CMT awards tonight: Little Big Town/Keith Urban The Chain
 

http://ryanseacrest.com/2013/06/05/t...ts-cmt-awards/

The CMT Music Awards take the stage tonight and On Air with Ryan Seacrest has learned the first five minutes are seriously jam-packed!

Hosted by Jason Aldean and Kristen Bell, the award show will be kicked off with a duet by Jason Aldean and rock legend Lenny Kravitz, followed by a film which includes everyone from Vince Vaughn, Lorraine Bracco, Dr. Drew, Kelsey Grammar, and many more.
As well as a total of 19 performances, including Little Big Town’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” with a surprise appearance of Keith Urban on guitar.
Not to mention, Nelly, Taylor Swift, Florida Georgia Lane, Darius Rucker, and Lady Antebellum will hit the stage as well.
Carrie Underwood will also lend her vocals for a tribute to her home state Oklahoma, singing “See You Again.”
Catch the CMT Music Awards live tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CMT and CMT.com

Barf.

(And I'm one of the few on this board who even likes country.)

i watched it. thought they did a pretty good job with it, and nice touch with Keith Urban doing his guitar idol's solo.

I watched it and kinda liked how it opened. I have seen Little Big Town perform "The Chain" several times now and found this to be their most passionate performance of it. Nice stage and lighting for most of the performance tonight.

I liked it. I mean, nothing is going to top FM but it wasn't bad.

Mumford & Sons has been doing it live with Edward Sharpe too. Not sure if that's old news, but it's really cool to see these artists bringing new life to the song and hopefully gaining a new generation of fans for FM!

Ditto here too. I love country music.I have to watch it on TVFreeload tomorrow because I drop the extended cable after Oprah's airing of Stevie's interview.


Keith Urban's awesome live.He rocks.

I love Little Big Town and Lady Antebellum I'm not a fan of Jason Aldean though.

I wonder when CMT will air Stevie's Crossroads show.I cant wait for that to come on.

i think it's cool they did it because of the reasons you stated. but although i've seen some of their homages that were really great, i thought they did really crap job with The Chain. LBT/Urban edition was much better.

I like Mumford & Sons.I'm glad these new artists keep FM's tunes alive.

I hope it goes on forever.

btw, Fleetwood Mac and The Chain were trending on twitter tonight (in the US).

I thought it was great. And the audience loved it.

Little Big Town and KU will be touring together soon, so I'm sure they'll be performing this song.

I like Keith Urban, but I cannot stand Little Big Town. Their songs are ****, and everything that's wrong with modern country music. (Pontoon? Boondocks?) I just hate that every mixed gender band draws comparisons to FM.

i dont like country music at all but thought this version was fantastic! keith urban was pretty good but nobody can compare to lindsey buckingham. too bad fm couldnt have performed with them on this song that would have been really cool!

I got the show off of TVFreeload Downloading now ,I'll watch it later.



I prefer classic country over then the new stuff.The new stuff sounds more like rock and roll and not country but I still listen to it.I'm glad that George Strait is still going strong and keeping his sound the same as he sounded in the 1980's.

The same goes for Alan Jackson.


I will miss the late great George Jones and yes nobodies will fill his shoes from todays artists.

I had to laugh because Pontoon was one of my favorite songs months ago. I was so in love with the ... motorboatin' . But I agree exactly with what you said about every mixed band being compared to Fleetwood Mac. It's ridiculous.

Although, LBT did shamelessly rip off The Chain, so they were trying for that comparison. Michele

It was an amazing performance........
 

But then again I'm a huge Little Big Town fan.

I actually really enjoyed it. It's rare when someone can cover a Mac tune, especially one like the Chain, and not completely destroy. They didn't own it, live it and breathe it like the Mac (who can, honestly?) but they made it their own and nailed it for what it was. Gotta give them props.

Same here, Skip. I like a few of the newer artists, like Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, and even Sugarland. But mostly, they're crap. I cannot stand Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and their ilk. Give me the oldies any day....Williams Sr., Cash, Dolly, etc.

Yes I agree.I love old school classic country along with classic rock.

I'm not familiar who is Kacey Musgraves but I will check her out.

I tried uploading the performance to Youtube but the YT CopyR bot dumped it right away .Heres the performance via Adrive.118MB


http://www.adrive.com/public/XazRaC/...ownfmchain.avi

Enjoy.

They sound great.I'll watch the rest later.

I thought Little Big Town sounded very good, but they didn't really put their own stamp on the song. In a YouTube recording from their tour this year one of their singers even had a tambourine and was doing the Stevie dance during the bass+drums instrumental.... For me, The Chain is one of the songs I feel is synonymous with Fleetwood Mac. It stands for their story as a band and marked the only song all five members collaborated on. No cover can ever imbue the song with the same passion and resonance I feel when Stevie and Lindsey (and Christine) sing it backed by Mick and John. I hope this kind of exposure can bring new fans to the band, new hits on Fleetwood Mac videos on YouTube, and make people realize it's one of the band's best songs that was surprisingly never a single.

I've notice the producers keep shooting the camera at Taylor having fun in the audience.

Still to this day I blame the producers that did not give Taylor and Stevie rehearsal time on the other awards show.

[QUOTE=Macfanforever;1095245]I tried uploading the performance to Youtube but the YT CopyR bot dumped it right away .Heres the performance via Adrive.118MB


http://www.adrive.com/public/XazRaC/...ownfmchain.avi

Enjoy.


Thanks, Skip.

[QUOTE=Eponymous;1095263]No Problem.

link to the video on CMT site (probably visible in the US only, if judging by other vids on that site) -

http://www.cmt.com/videos/misc/91602...c-awards.jhtml

and one of recent Mumford + Edward Sharpe versions -

I thought it was great. Really well done. LBT are great harmonizers. :nod:

LBT will go into my country artist do FM/Stevie tunes collection.

I love to see a country tribute to FM album or even a bluegrass tribute too.

I'll be picking and grinning LOL.

Excerpt from Interview:

Your performance with Keith Urban of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” was a pleasant surprise.

We had the pleasure of singing it with [Fleetwood Mac guitarist] Lindsey Buckingham probably five or six years ago on a CMT Crossroads special. And ever since then we've added it in and out of our set list because the fans that got to see that keep demanding that it come back into the set list. So we've been performing it on the tour this year and CMT saw it and wanted us to do it on the show.


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I loved it though they did a great job to an amazing tribute to a legendary band I would say one of the best cover songs of Fleetwood Mac's and cool to hear other artists say they were influenced by Fleetwood Mac. I though Little Big Town and Keith Urban did an awesome job and best performance of the CMT 2013 Awards hands down.