Underwood
By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR World Scene Writer
Published: 9/10/2009 2:32 AM
Last Modified: 9/10/2009 3:26 AM
For a full list of nominees, visit the official CMA site attulsaworld.com/CMAsThree Oklahoma women snagged Country Music Association nominations for female vocalist of the year.
Oklahomans Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Reba McEntire are up against 19-year-old Taylor Swift and Kansas-born Martina McBride for the award.
Underwood grew up in Checotah. McEntire is from the Kiowa and Oklahoma City area. Lambert has lived for years on a ranch near Tishomingo with boyfriend Blake Shelton.
Swift is also up for the CMA's highest honor, entertainer of the year.
It is the first time since 2000 that solo female artists have been nominated in the top category, the Associated Press reports. McEntire won the honor in 1986.
Brad Paisley lead the CMA nominations with six. Underwood picked up two nominations.
Swift joins Keith Urban, George Strait, Jamey Johnson and Zac Brown with four nominations each.
Rascal Flatts, featuring Picher native Joe Don Rooney, was nominated for vocal group of the year. (They won the prize in this category last year.)
Nominated for the first time in 2008, Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn, host of "American Country Countdown," is nominated again in 2009 and if he wins it would be the first time that a country artist would claim a CMA broadcast awards trophy. Brooks' longtime music
The duo was also nominated for vocal duo of the year and vocal event of the year, the latter for their work with McEntire on "I Told You So." The two announced recently they would "call it a day" after 20 years of making music together. They will tour one last time in 2010.
Underwood was also nominated in the vocal event of the year category with Randy Travis for "Down the Road."
The CMA Awards show is Nov. 11 in Nashville, and will be telecast on ABC. Reigning vocalist of the year winners Paisley and Underwood will host.
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