Entertainer of the Year

• Jason Aldean
• Kenny Chesney
• Brad Paisley
• Blake Shelton
• Taylor Swift

Male Vocalist of the year

• Jason Aldean
• Kenny Chesney
• Brad Paisley
• Blake Shelton
• Chris Young

Female Vocalist of the year

• Sara Evans
• Miranda Lambert
• Martina McBride
• Taylor Swift
• Carrie Underwood

Vocal Duo of the year

• Love and Theft
• Montgomery Gentry
• Steel Magnolia
• Sugarland
• Thompson Square

Vocal Group OF THE YEAR

• The Band Perry
• Eli Young Band
• Lady Antebellum
• Rascal Flatts
• Zac Brown Band

ALBUM OF THE YEAR [Award to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company]

• Chief – Eric Church (EMI-Nashville)

• Four The Record – Miranda Lambert (RCA)

• Hemingway’s Whiskey – Kenny Chesney (BNA)

• My Kinda Party – Jason Aldean (Broken Bow Records)

• Own The Night – Lady Antebellum (Capitol Records Nashville)

Single Record of the Year [Award to Artist(s)]

• Crazy Girl – Eli Young Band (Republic Nashville)

• Don’t You Wanna Stay – Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson (Broken Bow Records)

• Red Solo Cup – Toby Keith (Show Dog-Universal Music)

• Tomorrow – Chris Young (RCA)

• You And Tequila – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter (BNA)

Song of the Year [Award to Composer(s)]

• Crazy Girl – Eli Young Band-Composers: Lee Brice, Liz Rose

• Home – Dierks Bentley-Composers: Brett Beavers, Dierks Bentley, Dan Wilson

• Just A Kiss – Lady Antebellum-Composers: Dallas Davidson, Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott

• Threaten Me With Heaven – Vince Gill-Composers: Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Dillon O’Brian, Will Owsley

• You And Tequila – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter-Composers: Matraca Berg, Deana Carter

Oh, and one more category…

ACM Major Market Radio Station of the Year

• KUPL/Portland (woot woot!)
  

• KYGO/Denver

• WQYK/Tampa

• WXTU/Philadelphia

• WYCD/Detroit

-simon

Friday on Simon in the Morning, we have funny guy/actor TOM ARNOLD on the show at 7:40.  Tom is the host of a new show premiering this Saturday on CMT called “My Big Redneck Vacation.”  So we thought we get some funny redneck vacation stories from you.  Let this photo jog your memory…

Redneck Cruise Line…lol.  I love it!  Plus we have PBR tickets and the KUPL Big Plastic Payoff…we want to pay one of your bills…FRIDAY morning at 7:20 on 98-7 KUPL.

-simon

The People’s Choice Awards show is  tonight (Wednesday 1/11) on CBS.  This young lady leads the nominations among country artists…

Yep, that’s Taylor Swift.  Her nominations includes Favorite Female of the Year and Favorite Tour Headliner. Blake Shelton is up against Justin Bieber for Favorite Male. Lady Antebellum‘s “Own The Night” is country music’s only Album of the Year nominee. And you can look forward to a performance from Faith Hill tonight.

This is one of those things I would be way too chicken to do.  This guy is standing on a huge rock wedged more than 3,000 feet up between two cliff faces. The rock is known as the Kjeragbolten boulder and it is in the Kjerag mountains in Norway.   I remember once climbing a 1000-foot radio station tower to see how far up I would be brave (or stupid) enough to go.  I think I made it about 20 feet before getting the willies and coming right back down…lol.

I know some of you live for these kind of moments…otherwise we wouldn’t have  any firefighters, loggers, highrise window cleaners, roofers or people to change the flashing red lights on top of our radio towers. Crazy daredevils.  Oh, and thanks.

-simon

Thanks to Jim for sharing this incredibly cool video…

Whew!  Finally got my Christmas lights up over the weekend.  Here’s a photo…tell me what you think:

I know what you’re thinkin’…that’s not my house either and I still don’t have my lights up.  Well, I’d like to tell you that you have another think coming.  I’d like to tell you that, but I can’t because you’re absolutely right.  But maybe today’s the day.  Check back here tomorrow.

-simon

Here ya go…I finally bought a few lights and put ‘em up on my house last night.  Here’s the outcome…

Alright, alright…that’s not my house either…lol.  It’s the Queen Anne Victorian Mansion at 1441 N. McClellan…open daily from 6-10 evenings Dec. 12 thru 27th.  The Queen Anne is a 5,500 square foot mansion built in the 1880’s with 2.5 million lights -that’s a lot of lights!!  It is an amazing home and display of lights.  The home is also open for tours.  Maybe I’ll get my lights up this weekend and post the picture Monday!  Have a great weekend.

-simon

We were talking on the show about how I felt like a Grinch for having (darn near) the only house in my neighborhood with no Christmas lights.  I felt so bad, I ran out right after the show, bought some lights and decorated my house.  Here it is…

Okay, that’s not really my house.  I still don’t have lights up.  Maybe I’ll get some today and post the picture tomorrow…lol

-Simon

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Happy Thanksgiving from all of us…

Scott, Jolynn, Jake and Sputnik

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We really enjoyed having Reggie Lee in the studio with us.  Reggie plays Sgt. Wu on the fabulous new NBC show “Grimm” which is filmed and set in Portland.  By the way, Reggie is a HUGE Garth fan!

Makes you want to be a little more careful in the shower, doesn’t it?

Ouch.

