Country music stars sure love Twitter! Here at GAC, we follow them too. Here are our picks for the Top 10 Country Tweets Of The Week!

Photo courtesy of twitter.com/BradPaisley.

Brad Paisley:  @BradPaisley    “Doc, it’s the weirdest thing. Suddenly I have this sharp pain in my back, neck and side.”

Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus:  @ JayDeMarcus    So… Twilight in a nutshell is.. “I love the vampire. No wait, I love the wolf. No! Wait the vampire! No! The wolf!! Dammit! I love em both

Randy Montana:  @RandyMontana    Wardrobe meeting for the 1000 Faces video tomorrow. This is where a stylist looks at me and says,”…….and you think that matches?”

Photo courtesy of twitter.com/cmorganmusic.

Craig Morgan:  @cmorganmusic    person next to me on plane sleeping hard core

Martina McBride:  @martinamcbride  My sister has all her Cmas shopping done & wrapped, lights up, tree up. Suffice it to say THAT…whatever THAT is…does NOT run in the family. Continue Reading

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Lady Antebellum photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.

“Need You Now” lofted Lady Antebellum from a well-regarded band within country music to one that’s recognized across multiple genres, and it already won Single Record and Song of the Year during the Academy of Country Music Awards in April.

With the Country Music Association set to hand out its trophies on Wednesday, “Need You Now” claimed yet another victory Monday when it won Song of the Year from SESAC and — combined with “I Run To You” and “Our Kind Of Love” — earned group member Hillary Scott recognition as the performing-rights organization’s Songwriter of the Year in a black-tie event on Music Row.

SESAC is one of three American PROs, responsible for collecting and distributing money for songwriters, so its recognition is symbolic of just how financially rewarding the song has been.

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Country music stars sure love Twitter! Here at GAC, we follow them too. Here are our picks for the Top 10 Country Tweets Of The Week!

Brad Paisley photo courtesy of twitter.com/BradPaisley.

Brad Paisley:  @BradPaisley  You guys sure have some big game up here in Montana.

Laura Bell Bundy: @LauraBellBundy   Okay guys if u go vote on gactv.com & make Drop On By the #1 video this week, I’ll come take bath @ ur house & dress as any character I do

Kellie Pickler:  @kelliepickler  my respiratory infection & bronchitis is getting the best of me. wish my granny were alive so I could crawl up in her lap & let her hold me.

Blake Shelton:  @blakeshelton  Can someone explain to my financy that a speed bump isn’t for speeding up!!!!!!

Miranda Lambert:  @Miranda_Lambert  I am engaged to a member of the Grand Ole Opry!!!! That rocks:) Continue Reading

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Country music stars sure love Twitter! Here at GAC, we follow them too. Here are our picks for the Top 10 Country Tweets Of The Week!

Michelle Branch: @michellebranch The problem with seeing Eclipse with my sister? She’d start laughing which made me laugh until we almost peed our pants. Twi-hards hated us.

Blake Shelton: @blakeshelton Just saw “the house that built me” video by ML….. Never felt more pride in my life….

Miranda Lambert: @Miranda_Lambert @blakeshelton is coming to see me. I can’t wait! I still get butterflies……..ugh I know…. I’m a cheese ball. Oh well:)

Dierks Bentley: @DierksBentley hey brian and cassady…zz top called…they want their move back

Photo courtesy of twitter.com/DierksBentley

Luke Bryan: @LukeBryanOnline I’m birthday drunk

David Nail: @davidnail Just crossed border into North Dakota, good to be back in US, land of direct tv, internet, and my Twitter nation…

Randy Montana: @RandyMontana Who you sit next to on a Southwest flight is like playing Russian roulette, and on my flight to Las Vegas today, I died.

BlaineLarsen: @blainelarsen What’s my favorite part of the Bachelorette? The end.

Brad Paisley: @BradPaisley Realizing how many of my things have the abbreviation BP written on them. Great. Just #~@<*^£¥ great.

Laura Bell Bundy: @LauraBellBundy 8 oz in a cup, 24 oz in a pint, 32 oz in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon. 44 pres of US, 2 impeached, 1 resigned. 5280 feet in a mile.

Which tweet is your favorite? Which one is the funniest? Know of a tweet we missed or an artist we should be following? Leave us a comment and let us know!

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Miranda Lambert tweeted this photo of her home-grown produce. Photo courtesy of Miranda Lambert.

