FGL Relive Big CMA Wins

Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard had a memorable CMA Night a few weeks ago.  They relived it this week with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton:

What were you thinking that night? “Very blessed to be a part of something this special, big night for Team FGL, a huge win, very humbled, our fans have assembled like an army, seems like everybody’s on our team, rooting for us.”

Cruise hit #1 a year ago: Yeah it’s been crazy watching that thing grow from our living room, to the stage, to the radio, then to changing history.  It’s something we’re happy to be a part of.”

You performed on the show twice, starting by joining Luke Bryan at the start: “That was a dream come true, we’d toured with Luke all year, then to open the CMAs with him.  It was weird going from the red carpet to get ready to open the show.  It’s just a huge honor to perform at all, much less open the show.”

The first award was Single of the Year, which you won.  Were you back in your seats at this point? “That was a feeling that was a non-stop adrenalin rush for 30 minutes.  When they said our name and “Cruise,” the past couple years went through our minds.  Good thing our moms were sitting with us.  That was a special moment we got to share with us.  They’re our moms, there’s nothing better than winning anything, and have your moms there to celebrate.  Perfect night.”

You were nominated for four awards, so which was the one you wanted? To be honest, Single of the Year.  To win that one was special, especially as the songwriters, so that was one we said before was one we definitely wanted to take home.

Then you won Duo Of The Year: You never know with awards, especially with the level of talent in that category, it was a great night for duos.  Just crazy that we won.

Who chatted with you? We were right in the second row, right behind George Strait, Blake, Miranda, Vince Gill.  So we talked with everybody.  I think overall, talking to Blake & Miranda, they’re all cheering for us.  We ended up seeing Big & Rich at a club later that night.  They were so nice to us, offered us all kinds of help and advice.  So that was cool.

Anything else that night, surprises? I thought it was funny, I liked how Luke & Zac hugged each other.  The Duck Dynasty guys are awesome, we got to hang out with Willie at the ACMs.  He’s fun.

Take your mom to the parties? We stopped by our label party, then we had bus call for a show.

So do you have the awards yet? They ship ’em to us later.  We wish we could take them on our bus.  It’d be fun to take them to the meet & greets and let the fans see ’em.  We won CMT Awards, and still haven’t received them yet.  So it’ll be a while.

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