47th
Annual CMA Awards 2013 Build Up
SESAC, ASCAP Awards, CMA 2013 Pre-show thoughts and artist interviews
2013 SESAC Nashville
Music Awards
On
Sunday night (Nov 3rd), 500 guests gathered at the Country Music Hall of Fame
and Museum to celebrate the songs those stars sing, and the talented people who
brought them to life.
Top
honours went to Keifer Thompson (Thompson Square) , and Song of the Year was
the smash hit “‘Cruise”
2013 SESAC Nashville
Music Awards winners:
Songwriter of the Year: Keifer Thompson
Song of the Year: “Cruise,” Jesse Rice,
Artist Revolution Publishing, recorded by Florida Georgia Line
Publisher of the Year: Magic Mustang Music
The 51st annual ASCAP
Country Awards
51st
annual ASCAP Country Awards took place at the Music City Center in Nashville on
Monday, Nov. 4, 2013.
George Strait took the evening’s top
honour at Music City Center’s Grand Ballroom.
ASCAP,
a performing rights organization that represents songwriters, honored Strait
with the Founder’s Award, its most prestigious award reserved for those who
have made “pioneering contributions to music by inspiring and influencing their
fellow music creators.”
Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks and Lee Ann Womack performed a tribute to
George at the invitation-only event.
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Watch George Strait’s ASCAP Press
Conference
(Top):
Brandy Clark, Leah Turner, RaeLynn, Cassadee Pope
(Bottom): Danielle Bradbery, Lee Holyfield,
Angaleena Presley and Jennifer Nettles
51st
Annual ASCAP Awards - Red Carpet (4 Nov 2013)
Some
of the country genre’s up-and-comers including Leah Turner and Brothers
Osborne announced the most played country songs of the year written
by ASCAP writers.
Country Song of the Year (tie): “How Country
Feels,” Neil Thrasher (Randy Houser); and “Drunk on You,” Josh Kear, Chris
Tompkins (Luke Bryan)
Country Songwriter of
the Year:
Josh Kear
Music Publisher of the
Year:
Warner/Chappell Music Publishing
Top Five Country Songs: “Drunk on You”; “Even
If It Breaks Your Heart,” Eric Paslay (Eric Paslay); “How Country Feels”; “Kiss
Tomorrow Goodbye,” Shane McAnally (Luke Bryan); and “(Kissed You) Good Night,”
Josh Kear, Tom Gossin (Gloriana)
Jessi
Alexander's "I Drive Your Truck" is honored at the ASCAP Country
Awards at the Music City Center in Nashville on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013.
Jennifer Nettles & Friends - Spotify
Showcase
The
Sugarland singer performed new music with help from Little
Big Town's Phillip Sweet, Richard Marx and Ronnie Milsap, whose "Stranger
In My House" brought down the ... house. She previewed her new solo music...get ready to be
blown away! #SpotifyCMA.
Her forthcoming debut solo album, THAT GIRL, will be released in
early January.
Other performers and guests included:
Brandy Clark, Dustin Lynch, Cassadee Pope,
Josh Thompson, RaeLynn and Lucy Hale.
The 47th Annual CMA Awards 2013
Are
you ready for Country Music's Biggest night?
- >> Watch the Preview
- The 47th Annual CMA Awards COUNTDOWN
- CMA Awards 360 is your exclusive, all-access pass visit cmaworld.com
- Watch the CMA red carpet at gactv.com
- Check out the Performers and Presenters
who will be appearing at cmaworld.com , 47th CMA Awards
Nominees Listing - www.opry.com
- Download the CMA Awards App: This is the official app for
“The 47th Annual CMA Awards” .This is your ultimate electronic guide to
“Country Music’s Biggest Night.” Join Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood as
they host the show together for the sixth year in a row. Download
this app
to get 24/7 access to all the nominees, photos, interviews and more.
- Danielle Bradbery will live-tweet her first CMA Awards
experience Wednesday (Nov 6th). Follow her here. She is also the newest addition to CMT's "Next
Women Of Country" franchise
- Predict The Winners at spotify-cma.com - 2013 CMA Awards Nominees on Spotify
BBC Radio 2 Country are in Nashville all
this week for the CMA Country Music Association Awards and associated!