Billy Ray Cyrus claims he recently saw several alien ships. He posted pics of the ships on his Twitter page and wrote: “O. K. . ..my first U F O sighting. Looks like 5 or 6 disk like shapes hovering. Special moment 4 DAD.”  See if you see the flying saucers in this photo:

Yeah, me neither.  Look like clouds to me.  But, like Jake said this morning, if you were flying an alien spaceship around earth, wouldn’t you “cloak” your saucer to look like a cloud too?  And, no…this isn’t Billy Ray posing with one of the green-skin aliens:

That’s his son Trace Cyrus.  He’s having a clothes encounter of the third kind. But nice tatts!

Thanks for sharing your moving UNDERDOG stories with us.  And check out this video for another inspiring story from Stokes Nielson of The Lost Trailers…

We put on our big boy pants and visited the scariest place in town last night…FrightTown underneath Memorial Coliseum!  (L-R): Scott Simon, Jolynn Winter,  Baron Von Goolo, Earthquake Jake and TikTak.

Boo!

Brad tweeted this “photo” of Carrie Underwood…after some special treatment with one of his apps.

Jake and I were talking about what makes a great club sandwich, so I had to share my  favorite with you (well, I’m not actually sharing mine, you’ll have to get your own)…it’s the Hamburger Clubhouse at the Lakeside Chalet Restaurant in Camas. Check this out…slices of ham, lettuce, tomato, cheese, bacon and a hamburger patty!  Yummm!  The fries are great too.

As mentioned in Simon’s Celebrity Soup, here’s the new Tim and Faith Barbie dolls.

Incredible Time Lapse Video

It was a fun and magical moment when Goofy stopped by the Simon in the Morning studio.

Disney Parks are inviting everyone to make new memories with “Let The Memories Begin.” And you can add some Disney magic to your own photos on the website www.letthememoriesbegintour.com.

Luke Bryan got stitches in his forehead after falling off a skateboard he had just purchased in New York City after a Today Show visit.  He posted a photo of his stitches on Twitter, calling the accident his “latest screw up.”  Here it is…

Okay, Nola is at it again.  In response to my innocent (and understandable) whining about her caricature creation depicting me as twice as wide as Jolynn or Jake, she pulled a Frankenstein and re-created me using Jake’s body and Jolynn’s hair.  Whaddaya think?  Funny thing…it could pass for my high school yearbook photo! lol

Thanks for your calls on “Things that make you go Hmmmmmm”

• Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
• Why can’t we tickle ourselves?
• Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
• If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
• Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot at them?
• Can I yell “movie” in a crowded firehouse?
• Can you be a closet claustrophobic?
• Why does Hawaii have interstate highways?
• If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
• If you get cheated by the Better Business Bureau, who do you complain to?
• What are Preparation A through Preparation G?
• Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that silly song?
• Why do hot dogs come 10 to a package and hot dog buns only 8?
• What if the Hokey Pokey IS what its all about?
• How do you know when you’ve run out of invisible ink?
• If a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?
• If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
• If you’re not supposed to pick your nose, why is your index finger exactly the same size as your nostril?
• If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
• You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes? Why can’t they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
• Who was the first person to see an egg come from a chicken’s butt and think, “I’ll bet that would be good to eat?
• Why does your gynecologist leave the room when you get undressed?
• If the professor on Gilligan’s Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat?
• If a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
• How can something be new and improved?

DON’T try this on a staircase…please.

Lauren Alaina sprained her ankle during her Portland American Idol Tour performance.  Here’s a couple of shots of that…the second one with the swelling going down a little.

Click here to see the video!

We had Josh Harris (Ding, and now the co-owner of The Cornelia Marie with his brother Dong since their dad Captain Phil passed away) on Simon in the Morning, and listener Michelle Gregg from Troutdale emailed me this photo of her with The Cornelia Marie’s Josh & Jake,  Steve Ward (electrician) and Ryan Simpson (deckhand) at The Astoria Fishermen’s Festival last year.  Thanks Michelle!

Craig Morgan was honored Saturday at the Grand Ole Opry House for his efforts in rescuing two small children from a house fire in Charlotte, TN.  Craig was on his way home when a saw flames coming from a home, ran into the house and pulled two children outside…then helped firefighters hose the house down once they arrived.

Four members of the Tennessee City Volunteer Fire Department (TCVFD) presented an award for his courageous efforts. He was also awarded honorary lifetime membership to the Tennessee City Fire Dept. with full rights and privileges as a member. Craig received his own helmet and department identification number.

Craig said “I’m humbled by this kind recognition from the Tennessee City Volunteer Fire Department and the National Volunteer Fire Council. They are the real hometown heroes.”

…in KUPL’s Studio 9-8-7 for our Songwriters Showcase.  It was a very special evening with three of Nashville’s most prolific, legendary songwriters.  Pictured left to right:  Scott Simon, Bob Dipiero, Kix Brooks, Jolynn Winter and Big Al Anderson.

…and in the Simon in the Morning studio with Scott, Jolynn and Jake…

HIGH HEEL TRAINER

Here’s Shania with her new husband.  They tied the knot New Year’s Day in a sunset ceremony on the beach in Puerto Rico!

And here’s the Cadillac Alan Jackson gave Zac Brown…making it a CADDY ZAC.

Here’s one of our “show us your pets living life comfortably in your home” photo winners…this one worth $100!  Thanks for all your entries on the LazyBoyPortland Facebook page!

And if you have relatives coming over the river and through the woods to visit for the holidays, please visit one of the 6 LaZBoy Furniture Galleries in the Portland-Salem area.  For Washington residents, there’s one in Delta Park.  They love KUPL listeners, they’re locally-owned, and I know you’ll be impressed with their beautiful, quality, stylish, Made-in-the-USA  recliners, sofas, love seats and sectionals! And you can recline online at Lazyboyportland.com.

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