{"id":1307893,"date":"2019-04-05T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804750"},"modified":"2019-04-05T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T13:30:03","slug":"backstage-old-dominion-makes-it-even-sweeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/backstage-old-dominion-makes-it-even-sweeter\/","title":{"rendered":"BACKSTAGE: Old Dominion Makes It Even Sweeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:671214?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\">32m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/old-dominion\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Old Dominion<\/a> were backstage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena to rehearse their <em>ACM Awards<\/em> performance, things were sweet. And then they got a little sweeter.<\/p>\n<p>The band talked to the Academy of Country Music during the rehearsals, and they revealed how they\u2019d approach their part of the show on Sunday night (April 7). \u201cWe\u2019re gonna try to make this version just a little sweeter,\u201d the band\u2019s Brad Tursi said about their latest hit song \u201cMake It Sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019re a little mad that we\u2019re not sitting closer to Midland,\u201d he laughed, \u201cbecause they usually have extra beers.\u201d Old Dominion and Midland are both nominated for the ACM Award for group of the year, along with Lady Antebellum, LANCO and Little Big Town.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N3wlpHRloMw?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N3wlpHRloMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Old Dominion took the group of the year trophy home last year, so tune in to the 54th <em>Academy of Country Music Awards<\/em> on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET\/PT on CBS to see if they they\u2019ll continue their reign.<\/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<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1804750\/backstage-old-dominion-makes-it-even-sweeter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 32m ago When Old Dominion were backstage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena to rehearse their ACM Awards performance, things were sweet. And then they got a little sweeter. The band talked to the Academy of Country Music during the rehearsals, and they revealed how they\u2019d approach their part of the show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1307893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 02:45:58","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}