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Cover/Tribute/Gh/Special album

Nominations

Melinda Schneider – Love Songs

Della Harris – Let’s Do This

Lee Kernaghan Greatest Hits

Melody Moko Live

Aimee Hannan Best Is Yet to Come

Melbourne in 60 seconds – various

Brad Butcher – The Storyteller

Mandy Collins self titled

The Great Country Songbook III – Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole

And the Purple goes to – tie

Melody Moko LIVE and Brad Butcher The Storyteller

Female EEP

Nominations:

Christie Lamb – Truth

Mandy Collins self titled

Melody Moko – Live

Siobhan Cotchin – Highways and Heartaches

Suz Dorahy – Redemption is Real

Kirsty- Lee Akers – Wild

Wendy Wood – Embrace

Freya Josephine Hollick -The Real World

Brittany Elise – Just Be

And the Purple goes to: Christie Lamb – Truth

Male EEP/EP

Nominations

Alan Fletcher – Dispatches

Bryce Sainty – Hometown

Pete Campbell – The Second Glance

Collin Lillie – The…

Javier – This is how I feel

Willow – Out of my hands

And the purple goes to: (this was tough!) Alan Fletcher – Dispatches

Band Duo EP/EEP

Nominations

Bo’Ness – Campfire Stories

The Austins The Austins

Crank Williams and Patsy Decline – Until We Darken your doorstep

The Buckleys Take it as it comes

And the purple goes to – Bo’Ness Campfire Stories

Traditional Australian country album

Nominations –

From the hand of Reg Lindsay – Reg Lindsay

Travelling Heart – T C Cassidy

The dinner Tree – Terry Bennetts

In the moment – Ashleigh Dallas

Nothin’s Gonna stop us – Tom Curtain

The Rodeo Collection Vol 1 – Norma O’Hara Murphy

Backroads – Georgie Darr

Trailblazer – Lance Birrell

Buckle Up – Chris Matthews

Bill Chambers and the City Girls – Bill Chambers

Light s a Feather – Kylie Adams-Collier

Jamie McDell – Jamie McDell

Tie – Ashleigh Dallas in the Moment and Tom Curtain Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us

Australian Band Album

Nominations

Copperline – Borrowed, Broken and Blue

Steve Tyson and The Train Rex – Banjo’s Last Ride

The Sulli- vans ST

Michael Carpenter and The Banks Brothers – mr Goodtime

The French Family Band – Me and Dad

And the purple goes to: Copperline – Borrowed, Broken and Blue

Australian Duos:

McAlister Kemp – We Roll on

The Long and the short of it – Midnight Choir

O’Shea – Neon Soul

Alexis and Suzie – Self Titled

The Weeping Willows – you Reap What You Sow

Lynchburg – I Love This Rodeo

And The Purple Goes to: The Weeping Willows – You Reap What You Sow

SuperFan of the year- Kaylene Fronty Pittaway.

Australian Male Vocal – Album

Nominations – The Dinner tree – Terry Bennetts

Nevertire – Stuart Alexander

Love, Lies and Dirty Dishes – Andy Penkow

Wildfire – Pete O’Brien

As the Road Unfolds – Brendan McMahon

Unknown – Wesley Dean

Dry Season – Blake Dantier

Trail Blazers – Lance Birrell

Daydreaming’ Don Hillman

The Storyteller – Brad Butcher

Nothin’s Gonna stop us – Tom Curtsin

Strength of a Queen – Andy Golledge

And the Purple goes to: Love, Lies and Dirty Dishes – Andy Penkow

Musicians of the year – Kelly Brouhaha and Liam Kennedy-Clark

Female Vocal Album of the Year:

Nominations

In The Moment – Ashleigh Dallas

Living for the highlights – Amber Lawrence

Backroads – Georgie Darr

Wiser – Lyn Bowtell

Sticks, Stones and Stories – Katie Brooke

Dead Men Tell No Tales – Allison Forbes

Not Your Typical Bride – Cass Hopetoun

Light as a feather – Kylie Adams-Collier

Jamie McDell – Jamie McDell

Shades of Blue – Kristy Cox

Ride This Lullaby – Josie Laver

Grace – Michelle Cashman

And we have a tie folks. Lyn Bowtell for Wiser and Michelle Cashman for Grace

Female Artist the Year

Lyn Bowtell

Male Artist of the Tear

Andy Penkow

Band of the year

Copperline

Duo of the Year

The Weeping Willows

Humanitarians of the year for being excellent musicians who care goes to Rick and Vanessa Hart.

