Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire, Brooks & Dunn among Oklahoma CMA Awards nominees
Carrie Underwood smiles on the red carpet at the 2008 CMA Awards. (Associated Press photo)
Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire, Brooks & Dunn, Miranda Lambert and Rascal Flatts will represent Oklahoma at this fall’s 43rd Annual CMA Awards.
The nominees for the Country Music Association’s awards show were announced live Tuesday morning on “Good Morning America” and “CMT Insider.”
Checotah native Underwood earned two nominations, for female vocalist of the year, an award she has won the past three years, and for musical event of the year for her version of “I Told You So” featuring Randy Travis. Travis picked up a second nomination for song of the year, for writing “I Told You So,” which was a chart-topper for him in 1988 and a hit this year for Underwood.
If Underwood wins the female vocalist award again, it will tie her with fellow nominees McEntire and Martina McBride for most wins in the category.
But Underwood was shut out of the top category, entertainer of the year, though she became just the seventh woman to win the title at the spring Academy of Country Music Awards.
The CMA entertainer of the year nominees are Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Keith Urban and Taylor Swift. Swift becomes the first solo female artist since Faith Hill in 2000 to be nominated for the CMA’s top award; the last solo woman to win it was Shania Twain in 1999.
Along with her female vocalist nomination, McEntire, who was raised in Chockie, also will compete for the musical event prize for “Cowgirls Don’t Cry,” her duet with Brooks & Dunn. With her two nominations, McEntire brings her career total to 48, continuing her reign as the female artist with the highest number of nominations in CMA Awards history.
Brooks & Dunn, which includes former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn, also was nominated for vocal duo of the year, a category they have won a record 14 times. The hitmaking team of Dunn and Kix Brooks announced last month that they are splitting up after next year’s “The Last Rodeo Tour.” They released their last album as a duo, “#1’s … And Then Some,” on Tuesday.
Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo, joins Underwood and McEntire in competing for the female vocalist award.
Rascal Flatts, which includes Joe Don Rooney of Picher, was nominated for vocal group of the year, an award the band has won for the past six years.
The CMA Awards will air live Nov. 11 from the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tenn., on ABC. Underwood and Paisley, who received a leading six nominations, will co-host the show for the second year.
-BAM
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