In June of that year, the group appeared in an episode of CMT's " Crossroads " show with country music legend Ronnie Milsap.

CMT's current programming features country music-oriented shows ( i. e. country music videos, taped concerts, etc.

CMT's music mix is primarily focused on mainstream hit country songs, but also includes occasional videos from crossover, Americana and alternative acts.

The channel's popularity is helped by competing network CMT's declining reliance on regular music video blocks except in the mornings and moving towards programming ( both original and acquired ) which may or may not have any connection to southern culture, much less country music.

Thea Andrews hosted the first season of Top Chef Canada and Nigel Lythgoe's country music singing competition, " CMT's Next Superstar ".

Andrews is the host of CMT's Next Superstar, a reality competition series specializing in country music, which is produced by Nigel Lythgoe.

The video for the single was directed by Timothy Hutton and premiered on CMT's Big New Music Weekend October 1, 2010.

On 5 February 2011, Hynde and the Pretenders performed live on CMT's Crossroads with Faith Hill and her band, including songs from both catalogs.

Opryland USA and owner Gaylord also owned CMT's major competitor The Nashville Network.

In 2010, Farmer began hosting CMT's weekly show, Top 20 Countdown for which he is also a producer, replacing Lance Smith, who held the job for eight years.

CMT's HD simulcast channel ( as with all MTV's HD networks ) currently does not carry videos in high definition.

Music videos of live sessions recorded at CMT's studios in Nashville ( 330 refers to CMT's Nashville address, 330 Commerce Street ).

In tribute to Orbison, the music video for " End of the Line " shows Orbison's guitar rocking in a chair as the rest of the group play, followed by a brief shot focusing on a framed picture of him.

Two years later in 1995, Proby appeared in the Roy Orbison tribute show, Only The Lonely.

In 1990 they appeared at a tribute to Roy Orbison, performing " Mr. Tambourine Man " with the song's composer Bob Dylan.

The first song they wrote, " King of Hearts ", was as a tribute to Roy Orbison that was later going to be included on the King of Hearts album and also became the name of the band.

Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson is a tribute album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records.

One track, " Uptown ", was recorded by Robert Gordon as a mere tribute to Orbison.

For Showtime, in 1991, she produced a Roy Orbison tribute at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles that raised in excess of $ 1 million for the city's homeless.

After paying tribute to the conductor and his white-clad youthful students, President Kennedy said, `` As an American I have the greatest possible pride in the work that is being done in dozens of schools stretching across the United States -- schools where devoted teachers are studying with interested young men and women and opening up the whole wide horizon of serious music ''.

In February, 2011, he formed a tribute band " Bill Haley Jr. and the Comets ," performing his father's music and telling the stories behind the songs.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

He began his music career in 1982 as Kid Frost as a tribute to his rival Ice-T, whom he often battled in the music industry.

* OverClocked ReMix, an organization and website dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through re-orchestration and reinterpretation

Popeil has been referenced in the music of Alice Cooper, the Beastie Boys, and " Weird Al " Yankovic, who wrote a parody song entitled " Mr. Popeil " which was a tribute to Ron Popeil's father, Samuel Popeil.

The halftime show also featured the Longhorn Band, along with Judy Mallett, Miss Texas 1973, playing the fiddle, in a tribute to American music titled " A Musical America ".

The pre show featured The Rockettes dance company in a tribute to Hollywood, music, and the movies.

" It is important to note that Tricky paid tribute to early hip-hop artists whose music was, and still is, influential in the hip-hop scene.

In the rest of 2007, They Might Be Giants wrote a commissioned piece for Brooklyn-based robotic music outfit League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and performed for three dates at the event, and covered the Pixies " Havalina " for American Laundromat Records Dig For Fire-a tribute to PIXIES compilation.

In September 2011, Amos released her first classical music album, Night of Hunters, featuring variations on a theme to pay tribute to such renowned composers as Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Granados, Satie and Schubert, through the Deutsche Grammophon label, a division of Universal Music Group.

American heavy metal band, Metallica has run " The Ecstasy of Gold " as prelude music at their concerts since 1985 ( except 1996 – 1998 ), and recently recorded a version of the instrumental for a compilation tribute to Morricone.

The abbreviated show was a featured segment of Nashville Sings Woody, yet another tribute concert to commemorate the music of Woody Guthrie held during the Folk Alliance Conference.

* In 1996, RCA Victor released the tribute album The Songs of West Side Story featuring new versions of the songs from the musical sung by popular music stars, including: " The Jet Song " sung by Brian Setzer, " A Boy Like That " sung by Selena, " I feel Pretty " sung by Little Richard, two versions of " Somewhere " performed by Aretha Franklin and Phil Collins, " Tonight " sung by Wynonna Judd and Kenny Loggins, " America " sung by Patti LaBelle, Natalie Cole and Sheila E., " I Have a Love " sung by Trisha Yearwood and " Rumble " performed by Chick Corea Elektric Band and Steve Vai's Monsters.

They often paid tribute to the music of earlier masters, such as J. S.

The show will have 2-minute music videos titled respectfully " Merrie Melodies ", as a tribute to the Looney Tunes sister shorts, which will feature the characters singing original songs.

Many Slovenian polka / oberkrainer style bands in Europe are also in tribute of Avsenik's music, including Slovenia's Hisni ansambel Avsenik and Gasperji / Die Jungen Oberkrainer.

He also wrote and produced a tribute to surf music entitled Surfonic Water Revival, which featured performances by Phil Keaggy, Smalltown Poets, Chuck Girard, Paul Johnson, Havalina Rail Co., Rick Altizer, Plumb, The Supertones, All Star United, Skillet, Silage, Rebecca St. James, The Insyderz, and others.

* Surfonic Water Revival, tribute to surf music, 1998

In 2004, a tribute band called ( Brooklyn Qawwali Party ) ( formerly Brook's Qawwali Party ) was formed in New York City by percussionist Brook Martinez to perform the music of Khan.

Discover America was a tribute to the islands of Trinidad and Tobago and to calypso music.