ACM Honors 2024 Sneak Peek: All of the Highlights

Certain, everybody is aware of who’s going to get the awards, however that doesn’t imply there’s ever any scarcity of surprises at the annual ACM Honors present. Maybe this yr’s whopper was Eric Church‘s wildly imaginative interpretation of the Alan Jackson traditional “Neon Rainbow.”

Granted, Church gave the viewers at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium truthful warning.

“I need to take some liberties with this track,” the nation insurgent introduced in his intro to the tribute to Jackson, who obtained an ACM Poet’s Award for his songwriting.

For Jackson’s response to Church’s creativity, you’ll be able to tune in to the present’s broadcast Tuesday night time on the Benefit Avenue community. Recorded final month, it’s the seventeenth version of the always-entertaining occasion, which supplies the Academy of Nation Music the chance to have a good time the profession achievements of artists, in addition to honor behind-the-scenes musicians, songwriters and trade honchos who’ve contributed to the style.

Right here’s extra sneak peeks of what you’ll be able to stay up for:

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Carly Pearce has shouldered internet hosting duties of the occasion solo for the previous two years, and this yr she’s joined by Jordan Davis (and the 2 reveal they’ve recognized one another since Davis served Pearce throughout his Nashville bartender years).

Each roll out songs from their newest albums: Pearce sings the ethereal title monitor, “hummingbird,” and Davis delivers his energy-packed single, “I Ain’t Sayin’.” The 2 additionally open the present with conventional renditions of extra Alan Jackson hits, “Chattahoochee” and “Don’t Rock the Jukebox.”

 Wilson’s Massive Evening

Nation’s newest crossover king, Put up Malone, is a shock presenter for Lainey Wilson, and he’s clearly a smitten fan, introducing her as “the one and solely, completely beautiful Lainey … uh, I’m not gonna cuss …Wilson.”

Wilson accepts two honors: an ACM Milestone Award for general profession accomplishments and a uncommon, coveted Triple Crown Award, offered to artists who’ve received ACM entertainer of the yr, new artist and artist classes. Solely 9 different nation acts have obtained Triple Crowns.

“I’ve began to appreciate that possibly I don’t have so many individuals to show improper anymore,” Wilson says about her slow-burning profession that’s became a firestorm over the previous three years. “Possibly it’s about proving these folks proper who’ve given me alternatives and probabilities … Wow, have these 13 years paid off on this city.”

Did She Say That?

Trisha Yearwood affords by far probably the most lovely not-a-tribute tribute to her husband, fellow famous person Garth Brooks, when she accepts an ACM Icon Award: “In fact I’m married to an icon, and he and I … agreed a very long time in the past that we weren’t going to say sappy issues about one another onstage, so I’m not going to do this. But when I used to be going to do this, I’d say this: He’s the love of my life, and it has been and continues to be the grandest journey of my life to share it with him, however I’m not gonna say that as a result of we’re not presupposed to say that.”

Yearwood is honored by two generations, mentor Emmy Lou Harris and protégé Lauren Alaina (whom Yearwood calls “Junior”). The 2 ably duet Yearwood’s “A Tune Remembers When.”

Candy Caroline

Luke Bryan is unabashedly effusive in his appreciation for his spouse of 18 years, Caroline, as he accepts the ACM Lifting Lives Award for his philanthropic work.

“If I’m happening a looking journey, I get a couple of 60 % approval ranking from my spouse,” Bryan tells the gang. “Fishing will get round 55 %. … [But] any time — regardless of how a lot I’ve been on the highway touring — I name my spouse and say, ‘Child, I gotta do that charity factor,’ she bats a thousand on saying, ‘Sure, go do this.’”

Jason Aldean covers Bryan hit “Somebody Else Calling You Child” in a musical tribute to his longtime buddy.

Musical Magic

Vince Gill and Ashley McBryde earn a standing ovation for his or her duet of Gill’s 1989 traditional “Once I Name Your Identify,” a tribute to its legendary producer, Tony Brown, the recipient of an ACM Icon Award. With McBryde taking low harmonies, the 2 voices mix in a manner that proves the track’s vibrant timelessness — although Gill can’t assist wisecrack in his introduction, “This track is so gradual, the drummer as soon as advised me I wanted to rely it off with a calendar.”

Brown proves a present stealer together with his transient acceptance speech, through which he merely recounts a grocery store car parking zone encounter with a stranger, who acknowledged him and advised him, “Again within the day, you have been actually good.”

Brown laughs and quips: “Hey, man, in case you’re right here tonight, you have been proper!”

City Amazes

The occasion options tons extra stellar performances, together with by Keith City, Kameron Marlowe, Jamey Johnson, Jackson Dean, Lee Ann Womack and Terri Clark. City’s tribute to songwriter Jessie Jo Dillon is among the many standouts. He performs latest single “Messed Up as Me” co-written by Dillon, who’s being honored as ACM’s songwriter of the yr. For accompaniment, City chooses solely his solo electrical guitar, providing a uncommon second to pristinely expertise the famous person’s vocal and instrumental items, in addition to Dillon’s beautiful lyrics.

“Jessie simply has a manner with phrases and a manner with getting feeling right into a track, getting visuals right into a track,” City says in his track introduction. “And it is a prime instance of that. I heard, ‘Once I get blue, I get darkish blue,’ and I went, I do know this man.”

The seventeenth ACM Honors airs at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT Tuesday on the Benefit Avenue. To entry the community, enter your ZIP code at www.meritstreetmedia.com. Benefit Avenue might be discovered on DirecTV, Dish, U-Verse, Samsung TV Plus and extra broadcast, cable and satellite tv for pc channels. The free streaming app Benefit+ can be accessible to obtain on iPhone and Android cellular units, Apple TV, Android TV, Hearth TV, and Roku.