Alright, so I can’t help myself.  I have to give my live updates……The blogger in me just can’t let it go.  : )   I will continue to update live so just keep hitting refresh to keep up. 

• Jamey Johnson got the first award of the night for Song of the Year!  Awesome and well deserved.
• Heidi Newfield singing Johnny & June.  She doesn’t look healthy.  She look old….sorry.
• Darius Rucker presented Vocal Group to Rascal Flatts!  WHOO HOO!  Sorry Lady Antebellum fans.  We love them to be they have to put in just a few more years to tip this award away from Rascal Flatts.
• Toby Keith is performing “God Love Her” right now.  I guess he’s alright.  I could really take or leave Toby Keith.
• Jamey Johnson is back singing his song of the year.  This proves that not everyone sounds like crap singing live on TV.   Really – a good vocalist can sound good on tv.
• Ok, it’s time for Jamie Foxx to get off the TV.  Introduce George Strait already!
• George Strait is singing Troubadour.  Again, I know people think he is a legend but I am not personally a huge fan. 
• TOP NEW ARTIST IS…Julianne Hough!  WHAT?  REALLY?  SERIOUSLY?  I really, really like Julianne but I think that some of the other artists who were nominated deserved the award.  BUT…the fans voted and have spoken.   Do you think her popularity has anything to do with DWTS or is it really her music? 
• David Copperfield – cheezy……
• Taylor Swift is playing piano – who knew she could play piano?  She doesn’t sound very good.  Anyone surprised by that?  Oh – she is singing “Your Not Sorry”.
• Taylor just received a Milestone Award for selling more albums that any other country artist this year.  The girl doesn’t sound great live but she can make fan connections and she sells music!  Way to go Taylor!
• Lady Antebellum is performing “I Run to You”.  They sound AMAZING!  They will one day be best Vocal Group….just not tonight. 
• Leann Womack is performing Last Call.  I think that’s the name of the song.  I’m not a huge fan of Leann.  I think it’s her style of music that I don’t really like.  Just not my style – I think she is a great vocalist though.
• I predict Sugarland on this award.  Let’s wait and see.   Sugarland takes home the award……see I do know what i’m talking about from time to time.  From the nominees they were certainly the best pick.
• Tawny thinks that Kellie Pickler looks like an Oscar statue.
• Keith Urban is performing “Kiss A Girl”.  Yummy….. Keith sounds good.  Maybe the sound guys got it together for the night.  Can I just say that Nicole Kidman looked so darling jammin out to her hubby.   SO CUTE! 
• Miranda Lambert sounds pretty good.  The music is almost louder than her voice though.  She’s a cutie.  Girl power!
• Rascal Flatts is presenting the Humanitarian Award to LeAnn Rimes.
• Bad boy John Rich is singing “Shuttin Detroit Down”.   LOVE HIM!
• Ugggggh!  Miley is up next. Oh and look Daddy is introducing….  (OMG! He is attempting Keith Urbans haircut!  WAY MORE SEXY on Keith)
• Miley sounds like my three year old when he whines.  I really like this song, “The Climb” but live just doesn’t do it for me.  I think she needs to rethink leaving Disney….
• Montgomery Gentry is performing.  Sorry – I don’t know the name of this song I think it’s “Hey Ya’ll”
• Carrie Underwood is singing “I Told You So”.  As always she sounds great.    Her dress is beautiful.  She certainly deserves all of the great vocalist awards but the only entertaining that she does on stage is wardrode changes. 
•  Anyone else wanna go jump off a bridge.  EVERYONE is singing slow, depressing songs. 
• Martina McBride just presented Brad Paisley with Top Male Vocalist award.  He is at home waiting for his wife to give birth.  Funny joke – he said that him and his wife just gave birth to their new baby and he pointed to Little Jimmy Dickens who was sitting with him on the couch.
• Reba is performing.  Thank God someone is picking up the tempo.  I think this is her new single called “Strange”.
• Dierks Bentley just presented Carrie Underwood with Top Female Vocalist award.  No surprise there. She certainly deserves it.
• Trace Adkins is singing.  A military choir just came out to finish the song with him.  Touching song but again…downer. 
• Sugarland is singing “What I’d Give”.  Jennifer sounds good.  Can’t wait to see them open for Keith in August.  Reba just presented Jennifer with a Milestone Award for being the only women to be a song of the year writer since 1972. 
• WOW!  Trace Adkins just won Single of the Year for “You’re Gonna Miss This”.  LOVE THIS SONG and well deserved.  Way to go Trace.
• Blake Shelton stepping in for diva Tim McGraw who decided he didn’t like what the ACM producers had to say about his performance.  Blake sounds great – he is singing ” She Wouldn’t be Gone”  hmmmmm, he didn’t sing the whole song.  That was strange.
• Album of the Year goes to Taylor Swift for Fearless.    She is freaking out!  I love it…….
• Rascal Flatts are singing “Here Comes Goodbye”   They “Melt” my heart.  Don’t forget to go buy “Unstoppable” on Tuesday!  Getting goosebumps.  They sound so good!  : )
• Why didn’t Matthew Mcconaughey come out with his shirt off to match Reba’s joke?  That would have been SO much better.  I can not believe that he is presenting Entertainer of the Year. 
• KENNY CHESNEY BETTER NOT WIN!
• Carrie Underwood just won Entertainer of the Year Award.    Sorry – she doesn’t deserve this award.  Cute acceptance speech but she’s not an entertainer.  Just an amazing vocalist.

That does it for this years Academy of Country Music Awards.  Check back tomorrow for more recap.