August 27, 2021 The MusicRow Weekly

August 27, 2021

14th Annual ACM Honors Celebrates

Industry & Studio Recording Winners From

55th & 56th ACM Awards

The MusicRow Weekly

Friday, August 27, 2021

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THIS WEEK��S HEADLINES

14th Annual ACM Honors

Beloved TV Journalist And

Producer Lisa Lee Dies At 52

��The Storyteller�� Tom T. Hall

Passes

Luke Combs accepts the Gene Weed Milestone Award while Ashley McBryde

looks on. Photo: Getty Images / Courtesy of the Academy of Country Music

The Academy of Country Music presented the 14th Annual ACM Honors,

recognizing the special award honorees, and Industry and Studio

Recording Award winners from the 55th and 56th Academy of Country

Music Awards.

The event featured a star-studded lineup of live performances and award

presentations celebrating Special Awards recipients Joe Galante and

Rascal Flatts (ACM Cliffie Stone Icon Award), Lady A and Ross

Copperman (ACM Gary Haber Lifting Lives Award), Luke Combs and

Michael Strickland (ACM Gene Weed Milestone Award), Dan + Shay

(ACM Jim Reeves International Award), RAC Clark (ACM Mae Boren

Axton Service Award), Toby Keith (ACM Merle Haggard Spirit Award),

Loretta Lynn, Gretchen Peters and Curly Putman (ACM Poet��s Award)

and Ken Burns�� Country Music (ACM Tex Ritter Film Award).

Also honored were winners of the 55th ACM Industry Awards, 55th & 56th

ACM Studio Recording Awards, along with 55th and 56th ACM Songwriter

of the Year winner, Hillary Lindsey. The show will air live on Circle TV on

Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 8pm ET with encore on Wednesday, Nov. 24 at 12am

ET.

Artists who performed on stage included Trace Adkins, Lauren Alaina,

Devin Dawson, Jessie Jo Dillon, Ronnie Dunn, Nicolle Galyon,

HARDY, Caylee Hammack, Alan Jackson, Chris Janson, Lady A,

Rock And Country Titan Don

Everly Passes

Kelly Rich To Exit Amazon

Music

SMACKSongs Promotes

Four

Kacey Musgraves Announces

Fourth Studio Album

Reservoir Inks Deal With

Alabama

Old Dominion, Lady A

Announce New Albums

Alex Kline Signs With Dann

Huff, Sheltered Music

Publishing

DISClaimer Singles Reviews

And much more��

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Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, RaeLynn, Jordan

Reynolds, Brittney Spencer, Keith Urban, Laura

Veltz, Sam Williams and Lee Ann Womack. The

house band for the evening included Elizabeth

Chan, Annie Clements, Stephcynie Curry, Kris

Donegan, Mike Hicks, Jordan Lawson, Justin

Schipper and Therry Thomas; lead by musical

director Derek Wells. Additional special guest

presenter included Sarah Trahern. Jordan Lawson,

Justin Schipper and Therry Thomas; lead by

musical director Derek Wells.

Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney of Dan + Shay accept the Jim Reeves

International Award. Photo: Getty Images / Courtesy of the Academy of

Country Music

Beloved TV Journalist And Producer Lisa Lee Dies At 52

Lisa Lee, senior vice president of creative and content for

the Academy of Country Music, passed away on Saturday

(Aug. 21) after a battle with brain cancer. She was 52.

Lee was born Alicia Faye Young in Cabot, Arkansas, on

Dec. 24, 1968.

One of her early jobs was at KTAL-TV, an NBC affiliate

serving Texarkana and Shreveport, Louisiana, where she

began to be interested in entertainment stories. She

started covering country music concerts and events in the

Arkansas area and surrounding states at this time.

Jim Owens and Associates, production company behind TNN Country News, hired her, and she moved to

Nashville to work for the company from 1995 to 1999.

In 2000, Lee moved to CMT and as a news correspondent and producer.

In 2007, Lee accepted the Academy of Country Music��s offer to draw on her experience as a TV journalist and

producer to help the Academy establish and grow their own in-house creative and video production

department. As the Academy��s lead staff producer, she oversaw all video production as well as the design,

creation, and editing of ACM logos, digital and printed materials including ACM Tempo magazine, the ACM

Awards program book, and both the ACM and ACM Lifting Lives websites.

