Jun
18
Photo courtesy of Twitter.com/taylorswift13.
Taylor Swift has performed with musical artists across a variety of genres, often bringing special guests onstage during her live shows. She recently got to play the role of “special guest” when she joined The Rolling Stones at their Chicago show to perform “As Tears Go By” earlier this month. She’s always regarded them as musical heroes, but now she’s an even bigger fan.
“It just was everything that you would think it would be but better,” she said. “They’re now at an even higher level of hero status for me. Mostly because of their attitude. Because of their hospitality. Because they hand-write notes, thanking you for being there. Because you get to get pictures with them and hang out with them.”
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Jun
14
Tim McGraw photo courtesy of The Green Room.
Tim McGraw is a guy’s guy. If he’s not making music, he can often be found watching sports or at the gym. But he lives in a house full of women, including wife Faith Hill and their three daughters, Gracie, Maggie and Audrey, and continues to learn one very important lesson from them.
“Probably the biggest thing that I’m still always working on [with] having a house full of women is learning patience,” he said. “I’ve never been a very patient person so I think either I’m getting mellower with age or they’re teaching me patience. It’s one or the other. I’m not sure which one it is. Probably a combination of both.”
Tim was recently in our studio and he talked about one of his favorite Father’s Days with his daughters. Watch the interview HERE. Continue Reading
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Jun
7
Blake Shelton photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Nashville.
Blake Shelton tops GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown for the third week in a row with “Boys ‘Round Here.” Tim McGraw‘s “Highway Don’t Care” (with Taylor Swift and featuring Keith Urban) and Thompson Square’s “If I Didn’t Have You” round out the Top 3 while Kip Moore’s “Hey Pretty Girl” creeps up to No. 11 and Hunter Hayes returns to the countdown with “I Want Crazy” at No. 17.
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GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown is hanging out with a few friends this week! Host Nan Kelley heads to the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville for Darius Rucker’s annual Darius and Friends fundraiser benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Nan chats with Darius about his annual event and his new album, True Believers. Check times for re-airs »
Want to re-watch some of your favorite interviews? Head over to our Top 20 section for videos, photos and more! You can also catch Top 20 Extras, cast your votes and take a look at the current chart to see where your favorite videos land. Visit our Top 20 section »
This Week’s Chart:
- Blake Shelton – “Boys ‘Round Here”
- Tim McGraw w/Taylor Swift ft. Keith Urban – “Highway Don’t Care”
- Thompson Square – “If I Didn’t Have You”
- Blake Shelton – “Sure Be Cool If You Did”
- Tate Stevens – “Power Of A Love Song”
- The Band Perry – “DONE”
- Katie Armiger – “Playing With Fire”
- Miranda Lambert – “Mama’s Broken Heart”
- Pistol Annies – “Hush Hush”
- Darius Rucker – “Wagon Wheel” Continue Reading
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Jun
7
Country music stars sure love Twitter! This week, Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town face off, Taylor Swift sings with the Rolling Stones, Dierks Bentley remembers his father and Kellie Pickler can’t stay off the dance floor. Plus, find out what you get when you cross Luke Bryan and a whale! Here are our picks for this week’s Top 10 Country Tweets Of The Week:
Photo courtesy of Twitter.com/ladyantebellum.
Lady Antebellum – LadyAntebellum: It was an epic battle. #CMAfest #pingpongsongs @lbtmusic
Carrie Underwood – CarrieUnderwood: Good luck to my love @mikefisher1212 at the @klovefanawards tonight! Sad I’m not there to hold his purse if he wins! 
Dierks Bentley – DierksBentley: dad died a year ago today. he always liked funerals that were “short on the service, long on the cocktails!” having one now for him. miss him
Photo courtesy of Twitter.com/taylorswift13.
Taylor Swift – TaylorSwift13: Filing this under ‘never in my wildest dreams’.Thank you @RollingStones for inviting me to Chicago to sing with you. Continue Reading
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Jun
6
Tim McGraw photo courtesy of The Green Room.
Tim McGraw knew from an early age that he wanted to be a country music artist. His dream of stardom is only one of the factors that have drove him to push to be the best he can be over the years.
“Anybody that tells you they want to be an artist, they wanna be a successful artist,” Tim said. “It’s sort of a two-lane road that you run down. On one hand, you wanna be the biggest artist there ever was and you have that dream of being bigger than anybody. And on the other hand, you just wanna make a living at it. Those two things push you all the way along ‘cause if you can make a living at it, you’ll make a living at it, but if you can be the biggest artist out there, you’ll wanna be the biggest artist out there and then you hope you land somewhere in the middle.” Continue Reading
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Jun
5
Taylor Swift photo courtesy of Erickson Public Relations.
