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Awards from the CMA's you didn't see
Here are a few awards you didn't see
By NICOLE KEIPER
Staff Writer
Let's go to the video tape: Like every year, there were highlights and lowlights during this year's CMA Awards. So, if they dished out awards for the performances on the awards show itself, how would 2004's guilty parties stack up?
• The fumble award: Show opener Tim McGraw (How Bad Do You Want It) sadly didn't seem to want it all that bad (though we'll give him that the ''woooo!'' almost made him look alive).
• The Johnny Cash memorial fashionplate award: McGraw did however make quite a dashing man in black.
• The Sally Field acceptance speech award: With that loveably earnest award presentation for song of the year, you'd think Shania Twain was honored just to be, erm, not nominated. It's just so hard not to really, really like Shania.
• The no-chemistry love song award: As much as we really like Shania, her duet with dreamy labelmate Billy Currington, Party For Two, was strangely chemistry-less. It probably would've been sexier to see Brooks & Dunn doing the bump.
• Lord of the dance award: Speaking of Billy Currington: Billy, nix the hip-shimmy. You might cut the spinning in place for good measure.
• Pokemon-seizure light show award: Big & Rich's over-the-top stage presentation of Rollin' (The Ballad Of Big & Rich) was flashy and action-packed, but now we see why Big Kenny brought the shades. Ow.
• The tearjerker award: Well-earned respect goes to Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss for bumming out viewers across the land with the heartfelt delivery of Whiskey Lullaby. The animated and lovely Reba McEntire earns an honorable mention here for the intensely depressing photo vignette during current hit He Gets That From Me.
• Unnecessarily literal stage prop award: When the lovely Martina McBride sang ''I met God's will on a Halloween night, he was dressed like a bag of leaves'' whilst stepping through a faux-forest of autumn foliage, it's safe to say we all choked up a little.
• The father-daughter day award: Krystal Keith may have a little ways to go before she'll wrangle the spotlight from her daddy Toby, but their performance of Mockingbird showed she's spunky enough to get there.
• The aw-shucks award: Quit being so self-effacing Randy Travis, nobody's about to forget you.
• Best kiss: The red-carpet kiss Blake Shelton landed on CMT host Katie Cook sure was cute, but when Kris Kristofferson planted one on Willie Nelson during Kristofferson's Hall of Fame induction, you knew you had just witnessed a fine moment in country music history.
• The smart gamble award: Folks had some worries about Redneck Woman Gretchen Wilson choosing to perform a ballad, but the boisterous mid-song cheers during When I Think About Cheatin' tell us it worked out just fine.
• The major upset award: Keith Urban takes best male vocalist, who saw that coming? (Cue crickets.)
• The you're not as good as Vince Gill award: New hosts Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn gave this one to themselves, but they needn't be so tough — the duo did a fine, funny job running the show Gill hosted for the last 12 years.
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