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NASHVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 28: Country artist Reba McEntire attends the 2018 Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame Gala at Music City Center on October 28, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Reba on No Female Nominees For Entertainer of the Year: ‘It Doesn’t Make Me Very Happy’

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

After reading the Academy of Country Music Award nominations on CBS This Morning, Reba told Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell that she wasn’t very happy that there wasn’t any females in the coveted Entertainer of the Year category for 2019.

King noted that there were no female nominees. “What do you make of that?” she asked.

“Well, it doesn’t make me very happy cause we’ve got some very talented women who are out there working their butts off. I’m missing my girlfriends on this.”

She also shared what she thinks the ladies of today bring to country music, “Youth, great new songs, a different outlook on the way they do their music and the music that they write and choose to sing. So, I think it’s a death of fresh air.”

So does Reba have a special place for any female country singer in particular? She shares, “Yeah, Lee Ann Womack, she’s a great country singer and I love the songs she selects and I just love to listen to her.”

Check out Reba’s CBS This Morning interview here:

Reba will be hosting the ACM Awards for the sixteenth time on Sunday, April 7, 2019 live here locally in Tampa Bay on CBS Channel 10.

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group
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