Great American Country....

GAC is actually a country television network, recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, to 54 million viewers. The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks' video, "The Thunder Rolls," was the first video to air on GAC. The television show not only plays the classics and hit country videos, but also features original programming, special musical performances and live concerts.

Interestingly enough, country music introduced two of the top selling solo artists of all time: Elvis Presley, who went on to introduce rock and roll music; and Garth Brooks, who, with 128 million albums sold, is the top-selling solo artist in U.S. history. Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family are widely considered to be important early country musicians from the 1920s, and later on artist such as Roy Rogers, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins stepped onto the country scene, and made fans fall even more in love with this genre. In the decades that followed, artists such as Alabama, Keith Urban, Shania Twain, Brooks & Dunn, Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, The Eagles, Tim McGraw, and many more made country music rise to the top, adding a bit of rock and pop into their styles, leaving many other genres were struggling to keep up.

Country music is one of the most popular genres currently, and has experience several changes and been introduced to many new things over the past few years. There have been many cross-over artists and duets, such as Jewel, Jessica Simpson, Bon Jovi, and Don Henley. Television shows have also found two of the top country female vocalists, including Carrie Underwood, who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol in 2005 and became a multi-platinum selling recording artist and a multiple Grammy Award winner, and Miranda Lambert, who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records, and just won Album of the Year at the 2008 ACM Awards. And also, in 2008 Taylor Swift became the first country singer to reach number one on the pop charts with her single, "Love Story."

Playlist: Songs 58-66