At female-centric CMA Awards, Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves win big … as does Garth Brooks
by Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times
Nov 14, 2019
4 minutes
Nashville's Country Music Assn. used its 53rd CMA Awards ceremony Wednesday to go all in to support the genre's female practitioners, who have practically become an endangered species in recent years on male-dominated mainstream country radio.
The three-hour telecast was hosted by a trio of generation-spanning country superstars - Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire - and loaded up on a majority of female performers and award presenters. Top awards also landed in the hands of album-of-the-year winner Maren Morris (for "Girl"), female vocalist Kacey Musgraves and new artist Ashley McBryde, among others.
The CMA's preeminent
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