Paisley, Womack lead with six nominations for CMA Awards
Brad Paisley and Lee Ann Womack lead the nominees for this year’s Country Music Association Awards, snaring six apiece including single of the year for their respective hits “Alcohol” and “I May Hate Myself in the Morning.”
Other multiple nominees announced Wednesday were Keith Urban and Toby Keith, who had four each. Gretchen Wilson, Sugarland, Rascal Flatts and George Strait each had three.
Womack, who returned to her country roots with the retro album “There’s More Where That Came From,” was on hand to announce the nominations along with Urban in New York. The awards will be presented there for the first time on Nov. 15 at Madison Square Garden and air live on CBS.
Womack was nominated for single and music video of the year for “I May Hate Myself in the Morning,” album of the year and female vocalist of the year, and also got two nominations for musical event of the year for her duets with Strait and Willie Nelson.
“You were not available for this one, apparently,” Urban jokingly said to her as he read the nominees for vocal group of the year.
Paisley, who recently released the album “Time Well Wasted,” was nominated for entertainer of the year, single, song and musical video of the year for “Alcohol,” male vocalist of the year and musical event of the year with Sara Evans for “New Again.”
Other nominees for entertainer of the year were Urban, Keith, Kenny Chesney and Alan Jackson.
Nominations for single of the year also included Keith’s “As Good as I Once Was,” “Baby Girl” by Sugarland and “Bless the Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts.
Other album nominees were Urban, for “Be Here”; Strait, “There’s More Where That Came From”; Rascal Flatts, “Feels Like Today”; and Tim McGraw, “Live Like You Were Dying.”
Female vocalist nominees in addition to Womack were Evans, Wilson, Alison Krauss and Martina McBride. Joining Paisley as male vocalist nominees were Urban, Strait, Chesney and Jackson.
Dierks Bentley, Big & Rich, Miranda Lambert, Julie Roberts and Sugarland were nominated for the Horizon Award, which honors rising country artists.