Taylor Swift will take a break from her RED Tour to perform in Nashville as part of the Nightly Concerts at LP Field during CMA Music Festival. One of her favorite parts of performing live is when her fans sing along – no matter what country she’s in or what language they speak.
“What I love about the worldwide fans and fans in America is that they grasp on to the new music so quickly,” she said. “When I played for Wembley Arena at the BBC Teen Awards, I played RED for the first time, a new song off the record. It had been out for four days. It was crazy how many people in the crowd knew every word. It’s insane.” Continue Reading
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May
31
Country music stars sure love Twitter! This week, Kix Brooks is in Moore, Oklahoma for Healing In the Heatland while Carrie Underwood reflects on her journey and Miranda Lambert takes a shortcut. Plus, Martina McBride’s oldest daughter graduates from high school, Luke Bryan enjoys Cajun country and Kacey Musgraves has an interesting ice cream truck experience. Here are our picks for this week’s Top 10 Country Tweets Of The Week:
Photo courtesy of Twitter.com/KixBrooks.
Kix Brooks – KixBrooks: In Moore trying to digest it – the flags really help
Carrie Underwood – CarrieUnderwood: 8 years ago today, I won @AmericanIdol and tonight, I sang with the @RollingStones! Wow, so much has happened! #Thankful
Miranda Lambert – MirandaLambert: I just rolled the push mower through the house from the front porch to mow the back yard. Shortcuts are good sometimes. (Don’t tell Blake)
Photo courtesy of Twitter.com/DierksBentley.
Dierks Bentley – DierksBentley: can’t think of a better way to spend Memorial Day #patriotscups. unbelievable vibe here. #usa Continue Reading
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May
31
Tim McGraw photo by Nigel Parry, courtesy of The Green Room.
Tim McGraw’s latest single, “Highway Don’t Care,” is already in the Top 5 at country radio. The song features Taylor Swift along with Keith Urban on guitar and Tim knew right away that he wanted Taylor on the song.
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“It just fit her voice perfectly,” Tim said. I’ve wanted to do a song with Taylor for a long time. What made it even more perfect, it’s not any sort of love interest, what her part is in the song. It’s a third-person narrative that comes through from this radio. That made it a really neat way to introduce somebody else into your song.” Continue Reading
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May
29
Taylor Swift photo courtesy of Erickson Public Relations.
Taylor Swift spent about two years writing dozens and dozens of songs for her RED album. At one point, her label thought she had enough material to release an album, but Taylor wasn’t done writing. In fact, she couldn’t stop.
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“I wrote for two years and I wrote until I couldn’t write anymore,” she said. “That was the stopping point for this album. I knew when I couldn’t think of one more thing that I needed to write about, couldn’t conjure up one more emotion that hadn’t already been conveyed on the album somehow.” Continue Reading
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May
24
Blake Shelton’s 2013 album, Based On A True Story. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Records.
Blake Shelton tops GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown this week with his latest video, “Boys ‘Round Here.” Tim McGraw‘s “Highway Don’t Care” (with Taylor Swift and featuring Keith Urban) and Thompson Square’s “If I Didn’t Have You” round out the Top 3 while new videos from Lady Antebellum and Pistol Annies make their countdown debuts at No. 16 and No. 17.
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In honor of Memorial Day, GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown went to Fort Campbell army base in Clarksville, Tennessee. Craig Morgan, a proud Army Veteran, joined host Nan Kelley for the visit where she chatted with recent Silver Star recipient SFC Matthew Loheide and S.O.A.R. program founder MSG Michael Byers. Nan and Craig also visited the Don F. Pratt Museum, which chronicles the history of the 101st Airborne Division. Check times for re-airs »
Want to re-watch some of your favorite interviews? Head over to our Top 20 section for videos, photos and more! You can also catch Top 20 Extras, cast your votes and take a look at the current chart to see where your favorite videos land. Visit our Top 20 section »
This Week’s Chart:
- Blake Shelton – “Boys ‘Round Here”
- Tim McGraw w/Taylor Swift ft. Keith Urban – “Highway Don’t Care”
- Thompson Square – “If I Didn’t Have You”
- Katie Armiger – “Playing With Fire”
- Miranda Lambert – “Mama’s Broken Heart”
- Taylor Swift – “22”
- Blake Shelton – “Sure Be Cool If You Did”
- The Band Perry – “DONE”
- Lady Antebellum – “Downtown”
- Darius Rucker – “Wagon Wheel” Continue Reading
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