{"id":12179,"date":"2014-03-28T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T01:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=12179"},"modified":"2014-05-19T09:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T16:44:17","slug":"academy-of-country-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2014\/03\/academy-of-country-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Carrie

Carrie Underwood<\/p><\/div>\n

ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS<\/h1>\n

And The Winner \u2026 Will Not Be Televised<\/h2>\n

The Grammy Awards are bad enough, what with presenting the bulk of the awards\u2014the ones we really care about, of course\u2014off camera and loading the show itself mainly with pop\/rap superstar hokum.<\/p>\n

But leave it to the Academy of Country Music to really turn the legitimate award show concept upside down.<\/p>\n

\"Dean

Dean Dillon<\/p><\/div>\n

In what reads like a preemptive strike, the ACM, via a press release, has announced \u201cthe winners of awards that will not be televised\u201d during next month\u2019s ACM Awards show (April 6), foremost among them, the late Jack Clement, Dean Dillon, Kris Kristofferson and the late Buck Owens (they\u2019re getting the so-called Poet\u2019s Award\u2014though I\u2019ve always considered them songwriters); Merle Haggard (the Crystal Milestone Award, given to \u201can artist or industry leader to commemorate a specific, remarkable achievement,\u201d in the case of Hagg, who\u2019s won everything else, 50 years in the biz); Ronnie Milsap and Toby Keith (the Career Achievement Award\u2014though I think it\u2019s a little early for Keith); the late music publisher Bob Beckham (the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award); Opry Entertainment Group president Steve Buchanan and Rascal Flatts (the Jim Reeves International Award, which is presented to an artist for \u201coutstanding contributions to the acceptance of country music throughout the world\u201d); William Morris agent Paul Moore (the Mae Boren Axton Award, which is given in recognition of \u201cyears of dedication and service by an outstanding individual to the Academy of Country Music\u201d); and Carrie Underwood (the Gene Weed Special Achievement Award, which acknowledges \u201cunprecedented, unique and outstanding individual achievement in country music\u201d).<\/p>\n

\"Jack

Jack Clement<\/p><\/div>\n

This begs Question One: Can they come up with any more obscure awards to give to people, a) who have every other award in the books, or, b) who are industry people most of us have never heard of?<\/p>\n

And Question Two: Wouldn\u2019t we rather see most of these artists on the show instead of or in addition to, say, the Entertainer of the Year (\u201cPresented by RAM\u201d) nominees Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, George Strait (George Strait? How\u2019d he get in here?) and Taylor Swift?<\/p>\n

I have no further questions.<\/p>\n

Jim Bessman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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