In Case You Missed It: #81 - Robert Deaton - Producer for the CMA Awards, Music Video Director and Interesting Guy,
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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It's CMA Week! So we thought you'd enjoy revisiting this conversation with Robert Deaton who is the executive producer of the CMA Awards. He stops by to talk about what he does as a producer. Robert is the one who put Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood together, Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton collaborations and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard. |
| 0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
| 0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
| 0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey guys, it's Bobby here. |
| 0:32.0 | The CMAs are happening this week. |
| 0:34.0 | It's Country Music's biggest award night. |
| 0:36.0 | And I wanted to share an episode that we did back September 2017 with Robert Deaton. |
| 0:41.0 | Now you may not know the name, but he is the executive producer of the CMAs, the award show. |
| 0:47.0 | So he talked about all the goes into putting together the award show from the performances to picking the hosts. |
| 0:53.0 | Just generally a pretty cool episode because I always wondered how in the world does an award show get put together. |
| 0:59.0 | Like he depicts it all. |
| 1:00.0 | He talks about how he was the one who put Brad and carry together for the first time. |
| 1:04.0 | Also Justin Timberlake, Chris Stapleton, that was on his watch. |
| 1:07.0 | He also talked about how he produced over 400 music videos. They got him here. |
| 1:11.0 | So because it's CMA week, I thought this would be a fun one to share. |
| 1:15.0 | Be sure to check out the Morgan Wall on episode. We did that one last. |
| 1:18.0 | But this is from back in the day. |
| 1:20.0 | Crazy the back in the day was episode 81. |
| 1:22.0 | But Robert Deaton, the CMA producer, be sure to watch the show on Wednesday night. |
| 1:27.0 | If it's already past Wednesday, you missed it, but all good. |
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