The 46th Annual CMA Awards are coming up November 1st, and with the big night around the corner, we’re taking an audio look back at nominated projects from this year’s triple-nominee and Entertainer of the Year contender Kenny Chesney and the reigning, two-time Female Vocalist winner, with four nominations this year, including Female Vocalist, Miranda Lambert. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Featuring performances from both Kenny Chesney and Miranda Lambert, The 46th Annual CMA Awards — hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood — will air live from Nashville on November 1st at 8pm, ET, on ABC.

Kenny Chesney — “Come Over” — CMA-nominated for Music Video of the Year

  Kenny Chesney talks about his song, “Come Over,” from his Welcome to the Fishbowl album. (:41)
“‘Come Over’ is to me about two people that are as broken as their relationship is, where they realize deep down that their relationship has probably ran its course, but they aren’t really ready to emotionally or physically move on to somethin’ else. So what do they do? They keep goin’ back to each other because it’s familiar. And this song to me is more than just about comfortable sex. It’s about emotionally being wanted in a moment where it really feels impossible to let anybody else fill that void.”

  Kenny Chesney feels that “Come Over” is a very sexy song. (:23)
“‘Come Over’ is just such an incredibly sexy lyric. It’s an incredibly sexy melody, and I think it will hit home with anyone that has felt that emotion of being caught in a web of trying to emotionally let go, but still holding onto somethin’ that was good about that relationship at the same time.”

  Kenny Chesney says that there’s a lot to relate to in the emotions behind “Come Over.” (:43)
“There is this fundamental, simple just-wanting-each-other. Being in that moment where you do feel a void, emotionally and sexually and physically. And I don’t know that I’ve ever had a booty-call song before, but this is definitely…this is definitely a booty-call song, but it’s more than booty call. It is a very emotional and it’s a…more of a comfortable song being with someone that you’re just used to being with because you just…the idea of moving forward is scarier than the idea of staying in what’s comfortable, and I think we all relate to that.”

  Kenny Chesney says that the melodic appeal of “Come Over” is part of what drew him to the song and made it a great opening track for his album, Welcome to the Fishbowl. (:19)
“When you get to a point in your career that I am, you have to search for melodies that are just different. You just do. So I think that it was a perfect song for me, and it’s a song that I needed at this point in my career, and it was an incredible way to kick off the record, I think productionwise and emotionally ’cause it does set a tone.”

Kenny Chesney (duet with Tim McGraw) — “Feel Like a Rock Star” — CMA-nominated for Musical Event of the Year

  Kenny Chesney talks about his smash duet with Tim McGraw, “Feel Like a Rock Star.” (:20)
“‘Feel Like a Rock Star’ is gonna be a song that I pretty much know, setting right here, is gonna be a song that I do forever in my live show. It defines what we do live. And the fact that I have my friend Tim McGraw on this song just adds a different element of chemistry that it wouldn’t have had.”

  Kenny Chesney says that “Feel Like a Rock Star” is a great reflection of the “work hard, play harder” philosophy that he shares with a lot of his fans. (:30)
“I think it describes my fan base to a ‘T’ because we have always — my road family — we have always worked very hard, but we’ve always lived by the theory of we work really hard and play harder. And it seemed to work for us. But I think that defines a lot of the people that have spent a lot of summers with us out there on the road. And the first time I heard ‘Feel Like a Rock Star,’ I knew I was gonna record it because it just defined everything that we’re about out there on the road.”

  Kenny Chesney loves the in-concert energy that “Feel Like a Rock Star” captures. (:18)
“One thing that it really defined, more than anything, when…and even before we had Tim on it, just the track, that day in the studio, it defined the energy that I love more than anything when me and the band go out there and we hit the stage with a purpose. This song defines all of it.”

  Kenny Chesney talks about performing in concert. (:14)
“We see a lot of people out there that are just lettin’ loose, havin’ fun, and ‘Feel Like a Rock Star’ describes them, but it also describes a thing that has turned into less of a show and more of an event — and that’s our world out there.”

