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6D 1 rg-' 1 ii (1 7 i r-V 111 3v i 7 1 0 1 Snn. Mi DuBom Stall More than 11 dozen top country Dirt Band's 1939 epic Will the Circle Be Unbroken II, which won Album of the Year last night. IT Strait receives top entertainer -1 I. 4 1 4 i Naomi, left, and Wynonna Judd share their elation at their seventh CMA trophy. The mother-daughter team won Duo of the Year during last night's national telecast.

3 who died May 9 after an accidental alcohol overdose, won Single of the Year honors for I'm No Stronger to the Rain. The singer's widow, Opry star Lorrle Morgan, accepted the award for Whitley. "I appreciate this so much," said a clearly moved Morgan. "Five months ago on this day I lost the world's greatest husband. Country music.

In my eyes, lost the world's greatest singer." Backstage she added: "I did expect it and I'd have been very disappointed if he hadn't won." Mother and daughter duo Naomi and Wynonna Judd won their fifth consecutive Croup Duo of the Year award. Wynonna told the crowd that she and her mom were by no means growing tired of the honors heaped upon them. "As time goes by we appreciate things more and more every day," she said. "Music isn't just a living, it's our life." Said Naomi backstage of the team's unique sound. "We don't listen to anybody, we just do what we feel in our hearts and it comes out in our songs." California country stars Highway 1 01 scored their second straight triumph as Vocal Group of the Year.

On stage they alluded to a rumor that they are breaking up. "What started it was I'm doing a solo album and people just umped to conclusions," lead vocalist Paulette Carlson explained backstage. Drummer Cactus Moser added that the band members will also be working on an Independent LP, but that the four would then reunite. Song of the Year honors went to country veteran Cosdin and Music Row stalwart Barnes for their aching-heart ballad Chi.sced in Stone. "Not in my wildest dreams did I think I'd have one of these," Barnes said.

"It takes me back to about 25 years ago when I used to go down to Ernest Tubb's bus and hope I could meet the bus driver." The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band won Album of the Year honors for their Will the Circle Be Unbroken 11 project, which recalled their groundbreaking 1972 album featuring country and Ii Vocalist win: "It caught me off guard: I was lookin' at Rodney and Randy in front of me and WelL it ain't gonna be Black. Entertainer of the Year Strait and Hall of Fame inductee Thompson all represent Texas country traditions. Black said: "I klnda feel like Texas music Is a part of country music and country music is a part of Texas." Commented Strait: "Texas Is a great state what can I say?" Hall of Fame inductee Cliffie Stone represents the California scene. He said, "Before Nashville was the country music headquarters, Capitol Records was recording the most artists on the West Coast I was bead of "At one time there was some animosity between the California and Nashville country scenes). Now we're all one.

We're all country." Barnes was asked backstage about writing Chiseled in Stone. Visibly shaking, his quivering hand holding a lit cigarette, he answered, "I had this Idea about Chiseled in Stone which was about my son Dwayne, who died 1 4 years ago In a car accident" The Nashville songwriter is former long-haul trucker. Barnes said "God made dirt and then I started driving a truck, roughly 25 or 30 years ago. "This Is more of a dream come true 1, My Iff ft 1 than anything I could have thought of. If I never do another thing in my life, this baby right here Is it" A complete list of winners at last night's 23rd annual Country Music Association awards ceremonies follows; ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR: George Strait SINGLE OF THE YEAR: I'm No Stranper to the Rain, Keith Whitley; ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Vol.

11, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; SONG OF THE YEAR- Ch wded in Stone, Max D. BamesVem Gosdin; FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR: Kathy Mattea; MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR: Ricky Van Shelton; VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR: Highway 101; VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR: The Judds; VOCAL EVENT OF THE YEAR There's a Tear in My Beer Hank Williams. Jr.Hank Williams, MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR: John-' ny Gimble; HORIZON AWARD: Clint Black; MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR (title, performer, director): There's a Tear in My Beer, Hank Williams, Ethan Russell; HALL OF FAME: Performing Hank Thompson. Non-performing Jack Stapp, Cliffie Stone, names recreate the Nitty Gritty pop figures making country music together. "We'd like to dedicate this to Mother Maybelle Carter and her musical legacy," said the Dirt Band's Jeff Hanna.

Immediately following their award, the Dirt Band performed the Carter Family standard Will the Circle Be Unbroken as leaders of a star-studded assemblage including Ricky Roy Acuff. Bashful Brother Oswald. Marty Stuart, Sharon White. Carlson, Foster and Lloyd, New Grass Revival, the Carter Sisters. Vince Gill, Michael Martin Murphey, Randy Scruggs, Chris Hillman, Emmylou Hams, Mark O'Connor.

