ACM Award Winners And Shooter Jennings Is Expecting Baby With Girlfriend
- The big buzz around all the news sites this morning pertaining to country music is the ACM Awards show last night. In case you missed it, check out our live blog for a recount of the events as they happened. Overall I felt like it was a pretty successful show. They highlighted mostly good artists and most of the performances were entertaining.
- Shooter Jennings’ girlfriend is reportedly pregnant according to sources who claim that they saw Drea de Matteo shopping for maternity clothes on Madison Avenue. Update: The reports were confirmed by Matteo’s publicist yesterday.
- Texas country artist Wade Bowen sees change brewing in Nashville:
“Within the next few years, I believe Nashville will be different,” Bowen explained. “It will be a more hip town,” he said. According to Bowen, the Nashville music scene isn’t booming right now. It enjoyed huge success throughout the 1990s with the emergence of Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, the Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain. But those acts have matured, “and everyone in Nashville today is looking for the next big thing,” Bowen said. “I think something with a lot more edge will be introduced out of Nashville that will change the country music scene forever,” Bowen said.
I don’t think you can create “the next big thing” and have that person be successful for a full career, their might be an immediate success, but it will be hard to sustain. With that said, Wade Bowen is an artist worth checking out, although I must admit I prefer his live shows to his studio work.
- More ACM Award coverage: Peter Cooper calls George Strait the John Wayne of country music (nice analogy) and also mentions:
Flatts’ Lyric Street Records waged a visible advertising campaign in Nashville, adorning billboards and city buses with Flatts’ formidable commercial statistics.
Will someone really look at a billboard, see all those statistics, and make a mental note that they need to check out Rascal Flatts?
And lastly, from the same article, Cooper mentions that Brooks & Dunn’s manager told the guys that there was a leak and they wouldn’t be receiving the Top Vocal Duo award this year, so they were actually surprised when they did win.
- Walt Wilkins’ Diamonds In the Sun is due for release in July.
- Click the link below to see the 2007 ACM Award Winners.
Entertainer of the Year
- Brooks & Dunn
- Kenny Chesney
- Rascal Flatts
- George Strait
Top Male Vocalist
- Kenny Chesney
- Toby Keith
- Brad Paisley
- George Strait
- Keith Urban
Top Female Vocalist
- Sara Evans
- Faith Hill
- Miranda Lambert
- Martina McBride
- Carrie Underwood
Top Vocal Group
- Diamond Rio
- Emerson Drive
- Little Big Town
- Lonestar
- Rascal Flatts
Top Vocal Duo
- Big & Rich
- Brooks & Dunn
- Montgomery Gentry
- Sugarland
- The Wreckers
Top New Male Vocalist
- Rodney Atkins
- Craig Morgan
- Chris Young
Top New Female Vocalist
- Miranda Lambert
- Kellie Pickler
- Taylor Swift
Top New Vocal Duo or Group
- Heartland
- Little Big Town
- The Wreckers
Album of the Year
- Hillbilly Deluxe – Brooks & Dunn
- It Just Comes Natural – George Strait
- Me and My Gang – Rascal Flatts
- Some Hearts – Carrie Underwood
- These Days – Vince Gill
Single Record of the Year
- “Before He Cheats” – Carrie Underwood
- “Give It Away” – George Strait
- “I Loved Her First” – Heartland
- “What Hurts The Most” – Rascal Flatts
- “Would You Go With Me” – Josh Turner
Song of the Year
- “Amarillo Sky” – Jason Aldean. Written by John Rich, Big Kenny, Rodney Clawsen, Bart Pursley
- “Before He Cheats” – Carrie Underwood. Written by Chris Tompkins, Josh Kear
- “Give It Away” – George Strait. Written by Bill Anderson, Buddy Cannon, Jamey Johnson
- “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)” – Rodney Atkins. Written by Sam Tate, Annie Tate, Dave Berg
- “Would You Go With Me” – Josh Turner. Written by Shawn Camp, John Scott Sherill
Video of the Year
- “8th of November” – Big & Rich
- “Amarillo Sky” – Jason Aldean
- “Before He Cheats” – Carrie Underwood
- “Hillbilly Deluxe” – Brooks & Dunn
- “The Seashores of Old Mexico” – George Strait
Vocal Event of the Year
- “Building Bridges” – Brooks & Dunn with Vince Gill and Sheryl Crow
- “I Don’t Want To” – Ashley Monroe and Ronnie Dunn
- “Me and God” – Josh Turner featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley and Marty Roe, Dana Williams and Gene Johnson of Diamond Rio
- “Politically Uncorrect” – Gretchen Wilson featuring Merle Haggard
- “That’s How They Do It in Dixie” – Hank Williams Jr. with Gretchen Wilson, Big & Rich and Van Zant
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