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41st CMAA
Country Music Awards Ceremony

2013 Golden Guitar Awards

Saturday, 26 Jan 2013
Tamworth Regional Entertainment
and Convention Centre (TRECC), NSW

The Country Music Awards of Australia are awarded annually to country music artists and individuals by the Country Music Association of Australia.

Troy Cassar-Daley was the big winner this year walking away with an impressive four Golden Guitar awards out of seven nominations. It was a good night for balladeer Graham Rodger winning Bush Ballad of the Year. He was a finalist 11 times before winning the Golden Guitar this year.

This year’s Golden Guitars hosted two special tributes saluting Australian pioneer country music artists. Geoff Mack was given a standing ovation when he was given the Lifetime Achievement Golden Guitar. The 90 year old Mack is a veteran of outback tent shows and the author

of the Aussie classic hit song I’ve Been Everywhere. It has been recorded by more than 130 artists including Johnny Cash and Lucky Starr. The second special tribute was to the late Jimmy Little who died in April 2012 at the age of 75. Jimmy’s career as a singer-songwriter and guitarist spanned six decades.

For some fans, going home after the Festival proved a difficult task. With a number of highways and main roads closed, many were stranded away from home by tropical Cyclone Oswald’s rain and flooding in Queensland and northern region of NSW.

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).

41st Golden Guitar Finalists ~ WINNERS ARE BOLDED

Album of the Year	Always Never Enough – Catherine Britt   Country Proud – McAlister Kemp   Home – Troy Cassar-Daley   Two Worlds Collide – The McClymonts   Wreck & Ruin – Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson
Female Artist of the Year	Amber Lawrence – The Man Across The Street   Catherine Britt – Charlestown Road   Harmony James – Emmylou’s Guitar   Tamara Stewart – Sisterhood (Of Feeling Good)   Lyn Bowtell – Beautiful Liar
Male Artist of the Year	Adam Brand – There Will Be Love   John Williamson – Prairie Hotel Parachilna Luke O’Shea – The Drovers Wife Troy Cassar-Daley – Home   Travis Collins – Fired Today
New Talent of the Year	Bob Corbett – Blown Away   Chelsea Basham – Laugh It Off   Chris E Thomas – Stone Cold   Harry Hookey – Audrey’s Song   Kristy Cox – Miles & Timezones
Group or Duo of the Year	Camille and Stuie – Things Change   Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Adam & Eve   McAlister Kemp – Country Proud   The Harmonators – Perfect Storm   The McClymonts – Piece Of Me
APRA Song of the Year	Adam & Eve – written & recorded by Kasey Chambers &   Shane Nicholson   Charlestown Road – written & recorded by Catherine Britt   Emmylou’s Guitar – written & recorded by Harmony James   Home – written & recorded by Troy Cassar-Daley   Women In Song – Written by Tamara Stewart and Colin   Buchanan. Recorded by Tamara Stewart, Sara Storer and   Felicity Urquhart
Video Clip of the Year	Adam & Eve – Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson,   directed by Duncan Toombs   Country Is – Troy Cassar-Daley, directed by Duncan Toombs   Charlestown Road – Catherine Britt, directed by Jefferton James   Piece Of Me – The McClymonts, directed by Duncan Toombs   The Big Red – John Williamson, directed by Mark Jago
Single of the Year	Adam & Eve – Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson   Always Never Enough – Catherine Britt   Country Is – Troy Cassar-Daley   Piece Of Me – The McClymonts   Waitress – Beccy Cole
Vocal Collaboration of the Year	New England Sky – Luke O’Shea & Dianna Corcoran   Reach For You – Harmony James & Shane Nicholson   Song Of Australia – Colin Buchanan, Lee Kernaghan & Sara Storer   Women In Song – Tamara Stewart, Sara Storer, Felicity Urquhart   Troubled Man – Catherine Britt & Tim Rogers
Bush Ballad of the Year	Heartbeat of Australia the Man of the Land – written by Dean Perrett & Stuart French,   recorded by Dean Perrett   Looking Back – written & recorded by Graham Rodger   Mystery Of Saddle Girl – written & recorded by Rex Dallas   Old Tobacco Tin – written & recorded by Peter Simpson & Dianne Lindsay   The Ballad of Castlereagh – written by Vaughan Baker, recorded by Bec Hance
Instrumental of the Year	Frankenbeanz – Bob Corbett & The Roo Grass Band   One Christmas Night – Tommy Emmanuel   The Warrumbungle Mare – Lawrie Minson & Lindsay Waddington   Yackandandah 1852 – Pete Denahy   Transpacific – Davidson Brothers
Heritage Song of the Year	Charlestown Road – written & recorded by Catherine Britt   Marree Girl – written & recorded by John Williamson   The Drovers Wife – written by Luke O’Shea & Peter Gabrielides, recorded by Luke O’Shea Song Of Australia – written by Colin Buchanan & Garth Porter, recorded by Colin Buchanan, Sara Storer and Lee Kernaghan   Tall Dark Ringer – written by Troy Cassar-Daley & Colin Buchanan, recorded by Troy Cassar- Daley
Alternative Country Album of the Year	Lucky Country – Bob Corbett & The Roo Grass Band, produced by Robbie Long and Bob Corbett   Big Days & Little Years – Camille and Stuie, produced by Stuie French   Miles & Timezones – Kristy Cox, produced by Jerry Salley   Secret Songs – Lyn Bowtell, produced by Sean Rudd   Travis Collins – produced by Travis Collins & Michael McGlynn
Top Selling International Album of the Year	Emotional Traffic – Tim McGraw (Sony)   Blown Away – Carrie Underwood (Sony)   Home – Dierks Bentley (EMI)   Uncaged – Zac Brown Band (Warner)   Thirty Miles West – Alan Jackson (Sony)
Sanity Top Selling Australian Album of the Year	Home – Troy Cassar Daley (Liberation)   Songs & Pictures – Beccy Cole (Core Music)   The Big Red – John Williamson (Warner)   Two Worlds Collide – The McClymonts (Universal)   There Will Be Love – Adam Brand (Sony)

2013 Tamworth Country Music Festival

The Festival ran from 18 to 27 January 2013. 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 around 4,000 different performances in the 80 venues that make up the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

The Cavalcade community parade on Saturday 26 January attracted thousands of spectators again this year.

Cavalcade parade started at 9am at the corner of Peel & Hill Streets. The theme this year was Australia Day.

The public was invited to come join the fun and see their favourite country music artists on specially decorated floats.