Speaker 1: Welcome into the Bobbycast ACM Awards Special.
Speaker 2: I am Kevin and I'm Shannon Ella.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited to be doing this with you and
Speaker 3: talk about the awards because the ACMs. It's been a
Speaker 3: long time since I've actually sat and watched through an
Speaker 3: entire award show.
Speaker 2: And that was.
Speaker 1: Insane, sane. I didn't and I never got bored.
Speaker 3: No me neither, because how could you. It was like performance.
Speaker 3: I felt like I was at a festival with really
Speaker 3: great speeches in between, where it's like you know when
Speaker 3: you're at a wedding and the speeches sometimes go off,
Speaker 3: you know a little bit. Yes, this time it was
Speaker 3: like a wedding with like really great speeches.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was one after another and then performance after another,
Speaker 1: and there was never I think there's maybe what one
Speaker 1: commercial I want to say, Yeah, and it's that for
Speaker 1: an Amazon Prime show or movie.
Speaker 2: Coming out which I really want to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Same here, I'm like, okay, even this
Speaker 1: is entertaining.
Speaker 2: It was like the bull riding one is see that.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a bull I remember Air?
Speaker 3: They were oh the Air one, Yes, yeah, that one
Speaker 3: looks great too. It there was a bull riding show
Speaker 3: or something, and I was like, Okay, I'm in. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel like most award shows are going in the
Speaker 3: direction of like more performances.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's way better that way. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: what we want to hear exactly.
Speaker 1: You're like, Okay, we have all these great artists, the
Speaker 1: best in the industry, best in the world. I want
Speaker 1: to hear them do what they do best, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it was so good, I mean, like and a
Speaker 2: lot of throwbacks too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is really cool. Yeah, when they brought out
Speaker 1: Chricier year would And we'll get into some performances, but
Speaker 1: I want to start right away with best Dressed.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is hard.
Speaker 3: I made a list, and I feel like your list
Speaker 3: is like one line is like ten.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: So I'll start with you.
Speaker 1: Then name off a feel.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have to say Gabby Barrett. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you saw her. She had like these gigantic black
Speaker 3: sleeves on, like her dress was bigger than her and
Speaker 3: her husband like he couldn't even get near her. And
Speaker 3: I don't know how she made it down the carpet
Speaker 3: with that dress, but it was so cool. But I
Speaker 3: specifically loved all the blue that was on the carpet
Speaker 3: this year. I felt like a lot of people wearing
Speaker 3: that color Marida Lambert, Texan Ryan and Brittany Kelly to
Speaker 3: Neil Towns and Mackenzie Porter, my Canadian girls looking good
Speaker 3: and blue. Okay, but I know your pick. I feel
Speaker 3: like is gonna be one of the dudes on the carpet.
Speaker 1: It has to be. And it's not even the outfit itself,
Speaker 1: it's when he was getting interviewed on the carpet by Brilin.
Speaker 1: By the way, Brilin did a great job all the hosted,
Speaker 1: but Brilyan I thought.
Speaker 2: Was crushed it.
Speaker 3: I thought I was like, he should not that I
Speaker 3: want him to steal my job. But hey, I'm like Brilin,
Speaker 3: I would love to co host something with him. I
Speaker 3: feel like he's so good at that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did a great job, and he had a
Speaker 1: great job of like connecting with the artists, you know,
Speaker 1: as a fellow artist himself. But going back to who
Speaker 1: he interviewed, it was Mitchell Tenpenny. And the reason I
Speaker 1: say Mitchell Tenpenny is because he had the bolo tie
Speaker 1: and he had a Texas look to him, and Brilin
Speaker 1: asked him like you got the Texas five going today.
Speaker 1: We've seen him in the studio and outside the studio
Speaker 1: and it doesn't really dress like that. And he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't got this today.
Speaker 2: Of course he did. That was like true Mitchell style, right.
Speaker 1: He's like, you know what, I'm gonna go to the
Speaker 1: ACMs in Texas. I'm gonna look like I live in
Speaker 1: Texas and I'm front Texas.
Speaker 2: He looked like he did at his wedding.
Speaker 3: Like when his wedding photos came out to Megan, they're
Speaker 3: all wearing cowboy hats. I was like, I'd never seen
Speaker 3: Mitchell wearing a cowboy hat before, but he rocks it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he looked great. He rocked it. And I just
Speaker 1: thought him saying, yeah, I went out and bought it
Speaker 1: this today, like he didn't try to hide it, and
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, this is what it's like when somebody
Speaker 1: comes to Nashville and they go out and buy, you know,
Speaker 1: a cowboy hat and they wear it on Broadway. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in Nashville. This is what I do.
Speaker 2: I'm a cowboy. But that's such a guy thing to do.
Speaker 3: Like women cannot just go out and buy their red
Speaker 3: carpet outfit like the day of the award show.
Speaker 2: Good point, yeah, point, it can't happen.
