Brooks & Dunn continues to make a strong comeback as they have received a nomination for a tightly contested "Vocal Duo of the Year" award at the 2010 Country Music Awards. Brooks & Dunn will be competing with Joey + Rory, Montgomery Gentry, Steel Magnolia, Sugarland.Nashville star Miranda Lambert competes against herself in two categories of the first round of nominees announced Tuesday by the Country Music Association.Nominees were announced in seven categories Tuesday and the remaining five categories will be revealed Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America," the CMA said in a news release.Lambert's songs "The House That Built Me" and "White Liar" are nominated in the Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year categories. Lambert also is up for Song of the Year for "White Liar," which she co-wrote with Natalie Hemby.The 44th Annual CMA Awards will be broadcast live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Nov. 10 on ABC.The categories and nominees announced Tuesday were:New Artist of the Year: Luke Bryan, Easton Corbin, Jerrod Niemann, Chris Young, Zac Brown Band.Vocal Group of the Year: Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Rascal Flatts, The Band Perry, Zac Brown Band.Single of the Year: "A Little More Country Than That" by Easton Corbin, produced by Carson Chamberlain; "Hillbilly Bone" by Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins, produced by Scott Hendricks; "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum, produced by Paul Worley and Lady Antebellum; "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert, produced by Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke; and "White Liar" by Miranda Lambert, Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke.Song of the Year: "A Little More Country Than That" written by Rory Lee Feek, Don Poythress and Wynn Varble; "Need You Now" written by Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Josh Kear; "The House That Built Me" written by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin; "Toes" written by Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrette, John Driskell Hopkins and Shawn Mullins; and "White Liar" written by Miranda Lambert and Natalie Hemby.Music Video of the Year: "Hillbilly Bone," Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins, directed by Roman White; "Need You Now," Lady Antebellum, directed by David McClister; "The House That Built Me," Miranda Lambert, directed by Trey Fanjoy; "Water," Brad Paisley, directed by Jim Shea; and "White Liar," Miranda Lambert, directed by Chris Hicky.Musician of the Year: Paul Franklin, steel guitar; Dann Huff, guitar; Brent Mason, guitar; Mac McAnally, guitar; and Randy Scruggs, guitar.About Brooks & DunnBrooks & Dunn is an American country music duo consisting of vocalists Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn. Both Brooks and Dunn had worked as singer-songwriters before the duo's formation, charting singles of their own in the late 1980s. The duo is the most successful from any genre, having sold more albums than all others in the Nielsen/SoundScan era.The duo made its debut in 1991 with their first four singles all reaching the top of the U.S. Billboard country music charts. Their debut album, Brand New Man, was released the same year and was certified 6x platinum by the RIAA. Brooks & Dunn have had more than fifty singles on the country music charts, twenty of which have reached number one. They have recorded ten studio albums, three greatest-hits compilations, and a Christmas album.Brooks & Dunn also won the Country Music Association Vocal Duo of the Year award every year between 1992 and 2006, except for 2000 when Montgomery Gentry took the honor. In addition, Brooks & Dunn won the Entertainer of the Year award in 1996. Two of the duo's singles have also been named as Billboard magazine's Number One country singles of the year: "My Maria" (1996) and "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You" (2001). Since early 2006, Kix Brooks has also hosted American Country Countdown, a nationally syndicated radio program which counts down the Top 40 country singles in the United States as determined by the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.The duo announced on August 10, 2009, that they were parting ways after one final concert tour in 2010. In an article on Tuesday April 20, 2010 Yahoo reported the final concert for Brooks & Dunn will take place September 2, 2010 in Nashville. It was announced at the beginning of the "Last Rodeo" celebration special that aired on CBS on May 23, 2010 they both will be (re-)launching solo careers.
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