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# Dudes of the CMAs
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/dudes-of-the-cmas/
- Published: 2018-11-15T18:45:48.000Z
- Updated: 2018-11-15T19:34:05.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:58

## Lionel Richie

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979319cp-1542263157.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Scott Kirkland/REX/Shutterstock (9979319cp) Lionel Richie 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

We begin as most things should: with Lionel Richie looking like a host who has just noticed you brought his favorite appetizer.

## Jon Pardi

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979319dt-1542263173.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Scott Kirkland/REX/Shutterstock (9979319dt) Jon Pardi 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

I always struggle with the deep open shirt under a blazer, but that's at least a very INTERESTING blazer. It has a slightly macabre air.

## Morgan Wallen

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716mj-1542262929.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716mj) Morgan Wallen 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

That is a jean jacket and a plaid sportcoat mixed together so cruelly. He's the Sid from *Toy Story* of clothing mergers.

## Mitchell Tenpenny

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716nu-1542262980.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716nu) Mitchell Tenpenny 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

I cannot cosign a baseball cap at this.

## Ian Fitchuk

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716mu-1542262943.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716mu) Ian Fitchuk 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

This is A LOT.

## Jimmie Allen

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716ny-1542262994.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716ny) Jimmie Allen 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

I appreciate that pattern. It's wrapping paper for sure.

## The Brothers Osborne

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716kz-1542262898.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716kz) Brothers Osborne - T.J. Osborne, John Osborne 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

Something tells me these two reallllly did not like if people mixed them up when they were younger.

## TK McKamy

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716es-1542262868.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716es) TK McKamy 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

This looks like something Clark Griswold would wear in a daydream.

## Cody Johnson

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716pg-1542263046.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716pg) Cody Johnson 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

He won those pants in a poker game from a very tall stranger.

## Justin Moore

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716oz-1542263023.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716oz) Justin Moore 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

He's trying to hide his eyes, because he saw it all go down, and he knows Pants cheated.

## Noah Schapp

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979208hc-1542263086.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by AFF-USA/REX/Shutterstock (9979208hc) Noah Schnapp 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

I love that Noah Schapp of Stranger Things is bringing some serious tailored polish to this.

## Chris Lane

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979319ac-1542263097.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Scott Kirkland/REX/Shutterstock (9979319ac) Chris Lane 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

"Everything I'm wearing repels water. Including my hair wax."

## Midland

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716lg-1542262915.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716lg) Midland - Jess Carson, Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

These guys are my new favorite people. Left and Right look like evil profiteers from a hipster town that's trying to turn itself into Deadwood, and the middle one made me think to myself, "Is he aware that he's not on a soap opera in the 1970s?" Then I looked him up, and LO, he WAS on a soap opera in modern times: He replaced Justin Hartley on *Passions*. Which would be enough to drive anyone out of acting and into Yanni's hair.

## Ross and Katlin Copperman

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716ni-1542262955.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716ni) Ross Copperman and Katlin Copperman 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

I have notes on the bangs, son.

## Cole Swindell

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716nr-1542262967.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716nr) Cole Swindell 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

I can't lie: That jacket is subtly really great. But the hat that has his initials on it, which I am conerned might be his own logo? PASS. You can do it if you're Roger Federer, and you're on a tennis court, or in my living room, but that's it.

## Thomas Rhett

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979319ce-1542263130.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Scott Kirkland/REX/Shutterstock (9979319ce) Thomas Rhett 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

On the whole, socks have to be feeling pretty lonely tonight.

## Josh Kerr

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716pd-1542263035.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716pd) Josh Kerr 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

The entire bottom half of this stumpifies him in the extreme.

## Dustin Lynch

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716ob-1542263008.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716ob) Dustin Lynch 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

And then we get the Battle of the Gold Jackets, starring this guy in his slightly greener gold version...

## Ryan Hurd

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/9979208ca-1542264215.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by AFF-USA/REX/Shutterstock (9979208ca) Ryan Hurd 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

... and this one, a much louder gold, if such a thing can be defined (it can). We don't need to name a winner, but I think Dustin overall looks better.

## Brandon Kinney, Jeff Middleton, Josh Thompson

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716ps-1542263059.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716ps) Brandon Kinney, Jeff Middleton, Josh Thompson 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

Fun fact: Jeff Middleton is Kate Middleton's second cousin, but they don't speak because his family renounced the Queen. Another fun fact: I made that up.

## Craig Wayne Boyd

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979207db-1542263074.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock (9979207db) Craig Wayne Boyd 52nd Annual CMA Awards - Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

But seriously, it's okay to button your shirts, everyone.

## Lady Antebellum

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979319ck-1542263143.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Scott Kirkland/REX/Shutterstock (9979319ck) Lady Antebellum 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

Everyone in Lady A -- the three of them, and the apparent low-flow showerhead -- is presented and accounted for.

## Kristian Bush of Sugarland

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979319dw-1542263186.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Scott Kirkland/REX/Shutterstock (9979319dw) Kristian Bush 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

"Who the hell cares what I look like? WAIT UNTIL THEY GET A LOAD OF JENNIFER."

## Old Dominion

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979319eb-1542263200.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Scott Kirkland/REX/Shutterstock (9979319eb) Old Dominion 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

Two of these people are feeling very hurt that the others made a velvet pact.

## Dennis Quaid

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9975716jv-1542262884.jpg)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock (9975716jv) Dennis Quaid 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Arrivals, Nashville, USA - 14 Nov 2018

["Once again](https://gofugyourself.com/photos/bmi-country-awards/66th-annual-bmi-country-awards-arrivals-nashville-usa-13-nov-2018-4?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) I feel like there's something somebody didn't tell me."

[Yes, It's Time For The Dudes of the CMAsThey brought hats, and coats, and hair, per usual. But with FLAIR.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2018/11/shutterstock_9979319cp-1542263157.jpg)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/yes-its-time-for-the-dudes-of-the-cmas-11-2018/)