This Date in Country Music History – April 10th

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Vince Gill

This Date in Country Music History

2021 – Gabby Barrett scored a #1 single with “The Good Ones”
2021 – Carrie Underwood scored a #1 album with My Savior
2020 – Maddie & Tae released their album The Way It Feels
2019 – Earl Thomas Conley passed away in Nashville
2013 – Kenny Rogers, Bobby Bare, and Jack Clement were announced as the newest inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame
2012 – Vince Gill surprised Keith Urban with an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry
2010 – Jerrod Niemann made his Grand Ole Opry debut
1999 – Steve Earle made his Grand Ole Opry debut
1993 – Reba McEntire & Vince Gill top the charts with “The Heart Won’t Lie”
1990 – Lee Roy Parnell released his self-titled debut album
1982 – Merle Haggard topped the charts with “Big City”

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Today’s Photo Flashback

Keith Anderson – 4/10/10 – Fair in Pembroke Pines, FL

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2020 ACM Awards Play-by-Play Thread

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Normally held in Las Vegas in April, The 2020 ACM Awards were pushed back to tonight with performances across three iconic venues in Nashville – The Grand Ole Opry House, The Ryman Auditorium, and The Bluebird Cafe. The show kicked off with performances by the 5 Entertainer of the Year finalists. The performances were:

Luke Bryan performing “Rain Is a Good Thing” at the Grand Ole Opry
Eric Church performing “Drink In My Hand” at the Ryman Auditorium
Luke Combs performing “When It Rains It Pours” at the Bluebird Cafe
Thomas Rhett performing “It Goes Like This” at the Ryman Auditorium
Carrie Underwood performing “Before He Cheats” at the Grand Ole Opry

There will be 24 performances total tonight including a special tribute to the women of country music.

Keith Urban

Keith Urban is hosting the show and welcomes viewers from around the world, talks about how fans can’t be there due to COVID-19. He then sent well-wishes out to those fighting the wild fires out west and those dealing with Hurricane Sally. He then talked about we are dealing with two pandemics – COVID-19 and social injustice. No jokes in tonight’s opening monologue.

Jimmie Allen performed “Make Me Want To” at the Bluebird Cafe.

Old Dominion

Old Dominion performed a medley of “One Man Band,” “Song for Another Time,” “Hotel Key,” and “Make It Sweet” at the Ryman Auditorium.

Clint Black

Time for the first award of the night, presented by Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black.

Duo of the Year

Brooks & Dunn
Brothers Osborne
Dan + Shay – WINNER
Florida Georgia Line
Maddie & Tae

Luke Bryan

Luke Bryan is back to perform “One Margarita” at the Grand Ole Opry

Bobby Bones is out to give the next award.

Old Dominion

Song of the Year

“10,000 Hours” by Dan + Shay w/ Justin Bieber
“Girl Going Nowhere” by Ashley McBryde
“God’s Country” by Blake Shelton
“One Man Band” by Old Dominion – WINNER
“Some Of It” by Eric Church

Kelsea Ballerini

Kelsea Ballerini was next on stage at the Ryman Auditorium to perform “Hole in the Bottle”

Runaway June was on stage next at the Grand Ole Opry to introduce a feature about the ACM Lifting Lives event that had to go virtual this year.

Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert performed an acoustic version of her hit “Bluebird” along with her co-writers of the song at the Bluebird Cafe.

Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert “video-chatted” briefly about how she won Musical Event earlier this week. This was Lambert’s 35th ACM Award!

Morgan Wallen performed his hit single “Whiskey Glasses”

Model Lily Aldridge came out to present the next award:

Old Dominion

Group of the Year

Lady A
Little Big Town
Midland
Old Dominion – WINNER
The Highwomen

Thomas Rhett and Jon Pardi performed “Beer Can’t Fix”

Blake Shelton

Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani performed their new duet “Happy Anywhere” on a green screen somewhere outside of Nashville so they could make it look like they’re at the Bluebird Cafe. Might be in Los Angeles since they’re taping The Voice?