Hear
Patrick Kielty between 14:00 &
17:00 tomorrow (Thursday) with Kacey
Musgraves, Lady Antebellum, Taylor
Swift and live music from Chuck Mead.
Kicking
off the 47th Annual CMA Awards week are the Blue Room
Exclusive Interviews!
Watch >> The Band Perry - Tune in to to see The Band Perry perform their latest hit, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely." -
Presenters &
Performers
Kelly Clarkson, Sheryl
Crow, Jake Owen, Kip Moore, Brett Eldredge, Lee Brice and Eli Young Band have been tapped to
present trophies at Wednesday night's 47th Annual CMA Awards.
Nashville
stars Connie Britton and Charles Esten, plus Willie & Korie Roberts and Jase & Missy Roberts of Duck
Dynasty fame are also handing out hardware.
Lennon & Maisy
Stella,
who play Rayna James' daughters on Nashville, have been added to the performers lineup as well!
Artist Pre-Show Quotes/
Thoughts
Eric Church who is nominated for Male Vocalist and Musical Event Of The Year
told the Associated Press: "Could be crowd-surfing,
could be mosh pits," "They could be throwing
cans at me."
He
isn't sure what reaction he'll get when he plays his new single, the hard rock anthem "The
Outsiders," on Wednesday night (Nov 6th) during the Country Music
Association Awards.
Listen
to the song in FULL >> iheart.com The song is available for download on Amazon.com and US iTunes
Church's
last album, "Chief," won the CMA and Academy of Country Music album
of the year awards, sold 1.5 million copies and changed his career. The album's
success moved him from promising songwriter to arena-filling star. He did it by
tapping into the growing hunger for hard rock sounds in country. His new album, produced again by Jay Joyce is set for release Feb 11, 2014. Other
tracks on the album include "Cold One," "Roller Coaster Ride,"
"The Joint," and "Devil Devil," that latter with a prelude
of Shel Silverstein's poem, "The Devil and Billy Markham."
Luke Bryan who is nominated for Entertainer
Of The Year, Male Vocalist Of The Year and Musical Event Of The Year opens to ABC news up about the two
tragedies
that nearly broke him. He was sickly when he
was little baby, so I bounced him all the time ... and hummed "'Rock of
Ages,'"
Bryan's mother, LeClaire, told "20/20." "He could literally hum "Rock of Ages" before he
could talk." Bryan later joined high school musicals and started his own
band. By the time he was 19, he planned to move to Nashville to follow his
dreams. But days before Bryan was going to leave home, tragedy struck his
family.
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| Luke centre (childhood pic) |
"My
older brother, Chris, was unexpectedly killed in a ... car accident,"
Bryan said. "I'm kind of hyperventilating talking about it. ... You never
truly ...move beyond it."
Once
in Nashville, Bryan found initial success as a songwriter, and soon after, he
was signed as a performer and had his first hit song, "All My Friends Say."
When he was invited to perform at the famous Grand Ole Opry in Nashville,
Bryan's older sister, Kelly Cheshire,
organized 129 people, practically Bryan's entire hometown, to attend his Opry
debut. Tragically, just a few days after Bryan's performance, his sister died at home. Bryan said the
cause remains undetermined.
Taylor Swift who top the list of
nominees for “The 47th Annual CMA Awards” with six nominations (including Entertainer
Of The Year and Album of the year) will receive the
CMA's Pinnacle Award Wednesday (11/6) during the 47th Annual CMA Awards. The honor
recognizes unique national and international prominence through concert
performances and record sales, as well as a long-term positive impact on
upcoming generations' appreciation of country. The award was created in 2005.
Country
Star Trivia: The Pinnacle Award has
only been given to one other artist, who was it? Answer: Garth Brooks
Kacey Musgraves who jointly tops the
list of nominees with six nominations (including Song, Single, Album and Female
Vocalist) says winning the Album of the
Year trophy for Same Trailer Different Park would be ideal since she could
share it with her entire team.
She says, "If you
can take that home, then I feel like your entire body of work is rewarded. It’s
not just the songs or the singer, it’s the whole band. It’s the package. It’s
the photography that’s on the album cover, which my sister did!"
