{"id":6814,"date":"2025-11-20T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/lainey-wilson-whirlwind-cma-awards-album-of-the-year-1236117924\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:00:59","slug":"lainey-wilson-whirlwind-cma-awards-album-of-the-year-1236117924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/lainey-wilson-whirlwind-cma-awards-album-of-the-year-1236117924\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson\u2019s \u2018Whirlwind\u2019 Wins Album of the Year CMA Award, Presented by Steve Martin & Alison\u00a0Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tLainey Wilson<\/a> has been all over Wednesday night\u2019s (Nov. 19) CMA Awards. Not only is she hosting, and not only did she kick the awards into high gear with a big country covers medley, but she\u2019s also one of the night\u2019s big winners, taking home album of the year for her acclaimed Whirlwind<\/em> set.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cMama, daddy, look, check it out!\u201d Wilson exclaimed as she accepted the award from banjo picker and occasional comedy legend Steve Martin, along with his collaborator Alison Brown. \u201cI was absolutely not expecting this,\u201d the country great attested about the win, also shouting out her Granny \u201csomewhere\u201d in the audience. <\/p>\n

\n\tWilson went on to thank fans who showed up to her Whirlwind Tour, and to salute herself for staying true to her artistic process throughout the turbulent recording of the award-winning album. \u201cI remember being that little 11-year-old girl who would come home from school and pick up my guitar and pour my heart and soul into that guitar,\u201d she testified. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how I navigated and communicated. And that\u2019s exactly what I did these last two years of my life, when I felt like my life was changing, but I still felt exactly the same.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBefore awarding her the album of the year, Martin and Brown performed some dueling banjos for the audience, and even bantered a little comedy \u2014\u00a0quipping about how they were excited enough to be presenting at the CMAs to even do it for free, which was apparently all they were being offered. Martin and Brown released the bluegrass album Safe, Sensible and Sane<\/em> earlier this year. <\/p>\n


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