This Date in Country Music History

• 2023 – Tigirlily Gold released their song “Shoot Tequila”
• 2009 – Gloriana made their Grand Ole Opry debut
• 2006 – Tim McGraw released his single “When The Stars Go Blue”
• 2004 – Julie Roberts made her Grand Ole Opry debut
• 1999 – Sara Evans scored her first career #1 hit with “No Place That Far”
• 1989 – Lionel Cartwright released his self-titled debut album
• 1989 – Garth Brooks released his debut single “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)”

HCM Content

• 2024 – HCM Daily Country Music News – March 6th, 2024
• 2023 – HCM Daily Country Music News – March 6th, 2023
• 2020 – HCM Daily News – March 6th, 2020
• Today’s Birthdays – March 6th

Today’s Photo Flashback

• Billy Currington – 3/6/10 – Rib Roundup in West Palm Beach, FL
• Charlie Worsham – 3/6/14 – Round Up in Davie, FL
• Ciara Rae – 3/6/14 – Round Up in Davie, FL
• Darryl Worley – 3/6/10 – WIRK Rib Roundup in West Palm Beach, FL
• Jake Owen – 3/6/10 – Rib Roundup in West Palm Beach, FL
• Jaron and the Long Road to Love – 3/6/10 – WIRK Rib Roundup in West Palm Beach, FL
• Josh Gracin – 3/6/10 – WIRK Rib Roundup in West Palm Beach, FL
• Josh Thompson – 3/6/10 – WIRK Rib Roundup in West Palm Beach, FL
• Luke Bryan – 3/6/10 – WIRK Rib Roundup in West Palm Beach, FL
• The Band Perry – 3/6/10 – WIRK Rib Roundup in West Palm Beach, FL
• Tom Jackson – 3/6/10 – WIRK Rib Roundup in West Palm Beach, FL

This Date in Country Music History

• 2025 – Grand Ole Opry member Buck White of The Whites passed away at the age of 94
• 2023 – Tigirlily Gold released their song “Shoot Tequila”
• 2021 – President Donald Trump awarded Toby Keith and Ricky Skaggs with the National Medal of Arts
• 2020 – Darius Rucker’s single “Wagon Wheel” was certified 8x Platinum
• 2020 – Luke Bryan’s single “That’s My Kind of Night” was certified Quintuple Platinum
• 2020 – Jordan Davis’ single “Singles You Up” was certified Double Platinum
• 2014 – Tim McGraw released his single “Lookin’ For That Girl”
• 1996 – Terri Clark made her Grand Ole Opry debut
• 1996 – Faith Hill scored a #1 hit with “It Matters To Me”
• 1990 – Keith Whitley topped the charts with “It Ain’t Nothin'”
• 1983 – B.J. Thomas released his single “Whatever Happened to Old-Fashioned Love”
• 1968 – Johnny Cash recorded his album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

HCM Content

• 2025 – HCM Daily Country Music News – January 13th, 2025
• 2023 – Today’s New Music – January 13th, 2023
• 2023 – HCM Daily Country Music News – January 13th, 2023
• 2022 – HCM Daily News – January 13th, 2022
• 2015 – This Week’s New Music – Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
• Today’s Birthdays – January 13th

Today’s Photo Flashback

• Emily Brooke – 1/13/12 – Renegades in West Palm Beach, FL

This Week’s Country Music News and Videos

• Music Video:  “20 Cigarettes” by Morgan Wallen
• Lyric Video:  “Real American” by Brantley Gilbert
• Lyric Video:  “Downtime” by Jo Dee Messina
• Lyric Video:  “Like It Like That” by Dasha
• Lyric Video:  “Where the Wild Things Are” by William Clark Green
• This Week’s Texas Country Music Chart
• Lineup Announced for Rock the South
• Tucker Wetmore Announces The Brunette World Tour
• Lineup Announced for Kentucky’s Railbird Festival
• Kenny Chesney is Returning to The Sphere
• Lyric Video:  “Never Knew” by Tyler Rich
• The Boys from Oklahoma are Headed to Lincoln, NE
• Music Video:  “Beat the Devil” by Maren Morris (from Sheriff Country)
• Lyric Video:  “Both Can Be True” by Meghan Patrick
• Lyric Video:  “Ready for Love” by Hardy
• Music Video: “Mess Out of Me” by Tigirlily Gold
• Lyric Video:  “Beautiful Things” by Megan Moroney

