Co-hosts Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton led off the 2019 Country Music Association awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday Night (Nov. 13), performing the first part of an extended tribute to some of the signature numbers by many of the great women in country history.
Underwood, McEntire and Parton sang a lovely rendition of "Those Memories of You," most famously recorded by Parton (along with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt) on their classic 1987 Trio album. From there, Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland and Kimberly Schlapman and Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town took on "You're Looking at Country," by the legendary Loretta Lynn -- watching from the audience -- and then supergroup The Highwomen ran through Tammy Wynette's "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad."