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Thursday, March 1, 2001
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Country music nominees named
The Associated Press
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Toby Keith and Lee Ann Womack led nominees for Academy of Country Music awards with six each, including album, single and song for the hits "How Do You Like Me Now?!" and "I Hope You Dance."
Other multiple nominees were Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, the Dixie Chicks, Billy Gilman, Brad Paisley, Jamie O'Neal, John Michael Montgomery, George Strait and Brooks & Dunn.
Entertainer of the year nominations went to Brooks & Dunn. Dixie Chicks. Hill, Keith and Strait.
The often overlooked Keith was surprised to be leading the nominations.
"I've never been award friendly," Keith said by telephone from his Norman, Okla., horse ranch. "My fans have always asked me how come I'm not nominated."
"Now, I've got the monkey off my back, and the monkey and I are going out tonight."
Winners will be announced during the 36th annual Academy of Country Music Awards show broadcast by CBS on May 9 from the Universal Amphitheater.
Nominees, voted by the 3,000-member academy, were announced Tuesday by show producer Dick Clark, O'Neal, Dwight Yoakam and Billy Bob Thornton.
Male vocalist: Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Spade, George Strait.
Nominees include:
Entertainer: Brooks & Dunn, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill,
Toby Keith, George Strait
Female vocalist: Sara Evans, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Jo Dee Messma, Lee Ann Womack.
New female vocalist: Tammy Cochran, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Jamie O'Neal.
New duo or group: Clark Family Experience, Rascal Flats, Sons of the Desert.
Album: American III: Solitaire Man, Johnny Cash: How Do You Like Me Now? Toby Keith; I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack; One Voice, Billy Gilman; Who Needs Pictures, Brad Pailey.
McBride, Jo Dee Messina, Lee Ann Womack.
**Duo:** Brooks & Dunn, The Judds, The Kinleys.
New male vocalist: Billy Gilman, Keith Urban, Phil Vassar.
Montgomery Gentry, The Warren Brothers.
Group: Alabama, Diamond Rion, Dixie Chicks,
Group: Alabama, Diamond Rio, Dixie Chicks,
Lonestar. Sawer Brown.
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