This Date in Country Music History

• 2023 – Jon Pardi was inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry
• 2022 – Luke Combs released his single “Going, Going, Gone”
• 2022 – Justin Moore released his duet with Priscilla Block “You, Me and Whiskey”
• 2019 – Luke Combs had his single “Beautiful Crazy” certified Triple Platinum and his single “Beer Never Broke My Heart” certified Platinum
• 2017 – Charlie Daniels released his autobiography “Never Look at the Empty Seats”
• 2015 – George Strait’s album Cold Beer Conversation topped the country albums chart
• 2011 – Toby Keith released his album Clancy’s Tavern
• 2010 – Don Williams and Jimmy Dean were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
• 2006 – Taylor Swift‘s self-titled debut album was released
• 2006 – Montgomery Gentry released their album Some People Change
• 1992 – Wynonna topped the charts for the first of 4 weeks with her hit “No One Else On Earth”

Today’s Birthdays

• Mark Gray (d)

Today’s New Albums

• Alexandra Kay – Second Wind
• Billy Currington – King of the World
• Mickey Guyton – Feels Like Christmas
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Night After Night (EP)
• Randy Rogers Band – The Going (EP)

Today’s New Singles

• Along for the Ride – High Valley
• Both Can Be True – Meghan Patrick
• Christmas Love Song – Willie Nelson
• Mess Out of Me – Tigirlily Gold
• Werewolf – Koe Wetzel
• You Don’t Have to Tell Me Twice – Mike Ryan

Today’s Photo Flashback

• Jo Dee Messina  -10/24/09 – Parker Playhouse in Ft. Lauderdale, FL

This Week’s Notable Events

• Greenville Country Music Fest – Simpsonville, SC – Oct 24, 2025
• Luke Combs’ Bootleggers Bonfire – Miramar Beach, FL – October 24, 2025
• Jake Owen, Dirty Heads, The Wailers – West Palm Beach, FL – October 24, 2025
• Diamond Dixie – Simpsonville, SC – Oct 24, 2025 – 7:15 pm
• Diamond Dixie – Kannaoplis, NC – Oct 25, 2025 – 3:00 pm
• Jake Owen, Dirty Heads, The Original Wailers – Apopka, FL – October 25, 2025
• Luke Combs’ Bootleggers Bonfire – Miramar Beach, FL – October 25, 2025
• Greenville Country Music Fest – Simpsonville, SC – Oct 25, 2025
• Jake Owen, Dirty Heads, The Original Wailers – St. Petersburg, FL – October 26, 2025
• Froggy’s Drive for Research to Benefit BAF – St. Augustine,FL – October 27, 2025
• The Music of My Life: An All-Star Tribute to Anne Murray – Nashville, TN – Oct 27, 2025
• Boots on the Bayou – Gonzales, LA – Oct 31, 2025

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The 2024 ACM Awards are airing live from Frisco, TX exclusively on Amazon Prime!  You do NOT need a Prime membership to watch!  For those that don’t have access to it or just don’t want to spend the time watching, we’ll be documenting a play-by-play of the show here.  Check back and refresh this page often for the latest action!  The 2-hour show (nearly commercial free) will be hosted by Reba McEntire.