And finally:

Entertainer of the Year

The Nominations are:

Beccy Cole

Adam Harvey

Amber Lawrence

Lyn Bowtell

Tom Curtain

Andy Penkow

The Weeping Willows

And the Entertainer of the year is:

Amber Lawrence

Thanks everybody for your talent, friendship and music.

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Roads/Highways Etc song

Nominations:

Sarah Carroll – Haunted Highway

Siobhan Cotchin – Highway Song

TC Cassidy, Angus, James Blundell (sorry mate, I left you off before) Adam, Gina, Beccy – Travelling Heart

Tori Darke – Pick Me Up

Willow – A long way home

Andy Golledge – Dreamin’ of a Highway

Benn Gunn – Down Highway One

Beyond Sippy Creek – Open Road

Collin Lillie – The Headlights

Copperline – Take The Backroads

Craig Lloyd – Take The Wheel

Jade Gibson – Country Mile

And the purple goes to: Take The Wheel – Craig Lloyd

Country Blues Song –

Nominations

Pete O’Brien – Coming Home

The Pleasures – Every Story Has Two Sides

Alexis and Suzie – never wanted to love

Rae Leigh – Blue Shoes

Rick Hart – Don’t

Riley Catherall- Bark at the Moon –

The Weeping Willows – Singing the Blues

Wes Dean – Leave Adelaide Alone

Allison Forbes – Down to the Water Hole

Cathy Dobson – A Little Faith

And the purple goes to: tie – Singing the Blues – The Weeping Willows and Cathy Dobson – A Little Faith

Country Pop Song –

Nominations –

Renee Jonas – Step Up

Sami Cooke – Our own love song

Sandee Facy – Lucky Charm

Bryce Sainty – Sunday Best

Cassidy-Rae – Lately

Michelle Gardiner – Things that I Don’t Have

Jade Holland – Oh My Heart

Mason Hope – Paradise Girl

Alexis and Suzie – With You

And the purple goes to: Things that I don’t have – Michelle Gardiner

Drinking songs:

Nominations:

Wine Me Up – Dozzi

Making up for lost wine – Amber Lawrence

Don’t say when – Blake Dantier

Shots – Cass Hopetoun

First Shots on Me – Christie Lamb

Drunk on that – Donna Fisk

Watered Down – Jetty Road

Sit in A Bar – Tori Darke

Drinking for a while – Lynchburg

Beers a must – The long and short of it

Girl Drinks Beer – Dan Davidson and Travis Collins

Ice Cold Beer – McAlister Kemp

Drinkin’ Hours – Paul Costa

And it’s a tie – Donna Fisk – Drunk on that and Amber Lawrence Making up for lost wine.

Nathaniel O’Brien Fresh Faces award:

Nathaniel was a young, brilliant, beautiful human being who was taken too soon from us. Since his passing, I have named this emerging talent awards section after him. He was almost as bigger talker as Ian Burns and I.

I will list the finalists, then let you know who won the two awards – one is for a song and artist the other for an artist.

Atlas – Jimbo Stokes

Less than a man – Madi Colville- Walker

Venus and Mars – Sarah Catania

All She is – Tyla Rodrigues

Joy, Joy, Joy – Amber Rae Slade

1975 – The Austins

Friend for life – Bailey Petrie

Still Young – Bo’Ness

Southern Sky – Brooke Harvey

Open Road – Beyond Sippy Creek

And the awards go to:

Southern Sky – Brooke Harvey

And Sarah Catania to keep your eye on.

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Ok! More song awards!

