From Luke Bryan, to Florida Georgia Line, to Kelsea Ballerini, to Jason Aldean, to Dierks Bentley, to Little Big Town<\/a>, if the act has a high profile in the country world, he or she is likely featured on the special.<\/p>\nIn recent days, ABC has shared first look photos of some of the performances that will be featured; Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Hank Williams, Jr., and Justin Moore are among those in the gallery.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, the gallery also features some performers — notably Sam Hunt and Clint Black — who were not in the initial press release about the broadcast.<\/p>\n
ABC’s photos follow. Co-hosted by Brett Eldredge and Thomas Rhett, the annual “Country Music’s Night To Rock” special airs at 8PM ET\/PT on August 3.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[233,42,4085,4706,1022,2434],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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