45th CMAA
Country Music Awards Ceremony
2017 Golden Guitar Awards
Saturday, 28 January 2017
Tamworth Regional Entertainment
and Convention Centre (TRECC), NSW
The 2017 Country Music Awards honored country music artists for musical performances and other career achievements during the 2017 calendar year.
The CMAA Awards is a highlight of the ten day Tamworth Country Music Festival. Each year about 50,000 music fans come to the Festival. The Awards is organized by the Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA).
45th Golden Guitar Nominees
Female Artist of the Year
Silos – Sara Storer
Happy Ever After – Amber Lawrence
Burn Baby Burn – Kirsty Lee Akers
Part Of Me – Kristy Cox
Follow The Journey – Seleen McAlister
Male Artist of the Year
Hard Light – Travis Collins
50 Years In Oz – Allan Caswell
Unsung – A tribute to the songs of Buddy Bruce – Doug
Bruce
Caught Up In The Dreaming – Luke O’Shea
Things I Carry Around – Troy Cassar-Daley
New Talent of the Year
Land Of Gold – Fanny Lumsden
Running In Circles – Caitlyn Shadbolt
Till The Buzzer Goes Off – Justin Standley
Heyfield Girl – Michael Waugh
River Of Gold – The Weeping Willows
Group or Duo of the Year
Bennett, Bowtell & Urquhart – Bennett, Bowtell & Urquhart
Here We Go – Sunny Cowgirls
Before Darkness Comes A-Callin’ – The Weeping Willows
This Crazy Life – The Wolfe Brothers
Desert Water – Warren H Williams & Dani Young
Single of the Year
Just Another Girl – Travis Collins
Land of Gold – Fanny Lumsden
60 Summers – Graeme Connors
Ain’t No Little Girl – Kasey Chambers
The Truth Walks Slowly (in the Countryside) – O’Shea
APRA AMCOS Song of the Year
Call Me Crazy – Travis Collins
Goulburn Valley Woman – Bennett, Bowtell & Urquhart
Land of Gold – Fanny Lumsden
60 Summers – Graeme Connors
Ain’t No Little Girl – Kasey Chambers
Heritage Song of the Year
The Old Man’s Shed – Luke O’Shea
Goulburn Valley Woman – Bennett, Bowtell & Urquhart
Red, White & Blue – Roo Arcus
Purple Cockies – Sara Storer
Hometown Calling – Travis Collins
Album of the Year
Things I Carry Around – Troy Cassar-Daley
Caught Up In The Dreaming – Luke O’Shea
Silos – Sara Storer
This Crazy Life – The Wolfe Brothers
Hard Light – Travis Collins
Alternative Country Album of the Year
Bennett, Bowtell & Urquhart – Bennett, Bowtell & Urquhart
Victim Or The Heroine – Katie Brianna
Part Of Me – Kristy Cox
Before Darkness Comes A-Callin’ – The Weeping Willows
You Can’t Catch Fish From A Train – The Wilson Pickers
Bluegrass Recording of the Year
Another Weary Mile – Kristy Cox
I Hear Them All – Bennett, Bowtell & Urquhart
Losing My Blues Tonight – Dean Perrett
Cumberland Gap – The Hillbil
River Of Gold – The Weeping Willowsly Goats
Instrumental of the Year
Song for Manaia – Stuie French
Twenty Five – Lindsay Waddington
Cosmopolitan Blues – Michael Fix
Buckle Up – Mickey Pye
Roundabout – Runaway
Video Clip of the Year
The Truth Walks Slowly (in the Countryside) – Luke O’Shea
60 Summers – Graeme Connors
Ain’t No Little Girl – Kasey Chambers
Raise Your Glass – Simply Bushed
Call Me Crazy – Travis Collins
Vocal Collaboration of the Year
F U Cancer – Catherine Britt with Kasey Chambers, Beccy Cole, Lyn Bowtel, Josh Pyke, Wes Carr, Wendy Matthews
Bartender Blues – Adam Harvey with Adam Harvey & Lyn Bowtell
Cheers to the Girls – Amber Lawrence with Catherine Britt & Fanny Lumsden
Orchid Street – Anne Kirkpatrick with Jeff Brown
My Diamond – Sara Storer with Greg Storer
Bush Ballad of the Year
Amazing Night – Sara Storer
A Truckie Up In Queensland – Allan Caswell
The Veteran – Dean Perrett
Ghosts Of The Murranji – Graham Rodger
God Given Rain – Jeff Brown
Golden Guitar Winners
Golden Guitars were awarded 28 January 2017.
The Country Music Golden Guitar 2017 finalists were selected from over 500 nominations: industry heavy weights and the emergence of newer artists.
2017 Tamworth Country Music Festival
The Festival will run from Friday 20th to Sunday 29th January 2017. It’s the largest music festival in the southern hemisphere and one of the top 10 in the world.
There were over 2,200 events and over 700 artists in the 120 venues that make up the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
The trophy is 24cm high and weighs 1.5 kilograms. Over 500 Golden Guitar Awards have been given out since the beginning.
Slim Dusty won an amazing 37 Golden Guitar Awards during his career.