Trace Adkins performs at the Nightly Concert at LP Field on Thursday, June 7 in Downtown Nashville during the 2007 CMA Music Festival. Photo Courtesy of the CMA. Photographer: John Russell / CMA.
TRACE ADKINS
He is, quite simply, country music's Alpha male, a towering presence in an era when larger-than-life personalities are a rarity. His instantly recognizable baritone has been cutting through the airwaves and energizing concert hall speakers for well over a decade as he has established himself as a major force in contemporary country. Get your "badonkadonk" in gear and give us your best shots.
Taylor Swift with her pal Kellie Pickler at Taylor's recent 18th birthday party, held in Nashville, Tenn. Photo courtesy of Big Machine Records.
TAYLOR SWIFT
She's taking the country world by storm. She's a singer, a songwriter and an explosion of energy and passion on stage! Taylor Swift's self-titled debut album has sold over 2 million copies and she's the reigning CMA Horizon Award winner. Did we mention her recent GRAMMY nomination? She might have "teardrops on her guitar" but we promise that her fan photo gallery won't have any "pictures to burn."
Carrie Underwood and GAC host Suzanne Alexander are pictured here during a recent taping of GAC Nights. Photo taken by GAC staff.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
She hit the spotlight as an American Idol and hasn't looked back since. Carrie has hit #1 with every single she has released to date, and has won several Grammys as well as a host of trophies from the AMA, ACM, CMA, People’s Choice and Billboard, among many others. Your time will not be "wasted" when you visit her Ultimate Fan Photo gallery.
Dolly Parton photo courtesy of Dolly Records.
DOLLY PARTON
An internationally renowned superstar, the iconic and irrepressible Parton has contributed countless treasures to the world of music entertainment, penning classic songs and successfully erased the line between country and pop music without noticeably altering either her music or her image.
Phil Vassar photo by Jim Wright, courtesy of Universal Records South.
PHIL VASSAR
Those who best understand Phil Vassar – good-time, whirling-dervish-on-the-piano, hardest-working-man-in-country-music Phil Vassar – also understand the ongoing evolution of his mostly self-penned music. And Prayer Of A Common Man, his fourth studio album and first for Universal Records South, adds several more layers of artistic expression to his deepening repertoire.
Little Big Town photo courtesy of Equity Music Group
(l-r) Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Roads, Jimi Westbrook
LITTLE BIG TOWN
The group is unique in country music in its configuration of two men with two women. It is also unlike any other in that there is no single lead vocalist—all four are capable of taking lead lines, and do so. Also unusual is the fact that for most of their performances, the larger-than-life Little Big Town voices are accompanied solely by Phillip and Jimi's guitars. Those voices blend so effortlessly that you would think they'd been singing together since childhood.