Country Music Awards

[musicradio77]

Has anybody check out the Country Music Awards? For those of you are watching this event, who's going to win this year? Lee Ann Womack, Martina McBride, Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban and so many others. You should check it out.:D

[Ambear]

The awards were great! Of course, I was rooting for my favorite, Keith Urban, and he won Male Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year! :happyface :D
I'm glad Dierks Bentley won the Horizon, but wasn't this like the third year he was nominated for it? It was great to see Garth Brooks and Vince Gill too. :)

[HuntingtonM15]

The CMA's were such a joke this year. Besides a few performances, I hated it. The winner of female vocalist is beyond sickening.

[Shine]

The CMA's were such a joke this year. Besides a few performances, I hated it. The winner of female vocalist is beyond sickening.


:lol:

[Shine]

I watched the awards to see some of the performers.

[HuntingtonM15]

I watched the awards to see some of the performers.

The fact that Gretchen (or as someone on Sara's board called her, Wretched) won is a huge slap in the face to every other woman in that category. They were all highly deserving and have more than paid their dues to the industry. Gretchen has done nothing thus far in her career to receive such a prestigious award, and it's sickening. She doesn't have lasting power, and I'll be glad when we no longer see her name on the charts. This was Sara's year all the way, and I am now convinced that the Country Music Association have all lost their minds.

[Shine]

The fact that Gretchen (or as someone on Sara's board called her, Wretched) won is a huge slap in the face to every other woman in that category. They were all highly deserving and have more than paid their dues to the industry. Gretchen has done nothing thus far in her career to receive such a prestigious award, and it's sickening. She doesn't have lasting power, and I'll be glad when we no longer see her name on the charts. This was Sara's year all the way, and I am now convinced that the Country Music Association have all lost their minds.


I totally agree with you. I just thought your use of the words "beyond sickening" was funny. There have been alot of albums through out the years that were over looked at the awards. Sadly, that is just the way it is.

[HuntingtonM15]

I totally agree with you. I just thought your use of the words "beyond sickening" was funny. There have been alot of albums through out the years that were over looked at the awards. Sadly, that is just the way it is.

Oh. :lol: Did you happen to see Sara's board after last night? Wow. Not many friendly posts there today. Yeah, a lot of artists and albums don't get the recognition they deserve. I was really surprised Lee Ann took home Album of the Year. I'm not a huge fan of hers, but I was happy for her, because it's rare for a female to win in a category where every other nominee is male.

[Shine]

Oh. :lol: Did you happen to see Sara's board after last night? Wow. Not many friendly posts there today. Yeah, a lot of artists and albums don't get the recognition they deserve. I was really surprised Lee Ann took home Album of the Year. I'm not a huge fan of hers, but I was happy for her, because it's rare for a female to win in a category where every other nominee is male.


I have not been to Sara's board since last week. I'll have to go and check it out.:lol:

[Penny Lane]

I haven't watched the CMA awards in years! Call me old -fashioned but I still regard Tanya Tucker, Patty Loveless. Dwight Yoakam, Travis Tritt and Trisha Yearwood as the superstars of country music! Everything today IMO is so manufactured(Madison Avenue) CLONES!:crazy: I know that most current country music fans would disagree but I really do miss the great Country music revival of the early 90's! It was really exciting then. I wasn't a country music fan until I heard Dwight Yoakam, Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, in their heyday!So cool!:cool:

[Ambear]

I haven't watched the CMA awards in years! Call me old -fashioned but I still regard Tanya Tucker, Patty Loveless. Dwight Yoakam, Travis Tritt and Trisha Yearwood as the superstars of country music! Everything today IMO is so manufactured(Madison Avenue) CLONES!:crazy: I know that most current country music fans would disagree but I really do miss the great Country music revival of the early 90's! It was really exciting then. I wasn't a country music fan until I heard Dwight Yoakam, Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, in their heyday!So cool!:cool:

I don't think that's old fashioned! It would be great if everyone could be at the CMA's, but some of the stars haven't released anything new in years, and it would be nice to hear and see them again. Like me, I listen to just about everyone in country music, and I agree because my favorite decade for it has been the 90's! :D Alan Jackson is one of my all time favorites, but he hasn't won anything at the CMA's for a couple years. :eek: I still see Dwight and Alan on TV sometimes, but its better to just listen to the albums, IMO, so you can hear them whenever you want! ;)

[musicradio77]

NEW YORK (AP) -- You can take the CMA Awards out of Nashville, but you can't take Nashville out of the CMA Awards.

Though purists worried that the soul of the Country Music Association Awards would be lost by moving the event from Nashville to New York for the first time, Tuesday's event showed that no matter where it travels, country music is country music - even in Manhattan.

"Oh my God, I love country music!" Lee Ann Womack, the evening's big winner with three awards, shouted as she accepted her award for single of the year for "I May Hate Myself In the Morning," a bittersweet ballad. Womack also won album of the year for "There's More Where That Came From" and for best musical event for her duet with George Strait, "Good News, Bad News."

Country music has been criticized at times for drifting more toward pop, and its move to New York City seemed to highlight those concerns.

But it was as if Madison Square Garden had been transformed into the Grand Ole Opry with the evening's rootsy performances. Performers from from Gretchen Wilson to Sara Evans to Alan Jackson seemed determined to "keep it country." Even country's most mainstream couple, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, seemed retro with their performance of "Like We Never Loved at All."

Appropriately, Womack emerged with the most wins: Her album marked her return to more traditional country music after a detour through pop-infused material.

Backstage, she said she hoped her wins would encourage more of her kind of country music.

"Sometimes I think we are scared of real country music but a message like what was in that song, that transcends any boundaries, and a great song is a great song," Womack said of "I May Hate Myself."

Although New York's skyline was the visual backdrop for the show and the ceremony had appearances by such non-country names as Billy Joel, Bon Jovi and Norah Jones, Nashville's stamp was clear.

The show kicked off with a fitting performance by Big & Rich, who have shaken up country by mixing various genres, including hip-hop, in their music. The pair performed "Comin' to Your City," crooning: "We're comin' to New York City, we're gonna play our guitar and sing you a country song."
The show's highlights included a performance by Garth Brooks in the middle of Times Square. In front of frenzied fans, Brooks sang "Good Ride Cowboy," a tribute to his friend and fellow country singer Chris Ledoux, who died of liver cancer this year.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared, and other comments and quips also helped infuse the city in the show. Vince Gill did his best Bronx accent when he joked, "There's like a rule here in New York, that you can't do a show without a guy named Vinnie."

But it was mainly a Nashville party, which pop stars joined as well. Jones played piano while Willie Nelson sang "Still Crazy After All These Years," and Paul Simon joined the pair and sang "Crazy." Even Elton John conformed to country, singing "Turn the Lights Out When You Leave" with Dolly Parton. The pair also sang John Lennon's "Imagine."

Womack and Brad Paisley led all award nominees with six each, though Paisley went home empty-handed.

Keith Urban was a dual winner, winning entertainer of the year and male vocalist of the year. Toby Keith won music video of the year for "As Good As I Once Was"; Wilson won best female vocalist. And Dierks Bentley won the Horizon Award for emerging artists.

Jon Randall and Bill Anderson won song of the year for "Whiskey Lullaby," sung by Alison Krauss and Paisley.

"I've probably been writing songs in Nashville longer than anybody. My first co-writer was Andrew Jackson," Anderson joked.

The CMA show's move was designed to raise its profile in New York City. While country generates plenty of multiplatinum superstars and New York is one of its top markets in terms of album sales, it lacks a major presence here, including a radio station devoted to the genre.

The move was a one-time stint; the show will return to Nashville for its 40th anniversary next year.

But country great Glen Campell, who was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame along with DeFord Bailey and the band Alabama, called it "a great big step.

"I'd like to see it happen a lot more because united we stand."