Making
Same Trailer Different Park was a real labor of love for Kacey, who co-produced
the project along with Shane McAnally and Luke Laird. Kacey adds, "The songs are near and dear to my heart, so it represents a
time in my life that I’m really proud of."
So,
what would Kacey do if Same Trailer Different Park ended up taking the Album of
the Year prize?
"If I got to take home that award, I think I would just melt
into a puddle," she says with a big laugh. Kacey
is expected to perform her brand-new single, "Follow Your
Arrow,"
on the awards show.
Florida Georgia Line could walk away with
the first CMA trophies Wednesday night.
They're up for three awards including Duo of the Year and Single of the Year
for "Cruise," the song
that catapulted their career into the stratosphere. It seems the duo's Tyler
Hubbard and Brian Kelley get big news about awards show nominations and
sold-out headlining concerts just about every day, so how do they keep it all
from running together. Tyler tells ABC News Radio, "We try to
let it sink in every few days. It seems like every morning we're waking up
realizing how blessed we are looking at all the crazy stuff that's going on. It
makes us want to work even harder, and we're just having a good time." Florida Georgia
Line hopes to be on the nominations list for next year's CMA Awards, too.
Keith Urban has 4 nominations
including Male Vocalist, Single and Musical
Event of the Year is set to perform his hit duet with Miranda Lambert, "We Were Us," on the CMA night. He
admits singing on live shows like this one can be a bit jarring since something
could easily go wrong in front of millions of TV viewers. "TV is just hard because it's so run-and-gun," Keith explains.
"You know, you don't have time to check things,
and you can do it on sound check and then it doesn't sound like anything on the
night. It's so quick and it's just like, I like being able to sort of get into
the zone, and you can't do that in three minutes."
In
the end, focusing on the music is the only thing Keith can do during those live
TV performances.
He
says, "I just try and play. I
mean, I try not to think about all the people sitting down in the front and all
that sort of thing."
Jason Aldean nominated for Entertainer
of the Year, Male Vocalist and Musical Event
of the Year has got his eye on the
top prize
-- Entertainer of the Year. After the
success of his Night Train tour and album this year, Jason feels he has a real
shot at taking that trophy home. "Any time
you're in that category and have a shot at that one is pretty special,"
Jason says. "That's one that's kind of, to this point in my career, has
kind of eluded us so far. So, if there was one I would like to get before my
career is done, it'd be that one." Even if he walks away empty-handed,
Jason knows he'll have a good time with his fellow country stars at some of the
after-parties.
Darius Rucker's hit, "Wagon
Wheel," is up for CMA Single of the Year as well as Song of the Year for
the songwriters, Ketch Secor and Bob Dylan. Ketch's band Old Crow Medicine Show
originally released "Wagon Wheel" as a bluegrass song about a decade
ago, and Darius has been a big fan of their version for years now. He says, "They do
it so perfectly. I mean, the way they do the song is the way it should be done.
It's just a perfect bluegrass song. I
didn't think I could make it a country song."
It
wasn't until Darius heard another band do "Wagon Wheel" with a
country feel that he decided to cut it. He goes on to call it a "perfect
country song," adding, "Man, I don't know if I
could ever be any countrier than that."
Lady Antebellum’s Dave Haywood tells ABC News Radio, "It's
always that front row, they always stack, like, Reba, George [Strait], Tim
[McGraw], Faith [Hill]. Taylor Swift's always in there. Yeah, it'll be a little
nerve-wracking for sure."
On
top of that, Lady Antebellum will be performing
their brand-new song, "Compass,"
on the show.
"It's a new song," Dave explains. "So [we're] kind of getting all those parts worked out
again. We've been rehearsing and stuff leading up to this."
Though
they've already won six CMA Awards, Lady A is extremely grateful for their nods
this year for Vocal Group of the Year and Video of the Year for "Downtown."
- "It's never a guarantee to get into any of
those categories by any means for the CMAs," Dave explains. "You
know, there's so many great country artists doing so many really cool things
right now. So, we're honored to be there." "Compass" is the lead single
from Lady Antebellum's expanded re-release of their current album, Golden
Deluxe, hitting stores November 11.
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