Dierks Bentley has a one-in-five chance of winning Male Vocalist of the Year at the CMA Awards tonight.<\/p>\n
But the poor guy is already counting himself out because he’s been down this road too many times before.<\/p>\n
“I think I’ve been nominated for Male Vocalist, like 12 times. It’s a lot, and I’m super grateful for each one. I’m like the Susan Lucci of Male Vocalist nominations, but I’ll take it. Make no mistake, it would be nice to win.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If you’re not familiar with soap star Susan Lucci, she had 21 Emmy nominations and only won once.<\/p>\n
If he did win, he’d finally be able to say he’s a better singer than Chris Stapleton.<\/p>\n
“If I had this hardware that’s backed by scientific data, people might actually start believing me when I say, ‘Yo, I’ve been telling you I’m a much better singer than Chris Stapleton, and look I have this plastic trophy here to prove it.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Dierks has performed on the show several times and this year he\u2019ll be joined on stage by Hardy and Breland to sing \u201cBeer\u2019s on Me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CMA Awards will broadcast live from Nashville at 8 p.m. tomight on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dierks Bentley Feels Like the Susan Lucci of Male Vocalist Nominations","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[305,233,3387],"class_list":["post-26277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-awards","tag-dierks-bentley","tag-male-vocalist-of-the-year"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 11:04:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/11\/dierks-bentley-doesnt-think-hell-win-male-vocalist\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26283,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26277\/revisions\/26283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}