Jason Isbell and his wife, Amanda Shires have left the Country Music Association. The pair returned their membership cards due to the organizations, “failure to mention John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Billy Joe Shaver at the CMA’s” as per a tweet from Isbell.
The annual CMA Awards show, The CMAs, was broadcast Wednesday night on ABC. While producers of the special didn’t honor Prine, Walker and Shaver, they did devote tributes to Charlie Daniels, Kenny Rogers, Joe Diffie and Mac Davis. John Prine died in April due to complications from COVID-19, while in October Jerry Jeff Walker died of cancer and Billy Joe Shaver passed after suffering a stroke.
See the tweet from Jason Isbell below:
Due to @CountryMusic’s failure to mention John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Billy Joe Shaver at the CMA’s last night, @amandashires and I have decided to return our membership cards. I doubt anybody will care, but we cared a lot about our heroes. pic.twitter.com/UmplzD0Z7p
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) November 13, 2020
John Prine’s widow, Fiona Prine, also weighed in on the snub via a tweet from the Prines’ label, Oh Boy Records:
I know @JohnPrineMusic was as Country as Country can get… now, if we could just get our hands on that CMA rule book
https://t.co/W3c45C2Fsk
— Fiona Whelan Prine (@FionaPrine) November 12, 2020
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