Speaker 3: But I will say I want to give a shower
Speaker 3: to all the ladies out there that were bumping on
Speaker 3: the red carpet because there were a lot of baby
Speaker 3: bumps happening, and Nicole Comb's, Luke Combs, Kimberly Kelly, Caitlyn Smith,
Speaker 3: just to name a few. I was pregnant obviously at
Speaker 3: one point. I have a son, and I never had
Speaker 3: to go to an award show red carpet pregnant, and
Speaker 3: I was so grateful for that. But they rocked it
Speaker 3: because I wouldn't think it would be fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, how would that somebody who
Speaker 1: has been through that? What would that be like for
Speaker 1: you? You think, because there's a lot of that's a lot
Speaker 1: in itself. Yeah, And they go out there and go
Speaker 1: on the red carpet and the whole performance and everything,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a lot. Right.
Speaker 3: I was really not that I wanted the pandemic to happen,
Speaker 3: but I was pregnant through the pandemic and the CMA
Speaker 3: Awards like ACM Awards are all happening, and I was like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm so glad I don't have to get dressed in
Speaker 3: a gown with this big belly. Yeah, and so I
Speaker 3: was really grateful. But all those moms they look great.
Speaker 3: But okay, best looking couple. This One's always really hard
Speaker 3: for me to choose because there's a lot of really
Speaker 3: great ones. But I think I'm going to go with
Speaker 3: Nicole and Luke Combs because I feel like they're just
Speaker 3: the sweetest couple ever and they both just look so
Speaker 3: in love and so pumped about them, you know, having
Speaker 3: another baby. So I'm going with Nicole and Luke.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to go with another Nicole. Nicole Kidman
Speaker 1: and Keith Urban. Can't go wrong with them. I know
Speaker 1: it's a little cliche here, but they just look so
Speaker 1: cool and just it's nothing fancy about it. It's just
Speaker 1: we just show up and this is who we are.
Speaker 1: And you know, when they walk in a room, matter
Speaker 1: what they're wearing, they just rocket and they look like
Speaker 1: the biggest power couple on that red carpet, which is
Speaker 1: saying something because they are.
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, they really are.
Speaker 3: Like Nicole Kidman is just so cool. I have no
Speaker 3: other that's it. She's just so cool.
Speaker 1: And then Keith is also cool. The guy ever, he
Speaker 1: just walks up and he's just like, I know there,
Speaker 1: and I can't do the accident, you know.
Speaker 3: He's like, that's something I never try to attempt because
Speaker 3: accents never come out in the moment the way that
Speaker 3: you could do them behind closed doors. Like as soon
Speaker 3: as you're put on the spot, you're like, nope, my
Speaker 3: Australian is now Jamaican, I.
Speaker 1: Know, exactly like my Irish or Jamaican or German, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is here. But another one I
Speaker 1: thought that I noticed because she was constantly on the
Speaker 1: camera was Leaney and her new boyfriend.
Speaker 2: I saw that Duck Hodges I did not know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I because I only know him as a
Speaker 1: sports fan, and he played for a little bit in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He had I think maybe one start. But
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I think that's pretty sure. That's Tim.
Speaker 1: But I've never seen him outside of a football uniform.
Speaker 1: And he's wearing the Bolo tie sitting next to her,
Speaker 1: and you know, anything she wears, she rocks well, so
Speaker 1: next to her, I was just like, okay, I like it.
Speaker 3: When they showed them on the carpet. He was the
Speaker 3: only one in the picture at one point, and.
Speaker 2: I was like, who is that artist? Because he looked
Speaker 2: so country.
Speaker 3: And then she came walking in and like put her
Speaker 3: arm around him, and I was like, what is happening here?
Speaker 2: I did not know?
Speaker 3: So yeah, very cool new relationship announced on the carpet.
Speaker 3: Best Acceptance Speech. There were so many. I kept literally
Speaker 3: writing down my favorite and then I'd erace it and
Speaker 3: be like, no, this one wins for me. But Cole
Speaker 3: Swindell he got to make a few tonight, which we
Speaker 3: will talk about. But his little shout at the end,
Speaker 3: since I'm a mom to wish everyone happy Mother's Day,
Speaker 3: I loved he didn't thank his fiance, so I thought
Speaker 3: when he won the next award, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: surely he's gonna thank his brand new fiance.
Speaker 2: And he did not.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, Cole, if you're listening, don't miss her
Speaker 3: on the next acceptance.
Speaker 1: Speech, right, you got to tell him send him a text.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm gonna literally right now, be like, dude, you
Speaker 3: just got engaged.
Speaker 1: I do love the Mother's Day thing because he came back,
Speaker 1: he gave his speech, and then everybody, the writers all
Speaker 1: the other writers talked to them, and he came back
Speaker 1: and and said, Happy Mother's Day all the moms out there.
Speaker 1: So I did love that as well. Me too, but
Speaker 1: I think we can both agree. The best it made me,
Speaker 1: literally lol, was Hardy.
Speaker 2: I think I messaged you. It was like, did he
Speaker 2: really just do that? As he did?
