2008 CMA Awards

[DonFan]

The nominations have just been announced for this year's CMA Awards:

"It's been more than 30 years since their last CMA Awards nomination for Vocal Group of the Year (1976, 1977), but the Eagles are back in the category in 2008."

The ceremony is Nov 12 at the Sommet Center in Nashville, where I saw them perform at the CMAs last year. That is the day aftet their last scheduled concert date in Tulsa. I wonder if they will come and/or perform this year, or who they will send as their representative?

I am thrilled they are nominated and I hope they win! Personally, I can't believe Long Road Out of Eden wasn't nominated as Album of the Year, however.

Here are the major nominees:

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
George Strait
Sugarland
Keith Urban

FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Alison Krauss
Miranda Lambert
Martina McBride
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood

MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Kenny Chesney
Alan Jackson
Brad Paisley
George Strait
Keith Urban

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Jason Aldean
Rodney Atkins
Lady Antebellum
James Otto
Kellie Pickler

VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
Eagles
Emerson Drive
Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town
Rascal Flatts

VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR
Big & Rich
Brooks & Dunn
Montgomery Gentry
Sugarland
The Wreckers

SINGLE OF THE YEAR
"Don't Blink"
Kenny Chesney

"Gunpowder & Lead"
Miranda Lambert

"I Saw God Today"
George Strait

"Stay"
Sugarland

"You're Gonna Miss This"
Trace Adkins

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Carnival Ride
Carrie Underwood
Produced by Mark Bright

Cowboy Town
Brooks & Dunn

Good Time
Alan Jackson

Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
Kenny Chesney

Troubadour
George Strait

SONG OF THE YEAR
"Good Time"
Alan Jackson

"I Saw God Today"
Rodney Clawson/Monty Criswell/Wade Kirby

"Letter To Me"
Brad Paisley

"Stay"
Jennifer Nettles

"You're Gonna Miss This"
Lee Thomas Miller/Ashley Gorley

MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
Josh Turner featuring Trisha Yearwood
"Another Try"

Reba McEntire and Kenny Chesney
"Every Other Weekend"

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
"Gone, Gone, Gone"

Sugarland featuring Little Big Town and Jake Owen
"Life In A Northern Town"

Kenny Chesney (duet with George Strait)
"Shiftwork"

[Brooke]

Great news!

[Littlemelly9]

Yall Do Know every year Rascal Flats gets it right?
Not That I Vite for them or Anything

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Thanks DF - I totally agree with you that LROOE should have been nominated. I think this could be the year that our guys win. I'm also still anxiously awaiting to see if they will ever get inducted into the Country Music HOF.

[Freypower]

How Long notwithstanding, I consider LROOE a rock album, not a country album.

[Brooke]

I agree with you, Fp.

[sodascouts]

Yeah - I always thought LROOE was an uneasy fit for country. They decided it was more marketable to call it that, I guess. Genre classifications are easy to fudge because they are not clearly defined (sometimes I think the only thing that differentiates country from mainstream is the singer's accent). Still, I think very few people would listen to LROOE in full and come away calling it a country album.

[TimothyBFan]

Congrats to them but I can't tell you how much I really dislike that. I'm with Soda -anyone listening to the WHOLE album can't consider it a country album. I know they have always been considered "a little bit country" and that country artist, for decades, have covered their music but I don't see them as a country act. I will admit, I am the farthest from a country music fan as you can get! I love southern rock tho-go figure?!? The Eagles will aways be my favorite ROCK band!

[tbs fanatic]

Yall Do Know every year Rascal Flats gets it right?
Not That I Vite for them or Anything

Ha - I think you are right there LM9

[DonFan]

They are my favorite ROCK band too guys, but c'mon, they courted the country market & asked the country radio stations to play their songs, so I wish they had been nominated for the best album award.