Celtic Country:

Forever is a Long Long Time – Liam Kennedy-Clark and The Bushwackers

Waltz For The Common – Pete Campbell

The Walls of Derry – Steve Tyson and The Train Rex

On A Summer’s Night – Kylie Adams- Collier

And the purple goes to: Liam Kennedy-Clark and The Bushwackers – Forever is a long long time

Stan Coster Strayan Song ( a song about Australia – place, time, character, event but not necessarily a Bush Ballad)

Nominations:

Pete O’Brien – Butcher of Balmoral

Gayle O’Neil – Nora

Melody Moko – The Outskirts

Tom Curtain – Why We Live Out Here

Daren Colston – Old Town

Lindsay Waddington – Black North Queensland Snow

Benn Gunn – A Bit More Aussie

Brendan McMahon Gundry’s Track

Darren Colston – Hello Riverina

Andy Penkow – Ghostly Gums

Luke O’Shea – South East Queensland

Lynchburg – From A Migrant’s Pen

And the Purple goes to: Pete O’Brien for Butcher of Balmoral

Stan Coster Bush Ballad Award:

Nominations:

The Family Tree – Dianne Lindsay

The Road He Took – Chris Staff

Out on Killarney – Dean Perrett

Thargomindah Sunset – Kerry Kennedy

Stock Routes of Australia – Peter Smokie Dawson/Colin DeFries and John Davis

He Liked Horses More Than People – Lynchburg

Too Many Bottles of Rum – Terry Bennetts and Kevin Sullivan

And the Purple goes to: Thargomindah Sunset – Kerry Kennedy

Best Cover Song –

Nominations:

Gina Timms – It’s Your Reputation

Crank Williams and Patsy DeCline – Joni Mitchell

The French Family – I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Lance Birrell – Take Your Memory With You

Terry Bennetts – Diamantina Drover

Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole – I Don’t Love You Much, Do I?

And the Purple goes to: Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole – I Don’t Love you much do I?

The Wendy Wood Purple Mic Shower Songs goes to:

Dancing – Dancing in the Kitchen – Ashleigh Dallas

Singing – You Fool – Jemma Beech

Quick break from songs!

Purple Tonsils awards go to Darren Colston and Allison Forbes

Waltz Song Award – Fall Out of Time – The Weeping Willows

Collaboration Song – Nominations:

Love Me Still – Josie Laver and Matt Joe Gow

Let the Girls Sing – – Kirsty-Lee Akers, Amber Lawrence, Ashleigh Dallas

Wiser – Lyn Bowtell and Shane Nicholson

Complicated – Duncan Toombs and Lozz Benson

Before I turn the light out – TC Cassidy and Anne Kirkpatrick

Travelling Heart – TCCassidy with Angus, Harves, Beccy and Gina

Sorry is the word – Alan Fletcher and Aleyce Platt

Until this song ends – Lynchburg and The Weeping Willows

Silence on the Line – Reg Lindsay and Jodie Crosby

Big Ole Feelings – Gareth Leech and The Davidson Brothers

Rise – Amber Lawrence and Casey Donovan

Forever is a long long time – Liam Kennedy Clark and The Bushwackers

And the Purple goes to: Gareth Leech and The Davidson Brothers – Big Ole Feelings and Lynchburg and The Weeping Willows – until This Song Ends

Bluegrass Song

Nominations:

An Old Abandoned Church – Kristy Cox

Big Ole Feelings – Gareth Leech and The Davidson Brothers

Love On The Line – Brad Cox and Sammy White

Dreamin’ Of a Highway – Andy Golledge

Tin Roof Tang – Georgie Darr

Road Man – Michael Carpenter and The Banks Brothers

Until This Song Ends – Lynchburg and The Weeping Willows

Tamworth Rain – Alexis and Suzie

And the Purple goes to: An Old Abandoned Church – Kristy Cox

A little bit quirky song

Nominations:

Old Fiddles – Warren Kearney

Don’t Get Your Tinsel in a Tangle – Angus Gill and Melinda Schneider

Fixer Upper – Alexis and Suzie

I Don’t Want to go to Tamworth – Wendy Wood

And the purple guitar goes to Warren Kearney – Old Fiddles

The Karl Broadie Award for The More than a song song.

