It’s becoming a bit old hat for Scotty McCreery — another country music association announces award nominees, and the Garner High School student is a contender.

On Monday, CMT announced that Scotty’s music video for “The Trouble With Girls” has been nominated for “Breakthrough Video of the Year” at this year’s CMT Music Awards, to air on June 6 on the country music cable channel.

Fans can go online to vote for Scotty at www.cmt.com through June 4. Carrie Underwood – like Scotty, a former “American Idol” winner – leads the nominations with five.

Scotty’s fellow nominees in the breakthrough category have all competed against him before – Lauren Alaina, who has runner-up when Scotty won the 10th season of “Idol” a year ago; Brantley Gilbert and Hunter Hayes, both of whom were nominated against Scotty for Best New Artist at the Academy of Country Music Awards earlier this month; and Pistol Annies and Thompson Square, both of whom were nominated against Scotty for Top New Artist in December’s American Country Awards.

In honor of North Carolina native and country and bluegrass music pioneer Wade Mainer, who passed away this week at the age of 104, UNC-TV is re-airing an episode of "Folkways" which profiled the artist.

"Folkways: Wade Mainer" will air Friday night (Sept. 16) at 7:30 p.m. and will repeat Saturday at 1:30 a.m.

Photo courtesy of UNCTV.org

I was looking at the red carpet photo gallery from the Country Music Awards,  which Brooke Cain thoughtfully included in her blog, Happiness is a Warm TV. My first response was, these folks don't look like the country music stars from days gone by. Grandpa Jones and Conway Twitty come to mind. The CMA red carpet looked indistinguishable from a Hollywood red carpet. Back in the day, country music stars were, let us say, more regular-people looking.