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Green Hills Doesn't Need A Lifetime Achievement Award To Know Who Made Country Radio

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The Country Music Association has named Brooks & Dunn as recipients of the 2026 CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor recognizes a body of work that helped define the sound coming out of this town for a generation. It joins a short list of names the industry here treats as settled fact rather than debate.

With reporting from MusicRow.

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