Miranda Lambert Continues to Dominate ACM Awards

19 Apr, 2015

Miranda Lambert stockpiling trophies quickly Sunday at the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday in Texas. The singer, who led all ACM contenders this year with eight nominations, won her sixth consecutive award for female vocalist of the year. She also won her fourth award for top album for Platinum, as well as song of the year for her hit Automatic.

“I don’t even realize what’s happening tonight, but thank y’all so much, Texas,” Lambert said as she accepted the trophy for top female vocalist.

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The ACM celebrated its 50th anniversary by putting on the most-attended live awards show ever in the home of the Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. “Everything is bigger in Texas, and that’s why we came here to celebrate the ACM’s 50th anniversary,” said singer Blake Shelton, who hosted the show with Luke Bryan.

Lambert’s album-of-the-year award tied her with George Strait for the most wins in that category. She also won song of the year in 2013 for Over You, which she wrote with husband Shelton. In 2011, her hit The House That Built Me, written by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin, won.

Randy Travis is the only other artist to have three of his hits win song of the year from the Academy.

The two awards brought Lambert’s ACM total to 20, more than any other women in the academy’s history.

Jason Aldean won his third consecutive award for male vocalist, noting during his acceptance speech that he had opened a concert for presenter Trisha Yearwood when he was a teenager. Florida Georgia Line won a pair of awards, one for vocal duo of the year and a pre-telecast award for their This Is How We Roll collaboration with Bryan.

One of the night’s most touching moments came with Lee Brice’s introduction of Travis, who has suffered severe health problems, including a stroke, over the past two years. He has rarely been seen in public during that time.

George Strait, the only country singer named the ACM’s entertainer of the year in four different decades, received the first Milestone Award at the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday in Texas.

The Texas native is one of seven artists to be honored with a Milestone Award, along with Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Lambert and Taylor Swift.

Strait, who has won 21 ACM awards going into the night, also performed, combining his 1987 classic All My Ex’s Live in Texas with his newest single, Let It Go.

Swift’s mother, Andrea Swift, presented her daughter with her Milestone. Andrea, recently diagnosed with cancer, fought tears as she spoke of watching “the tangled-hair girl growing up on our farm” turning into a woman “brave enough to explore her musical curiosity, having a voice against those who hate and giving of herself in need.”

Taylor thanked the country music industry for the grace with which it accepted the news she had made a fully pop album in 1989. “I’m so happy I learned to write songs in a town like Nashville,” she said. “I’m so glad I learned what hard work is from my heroes who are sitting here.”

The ACM also imported some talent from the pop world. Christina Aguilera joined Rascal Flatts to sing Shotgun, a song written for her character on Nashville, and the trio’s current single, Riot. Later, Nick Jonas teamed up with Dan + Shay for a mash-up of his Jealous and the duo’s Nothin’ Like You.

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