miranda is getting the acm merle haggard spirit award. and i can't think of a more deserving artist to be honest with you. we know that she has been quite you year with her break up with blake sheldon, but it always comes right down to miranda one of the best song writers? nashville. she is a tech tackler performer, great person, she does so much for animals, and things like that, so i think that this is nobody more deserving after merle haggard award certainly than miranda lambert. that will be great tonight, too. >> andy, any up and coming artist we should be watching for tonight? >> yes. i can tell you this. there is one person that hand-down both in the studio, and in nashville, everybody is super excited about, that's march on morris. she will be on the show tonight. she is going to be performing. she is definitely the future of country music. i mean, she young. she is a great songwriter. she is amazing artist, really looking forward to her tonight. >> i think i'm headed to itunes after the show. thank you so much, andy, as always. >

." >> that's like a merle haggard song. >> do you even know who merle haggard was? >> say, yes. >> big in australia. yourrt of the best you'd ever done? what was it about that? >> a real intimate show and the fans sang every single lyrics. it just felt like, you know, a band playing a show to family. like, it was crazy. it cass cool. >> how did you all meet? >> we all met on tinder. >> you said it's a small musical world, in sydney. everybody knows everybody. sydney. >> i think drinking had something to do with it. like you guys met. >> what? >> oh, no. that came later. >> tell the story. >> me and dan met at a party, like, back in the day, probably around four years ago, and we'd all played in bands in sydney but dan played a riff. let's start a band together. >> that was it. >>> hell yeah. that was it. >> where did these two guys come from? >> they're the other guys. >> yeah. >> that's it. >> some of the out of focus guys. >> you'll sing in a little bit. elvis we love ya, baby. love you. two italian stallions waiting to >> what? i can't wait. >> your local news, h