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As ACM Awards Co-Hosts, Garth Brooks and Dolly Parton Find Getting to Finally Know Each Other Is ‘Icing on a Really Good Cake’

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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Garth Brooks and Dolly Parton have friends in host places: each other, as they prepare to co-helm the 58th annual Academy of Country Music Awards show Thursday night.

Parton has done the hosting thing for the ACM Awards or CMAs a bare handful of times over the years (including taking on the role for last year’s ACMs); it’s Brooks’ first time, meanwhile, emceeing a kudocast.

Regardless of their awards-show resumes, this pairing is not your average “get,” as landing hosts goes. There’s a good argument to be made that Parton is the biggest female star in the history of their genre, and just as good a case for thinking Brooks is the all-time biggest male star in the format, as they step down from country’s Mount Olympus to chaperone the prom. “I know I think of her in those terms,” said Brooks, as the two did a joint interview with Variety last week, “and she would probably say she doesn’t think of her in those terms.

But, I mean, you can’t deny that Dolly Parton and whoever is a damn good couple.” “Well, I think that everybody else knows we’re bigger stars than we do,” said Parton, “because we look at it like work, and think about how lucky we are.

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