 In 2000, it also received the Country Music Association's award for Vocal Event of the Year, as well as the CMA's Song of the Year award a year later.In 2006, Dierks Bentley and George Jones recorded a version of the song that was included on the album "Songs of the Year 2007", which was only available in Cracker Barrel restaurants.Country comedy artist Cledus T. Judd parodied the song as "Merger on Music Row", in a duet with Daryle Singletary, on his 2009 album "Polyrically Uncorrect"; the song lamented that music piracy had taken all the profits away from country music.