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2012 CMA Awards Drinking Game

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Shot of Country Special Edition: Join In The Country Music News Blog 2012 CMA Awards Drinking Game! The 2012 CMA Awards are hitting Nashville Thursday, November 1st, and I will be front and center covering the show live! It’s not fair for me to have all the fun though! So, for the CMNB Team members and all our country music fans/readers that will be watching the awards from the comfort of their living room, we’ve devised a little drinking game that we think will add to the experience! From cowboy hats to Carrie Underwood‘s wardrobe changes to Luke Bryan‘s rhinestones to Brad Paisley‘s jokes, we’ve got plenty of opportunities for you to take a sip, a swig, or a shot! So, grab your drink of choice and see if you can keep up! Cheers! 2012 CMA Awards Drinking Game: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1QLSSlJy4U]

2012 CMA Awards Performers

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2012 CMA Awards Complete List of Performers! The 2012 CMA Awards are just a couple days away, and it really is promising to be a great show full of country music! Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are again hosting the show (hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?), and Brad is sure to have lots of funny/cheesy jokes while Carrie has to be beat her record of eleven wardrobe changes from last year!! Besides the two hosts that we all know and love, there is also an awesome line-up of performers! You can check out the complete list below, and get ready for an awesome night. The complete show will air LIVE from Nashville‘s Bridgestone Arena on Thursday, November 1st at 8/7c on ABC. 2012 CMA Awards Performers: Jason Aldean The Band Perry Dierks Bentley Luke Bryan Kenny Chesney Eric Church Kelly Clarkson Eli Young Band Brantley Gilbert Vince Gill Hunter Hayes Faith Hill Lady Antebellum Miranda Lambert Little Big Town Tim McGraw Brad Paisley Blake Shelton Taylor Swift Carrie Underwood Keith Underwood Zac Brown Band

Grammy Nominations Concert New Co-Host: Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift Hosts The Grammy Nominations Concert Live for the Second Time. The Grammy Nominations Concert announced their Co-Host for 2012: Taylor Swift. Let’s recap: new album, new shoes, new tour, new museum exhibit. Yes, the only thing Taylor Swift is missing recently is hosting the Grammy Nomination concert! On Dec. 5th, Taylor will join LL Cool J for this CBS special, and they’ll announce the nominations for the 55th annual Grammy Awards. Taylor and LL first hosted the event in 2008. Other than the hosting duo of Taylor and LL, the concert has lined-up Luke Bryan and Maroon 5. Rumor has it they’ll be announcing another big performer soon. Keep checking back with us for this big announcement! Get YOUR Shot of Country: Taylor Swift’s RED! We made a drink to celebrate Taylor’s album release, but you can make this same drink to celebrate her hosting of the Grammy Nominations Concert! *We know not all of Taylor’s fans are of the legal drinking age. If you aren’t, try out the PG version of our recipe, and everyone remember: DRINK RESPONSIBLY!*

Brad Paisley And Carrie Underwood CMA Commercials

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Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood Test Out Their Hosting Talents. For the 5th year in a row Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will host the CMA Awards! Each year leading up to the big night they put out commercials of the two and this year is no different! Check some of them out below and tell us what you think! Don’t forget the, 46th Annual CMA Awards will be live next Thursday, November 1 on ABC! Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood 2012 CMA Commercial #1. Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood 2012 CMA Commercial #2. Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood 2012 CMA Commercial #3

