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Lady Antebellum on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Photo courtesy of The Greenroom.

With the No. 1 album in the nation and the most nominations for this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards, Lady Antebellum picked a perfect time to have its personal history intersect with country’s bigger history. The band headlined Wednesday for the first time at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and left little doubt that it will soon be headlining everywhere.

View photos from yesterday’s rehearsal and show — and check back tomorrow for more pics from tonight’s concert!

In the first of two sold-out shows, the trio deftly tied together its pop-sprinkled sound and the venue’s traditional-country background, getting a standing ovation for its encore and demonstrating a flexibility that should serve the group well.

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Alan Jackson's beach-themed birdhouse. Photo courtesy of The Birdhouse Thing.

Now’s your chance to own a home designed by your favorite country star! Disclaimer: you can’t actually live in this home unless you are a bird. GAC and The Grand Ole Opry have partnered with The Birdhouse Thing organization to offer you the opportunity to bid on one-of-a-kind, autographed birdhouses designed by country superstars including Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Sara Evans, Alan Jackson, LeAnn Rimes and many more. Proceeds benefit The W.O. Smith Music School. Hurry and get your bids in now — the auction closes on March 23. Continue Reading

Once again Great American Country and the Academy of Country Music have teamed up to give fans the opportunity to pick their favorite stars for the 45^th Academy of Country Music Awards’ three newcomer categories including Top New Solo Vocalist, Top New Vocal Duo and Top New Vocal Group.  Fans can start voting online today and are allowed to submit one ballot, selecting their favorite artist from each of the categories.  Voting ends on March 12, 2010 at 5 p.m. ET.

Click here to place your vote now »

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Jake Owen photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Wednesday marks exactly a year since Jake Owen released his sophomore album, Easy Does It, and it’s been a winner for him. Thanks to the hits “Eight Second Ride” and “Don’t Think I Can’t Love You,” his profile has risen within country music, and he’s clearly staking his claim to fame.

He’s not above playing around with that fame, either, like when he tweeted “Let’s get naked” to fans back in October. A short bit later, he noted that he’d “never had so many responses in my life.”

But even though Jake plays around with the celebrity he’s created, he insists that it’s not his primary motivation as an artist.

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The Academy of Country Music and Great American Country (GAC) announced today that for the second year, the three newcomer categories for the Academy of Country Music Awards— Top New Solo Vocalist, Top New Vocal Duo and Top New Vocal Group —will be opened up to interactive fan voting through VoteACM.com. As previously announced, the Top New Solo Vocalist category will take the place of the Top New Male Vocalist and Top New Female Vocalist categories.

Following is the list of final nominees in the Top New categories that the Academy announced today: Continue Reading

Jake Owen photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

By triggering his early career with “Somethin’ About A Woman” and “Don’t Think I Can’t Love You,” Jake Owen made a strong connection with female fans. And he seemed to be courting them again with the sexual references in his current hit, “Eight Second Ride.”

But women didn’t have as strong an influence on the song as Jake’s brother.

“He and all his buddies,” Jake says, “they’re like, ‘Man, all you do is write songs for girls, man. Your girlfriend — you’re always writin’ her tunes. Why don’t you write us a song that we can play in our trucks and have a good time with and crank it up loud?’ So it was like, ‘All right.’ So I did.”

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Jake Owen photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

It takes a good eight hours to drive from Nashville to the Florida Panhandle, but Jake Owen used to make that trip regularly when things were tough during his early days in Music City. He needed to play some shows to pay the bills, and he wasn’t making much headway in country music’s capital.

It was a lonely time in Tennessee, but Jake is now experiencing a huge amount of popularity; in fact, his current single “Eight Second Ride” brought him into country’s Top 15 this week. The difference is stark.

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Jake Owen photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Jake Owen’s “Eight Second Ride” uses a rodeo phrase for a sexy come-on that has his latest video at No. 18 on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown, but some real rodeo pros join Suzanne Alexander from this week’s CBR (Championship Bull Riding) finale in Kansas City.

Suzanne checks in with a bunch of bull-riding cowboys — including Jarrod Craig, Ardie Maier, retired champ Gary Leffew and the Kansas City winner, Hugo Pedrero — as she works through the biggest videos in country music.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. photo courtesy of Wortman Works.

The Country Music Association has announced the first group of presenters for The 43rd Annual CMA Awards,” hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, and airing live from the Sommet Center in Nashville, Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

The first celebrities announced as Awards presenters during “Country Music’s Biggest Night” are NASCAR superstar driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.; stars of ABC’s “The Middle,” Neil Flynn and Patricia Heaton; Julianne Hough; nominee Randy Houser (for both New Artist and Music Video of the Year for “Boots On”); nominee Jake Owen (New Artist of the Year); Kellie Pickler; CMA Award winner LeAnn Rimes; and ABC News’s Robin Roberts, co-anchor of “Good Morning America” and host of the upcoming “Robin Roberts: Bright Lights. Big Stars. All Access Nashville” ABC television special (airing Nov. 10). Continue Reading

Jake Owen photo by GAC Staff.

Many male musicians will tell you their earliest motivation to sing or play guitar was a simple one: They wanted to attract girls.

Jake Owen has discovered firsthand that it works. He’s become a magnet for female fans, and he doesn’t mind it one bit, though his parents have mixed reactions about the frenzy their son has stirred.

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