{"id":4520,"date":"2015-04-21T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2015-04-23T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T20:49:55","slug":"the-50th-anniversary-of-the-acm-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/04\/21\/the-50th-anniversary-of-the-acm-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50th Anniversary of the ACM Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year has passed and another ACM awards show has come and gone. This star studded event moved from its traditional home in Nashville to the great state of Texas this year, and managed to set a new world record for most attendants at a live awards show. While there were many great performances throughout the night, I felt there were a few performances that stood out among the rest.<\/p>\n<p>The show started off with the presentation of its first milestone award to the King of Country, George Strait.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"ACM 50th Anniversary Milestone Award - George Strait\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZVPgxOusFYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>George also happened to get by far the loudest crowd reaction of any of the artists throughout the whole night. He performed his classic \u201cAll My Exes Live in Texas\u201d followed by his new single \u201cLet it Go\u201d. I feel like there is pretty much no better way to start off a country awards show than by having one of the best in the business kick it off. I also liked that he performed one of his classic songs that everyone knows, followed by something brand new. With all the songs today revolving around partying and drinking and having fancy lights and electric guitars playing, it was nice to pay homage to the classic sound of country music. During the performance, there were some fancy lights in the background, but mainly it was just George Strait and his band. No running through the crowd, no electric guitars, just plain and simple country music.<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the show, Garth Brooks received another of the Academy\u2019s milestone awards. He performed a song off of his latest album called \u201cAll American Kid\u201d which is dedicated to all the men and women of the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Lu9l22yBc4<\/p>\n<p>I liked this performance because it paid homage to the troops and celebrated patriotism. There are lots of songs that celebrate patriotism, and I think that\u2019s one of the more important themes in country music that not a lot of artists really sing about nowadays, so I found it kind of nice to hear the crowd cheering and see all of the artists saluting our troops.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Alan Jackson performed \u201cWhere Were You When the World Stopped Turning?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J9P1mX54H5w<\/p>\n<p>I personally thought this was the best performance of the night. Even though the song was performed at the show for the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings but written for September 11<sup>th<\/sup>, I feel like the meaning still got across. It covers a sad subject, but it also reminds us to cherish the simple things, and again I think that\u2019s something very important to country music. I think a lot of artists today try to get the meaning of simplicity and loving the simple things in life across in most of their songs, and I felt like this performance by Alan Jackson really hammered that meaning home.<\/p>\n<p>While I may not agree with all the award winners, I still felt like this was one of the better ACM shows that I have watched. There was a good mixture of both new and old country artists, and the fact that they had two special performances for the troops and the OKC bombings made me really enjoy this 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the ACM Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year has passed and another ACM awards show has come and gone. This star studded event moved from its traditional home in Nashville to the great state of Texas this year, and managed to set a new world record &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/04\/21\/the-50th-anniversary-of-the-acm-awards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22,55,3,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-classic-country","category-country-pop","category-live-music","category-movies-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}