{"id":1318344,"date":"2020-02-20T13:36:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1818097"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:36:44","slug":"with-keith-urban-carrie-underwood-and-more-this-luncheon-goes-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/with-keith-urban-carrie-underwood-and-more-this-luncheon-goes-to-11\/","title":{"rendered":"With Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and More, This Luncheon Goes to 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span>
\n36m ago<\/span>
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It\u2019s impossible to know where to begin this story. <\/p>\n

With Dierks Bentley\u2019s fully cropped crop top? Mickey Guyton\u2019s well-deserved standing ovation? Caylee Hammack\u2019s ability to channel Dolly Parton? There are all deserving of the lead. <\/p>\n

But I will just start with this: the Team UMG at the Ryman luncheon is the one concert no one wants to end. <\/p>\n

It is the 11th year of the annual two-hour, box-lunch showcase during the Country Radio Seminar. And on Thursday (Feb. 20), the event brought out 16 artists for 19 songs. <\/p>\n

And it went something like this:<\/p>\n

1. Hot Country Knights<\/strong>
The \u201cnewest oldest country band did their debut single \u201cPick Her Up\u201d complete with their signature mullets and synchronized 90\u2019s choreography. <\/p>\n

2. Brandon Lay<\/strong>
In a new song about pretending to be something he\u2019s not, Lay made an impression on the crowd with \u201cFor My Money.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. Mickey Guyton<\/strong>
With her stunning voice backed only by the grand piano, her song that asks \u201cWhat Are You Gonna Tell Her\u201d received the only standing ovation of the day. <\/p>\n

4. Travis Denning<\/strong>
The singer\/songwriter first thanked the radio crowd for the success he\u2019s had so far, so much so that he can now afford the large sweet tea at Chick-fil-A. Then he revealed that his new song \u201cABBY\u201d is actually about a girl called Any Body But You. <\/p>\n

5. Jon Pardi<\/strong>
When he introduced his brand new single \u2014 \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Always the Cowboy\u201d \u2014 Pardi joked that this one did not have \u201cboots\u201d or \u201cheartache\u201d in the title. <\/p>\n

6. Caylee Hammack<\/strong>
Last year, Hammack played the Team UMG at the Ryman show with a full band and a big bang. But this year, she said, she came in instead with the story of the heartbreak that got her here, called \u201cSmall Town Hypocrite\u201d<\/p>\n

7. Parker McCollum<\/strong>
\u201cI\u2019ve always said I would never go in the Ryman until I was playing it,\u201d McCollum said when he first took the stage (excluding the 7am sound check, which doesn\u2019t count.) \u201cIf God played country music, He\u2019d probably only play at the Ryman.\u201d Even though it was his first time, his \u201cPretty Heart\u201d made him seem at home on the stage. <\/p>\n

8. Kip Moore<\/strong>
\u201cI\u2019ve been surfing for the last two months,\u201d Moore said before singing his \u201cShe\u2019s Mine,\u201d \u201cand almost came in here shirtless just for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. Adam Hambrick<\/strong>
Since Hambrick said he comes from a long line of preachers, he spread the good word about believing in country music with his \u201cForever Ain\u2019t Long Enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

10. Kylie Morgan<\/strong>
\u201cI swore to myself that I wasn\u2019t gonna think about what I was gonna say out here and just let God give me the words,\u201d the nervous newcomer said as she introduced a new song called simply, \u201cI Break Things\u201d<\/p>\n

11. Sam Hunt<\/strong>
He took the stage and first thanked the industry crowd for the welcoming embrace now that he\u2019s back after some time off. And he tried out a new song about regrets, and wishing her could give \u201c2016\u201d back to her. <\/p>\n

12. Brothers Osborne<\/strong>
Being nervous is a good feeling to have, T.J. Osborne said as he shared that he and his brother John were working on new record right now. This may or may not be the new single, and it may or may not be called \u201cSkeletons in Your Closet.\u201d<\/p>\n

13. Luke Bryan<\/strong>
After sharing that he almost had to take the stage alone because his band couldn\u2019t find parking \u2014 rednecks and traffic don\u2019t mix, he said \u2014 Bryan and his band performed the first single and title track off his new album, \u201cBorn Here Live Here Die Here.\u201d<\/p>\n

14. Carrie Underwood<\/strong>
In her very first appearance at the CRS luncheon event, Underwood performed her \u201cSpinning Bottles,\u201d backed gracefully and quietly with just a piano and a fiddle. <\/p>\n

15. Keith Urban<\/strong>
Urban did a new song called \u201cGod Whispered Your Name\u201d which he admitted was so much better than 2019, when it took him four attempts to get through \u201cWe Were\u201d when it was brand new. <\/p>\n

16. Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood<\/strong>
Because no luncheon is really complete without a little dessert, the two stars took the stage together for \u201cThe Fighter.\u201d <\/p>\n

17-19. Reba McEntire<\/strong>
But then there was Reba. The legend surprised the crowd when she took the stage for three of her biggest songs, finishing with her 1991 \u201cFancy.\u201d And after originally signing with Mercury in 1976, then making some music for other Nashville labels, McEntire has now officially come back to the UMG team. <\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n

@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n

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