With the ACM Awards coming up this weekend, we look back on a couple of soundbites as Miranda Lambert talks about “Mama’s Broken Heart,” her ACM-nominated Video, Song, and Single Record contender, and Carrie Underwood remembers sharing her ACM Video of the Year nominee “Two Black Cadillacs” with perhaps the biggest Stephen King fan she knows! (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Don’t miss all the glitz and glamour of the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards when the big show airs live at 8:00pm, ET/delayed PT, this Sunday, April 6th, on CBS!

  Miranda Lambert recalls how she came to record “Mama’s Broken Heart,” ACM-nominated for Video, Song, and Single Record of the Year. (:45)
“‘Mama’s Broken Heart’ is a song that I kind of had to ask for. Kacey Musgraves is a girl I grew up with back in Texas, and we used to write together a lot and kind of went our separate ways. She was on Nashville Star a couple years ago. And I was accidentally pitched the song. I don’t think I was supposed to be pitched the song, but her sister actually shot some pictures at mine and Blake [Shelton]’s wedding, and she was there, too. And at our rehearsal dinner, I went over and asked her, I was like, ‘Are you gonna cut this song, or can I have it?’ And she was like, ‘I’ll think about it for a couple of days.’ And she e-mailed me, and said, ‘You can have it, if I can sing harmony.’ So that’s her singin’ the harmonies on it — and actually, Kacey Musgraves, she’s doin’ great on her own now, but I had to actually beg for this song, and so I’m thankful that she gave it to me.”

  Carrie Underwood says that her mom initially cast a bit of doubt on her ACM-nominated music video for “Two Black Cadillacs.” (:52)
“I was actually kind of worried because we made this video — and I always let my mom see things and hear things before everybody else does, just to get her take on ‘em — and I’m so excited about them, I want to share them with somebody, you know, so my mom and my husband and a couple of my friends. You know, I’m like, ‘What do you think? What do you think? Do you like it? Do you not?’ They’re kind of my gauge. I need some positive reinforcements, you know? So I let her watch it, and she’s a huge Stephen King fan. Like, she’s read the book Christine, she’s seen the movie a thousand times, as I have. She’s probably…she’s read every single book by him, and I let her see it. And she had a lot of questions for me, about the video. Like, ‘What did that mean?’ and ‘What is this?’ and ‘What is that?’ And I’m like, if my mom doesn’t get this, will everybody else? But, they did. So it was just Mom. (laughs) Just Mom bein’ Mom, askin’ questions!”