Carrie Underwood, Queen of Country

Congratulations goes out to Carrie Underwood for winning 3 American Country Music (ACM) awards last night. She won for Best Video (Before He Cheats), Best Country Album, and Best Female Vocalist! I think it's safe to say that Carrie is firmly rooted in Nashville now and will be a huge country star once it's all said and done.

In other ACM news, Kellie Pickler was nominated for Best New Female Vocalist (but lost to Miranda Lambert, who has actually been nominated for ACM awards before so I'm not sure how she's suddenly a new vocalist). Chris Young (winner of Nashville Star 4) was nominated for Best New Male Vocalist but lost (very sad about that. He's great!) . And finally, Kelly Clarkson made an appearance to debut her new duet with Reba McIntire that will be on Reba's new duet album in Sept. Reba decided to remake "Because of You" with Kelly and I gotta say, it was AWESOME! Reba added a whole new dimension to the story aspect of the song and it sounded very heartfelt. And of course, hearing Reba and Kelly singing over, under and all around each other was just great. The crowd went crazy when the song was done. Listen for it on your country station as it went out to radio yesterday. I think it's going to be a huge hit.