The CMA Awards Address Las Vegas, Lightly
The country-music ceremony mostly focused on uplift, unity, and maintaining the status quo in the face of tragedy.
Perhaps Hootie and the Blowfish can heal America?
The 2017 Country Music Association Awards opened how you might expect an annual summit would for a community that, a little more than a month earlier, was targeted in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. On a darkened stage, under one spotlight, Eric Church began singing “Amazing Grace.”
But then came incongruously bright guitar sounds, and into the frame arrived Darius Rucker, the ’90s-era pop-rock band leader now enjoying a second act in country music. “With a little love and some tenderness, we’ll walk upon the water,”
