Nominations for the 40th Annual CMA Awards were announced by Brad Paisley and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland for select categories on ABC’s Good Morning America, with the the remaining nominations announced in Nashville by Jason Aldean and Little Big Town on CMT.
Brooks & Dunn and Brad Paisley received six nominations, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, and Carrie Underwood received four nominations. In addition, Rascall Flatts and Dolly Parton earned three nominations.
“Country Music is thriving on the talent and creativity of an outstanding group of artists and they are well represented with our nominees,” said CMA Chief Operating Officer Tammy Genovese. “These talented performers, musicians, songwriters, producers, and directors demonstrate the artistic depth and creativity driving the growth of our format this year. It is an exciting time for Country Music and the 2006 CMA Awards will definitely reflect that in November.”
The 40th Annual CMA Awards will be hosted by Brooks & Dunn and broadcast live from Nashville’s Gaylord Entertainment Center, Monday, November 6, 2006 (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) on the ABC Television Network. 2006 CMA Awards nominees:
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Brooks & Dunn
Kenny Chesney
Rascal Flatts
Brad Paisley
Keith Urban
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to artist and producer)
“Believe”
Brooks & Dunn
Produced by Tony Brown/Kix Brooks/Ronnie Dunn
“Better Life”
Keith Urban
Produced by Dann Huff/Keith Urban
“Jesus Take The Wheel”
Carrie Underwood
Produced by Mark Bright
“Summertime”
Kenny Chesney
Produced by Buddy Cannon/Kenny Chesney
“When I Get Where I’m Going”
Brad Paisley (Featuring Dolly Parton)
Produced by Frank Rogers/Chris DuBois
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to artist and producer)
Hillbilly Deluxe
Brooks & Dunn
Produced by Ronnie Dunn/Kix Brooks/Mark Wright/Tom Shapiro/Tony Brown/Bob DiPiero
Me And My Gang
Rascal Flatts
Produced by Dann Huff/Rascal Flatts
Precious Memories
Alan Jackson
Produced by Keith Stegall
The Road And The RadioKenny Chesney
Produced by Buddy Cannon/Kenny Chesney
Time Well Wasted
Brad Paisley
Produced by Chris DuBois/Frank Rogers
SONG OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to songwriter and primary publisher)
“8th of November”
Big Kenny/John Rich
Big Love Music/WB Music/Rich Texan Music
“Believe”
Craig Wiseman/Ronnie Dunn
Sony/ATV Tree/Showbilly Music/Big Loud Shirt
“Jesus Take The Wheel”
Hillary Lindsey/Brett James/Gordie Sampson
Dimensional Music of 1091/Raylene Music/No Such Music/Passing Stranger
“Tonight I Wanna Cry”
Keith Urban/Monty Powell
Universal Music/Lanark Village Tunes/Guitar Monkey Music/Coburn Music
“When I Get Where I’m Going”
Rivers Rutherford/George Teren
Universal Music/Memphersfield Music/House of Full Circle Music
FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Sara Evans
Faith Hill
Martina McBride
Carrie Underwood
Gretchen Wilson
MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Dierks Bentley
Kenny Chesney
Alan Jackson
Brad Paisley
Keith Urban
VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
Alison Krauss + Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas
Little Big Town
Lonestar
Rascal Flatts
Sugarland
VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR
Big & Rich
Brooks & Dunn
Montgomery Gentry
Van Zant
The Wreckers
MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
Brooks & Dunn (Guest vocals by Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill)
“Building Bridges”
Faith Hill Featuring Tim McGraw
“Like We Never Loved At All”
Gretchen Wilson (Featuring Merle Haggard)
“Politically Uncorrect”
Brad Paisley (Featuring Dolly Parton)
“When I Get Where I’m Going”
Bon Jovi (Duet with Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland)
“Who Says You Can’t Go Home”
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
Eddie Bayers – Drums
Jerry Douglas – Dobro
Paul Franklin – Steel Guitar
Dann Huff – Guitar
Brent Mason -Guitar/Electric Guitar
Randy Scruggs – Guitar
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to artist and director)
“8th of November”
Big & Rich
Directed by Robert Deaton/George J. Flanigen IV/Marc Oswald
“Believe”
Brooks & Dunn
Directed by Robert Deaton/George J. Flanigen IV
“Jesus Take The Wheel”
Carrie Underwood
Directed by Roman White
“Kerosene”
Miranda Lambert
Directed by Trey Fanjoy
“When I Get Where I’m Going”
Brad Paisley (Featuring Dolly Parton)
Directed by Jim Shea
HORIZON AWARD
Miranda Lambert
Little Big Town
Sugarland
Josh Turner
Carrie Underwood
Brad Paisley didn’t simply deliver the good news; he was one of the major stories of the day with six nominations for the 2006 CMA Awards including Entertainer; Male Vocalist; Album for Time Well Wasted; and Single, Musical Event and Music Video of the Year for “When I Get Where I’m Going” (featuring Dolly Parton).
