{"id":20057,"date":"2019-11-12T07:39:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1814484"},"modified":"2019-11-12T07:39:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:39:33","slug":"you-wouldnt-believe-the-chaos-backstage-dolly-parton-says-of-cma-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/you-wouldnt-believe-the-chaos-backstage-dolly-parton-says-of-cma-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou Wouldn\u2019t Believe the Chaos Backstage,\u201d Dolly Parton Says of CMA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:684616?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\"><br \/>\n27m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been at it a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Dolly Parton admitted about her long awards-show history. Parton and Reba McEntire took time out from their rehearsals for their co-hosting gig at the CMA Awards on Wednesday night (Nov. 13) to talk about how they are preparing with Carrie Underwood. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a youngster, but she\u2019s perfect at it,\u201d McEntire said. \u201cAt first I thought it was like herding cats, but by the second time, it all fell in together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Underwood, the show\u2019s main host and one of the night\u2019s entertainer of the year nominees, said that for her the greatest moment of the night will be seeing who\u2019s out in the audience and on the stage. \u201cLooking around at all the talent. The amazing women. The gorgeous, smart, talented women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Parton admitted that it\u2019s a big night for all three hosts \u2014 no matter how many times you\u2019ve graced an awards-show stage \u2014 she joked about everything that would be happening in the dressing rooms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to worry about getting the right clothes and coordinating our make up and our hair. All the girly things,\u201d she said. \u201cSee, that\u2019s the trouble with doing a show with all girls. You wouldn\u2019t believe the chaos backstage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t get too many rhinestones,\u201d Parton shared. \u201cI never met a rhinestone I didn\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4wpDA5lMfL\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\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\/1814484\/you-wouldnt-believe-the-chaos-backstage-dolly-parton-says-of-cma-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 27m ago \u201cWe\u2019ve been at it a while.\u201d That\u2019s what Dolly Parton admitted about her long awards-show history. Parton and Reba McEntire took time out from their rehearsals for their co-hosting gig at the CMA Awards on Wednesday night (Nov. 13) to talk about how they are preparing with Carrie Underwood. \u201cShe\u2019s [&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-20057","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 13:01:47","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\/20057","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=20057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}