Next Wednesday, November the 10th, The 44th Annual CMA Awards will be coming to you, live from Music City, and you can catch all the action on ABC. The 2010 awards look to be the year of Miranda Lambert — in fact, CMA show co-host Brad Paisley predicts “The House That Built Me” singer will walk away with “something.” Brad will be sharing hosting duties for a third year in a row with Carrie Underwood. The two have become quite the hosting duo, and Carrie says that Brad, who’s like a big brother to her, makes it fun. Both co-hosts, who are also nominees and performers on the show, admit that hosting takes precedence over everything else that night. Brad evens remembers sacrificing his acceptance speech last year to make sure the show ended on time. This year’s CMA Awards is sure to bring more amazing moments, and live up to the title as Country Music’s Biggest Night. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

  Brad Paisley shares a prediction for next week’s CMA Awards. (:06)
“I predict Miranda Lambert is going to win something. There’s no good odds in Vegas on that. I mean, she’s gonna win something.”

  Brad Paisley talks about balancing his mindset during the CMA Awards show broadcast between being a nominee/winner and co-host of the show. (:45)
“It’s stressful because, you’re standing there, and you’re thinking you want to come off sincere in your thank you, but as host, I’m really not thinking about thanking anybody. And you walk off and you really are wanting…and we came in dead on time at the end of the night, and it was such a victory because we had been behind all night long. This year, I think we’re more prepared for some of those things and we’re building in a little bit of…you know, we realized what would happen when Carrie and I would walk out and something would work, it would lift the show, and so we are trying to pick our punches and make sure that we have that built in a little more this year for a little breathing room. It’d be nice to able to deliver a joke or two and say, literally be able to say, ‘How we doing on time?’ (laughs) As opposed to knowing we’re four minutes over.”

  Carrie Underwood talks about the job of co-hosting the CMA Awards. (:19)
“There’s so much going on, and hosting takes over everything else, so you really don’t even think about your performance or things that you’re nominated for. You’re more concerned about keeping the show running and no matter what happens after any of it, it’s like, ‘Well, okay, gotta get back out there and introduce so and so.’ It’s just running. But it makes it fly by, which is good.”

  Brad Paisley talks about his CMA Awards show co-host Carrie Underwood, and being prepared to laugh at himself during the broadcast. (:17)
“She’s a really good sport, and we know what we’re signing up for. When you sign up to be a host, it’s like, whatever you gotta wear, whatever it is that’s funny, whatever, there’s some of that, and we’re both very willing to make complete and utter fools of ourselves for the sake of country music’s well being on that night.”

  Carrie Underwood clues us in on why she and Brad Paisley are back hosting the CMA Awards for a third year. (:23)
“They keep asking us back! But we have so much fun doing it. I love Brad to death. He’s like the big brother that I never had, he’s always picking at me. It’s always so much fun being around him, and just getting together and trying to figure out what’s going to be funny, and what should be kept very respectful, and it’s fun to know everybody’s performances before everyone else does.” (laughs)

  Carrie Underwood says, without fail, everyone asks about her wardrobe selections for the CMA Awards. (:10)
“It’s like the first thing everybody asks me. They’re not like, ‘Well, who’s performing?’ or “What’s gonna happen? What’s the whole process like? How’s Brad?’ It’s ‘What are you going to wear?’”

  Brad Paisley shares the story of how he single-handedly helped keep the 2009 CMA Awards show on time, by gaining time back for the show’s Executive Producer Robert Deaton. (1:12)
“Last year, our hosting was the most fun you could have. I mean, our monologue went over fantastic. Everything landed, and then we had the moment with Little Jimmy, but all of these things went a little long, because when they work, one thing we’ve learned is that we gotta build in the possibility that a joke will work. Because that adds 10 seconds, and every time a jokes works and adds 10 seconds, you could be a minute over. And we ended up being four minutes over, at about the two-thirds point of the show. And they were freaking out, ’cause they’re ready for two minutes over — they have ways to cut two minutes out of it. But they cannot cut four minutes out of it. Anyway, they’re freaking out, they don’t know what to do, and I said, ‘I tell ya what, if I win Male Vocalist, I’ll get you back some time.’ And I did. I walked out from…it was instead, they’ve built in this walk down the aisle for people which takes twenty or thirty seconds. I was right there, in case, walked right out, did a twenty-second acceptance speech, came back, they got back on-time when I was done with it. ‘Cause they had allotted several minutes for each win, and I went back to the table, and Robert Deaton was there and I went, ‘You’re welcome.’ (laughs) Like that, and he did, he got the time back.”