  Kenny Chesney says that everyone has their own ways of feeling “like a rock star.” (:32)
“‘Feel Like a Rock Star” is completely non-judgmental ’cause everybody does things different. I mean, everybody has their way of living like a rock star or stepping outside of themselves to do whatever it is that makes them happy on a Friday and Saturday night. And it can be a wide range of things (laughs), and trust me, we see that from the stage, you know — it’s an eclectic bunch we have out there, and they do eclectic things to have fun, and that’s what makes our show very unpredictable every night from our point of view.”

Miranda Lambert — “Over You” — CMA-nominated for Song of the Year AND Music Video of the Year

  Miranda Lambert talks about the very personal side of her song, “Over You,” written with her husband, Blake Shelton. (:34)
“I’ve never written a song or even sang a song about a death, really. I don’t know. Just never one has hit me that way, maybe because I haven’t had a real hard personal experience with someone close to me passin’ away. But now that I’m married to Blake, and I’m so close to him and his family. His brother passed away when Blake was 14 in a car accident, and his brother was 24. His name was Richie. And over time, he’s sort of opened up to me a few times and actually told me the story one day of exactly what had happened. And you know, bein’ that close to him now almost feels like it happened to me, and I wasn’t even there.”

  Miranda Lambert shares the story of writing “Over You” with her husband, Blake Shelton. (:31)
“We started writin’ this song on the bus. I don’t even know why really. I think maybe we had been talkin’ about Richie and talkin’ about the wedding, you know, sayin’, ‘Wish Richie could be there at the wedding,’ and it just kinda came to us. He was playin’ this melody and kinda said (singing), ‘Weatherman says it’s gonna snow,’ and I was like, ‘That’s kinda cool,’ and then it just started kinda becoming about that subject, and I said, ‘You went away,’ and he said, ‘How dare you,’ for the line, and we both just broke down cryin’. And I’ve never cried writin’ a song before, and I don’t know that I ever will again.”

  Miranda Lambert talks about writing “Over You” with Blake Shelton. (:27)
“After the song was written, and we were like, ‘What do we do with this amazing masterpiece,’ I’m like, ‘Obviously, it’s your story; you can have it.’ And Blake was like, ‘Honestly, I think that it’s better suited for you.’ He’s like, ‘I don’t think I can get through it in the studio or every night, so, if you would, it’d be an honor to me if you were to record it.’ And I’m like, ‘Absolutely.’ It’s just…it’s so special we had that moment together, not only about music, but about our lives, and shared that minute. I mean, ‘Over You’ is one of the most special songs I’ll ever record.”

  Miranda Lambert talks about collaborating with husband Blake Shelton. (:30)
“We work pretty well together because we don’t do it often. I think that’s the key is we sort of pick and choose what we want to do together as artists because we don’t ever want the business to get in the way of our personal relationship, but, you know, definitely I respect him so much as his own artist and as a vocalist. And so, writin’ together is really fun because we kind of step away from bein’ husband and wife, and we just become artists that respect each other. And it’s a really good relationship, and I think doin’ that every now and then and keepin’ it special is what kind of makes it…makes it work.”

Miranda Lambert — Four the Record — CMA-nominated for Album of the Year

  Miranda Lambert talks about her album, Four the Record. (:29)
“Definitely feel like I went into this album, makin’ Four the Record, with just a mind of ‘anything goes’ and just feel my way through it. I mean, honestly, we had a list of songs in the studio that kind of just picked what we want as we went, because I didn’t want to say, ‘Okay, these are the, you know, 12 songs we’re recording or 15 songs we’re recording, and that’s that.’ Whatever the mood was that day, I wanted to be able to be open-minded and fluid, and I definitely think it sounds like that.”

  Miranda Lambert says that her music is definitely country, but her style of country can be tough to describe. (:20)
“I think I twist it all together. There’s not…because you can’t ever pin down what my music is. Nobody ever can. And, you know, it’s definitely country, I know that, but it’s got a rockin’ edge, it’s got a soft side, it’s got, you know, a vintage feel sometimes, and it’s a mixture of everything I’ve ever loved that stuck out in my mind.”