underwood co-hosted the CMA Awards last year with Brad Paisley, she had one question for Brad when the show was over — “Do you think they’ll ask us back?”

Carrie recently visited our Top 20 Country Countdown show and chatted with host Nan Kelley about the good time she had in 2008, and how she learned to deal with tonight’s tight schedule for the 43rd Annual CMA Awards. Watch the clip below! Continue Reading

Tim McGraw photo by Danny Clinch, courtesy of Curb Records.

Tim McGraw releases his new Southern Voice album Tuesday, and in gearing up for the street date, he’ll appear this weekend with host Nan Kelley on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown.

The album’s first single, “It’s A Business Doing Pleasure With You,” was written in part by Chad Kroeger of the rock band Nickelback, and his current hit, “Southern Voice,” namechecks such rockers as Chuck Berry, Tom Petty, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Allman Brothers. In fact, Gregg Allman will sit in with Tim when he performs “Southern Voice” on “The Jay Leno Show” Oct. 27.

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Toby Keith photo courtesy of Show Dog Nashville.

Toby Keith’s quirky “American Ride” video is one of the most-talked-about music pieces on TV, and Toby drops in this weekend to talk about the piece with host Nan Kelley on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown.

Paced by the title track, which peaked at No. 1 on the singles chart, his American Ride album debuted at the top of the Billboard Country Albums chart this week.

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Chris Young photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

When Chris Young released his current single, “Gettin’ You Home,” he subtitled it “The Black Dress Song,” owing to the signature line about a woman shedding her garment after a night of fine dining.

Thanks to that song, Chris has begun to encounter other kinds of women’s apparel on the road. Beginning with a show in Iowa, female fans started throwing their bras on stage during his concerts in response to the song’s sexual message.

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Luke Bryan photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.

With his song “Do I” now at No. 1 for the seventh straight week on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown, Luke Bryan makes a guest appearance on the show for a second straight week with host Nan Kelley’s coverage of his first Farm Tour concert.

Luke kicked off the tour Monday in Statesboro, Ga., the first event in what he hopes will be a long-term charity effort featuring benefit concerts for America’s agricultural workers every year. Continue Reading

Luke Bryan photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.

“That kid,” LeClaire Bryan, his mother, told The Albany Herald in Georgia, “was a piece of work.”

Luke’s newest piece of work — his sophomore album, Doin’ My Thing — will be released on Tuesday, and Luke will celebrate with a big homecoming event, signing autographs in the afternoon and performing a concert at the Lee County High School that night.

He returns to Georgia a star, but he would not have achieved that distinction if he hadn’t had a do-or-die attitude about pursuing his dream. He spent a good deal of time waiting tables when he first arrived in Nashville, and he still won’t show his mom the apartment where he lived when he first moved to Music City. Continue Reading

Luke Bryan photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.

Oct. 2, 2009 — Luke Bryan’s “Do I” is firmly entrenched at No. 1 for the sixth straight week on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown, and he drops by to visit with host Nan Kelley on this weekend’s edition.

The appearance comes just days before the release of Luke’s sophomore album, Doin’ My Thing, which shoehorns a cover of OneRepublic’s “Apologize” amid songs that continue to celebrate country life in the same way he did on his first CD.

Luke’s not the only act with a hit video on this week’s show. Due West, which is ranked at No. 3 with “I Get That All The Time,” also makes a stop on the countdown.

Top 20 Country Countdown counts down the week’s top country videos from No. 20 to No. 1 as voted by viewers on each week on GACTV.com. A new countdown premieres every Friday at 8 p.m. ET on GAC and airs again Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET; Sundays at 1 p.m. ET; and Mondays at 10 a.m. ET. Viewers can vote for their favorite videos, as well as purchase Top 20 artists’ albums and ringtones at GACTV.com.

Click here to preview each song on our Top 20 list and download the ones you want!

THIS WEEK’S CHART:

1. Luke Bryan “Do I”
2. Keith Urban “Only You Can Love Me This Way”
3. Due West “I Get That All The Time”
4. Chris Young “Gettin’ You Home”
5. Billy Currington “People Are Crazy”
6. George Strait “Living For The Night”
7. Miranda Lambert “Dead Flowers”
8. Taylor Swift “You Belong With Me”
9. Alan Jackson “I Still Like Bologna”
10. Toby Keith “American Ride”
11. Jason Aldean “Big Green Tractor”
12. Kellie Pickler “Best Days Of Your Life”
13. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
14. Martina McBride “I Just Call You Mine”
15. Caitlin & Will “Address In The Stars”
16. Brooks & Dunn “Indian Summer”
17. Lady Antebellum “I Run To You”
18. Brad Paisley “Welcome To The Future”
19. Jake Owen “Eight Second Ride”
20. Reba McEntire “Strange”

Miranda Lambert photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

With her third album, Revolution, set for release on Tuesday, Miranda Lambert is a special guest this weekend on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown.

The appearance comes on the heels of Thursday’s sold-out concert at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, where Miranda performed the CD’s songs in full for an appreciative crowd. One of her goals with the album was to expand the way the world perceives her.

“I feel like I was getting dangerously close to being shoved in that box of ‘She’s that crazy girl who kills people in her songs,’” she told The Los Angeles Times. “That’s fine, but there’s so much more to me than that; there’s so much more to the great music that I love than one song.” Continue Reading

Blake Shelton photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Nashville.

Blake Shelton is double trouble on GAC in the coming week as he guests on Friday’s Top 20 Country Countdown and receives his own installment of Backstory: Blake Shelton on Tuesday.

Girlfriend Miranda Lambert joins friends, family and business associates to reflect in Backstory on Blake, whose performance of Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock & Roll” at age 12 makes its way into the special. It was doing that number that convinced Blake to pursue music full-time.

“Right then is when he got the bug and thought, ‘Man, I want to do this,’” his mom says. Continue Reading