American Country Awards 2012 Nominees

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Complete List of American Country Awards 2012 Nominees. The third annual American Country Awards are coming up December, and we’ve got the complete list of 2012 nominees for you below! The awards will air live from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Monday, December 10th (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. Its fan voted…so, check out the list below and then head over to choose your fave in each category! Artist of the Year Jason Aldean Luke Bryan Lady Antebellum Taylor Swift Zac Brown Band Artist of the Year: Male Jason Aldean Luke Bryan Kenny Chesney Eric Church Toby Keith Artist of the Year: Female Sara Evans Miranda Lambert Martina McBride Taylor Swift Carrie Underwood Artist of the Year: Group The Band Perry Eli Young Band Lady Antebellum Rascal Flatts Zac Brown Band Artist of the Year: Breakthrough Artist Lee Brice Colt Ford Gloriana Justin Moore Jake Owen Artist of the Year: New Artist Lauren Alaina Hunter Hayes Jana Kramer Kip Moore Pistol Annies Album of the Year Dierks Bentley, “Home” Luke Bryan, “tailgates & tanlines” Eric Church, “Chief” Lady Antebellum, “Own the Night” Blake Shelton, “Red River Blue” Single of the Year Jason Aldean, “Tattoos On This Town” Luke Bryan, “I Don’t Want This Night To End” Eric Church, “Drink In My Hand” Chris Young, “You” Zac Brown Band, “Keep Me In Mind” Single of the Year: Male Jason Aldean, “Tattoos On This Town” Luke Bryan, “I Don’t Want This Night To End” Kenny Chesney, “Reality” Eric Church, “Drink In My Hand” Chris Young, “You” Single of the Year: Female Sara Evans, “My Heart Can’t Tell You No” Miranda Lambert, “Over You” Martina McBride, “I’m Gonna Love You Through It” Taylor Swift, “Ours” Carrie Underwood, “Good Girl” Single of the Year: Group Eli Young Band, “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” Lady Antebellum, “We Owned The Night” Rascal Flatts, “Banjo” The Band Perry, “All Your Life” Zac Brown Band, “Keep Me In Mind” Single of the Year: New Artist Hunter Hayes, “Wanted” Jana Kramer, “Why Ya Wanna” Dustin Lynch, “Cowboys and Angels” Kip Moore, “Somethin’ ’Bout A Truck” The Farm, “Home Sweet Home” Single of the Year: Breakthrough Artist Lee Brice, “A Woman Like You” Brantley Gilbert, “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do” Gloriana, “(Kissed You) Good Night” David Nail, “Let It Rain” Jake Owen, “Alone With You” Single of the Year: Vocal Collaboration Kix Brooks featuring Joe Walsh, “New To This Town” Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, “Feel Like A Rock Star” Brad Paisley featuring Carrie Underwood, “Remind Me” Rascal Flatts featuring Natasha Bedingfield, “Easy” Zac Brown Band featuring Jimmy Buffett, “Knee Deep” Touring Artist of the Year Kenny Chesney Lady Antebellum Miranda Lambert Tim McGraw Brad Paisley Eric Church Toby Keith Rascal Flatts Taylor Swift Zac Brown Band Jason Aldean Music Video of the Year Luke Bryan, “I Don’t Want This Night To End” Jake Owen, “Alone With You” Blake Shelton, “God Gave Me You” Keith Urban, “For You” Chris Young, “You” Music Video: Male Luke Continue reading American Country Awards 2012 Nominees→

Reba McEntire Retires From Hosting The ACMs

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Reba Will No Longer Host The Academy Of Country Music Awards. Reba McEntire has announced that she will no longer host the Academy of Country Music Awards. She has “passed the torch to Blake,” who she has co-hosted with for the last two years. Before that Reba ran the show solo starting in 1999. Although this is sad news, it is good to hear she is confident that Shelton can get the job done! However, the two did make fans chuckle with their back and forth comedy on the previous years. I have to wonder if she is too busy with her new show Malibu Country or if she just feels it is time to step down? Whatever the case may be, we still love her! Here’s to Reba, a very classy lady!

The Band Perry CMA Awards Contest

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The Band Perry Kick Off Countdown To The CMA Awards Contest! The CMA Awards are coming up in November, and to get ready for the big night The Band Perry is participating in a “Countdown To The CMA Awards” contest as part of the Give The Gift of Music campaign. They debuted a special video of the GTGOM official page sharing why they think this campaign is important! Watch The Band Perry’s special message now! Details on the 2nd Annual Give The Gift of Music Campaign: Fans submit a story of how any of the 2012 CMA Awards nominee’s music or performance has inspired them Winner receives a cash prize of $1,000 and two tickets to the 2012 CMA Awards Second and third place winners receive special Country music gift packages The 2012 CMA Awards will air on Thursday, November 1st on ABC!

