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Gloriana recently stopped by the Academy of Country Music offices to present a $10,000 check to the ACM Lifting Lives, the charitable arm of the organization.

Country music icon Willie Nelson celebrates his 80th birthday Tuesday, but he's just as vital to the country format as ever.  Willie is even featured on Kenny Chesney's Life on a Rock album, hitting stores this week, on the song "Coconut Tree."  That track talks about the virtues of leaving all your troubles behind while lounging on the island, and Kenny actually lived that song out over the holiday season last year with Willie himself.

"I went to Hawaii and sat around a poker table with Willie for a couple of days. And trust me, we climbed our own "Coconut Tree," Kenny says with a laugh alluding to Willie's well-documented love of marijuana.  "It was a lot of fun."

Toby Keith's daughter Krystal Keith wrote the song "Daddy Dance with Me" as a surprise for her famous pop for their father-daughter dance at her recent wedding reception. Krystal has now released a music video for her recording of the song, which appears on her just-released four-track EP.