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country MUSIC PEOPLE JANUARY 2020 Volume 51 Number 1 Issue 599 News Walt Trott in Nashville Duncan Warwick in London AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS Editor Duncan Warwick Contributors David Allan, Janet Aspley, Donnie Ayers, Craig Baguley, Tony Byworth, Larry Delaney, Don Cusic, Julie Flaskett, Kelly Gregory, Michael Hingston, Stan Hitchcock, Tony Ives, Spencer Leigh, John Lomax III, Adrian Peel, Paul Riley, Alex Rossi, Wayne Smart, Chris Smith, Tom Travis, Walt Trott, Dave Watkins, Jack Watkins New release consultant: Steve Tidbury Assistant editor / Special projects coordinator Kelly Gregory Photographers Patricia Presley, Barry Dixon, Billie McAleer Printed by Micropress www.micropress.co.uk Distributor Seymour International Press Distributors Ltd. 2 East Poultry Avenue London EC1A 9PT Telephone [phone] Country Music People is published the last Thursday of each month by KICKIN’ CUTS LIMITED 24 Darley Close, Wittering, Peterborough PE8 6EQ, UK Telephone [phone] - 783689 [email protected] www.cmpcountry.com ©2020 Kickin’ Cuts Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the prior written permission of the Publisher. The Publisher accepts no responsibility for statement of fact or opinion expressed by contributors. The views of the contributors are not necessarily those of Country Music People or its editor. 4 cmp - JANUARY 2020 The entirely fan-voted American Music Awards took place on Novemeber 24 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and whilst is covers a variety of genres, the country artists that did well were Kane Brown (above) who picked up the award for Favourite Male Artist in the country category and who plays UK dates soon, while Carrie Underwood triumphed over Kelsea Ballerini and Maren Morris in the Female category. Luke Combs was up for New Artist of the Year across all genres, notable in itself, but lost out to pop singer Billie Eilish. Old Town Road sensation Lil Nas X was also nominated as New Artist but did fittingly win the award for Favourite Song in the Rap/ Hip-Hop category for his collaboration with Billy Ray Cyrus. Former country artist Taylor Swift was the big winner of the night walking away with Artist of the Year as well as others making her the most awarded artist of all time at the American Music Awards. The AMAs should not be confused with the similarly named Americana Music Association’s Honors & Awards which are sometimes referred to as “the AMAs”. COUNTRY WINNERS AT THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS Favourite Male Artist Country Kane Brown Favourite Album Country Carrie Underwood - Cry Pretty Favourite Song Country Dan + Shay - Speechless Favourite Female Artist Country Carrie Underwood Favourite Duo/Group Country Dan + Shay