This is probably my favourite award that I give out. Karl was my favourite Scot. When he passed, I met Duncan Phillips soon after, it was like Karl was sending another Scot friend out to me and he’s a talented fella too. These songs just have an extra special purpose. Karl touched a lot of people’s lives, this has been my tribute to his memory since he passed.

Nominations:

Over For You – Morgan Evans

Brothers – Michelle Cashman

Lost in Time – Melody Pool

I Get to See My Baby – Nathan Seeckts

Hey You – Alan Fletcher

Father’s Eyes – Allan Cameron

Anything Like Me – James Johnston

The Old Me is Gone – Mike Carr

Faded Star – Beccy Cole

40 Years – Suz Dorahy

And the purple goes to: Mike Carr – The Old Me is Gone

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Ok- continuing with the song awards!

Female Song:

Brittany Elise – Dear Brother

Brooke Harvey – Southern Sky

Cathy Dobson – Mediocreville

Christie Lamb – Three Chords and a Woman’s Truth

Amber Lawrence – I’m Coming Home

Freya Josephine Hollick – Vivienne, June, Dolly and Jolene

Allison Forbes – Woman In Black

Kristy Cox – I’m Not Built That Way

Lyn Bowtell – The Things that I know now

Melody Moko – The Outskirts

Melody Pool – Lost in Time

Sarah Leete – Girl Next Door

Siobhan Cotchin – You, Me and the Ever Rising Sea

Beccy Cole – Faded Star

Wendy Wood – Love Me Through the Lonely

Ashleigh Dallas – The Moon

Kylie Adams-Collier – Mamma’s Table

Rae-Leigh – Blue Shoes

And the Purple goes to: Melody Pool – – Lost In Time

Band Song

Nominations:

The Viper Creek Band – Starts with a girl

The April Family – Matilda

Brewn – Hard to Breathe

Copperline – Borrowed, Broken and Blue

Jetty Road – Watered Down

Michael Carpenter and The Banks Brothers – Road Man

Route 33 – Free

Jen Mize and The Rough and Tumble – All Riled Up

Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes- How to Let Somebody Go

The French Family Band – Like My Old Man

And the Purple Goes to: Jetty Road – Watered Down

The Best Duo Song –

Nominations

247/365 The Long and Short of it

Lonesome Now I’m Gone – The Weeping Willows

Memory Lane – Adam and Brooke

That’s Just The Way it Goes – Lynchburg

It was always you – McAlister Kemp

Precious Life – Alexis and Suzie

1975 – The Austins

High Rise – Smith and Jones

Blank Paper – Alexis and Suzie

Fall Out of Time – The Weeping Willows

Where Do You Go – Crank Williams and Patsy DeCline

And the Purple goes to: Fall out of time – The Weeping Willows

Songwriters of the year:

Female – Cathy Dobson

Male – Mike Carr

Producer of the Year – Angus Gill

Cover Artwork – Travelling Heart – T. C Cassidy album

Audrey Auld Courage Awards to: Barb Morison for turning up every Saturday despite losing her dear Mum and the most infamous country music dog next to Harvey’s Dolly and Caswell’s Big Kev and Matt Joe Gow for turning up to a gig the day after his Mum died and giving one of the most amazing performances and bravest that I have seen.

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The 2022 Purple Air Guitars – The Kazzies – Part 2

Australian Section.

The first awards are the votes sent to me by the public. Thank you for those who voted.

People’s Choice Male Vocal Album – Love, Lies and Dirty Dishes – Andy Penkow

People’s Choice Female Vocal Album – Living For The Highlights – Amber Lawrence

People’s Choice Duo Album – Lynchburg – I Love This Rodeo

People’s Choice Band Album – Michael Carpenter and The Banks Brothers – Mr Goodtime

Congrats all – great choices. Michael and the boys won this last year for their other album!

Ok! Next!

Just a quick explanation about the first category. I reviewed nearly 500 singles this year. I broke them down to these, it was hard and they all deserve to be here. What talent we have in this country!

Singles are songs released this year. They can be one offs or future additions to albums but not from past albums or already released in other years.

