Martina McBride: A Day in the Life

7/20/2007 Stephen L. Betts In 2006 Martina McBride’s performance at the CMA Music Festival won a rave review from Nashville’s Tennessean newspaper. Martina doesn’t quite agree. “My memory is of that show completely sucking — I thought it was a mess!” she says in a feature for tvguide.com. “They used smoke for the TV filming that I have an allergy to, so while I was waiting to go on, I started to get this reaction, like I had a wool sweater in my throat. I was coughing between lines, and it took five songs to get to where it felt like it had passed.” With two major network-TV spotlights soon to shine on Martina - CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock on July 23, and the Primetime special Six Degrees of Martina McBride on July 30, both on ABC, TV Guide shadowed Martina during an entire day at this year’s CMA Music Festival. Click here  to read their account of 24 hours in the life of the superstar.