It was an awards show designed to be dominated by women in country, but the entertainer of the year prize went, as usual, to a male artist.
The country music star is everywhere these days. And she’s determined to bridge our seemingly countless divides.
Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles, in addition to being one of dozens of women featured in performance segments, further drove the point home on behalf of female artists even before the ceremony began, when she entered the Bridgestone Arena wearing a red cape with the words “Play our F*@!!iN Records … Please & Thank You” handwritten on it, and a female gender symbol on the left leg of her ivory slacks.
Wednesday’s show opened with a nearly nine-minute medley that saluted 87-year-old country queen Loretta Lynn, who looked on from a seat in the audience, as Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles and Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman sang Lynn’s hit “You’re Looking at Country” and the Highwomen quartet delivered “Your Good Girl Is Gonna Go Bad.”
Not surprisingly overlooked in the overall single of the year category, given country radio programmers’ initial reluctance to play it, “Old Town Road” was named musical event of the year for the collaborative remix the rapper made with veteran country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, himself no stranger to debates about authenticity and country music dating back to his own pop-minded breakthrough hit “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1992.
Ballerini presided over a performance segment showcasing several rising female artists, including McBryde, guitarist-singer-songwriter Lindsay Ell, trio Runaway June, duo Maddie and Tae, singer-songwriter Carly Pearce and the long-established quartet Little Big Town, all of whom sang different portions of Little Big Town’s 2014 hit “Girl Crush.”
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