25th CMAA
Country Music Awards Ceremony
1997 Golden Guitar Awards
Saturday, 25 Jan 1997
Don Willis Arena, Showground, NSW
The 1990 Country Music Awards honored country music artists for musical performances and other career achievements during the 1990 calendar year.
Toyota was the sponsor this year. “Golden Guitar” trophies were given to winners. Highlight of the Tamworth Country Music Festival, the Awards was organised by Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA).
In 1993 the name changed from the Australasian Country Music Awards to its present name Country Music Awards of Australia.
| Album of the Year Tania Kernaghan December Moon (ABC) APRA Song of the Year Graeme Connors The Road Less Travelled (ABC: Panama Music/Rondor) Top Selling Lee Kernaghan 1959 (ABC: Warner/Chappell) Bush Ballad of the Year Slim DustyMust’ve Been A Hell Of A Party Written by Slim Dusty & Tom Oliver (EMI: Kirkpatrick/Oliver) Heritage Song of the Year Slim DustyOld Time Country Halls (EMI: Slim Dusty Enterprises) Instrumental of the Year Lawrie Minson Action Jackson (ABC:Control) Video Track of the Year Mark O’Shea The Dreamer Directed by Ross Wood (ABC: Warner/Chappell) | Male Vocalist of the Year Graeme Connors The Road Less Travelled (ABC: Panama Music/Rondor) Female Vocalist of the Year Tania Kernaghan Where The Murray Meets The Darling (ABC: Warner/Chappell) New Talent of the Year Tina Martyn Lying In My Bed (ABC: Warner/Chappell) Vocal Group or Duo of the Year The Wheel Saw You Runnin’ (rooArt: Colgems/EMI Music Ascap) Vocal Collaboration of the Year Tania Kernaghan & Lee Kernaghan A Bushman Can’t Survive (ABC: Emusic) Producer of the Year Garth Porter Roll of Renown John Williamson |