Speaker 1: He walked up and said, I forgot to spit my
Speaker 1: dip out before I came up here, so I got
Speaker 1: a dip in right now, And he just went on
Speaker 1: and went on about his business. Typical Hardy form, good
Speaker 1: old country boy just doesn't care, walks up there and
Speaker 1: big old'ipper in his mouth and accept an award.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it would not be an ACM Awards
Speaker 3: without like something like crazy like that happening during you
Speaker 3: don't know or don't expect that you're going to win
Speaker 3: an award. You're like in the bathroom or you're with
Speaker 3: a dip in like Hardy. But he still was able
Speaker 3: to speak really well, which I've never done dip before,
Speaker 3: But I feel like it would be tricky to not
Speaker 3: spit at some point.
Speaker 1: If you're a seasoned veteran. For sure, he probably has
Speaker 1: done it for so long that he just swallows it,
Speaker 1: which is very tough to imagine. And I mean I've
Speaker 1: done it times on accident, never on purpose. So Hardy
Speaker 1: is a veteran in the dipping world. But his speech
Speaker 1: was awesome and just coming up there and doing that.
Speaker 1: And we were talking about the most fun to sit
Speaker 1: within the audience if you were at that show, if
Speaker 1: you had to have a seat next to somebody, who
Speaker 1: would it be with or people?
Speaker 3: I mean, I would say Hardy, But now that I
Speaker 3: know he was doing dip and spitting in a cup
Speaker 3: in the front row, I'm like, well maybe not. But honestly,
Speaker 3: Landy Wilson is one of my favorite people ever. Every
Speaker 3: time I'm with her, I always have the best time.
Speaker 3: And I just know she, no matter what win or lose,
Speaker 3: like she was going to be having a party and
Speaker 3: enjoying herself. So I would want to sit with Laney.
Speaker 1: I can't go wrong with that. Laney. And now Duck Hodges, of.
Speaker 2: Course, yes, I know. I guess I'm skeoching him over thought.
Speaker 1: You're like, you got to excuse me, Doug, but mine
Speaker 1: would be and they didn't really show him. I was
Speaker 1: kind of upset as Jelly roll I don't know where
Speaker 1: he was sitting.
Speaker 2: He obviously maybe he wasn't sitting, he was partying somewhere.
Speaker 1: That's probably true. He said that on the red carpet too.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, how's your You know you been here
Speaker 1: in Texas? How's your night going? Like we've been partying
Speaker 1: since Monday?
Speaker 2: And he's not lying, no, no, he is not lying.
Speaker 1: So I would just love to sit next to jelly Roll,
Speaker 1: be anywhere with jelly Roll, and to be at an
Speaker 1: event like that would be awesome. I can't even imagine
Speaker 1: just how loud he was and how much fun he
Speaker 1: was having, because he's just joyful no matter what he's
Speaker 1: doing and no matter where he's at. So mine would
Speaker 1: have been jelly Roll for sure. And moving on from that,
Speaker 1: the host.
Speaker 2: Two hosts, two hosts.
Speaker 3: So I was so excited when I found out that
Speaker 3: Garth and Dolly were co hosting the awards, because one,
Speaker 3: I love Dolly Parton, I mean who doesn't, and I
Speaker 3: feel like she's so great at it. But Garth Burk says, never,
Speaker 3: I've never seen him in that kind of position before.
Speaker 3: But as if you've been to a Garth show, you
Speaker 3: know that he's he basically is a host every night
Speaker 3: when he performs because he's so good. So I just
Speaker 3: was kind of intrigued to see what he was going
Speaker 3: to be like as a co host, and I feel
Speaker 3: like he crushed it because he never felt like he
Speaker 3: was reading off a teleprompter. I mean at times he was,
Speaker 3: but I just think that that's something he should do
Speaker 3: more of personally. And the two of them were together
Speaker 3: was really cool. A lot of like royalty up there
Speaker 3: and Dolly. I love her outfits. They are just so
Speaker 3: good and the goat bringing the literal the goat coming
Speaker 3: out on stage at the beginning.
Speaker 1: The great thing about Garth was and like you said,
Speaker 1: he's got such a presence on him and he's performing,
Speaker 1: but he was up there with Dolly and he kind
Speaker 1: of knew it. He'd let her be the star of
Speaker 1: the show because as big as he is, which is
Speaker 1: crazy to say, Dolly is even bigger.
Speaker 2: She's the goat.
Speaker 1: She is the goat exactly. So I thought he did
Speaker 1: a great job of letting her even though they were
Speaker 1: co hosts. She was really the star of the show
Speaker 1: all night, even with the end performance with her new
Speaker 1: song at the very end, and I thought they just
Speaker 1: they teamed it well together. They gelled well together, and
Speaker 1: like you said, he was very smooth with everything he did.
Speaker 1: And I thought they were just awesome together. They were entertaining.
Speaker 3: I hope they get them again next year. I truly
Speaker 3: I did enjoy them. I was wondering where he was
Speaker 3: going when he was talking about the goat and naming
Speaker 3: all of these incredible men. I was like, you have
Speaker 3: not listed one woman, sir, And then I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I see where you're going with this. But yeah, the
Speaker 3: amount of awards that were given out tonight was overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Did you have any that kind of shocked you? I mean,
Speaker 3: we'll get into it more, but was there a category
Speaker 3: that kind of blew your mind?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say necessarily a category. I would say overall Colswandel, yeah,
Speaker 1: and how much he won. And I'm not hating on
Speaker 1: it at all. It's just that shocked me more than anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, it started with Colswondell, whom won the first award,
Speaker 1: and then the Song of the Year she had me
Speaker 1: at Heags Carolina, and I think it's just the background
Speaker 1: of Heads Carolina right that everyone loves and Jody Massina
Speaker 1: that performed it. And it was great, So I was surprised.