Male singles – finalists

Craig Lloyd – Take The Wheel

Luke O’Shea – South East Queensland

Andrew Swift – The Question

Morgan Evans – Over You

Patrick Wilson – Leave My Love

Ben Ransom – Hold Me Tonight

Brendan McMahon – New Country Morning

Mike Carr – Stupid Old Guitar

Rick Hart – This Heart

Andy Penkow – 1993

Matt Joe Gow – Til My Whole Heart Bursts

Colin Buchanan – In Real Life

And the Purple Guitar goes to: Matt Joe Gow – Til My Whole Heart Bursts

Female Singles

Finalists:

Ashleigh Dallas – The Moon

Meg Doherty – River

Christie Lamb – Three Chords and a Woman’s Truth

Lyn Bowtell – Woman to Woman

Cathy Dobson – Mediocreville

Brooke Harvey – Southern Sky

Melody Pool – Lost in Time

Melody Moko – The Outskirts

Beccy Cole – Faded Star

Amber Lawrence – Making Up for Lost Wine

Allison Forbes – Dead Men Don’t Tell Tales

Tori Darke – Sit in a bar

And the Purple goes to: Cathy Dobson – Mediocreville

Duo Single:

Nominations:

I love this rodeo – Lynchburg

Memory Lane – Brooke and Adam

High Rise – Smith and Jones

Cowboy Lonesome – The Long and Short of It

Fixer Upper – Alexis and Suzie

Lonesome Now I’m Gone – The Weeping Willows

From a Migrant’s Pen – Lynchburg

The Northern Coast – The Silverline

Star of the Show – Brooke and Adam

-and The Purple Goes to: The Weeping Willows – Lonesome Now I’m Gone

Collaboration Single:

Nominations:

Out of Our Hands – Brad Butcher and Helen Shanahan

Silence on the Line – Reg Lindsay and Jodie Crosby

Chance to Grow – Daniel Reeves and Ally Eley

Rain on the Roof – Jarrad Wrigley and Lilly Alexander

I Don’t Love you much, do I? Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole

Neighbourhood Kids – Chris Matthews and Jen Mize

Until this Song Ends – Lynchburg and The Weeping Willows

Big Ole Feelings – Gareth Leech and The Davidson Brothers

Together we Belong – Melinda Schneider and Mark Gable

Girl Drinks Beer – Dan Davidson and Travis Collins

Complicated – Duncan Toombs and Lozz Benson

Forever (is a long, long time) Liam Kennedy-Clark and The Bushwackers

And The Purple Goes to: Lynchburg and The Weeping Willows – until this song ends

Band Single:

Nominations:

Michael Carpenter and The Banks Brothers – Road Man

The Pleasures – The Beginning of The End

The Viper Creek Band – The Power of Music

Copperline – Lucinda

The April Family – Matilda

Beyond Sippy Creek – Open Road

Route 33 – Free

Jetty Road – Watered Down

Brewn – Hard to Breathe

Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes- How to Let Somebody Go

The Viper Creek Band – starts with a girl

Ben Mastwyk and His Millions – Country Club Cousins

And The Purple goes to: The April Family – Matilda

Next!

Best Video

Nominations:

South East Queensland – Luke O’Shea

I’ll Leave The Bottle On The Bar – Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole

Faded Star – Beccy Cole

Memory Lane – Adam and Brooke

Let the Girls Sing – Kirsty-Lee Akers, Amber Lawrence, Ashleigh Dallas

Listen to the Country – Angus Gill and Kevin Bennett

Woman to Woman – Lyn Bowtell

Complicated – Duncan Toombs and Lozz Benson

And the purple is goes to: Faded Star – Beccy Cole

The Bob Browne Awards:

These awards go to radio presenters, programs and radio stations. They are given in honour of my dear, late, partner in crime, Bob Browne.

Dynamic Duo – Clem and Dorothy Rook 2GLF

Best Interviewer and Soldier Onner – Barb Morison, 2SER FM

Funniest Radio Presenter and audience mind reader – Ronnieboy 2RRR

Bloody Legends and Energizer Battery Bunnies – Leonie McClure Connect FM (2BACR FM) and Beth Brown YASS FM

Beccy Cole and Amber Lawrence for pulling double duty as two of our best entertainers and hosting Saturday Night Country on ABC Radio with great aplomb

David Prior for the wonderful Songsmiths on ABC and Ray McCoy and Gene Bradley Fisk for your evergreen presence

Yass FM – well done under amazing circumstances.

