{"id":18960,"date":"2019-10-01T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T23:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812612"},"modified":"2019-10-01T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T23:15:19","slug":"carrie-underwood-is-ready-to-drive-the-cma-awards-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/carrie-underwood-is-ready-to-drive-the-cma-awards-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Is Ready to Drive the CMA Awards Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:677761?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">2m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This time, Jesus is not going to take the wheel for Carrie Underwood.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent radio interview, Underwood shared her vision for the upcoming Country Music Association Awards. She\u2019ll be hosting the show with co-hosts Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like the three of us love what we do so much,\u201d Underwood said, \u201cand we love country music and it means something \u2014 I feel like \u2014 to have us up there on that stage kind of driving the bus for the evening and setting the tone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that she wants to be respectful of the country genre and of this awards show. \u201cBecause it\u2019s so important to us, and (will) shine a lot on what I think is the backbone of country music: that\u2019s the females that have come before all of us and will come in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very pleased and happy and excited to hear the news that the CMA wanted to have this year\u2019s show be focused on women in country music \u2014 past, present, future, all of us together standing united,\u201d she said, adding of her co-hosts, \u201cIt does not get bigger than that or better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Combined, the three hosts hold 124 CMA Awards nominations and 22 total wins. And this year, Underwood is nominated for three CMA Awards for entertainer of the year, female vocalist of the year, and album of the year for <em>Cry Pretty<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s CMA Awards will broadcast live from Nashville\u2019s Bridgestone Arena on Nov. 13 at 8pm ET\/7pm CT on ABC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812612\/carrie-underwood-is-ready-to-drive-the-cma-awards-bus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 2m ago This time, Jesus is not going to take the wheel for Carrie Underwood. In a recent radio interview, Underwood shared her vision for the upcoming Country Music Association Awards. She\u2019ll be hosting the show with co-hosts Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton. \u201cI feel like the three of us love what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 13:54:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}