Interesting to hear Danny describe in person that incident with Randy Travis approaching him behind the scenes during country week to consider country music. (Had been mentioned in the press release when Danny was signed, but otherwise hadn’t been publicly known.)

http://wqyktv.tampadigital.com/video/F9BE93055F/new-danny-gokey-cma-2009

Yup, I do think he landed in country clover.

Best of Luck to you Danny and I’m tickled for you re Nichole Kiddman
and Keith Urban. So exciting!

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Danny was just interviewed by Tampa DJ Dave McKay from the Red Carpet. Danny talked about his glasses, HE and Dave exchanged glasses, Dave said he couldnt see with Danny’s glasses on, and that he now has 75 pairs. He said he always wanted to go country after AI, he then talked a lot about Sophie’s foundation, and how it helps people, he kinda went on about that.

Darn, and I missed it,:-(. I am from the Tampa Bay area. I don’t usually watch ABC, but my son and I stayed tuned for the news after DWTS and the Robin Roberts country special. On the news they showed Dave McKay talk to Gretchen Wilson last night about why she would not be at the CMA’s. I hope that interview with Dave shows up on line and can’t wait for pics of Danny,too. I don’t know
how much we will see of him,
considering he is not that well known yet. When Phil Stacey was at the awards shows during his country run, all I could spot was his head and him and wife Kendra in the background while the bigger artists were getting interviewed.

d_stout: Danny Gokey and Dianna DeGarmo just embraced right in front of me!

I love the Keith Urban/Nicole story. Can you imagine what it would be like for Danny to have one of the most beautiful actresses in the world giggling about his ‘kind eyes’ ? Must seem surreal sometimes!

No idea how Danny managed never to see that. I would have thought one of his relatives at least would have sent it to him. First time I saw it, definitely thought Nicole was just a bit smitten.

And welcome back to aek, I saw on another thread that you had some trouble with your internet. There was a Danny thread a few days ago where I didn’t see you and wondered where you were!

I love the Keith Urban/Nicole story. Can you imagine what it would be like for Danny to have one of the most beautiful actresses in the world giggling about his “kind eyes”? Must seem surreal sometimes!

I think as Danny gets more established, the media will have more knowledgeable questions to ask him. A lot of them seem to start with fairly superficial questions like about his glasses, or personal subjects like his wife. I saw another video interview today, where it was about halfway through before they moved off the personal questions to ask about his new single and an upcoming performance planned for their market area. They seemed to have good rapport with Danny, though.

It was interesting that at least one if not both of the co-interviewers asked Danny questions that were quite faith-oriented, and made direct acknowledgement of their own religious beliefs. I knew that a lot of the country audience would have that in common with Danny. It was striking to see it so explicitly with country media personalities as well.

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Also glad to hear about the gig in North Carolina. I’m sure he will be singing his new single. Can’t wait to hear it live.

Hopefully they will show Danny on the red carpet on CMT since we know he has been interviewed.

The national broadcast is supposed to be CMT for a pre-show starting at 7 (on tv, and live stream at cmt.com). The CMA show starts at 8 on ABC, I saw one comment that ABC also may have a pre-show starting at 7:30.

brian_mansfield Big Idol presence at the CMAs. Danny Gokey on the red carpet. Daughtry here somewhere. Spotted Carrie from a dist.

I’m surprised he didn’t meet Keith at the Finale, particularly if Keith was a fan of his. Maybe he had to rush off right after he performed.

Danny didn’t meet Keith during the finale that they both appeared in? That’s odd, especially if Danny was their fave.

Doesn’t seem so, since he was tweeting yesterday that he “met” Keith (for the first time, apparently). May not be that surprising, the scheduling of everyone for that crowded finale show must have been pretty tight.

Jx223, I love you for posting this information!:) Coyote Joe’s is only about an hour and a half from my home! And I have good memories from seeing Taylor (and Elliott) perform there in 2006! Do you happen to have a date for this?

This event is going to happen on Wednesday December 16.

I think that Danny is making some good connections too. I am glad that he has gotten to be interviewed by different country music stations and that he is going to awards show.

Wonder if we’ll get to see Danny tonight on the CMA’s, at least on the red carpet? Also would love to see him in a nice suit.

There is a CMA red carpet show tonight on CMT at 7pm EST. Maybe Danny will show up on that show. The red carpet show is also being streamed on their site:

http://www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/cma_awards_red_carpet_2009/1/episode.jhtml

Danny also has a gig coming up in December at Coyote Joe’s in Charlotte NC where he will be performing with other country artists David Nail, (one of my favorite country singers) Phil Vassas and Mallory Hope.

Jx223, I love you for posting this information!:) Coyote Joe’s is only about an hour and a half from my home! And I have good memories from seeing Taylor (and Elliott) perform there in 2006! Do you happen to have a date for this?

I think Danny is making some good connections. Yesterday, I saw the cutest pic of Danny from an interview with some djs. It was in a hotel room, and they were pillow fighting…Danny was standing up on the bed. It looked like alot of fun!

Great pics of Danny at the awards show last night. Hope we will see some from the CMAs, too!