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2012 Golden Guitar Award Nominations
To coincide with the official launch of the 2012 Tamworth Country Music Festival, many of Australia's favourite country music stars gathered in Sydney to hear the announcement of the finalists for the Golden Guitar Awards. The awards will be handed out in Tamworth on Saturday January 28, 2012.
Adam Harvey has the most nominations with eight, while Shane Nicholson followed closely with seven and Beccy Cole finished with six.
Following is the full list of finalists:
Album of the Year
At The Speed of Life - Graeme Connors produced by Matt Fell
Bad Machines - Shane Nicholson produced by Shane Nicholson
Falling Into Place - Adam Harvey, produced by Rod McCormack
Get Closer - Keith Urban, produced by Dann Huff & Keith Urban
Songs and Pictures - Beccy Cole, produced by Shane Nicholson
Top Selling Album of the Year
Best So Far - Adam Harvey
Falling Into Place - Adam Harvey
Get Closer - Keith Urban
In Symphony - John Williamson
Little Bird - Kasey Chambers
Male Artist of the Year
James Blundell - Move Into The City
Graeme Connors - The Mouth Of The River
Adam Harvey - You Don't Know My Love
Shane Nicholson - Bad Machines
Keith Urban - Long Hot Summer
Female Artist of the Year
Kirsty Akers - Sweet Ol Jackson
Katrina Burgoyne - White Flag
Beccy Cole - Waitress
Jasmine Rae - I Faked It
Aleyce Simmonds - The Healing Hands Of Time
Group or Duo of the Year
The Bobkatz - In the Coals
Carter and Carter - Dance In The Rain
Davidson Brothers - Write Me A Letter
Jetty Road - Serves You Right
O'Shea - Smash
Vocal Collaboration of the Year
'A Good Woman Can' - Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole
An Affair of the Heart - Sara Storer and Graham Rodger
'In Spite Of Ourselves' - Kirsty Akers and Bob Evans
'Millionaires' - Beccy Cole and Kasey Chambers
'Whistling Cannonballs' - Shane Nicholson with Paul Kelly
New Talent of the Year
Katrina Burgoyne - Ghost
Luke Dickens - True Love Never Dies
Jason Lee - Ordinary Guy
O'Shea - Smash
Aleyce Simmonds - The Healing Hands Of Time
Song of the Year
'Bad Machines' - written and recorded by Shane Nicholson
'Butterfly' - written and recorded by Tamara Stewart
'Falling Into Place' - written by Adam Harvey and Troy Cassar-Daley, recorded by Adam Harvey
'The Mouth Of The River' - written and recorded by Graeme Connors
'Waitress' - written and recorded by Beccy Cole
Video Clip of the Year
'Children Of The Gurindji' - Sara Storer and Kev Carmody, directed by Duncan Toombs
'Dirt ' - Lee Kernaghan, directed by Rusty Gate Films
'Famous Last Words' - Shane Nicholson directed by Duncan Toombs
'In Spite Of Ourselves' - Kirsty Akers and Bob Evans, directed by Jason Millhouse
'You Don't Know My Love' - Adam Harvey, directed by Duncan Toombs
Single of the year
'Bad Machines' - Shane Nicholson
'Dirt' - Lee Kernaghan
'Long Hot Summer' - Keith Urban
'Sweet Emmylou' - Catherine Britt
'You Don't Know My Love' - Adam Harvey
Heritage Song of the Year
'Australian Woman' - written by Beccy Cole and Luke Austen, recorded by Beccy Cole
'Bondwood Boat' - written by Aleyce Simmonds and Graeme Connors, recorded by Aleyce Simmonds
'I am Australian' - written by Dobe Newton/ Bruce Woodley, recoded by The Bushwackers
'The Mouth Of The River' - written and recorded by Graeme Connors
'The Old HR' - written by Garry Koehler, recorded by The Bobkatz
Instrumental of the Year
'Arkansas Traveller' - Mike Kerin, Ian Simpson and John Kane
'Demolition Derby' - Michael Fix with Brendan Radford
'Locomotivation' - Tommy Emmanuel
'OMFG' - Davidson Brothers
'The Waves of Bondi' - The Bushwackers
Bush Ballad of the Year
'A Fencer From The Outback' - written and recorded by Rod Williams
'Channel Country Ground' - written by Merv Maltman, recorded by Dean Perrett and Lee Kernaghan
'Gentleman Joe' - written by Dianne Lindsay and Peter Simpson, recorded by Dianne Lindsay
'Kiandra Gold' - written by Ben Jacobs and Shaza Leigh, recorded by Brian Letton
The 40th Tamworth Country Music festival runs from January 20 to 29, 2012.
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"G'day"
Some guidance would certainly be appreciated.
As a bloody ol' retired bloke, to keep me from robbin' banks, I have written a few rhymed pieces all about Aus., some of which may be suitable as song lyrics.
One piece, Maggin' with Macca, was recorded in an amateur studio a while back and sounds pretty good. But I'm probably biased.
A few others have been read to air over ABC Radio.
"Any suggestions" ?
"oobloodyroo"
Jim.
Go Shane!
The same old names get recycled each year - the Central Coast mafia - Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole, Kasey & Shane, etc - all good music - BUT - what about some of the great album releases of the year - 'Life Gets in the Way' by Rose Carleo and 'Dust In The Sky' by Jakki Pollock.Do yourself a favour and listen to some real Australian contemporary music with this music. Someone needs to explain how Keith Urban can be nominated when everything he does is based in and on the USA - these are the AUSTRALIAN Country Music Awards ...... No wonder Country Music in Australia is struggling .............
Good on Shane Nicholson I wish you well as you have a great voice for true Aussie Country and keep it Aussie Country Good luck as I just watched Bill Chambers DVD live at the Pub at Tamworth 2011 and loved every bit of it great to watch true Aussie Country which is far better than what is coming out of America at the moment I Thank You
i have just been listing to kitty wells hank thompson pasty cline judith durham and the singers today are not a patch on the old days keith urban sings rock
what you are not aloud to bag the stars of today other wise my comments would have been put on bad look abc
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