{"id":19413,"date":"2019-10-16T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813347"},"modified":"2019-10-16T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T02:35:07","slug":"cmt-aoty-reba-mcentire-enjoys-an-inspirational-emotional-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/cmt-aoty-reba-mcentire-enjoys-an-inspirational-emotional-night\/","title":{"rendered":"CMT AOTY: Reba McEntire Enjoys an Inspirational, Emotional Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n23m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Reba McEntire felt the love in the room as she accepted her CMT Artist of a Lifetime award on Wednesday (Oct. 16) in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a very inspiration, emotional night,\u201d she said. \u201cI want to thank everybody in this room. I know most of you, and you\u2019ve had a lot to do with my career. I appreciate the lessons, the patience \u2013 not everybody was patient with me, but the ones who were, I appreciate that very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:dad031ee-0ea1-4c58-bb7e-311df5dde0cd\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>She continued, \u201cI appreciate the people I got to open the show for. And the ones that guided and taught. I would get through with my show and run back and sign autographs, and then I\u2019d sit there and watch their shows because I was learning all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reba savored musical tributes by Lady Antebellum (\u201cIs There Life Out There\u201d) and Sam Hunt. She was also introduced by her friend, Vince Gill.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:a46aaae7-6dc4-4652-8c94-99d0273fc7b9\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>She told the crowd, \u201cVince and I, we put lots of miles on buses, on planes, golf carts\u2026 Had fun together and that\u2019s what this business is all about. The people we get to learn from, but get to know. I\u2019m very blessed to have so many friends. And I thank God. And Thomas Rhett, God bless you for praying in front [of us]. You\u2019re special. That took guts. But as you said, that might not be aired on this but He knows. It better be aired! It better make the cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cBecause that\u2019s what we need in our lives, is a little more God. We\u2019ve got to give this world back to God. We\u2019ve got to give Him the focus and the attention that He needs. I love this business. I love country music. It\u2019s fun. I love the competition and I love y\u2019all. Thank you very much for this. I love my family, my friends. You all are super, thank you all so much!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"fcab261f\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/reba_vince_gill-1571281002.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/reba_vince_gill-1571281002.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/reba_vince_gill-1571281002.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/reba_vince_gill-1571281002.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/reba_vince_gill-1571281002.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/reba_vince_gill-1571281002.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/reba_vince_gill-1571281002.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/reba_vince_gill-1571281002.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"2019 CMT Artist of the Year - Inside\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image \" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In his introductory remarks, Gill noted, \u201cReba and I have been friends for nearly 40 years, and they have a teleprompter but I can\u2019t really read from that. It\u2019s too far and it\u2019s not from my heart. I have to speak from my heart when I talk about this woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cI have shared a lot of life with Reba as a session guitar player early in my youth. As a session singer on many of her records. As a duet partner \u2013 I\u2019m still pissed about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YL-hSSZn5Pc\">\u2018The Heart Won\u2019t Lie<\/a>\u2019 because I had to do the video as a Marine and they said I was the fattest Marine in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After joking around, he added, \u201cWe\u2019ve done everything together. Like I said, we\u2019ve been duet partners. We\u2019ve been touring partners. We\u2019ve hosted awards shows together. The most important thing you are is my friend, out of all of that. So that\u2019s why I\u2019m here tonight, because my friend is deserving of this. As friends, we\u2019ve gone through divorces together. We\u2019ve gone through death of the members of our family. We\u2019ve gone through the death of members of our road family. We shared it all, and when the chips were down, that was the friend right there that I could always count on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1813347\/cmt-aoty-reba-mcentire-enjoys-an-inspirational-emotional-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 23m ago Reba McEntire felt the love in the room as she accepted her CMT Artist of a Lifetime award on Wednesday (Oct. 16) in Nashville. \u201cThis has been a very inspiration, emotional night,\u201d she said. \u201cI want to thank everybody in this room. I know most of you, and you\u2019ve had [&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-19413","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 01:39:26","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\/19413","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=19413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}