Congrats to Carrie Underwood, who will not only have co-hosting duties with Brad Paisley for the 9th consecutive year at the CMA Awards in November, but she’ll be a multiple nominee, as she is up for  Female Vocalist Of The Year, Musical Event Of The Year with Keith Urban for their song “The Fighter,” Album Of The Year (Storyteller), and Entertainer Of The Year. The CMA Awards will be celebrating their 50th year, when the show airs on ABC on Wednesday, November 2nd, live from Nashville, Tennessee.

  Carrie Underwood talks about coming up with the name for her album, Storyteller. (:42)
“Well, I was having a hard time finding like some thread that really went through the entire album like I feel like things sound sound like they belong together, but I mean naming an album is hard. I was like what are the common themes? So, I started writing down, and I kinda noticed that either things were my story, you know very personal things, or we were literally like telling stories with made up characters and you had to listen to the end find out what happened to them. It’s kinda like as soon as I said out loud ‘Storyteller,’ everybody was like ‘oh my gosh, yeah that’s it.'”

  Carrie Underwood talks about picking songs, and the fans reacting to her music. (:24)
“I feel like I have a good instinct on what I want to sing and what I want to say, and it’s just such a wonderful experience, and I’m so glad that people have responded to it like they have. And when somebody comes up to me and tells me some story about a song that I not only sang, but I was a writer on, it just makes it that much more powerful and that much more important and special to me.”