Congrats to all and to all who deliver and promote our country music programs

Songs: may be singles but sometimes off current albums

Best Instrumental:

Nominations:

Michael Fix – Bumpy Ride

Michael Fix – The Traveller

Pixie and Angus – Dust

Anthony Baxter – Bunyip Bounce

Michael Carpenter, The Banks Brothers and Hamish Davidson – Burning Mountain.

Lance Birrell – Spinifex

Pete Campbell – Solstice

Lindsay Waddington – La Chica Bella

The French Family – Stratosphere Boogie

And the purple goes to: Anthony Baxter – Bunyip Bounce

Male Song

Top 18!

When She gets home – Blake Dantier

Little Bit Longer – Blake O’Connor

When I See You Tonight – Brendan McMahon

Small Town – Casey Barnes

Stupid Old Guitar – Mike Carr

Take The Wheel – Craig Lloyd

The Question – Andrew Swift

Nothing I Can Do – Darren Colston

Fillin’ All my dreams Don Hillman

Did I Wonder? Duncan Phillips

Run – Duncan Toombs

Through the Cracks of this Broken Heart – Javier

Until My Heart Bursts – Matt Joe Gow

South East Queensland – Luke O’Shea

Over For You – Morgan Evans

Leave My Love – Patrick Wilson

This Heart – Rick Hart

The One That Got Away – Andy Penkow

And the purple goes to: Stupid Old Guitar – Mike Carr

End of part 2

The 2022 Purple Air Guitar Awards – The Kazzies Intro and Part 1

Welcome to the 2022 Purple Air Guitar Awards or The Kazzies. There are two sections: International Country Music Awards (outside of my home country of Australia) and Australian Country Music Awards.

I am not a professional. I am simply a fan who has grown up in two of the most invested areas in New South Wales of country music. I now live in country Victoria.

The awards are based on my Totally Biased Fan Reviews of Albums and EEPs (less than 10 tracks, more than 4) and my Australian only single reviews in The Single Life.

In Australia this year, it has become a trend to just produce singles. There aren’t as many albums as there used to be, despite the renewed popularity of records (young folk call them vinyl). I still have mine from my youth and into my 20’s. I mainly have cds, but I buy from iTunes when necessary. I can’t afford to buy every release, but I think that most of the 94 types of country music are represented here.

My favourite eras of American Country Music – the 1990’s and the 1970’s – seem to have a new wave in a lot of our current musicians, especially American fellas. That’s a good thing. It was one of two of my toughest categories to judge this year. In the last few years, women have dominated, but the guys were amazing this year.

The other category was Australian duos – every one in this category deserves to win. There isn’t a physical award given out or money. I do this out of love – both ways.

There are fun awards and serious awards. A lot of these amazing artists never get any recognition for their efforts. This is my small way of thanking them for the pleasure that they give me and in the hope that at least one person will go out and listen, buy a copy of their work or go to a gig.

We have lost some champions, this year, including Loretta, Naomi and Olivia. We will never forget them or what they have given us as music fans.

Thank you. Enjoy!

International Awards:

Female – Song:

Nominations:

Amanda Shires: Empty Cups

Ashley McBryde: Lindeville

Bonnie Raitt: Down the Hall

Dolly Parton: Dark Night, Bright Future

Hailey Whittier’s: Raised

Jenny Mitchell – Make Peace With Time

Kelsey Waldon – Simple as love

Lainey Wilson- watermelon moonshine

Madeleine Edwards – Forehead Kisses

Pillbox Patti – 25 MPH Town

Whitney Duncan – Me, Myself and the Highway

Morgan Wade – Carry Me Home

Sunny Sweeney – A Song Can’t Fix Everything

And The Purple Guitar goes to: Sunny Sweeney – A Song Can’t Fix Everything

International Male Song:

There are a lot of nominations – I couldn’t leave anymore out!

