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Tonight (6/5) we watch the 2019 CMT Music Awards live from Nashville. Today, we take a look at some of the big winners from years past. A few notes, Carrie…

GALLERY: CMT'S Big Winners Through The Years Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton
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Tonight (6/5) we watch the 2019 CMT Music Awards live from Nashville. Today, we take a look at some of the big winners from years past. A few notes, Carrie Underwood has won the top Prize of Video Of The Year a total of six times and Blake Shelton won the honor in 2018 for "I'll Name The Dogs."

-Nancy Brooks 

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Taylor Swift accepts the award for "Breakthrough Video of the Year" for the song "Tim McGraw" onstage at the 2007 CMT Music Awards. It was her first award EVER!


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Tim McGraw poses with CMT Award for Video of the Year: "Humble and Kind" in the 2016 CMT Music Awards portrait studio.


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Blake Shelton accepts award from Keith Urban onstage at 2018 CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena on June 6, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Blake Shelton poses with CMT Award for CMT Social Superstar in the 2016 CMT Music Awards portrait studio at Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Carrie Underwood poses with CMT Awards for Female Video: "Smoke Break" and CMT Performance of the Year:in the 2016 CMT Music Awards portrait studio at Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Keith Urban accepts award from Kid Rock onstage during the 2017 CMT Music Awards at the Music City Center on June 6, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban accept the Collaborative Video of the Year award onstage during the 2017 CMT Music Awards at the Music City Center on June 6, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Kenny Chesney accepts his award at the first ever CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, Tennesee.


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Miranda Lambert accepts an award onstage at the 2014 CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena on June 4, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Carrie Underwood accepts award for Video of the year from presenters Tom Arnold, Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Raj Kapoor onstage during the 2015 CMT Music awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 10, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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.