Country star John Rich stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to help Jimmy sing his tradtional holiday ballad "Drunk On Christmas."
The country music singer came on the show decked out in a Santa costume complete with golden cowboy boots.
Click here to watch the knee-slapping performance. Seasons drinkings to all!
Now through Monday, December 20 you can score a free download of Brad Paisley's new song "This Is Country Music" at www.ThisIsCountryMusic.com!
Brad introduced the song in November on the 44th Annual CMA Awards Show.
"When I start an album, I start thinking about ‘what haven’t I said that I really wanna say?’” Brad noted backstage at the CMAs. “And you get to know these people. You get to be buddies with guys like Keith Urban, and we jam on the guitar periodically. And become great friends with Carrie Underwood, and we do things like [host the CMAs]. And we have a great chemistry. And then there’s Jimmy Dickens and Bill Anderson and that generation that I have been lucky enough to get to know. And so it’s all about finding inspiration. This was my love song to my fans who live these songs every day and my industry, which produces this music that really does become the soundtrack to people’s lives.”
While you're at the website grabbing your free song, go ahead and pre-order Brad's new album, also titled This Is Country Music, which is set to hit stores on April 19.
Jamey Johnson's critically acclaimed 25-song double album, The Guitar Song, which received two Grammy nominations including Country Album of the Year, has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.
The album is also up for a Grammy in the category of Best Male Country Vocal Performance for the song "Macon." He received a third grammy nomination in Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for "Bad Angels" with Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert.
"My dream has already came true," he says. "All I ever wanted was just to get to ride around and sing country music. It's cool when things like that happen along the way. Because those are the things I never thought I could achieve. Whether or not it's gold or platinum or hell, diamond for that matter, it wouldn't surprise me anymore. I'll just keep doing what I do. I wake up every day and go play some more country music and have another drink."
Johnson claims that The Guitar Song is a collection of the journey he has experienced over the past several years as it "starts off in a deep, dismal, dark place and ends up in a far better place."
December has been a good month for Johnson this year. In addition to his Grammy nominations, his album has been featured on numerous 2010 best-of lists and he was invited to pay musical tribute to one of his idols, Merle Haggard, at the Kennedy Center Honors on December 5. He joined fellow country stars Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Kid Rock, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley and Miranda Lambert on stage for the event in Washington, D.C.
The Guitar Song was ranked No. 5 on Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2010 and "Macon" was ranked No. 23 on Rolling Stone's Best Singles of 2010.
Raving about the artist, Rolling Stone said, "What does Jamey Johnson keep under all of that hair? Songs." The music magazine calls Johnson a "Music Row pro" and describes his double-disc fourth album as "acoustic confessions and rugged boogie blues, big weepers and grim reapers, cover tunes and novelty ditties, not to mention 'California Riots' and 'Playing the Part,' a pair of fiercely funny unrepentantly redneck swipes at the frou-frou blue states."
Other media refer to the country artist as the "Dark Horse of the Year," a "Nashville Badass," and "Nashville's gruffiest and grittiest star [who] turns out to be its most reliable traditionalist."
Johnson will join Kid Rock on his national "Born Free" tour, which begins in front of a crowd of 60,000, on January 15 at Detroit's Ford Field.
Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride and Trace Adkins have been added to the list of performers for the 2011 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, which will take place March 1-20 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, TX.
These acts will join the previously announced performers Sugarland, Zac Brown Band and Brad Paisley.
Here are the dates for the event's big headliners:
March 2: Trace Adkins (during Armed Forces Appreciation Day)
March 3: Sugarland
March 9: Martina McBride
March 16: Miranda Lambert
March 17: Zac Brown Band
March 19: Brad Paisley
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is a charitable event committed to benefitting youtht, supporting education, and facilitating better agricultural practices through exhibitions and presentation.
Since it started in 1932, the show has contributed more than $265 million to scholarships, research, endowments, calf scramble participants, junior show exhibitions and other educational and youth programs.
A complete list of performers for the 2011 event will be announced in early January.
Carrie Underwood continues to prove that there is no awards show she can't handle.
The five-time Grammy winner and two-time Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year received a new honor today with the announcement of a Golden Globe nomination in the "Best Original Song - Motion Picture" category for her co-written song "There's A Place For Us" from the film "Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader."
This is the country star's first-ever Golden Globe recognition.
"I am absolutely thrilled by the wonderful honor today," says Underwood. "It was such an exciting endeavor to have been asked to create music for the film. I grew up with the books and have been a fan of the earlier two movie. I can't wait for the Golden Globes."
The country singer created "There's A Place For Us" with frequent co-writers and now fellow Golden Globe nominees, Hillary Lindsey and David Hodges. The song became the end title song in the film.
"Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Threader," dirercted by Michael Apted, was released in theaters this past weekend and debuted at No. 1 at the box office.
Easton Corbin has been named Billboard's Top New Country Artist of 2010 in The Year in Music 2010 issue, which is on newsstands now.
In addition, his self-titled, debut album was named Country Breakthrough Album of the Year by iTunes.
Expressing his excitement, Easton shares, " I am pretty floored to hear that. It's been a great, great year. Of course, I never expected to receive all of this."
Grateful for everyone's support, he adds, "Everybody has been so good to me, especially the fans. It's because of those guys and country radio that i'm where I am. We just put out the music that we love and hope we're accepted by the fans or country radio. It's such an honor to be named to these lists by such iconic institutions as Billboard and iTunes.
Billboard also named Easton's #1 hit "Roll With It" the #6 Hot Country Song of the Year, while his debut #1 single, "A Little More Country Than That," was ranked at #9.
Corbin is the first male artists in 17 years to have his first two consecutive singles reach the top of the charts.
Sandwiched between Blake Shelton and Tim McGraw, Easton ranked at #9 on Billboard's list of Top Country Artists - Male.
Along with climbing high on country charts, "Roll With It" was named the song that best represents the state of mind of America's mayors, based on a survey of mayors commissioned by Reader's Digest called "We Hear You America."
Regarding the results, Corbin said, " I'm honored that the mayors related to 'Roll With It' and felt that it helped them through a time when they're facing such difficult decisions."
The song got a 47% vote, followed by Eminem's "Not Afraid," with 41%. To that, Easton jokes, "I think it's cool that may name is mentioned in the same sentence with Eminem."
If you plan on going to see any of Garth Brooks' nine shows in Nashville on December 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 22, don't forget to bring a toy for charity!
The Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots will be collecting donations for the 2010 Christmas season.
New, unwrapped toys may be donated when you enter into Bridgestone Arena and until one hour after each concert has begun.
The toys collected at each concert will be distributed by the Toys for Tots campaign to needy children throughout Middle Tennessee.
The organization has been collecting and delivering toys for kids since 1947 when Major Bill Hendricks USMCR and a group of Marine Reservists collected and distributed 5,000 toys to needy children. It has since grown to over 700 campaign sites around the United States.
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 12 most popular country songs for the year based on radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS (song, artist, album):
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