The CMT Music Awards were held Monday night in Nashville, Tennessee. Buffett was nominated for Wide Open Country Video Of The Year for “Bama Breeze,” but was beaten out by Jack Ingram’s “Love You.”

“Just to be mentioned in the same breath as Johnny Cash is an honor. And to be nominated with Jimmy Buffett and Sheryl Crow, I’m honored,” said Ingram.

Jimmy Buffett made the final cut in the Wide Open Country Video category for this year’s CMT Music Awards for his “Bama Breeze” video.

Other nominees in the category include:

Sheryl Crow with Sting – “Always on Your Side”
Johnny Cash – “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”
Jack Ingram – “Love You”

Nominees who did not make it into the final group of four were:

Alison Krauss and Union Station – “If I Didn’t Know Any Better”
Pat Green – “Dixie Lullaby”
Shooter Jennings – “Gone To Carolina”
Willie Nelson – “You Don’t Know Me”

Fans can vote online at CMT.com through April 13 to determine the night’s winners. The CMT Music Awards are country music’s only fan-voted awards. Catch the show live on April 16th from The Curb Event Center at Nashville’s Belmont University.

Jimmy Buffett has been nominated for a CMT Music Award in the category Wide Open Country Video Of The Year for his video “Bama Breeze.”

This year introduces the new Wide Open country video of the year category, nominees for which include Jimmy Buffett’s “Bama Breeze,” Sheryl Crow and Sting’s “Always on Your Side” and Willie Nelson’s “You Don’t Know Me.” The honor is intended for “artists who stretch the boundaries of mainstream country music,” according to CMT.

Here are the other nominees in the category:

Alison Krauss and Union Station – “If I Didn’t Know Any Better”
Jack Ingram – “Love You”
Johnny Cash – “God’s Gonna Cut you Down”
Pat Green – “Dixie Lullaby”
Sheryl Crow and Sting – “Always On Your Side”
Shooter Jennings – “Gone To Carolina”
Willie Nelson – “You Don’t Know Me”

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The 2007 CMT Music Awards will be held April 16 at Nashville’s Curb Event Center. Voting begins today (Feb. 1) on CMT.com; eight nominees in each category will be whittled to four by Feb. 28.

Buffett’s latest album “Take The Weather With You” has been certified Gold by RIAA with 500,000 copies shipped.

The album debuted at #4 in its first week on the Billboard 200 chart back in October with 120,592 copies (about half of what License to Chill sold its first week). It hit #1 on the Top Country Albums chart.

Jimmy Buffett was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame on Sunday night during a ceremony at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel. Sunday night, duo Big & Rich joined Marshall Chapman, Buzz Cason and Don Light in honoring Buffett. Buffett got up after the speech and musical tribute, by which time Light, his old friend and agent, had already put his honor into perspective: “This is not the last Hall of Fame into which he will be inducted, but I think it’s really appropriate that it’s the first.”

For his part, Buffett offered good humor along with appreciation. After Big & Rich sang “Margaritaville,” Buffett joked, “Hugh Prestwood gets Trisha Yearwood and I get these clowns.” Later Buffett said, “I never got in it to become big and rich, but, what the . . . , it happened.”

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