Nominations:

Adam Doleac – Where Country Music Comes From

Benjamin Tod – The Paper and The Ink

Brandon Davis – Speaking My Language

Brett Eldridge – Where do I sign

Buck Ford – A little More Country

Charley Crockett – Just Like Honey

Chris Janson – Cold Beer Truth

Corb Lund – Montana Waltz

Drake Milligan – Over Drinkin’ under thinkin’

Drake White – Legends Never Die

Drew Baldridge – She Does

Dustin Lynch – Not Every Cowboy

Ernest – If You We’re Whiskey

Granger Smith – Damn Guitar

Jason Dea West – Oh Country Boy

Jon Pardi – The Day I Stop Dancin’

Joshua Hedley – The Last Thing in the World

Kameron Marlowe – Country Boy’s Prayer

Kane Brown – Like I love Country Music

Mitchell Tenpenny – I Can’t Get Another You

Ned LeDoux – He Rides the Wild Horses

Passenger – However It Comes, Wherever it goes

Peter Rowan The Song that Made Hank Williams Dance

Randall King – Roger, Miller Lite and Me

Randy Houser – Note to Self

Ray Fulcher – Sorry, Heart

Russell Dickerson – Over and Over

Shannon Slaughter – Plus One More Day

Thomas Rhett – Anything Cold

Tim Hicks – Loved Them First

Willie Nelson- I’ll love you till the Day I Die

Zach Bryan – Sober Side of Sorry

Creed Fisher – I Still Miss You

Joe Nichols – That’s How I Grew Up

And the Purple goes to: Ernest – If You We’re Whiskey.

International Male Album:

Nominations:

Songs I Swore I’d Never Sing – Benjamin Tod

Note to Self – Randy Houser

Dallas/Fort Worth – Drake Milligan

The Man From Waco – Charley Crockett

Shot Glass – Randall King

Mr Saturday Night – Jon Pardi

Birds that flew and ships that sailed – Passenger

Calling You From My Mountain – Peter Rowan

Rebel in the South – Creed Fisher

Songs about you – Brett Eldridge

American Heartbreak – Zach Bryan

The Optimystic – Drake White

Good Day For Living – Joe Nichols

And the Purple goes to: Randy Houser – Note to Self

International Female Album:

Nominations:

No Regular Dog – Kelsey Waldon

Take it like a man – Amanda Shires

Tug of War – Jenny Mitchell

Raised – Hailey Whitters

Just Like That – Bonnie Raitt

Run Rose Run – Dolly Parton

Bell Bottom Country – Lainey Wilson

Reckless (Deluxe) – Morgan Wade

Married Alone – Sunny Sweeney

Lindeville – Ashley McBryde

And the Purple goes to: Sunny Sweeney – Married Alone

Special Awards to: Rita Wilson – Now and Forever – Duets LP and Kris Kristofferson – Live at Gilley’s for special event albums.

International EEP Female

Nominations:

Masquerades – Tenille Townes

I’m the fire – Whitney Duncan

Already Drank that Beer – Ashley Cooke

Florida – Pillbox Patti

And the purple goes to: Already Drank that Beer – Ashley Cooke

International Male EEP:

Nominations:

Hearts don’t rust – Brandon Davis

Leave The Light On – Bailey Zimmerman

Lone Wolf – Jason Dea West

The purple goes to: Leave the light on – Bailey Zimmerman

International Bands and Duos: song

Nominations:

Midland: Take Her Off Your Hands

The Deslondes – Howl At The Moon

49 Winchester – Man’s Best Friend

The Family Sowell – Walls

The Shires – Plot Twist

Billy Strings and Dad – Little Cabin Home on the Hill

And the purple goes to: Midland – take Her off Your Hands

Album: Nominations

Midland The Last Resort – Greetings From

The Deslondes – Ways and Means

49 Winchester – Fortune favours the bold

Dirt Does Dylan – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

10 year Plan – The Shires

Story to tell – The Family Sowell

Me and Dad – Billy Strings and Dad

And the purple goes to Midland – The Last Resort – Greetings from

Male Vocal – Granger Smith

Female Vocal – Jenny Mitchell

Band/Duo – Midland

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