跟进：克肖红毯风波扩大，切斯纳特长帖声援、一位歌手愿让出自己的红毯名额
第60届CMA乡村音乐奖将于11月18日在田纳西州戴维森县纳什维尔市的普利司通体育馆举行。90年代乡村歌星萨米·克肖（Sammy Kershaw）11月5日晚发帖称被美国乡村音乐协会（CMA）拒绝走今年颁奖礼红毯一事，11月6日继续发酵：继赖利·格林（Riley Green）之后，卡莉·皮尔斯（Carly Pearce）、杰克·欧文（Jake Owen）、梅根·帕特里克（Meghan Patrick）等多位乡村歌手公开声援；同在90年代成名的马克·切斯纳特（Mark Chesnutt）更在Facebook发长帖为他抱不平，歌迷还在请愿网站上发起联署，要求协会邀请克肖走红毯。
切斯纳特在帖中写道，克肖不会被允许走这场大奖的红毯，「嗯，这也太对了。CMA再也不在乎我们这些90年代的老家伙了」。他说，令人难过的是，协会不尊重过去三十年乃至更早以前称霸排行榜的明星，却总是为流行歌星、好莱坞影星甚至嘻哈艺人铺开欢迎毯，「除了乡村音乐，什么都能拿到典礼的表演位置」。他还把乡村音乐行业与摇滚乐作对比，称摇滚乐尊敬自己的历史与传奇，而乡村音乐行业的高管似乎无视这个乐种丰富的历史与传奇人物，并感谢歌迷近四十年来一直到场支持传统乡村音乐。据Country Now报道，这篇帖子发出约40分钟，就已获得超过1万个赞和1,300多条评论。
其他歌手的声援集中在克肖原帖的留言区与各自的社交账号上。皮尔斯写道：「我们中的许多人，若没有像你这样的艺人，就不会有今天。」欧文的留言只有一句：「我站萨米队。」帕特里克质问，协会往年能让没有才华的网红走红毯，却不让克肖走；格雷兰·詹姆斯（Greylan James）也表达了类似看法；特雷·刘易斯（Trey Lewis）则称这一决定「离谱」。
歌手德鲁·鲍德里奇（Drew Baldridge）走得更远。他在Instagram快拍中表示，愿意把自己的红毯位置让给克肖：「我把我的位置让给你，萨米·克肖……如果你都不配站在那里，那我肯定更不配。」
歌迷一侧，11月6日有人在Change.org发起题为「邀请萨米·克肖参加2026年CMA奖」的请愿，称本届典礼正要庆祝90年代乡村音乐，让这位90年代的代表人物走上红毯是恰当的致敬方式，呼吁筹委会向他发出邀请。
克肖在原帖中说，他只是想和妻子门迪（Mendy）走几分钟红毯，为此特意调整巡演安排、订好机票和酒店，等了几个月却在典礼前两周被拒，他称这件事「非常伤人、令人尴尬、令人极度失望」。其经纪人此前说明，协会给出的理由是红毯申请过多、克肖未达到更新后的标准，他可以自购每张约800多美元的门票，但不保证与艺人同座。截至发稿，CMA仍未公开回应克肖的说法；据《田纳西人报》报道，该报向CMA提出的置评请求也未获回复。
Follow-Up: Support Widens for Kershaw After CMA Red-Carpet Denial, as Chesnutt Speaks Out and a Fellow Singer Offers His Own Spot
The 60th annual CMA Awards will be held on November 18 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, in Davidson County, Tennessee. The dispute that began on the evening of November 5, when 1990s country star Sammy Kershaw posted that the Country Music Association (CMA) had denied his request to walk this year's red carpet, widened on November 6. After Riley Green, fellow country singers including Carly Pearce, Jake Owen and Meghan Patrick spoke out in Kershaw's support; Mark Chesnutt, who rose to fame in the same decade, published a long Facebook post on his behalf, and fans launched a petition calling on the association to invite Kershaw onto the carpet.
In his post, Chesnutt wrote that Kershaw would not be allowed to walk the red carpet at the big CMA Awards: "Well that's about right. The CMA doesn't care about us old 90s guys any more." He said it was a shame the association did not respect the stars who dominated the charts over the past thirty years and before, while rolling out the welcome mat for pop stars, Hollywood movie stars and even hip-hop artists, adding that "anything but country music" gets the performance spots on the show. He contrasted the country industry with rock and roll, saying rock honors its history and respects its legends while country music executives seem to ignore the genre's rich history and its legends, and he thanked fans for nearly forty years of showing up for traditional country music. According to Country Now, the post had drawn more than 10,000 likes and over 1,300 comments within about 40 minutes of publication.
Other artists weighed in under Kershaw's original post and on their own accounts. Pearce wrote: "Many of us wouldn't be here without artists like you." Owen's comment was a single line: "I'm team Sammy." Patrick questioned how influencers with, in her words, zero talent had been allowed on the carpet in previous years while Kershaw was not; Greylan James expressed a similar view, and Trey Lewis called the decision "outrageous."
Singer Drew Baldridge went further. In an Instagram Story he offered to give Kershaw his own red-carpet place: "I'll give my spot up for you, Sammy Kershaw... If you don't deserve to be there then I definitely don't."
On November 6 a fan also started a Change.org petition titled "Invite Sammy Kershaw to the 2026 CMA Awards," arguing that with this year's ceremony set to celebrate 1990s country, a red-carpet appearance for one of that era's defining artists would be a fitting tribute, and urging the awards committee to extend the invitation.
In his original post Kershaw said he had only wanted to walk the carpet for a few minutes with his wife, Mendy, that he had rearranged his tour schedule and booked flights and a hotel, and that after months of waiting he was turned down two weeks before the show, which he called "extremely hurtful, embarrassing and very disappointing." His manager has said the association's stated reason was an overwhelming number of requests and updated criteria Kershaw did not meet, and that he could buy tickets at roughly $800 or more apiece without a guarantee of being seated with the artists. The CMA has still not publicly responded to Kershaw's post; according to The Tennessean, its request for comment to the CMA also went unanswered.
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