Speaker 1: That was my biggest surprise, probably of all the awards.
Speaker 1: It's how many he took away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, and not like you said. I love
Speaker 3: that song so much and it's so cool for them
Speaker 3: to bring back such an iconic nineties song and have
Speaker 3: Jody Massina on the show. But I just was not
Speaker 3: expected him. I think the second award he also was
Speaker 3: not expecting to get because you.
Speaker 2: Look at all those songs that are nominated.
Speaker 3: I don't know who chooses them, but it would be
Speaker 3: a really tough job because I could not do it.
Speaker 1: Oh, because they're all so great. You're like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: gonna win. No. Eight, that's gonna win. Wait I know,
Speaker 1: Oh that's the winner. You're like, oh, okay, she had
Speaker 1: me a head Carolina.
Speaker 3: But it is a jam, and I feel like maybe
Speaker 3: we should encourage people to rewrite epic nineties songs.
Speaker 1: It's going well.
Speaker 2: For it's going well, Let's keep doing it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Let's run through the awards then real quick, and
Speaker 1: we'll start with the ones that were announced the night
Speaker 1: before New Male Artists of the Year. The finalists were
Speaker 1: Bailey Zimmerman, Dylan Scott, Nate Smith, Zach Bryan, Jackson, Dene,
Speaker 1: and Ernest. And the winner was Zach Bryan, which was
Speaker 1: a little surprising only because he's not really on the radio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's got such a big following and he's such
Speaker 1: a great artist. So like me personally, I was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense, but it was just a little surprising
Speaker 1: in the sense of he's not as well known throughout
Speaker 1: the country as maybe say somebody like an Ernest or
Speaker 1: even a Bailey Zimmerman of course too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, honestly, that category was so stacked because,
Speaker 3: especially in the new era with social media and the
Speaker 3: amount of TikTok fans that people have and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: artists like Nate and Bailey, Nate Smith and Bailey Zimmerman,
Speaker 3: like these guys at the start of their career already
Speaker 3: have such a massive fan base and people that show
Speaker 3: up for them in such a huge way. So I
Speaker 3: feel like Zach Bryan's super deserving of it. But it
Speaker 3: could have gone so many ways, and I feel like
Speaker 3: they'll all be nominated again at some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, They're None of those guys are going anywhere anytime now,
Speaker 1: that's for sure.
Speaker 3: New female artists of the Year category. So many great
Speaker 3: ladies in here, Caitlyn Smith, Megan Maroney, Hailey Witters, Morgan Wade,
Speaker 3: and Priscilla Block. And I was so, so so happy.
Speaker 3: I have been such a long time supporter of this girl.
Speaker 3: Hailey Witters was the winner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, congratul to her. She deserves every bit of it.
Speaker 1: Her performance was awesome too. I mean it was simple, subtle,
Speaker 1: but typical Hayley. She's up there with a smile the
Speaker 1: whole time, sounds great, looks great, and I'm very very
Speaker 1: happy for her as well.
Speaker 3: I remember when she first started releasing music and I
Speaker 3: played her on radio in Canada and I got a
Speaker 3: message from her and Kappy being like, thanks so much
Speaker 3: for supporting and you know, we hope that you know,
Speaker 3: this turns into something really big. And I was like,
Speaker 3: I've loved her since her first EP she ever released,
Speaker 3: and to see where she is now, I'm like, girl
Speaker 3: and she crushed it. Her performance was one of those
Speaker 3: that I listed as one of my favorites for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you could tell everyone feels the same about
Speaker 1: her in the industry, whether it's an artist or some
Speaker 1: of you management or somebody that works you know, Red carpet, interview, radio, anything. Everyone.
Speaker 1: She walks in a room and you're like, this girl
Speaker 1: is just special, so congratulate her. We'll go on to
Speaker 1: Song of the Year, and the finalists were Morgan wall
Speaker 1: and Sand in My Boots, Cole Swindell She Had Me
Speaker 1: at Head, Carolina, Cody Johnson n Til You Can't Hardy
Speaker 1: and Laney Wilson of Wait in the Truck, and Chris
Speaker 1: Stapleton You should probably leave. We just talked about Cole, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he won.
Speaker 2: This and the Song of the Year.
Speaker 3: Like, you have to really look up how these songs
Speaker 3: are chosen, because you know there is reasons why they
Speaker 3: choose Song of the Year and Single of the Year.
Speaker 3: There's certain criteria that they have to match and stuff,
Speaker 3: but every single one of those matches the criteria to
Speaker 3: be nominated. My personal favorite out of that one has
Speaker 3: always forever been Till You Can't Buy Cody Johnson, Like
Speaker 3: that song just blows my mind. But I'll be honest,
Speaker 3: I feel like all of those songs are ones that
Speaker 3: I've listened to multiple times over the past year. So
Speaker 3: when he was announced, I didn't go, eh, I don't
Speaker 3: think that's right.
