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Also on the show:  Darius Rucker, Easton Corbin, Steel Magnolia, & Josh Thompson

Who?  Chris Robinson, the lead singer of the band Black Crowes, that’s who.  Does it sound bitter at all to lash out at someone who is at the top of their game when you’re not exactly at the top of yours?  Chris, who used to be married to Kate Hudson and had some hits (mostly in the 90s), says the following:  “I find it embarrassing that adults are like, ‘Taylor Swift is very talented.’   She’s not.  She might be cute, but she’s horrible.”  Okay, maybe I’m sensitive about this because I am one of those adults who goes around saying “Taylor Swift is very talented.”  Why?  Because she is only 20 and she can write hit songs in her SLEEP, that’s why.  Perhaps Chris is reliving one of the titles of his hit songs:  “Jealous Again.”  Good one, am I right?

The final list of nominees for the 44th Annual CMA Awards were announced on September 1st by Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley on Good Morning America. Miranda leads with nine nominations making her the most nominated female artist for a single award show in the CMA Award history.  The CMA Awards will air on KATU-TV November 10th.

Album of the Year
Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
Carrie Underwood – Play On
Miranda Lambert – Revolution
George Strait – Twang
Dierks Bentley – Up on the Ridge

Musical Event
“Bad Angel” D. Bentley f/ M. Lambert & J. Johnson
“Can’t You See” Zac Brown Band f/ Kid Rock
“Hillbilly Bone” Blake Shelton f/ Trace Adkins
“I’m Alive” Kenny Chesney with Dave Matthews
“Till The End” Alan Jackson with Lee Ann Womack

Female Vocalist
Miranda Lambert
Martina McBride
Reba McEntire
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood

Male Vocalist
Brad Paisley
Blake Shelton
George Strait
Keith Urban
Dierks Bentley

Entertainer of the Year
Lady Antebellum
Miranda Lambert
Brad Paisley
Keith Urban
Zac Brown Band

New Artist of the Year
Luke Bryan
Easton Corbin
Jerrod Niemann
Chris Young
Zac Brown Band

Vocal Group of the Year
Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town
Rascal Flatts
The Band Perry
Zac Brown Band

Vocal Duo of the Year
Brooks & Dunn
Joey & Rory
Montgomery Gentry
Steel Magnolia
Sugarland

Single of the Year
(Award goes to artist and producer)
“A Little More Country Than That”  Easton Corbin
“Hillbilly Bone”  Blake Shelton f/ Trace Adkins
“Need You Now”  Lady Antebellum
“The House That Built Me”  Miranda Lambert
“White Liar”  Miranda Lambert

Song of the Year
(Award goes to songwriter)
“A Little More Country Than That”
Rory Lee Feek, Don Poythress and Wynn Varble
“Need You Now”
D. Haywood, C. Kelley, H. Scott & Josh Kear
“The House That Built Me”
Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin
“Toes”
Z. Brown, W. Durrette, J. D. Hopkins & S. Mullins
“White Liar”
Miranda Lambert and Natalie Hemby

Music Video of the Year
(Award goes to artist and director)
“Hillbilly Bone”  Blake Shelton f/ Trace Adkins
“Need You Now”  Lady Antebellum
“The House That Built Me”  Miranda Lambert
“Water”  Brad Paisley
“White Liar”  Miranda Lambert

If you want Alan Jackson’s “Where I Come From” to be one of the songs the NASA atronauts will wake up to while in space, you can vote to make it happen by clicking here.  you can also vote for songs by Willie Nelson and Aaron Tippin…

Josh Turner and his wife Jennifer are already the proud parents of two boys, 3 year old Hampton and 1 year old Colby.  And now they’ve found out that their third one is going to be a boy as well!  What is going on in Nashville?  Zac Brown has got a gaggle of girls (3) with one more on the way, and now Josh is populating the earth with one boy after another.  Perhaps Josh’s boys and Zac’s girls will all marry each other?

Check this out:  Zac Brown has three daughters:  Justice, age 3; Lucy, age 2; and Georgia Sloan, 11 months.  And now his wife Shelley is expecting a fourth baby, and IT’S A GIRL.  So pretty soon the Browns will have 4 girls under the age of 4.  Yikes.  If Zac knows what’s good for him, he’ll be doing a lot of touring in the next few years.  Actually, he should also plan an extensive tour for about 2024, when they’re all teenagers.  Congrats, Zac!

I’m a big fan of the Brad Paisley/Carrie Underwood CMA hosting combo, so I’m happy to report that the twoof them will be back again as co-hosts for this year’s show.  Next week, the nominees will be announced, and the date of the show has been set for November 10th.

Has there ever been a video with more hype around it than Taylor Swift’s “Mine,” which debuts tonight on CMT?  If you’ve watched CMT at all this week, you’ve seen the annoying countdown clock in the corner of the screen with Taylor popping up every few seconds to point at it.  Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Taylor.  Love her.  But that little countdown thingy has been driving me nuts.  So just in case you have somehow missed out on the huuuuuge announcement, I’ll remind you:  Tonight.  8 o’clock.  Taylor.  “Mine.”  Done.

The “Just Got Started Lovin’ You” singer and….are you ready?…the husband of the sister of the wife of Rascal Flatts’ Jay Demarcus, are the proud new parents of Ava Katherine, born Tuesday night.  James’ wife Amy is doing great.  Her sister, Alison DeMarcus, is also expecting so we’ll have some country cousins soon. (Does anyone else remember the restaurant in Hillsdale called The Country Cousin?  They had the world’s greatest crinkly fries.  Ooooh, yum.)  Anyway, congrats to James and Amy.

He’s not sure.  Trace Adkins has a new song on his new CD, called “Hold My Beer.”  It’s about a drunken “redneck” wedding where the preacher’s drunk and everyone gets in fights.  For Trace, this is more than just a funny song, it’s a flashback to his second wedding.  When Trace married Julie (the woman who ended up shooting him in the heart), he says the preacher in Tahoe who did the ceremony was so drunk he couldn’t even see straight.  He kept calling Trace “Julie” and Julie “Trace”, and when the whole thing was over Trace wasn’t even sure if it was legal.  Which is why this song was extra fun for Trace to record, and he ended up playing the role of drunken preacher in the intro to the song, which features a word Trace made up for the occasion, “monogamony.”