Academy of Country Music Awards deliver honors to HARDY, Old Dominion, Cole Swindell
By The Associated Press
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Cole Swindell has spent a lot of time onstage early at the Academy of Country Music Awards, performing and then quickly collecting the night’s first award, song of the year. Swindell and a team of songwriters won for “She Had Me at Heads Carolina,” the song he and Jo Dee Messina had just performed onstage. He also won song of the year. The show opened with Keith Urban performing “Texas Time.” The ACMs are being handed out at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco on Thursday. The easy banter between Garth Brooks, in his first hosting gig, and Dolly Parton carried the show’s early moments. The show is being streamed live on Amazon Prime.