Speaker 2: I was just like damn good for you, Cole.
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, same here. My personal favorite probably would
Speaker 1: be and I thought it would win just because it's
Speaker 1: who he is, Chris Stapleton. You should probably leave because
Speaker 1: just Chris Stapleton, just so you hear that voice and
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong with that. That's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite songs from him, for sure.
Speaker 3: Group of the Year, So Nominee's Lady a Midland Old Dominion,
Speaker 3: Little Big Town in Zach Brown Band and Big Surprise
Speaker 3: for the sixth year in a Row Old Dominion. But honestly,
Speaker 3: they are in credible. Like I got to go out
Speaker 3: and watch a bunch of their shows on the No
Speaker 3: Bad Vibe sewer and their show is like something I've
Speaker 3: never seen before.
Speaker 2: It is truly incredible.
Speaker 3: So I can't say I'm at all surprised that they've
Speaker 3: won that award for six years because they really are
Speaker 3: such a great group.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they put out album after album, single after single,
Speaker 1: and they've been doing it for so long, like you said,
Speaker 1: six times, that's insane. It's almost like they just show
Speaker 1: up now. They just know, they're like, yeah, okay, we're
Speaker 1: here again to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I do want to call Matt out though, lead
Speaker 3: singer who broke his pelvis back in January. I interviewed
Speaker 3: them right before they were they was like the beginning
Speaker 3: of the tour, and he said to me they were
Speaker 3: talking about a skiing trip and he was like, I'm
Speaker 3: not allowed to go out, you know, on the slopes
Speaker 3: because I'm the most accident prone.
Speaker 2: So when I heard of his injury, I was like, Matt,
Speaker 2: what were you doing? What were you doing? So I'm
Speaker 2: calling you out? No more activities while on tour.
Speaker 1: I did like his cane though, I did he looked
Speaker 1: really cool. Yeah, I was gonna say, you rocked. That
Speaker 1: came pretty well. Of course they would have a cool
Speaker 1: cane like that. Yeah, they always look cool, they sound cool,
Speaker 1: just cool. Then, speaking of cool, the Duo of the
Speaker 1: Year finalists, we got Dan and Shay Brothers Osborne, Brooks
Speaker 1: and Dunn, Maddie and Tay, the War and Treaty Brothers
Speaker 1: Osbourne Wins. I wasn't surprised those guys. I mean, all
Speaker 1: these finalists are great, but Brothers Osbourne, They're just something
Speaker 1: about them that anytime the Ronald lifts of something like yep,
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna win this award, just like old dominion.
Speaker 3: Yep, I will say Warren Treaty. Their performance on the
Speaker 3: ACM Awards was and everyone will probably agree with this,
Speaker 3: everyone in the crowd and even Garth and Dawley when
Speaker 3: they went on after like the most mind blowing impressive
Speaker 3: performance I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they caught me by a big surprise. I mean
Speaker 1: I've never seen them du a live performance at all,
Speaker 1: and I was like, it was just NonStop.
Speaker 3: I literally am speechless because as I was watching it,
Speaker 3: I was just like, holy Mully, they are taking everyone
Speaker 3: to school right now in vocals because it's like and
Speaker 3: their husband wife, I know.
Speaker 2: Power couple.
Speaker 1: Good for them.
Speaker 3: Yep. Okay, Single of the Year, here we go again,
Speaker 3: Lady Wilson, Heart like a truck, Carly Pearson, Ashley McBride
Speaker 3: never wanted to be that girl. Cole Swindell, she had
Speaker 3: me at Heads Carolina, Caine Brown and Caitlin Brown with
Speaker 3: Thank God, and Cody Johnson until you Can't So again.
Speaker 3: Cole Swindell took it home with She had me at
Speaker 3: Heads Carolina and again I'm not surprised that he took
Speaker 3: it home, but there were just so many other great
Speaker 3: ones in there. I did have a feeling that Laney
Speaker 3: was going to take it home with heartle Like a Truck.
Speaker 1: I thought she would be the winner. I was like,
Speaker 1: and that came up, I said, yeah, it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be Laney, because you knew she was gonna win a
Speaker 1: few words, at least more than one for sure. And
Speaker 1: when that came up with his Heart like a Truck,
Speaker 1: that song's everywhere from commercials to your radio to the playlist,
Speaker 1: and I was either that. I thought came Brown and
Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Brown had a chance as well, just because of
Speaker 1: their duo, the husband and wife aspect of it. It's
Speaker 1: a great song. They both sound great on it, but
Speaker 1: Colswindell does it again.
Speaker 3: I secretly was kind of hoping Cain Brown and Caitlyn
Speaker 3: would win it just because I really wanted her to
Speaker 3: win an award for that song because I love the
Speaker 3: two of them together so much, and she has crushed
Speaker 3: it like for someone that I know. She has a
Speaker 3: singing background but hasn't done a lot of performing.
Speaker 2: Prior to this. I was like, girl, you are a powerhouse.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you go to their Nationville show or no?
Speaker 2: No? I didn't go?
