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 WEEKS 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 Poets 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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August 27, 2021
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 Musics 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 Academys 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 televisions
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 Academys 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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August 20, 2021
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 boys 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 servicemens 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 companys co-founder Jimmy
C. Newman turned Halls 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 Halls songs Mad (1964) and What Were 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 Halls 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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