“Thank you, Jesus and CMT!” Despite a Covid case and a torrential downpour, the CMTAwards and co-host Kelsea Ballerini delivered a winning show. Read our review:
in the days leading up. That meant last year’s host Kane Brown had to step back in on short notice and that Ballerini’s previously announced co-host,star Anthony Mackie, had to shoulder more of the load. Thankfully, he seemed more than up to the task, hamming it up in an admirably self-aware way and letting Brown play straight man as he joked about the “winner-adjacent lounge” backstage and pretended to down Solo cups of firewater.
This being springtime in the South, heavy rains and sometimes violent storms are the norm. Performers who landed a slot on the CMT Awards’ outdoor stage got to walk on the wild side, delivering their songs as water poured off the upper part of the stage and drenched the audience gathered on Nashville’s Lower Broadway. Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson made it a feature duringof “Never Say Never,” while Miranda Lambert brushed it off and plowed through “If I Was a Cowboy.
George Strait wasn’t there to pick up his award, but Cody Johnson was wearing his clothes, so it kind of worked out. Johnson, for his part, gave a tremendous performance of “’Til You Can’t” on the outdoor stage, showing that he’s got vocal power and charisma to match, which one reckons is why everyone is starting to appreciate what the folks in Texas have known forever.
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