Nominees
Best Female Country Vocal Performance
For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.
Winner
White Horse
Taylor Swift
Track from: Fearless
[Big Machine Records]
Dead Flowers
Miranda Lambert
[Columbia Records]
I Just Call You Mine
Martina McBride
Track from: Shine
[RCA Records]
Just A Dream
Carrie Underwood
Track from: Carnival Ride
[Arista Nashville]
Solitary Thinkin'
Lee Ann Womack
Track from: Call Me Crazy
[MCA Nashville]
Best Male Country Vocal Performance
For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.
Winner
Sweet Thing
Keith Urban
Track from: Defying Gravity
[Capitol Records Nashville]
All I Ask For Anymore
Trace Adkins
Track from: X (Ten)
[Capitol Records Nashville]
People Are Crazy
Billy Currington
Track from: Little Bit Of Everything
[Mercury Records]
High Cost Of Living
Jamey Johnson
Track from: That Lonesome Song
[Mercury Records]
Living For The Night
George Strait
Track from: Twang
[MCA Nashville]
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
For established duos or groups with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.
Winner
I Run To You
Lady Antebellum
Track from: Lady Antebellum
[Capitol Records Nashville]
Cowgirls Don't Cry
Brooks & Dunn
Track from: Cowboy Town
[Arista Nashville]
Chicken Fried
Zac Brown Band
Track from: The Foundation
[Home Grown/Big Picture/Atlantic]
Here Comes Goodbye
Rascal Flatts
Track from: Unstoppable
[Lyric Street Records]
It Happens
Sugarland
Track from: Love On The Inside
[Mercury Records]
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.
Winner
I Told You So
Carrie Underwood & Randy Travis
[19/Arista Nashville]
Beautiful World
Dierks Bentley & Patty Griffin
Track from: Feel That Fire
[Capitol Records Nashville]
Down The Road
Kenny Chesney & Mac McAnally
Track from: Lucky Old Sun
[BNA Records Label]
Start A Band
Brad Paisley & Keith Urban
Track from: Play
[Arista Nashville]
Everything But Quits
Lee Ann Womack & George Strait
Track from: Call Me Crazy
[MCA Nashville]
Best Country Instrumental Performance
For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Singles or Tracks only.
Winner
Producer's Medley
Steve Wariner
Track from: Steve Wariner c.g.p. My Tribute To Chet Atkins
[SelecTone Records]
Under The (Five) Wire
Alison Brown
Track from: The Company You Keep
[Compass Records]
The Crystal Merchant
The Greencards
Track from: Fascination
[Sugar Hill Records]
Mansinneedof
Sarah Jarosz
Track from: Song Up In Her Head
[Sugar Hill Records]
Best Country Song
A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see the Song Of The Year award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.
Winner
White Horse
Liz Rose & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)
Track from: Fearless
[Big Machine Records; Publishers: Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Taylor Swift Music/Sony/ATV/Cake Taker Music/ole]
All I Ask For Anymore
Casey Beathard & Tim James, songwriters (Trace Adkins)
Track from: X (Ten)
[Capitol Records Nashville; Publishers: Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, T-Bird's Music.]
High Cost Of Living
Jamey Johnson & James Slater, songwriters (Jamey Johnson)
Track from: That Lonesome Song
[Mercury Records; Publishers: EMI Blackwood Music/Big Gassed Hitties, Hope-N-Cal Music/Pick Them Maters Music/Diversion Music.]
I Run To You
Tom Douglas, Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)
Track from: Lady Antebellum
[Capitol Records Nashville; Publishers: Warner-Tamerlane Publishing/DWHaywood Music/Radiobulletspublishing/Hillary Dawn Publishing/Shaw Enuff Songs/Sony/ATV Music Publishing/Tomdouglasmusic.]
People Are Crazy
Bobby Braddock & Troy Jones, songwriters (Billy Currington)
Track from: Little Bit Of Everything
[Mercury Records; Publishers: Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Tiltawhirl Music/Crozier Music Enterprise.]
Best Country Album
Vocal or Instrumental.
Winner
Fearless
Taylor Swift
[Big Machine Records]
The Foundation
Zac Brown Band
[Home Grown/Big Picture/Atlantic]
Twang
George Strait
[MCA Nashville]
Defying Gravity
Keith Urban
[Capitol Records Nashville]
Call Me Crazy
Lee Ann Womack
[MCA Nashville]