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, so I went to that show a what
Speaker 1: a month or two ago and we're all anticipating, Okay,
Speaker 1: how she's gonna sound live. It's a whole different ballgame
Speaker 1: right live on stage in front of a crowd, even better,
Speaker 1: really even better.
Speaker 2: Surprised honestly, I was like.
Speaker 1: She has overtaking the stage from Kane, and Kane Kane
Speaker 1: knew it. He's like, go ahead, girl, it's all yours.
Speaker 1: So she sounded great. They sound great together. And let's
Speaker 1: go to Male Artists of the Year now with Chris Stapleton,
Speaker 1: Kane Brown, Jordan Davis, Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs being
Speaker 1: the finalist. Now, Morgan Wallin won, But did you think
Speaker 1: that anytime Chris Stapleton's on the list, I always think
Speaker 1: it's going to be him winning, and then Luke Combs
Speaker 1: is another one. But Morgan, he takes it home. It
Speaker 1: sucks he couldn't be there. Yeah, six week thing, and
Speaker 1: Garth did a good job of talking for him at
Speaker 1: the end there. But I got to say I was
Speaker 1: a little surprised Chris or Luke didn't win. As big
Speaker 1: as Morgan is now and as much as he's crushing it,
Speaker 1: I just thought mall art of this Year Male Artists
Speaker 1: of the Year might have gone to either Chris or Luke,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad for Morgan.
Speaker 3: I personally, and I just had this gut feeling, which
Speaker 3: obviously I was wrong. I thought for sure Caine Brown
Speaker 3: was going to take it home. I really did, mainly
Speaker 3: because most people would have expected Luke or Chris or
Speaker 3: Morgan to win it. And I was just like, you
Speaker 3: know what, No, this is Caine's year, this is Kine's year.
Speaker 3: I really felt like I had, you know it right.
Speaker 3: And then when they announced it, obviously Morgan is so
Speaker 3: deserving of it, and I'm bummed for him, but I
Speaker 3: do think as far as snubs go, I still feel
Speaker 3: like came Brown how he has, he didn't win anything tonight.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, man, that guy deserves some awards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was surprising, I will say that too. I
Speaker 1: mean nothing at all I thought he would win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, Male Artists, ye or something Single of the
Speaker 1: Year like we just talked about, But he didn't really
Speaker 1: take up anything. That was very surprising.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Female Artists of the Year, such great ones.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to talk about a surprise in this
Speaker 2: one in a second.
Speaker 3: But Kelsey Vallerini, Laney Wilson, Carly Pierce, Ashley McBride, Miranda Lambert,
Speaker 3: and Lane Wilson was the winner. So deserving and all
Speaker 3: those ladies are so so talented. The big surprise to
Speaker 3: me in that category was that Carrie Underwood wasn't nominated.
Speaker 2: Did that not shock you a little bit?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I didn't really, I mean didn't process in my head
Speaker 1: until you wrote it down on the notes and I said, hey, wait,
Speaker 1: what where is she?
Speaker 3: I thought it was a typo when they first announced it.
Speaker 3: I was like, surely they got this wrong. Right, she's
Speaker 3: nominated for Entertainer. Come on, guys, I just think she
Speaker 3: should have been nominated. But either way, Laney Wilson so deserved,
Speaker 3: Like this is the Year of Laney Wilson, it really is.
Speaker 3: And I she could not be a more deserving human
Speaker 3: to have all those things happening to her. But her
Speaker 3: acceptance speeches were so so incredible. I just love her
Speaker 3: because she's so well spoken, Like I've interviewed her a
Speaker 3: bunch of times, and she's just somebody that when you
Speaker 3: are interviewing her or talking to her she's speaking, you're
Speaker 3: listening to every word she says. And she's so inspiring
Speaker 3: that I feel like she probably inspired a lot of
Speaker 3: young performers sitting at home watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she has that presence about her too, even people
Speaker 1: who don't like country music, or maybe not my mom
Speaker 1: being well, she likes country music. But she texted me
Speaker 1: last year, I think it was during Cmas and she's like,
Speaker 1: Laney Wilson is amazing. Yeah, everyone loves Laney Wilson.
Speaker 2: She is and she's just so fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And she's fun on stage, she's fun everywhere. And
Speaker 1: then speaking to Laney, she won Album of the Year
Speaker 1: with Bell Bottom Country. The other finalist where Miranda Lambert
Speaker 1: with Palomino, Luke Combe's Growing Up, John Party Missed Her
Speaker 1: Saturday Night, and Ashley McBride with Ashle McBride Presents Lynnville.
Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised at this one, and I'm happy for
Speaker 1: her because during the red carpet she was saying they
Speaker 1: asked her, if there's one award you want to win tonight,
Speaker 1: what would it be, and she said Album of the Year.
Speaker 1: So good for her, well deserved, great album, And not
Speaker 1: surprised at all.
Speaker 3: No, me neither, because that record I played over and
Speaker 3: over and over again because it really is like from
Speaker 3: start to finish, so great every song on it. And
Speaker 3: I got to hear her do something really cool last
Speaker 3: year at CMA Fest. She did like one of the
Speaker 3: songwriters rounds, and I got to hear her sit down
Speaker 3: and play a couple of the songs off that record
Speaker 3: with the writers and just to hear what they heard
Speaker 3: in the room the day that they were writing those songs.
