2009 People's Choice winners

Winners in the 2009 Australian Country Music People's Choice Awards were announced in Tamworth on Tuesday night (January 20).

Graham Rodger took out two awards, for Best Male Vocal and Best Album for The Fire Within Me.

Amber Lawrence was named winner of Best Female Vocal while Jetty Road won Best Vocal Group.

Carter & Carter took out Best Song with Slow Dancing At Midnight and Matt Manning & John O'Dea were successful in Best Bush Ballad with The Saddle.

Brad Cole won the Most Promising Future Star award.

Most Popular Country Music DJ was announced as Rebecca Gray from Narrabri (NSW) station 2MAX FM while the Community Broadcasting Association's satellite program "Good Morning Country" was named Most Popular Country Music Radio Program.

The Awards were presented in Country Music Capital's Regent Theatre.

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2009 Finalists

Best Female Vocal

Kasey Chambers
Beccy Cole
Dianna Corcoran
Shea Fisher
Nicki Gillis
Amber Lawrence
Ronni Rae Rivers
Melinda Schneider
Sara Storer
Felicity Urquhart

Best Male Vocal

Arthur Blanch
Adam Brand
Troy Cassar-Daley
Travis Collins
Steve Eales
Adam Harvey
Lee Kernaghan
Steve Passfield
Graham Rodger
Keith Urban

Best Group or Duo

Carter & Carter
The Flood
Jetty Road
Jonah’s Road
The McClymonts
The Noll Brothers
Simply Bushed
The Sunny Cowgirls
Wildseed
Wolverines

Best Song

Give This Hug To Daddy
performed and written by Graham Rodger

Good Girls, performed and written by Amber Lawrence

Good Times, performed and written by Jetty Road

I’m Doin’ Alright, performed by Adam Harvey
written by Adam Harvey & Phil Buckle

Slow Dancing At Midnight, performed and
written by Carter & Carter

Best Bush Ballad

A Saddle For A Throne, performed and
written by Graham Rodger

Australia Is Another Word For Free performed by John Williamson with Warren H Williams & Amos Morris, written by John Williamson

Last Mile Home, performed and written
by Troy Cassar-Daley

The Ringing Of The Steel, performed and
written by Peter Denahy

The Saddle, perfomed by  Matt Manning,
written by John O’Dea

Best Album

Be Yourself by Melinda Schneider
Chaos & Bright Lights by The McClymonts
The Fire Within Me by Graham Rodger
Hillbilly Road by John Williamson
What Really Matters by Arthur Blanch

Most Promising Future Star

8 Ball Aitken
Victoria Baillie
Lou Bradley
Brad Cole
Markus Meier

Most Popular DJ

Bill Beerens
Carolyn Carr
Nick Erby
Rebecca Gray
Helen Kay
Daryl Kirkup
Brendon T Moylan
John Nutting
Dan Rennie
Tim Ryan

Most Popular Radio Station or Program

2MAX FM Narrabri, NSW
Cool Country 2KA, Western Sydney, NSW
“Country Music Radio”
CRN “Good Morning Country”
Curtin Radio 100.1, Perth, WA
FM 98.9 Brisbane, Qld
KIX Country
“Saturday Night Country” – ABC
Today’s Country 94one, Central Coast, NSW
“Truck’n With Tim” Victoria