John Hiatt, Jerry Douglas and Roy Huskey Jr. Honky-tonk hero Hank Thompson became the newest performing member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. "If this were the Horizon award it would mean I would have this exciting rewarding career ahead of me, but I don't mean this is the end of the line," Thompson said. "I appreciate being exalted to the realm of some very distinguished company." Two new non-performing members of the Country Music Hall of Fame were Inducted because of a tie vote. One inductee was the late Jack Stapp, the vastly influential Nashvilllon who was a founder of Tree Music a broadcasting executive and one of the founders of the CMA.

West Coast industry titan Cliffie Stone was the other. "This is the fifth time I've made the trip back here for this award and I really thought this was not to be," said Stone, the father of Highway 101 member Curtis Stone. "All the other trips were worth It to get to this one, the top of the mountain up here." Texas fiddle legend Gimble was named Musician on the Year It was the fifth InstrumentalistMusician of the Year award for the renowned Western swing country musician. The Hank-and-Hank team of Hank Williams Sr. and singing and performing There's a Tear in My Beer together, took Video of the Year and Vocal Event of the Year honors for Hank Williams with director Ethan Russell sharing the video award.

The record and clip electroni donation. Country Music Hall of Fame. 6:30 p.m. BMI Awards. BMI parking lot.

TOMORROW: 10 am Walkway of Stars Induction. Desert Rose Band, Patty Loveless, Vern Gosdin, Irlene Mandrell, Curly Fox, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Billy Joe Royal, Lacy J. Dalton and posthumously, Keith Whitley, Ralph Sloan and Texas Ruby. Country Music Hall of Fame. $6.50 museum admission (256-1639).

6:30 p.m. ASCAP Awards. Opryland Hotel, Presidential Ballroom. THURSDAY: 6:30 p.m. SESAC Awards.

Vanderbilt Plaza. 8 p.m. "lice Haw Salutes the Grand Ole Opry" concert, lice fawcast and oth Whitley. "I'm praying because he died, many might live," Skaggs said of Whitley's much-publicized death from alcohol. Among the evening's award presenters were the Judds, Williams.

Bail-lie and the Boys, Randy Travis, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Billy Joe Royal, Dunn, Morgan, Lyle Lovett and Barbara Mandrell. Parton, who sparkled as last year's host once again surprised Travis, although she didn't sit down in his lap this year. "I just wanted to come out and make sure you didn't need me," she told Travis after following him on stage, where he was to present an "Well I might" he said with a big grin, then added after her departure: "It's a tough Job." Backstage, the night's parade of winners amplified the comments they'd made on nationwide television. The Dirt Band's Bob Carpenter added a thank-you to legendary banjo stylist Earl Scruggs, who could not attend last night's ceremony because of illness. Jimmy Ibbotson said, "After June Carter Cash convinced us to do the album It was really manager Chuck Morris who put it together.

"I'd like to go right back In the studio and start Volume III right now." Shelton said backstage of his Male cally combined the younger Williams with vintage performances by his father. Williams made more references to his famous father by performing a forthcoming rocker called Man to Atari. "I want to speak man to man with the man who used to moan the blues," Williams sings in the new song. Other musical performances kicked off with a Westenwwingin' Ace in the Hole by Strait and his accomplished Ace in the Hole band, followed by the Judds, who rocked and growled through their Carl Perkins-composed hit Let Ate Tell You About Love. All the Horizon Award nominees got a shot at the spotlight: country torch-bearer Patty Loveless scored with Timber I'm Fallin' In Low, the up-and-coming band Shenandoah picked Sunday in the South, Black checked in with Killin' Time and the Desert Rose Band rocked through She Don't Love Nobody.

Shelton showed his award-winning vocal form with his version of the country classic Statue of a Fool and Michael Martin Murphey sang Jukebox, a showy ode to the 1 00th anniversary of coin-operated music machines. The general level of musical performance was very high, although the much ballyhooed emphasis on the Horizon acts suffered from the newcomers' irritatlngly cursory appearances. Four-time nominee Rodney Crowell sang his fifth consecutive No. 1, After All This Time with guitar accompaniment from master picker Chet Atkins. Rogers and Murray duet-ed on their hit If I Ever Fall in Love Again, Mattea and her band swung through her sassy tune Bumin' Old Memories and Dolly Parton pulled out all the stops with a performance of the religious epic He's Alive backed by the members of Nashville's Christ Church Pentecostal choir.

Skaggs brought country music back to one of its principal sources with the unaccompanied gospel song Talk About Sufferin', which served to Introduce a moving video tribute to activities ers. Opry House, 1 1.50S10.50 (889-3060). FRIDAY: 2 p.m. Bluegrass Concert Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Mac Wiseman, Bluegrass Cardinals, others. Opry House.

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