Speaker 2: For that album.
Speaker 3: You're like, wow, to hear what it turned out to be.
Speaker 3: It almost sounded just as good with them with acoustic guitars.
Speaker 1: Right, And she said, didn't she say? Tonight? She wrote
Speaker 1: three hundred songs.
Speaker 2: Three hundred songs during COVID.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three hundred.
Speaker 2: Where are the rest of those? Is what I want to.
Speaker 1: Know, Laney, if you're listening to this, we need those
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, Okay, release.
Speaker 2: Them all because guaranteed they're all great.
Speaker 3: And she'll she'll be like, no, they're all like half
Speaker 3: of them are crap and that's why they didn't release.
Speaker 3: But I bet you any money we would all jam
Speaker 3: out to them for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Morgan can drop thirty six songs on an album.
Speaker 1: We need a thirty six album from Laney.
Speaker 2: See hundred songs from Laney Wilson. Are We There?
Speaker 3: Are We?
Speaker 2: At the Entertainer of the Year.
Speaker 1: Fine By just like the award show itself.
Speaker 3: It did, Honestly it did because you don't get bored.
Speaker 3: Like you said, there's so many great performances. But what
Speaker 3: I want to say about the Entertainer of the Year
Speaker 3: category is I loved how they did the videos, Like
Speaker 3: it was like a show opener video before every single entertainer.
Speaker 3: It was just so exciting. It was kind of like
Speaker 3: the fight song playing before they came out. I was like,
Speaker 3: this is cool. This is a new thing. I've never
Speaker 3: seen before.
Speaker 1: It's like a boxer walking out to the song or something.
Speaker 1: I like, yeah, that's that's a good call. Actually, that
Speaker 1: was awesome for them to do.
Speaker 2: That pumped me up. I was like, all right, let's go.
Speaker 3: Jason Aldine, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Kane Brown, Lukecombs,
Speaker 3: and Morgan Wallen.
Speaker 2: That's a stacked category.
Speaker 1: That's unreal.
Speaker 2: And Chris Stapleton took home first time winning that's surprising
Speaker 2: Entertainer of the Year at the ACMs.
Speaker 1: Now, my first thought when I saw that was, I
Speaker 1: guess he's not a huge entertainer, uote unquote. You know,
Speaker 1: he's probably got the best voice overall on the songs.
Speaker 1: But when I think of entertainer, you might think of
Speaker 1: somebody more along the line of Morgan Wallen, Kane Brown
Speaker 1: up on the stage, maybe entertaining. I saw Luke Combs
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago here in Nashville, and that was
Speaker 1: a hell of a show.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's like, what is your definition of a
Speaker 3: great entertainer? And that can be such a broad answer
Speaker 3: because there's a lot of people fans that would say
Speaker 3: Chris Stapleton is the entertainer of the year because when
Speaker 3: they go to a show of his, they're blown away.
Speaker 3: But there's you know, when I go to a show
Speaker 3: and I see Kerrie Underwood put on a show like
Speaker 3: it's a Las Vegas residency every night and she's changing
Speaker 3: five hundred times in the show like she's amazing, Right,
Speaker 3: So I think it kind of depends. I would love
Speaker 3: to hear fans take on that award because I bet
Speaker 3: you would be there'd be so many different answers to
Speaker 3: who to comb Entertainer of the Year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a very open award. I wanted to do
Speaker 1: like a poll or something, but then the poll would
Speaker 1: have to be like, but leave a comment here and
Speaker 1: every but he's comments a little bit different. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I agree, I don't. I didn't see Kerry this year
Speaker 1: either perform, but I heard her shows are absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 3: She's incredible. But I mean, like you said, Luke Combs,
Speaker 3: I've seen Jayson Alden, Miranda Lambert, like, they're all such
Speaker 3: incredible entertainers, and so is Chris Stapleton. So I just
Speaker 3: loved his pure shock. I've never seen him get quite
Speaker 3: that emotional in an acceptance speech because the guys won
Speaker 3: a lot of awards, right, but that one really blew
Speaker 3: him away.
Speaker 2: He was not expecting that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he talked about his kids and you know how
Speaker 1: he takes time away from them and he's really appreciative
Speaker 1: of them, like understanding, and yeah, that was a surprise
Speaker 1: to me too. I was like, way, is he gonna
Speaker 1: cry a little bit right here? Because yeah, he definitely
Speaker 1: got emotional, which is something he's very stoic, very just
Speaker 1: straight face. This is what you're getting. You get my
Speaker 1: beautiful voice. That's about it.
Speaker 2: Listen, that's it.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly Well, we already talked about our biggest surprise
Speaker 1: with Cole Swindell, what about performance of the night? Talking
Speaker 1: about a little bit, but did you have a favorite?
Speaker 1: You got a list of about seven of them.
Speaker 2: I'm like that person that's like, just pick one, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, can I have three? Are you sure I
Speaker 2: have to pick one multiple?
