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Riley Green is nominated with Ella Langley for Musical Event of the Year at this year’s CMA Awards for their collaboration on “You Look Like You Love Me.” We’ll find out Wednesday night, when the awards air at 8 ET/7 CT on ABC, if they win or not, but Riley talks about how he came to know Ella and getting to work with her on the song.

Riley Green – Ella Langley :29

“Yeah, I’ve been a big fan of Ella Langley for a long time. We met through a mutual friend, and I was kinda in as soon as I heard her voice and her twang and how country she sounded, and also that she loved what I would call traditional country music. And then also she’s from Alabama, so I kinda was pullin’ for her anyway. So, I was very fortunate to get her on tour. And ‘You Look Like You Love Me’ happened, which is something I don’t think any of us had any idea about. I heard the song through our mutual friend, and Ella played it for me some, and I wrote a verse for it, and it just became this giant hit song.”