Garth Brooks On His CMA’s ‘Entertainer’ Competition: ‘That’s A Pretty Neat Group To Be Associated With’
Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton will be performing “Dive Bar” on the CMA Awards tomorrow night (11/13) airing live from Nashville. He says, “Yeah, it’s gonna be fun. Country radio…
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Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton will be performing "Dive Bar" on the CMA Awards tomorrow night (11/13) airing live from Nashville. He says, “Yeah, it’s gonna be fun. Country radio – can’t thank you enough for ‘Dive Bar’ and the single. Blake – good luck. I hope he cleans up that night; I really do, man. I hope ‘God’s Country’ does for him what it should. Good luck to you, big man! Good luck to everybody!”
As for Brooks' nomination for Entertainer of the Year he says, “It’s pretty cool, man. That whole group of entertainers – that’s…that’s a pretty neat group to be associated with.” He's won the award six times in the past.
The 53rd Annual CMA Awards take place Wednesday night, airing live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on ABC.
Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s.
Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.
