Luke Bryan Reveals His All-Time Favorite 'Best Album Of The Year' In Honor Of Next Week's CMA 2014 Awards [VIDEO]

The 48th Annual CMA Awards go live next Wednesday, Nov. 5 on ABC and country music's biggest stars are already getting in the award season mood. Luke Bryan sat down with People and decided once and for all what his favorite "Best Album Of The Year" winner is.

In honor of the upcoming CMA Awards, the "Play it Again" singer chose Alabama's album The Closer You Get, which won the award in 1983.

"That album came out when I was a kid and I remember just loving everything about Alabama ... I didn't know why I liked it, I just loved singing their songs and there was one image and one memory that'll always last," the musician told People.

"When I was a kid, my family and I, it was kind of ... it was karaoke before karaoke. We had a guitar amp in my sister's bedroom and a microphone and we would play the album The Closer You Get ... and we would sing through the microphone through a guitar amp and we sang all night and it's just a memory that has always stuck ... in my head."

"I had a guitar and I was sitting there and I didn't know what I was playing but I was acting like Alabama to that album," he added.

Bryan is currently up for the "Best Album of the Year" award for his record Crash My Party and the "Country Girl" singer is thrilled about the honor. "I am so happy, I finally hear my voice and think this is how I always hoped I sound. I've finally hit all strides like I wanted to," the 38-year-old singer told the publication.

ABC announced the CMA Awards nominees on Sept. 3 and the event will take place in Nashville, Tennessee on Nov. 5. Bryan is up against Keith Urban for his Fuse album, Miranda Lambert for her Platinum record, Dierks Bentley for Riser and Eric Church for The Outsiders.