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"Eric Church has promised a fiery performance at the Country Music Association Awards tonight. The &amp;#039;Springsteen&amp;#039; singer is to take to the Nashville stage on the same night as he is nominated for multiple awards, including &amp;#039;Album of the Year&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Single of the Year&amp;#039;. Speaking to The AP, Church revealed that he will approach Thursday&amp;#039;s performance with the same intensity he shows at every concert. &amp;quot;I have a huge chip on my shoulder. I got that from how we got here, and I think it&amp;#039;s a good thing,&amp;quot; he declared. The star went on to say: &amp;quot;When I walk on the stage, I carry all the times that other artists got other things, we couldn&amp;#039;t get a song played because of who we were versus the song&amp;#039;s merits, or the times we had to play 12, 13 days and still were broke.  &amp;quot;All those things I carry on that stage. I think it makes me a better performer and I think it makes it better for the crowd. I&amp;#039;m not going to lose that, regardless of the nominations.&amp;quot;      Church went on to cite his CMA Awards nominations as proof that his brand of traditional country music remains popular with a large audience. &amp;quot;It certainly makes me feel good that we stuck to our guns. If you ask me about being kind of in the middle of things, I like the edges,&amp;quot; he explained.  &amp;quot;So for me it&amp;#039;s about staying out there on those edges and being able to do something different every time. I think that&amp;#039;s how we got here.&amp;quot; Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Blake Shelton, Lady Antebellum, The Band Perry and Kenny Chesney have also been lined up to perform on tonight&amp;#039;s telecast. The Country Music Association Awards 2012 - hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood - are broadcast tonight (November 1) at 8pm ET on ABC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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