Double CMA Award nominee Miranda Lambert looks back on her first performance on the awards show, 11 years ago, when the CMAs brought country music to New York City in 2005.

  Miranda Lambert looks back on her first CMA Awards performance in 2005. (:40)
“I was terrified to get on that stage. It was the year that it was at Madison Square Garden, so not only was my first time in New York City to perform but it was the CMAs and everybody I ever loved was sitting in the crowd, not to mention, you know, the television aspect of it. It was sort of my first time to say ‘hey, here’s who I am as an artist’ and so I felt like a lot was riding on that performance. And we had fire, like, these huge firewalls, and I was afraid my hair was gonna catch on fire. You know, it was just like a million things going through my mind…but, now I definitely know that, the feeling of the butterflies is because I cared so much because I knew it was important.”