Nov 142019
If you missed the 2019 CMA Awards, here’s a play-by-play of performances and award winners we’ve pieced together based off our tweets throughout the show!
*Awards in bold
- Opening performance started with co-hosts Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire, and Dolly Parton
- Loretta Lynn was in attendance and honored by a performance of “You’re Looking at Country” by Jennifer Nettles and and the ladies of Little Big Town
- The Highwomen, featuring Maren Morris, covered a snippet of Tammy Wynette‘s “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad”
- Tanya Tucker then joined them for a performance of “Delta Dawn”
- Gretchen Wilson then came out to perform a snippet of “Redneck Woman”
- Loretta’s sister, Crystal Gayle, then came out to perform part of her signature song “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”
- Terri Clark then came on stage to perform a piece of her hit “I’ve Got Better Things To Do”
- Sara Evans then came on stage to sing part of her hit “Born to Fly”
- The big opening concluded with Martina McBride coming out to sing “Independence Day” before all of the preceding women joined her for the chorus to close the performance
- The opening monologue featured some good one liners and jokes by the 3 hosts.
- What do you call 3 women hosting the CMA’s? You’re lucky night! ~ Dolly Parton
- Unsurprisingly, a joke was made about Dolly Parton having the biggest rack when Carrie was talking about the wardrobes in their shared dressing room
- When talking about some of her younger counterparts, Dolly quipped that “they’re on social media, I’m on social security!”
- Then Carrie made a joke about some parts of Dolly being under 21 years old
- They thanked Brad Paisley for stepping aside for Dolly and Reba. Coincidentally, Brad will have a TV special coming out soon…likely his payment for stepping back!
- Deana Carter was out to present Single of the Year when they showed a clip of her jumping up and down on stage excitedly after winning the award for “Strawberry Wine”
- Single of the Year Award went to “God’s Country” by Blake Shelton
- Dan + Shay performed “Speechless”
- Song of the Year Award went to “Beautiful Crazy” by Luke Combs
- Miranda Lambert performed “It All Comes Out in the Wash”
- Reba removed 2 layers of clothing before finishing her performance of “Fancy” in a flashy red dress
- Chris Stapleton joined P!nk for a duet
- New Artist of the Year Award went to Ashley McBryde
- Old Dominion performed “One Man Band”
- Carrie Underwood performed “Drinking Alone”
- Luke Combs performed “Beer Never Broke My Heart”
- Kelsea Ballerini was stunning in her performance of “homecoming queen?”
- Lindsay Ell joined Kelsea for a cover of “Girl Crush”, then Runaway June and Maddie & Tae joined them. Then, Ashley McBryde and Carly Pearce joined in on the performance before Little Big Town came out to finish it
- Duo of the Year Award went to Dan + Shay
- Lady Antebellum was joined by Helsby for a performance of “What If I Never Get Over You”
- Brooks & Dunn were joined by Brothers Osborne for a performance of “Hard Workin’ Man”
- Maren Morris performed “Girl”
- Vocal Group of the Year Award went to Old Dominion
- Craig Morgan introduced Blake Shelton by thanking him for bringing attention to his new single “The Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost” before Blake performed his hit “God’s Country”
- Thomas Rhett performed “Remember You Young”
- Dolly Parton was joined by for KING AND COUNTRY and Zach Williams for a medley of Gospel tunes
- Keith Urban performed “We Were”
- Album of the Year Award went to Maren Morris for “Girl”
- Kris Kristofferson was honored with a cover of his hit “Me and Bobby McGee” by Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Sheryl Crow, Chris Janson, and Joe Walsh
- Eric Church performed “Some Of It”
- Male Vocalist of the Year went to Luke Combs
- Kacey Musgraves and Willie Nelson performed a duet. Didn’t catch the name but it was about Rainbows (not the Kacey single)
- Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton performed “Dive Bar”
- Female Vocalist of the Year Award went to Kacey Musgraves – presented by Janie Fricke, Pam Tillis, Kathy Mattea, and Martina McBride
- Entertainer of the Year Award went to Garth Brooks