• In the minutes leading up to the show, the red carpet pre-show ended with a recorded performance of Megan Moroney performing “Tennessee Orange” since she’s currently performing in Hollywood, FL opening for Kenny Chesney at Hard Rock Live.
• The show opens with the announcer listing off all the performers and presenters.
• The opening act is Lainey Wilson performing a cover of “God Blessed Texas” by Little Texas! After performing most of the song, she gave her hat away to a fan then jumped back on stage to sing her new single “Hang Tight Honey.”  Post Malone approved of the performance.
• Lainey then introduced the host for the night, Reba McEntire.  She came out to a dance version of her song “Fancy.”
• Reba joked about how she was going to top Dolly Parton bringing her goat out on last year’s show.  She joked that she was going to bring out her donkeys, but they’ve become so famous that she couldn’t book them.
• Reba commented that she won her first ACM Award 40 years ago.  She joked “I know what you’re thinking, how could that be when I’m only 39 years old!”  She then talked about how country is bigger than ever and growing to be inclusive to everyone, which led to her talking about Post Malone being there to perform some of his new country music.  She ran through some of tonight’s performers, including a duet between Avril Lavigne and Nate Smith.
• She wished Happy Trails to Toby Keith, who will be honored with a performance from Jason Aldean
• The ACM Award for Song of the Year, presented by Clay Walker and Randy Travis:
  • “Fast Car” by Luke Combs
  • “Heart Like a Truck” by Lainey Wilson
  • “Next Thing You Know” by Jordan Davis – WINNER
    
  • “The Painter” by Cody Johnson
  • “Tennessee Orange” by Megan Moroney
• Reba introduced Jelly Roll, who came out to perform a new song called “Liar”
• Reba introduced Kelsea Ballerini who performed a song we believe is called “Stick Season” with Noah Kahan
• Bobby Bones appeared to interview Thomas Rhett who showed up with a cowboy hat and a turquoise bolo tie
• The announcer introduced Richard Sherman and Charissa Thompson to present the next award
• The ACM Award for Duo of the Year:
  • Brooks & Dunn
  • Brothers Osborne
  • Dan + Shay – WINNER
  • Maddie & Tae
  • The War and Treaty
• The announcer then introduced Little Big Town, who is celebrating being a band for 25 years.  They introduced the duo that earlier won Top New Group or Duo – Tigirlily Gold!  They performed their new single “I Tried a Ring On”
• Tyler Cameron came out to announce the ACM Award for Group of the Year:
  • Flatland Cavalry
  • Lady A
  • Little Big Town
  • Old Dominion – WINNER
  • Zac Brown Band
• Reba introduced Cody Johnson who performed his new single “Dirt Cheap”
• We then had an awkward transition to Bobby Bones who was backstage to interview Jelly Roll, who hyped up Cody Johnson for Entertainer of the Year
• Dan + Shay joined Reba on stage, where she congratulated them for winning Duo of the Year.  Shay asked her how it feels to be hosting the ACM Awards for the 17th time.  She joked she’ll be legal next time she hosts.  They then introduced the most awarded artist in ACM Awards history, Miranda Lambert who performed her new single “Wranglers”
• The announcer introduced Ashley McBryde and Noah Reid.  They did a skit with a small guitar singing parodies of the 5 Single of the Year nominations.
• They then presented the award for ACM Single of the Year:
  • “Burn It Down” by Parker McCollum
  • “Fast Car” by Luke Combs – WINNER
  • “Last Night” by Morgan Wallen
  • “Next Thing You Know” by Jordan Davis
  • “I Need a Favor” by Jelly Roll
• The announcer introduced The War and Treaty who talked about how Ray Charles performed on the ACM Awards 40 years ago.  They then introduced Kane Brown who came out to sing “Georgia on My Mind”
• Kane then popped in backstage with Bobby Bones for a quick interview
• We come back from a quick commercial to Reba introducing Thomas Rhett who performed his new single “Beautiful As You”
• Jordan Davis and Carin Leon came out to present the ACM Award for Male Artist of the Year:
  • Luke Combs
  • Jelly Roll
  • Cody Johnson
  • Chris Stapleton – WINNER
  • Morgan Wallen
• Reba is back to talk about the ACM Lifting Lives charity
