Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ wins CMA Song of the Year — nearly 4 decades after its release

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her marriage to Mike Fisher is struggling.OK! Magazine reports that Carrie Underwood didn’t attend the Country Music Awards on Wednesday. Her absence was a bit questionable, especially since she was nominated for Entertainer of the Year. However, the award later went to her fellow female singer, Lainey Wilson.

Tracy Chapman has made country music history at this year’s instalment of the Country Music Association Awards.The milestone comes as her 35-year-old hit song ‘Fast Car’ was named both song and single of the year at the 2023 awards ceremony in Nashville.Despite being released back in 1988 as the lead single from Chapman’s self-titled debut album, the song won the awards due to the recent cover from American singer-songwriter Luke Combs.Released earlier this year, the rendition reached the Number Two spot in the US singles chart and Number 30 on the UK charts.However, the win for Combs also marked a long-overdue milestone for the original songwriter, as it meant that Chapman became the first Black songwriter to win Song of the Year in the award’s 57-year history.“First and foremost, I want to thank Tracy Chapman for writing one of the best songs of all time,” Combs said, accepting the award and calling the prize “an honour”. “I just recorded it because I loved the song.

The 2023 CMA Awards have come to a close and all of the winners have been announced!

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The winners of the 2023 CMA Awards are being announced from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Luke Combs‘ cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” won the first two on-air awards, for single of the year and song of the year.

Millie Bobby Brown is getting some major support on her big night!

Country Music Association Awards — one of five awards he’s up for Wednesday night at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena — but he’s hardly fresh off the farm.In fact, the Antioch, Tennessee native, behind hits such as “Need a Favor” and current single “Save Me,” started his recording career as a rapper with the hip-hop group SNO, back in 2011 — long before making his country debut with the chart-topping “Son of a Sinner” in 2022.So really, the only thing “new” about the artist born Jason DeFord is his genre of choice.“There’s something poetic about a 39-year old man with a 300-song release catalog being nominated for the CMA New Artist award,” Jelly Roll told The Post on a break from award show rehearsals. “It encapsulates my feelings this week, whether I win it or not.”The music biz vet is the second most-nominated artist on Music City’s biggest night, trailing only Lainey Wilson — “My dance partner at country radio right now,” Jelly Roll points out — with whom he’s up for Musical Event of the Year, for “Save Me.” What’s more, the dude with the country music tradition-bucking tattooed face is also opening the festivities — singing Single of the Year nominee “Need a Favor.”“It’s the honor of all honors.