Let's Go On Down to the Quickstop....

Happy Tuesday! It's ACM night! I LOVE Love Love award shows! This is a good one too....a lot of the awards are up in the air.

Katie's picks!:

42nd Academy of Country Music Awards Final Nominees

Entertainer of the Year
Brooks & Dunn
Kenny Chesney
Tim McGraw
Rascal Flatts
George Strait

Top Male Vocalist
Kenny Chesney
Toby Keith
Brad Paisley
George Strait
Keith Urban

TopFemale Vocalist
Sara Evans
Faith Hill
Miranda Lambert
Martina McBride
Carrie Underwood

Top Vocal Group
Diamond Rio
Emerson Drive
Little Big Town
Lonestar
Rascal Flatts

Top Vocal Duo
Big & Rich
Brooks & Dunn
Montgomery Gentry
Sugarland
The Wreckers

Top New Male Vocalist
Rodney Atkins
Craig Morgan
Chris Young

Top New Female Vocalist

Miranda Lambert
Kellie Pickler
Taylor Swift

Top New Duo or Vocal Group
Heartland
Little Big Town
The Wreckers

Album of the Year
Hillbilly Deluxe - Brooks & Dunn
It Just Comes Natural - George Strait
Me and My Gang - Rascal Flatts
Some Hearts - Carrie Underwood
These Days - Vince Gill

Single Record of the Year
Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
Give It Away - George Strait
I Loved Her First - Heartland
What Hurts the Most - Rascal Flatts
Would You Go With Me - Josh Turner

Song of the Year
Amarillo Sky - Jason Aldean
Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
Give It Away - George Strait
If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows) - Rodney Atkins
Would You Go With Me - Josh Turner

Video of the Year
8th of November - Big & Rich
Amarillo Sky - Jason Aldean
Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
Hillbilly Deluxe - Brooks & Dunn
The Seashores of Old Mexico - George Strait

Vocal Event of the Year
Building Bridges - Brooks & Dunn with Vince Gill & Sheryl Crow
I Don't Want To - Ashley Monroe & Ronnie Dunn
Me and God - Josh Turner featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley and Marty Roe, Dana Williams and Gene Johnson of Diamond Rio
Politically Uncorrect - Gretchen Wilson featuring Merle Haggard
That's How They Do It In Dixie - Hank Williams Jr. with Gretchen Wilson, Big & Rich and Van Zant

Lot's of great performances; Faith has a new song she just finished last week for her new greatest hits album The Hits; Reba is debuting the first from her Reba Duets (these album titles are so creative these days) "Because of you" the Kelly Clarkson song...with Kelly Clarkson. Miranda Lambert will be awesome. Carrie is doing Wasted...Sugarland is doing their new one "Everyday America." I'm excited.

OK...I'm going to vent about something people are doing that annoys me. I am so tired of phone calls and e-mails accusing us of lying. freaking a. Ashleigh is real. Stop asking me if she is. It's insulting to Bub and makes him feel terrible that people don't believe he could ever have a girlfriend. I talked to her today...she looked pretty real to me. If you're spreading rumors....stop. It's not nice and your damaging our reputation. Our show is real....the poor guy is trying to get up the guts to propose...and now he's freaking. Stop. Now.

Then there's that.