{"id":1320336,"date":"2020-06-03T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1821702"},"modified":"2020-06-03T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T02:00:40","slug":"cmt-celebrates-our-heroes-honors-americans-who-keep-us-safe-and-keep-us-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/cmt-celebrates-our-heroes-honors-americans-who-keep-us-safe-and-keep-us-going\/","title":{"rendered":"CMT Celebrates Our Heroes Honors Americans Who Keep Us Safe and Keep Us Going"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> 11m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

The honky-tonks were closed for months. The tour buses are still parked. And the concert halls remain empty. But country music did not go silent.<\/p>\n

For CMT Celebrates Our Heroes: An Artists of the Year Special<\/a><\/em>, country music\u2019s biggest names and our favorite stars from Hollywood united to honor important Americans who are keeping us safe and keeping us going. We cannot thank them enough.
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They are health care workers, innovators, educators, food providers, delivery drivers, sanitation and utility workers, our armed forces, and first responders. All of these men and women are putting their lives at risk for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Notable performances in CMT Celebrates Our Heroes<\/em> included Brothers Osborne\u2019s \u201cMake It a Good One,\u201d Brandi Carlile\u2019s \u201cMost of All,\u201d Luke Combs\u2019 \u201cSix Feet Away,\u201d Florida Georgia Line\u2019s \u201cU.S. Stronger,\u201d Lady Antebellum\u2019s \u201cChampagne Night,\u201d and Miranda Lambert\u2019s \u201cBluebird.\u201d Little Big Town also offered their song titled \u201cBluebird,\u201d joining Tim McGraw\u2019s \u201cI Called Mama,\u201d Thomas Rhett\u2019s \u201cBe a Light\u201d in the show.<\/p>\n

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Classic cover songs ranged from Kelsea Ballerini\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019ve Got a Friend\u201d and Kane Brown\u2019s \u201cStand by Me,\u201d to Sam Hunt\u2019s \u201cJack of All Trades\u201d and Darius Rucker\u2019s \u201cForever and Ever, Amen.\u201d A number of country artists praised frontline workers and everyday heroes such as teachers and grocery store workers, with testimonials coming from Jason Aldean, Lee Brice, Zac Brown, Lauren Daigle, Reba McEntire, Jake Owen, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, and Keith Urban.<\/p>\n

Country music personalities Cody Alan and Bobby Bones also made appearances, as did actors Kristin Bell, Scarlet Johannson, Olivia Munn, Sean Penn, and Gary Sinise.<\/p>\n

Learn more about CMT Celebrates Our Heroes<\/a><\/em> and discover how you can give back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch the performances.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by CMT.com Staff 11m ago The honky-tonks were closed for months. The tour buses are still parked. And the concert halls remain empty. But country music did not go silent. For CMT Celebrates Our Heroes: An Artists of the Year Special, country music\u2019s biggest names and our favorite stars from Hollywood united to honor important […]<\/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-1320336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 07:43:30","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\/1320336","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=1320336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}