Tonight's 60th Academy of Country Music Awards will start with a 12-minute performance that highlights six decades of ACM songs of the year.

Wynonna Judd is just one of half-a-dozen superstars who'll kickstart the historic show, though the exact details are under wraps.

"Hmm. I can't tell you anything, it would ruin the surprise," she teases. "But I'm gonna do, you know, '80s and '90s country, baby. We're bringing it back, right? And so we're reminding people of the past and what happened back then when I was first coming up."

"You know, I was, what? 18, 20 and winning awards and traveling all over the world with mom, and then I went out on my own," she recalls. "So I've got all these chapters. ...  But it's gonna be probably one of my biggest hits, so there's that."  

Host Reba McEntire, Dan + Shay, Sugarland, LeAnn Rimes and Clint Black are also part of the open, which gets underway at 8 p.m. ET tonight on Prime Video.

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