With her long history of production and network teamwork, Lee served as a liaison with CBS television��s

creative departments and for promos and creative content surrounding the annual ACM Awards. She

was named producer of the Academy of Country Music Honors, a live industry event dedicated to celebrating

the Academy��s special award honorees, off-camera category winners, and ACM Industry and Studio Recording

Awards winners. Held each year at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Lisa imbued the event with a

real love for the people who go the extra mile to support, expand, and protect Country Music in its most

creative places.

In 2014, Lee wrote and created This Is Country: A Backstage Pass to the Academy of Country Music Awards.

The deeply researched coffee table book celebrated the 50 the anniversary of the ACM Awards and included a

forward by Reba McEntire. MR

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��The Storyteller�� Tom T. Hall Passes

Country Music Hall of Fame member Tom T. Hall died

Friday, Aug. 20 at age 85.

Known as ��The Storyteller,�� the singer-songwriter and Grand

Ole Opry star passed away on Friday, according to his son

Dean Hall. He had been in failing health for several years.

Tom T. Hall created such indelible songs as ��Harper Valley

P.T.A.�� for Jeannie C. Riley, ��Little Bitty�� for Alan Jackson and

��How I Got to Memphis�� for Bobby Bare. As a recording

artist, he placed more than 50 singles on the country

popularity charts in 1967-87, 21 of which became top-10

hits.

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee was born

near Olive Hill, KY in 1936. His family was poor, but the boy��s upbringing was relatively carefree. He picked up the

guitar at age four and wrote his first song when he was nine.

His childhood ended at age 13 when his mother died, as did his boyhood musical hero, the latter immortalized in his

1971 hit ��The Year That Clayton Delaney Died.�� When he was 15, his father was shot and wounded in a hunting

accident, Hall dropped out of school and went to work in a garment factory, a ��sweat shop.��

He joined a local bluegrass band and began appearing on WMOR radio in Morehead, Kentucky. When his fellow

musicians were drafted for the Korean War, Hall remained at the station as a disc jockey.

In 1957, he enlisted in the Army for a three-year hitch. While stationed in Germany, he earned his high-school

diploma and performed in a servicemen��s country band. He impressed the G.I.��s with his original songs. His 1970 hit

��Salute to a Switchblade�� was inspired during this time.

Back in civilian life, he resumed work as a D.J. and attended college in Virginia on the G.I. Bill. An acquaintance sent

his songs to Nashville, where Newkeys Music signed him to a songwriting contract. The company��s co-founder Jimmy

C. Newman turned Hall��s ��D.J. For a Day�� into a top-10 country hit in 1963. On Jan. 1, 1964, Tom T. Hall moved to

Music City with $46 and a guitar.

Within months of his arrival, Dave Dudley scored with Hall��s songs ��Mad�� (1964) and ��What We��re Fighting

For�� (1965). Dudley subsequently issued singles of eight additional Hall songs, including the No. 1 hit ��The Pool

Shark�� (1970). Newman reprised his support with the top-10 hits ��Artificial Rose�� (1965) and ��Back Pocket

Money�� (1966). Meanwhile, Johnny Wright hit No.1 in 1965 with Hall��s ��Hello Vietnam.��

Mercury Records signed Tom T. Hall as a recording artist, and he debuted on the country charts with the top-40 hit ��I

Washed My Face in the Morning Dew�� in 1967. During that same year, fellow Mercury artist Margie Singleton asked

him to write her a song. She was out of town when he finished it, so newcomer Jeannie C. Riley was pitched the

tune. Her version of ��Harper Valley P.T.A.�� was recorded on a Friday night in 1968. By Saturday afternoon, radio

stations were playing it. By the close of the following week, factories were shipping the singles to stores as fast as

they could press them.

��Harper Valley P.T.A.�� topped the pop and country charts, sold six million copies, won a Grammy and a CMA award,

inspired a movie and a TV series and became a national sensation. Tom T. Hall never recorded it.

Read more of Robert K. Oermann's obituary for Tom T. Hall here.

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