Clay Walker photo courtesy of Curb Records.

Clay Walker will perform on tonight’s episode of The Bachelor. Clay’s surprise performance takes place during an intimate one-on-one date between bachelor Ben Flajnik and the lucky lady of his choice in Park City, Utah. The Bachelor airs on ABC tonight, Janury 23, at 8/7 CT.

Clay’s latest single, “Like We Never Said Goodbye,” is currently at radio and climbing the charts. Clay made his debut in 1993 with the hit “What’s It To You.” Since then, he has sold more than 11 million albums, had 11 No. 1 singles, and four platinum and two gold certified albums. Continue Reading

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Clay Walker photo courtesy of Curb Records.

How much money does a rodeo competitor make? Why do cowboys REALLY wear Wranglers? Which country superstar was discovered singing the National Anthem at the 1974 National Finals Rodeo?* Clay Walker delivers the answers to those questions and many more when he hosts GAC’s Wrangler National Finals Rodeo special, Top 20 WNFR Fun Facts, airing this Saturday, November 19 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. The full streaming episode is also available online at GACTV.com! Watch it here >>

This GAC special is just one of the ways we are getting fans ready for the 2011 WNFR, which takes place from Dec. 1 through 10 in Las Vegas. GAC has teamed up with the Pro Rodeo Cowboy Association (PRCA) to be their official television partner, broadcasting all 10 days of the WNFR live from Dec. 1-10 at 10 p.m. ET each night.  Check out GAC’s official 2011 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo section for all the details, video highlights and photos >> Continue Reading

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Katie Amiger photo courtesy of Cold River Records.

Katie Armiger released a new deluxe package of her album Confessions of a Nice Girl (The True Confessional) on iTunes this week. The deluxe album includes four original songs, including her current single, “I Do, But Do I.” It also includes a brand new song, “Worth It,” as well as a dance mix of her song “Best Song Ever” and an acoustic cut of “Cry Cry Cry.” It also includes music videos for “Best Song Ever” and “I Do, But Do I.”

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Katie released the first edition of Confessions of a Nice Girl in October of last year. The album is Katie’s highest debut to date, landing at No. 6 on Amazon and No. 11 on iTunes. Her videos for “Best Song Ever” and “I Do, But Do I” both spent time at No. 1 on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown.

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This is a big week for Katie. Not only did she release her deluxe album, she will make her Grand Ole Opry debut on Friday during the Opry’s 7 p.m. show. She is currently out on the road opening shows for Darius Rucker and spent the summer opening for Ronnie Dunn, Little Big Town and Clay Walker.

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Clay Walker photo courtesy of Curb Nashville.

Clay Walker and  GAC’s own Nan Kelley will host this year’s Holiday Notes From Home Christmas concert at the Grand Ole Opry on October 6. The annual concert will feature performances from Lee Ann Womack and Little Big Town. Outlaw country artist Adam Fisher will also be on hand to play a pre-show set before the 7pm taping begins.

Members of the United States Air Force and Air Force Reserve, service members from Fort Campbell, KY, and the Tennessee Army & Air National Guard will be special guests at the event. They, along with participating artists, will be able to send their holiday greetings to our soldiers and their families serving our country around the world. The show will air numerous times throughout the Christmas season on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Network. Continue Reading

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Trace Adkins on the set of Day Jobs.

Before the hit songs, awards and thousands of screaming fans, country stars held day jobs just like those who love their music. In Day Jobs, an original series premiering on Sunday, October 2 at 8 PM/ET, several of today’s top stars step away from the stage lights and put in a full day’s work the way they did before they made it big.

Each one-hour episode of Day Jobs follows three stars as they work a shift in a variety of jobs ranging from offshore oil rig roughneck to cattle rancher, women’s shoe salesman, pilot and waitress. As they work, they realize just how far they’ve come and how those early jobs helped shaped their life today.

Every participant agreed to put in a full eight-hour day and some had to undergo additional training. Before Trace Adkins returned to his former job as a roughneck on an offshore oil rig, he had to spend a day in safety training. Joe Nichols had to become certified to drive a forklift before spending a day loading pallets and filling orders in a warehouse. Continue Reading

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Clay Walker photo courtesy of Curb Nashville.

Clay Walker has been outspoken about his battle with Multiple Sclerosis since he was diagnosed in 1996 and has become an advocate for raising awareness about MS, giving hope to others who suffer from the disease, and raising funds for MS research through his charity, the Band Against MS Foundation. For the second year in a row, Clay and some of his fellow artists are gathering at Nashville’s Wildhorse Saloon for Chords of Hope, a benefit concert that will raise funds for MS research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Clay will be joined by Bo Bice, Steve Holy, Rivers Rutherford, Rio Grand and Sarah Marince at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville TONIGHT, March 2.  

“This concert is truly a marriage between two important aspects of my life—music and raising awareness for MS,” Clay said on his website. “I’m thrilled to be performing again at the Wildhorse and I’m honored to continue our support by raising money for the important MS research being conducted by our friends at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.” Continue Reading

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Lee Brice photo courtesy of Curb Records.

Billboard.com has just released its year end charts for 2010.  Leading the pack are a group of up-and-coming male artists with surprisingly few established superstar names in the top 10.  Here are the 50 most popular country songs for the year based on radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS (song, artist, album):

1. “Love Like Crazy” – Lee Brice, Love Like Crazy
2. “Rain Is A Good Thing” – Luke Bryan, Doin’ My Thing
3. “Why Don’t We Just Dance” – Josh Turner, Haywire
4. “All Over Me” – Josh Turner, Haywire
5. “The Man I Want To Be” – Chris Young, The Man I Want To Be
6. “Roll With It” – Easton Corbin, Easton Corbin
7. “Gimmie That Girl” – Joe Nichols, Old Things New
8. “All About Tonight” – Blake Shelton, All About Tonight
9. “Come Back Song” – Darius Rucker, Charleston, SC 1966
10. “She Won’t Be Lonely Long” – Clay Walker, She Won’t Be Lonely Long Continue Reading

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BMI Icon Billy Sherrill and Taylor Swift with her awards for BMI Songwriter of the Year and Co Writer of BMI Song of the Year and BMI President Del Bryant at the 58th Annual BMI Country Music Awards at BMI on November 9, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BMI)

Through songs such as “Mine,” “White Horse” and “Fifteen,” Taylor Swift has shown a real appreciation for great drama and complex character development.

This week, she’s experienced drama firsthand. On Tuesday, she won BMI’s Country Songwriter of the Year award, becoming the youngest person ever to claim it. And she and co-writer Liz Rose shared Country Song of the Year for “You Belong With Me,” recognized as the most-played country title over a full year, according to the performing rights organization.

Just a day earlier, Taylor sang at a funeral for a friend.

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Clay Walker photo courtesy of Curb Nashville.

Entrepreneurs are often encouraged to put together a business plan before they launch a company. Clay Walker might not have known what a typical one looks like, but before he ever reached the national limelight, he did an impressive job of building the blueprint for his own five-year path to glory with a day planner.

Clay projected the kinds of songs his band would play, the venues they needed to appear in and a general timeline from the first show to the moment when a recording deal came.

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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 Tweets Of The Week!

** Jewel: @jeweljk If you want to write, read a lot. Reading gives you the color necessary to paint your stories with.

** Luke Bryan: @lukebryanonline I wanna thank everyone for my 2nd number 1. Thanks for requesting it and making it get there.

** Laura Bell Bundy: @LauraBellBundy The fish is amazing in Norway! But the soap dispenser I just used was like milking a cow to get the soap out. Kinda funny feeling! Continue Reading

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