The 2009 CMAs

I am loving the CMA awards this year.  Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are great hosts.  I have not yet been able to find a video of their duet "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Kanye" but will post it when I do. 

There is a really good live blog here which includes the following line, "Jamey Johnson still looks like a homeless person who wandered into the Sommet Center."  I love Jamey Johnson, but my kids said almost the same thing while we were watching, but instead of limiting it to Johnson, said "there are so many people there who look like hobos." 

It is really cool that Darius Rucker won for new artist, even though he is far from new.  He is new to country though and has had an incredible year, and I really like him so I'm glad he won.  I liked him when he was Hootie, too, and his sound really isn't that much different now.  I just about wore that first Hootie CD out.

There are some really cool performances tonight.  Daughtry and Vince Gill were especially good.  If you love country music tune in to ABC and enjoy. 

Update:  Here is the promised video clip.  Little Jimmy Dickens pulled a Kanye, too. 

Probably the favorite of my kids (and one of my favorites too) was Jason Aldeen's "Big Green Tractor."  That has to be the sexiest redneck song ever written.  Oh, and they got a kick out of Taylor Swift and her fans singing "Fifteen" and Billy Currington's "People Are Crazy." It still seems strange to me that my kids love country music.  When I was a kid I thought country was for old people.  I liked a few songs like "Devil Went Down to Georgia" and some Alabama and Kenny Rogers songs, and of course, "Elvira," but could not stand to listen to country radio. I was converted to country music in college, believe it or not.  I guess it makes sense if you think about it.  My kids have Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney.  I had Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn and George Jones.  Great singers.  Amazing singers, but not exactly anywhere close to my generation at the time.  Come to think about it I turned on to country when the new generation of Randy Travis, Alan Jackson and Dwight Yoakam came along.  Makes sense after all.

Wasn't it great seeing Barbara Mandrell for the first time in a long time and hearing Martina McBride sing "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool"? 

Update II:  I didn't realize at the time, but GayPatriot was at the CMAs and tweeted with some cool pics.  I am so jealous, Bruce.

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