• Reba then introduced Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton to perform their new duet “Purple Irises”
• We go backstage to Bobby Bones who told a couple of stories – one about Blake and Gwen, and one about Jerry Jones (to kill time while they change out the stage)
• We come back from a commercial with the announcer introducing Blake Shelton, who came out to Toby Keith’s “How Do You Like Me Now?”  Blake then gave a tribute speech about Toby and his legacy and thanked Toby’s family for being there.  He then introduced Jason Aldean who performed a stripped down acoustic version of “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” with a string section
• Reba gave the ACM Award for Female Artist of the Year:
  • Kelsea Ballerini
  • Ashley McBryde
  • Megan Moroney
  • Kacey Musgraves
  • Lainey Wilson – WINNER
• Reba introduced a performance by Chris Stapleton, but the song started with surprise guest Dua Lipa singing.  It was a duet on a song called “Think I’m In Love With You”
• Bobby Bones came out on stage to introduce the ACM Radio Award winners who stood for a round of applause.  He then introduced Scotty McCreery who was out to announce the winner for ACM Award for Music Event of the Year:
  • “Can’t Break Up Now” by Old Dominion & Megan Moroney
  • “Different ‘Round Here” by Riley Green & Luke Combs
  • “I Remember Everything” by Zach Bryan & Kacey Musgraves
  • “Man Made a Bar” by Morgan Wallen & Eric Church
  • “Save Me” by Jelly Roll & Lainey Wilson – WINNER
• We then go backstage with Bobby Bones who interviewed Dua Lipa and Chris Stapleton
• Reba introduced Post Malone who performed a new song called “Never Love You Again.”  It was a true, old-fashioned country song that may have been the performance of the night. Then he performed his new single “I Had Some Help” (minus Morgan Wallen who is on the official track at radio)
• Reba then came out to ask if Post Malone would sing a song with him.  She gave a shout out to the recently deceased Dickey Betts, then they performed a bit of “Ramblin’ Man”
• Reba then introduced Charley Pride’s wife and son to present the next award.  The ACM Award for Album of the Year:
  • Gettin’ Old by Luke Combs
  • Higher by Chris Stapleton – WINNER
  • Leather by Cody Johnson
  • One Thing At a Time by Morgan Wallen
  • Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (for Good) by Kelsea Ballerini
• Reba introduced Parker McCollum who performed “Burn It Down”
• The announcer introduced Breland, who announced the winner of the Breakthrough Artist of the Year and New Male Artist of the Year, Nate Smith, who showed up to perform his new single “Bulletproof” with Avril Lavigne!
• We go backstage again with Bobby Bones who interviewed Post Malone, who stated that his “booty hole was clenched during the whole performance.”
• Alabama came out to present the ACM Award for Entertainer of the Year:
  • Kane Brown
  • Luke Combs
  • Jelly Roll
  • Cody Johnson
  • Chris Stapleton
  • Morgan Wallen
  • Lainey Wilson – WINNER
• The show concludes with Alabama and Lainey Wilson introducing Reba McEntire who performed her new single “I Can’t”
• Reba ended her performance announcing that she’ll be hosting again next year for the 60th ACM Awards.  The show ended 9 minutes later than advertised…easier to do when streaming online instead of having to fit into a network’s window

On Air Personality

• National Daily Personality: Katie Neal, Katie & Company
• National Weekly Personality: B-Dub, B-Dub Radio Saturday Night
• Major Market Personality (tie): Jason Pullman, KPLX/Dallas; Angie Ward, WUBL/Atlanta
• Large Market Personality: Annie Fox & Cole Dunbar, Annie & Cole, WLHK/Indianapolis
• Medium Market Personality: Doc Medek & Chewy Medek, The Doc Show, WGGY/Wilkes-Barre, PA
• Small Market Personality: Steve Stroud, Ben Walker & Nikki Thomas; Steve, Ben & Nikki; WXBQ/Johnson City, TN

Radio Station of the Year

• WXTU/Philadelphia (Major Market)
• WUBE/Cincinnati (Large Market)
• WBEE/Rochester, NY; WGGY/Wilkes-Barre, PA (Medium Market – tie)
• WFLS/Fredericksburg, VA (Small Market)

Nominees for the 59th ACM Awards Ashley Cooke, Lady A, Ashley McBryde, Parker McCollum, Megan Moroney, Tigirlily Gold and more reveal the winners via video here. The post 2024 ACM Awards Radio Winners Announced first appeared on Hometown Country Music.]]>