Paisley, who has won five CMA Awards since he won the Horizon Award in 2000, ti
ed for the most nominations with CMA Awards hosts Brooks & Dunn. But Ronnie Dunn slipped ahead in the overall tally with an added nomination as songwriter on the duo’s hit “Believe,” which Dunn co-wrote with Craig Wiseman, marking Dunn’s first individual nomination.
Brooks & Dunn were nominated for Entertainer, which they won in 1996; Vocal Duo, which they have won a record 13 times; Album for Hillbilly Deluxe; Single and Music Video for “Believe;” and Musical Event of the Year for “Building Bridges,” with guest vocals by Sheryl Crow and the man who hosted the CMA Awards for 12 consecutive years before Brooks & Dunn took over in 2004, Vince Gill. This is Crow’s second CMA Awards nomination. Only one nomination is counted per category, per project, but the duo could pick up additional trophies at this year’s ceremony for co-producing their nominated Single with Tony Brown, and Album with Mark Wright, Tom Shapiro, Bob DiPiero and Brown.
With six nominations bringing his career total nominations to 33, Paisley moves ahead of music legends Chet Atkins, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Conway Twitty in the nominations count. With three nominations this year for her work with Paisley on “When I Get Where I’m Going,” Parton moves ahead of Reba McEntire as the female artist with the most CMA Awards nominations (43) in the 40-year history of the CMA Awards.
Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, and Carrie Underwood each received four nominations. Chesney was nominated for Entertainer, Male Vocalist, Album for The Road And The Radio, and Single of the Year for “Summertime.”
Urban was nominated for Entertainer; Male Vocalist; Single for “Better Life,” produced by Urban and Dann Huff; and Song of the Year for “Tonight I Wanna Cry,” which Urban co-wrote with Monty Powell. Urban won his first CMA Award in 2001 with the Horizon Award. In 2004, he won Male Vocalist and last year Urban won Male Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year.
One of the breakout artists of the past year, Underwood definitely didn’t miss the attention of CMA’s voting members. She her first CMA Awards nominations including Female Vocalist; the Horizon Award; and Single and Music Video of the Year for “Jesus Take The Wheel,” which was also nominated for Song of the Year for songwriters, Hillary Lindsey, Brett James, and Gordie Sampson.
After winning three consecutive Vocal Group of the Year Awards (2003, 2004, 2005), Rascal Flatts received their first nomination for Entertainer of the Year. The Entertainer of the Year Award has only been won four times by a group including Dixie Chicks (2000) and Alabama (1982, 1983, 1984). Rascal Flatts also received nominations for Vocal Group and Album of the Year for Me And My Gang. Rascal Flatts co-produced the album with Huff.
Several artists received two nominations each this year including Big & Rich, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Sugarland and Gretchen Wilson.
A song that resonated with CMA Awards voters was Big & Rich’s poignant “8th of November,” about a physically and emotionally scarred Vietnam Veteran. The anthem was nominated for Song of the Year, giving Big Kenny Alphin and John Rich individual nominations as songwriters. They received two nominations as Big & Rich for Vocal Duo and Music Video of the Year for “8th of November,” which was directed by Robert Deaton, George Flanigen IV, and Marc Oswald.