Lionel Richie Receives First CMA Nomination

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Lionel Richie Has Received His First-Ever Country Music Association Nomination. Lionel Richie received his first-ever CMA nomination on Wednesday for his duet with Darius Rucker on Richie’s “Stuck On You” in the Music Event of the Year category. “I am thrilled to receive my first nomination from the CMA. I am so grateful to the country music community for embracing this project and making me feel so at home. To share this nomination with my friend Darius Rucker makes it even more special. I have a CMA nomination and a friend for life. It doesn’t get much better than that.” -Richie Rucker, who sang with Richie on “Stuck On You,” says, “I was so honored to have sung with Lionel and am overjoyed with this nomination.” “Stuck On You” appears on Richie’s platinum-certified Tuskegee. Tuskegee is the best-selling country album of 2012 and the first country album in more than a year to spend two consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200. The album features duets of 13 of his timeless hits with Jason Aldean, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney, Billy Currington, Little Big Town, Tim McGraw, Willie Nelson, Jennifer Nettles, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Rogers, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton and Shania Twain. The 46th Annual CMA Awards will broadcast live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Thursday, Nov. 1 (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Eric Church Talks About CMA Nominations

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Eric Church Reacts To His 5 CMA Nominations. Eric Church had no idea he would lead the pack of contenders with the most nominations for the 2012 CMA Awards. Following his first-ever CMA nomination for New Artist of the Year at last year’s awards show, Church received a total of five nominations this year including: Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year (CHIEF), Single of The Year (“Springsteen”), Song of the Year (“Springsteen”), and Music Video of the Year (“Springsteen”). While swimming in the Gulf of Mexico on vacation this past week, Church lost his cell phone and had no way to be informed he’d even been nominated at all. However, when he returned to Nashville his management whisked him away to their office, projected the press release from the CMA on an oversized screen in his manager John Peets’ office, and waited for his reaction. “I really don’t even know what to say! I’m still a little bit in shock… I’m truly speechless. I think it’s a testament to the fans that believed in the music… loved the music… and told people about the music because otherwise we don’t really have the track record to be the most nominated at this point in our career. I think that it’s truly because of the fans… they did something I think is going to be judged as pretty special.” -Church In order to thank them for all of their support over the years, Church created a special video address that went out to Church Choir members exclusively on Wednesday. On Sept. 13, Church will kick off the fall leg of The Blood, Sweat & Beers Tour in Amherst, MA and will release his first-ever live album in 2013.

2012 CMA Nominees Announced!

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Nominees for the 2012 Country Music Association Awards were announced this morning and Eric Church takes the lead! With FIVE nominations on his tally, Eric Church stands to make a clean sweep at this years CMA Awards. The awards, hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, will be broadcast live on ABC Thursday, November 1st. And now for th complete list of nominees: 2012 CMA Nominees: Entertainer of the Year Jason Aldean Kenny Chesney Brad Paisley Blake Shelton Taylor Swift 2012 CMA Nominees: Album of the Year Eric Church – Chief Miranda Lambert – Four the Record Dierks Bentley – Home Lady Antebellum – Own the Night Luke Bryan – Tailgates & Tanlines 2012 CMA Nominees: Male Vocalist of the Year Jason Aldean Luke Bryan Eric Church Blake Shelton Keith Urban 2012 CMA Nominees: Female Vocalist of the Year Kelly Clarkson Miranda Lambert Martina McBride Taylor Swift Carrie Underwood 2012 CMA Nominees: Vocal Group of the Year Eli Young Band Lady Antebellum Little Big Town The Band Perry Zac Brown Band 2012 CMA Nominees: Musician of the Year Sam Bush (mandolin) Paul Franklin (steel guitar) Dann Huff (guitar) Brent Mason (guitar) Mac McAnally (guitar) 2012 CMA Nominees: Single of the Year “Dirt Road Anthem” – Jason Aldean “God Gave Me You” – Blake Shelton “Home” – Dierks Bentley “Pontoon” – Little Big Town “Springsteen” – Eric Church 2012 CMA Nominees: Song of the Year “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” – Eli Young Band “God Gave Me You” – Blake Shelton “Home” – Dierks Bentley “Over You” – Miranda Lambert “Springsteen” – Eric Church 2012 CMA Nominees: Musical Event of the Year “Dixie Highway” – Alan Jackson and Zac Brown “Feel like a Rock Star” – Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw “Roll Me Up” – Wilie Nelson, with Snoop Dogg, Kris Kristofferson and Jamey Johnson “Safe and Sound” – Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars “Stuck on You” – Lionel Richie and Darius Rucker 2012 CMA Nominees: Duo of the Year Big & Rich Love and Theft Sugarland The Civil Wars Thompson Square 2012 CMA Nominees: New Artist Lee Brice Brantley Gilbert Hunter Hayes Love and Theft Thompson Square 2012 CMA Nominees: Video of the Year “Come Over” – Kenny Chesney “Over You” – Miranda Lambert “Pontoon” – Little Big Town “Red Solo Cup” – Toby Keith “Springsteen” – Eric Church