The video will then hit both GAC and CMT Pure on Tuesday, September 29, and was directed by by the award-winning team of Robert Deaton and George Flanigen of Deaton Flanigen Productions.

“All I Ask For Anymore” is a coming of age song about life’s priorities. It’s the third single from his album X, and was released to radio this past May.

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Bill Engvall, who is hosting tonight’s awards show, has admitted to being nervous about his job tonight:

“I haven’t been really nervous about a gig in a long time,” Engvall said in a recent interview. “You don’t want to be the guy who made people say, ‘Oh, remember the year when Engvall did it? Ugh.’”

The CMT awards will air live at 8 p.m. EDT tonight on CMT from the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tenn.

A full list of nominees is under the cut!

Video of the Year:

* Trace Adkins – “You’re Gonna Miss This”
* Kenny Chesney featuring The Wailers – “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven”
* Toby Keith – “God Love Her”
* Kid Rock – “All Summer Long”
* Lady Antebellum – “Lookin’ for a Good Time”
* Brad Paisley – “Waitin’ on a Woman”
* Rascal Flatts – “Every Day”
* Sugarland – “All I Want to Do”
* Taylor Swift – “Love Story”
* Carrie Underwood – “Just a Dream”

Male Video of the Year:

* Trace Adkins – “You’re Gonna Miss This”
* Toby Keith – “God Love Her”
* Brad Paisley – “Waitin’ on a Woman”
* Keith Urban – “Sweet Thing”

Female Video of the Year:

* Miranda Lambert – “More Like Her”
* Martina McBride – “Ride”
* Kellie Pickler – “Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful”
* Taylor Swift – “Love Story”

Group video of the Year:

* Lady Antebellum – “Lookin’ for a Good Time”
* Rascal Flatts – “Bob That Head”
* Rascal Flatts – “Every Day”
* Zac Brown Band – “Chicken Fried”

Duo Video of the Year:

* Brooks & Dunn – “Put a Girl in It”
* Montgomery Gentry – “Roll With Me”
* Sugarland – “All I Want to Do”
* Sugarland – “Already Gone”

USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year:

* Julianne Hough – “That Song in My Head”
* Jamey Johnson – “In Color”
* Lady Antebellum – “Lookin for a Good Time”
* Zac Brown Band – “Chicken Fried”

Collaborative Video of the Year:

* Brooks & Dunn featuring Reba McEntire – “Cowgirls Don’t Cry”
* Kenny Chesney featuring The Wailers – “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven”
* Brad Paisley with Keith Urban – “Start a Band”
* Sugarland featuring Little Big Town and Jake Owen – “Life in a Northern Town”

CMT Performance of the Year:

* Alan Jackson featuring Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley and George Strait – “Country Boy” from CMT Giants: Alan Jackson
* Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” from CMT Crossroads: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
* Sugarland featuring Little Big Town and Jake Owen – “Life in a Northern Town” from 2008 CMT Music Awards
* Def Leppard and Taylor Swift – “Photograph” from CMT Crossroads: Def Leppard and Taylor Swift

Wide Open Country Video of the Year:

* Def Leppard and Taylor Swift – “Photograph”
* Kid Rock – “All Summer Long”
* Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – “Please Read the Letter”
* REHAB featuring Hank Williams Jr. – “Bartender Song”

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CMT recently released their top 20 videos of 2008. Unsurprisingly it includes Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban and George Strait, with only Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland managing to break into the seemingly tight boys club this year!

Did your favorite make the cut?

20. Keith Urban: You Look Good in My Shirt
19. Blake Shelton: Home
18. Alan Jackson: Good Time
17. Craig Morgan: International Harvester
16. Darius Rucker: Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It
15. Kenny Chesney: Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
14. Rascal Flatts: Every Day
13. Billy Ray Cyrus: Ready, Set, Don’t Go
12. Taylor Swift: Love Story
11. Carrie Underwood: All-American Girl
10. George Strait: Troubadour
9. Kid Rock: All Summer Long
8. Brad Paisley: Letter to Me
7. Alan Jackson: Small Town Southern Man
6. James Otto: Just Got Started Lovin’ You
5. Taylor Swift: Picture to Burn
4. Trace Adkins: You’re Gonna Miss This
3. Kenny Chesney: Shiftwork
2. Sugarland: All I Want to Do
1. Carrie Underwood: Just a Dream

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Grammy nominations were announced today and the country noms are no surprise! From Sugarland to Carrie Underwood, check out the full list after the cut! The Grammys will air live February 8 on CBS.

Best Female Country Vocal Performance:

For These Times
~ Martina McBride

What I Cannot Change
~ LeAnn Rimes

Last Name
~ Carrie Underwood

Last Call
~ Lee Ann Womack

This Is Me You’re Talking To
~ Trisha Yearwood

…..

Best Male Country Vocal Performance:

You’re Gonna Miss This
~ Trace Adkins

In Color
~ Jamey Johnson

Just Got Started Lovin’ You
~ James Otto

Letter To Me
~ Brad Paisley

Troubadour
~ George Strait

…..

Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals:

God Must Be Busy
~ Brooks & Dunn

Love Don’t Live Here
~ Lady Antebellum

Every Day
~ Rascal Flatts

Blue Side Of The Mountain
~ The SteelDrivers

Stay
~ Sugarland

…..

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals

Shiftwork
~ Kenny Chesney & George Strait

Killing The Blues
~ Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

House Of Cash
~ George Strait & Patty Loveless

Life In A Northern Town
~ Sugarland, Jake Owen & Little Big Town

Let The Wind Chase You
~ Trisha Yearwood & Keith Urban

…..

Best Country Song:

Dig Two Graves
~ Ashley Gorley & Bob Regan, songwriters (Randy Travis)

I Saw God Today
~ Rodney Clawson, Monty Criswell & Wade Kirby, songwriters (George Strait)

In Color
~ Jamey Johnson, Lee Thomas Miller & James Otto, songwriters (Jamey Johnson)

Stay
~ Jennifer Nettles, songwriter (Sugarland)

You’re Gonna Miss This
~ Ashley Gorley & Lee Thomas Miller, songwriters (Trace Adkins)

…..

Best Country Album:

That Lonesome Song
~ Jamey Johnson

Sleepless Nights
~ Patty Loveless

Troubadour
~ George Strait

Around The Bend
~ Randy Travis

Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love
~ Trisha Yearwood

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Trace Adkins appeared in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yesterday singing a snippet of “You’re Gonna Miss This” with his family by his side. I understand time constraints but wish he could have sung the whole song!

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Trace Adkins quietly released “X” this week, his tenth album.

The first single, the gospel-inspired Muddy Water, is already making its way up the hit charts.

The album includes 13 songs:

1. Sweet
2. Happy To Be Here
3. All I Ask For Anymore
4. Let’S Do That Again
5. Hauling One Thing
6. Better Than I Thought
7. It’d Be
8. Marry For Money
9. Til The Last Shot’S Fired
10. I Can’t Outrun You
11. Hillbilly Rich
12. Sometimes A Man Takes A Drink
13. Muddy Water

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Billy Ray Cyrus and teen queen daughter Miley have just announced they will be presenters at the 42nd Annual CMA Awards next week. The pair presented in 2006 as well.

Additional presenters announced will include Heidi Newfield, Darius Rucker, Josh Turner, Lee Ann Womack and Taylor Swift, who will also perform.

Recently announced performers include Jason Aldean and James Otto (each nominated for CMA New Artist of the Year), Martina McBride (nominated for CMA Female Vocalist of the Year), as well as hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, Trace Adkins, Rodney Atkins, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney and The Wailers, the Eagles, Alan Jackson, Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Kellie Pickler, George Strait, Sugarland, and Keith Urban.

The 42nd Annual CMA Awards airs live from the Sommet Center in Nashville, Wednesday, November 12 on ABC.

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November doesn’t have as many country music album releases as October did, but that there are a few that have been long-anticipated!

Which one are you most looking forward to?

November 4:
Brad Paisley – Play
Randy Travis – Christmas on the Pecos (DVD)
Randy Owen – One on One

November 11:
Taylor Swift – Fearless
Keith Urban – Love, Pain & the whole crazy World Tour (DVD , Wal-Mart exclusive)

November 18:
Blake Shelton – Startin’ Fires
Lee Brice – Picture of Me
Randy Houser – Anything Goes

November 25:
Trace Adkins – X
Patti Page – Greatest Hits Live and Best Country Songs

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I’m really looking forward to Trace Adkins’ upcoming single!

It’s titled “Muddy Water” and Trace says he’s had it in his head for a while but just hadn’t recorded it until now. It tells the story of a recovering bad boy who decides to make a fresh start and needs to be “baptized in that muddy water.”

It’ll be the first single released from his upcoming album which is scheduled to drop November 25th.

What do you think?

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Alan Jackson will be kicking off his “Good Time” fall tour starting October 2. The majority of the shows will be throughout the midwest, Canada, and the west coast. Trace Adkins will be opening for him!

Tickets go on sale July 26 and can be purchased from Ticketmaster.

October
Oct. 2 Crown Center Coliseum; Fayetteville, NC
Oct. 3 BiLo Center; Greenville, NC
Oct. 9 US Cellular Coliseum; Bloomington, IL
Oct. 10 Sears Center; Hoffman Estates, IL
Oct. 11 Fed Ex Forum; Memphis,TN
Oct. 23 The Centrum; Worchester, MA
Oct. 24 The Spectrum; Philadelphia
Oct. 25 Patriot Center; Fairfax, VA

November
Nov. 6 Schottenstein Center; Columbus, OH
Nov. 7 Bank of Kentucky Center; Covington, KY
Nov. 8 The Palace of Auburn Hills; Auburn Hills, MI
Nov. 13 John Labatt Center; London, ONT
Nov. 14 Air Canada Center; Toronto, ONT
Nov. 15 HSBC Arena; Buffalo, NY
Nov. 21 Save Mart Center; Fresno, CA
Nov. 22 Arco Arena; Sacramento, CA
Nov. 23 Citizens Bank; Ontario, CA

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