Academy of Country Music: Get the Scoop on Nominees You Can Download on Freegal

Freegal has free legal downloads of some of the ACM nominees. image credit

Entertainment Weekly calls the ACM awards the Golden Globes of country music.  It looks like it’s going to be a country music show—with a few awards thrown in here and there.

Here’s a roundup of the artists you can download free (and legally) from Freegal:

Entertainer of the Year

Jason Aldean
Miranda Lambert

Male Vocalist of the Year

Jason Aldean

Female Vocalist of the Year

Miranda Lambert
Martina McBride
Carrie Underwood

Vocal Duo of the Year

Love and Theft
Thompson Square

Album of the Year

Blown Away by Carrie Underwood

Single Record/Song of the Year

“Over You” by Miranda Lambert

“Oh, the weather outside is frightful”: “Let It Snow” by Glee

Photo: Pollo

This nod to sitting smugly by the fire while the tempest rages outside was penned back in 1945. It was a modern song, mentioning newfangled things like popping corn. (Funny, I thought the Native Americans did it way back.)

Today, in Denver, the snow is falling (finally! –the first we’ve had this year), and it is nice to be sitting inside cozy and warm, though we are making scones instead of popping corn.
Glee has a jazzy version on Freegal.

When it comes to other versions, the question is who doesn’t have a version out. There are over a dozen pages of artists; here is just a sampling:  Johnny Mathis, Doris Day, Harry Connick, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Wynton Marsalis, Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Jessica Simpson, Kenny G., and Dean Martin. If you are in a country mood, you can listen to Martina McBride, Tanya Tucker, or Austin band Asleep at the Wheel.

If you are in a really different sort of mood, you can listen to the Christmas Jug Band (they whistle the tune—reminds me of the Andy Griffith theme), or you can hear it sung in Polish by Moje Vanoce.

I came across a music box version by Mic Musicbox that I like. It sounds different from all the others.