{"id":804037,"date":"2026-05-18T01:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804037\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:31:15","slug":"red-clay-strays-perform-demons-in-your-choir-at-2026-acm-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804037\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Clay Strays Perform ‘Demons in Your Choir’ at 2026 ACM Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Red Clay Strays<\/a> performed their transcendent gospel-tinged rave-up \u201cDemons in Your Choir\u201d at the Academy of Country Music Awards<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Alabama crew has always straddled Southern rock and country well enough to have opened for the Rolling Stones in 2024, but they fit right in on the ACMs stage, thanks in part to frontman Brandon Coleman\u2019s booming voice, pitched with just the right amount of twang. And to help push the performance into those ethereal dimensions, Coleman and the Red Clay Strays were joined onstage by a full gospel choir, who helped belt the latest single from their upcoming album, Grateful.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe performance was a fitting reminder of why the Red Clay Strays won the ACM Award for New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year in 2025 \u2014 and how they followed that up with a win for Group of the Year<\/a> earlier Sunday night. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJust at a loss\u2026it doesn\u2019t feel real, truly,\u201d Coleman said while accepting the prize. \u201cWe\u2019re just some rednecks form Mobile, Alabama, and when we started playing in bars, we never thought we\u2019d go this far. We\u2019re truly grateful and thankful for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThey previewed another Grateful track, \u201cPeople Hatin\u2019,\u201d<\/a> in November at another trophy toss, the CMA Awards, where they also claimed honors for being Vocal Group of the Year. That song charted on the rock, country, and adult alternative airplay charts, proving their crossover appeal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re country,\u201d Coleman said in 2024<\/a>. \u201cI love country music. That\u2019s what I was raised on. If anything, we\u2019re Americana. And it\u2019s funny, because actual country music like Sturgill [Simpson] and Tyler Childers get lumped into Americana.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe ACM Awards<\/a> took place at Las Vegas\u2019 MGM Grand Garden Arena, where Shania Twain served as host. Other performers at the event included Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Riley Green, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town, and Miranda Lambert.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ACM Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corp., the parent company of\u00a0Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Clay Strays performed their transcendent gospel-tinged rave-up \u201cDemons in Your Choir\u201d at the Academy of Country…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":804038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[76324,37483,171,975,275228,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-804037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-academy-of-country-music-awards","tag-acm-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-red-clay-strays","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116592999814861257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}