Carrie Underwood

Keith Urban introduced Carrie Underwood at the Opry who played a medley of hits to honor the Women of Country Music History. The songs included:

“Crazy” by Pasty Cline
“You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)” by Loretta Lynn
“I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” by Barbara Mandrell
“Why’d You Come In Here Lookin’ Like That” by Dolly Parton
“The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” by Reba McEntire
“Broken Wing” by Martina McBride

Luke Combs

Luke Combs did a feature for Ford where they gave out guitars for the Guitars for Vets program. He then played his new single “Better Together” in honor of his new wife.

Tenille Townes, who won Best New Female Artist of the Year Award earlier this week, performed her single “Somebody’s Daughter” at the Ryman Auditorium.

Gabby Barrett performed “I Hope” at the Ryman Auditorium.

Dan + Shay

Dan + Shay performed “I Should Probably Go To Bed” at the Grand Ole Opry.

Riley Green gave a brief acceptance speech for his ACM Best New Male Artist Award that he won earlier this week, before performing “I Wish Grandpa’s Never Died” at the Ryman Auditorium.

Kane Brown performed “Worldwide Beautiful” with a chorus of singers stationed around the seats of the Grand Ole Opry.

Cam

Cam came out to announce the next award:

Single of the Year

“God’s Country” by Blake Shelton – WINNER
“One Man Band” by Old Dominion
“Rainbow” by Kacey Musgraves
“Rumor” by Lee Brice
“What If I Never Get Over You” by Lady A

Maren Morris performed her new single “To Hell and Back”

Taylor Swift made her first appearance on the ACM Awards in seven years to perform her song “Betty” at the Grand Ole Opry.

Darius Rucker came out to present the next award:

Luke Combs

Album of the Year

Center Point Road by Thomas Rhett
Girl by Maren Morris
Heartache Medication by Jon Pardi
What You See Is What You Get by Luke Combs – WINNER
Wildcard by Miranda Lambert

Keith Urban gave a “Get well soon” shout out to Blanco Brown due to his recent car accident before making the next introduction.

Eric Church

Eric Church came out to a recording of Johnny Cash’s “Ragged Old Flag” before performing his new single “Stick That In Your Country Song.”

Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw performed “I Called Mama” at the Bluebird Cafe.

Mickey Guyton and Keith Urban performed “What Are You Going to Tell Her” at the Grand Ole Opry.

Keith Urban

Miranda Lambert introduced Keith Urban and P!nk for their new duet “One Too Many” – Keith Urban was at the Grand Ole Opry, while Pink appeared to have been somewhere else on a green screen.

Lauren Alaina

Lauren Alaina was out next to present:

Luke Combs

Male Artist of the Year:

Dierks Bentley
Luke Combs – WINNER
Thomas Rhett
Chris Stapleton
Keith Urban

Cece Wayans came out next to present:

Maren Morris

Female Artist of the Year

Kelsea Ballerini
Miranda Lambert
Maren Morris – WINNER
Kacey Musgraves
Carrie Underwood

Trisha Yearwood

Trisha Yearwood performed “I’ll Carry You Home” as a tribute for those lost in the country music world in the past year including:

Earl Thomas Conley
Harold Reid (Statler Brothers)
Bob Kingsley
John Prine
Jimmy Capps
Biff Adam
Paul English
Alex Harvey
Sonny Curtis
Bill Mack
Jan Howard
David Olney
Gary McSpadden
Joe Mansfield
Kenny Dixon
Dan Mitchell
busbee
Chuck & Jim Glaser
Russell Smith
Jay Frank
William Pursell
Joe Diffie
Charlie Daniels
Kenny Rogers

Florida Georgia Line

Florida Georgia performed a “I Love My Country”

The final award of the night, as given by Keith Urban, is a TIE!

Entertainer of the Year

Luke Bryan
Eric Church
Luke Combs
Thomas Rhett – CO-WINNER
Carrie Underwood – CO-WINNER

The show closed with a montage video of several of today’s up-and-coming artists performing “On the Road Again” with Willie Nelson about how they can’t wait to get back on the road again.

So what did you all think of tonight’s show? Leave your comments on our social media platforms!

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Today’s Birthdays – October 17th

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Alan Jackson

Happy Birthday to today’s country music birthdays!

Alan Jackson
Earl Thomas Conley (d)
Jameson Rodgers
Kendall Marvel
Zona Jones

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