Kellie Pickler Helps Family in Need
Don’t miss Kellie Pickler’s appearance on this weekend’s episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Sunday on ABC at 8 p.m. Eastern. Kellie went to Beavercreek, Ohio and helped the James Terpenning family. James is a wheelchair sports champion and also mentors disabled Iraqi War veterans. While in Beavercreek, Kellie performed and even got in on the demolition action, wielding a [...]

Carrie Underwood’s Stylist Gives Fashion Advice
On Wednesday, Nov. 11, all of Nashville will be abuzz — not to mention a-Twitter — with the 43rd Annual CMA Awards. If you’re not in Music City but have plans to get together with friends to watch the awards show, you may want to make it extra fun by dressing up, red carpet-style. Trish Townsend, a stylist for [...]

Jimmy Fallon Preps Taylor Swift for SNL Hosting Duties
You’ve probably heard by now, Taylor Swift is set to pull double duty as both the host and musical guest this weekend on NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL).  Taylor joins a short list of superstars including Sting, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake that have filled both shoes on the show.  The last time [...]

CBR Pros Take an “Eight Second Ride” on Top 20
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.

McGraw-Hill Unlikely to Expand
There are five Southern voices in the home of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, and it looks like that’s the limit. Tim, who occupies the cover of the newest edition of People magazine, originally had more kids in mind, but with three girls already in the family, there’s not much thought of expansion. “We talked about it once,” he says in the story. “We even have names for boys. I would love to have a boy also, but if we start again now, we’re going to be old when they’re gone. We started out wanting five [kids], and life just…got busy.”

Your Chance to Win an All-Star CMA Awards Guitar
GAC is the only cable network where you can see encore airings of the CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock concert special.  The special, filmed at the 2009 CMA Music Festival, features Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Martina McBride, Lady Antebellum, Sugarland, Trace Adkins, Brooks & Dunn, Dierks Bentley, Jake Owen, [...]

Zac Brown’s “Toes” Sits at No. 1, But Is “Ass” Really a Bad Word?
For the second week in a row the Zac Brown Band is sitting at the top of the Billboard Country chart with their third No. 1 hit, “Toes.” Last night I tuned in to watch the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and the Zac Brown Band was the featured musical guest.  And as would be expected, they [...]

Anne Murray Recalls Co-Hosting CMAs With Willie Nelson
Before Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, before Vince Gill, before Reba McEntire — there was a long line of equally-talented CMA Awards Show hosts. In 1983, Anne Murray co-hosted with Willie Nelson. Watch our exclusive interview with Anne, as she recalls the question she asked Willie just before going onstage. The 43rd Annual CMA Awards show [...]

Joe Nichols Moved By Americans In Iraq
This summer, Joe Nichols took his first trip to the Middle East to perform for American troops serving in the nation’s two wars, and the journey is captured on a GAC special, Joe Nichols: My Military Diary. It’s a visit he’d thought about for some time. Joe has an affinity for the work U.S. soldiers do, and he’s convinced that had things gone in a different way earlier in his life, he might well have ended up an enlisted man.

Blake Shelton’s a “PC-Free” Zone
Blake Shelton’s a good person, but he no longer feels the need to always be “Mr. Nice Guy.”  He tells The Tennessean that one thing’s responsible for his “say-what-you-think” demeanor. “The truth is I finally got all my (expletive) paid off,” he tells the paper. “Once you get everything paid off, it’s like, ‘(Who cares) if [...]