Hill won Female Vocalist of the Year in 2000 and she is nominated in the category again in 2006. She is also nominated in the Musical Event of the Year category with husband Tim McGraw for “Like We Never Loved At All.” Hill and McGraw have a string of nominations in the musical collaboration category including “Let’s Make Love” (2000); “Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me” (1998); and “It’s Your Love,” which won the CMA Award in 1997.
Jackson maintains his perch atop of the list of artists with the most career CMA Awards nominations in 2006 with 74. He is nominated for Male Vocalist and Album of the Year for Precious Memories. The album is a pared down collection of church standards Jackson recorded for his mother as a Christmas present in 2005. Initially, there were only 100 copies recorded.
Lambert received her first CMA Awards nomination in 2005 for the Horizon Award and in 2006 she has two nominations — Horizon and Music Video of the Year for “Kerosene,” which was directed by Trey Fanjoy. An artist can only receive two nominations for the Horizon category in their career. Little Big Town received their first CMA Awards nominations in 2006 including Horizon and Vocal Group of the Year.
Like Little Big Town, Sugarland also received nominations for Horizon and Vocal Group of the Year, but Jennifer Nettles also picked up a solo nod for Musical Event of the Year with Bon Jovi for their duet “Who Says You Can’t Go Home.” This is Bon Jovi’s first CMA Awards nomination.
Wilson won the Horizon trophy in 2004 and last year she was named CMA Female Vocalist of the Year. She is nominated in that category again in 2006 and picked up an additional nomination for Musical Event of the Year with Merle Haggard for “Politically Uncorrect.”
As the CMA Awards celebrates its 40th Anniversary, it is interesting to note that Haggard was nominated for Male Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year in 1967 at the first “CMA Awards Banquet and Show,” and has received a nomination in every decade since for a career total of 45 CMA Awards nominations.
Completing the Female Vocalist of the Year category with Hill, Underwood and Wilson are Sara Evans and Martina McBride. McBride has won the Female Vocalist of the Year trophy four times (1999, 2002, 2003, 2004), surpassing Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette’s record and tying her with Reba McEntire for the most wins in the Female Vocalist category.
In 2005, Dierks Bentley won the Horizon Award and in 2006 he joins the ranks of the Male Vocalist of the Year category for the first time, rounding out the list with Chesney, Jackson, Paisley, and Urban.
Joining Little Big Town, Rascal Flatts, and Sugarland in the Vocal Group of the Year category are Lonestar and Alison Krauss + Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas, which received its first Vocal Group of the Year nomination in 2005. And speaking of Douglas, CMA’s reigning Musician of the Year picks up an additional nod in the Musician category this year.
Brooks & Dunn’s domination on the Vocal Duo of the Year category is being challenged in 2006 by Big & Rich; Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry, who won the Award in 2000; Van Zant, made up of Southern rock royalty brothers Donnie Van Zant (.38 Special) and Johnny Van Zant (Lynyrd Skynyrd); and a new entry in the category, Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp of The Wreckers.
Rounding out the Horizon Award category with Lambert, Little Big Town, Sugarland and Underwood is Josh Turner. Turner received his first CMA Awards nomination in the category in 2004.
“The depth and diversity of the Horizon nominees this year really speaks to the strength and future of the format,” Genovese said.
The CMA Awards nominees and winners are determined by the 6,000 industry professional members of CMA, which was the first trade organization formed to promote an individual genre of music in 1958. The first “CMA Awards Banquet and Show” was held in 1967. The following year, the CMA Awards were broadcast on NBC television for the first time — making it the longest running, annual music awards program on network television. The show aired on NBC through 1971 and on the CBS Television Network from 1972 through 2005.
Winners of “The 40th Annual CMA Awards” will be determined in the third and final round of voting by eligible voting members of the Country Music Association. CMA Awards balloting is officiated by the international accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
source: Country Music Association
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