OVERLOOKED for a bakers dozen Golden Guitar Awards over the years, The Wolfe Brothers hoped to snag just one.
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Instead, the brothers Nick and Tom Wolfe and their childhood friend Brodie Rainbird pulled a whopping four of their five nominations.
It was a tumultuous year for the boys, who faced tough decision about the future of their father’s property and the great loves and losses on the way.
“The diversity of talent across the country music industry is well represented tonight,” CMAA chair Dan Biddle said.
“It’s an exciting time for Australian country music.”
The trio collected the coveted Toyota Album of the Year Award for Country Heart, along with Contemporary Country Album of the Year, Country Music Capital News Group or Duo and APRA AMCOS song of the year for Ain’t Seen It Yet.
In a live performance the boys sang their hit single Country Heart, that pays tribute to their country roots and home in rural Tasmania.
While soulful singer Andrew Swift collected two awards from his four nominations, in QANTAS New Talent of the Year for his single Runaway Train and Alternate Country Album for the Year for Call Out for the Cavalry.
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Failed relationships are a common theme in the award-winning album, with the Melbourne artist finding his way into country music late in the game.
“When I looked at my songs in hindsight there is a common theme about someone asking for help and it’s ignored,” Swift told The Leader earlier this year.
“They’re not all help me songs but there is an underlying theme, there’s also songs on there about failed relationships.
“There’s a song where I pretend to miss someone to practice what it felt like to miss someone again.”
It was little shock to the crowds that favourite Kasey Chambers and the Fireside Disciples took out Traditional Country Album of the Year for Campfire.
On the flat, arid country of the Nullarbor Plain – her father hunted foxes and her mother cooked over the open fire.
It’s that earthly atmosphere that inspired her album Campfire, that was nominated for seven Golden Guitar awards.
Male and Female Artist of the Year went to Travis Collins and Beccy Cole.
It’s his seventh Golden Guitar Award in a nod to his latest album Brave and the Broken.
Beccy Cole pulled her 11th Golden Guitar and fifth artist of the year for Lioness – an all-female outfit from production, to performance and marketing.
Bush Ballad of the Year went to John Williamson for Please Don’t Forget Me and Heritage Song of the Year went to Troy Cassar-Daley for Shadows on the Hill.
In light of his concert in Tamworth that sold out in just minutes, Keith Urban won Sanity Top Selling Album of the Year 2018 for Graffiti U.
While Morgan Evans’ single Day Drunk was the number one played song on Australian radio across all genres won him Single of the Year.
Tommy Emanuel’s Wheelin’ and Dealin’ won him Coca Cola Instrumental of the Year, and Kristy Cox won Bluegrass Recording of the Year for Ricochet.
New mum Fanny Lumsden took out CMC Video of the Year for Elastic Waistband – a song inspired by her pregnancy journey and more relaxed attitude to societal beauty standards.
Triple powerhouse Bennett, Bowtell and Urquhart with the late Karl Broadie picked up Regional Australia Bank Vocal Collaboration of the Year and performed their single Every Hello from new album Weeds.