Blake Shelton’s Twitter profile says ‘You’re getting the real BS straight from Blake himself.’ Like Blake’s, Taylor Swift’s  account is verified to prove it is really Taylor tweeting. The popularity of Twitter has made it an almost ‘must have’ for artists these days as it gives them a quick and easy way to promote their music and interact with fans. Fans in turn love the idea that they can tweet their favorite star and maybe get a reply or can follow along with them on the night of a big show through tweets and shared photos. Because of the popularity of Twitter, record labels go through great lengths to ensure fans know their artists’ Twitter accounts are the real deal.

Recently however, a crop of fake Twitter accounts have been popping up, mocking the artists that inspired them. The operator behind @blakes_liver runs with Blake’s humorous tweets about alcohol, PETA and his ‘If you don’t like George Strait…’ jokes. @DrunkenMartina is one of several @drunken Twitter accounts poking fun at country stars from Martina McBride to Laura Bell Bundy. One of the original accounts is @NotJakeOwen who goes by the name ‘Cake Bowen’ in his Twitter profile.  There is also @notkennychesney, @NotKennyRogers and a host of others. Continue Reading

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Craig Morgan signs autographs at the GAC booth during the CMA Music Festival on June 11, 2009. Photo by Wendy Newcomer, GACTV.com.

The schedule is set for GAC’s booth at this year’s CMA Music Festival. Fans can come to The Greased Lightning® Fan Fair ® Hall – GAC is booth #200 – to meet and greet their favorite country artists, get an autograph and take pictures.

GAC has more than sixty artists scheduled over the four day event, with new artists each hour and most hours featuring multiple artists. Continue Reading

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Country Music Hall of Fame member Tom T. Hall.

There’s a segment of older artists who resent the current crop of performers, who represent change for a genre that’s held in high regard by its previous crop of talent. Country Music Hall of Fame member Tom T. Hall is not one of those crabby old-guard dudes.

“Music is an art form,” he told a passel of programmers Thursday at the Country Radio Seminar. “It should not be done the way it used to be done. If we do it the way they used to do it, that’s copying.”

Not that T. is above getting crabby.

“I do resent,” he allowed, “the fact that they’re makin’ so much money!”

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Jo Dee Messina photo courtesy of jodeemessina.com.

Behind on your holiday shopping already? You probably won’t get much sympathy from Jo Dee Messina. Despite the fact that she spent large chunks of November away from home on tour, she’s already got the decorations up at her house — and she’s been tending to a sick husband as she enjoys her first Christmas as a mom.

If that’s not enough, she’s packing even more into the first week of December as she does the season up big-time. Jo Dee’s part of a new round of talent announced for Wednesday’s annual NBC special “Christmas In Rockefeller Center,” which puts her in the company of Rod Stewart, Rob Thomas, Barry Manilow, Aretha Franklin, Michael Buble and Alicia Keys.

And topping off the week, Jo Dee’s got a pair of fundraising concerts on tap Saturday at the Brentwood United Methodist Church in Middle Tennessee. The shows are officially free, though she’s asking for donations, with all proceeds from the door — and from merchandise sales — earmarked for Harvest Hands, a community organization dedicated to an impoverished neighborhood in Nashville. She’s a firm believer in the program, particularly because its director is passionately involved 24/7.

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Photo courtesy of Tracy Byrd.

At least three years after shooting began, the independent movie that gave Lee Ann Womack and Tracy Byrd their first significant acting roles debuts this weekend in a limited number of public theaters.

It premieres Friday , KBMT-TV reported, in Beaumont, Texas, where much of the film was shot. It was featured earlier this year in the Nashville Film Festival and has also screened at the Austin Film Festival.

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Taylor Swift photo courtesy of Big Machine Records.

Taylor Swift has sold out the prestigious Madison Square Garden and performed in front of 50,000 fans at the CMA Music Festival. But neither of those shows represents her biggest audience.

She sang for a whopping 65,000 people in 2006 when she delivered “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a Pittsburgh Steelers game at Heinz Field. The home team lost that game to the Cincinnati Bengals, but it was a winning experience for Taylor, whose first video — “Tim McGraw” — had just debuted on GAC a mere two months prior.

“It was the first time I had ever been in front of that many people,” the Pennsylvania native told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “It was one of the coolest experiences of my life, because I was so happy to be back in my home state. I was traveling for a really long time, and it was really cool to feel that energy again.” Continue Reading

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