Speaker 3: I have honorable mentions, okay, because I can never pick
Speaker 3: just one. But I think my favorite is going to
Speaker 3: be jelly Roll with Lany Wilson, where she exited the
Speaker 3: stage and went into her performance of Greece, and then
Speaker 3: she dropped her pack that her in ears for anyone
Speaker 3: who doesn't know what that is, like they came off
Speaker 3: of her pants and she grabbed it in the air
Speaker 3: while she was playing air guitar, and then just held
Speaker 3: her pack in her hand while she performed the rest
Speaker 3: of the song, like that. She is going to be
Speaker 3: in the Entertainer of the Year category at some point.
Speaker 3: I'm putting it out there.
Speaker 1: Yes, not too far from yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And then honorable mentions Cody Johnson Mamas, don't let
Speaker 3: your babies grow up to be cowboys, Warren Treaty like
Speaker 3: we said before, and then Carly Pearson Trishiare with their
Speaker 3: medley performance of all Tricia's hits was really really cool.
Speaker 3: That was one of the earlier performances of the night.
Speaker 3: But I loved that they.
Speaker 1: Were awesome together and Tricia sounded great, so good. I mean,
Speaker 1: see Carl was sounded good, and then Tricia came on.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, Trisha like hello Tricia, right, okay.
Speaker 1: My favorite was you already said Cody Johnson Mama's Don't
Speaker 1: let your Babies grow up to be Cowboys and the
Speaker 1: whole Willie Nelson FaceTime thing, And that was awesome. Cody
Speaker 1: Johnson playing in Texas playing, I mean, come on, you
Speaker 1: can't go wrong with that. And so I since you
Speaker 1: already talked about that though, I'll also go with Ed
Speaker 1: Sheeran and Luke Combs. Ugh, that was so good, awesome.
Speaker 1: I've seen videos of them performing on stage together, but
Speaker 1: to actually see it live, even though it's on TV,
Speaker 1: but live actually happening, singing life goes on. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are two very very talented artists, very talented people,
Speaker 1: and to see them combine together and it sound like
Speaker 1: they play a lot together. No, that's what amazes me
Speaker 1: about these people that come on stage, like even the
Speaker 1: Tricia and the Carly Pearce where it's like sound like
Speaker 1: they go on tour together. It's something that they performed
Speaker 1: to other and they can just hop on a stage
Speaker 1: and just kill it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I know I can't sing, but I'm like, you know, that.
Speaker 3: Would take a lot of work for most, I think,
Speaker 3: but a lot of them just walk out there and
Speaker 3: make it happen. Ed Cheron did say on the Red
Speaker 3: Carpet that he wishes he could switch into the country
Speaker 3: music genre because he thinks the country music is so
Speaker 3: great and the songwriters are so talented. So we're just
Speaker 3: putting it out there. Ed, if you want to come
Speaker 3: over to the country world, we will welcome you with open.
Speaker 1: Arms, open arms. Id you hear that? I know you're
Speaker 1: listening to this.
Speaker 2: Hey yeah, thank you, Ed, come on in.
Speaker 3: Ed.
Speaker 1: That goes through all the awards, biggest surprise, favorite performance.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Speaker 2: I think just that.
Speaker 3: All in all, there was not one part of the
Speaker 3: award show, which sometimes when you watch award shows you're
Speaker 3: like snooze, I'm not loving this or I'm not super entertained.
Speaker 3: Every performance was so great. Everyone sounded great. Everyone looked great.
Speaker 3: It was actually like one of the most entertaining award
Speaker 3: shows I've watched along time.
Speaker 1: I agree, Yeah yeah, I did off of that, piggyback
Speaker 1: off of that, and like I said, no commercials. About
Speaker 1: an hour in, I was like, wait, are they gonna
Speaker 1: be commercials? And there really wasn't. It was just NonStop,
Speaker 1: one thing after the end. As soon as it looked
Speaker 1: like they're going into a commercial and you're gonna take
Speaker 1: a little breathe to go to the bathroom or something,
Speaker 1: you're like, wait, oh say it out. Cody Johnson's on stage. Now, oh,
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 3: I went to go get a snack and Mariana Lambert
Speaker 3: started singing and I was like stop, stop, stop stop
Speaker 3: stop all right?
Speaker 2: Ready?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good on Amazon. Amazon did great. Everything was great, Garth, Dolly,
Speaker 1: Bobby did great.
Speaker 3: Yes, Bobby you did. We learned about your golf game
Speaker 3: with Caine, and it was cool to see that backstage
Speaker 3: because that's something that is a viewer of an award show.
Speaker 3: They exit the stage and you don't see them anymore.
Speaker 3: So to kind of have that in between, to keep you,
Speaker 3: like you said, entertained and not bored through the entire thing.
Speaker 3: It was really cool, so fan of that for sure.
Speaker 1: Overall a plus. Great job and where can they find
Speaker 1: you on.
Speaker 2: Social media at Shannon Ella.
Speaker 1: Okay that's simple. Yeah, all right me kick off, Kevin
Speaker 1: and thanks for listening. Hope you guys enjoyed. And Shannon,
Speaker 1: this is a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so much fun. Thanks for having me and getting
Speaker 3: to do this. Thank you guys for listening to the
Speaker 3: ACM Awards Special.
Speaker 2: This has been a Bobby cast production.