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Luke Bryan Remembers His Very First Award Show

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Luke Bryan will play host again next week (11/8) at the CMA Awards. He is co-hosting the show with his buddy Peyton Manning. Luke won the CMA’s top award of Entertainer of the Yera twice in a row in 2014 and 2015.

He’s been to, and won, many awards since his debut in country music in 2007. Not long ago, Bryan recalled his very first awards show appearance. He told us, “I will never forget my very first awards show I ever attended was the ACMs, and I just sat back as a young artist dreaming of that moment, and a short time later, I’m onstage hosting.”

Bryan added, “Whenever you can walk out on a stage and perform a song that has done really well for you and hopefully do a great job, it’s a great experience. I mean, it’s what I live for as an entertainer. It’s what I moved to Nashville and followed my dreams for.”

The 57th Annual CMA Awards will be handed out live on ABC on November 8, 2023.

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Luke told us recently that as much as he loves his place in country music, something has got to give. He said, “I really feel blessed that I can still, after all this time, have a tangible role as being somebody high up in the business. I can’t always keep facilitating and doing so much in the business. At some point, I’ve got to watch a kid’s football game, and at some point, my wife and I have to go take a trip to a foreign country. We’ve been so busy we haven’t even gotten to go travel abroad and do all that.”

Still, Bryan appreciates where he is in the business. He offered, “At the end of the day, when I wake up, and I feel great, and I’ve slept great, and haven’t flown across the country and jetlagged and all that when I’m on stage, I love every second of it. I still love connecting with the fans, and I still love a great song getting sent to me by a great writer or trying to write a great one.”

7 Moments Country Stars Proved They Are Just Like Us

  • Luke Combs

    Luke Combs – While in Australia playing a sold-out tour for fans down under, Luke Combs’ wife Nicole posted something we have all posted a time to two, family photos from a recent photo shoot. The photos are of Nicole, Luke, and their son Tex as the couple await the birth of their second child. The only thing that sets the photos apart from all of us is that Tex is shown from the back. The couple have been careful not to reveal their one-year-old’s face to the public.

  • Miranda Lambert

    Miranda often shares social media posts that prove she is just like us, sharing moments from trips with her husband to the occasional trip to the Nashville Metro Animal Control to adopt a cat or dog. In a recent post on Instagram, Miranda posted photos of herself and a friend who stopped by to adopt not one but two kittens.

  • Carrie Underwood

    Carrie posted to Instagram right after she wrapped shows on her recent Las Vegas residency. She shared images of herself, two sisters, and even her mom getting matching heart tattoos. It’s not Underwood’s first tattoo; she shared before in another post she and some friends getting tats of a small flower.

  • Blake Shelton

    Blake often posts on his social media himself on his tractor working the fields on his Oklahoma farm. Shelton also shares a love of planting flowers with his wife, Gwen Stefani, on the same property.

  • Luke Bryan

    Luke may be a superstar in music and on TV’s American Idol, making millions of dollars a year, but that never takes away his fishing time with his sons, Bo and Tate, and his wife, Caroline. Luke constantly posts family stuff, “huntin’, fishing, and loving every day.”

  • Keith Urban

    Keith and his Oscar-winning movie star wife, Nicole Kidman, seem to live country music’s most glamorous life of all, but that doesn’t stop the famous couple from doing everyday things like camping. Urban posted he and his wife were camping in their native Australia earlier this year and encountered a wild animal.

  • Tim McGraw

    Tim has done fantastic work in the last several years to be in the best physical shape of his life. Not long ago, he shared a video clip on Instagram about one of the ways he stays in top condition, taking a simple walk every day with one of his family dogs.

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.

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Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group
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