Following a Luke Combs performance of “Back in the Saddle,” host Lainey Wilson properly kicked off the 2025 CMA Awards, with a medley of country favorites originally performed by some of the stars in the Nashville crowd.

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After some introductory remarks about how excited she was to be hosting the awards and how the creators of all her go-to playlist jams were in the audience that night, Wilson offered to demonstrate the point herself: “How about I get my buddy Charlie Worsham up here on guitar and we sing ’em for y’all?”

After Worsham dutifully joined her on stage with acoustic in tow, Wilson launche

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