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Nov 09
Danielle Del Valle/Getty Images Old Dominion has a four-year winning streak in the CMA Vocal Group of the Year category, but that doesn’t mean they think the category’s a sure thing. “It really is such a close — it’s hard to say competition, because this is not a competition — but it really could go …
Nov 09
ABC/Art Streiber Falling the day after the U.S. midterm elections, the 2022 CMA Awards comes at a particularly tense moment in the country’s ever-divisive political climate. But Luke Bryan has always believed that Americans have more commonalities than they do differences, and he’s hoping to underscore that point with a performance of his unifying top-ten …
Nov 09
ABC/Heidi Gutman Most artists only get one award show cycle to celebrate a big song, but Kelsea Ballerini lucked into two. Her song, “Half of My Hometown,” won her her very first CMA trophies last year for Musical Event of the Year and Music Video of the Year. Now, in 2022, the song is nominated …
Nov 09
Mickey Bernal/Getty Images Jordan Davis is up for two CMA trophies leading up to tonight’s awards show, both surrounding his massive hit, “Buy Dirt,” a gratitude anthem that reflects on the importance of family, friends and faith. Those values are at the heart of the song: Jordan recorded it as a duet with his superstar …
Nov 09
ABC/Robby Klein It’ll be a full-circle moment when Dierks Bentley steps onstage at the CMA Awards tonight, November 9, to honor living legend Alan Jackson. “I mean, he was one of the first guys I listened to when I got turned on to country music in ‘94,” Dierks reminisces to ABC Audio. In fact, AJ was …
Nov 09
Chris Douglas Cody Johnson is headed into tonight’s CMA Awards already a winner: He won Music Video of the Year for “‘Til You Can’t” in an early victory ahead of the ceremony. He’s still got three nominations in the running: Two in the artist-focused categories of New Artist of the Year and Male Vocalist of …
Nov 09
Country Music Association/ABC The CMA Awards haven’t even officially started yet, but the first winners are already being named. Ahead of tonight’s show, Cody Johnson won the Music Video of the Year category for his “‘Til You Can’t,” a gripping and emotional visual component to his equally poignant breakout hit. Cody is by no means …
Nov 09
ABC/Connie Chornuk Carly Pearce, Kelsea Ballerini and Kelly Clarkson have more than just their new collaboration, “You’re Drunk, Go Home” in common: All three artists have recently gone through very public divorces. That lends something extra special to their song, which they’re performing on the CMA Awards stage on Wednesday night. “It is funny and …
Nov 08
Paul R. Giunta/Getty Images Jeff Cook, the legendary country guitarist known for being a founding member of hitmaking group Alabama, has died. According to a statement from his publicist, Cook died on Tuesday, November 7, at his beach home in Destin, Florida. He was 73 years old and had been living with Parkinson’s disease for …
Nov 08
Craig Morgan will appear on The Kelly Clarkson Show on November 11 — Veterans Day — to discuss his new memoir and share stories from his military service. Speaking of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly took on Cody Johnson’s megahit “‘Til You Can’t” in the latest installment of the Kellyoke segment on her talk show. David Nail …
